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Chinese Citizenship: Views From the Margins (Routledgecurzon Studies on the Chinese Economy)
Vanessa L. Fong , and Rachel Murphy Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0415371457 |
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This book makes a novel contribution to the study of citizenship by examining how individuals at the margins of Chinese society deal with state efforts to transform them into model citizens.
Based on extensive original research, it examines how individuals at the margins of Chinese society experienced the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This book shows how individuals dealt with state attempts to transform them into model citizens, arguing that social and cultural citizenship has a greater impact on peoples lives than legal, civil and political citizenship. The seven case studies in this book present intimate portraits of the conflicted identities of peasants, criminals, ethnic minorities, the urban poor, rural migrant children in the cities, mainland migrants in Hong Kong and Chinese youth studying abroad as they negotiate the perilous dilemmas presented by globalization and neoliberalism. Although the focus is on marginal groups, the book portrays the nature of citizenship in China overall.
Drawing on a diverse array of theories and methods from anthropology, sociology, education, political science, cultural studies and development studies, Chinese Citizenship presents fresh perspectives and highlights the often devastating consequences that citizenship distinctions can have on Chinese lives.
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Crime and Criminology (Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Crime and Criminology)
Thomas J Hickey Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0073194905 |
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This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in global issues through readings that reflect a variety of viewpoints. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. The Taking Sides readers feature annotated listings of selected World Wide Web sites. Taking Sides is supported by our student website at www.dushkin.com/online/.
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Legal Issues (Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Legal Issues)
M. Ethan Katsh , and William Rose Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0073545597 |
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This twelfth edition of TAKING SIDES: LEGAL ISSUES presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor’s manual with testing material is available for each volume. USING TAKING SIDES IN THE CLASSROOM is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each TAKING SIDES reader features an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and is supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.Customer Reviews:
Thoroughly wonderful.......2006-02-23
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Criminal Justice
Thomas J Hickey , and Gene Straughan Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 007282817X |
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This debate-style reader introduces students to current controversies in the field of criminal justice. The readings are written by scholars and experts in the field and reflect a variety of viewpoints presented in a pro/con format. Topics include: gun control, continued criminalization of drug use, the Miranda ruling, police lineups, plea bargaining, jury nullification, the three strikes rule, and prisoner rights.
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Crime and Criminology
Richard C Monk Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 007237151X |
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This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in crime and criminology. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading commentators, reflect a variety of viewpoints and are staged as "pro" and "con" debates. Issues debated include definitions and causes of crimes; race, gender and the criminal justice system; criminological research and public policy; and future trends.Customer Reviews:
Ok text.......2005-07-20
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The Natural Instability of Markets : Expectations, Increasing Returns, and the Collapse of Capitalism
Michael Perelman Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0312221215 |
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As socialist states struggle to transform themselves into market economies and the United States privatizes everything from schooling to policing, the current crises in Russia and East Asia suggest that something might be amiss. In the rush to open societies to the benefits of competition, economists have overlooked the fundamental instability of competitive markets. What had seemed to be an invincible capitalist juggernaut may be reaching its apotheosis. A close look at market economies is more timely and crucial than ever. Michael Perelman argues that capitalism's victory is temporary, based as it is on an unrealistic understanding of the system's inherent risks. He analyzes the nature and causes of crisis within a market society, and along the way, he re-examines one of capitalism's most primary and unquestioned tenets, that the more competition there is, the better off society will be.Download Description
As Socialist states struggle to transform themselves into market economies and the United States privatizes everything from schooling to policing, the current crises in Russia and East Asia suggest that something might be amiss. In the rush to open societies to the benefits of competition, economists have overlooked the fundamental instability of competitive markets. What had seemed to be an invincible capitalist juggernaut may be reaching its apotheosis. A close look at market economies is more timely and crucial than ever.Michael Perelman argues that capitalism's victory is temporary, based as it is on an unrealistic understanding of the system's inherent risks. He analyzes the nature and causes of crisis within a market society, and along the way, he re-examines one of capitalism's most primary and unquestioned tenets, that the more competition there is, the better off society will be.
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Some reviewers have completely missed the point.......2001-07-13
BTW, I should note that his explanation for market volatility rests on the premise that decision-making apparati are deficient for these reasons.
Weak Criticism of Competition.......1999-12-22
An incisive critique of conventional economic wisdom........1999-08-09
At a time when US economic health appears to depend somewhat disproportionately upon the wisdom of another notably non-market institution, Alan Greenspan, Perelman's book offers a welcome injection of critical objectivity. It is well-argued and accessibly written. It deserves a wide readership.
This Book is nothing more than anecdotal nonsense!!!.......1999-06-24
Dr. Perelman quotes so many other economists and non-economists without ever bringing anything new to the story. He even goes so far as to provide comparisons to the Biological Sciences, which cloud his point even more.
In short, I could not recommend this book any less!!!
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The Natural Instability of Markets: Expectations, Increasing Returns, and the Collapse of Capitalism
Michael Perelman Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTDKSQ |
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China Against Herself: Innovation or Imitation in Global Business?
