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Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited - One Model, Different Trajectories

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 Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited brings together leading experts on the political economies of southern Europe—specifically Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal—to closely analyze and explain the primary socioeconomic and institutional features that define "Mediterranean capitalism" within the wider European context. These economies share a number of features, most notably their difficulties to provide viable answers to the challenge of globalization.By examining and comparing such components as welfare, education and innovation policies, cultural dimensions, and labor market regulation, Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited attends to both commonalities and divergences between the four countries, identifying the main reasons behind the poor performance of their economies and slow recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-2008. This volume also sheds light on the process of diversification among the four countries and addresses whether it did and still does make sense to speak of a uniquely Mediterranean model of capitalism.Contributors: Alexandre Afonso, Leiden University; Lucio Baccaro, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Rui Branco, NOVA University of Lisbon; Fabio Bulfone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Giliberto Capano, University of Bologna; Sabrina Colombo, University of Milan; Lisa Dorigatti, University of Milan; Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo; Matteo Jessoula, University of Milan; Andrea Lippi, University of Florence; Manos Matsaganis, Polytechnic University of Milan; Oscar Molina, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Manuela Moschella, Scuola Normale Superiore; Sofia A. Pérez, Boston University; Gemma Scalise, University of Bergamo; Arianna Tassinari, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
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Havens In A Storm - The Struggle For Global Tax Regulation

de J. C. Sharman

45,05€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful...
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Region Of Regimes - Prosperity And Plunder In The Asia-Pacific

de T. J. Pempel

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 A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics—power and prosperity—in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support. Pempel identifies Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as developmental regimes, showing how each then diverged due to domestic and international forces. North Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines (under Marcos) comprise "rapacious regimes" in this analysis, while Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand form "ersatz developmental regimes." Uniquely, China emerges as an evolving hybrid of all three regime types. A Region of Regimes concludes by showing how the shifting interactions of these regimes have profoundly shaped the Asia-Pacific region and the globe across the postwar era.
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Arctic Mirrors - Russia And The Small Peoples Of The North

de Yuri Slezkine

~~68,95€~~ 48,27€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Arctic Mirrors is a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind.
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The Occult Mind - Magic In Theory And Practice

de Christopher I. Lehrich

~~67,59€~~ 47,31€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Through analyses of ley lines, the Tarot, the Corpus Hermeticum, and early attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, Lehrich treats magic and its parts as an intellectual object that requires interpretive zeal.
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The Invention Of Decolonization - The Algerian War And The Remaking Of France

de Todd Shepard

~~67,59€~~ 47,31€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social...
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The Era Of The Witness

de Annette Wieviorka

~~156,82€~~ 109,77€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 What is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise...
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Governing Now - Grassroots Activism In The National Organization For Women

de Maryann Barakso

~~156,82€~~ 109,77€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Boasting more than five hundred thousand contributing members and five hundred chapters nationwide, the National Organization for Women has been politically active for more than thirty-five years. In a book that offers tools for predicting the...
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The Political Economy Of Policy Coordination - International Adjustment Since 1945

de Michael C. Webb

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 Michael C. Webb explores a central question about postwar economic history: how has the growth of international markets affected the coordination of economic policy among nations? His analysis overturns the popular assumption that policy coordination has eroded as American hegemony has receded. Instead, he argues that the growing mobility of capital forced governments to abandon the strategies they had used in the 1950s and 60s to insulate monetary and fiscal policies from international influences, and to move toward more direct coordination of central economic strategies.Webb shows that since 1945 there has been a crucial shift in the pattern of international collaboration. He focuses on three types of adjustment policy: trade and capital controls, balance-of-payment lending and intervention in foreign-exchange markets, and monetary and fiscal policies. Noting that the first two types are no longer effective, he demonstrates that governments now rely more on monetary and fiscal policy coordination to regulate the global economy.As the expansion of international finance created greater turbulence in the global economy in the 1980s, the liberal system of international trade threatened to collapse. Webb examines in particular how the United States, Japan, and Germany took unprecedented steps to coordinate monetary and fiscal policies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, although domestic political obstaclesnot any decline in U.S. powerlimited the impact of this policy coordination. He concludes by assessing the effectiveness of these attempts to reconcile the goal of a stronger liberal system of economic exchange with the desire to maintain national autonomy.
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Reasons Of State - Oil Politics And The Capacities Of American Government

