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| 1. |  | Title: American domestic priorities: an economic appraisal  Author: Quigley, John M Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Liberalization in the process of economic development Author: Krause, Lawrence B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Economic growth in all developing countries is guided, and often accelerated, by generally intrusive policies implemented by governments intent on playing an active role in furthering development. As economies have grown and become more complex, however, even small market distortions are magnified, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Japan's new middle class; the salary man and his family in a Tokyo suburb, Author: Vogel, Ezra F Published: University of California Press, 1971 Subjects: Asian Studies | Sociology | Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Latin American experiments in neoconservative economics Author: Foxley, Alejandro Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Economics and Business | Latin American Studies Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Regulatory choices: a perspective on developments in energy policy Author: Gilbert, Richard J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated. The authors of this volume have gathered together an impressive wealth of material . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Capitalism from within: economy, society, and the state in a Japanese fishery Author: Howell, David Luke Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the institutional and technological changes that followed Jap . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The deficit and the public interest: the search for responsible budgeting in the 1980s Author: White, Joseph 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | American Studies Publisher's Description: Political time is counted, not in years, but in issues - the depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the cold war did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. Today the federal budget looms as the dominant issue by which all others are considered and has become a concern which catalyz . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Between feminism and labor: the significance of the comparable worth movement Author: Blum, Linda M Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: "Equal pay for equal work" has long been a forceful slogan of the feminist and labor movements. Now, however, as the American economy depends more and more on "women's work," it has become clear that this objective does not benefit the majority of women, who are employed in sex-segregated jobs. In B . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Unequal alliance: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines Author: Broad, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Southeast Asia | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this seminal work, U.S. development specialist Robin Broad chronicles the Philippine experiment with the structural adjustment model of development espoused by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Reconcilable differences?: congress, the budget process, and the deficit Author: Gilmour, John B Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Gilmour traces the development of the congressional budget process from its origin through the emergence of reconcilliation and Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. He shows how changes in process have brought about far-reaching shifts in congressional power, and explains why they have failed to control the explo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Japan's administrative elite Author: Koh, Byung Chol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: A major player in Japanese society is its government bureaucracy. Neither Japan's phenomenal track record in the world marketplace nor its remarkable success in managing its domestic affairs can be understood without insight into how its government bureaucracy works - how its elite administrators ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business | Sociology | Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Political economy and the rise of capitalism: a reinterpretation Author: McNally, David Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and Business | History Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Money, expense, and naval power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24 Author: Kallet-Marx, Lisa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Economics and Business | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Now Lisa Kallet-Marx examines Thucydides' treatment of financial resources by studying his comments on finance in the context of the whole work and scrutinizes other, chiefly epigra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Modern Japanese organization and decision-making Author: Vogel, Ezra F Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies | Sociology | Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Chinese history in economic perspective Author: Rawski, Thomas G 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. Previous work has emphasized the institutional and social bases of economic change. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth cen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Weak foundations: the economy of El Salvador in the nineteenth century Author: Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Héctor Lindo-Fuentes provides the first in-depth economic history of El Salvador during the crucial decades of the nineteenth century. Before independence in 1821, the isolated territory that we now call El Salvador was a subdivision of the Captaincy General of Guatemala and had only 250,000 inhabit . . . [more] Similar Items |