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Опубликовано на портале: 06-11-2007
Giovanni Federico
Изд-во: Princeton University Press, 2005, cерия "Princeton Economic History of the Western World", 416 с.
In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. It has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of
products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to
the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture
during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished.
Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout
the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature.
It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance:
environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization,
agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture
to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents
a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.



Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political
Economy [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 13-03-2007
Richard Deeg
Изд-во: University of Michigan Press, 1999, 328 с.
If we are moving toward one global financial market, will all national financial
systems that determine how businesses raise money look the same? Richard Deeg argues
that, despite financial market integration and considerable harmonization in the
regulation of financial markets, the traditional structure and economic functions
of national financial systems are not inevitably undermined. Using the case of Germany--a
country with a strong and distinctive financial sector that is at the center of the
pressures of economic integration--the author shows how the unique aspects of the
German financial sector and its relationship to the German economy have persisted
notwithstanding powerful pressures to change. Posing the German model of coordinated
capitalism in which banks play an important role in shaping both firm behavior and
the possibilities for state intervention in the economy against the liberal model
of the United States and Britain in which the securities markets play a much greater
role than banks, Deeg shows how the German model has survived competitive pressures
in the international economic system that have pushed Germany--and other countries--toward
the liberal model.
This book will appeal to political scientists and economists interested in international
financial markets, globalization, and the comparative study of domestic financial
markets, as well as in German politics and the German economy.
Richard Deeg is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Temple University.



Flexible Rigidities: Industrial Policy and Structural Adjustment in the Japanese
economy, 1970-80 [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 17-03-2008
Ronald Philip Dore
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986, 278 с.

Опубликовано на портале: 19-11-2007
Ред.: Gary Gereffi, David Spener, Jennifer Bair
Philadelphia.: Temple University Press, 2002, 384 с.
This volume addresses many of the complex issues raised by North American integration through the lens of one of the largest and most global industries in the region: textiles and apparel. In part, this is a story of winners and losers in the globalization process, especially if one focuses on jobs lost and jobs gained in different countries and communities within North America, defined here as: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. However, it would be a mistake to view the industry solely in these zerosum terms. The North American apparel industry is an excellent illustration of larger trends in the global economy, in which regional divisions of labor appear to be one of the most stable and effective responses to globalization.
The contributors to this volume are an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who have all done detailed fieldwork at the firm and factory levels in one or more countries of North America. Taken together the essays offer theoretical and methodological innovations built around the intersection of the global commodity chains and industrial districts literatures, as well as innovative approaches to studying the impact of cross-national, interfirm networks in terms of production and trade issues, and local development outcomes for workers and communities.


Опубликовано на портале: 19-01-2007
Ernesto Screpanti
London: Routledge, 2001, cерия "Frontiers of Political Economy Series", 320 с.
This book presents a radical institutional approach to the analysis of capitalism. Ernesto Screpanti puts forward a number of provocative arguments that expose common ground in both neoclassical and Marxist orthodoxies. It will appeal to a broad audience of social scientists including advanced students and professionals with an interest in politics and economics.