de G. John Ikenberry

~~25,67€~~ 17,97€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973â€"74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both...
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Good Governance Gone Bad - How Nordic Adaptability Leads To Excess

de Darius, Jr. Ornston

~~32,43€~~ 22,70€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 If we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Governance Gone Bad, Darius Ornston provides evidence that adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition may be a great virtue, but it does not prevent...
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Politics Under The Influence - Vodka And Public Policy In Putin'S Russia

de Anna L. Bailey

~~36,49€~~ 25,54€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 "You know just how serious a problem alcoholism has become for our country. Frankly speaking, it has taken on the proportions of a national disaster." So spoke Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2009 as the government launched its latest anti-alcohol campaign. Challenging the standard narrative of top-down implementation of policy, Anna...
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Firm Interests - How Governments Shape Business Lobbying On Global Trade

de Cornelia Woll

177,55€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Firms are central to trade policy-making. Some analysts even suggest that they dictate policy on the basis of their material interests. Cornelia Woll counters these assumptions, arguing that firms do not always know what they want. To be sure, firms...
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Venture Capital State - The Silicon Valley Model In East Asia

de Robyn Klingler-Vidra

39,74€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Silicon Valley has become shorthand for a globally acclaimed way to unleash the creative potential of venture capital, supporting innovation and creating jobs. In The Venture Capital State Robyn Klingler-Vidra traces how and why different states have adopted distinct versions of the Silicon Valley model.Venture capital seeks high rewards but is...
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Good Governance Gone Bad - How Nordic Adaptability Leads To Excess

de Darius Ornston

27,81€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 If we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Governance Gone Bad, Darius Ornston provides evidence that adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition may be a great virtue, but it does not prevent...
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Reasons Of State - Oil Politics And The Capacities Of American Government

de G. John Ikenberry

6,63€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973â€"74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both...
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Power, Protection, And Free Trade - International Sources Of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939

de David A. Lake

6,63€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and conflict that shape the international economy. Power...
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Price Of Wealth - Economies And Institutions In The Middle East

de Kiren Aziz Chaudhry

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Kiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are created and transformed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, two countries that typify labor and oil exporters in the developing worlds.
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Small States In World Markets - Industrial Policy In Europe

de Peter J. Katzenstein

13,24€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Katzenstein maintains that democratic corporatism is an effective way of coping with a rapidly changing worldâ€"a more effective way than the United States and several other large industrial countries have yet managed to discover.
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World Of Regions - Asia And Europe In The American Imperium

de Peter J. Katzenstein

22,51€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics, challenging those who emphasize the purportedly stubborn persistence of the nation-state or the inevitable march of globalization.
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Varietals Of Capitalism - A Political Economy Of The Changing Wine Industry

de Andy Smith, Antoine Roger e Xabier Itcaina

38,41€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Varietals of Capitalism shows that politics is an omnipresent part of the economics of wine and of economic activity in general. Based on a four-year research project encompassing fieldwork in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania, Xabier ItÃ§aina, Antoine Roger, and Andy Smith examine the causes and effects of a 2008 reform adopted by the EU.
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Strategic Coupling - East Asian Industrial Transformation In The New Global Economy

de Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

26,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.
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How China Escaped The Poverty Trap

de Yuen Yuen Ang

19,86€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE "BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS WINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences." Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize CommitteeAcclaimed as "game changing" and "field shifting," How China Escaped the Poverty Trap advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise.How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth."Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate.Combining this original lens with more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, Ang systematically reenacts the complex process that turned China from a communist backwater into a global juggernaut in just 35 years. Contrary to popular misconceptions, she shows that what drove China's great transformation was not centralized authoritarian control, but "directed improvisation"—top-down directions from Beijing paired with bottom-up improvisation among local officials.Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"—harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms.Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.
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Asian Designs - Governance In The Contemporary World Order

de Saadia M. Pekkanen

26,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In Asian Designs, Saadia M. Pekkanen and her collaborators advance a new framework for debate and sophisticated examinations of institutional arrangements for several major issue areas in the world orderâ€"security, trade, environment, and public health.
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