Yuko Arayama , and Panos Mourdoukoutas Manufacturer: Quorum Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1567202454 |
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Will China's growing economy outstrip the economic power of Japan and the advanced industrialized democracies of the West? No. For China to continue its phenomenal growth and develop sustainable comparative advantage, it needs to sustain a huge world market for its products and the technological and organizational capacity for innovation. According to Arayama and Mourdoukoutas, because China cannot secure these economic conditions, its role in the world economy will be limited to that of a mass producer of certain types of products. China's strength is its low-cost, mass-production capacity--but the lack of an ingrained capacity to innovate constrains China to transforming foreign innovations into lower-priced imitations. Arayama and Mourdoukoutas detail their argument carefully and precisely, in a well-written analysis that will be necessary reading for business decision makers and their academic colleagues, and for others who are seriously interested in the future of world business.Customer Reviews:
Fairly gravitas free.......2002-09-22
It just seems a bit, well, incomplete.
1. They spend a lot of time worrying about the balance of trade. On the one hand, they talk against mercantilism and label it as "bad," but on the other, they attribute Japan's technological advance as the reason for its trade surplus. Nevermind that the trade surplus has gotten higher during the worse parts of their extended economic crisis, or that the US trade deficit has gotten more negative during the longest expansion in our history.
2. Countries are NOT corporations. They assert that there are production chains (of a sort), in which there are companies that invent, others that innovate, and still others that manufacture. So, by this line of reasoning, the US (with its great commitment to basic research) is an inventor, Japan (with its great commitment to reinventing the wheel/ improving existing technology) is an "innovator," and China (with neither the capability to invent things, nor "innovate" them) is a manufacturer. Is this really what one observes in real life? The United Kingdom may actually have MORE publications in basic research (when adjusted for the population size) than the US, but its economy is no more productive than that of, say, Singapore. In fact, the GDP percapita in Singapore is actually HIGHER than in the UK.
3. There have been more chances for China to get involved in world trade and "The Global Economy," than the authors mentioned. But each time, they have failed. The authors threw this out, but did not spend enough time detailing any of the examples that they gave. For example: The authors asked if China was "able" to innovate. Rather than speaking of this in terms of their infrastructure (insufficient access to public universities, etc) and organization, they gave some vague, grasping reasons for their failure.
4. What does a "technology trade balance" mean? France has a negative balance of trade with roughly 40% of the number of patent applications as the USA (which has a huge postive balance of trade in that area). Japan, on the other hand, has a balance less than 1/15th of that of the US, but with three times the number of patent applications. Does this mean that foreigners find that their investment in technology goes further in France and choose to invest it there (hence the negative balance of trade)? Does this mean that the average patent is less fruitful in Japan than in the USA? There is almost no discussion of this chart in the text.
In summary, I would prefer just a bit more detail/ gravitas and a little less Japanese chauvinism in this book.
NEW INSIGHT ON CHINA'S ASCENT TO THE WORLD STAGE.......1999-06-25
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Internet-Marketing und Electronic Commerce. Grundlagen - Rahmenbedingungen - Instrumente. Mit Praxisbeispielen
Wolfgang Fritz Manufacturer: Dr. Th. Gabler Verlag ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3409216634 |
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Consumer Information About Financial Services
Manufacturer: Organization for Economic ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 926413736X |
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The Quantum Leap: Next Generation
Dean Gilliam , and Steve Taylor-Jones Manufacturer: J. Ross Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1932159444 |
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In a world where customer demand is rewriting the rules of manufacturing success, yesterday's best practices may actually hinder companies more than help them. The Quantum Leap: Next Generation documents the forces shaping today's demad-driven markets and equips organizations with the knowledge and insight to navigate the transition to Demand Flow Technology (DFT) - a unique combination of innovative management philosophy, revolutionary manufacturing practices, and flexible employees.Customer Reviews:
First time ever.......2007-06-27
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National Perspectives On the New Regionalism in the North: Vol. 2 (International Political Economy)
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0312226837 |
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This is the second of five volumes reporting on the UNU/WIDER project on new regionalism. This volume presents various national perspectives on the process of regionalization in order to get a more concrete understanding of its dynamics. It is dedicated to country studies from Europe and North America, divided between policy makers and policy takers.
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The Global Competitiveness Report 2001-2002 (World Economic Forum)
World Economic Forum Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 019521837X |
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This year's Global Competitiveness Report appears at a time of exceptional uncertainty. Global economic activity has slowed substantially, stock markets have shown considerable volatility, and the world's major currencies have experienced significant fluctuations. In Europe, where the final steps toward monetary are being taken, output has declined considerably below the region's production potential. In Japan, there are serious concerns about a prolonged recession, and in several countries throughout the rest of Asia, industrial production has shrunk markedly. Other emerging market economies have been subject to financial turmoil that reminds us of the severe crises of 1997 and 1998. The greatest uncertainty, however, concerns the United States, whose economy had essentially come to a standstill in the second quarter of 2001. Coping with the enormous challenges currently facing the global economy requires pursuing a prudent and proactive macroeconomic policy stance. More importantly, it requires strengthening the cross-border networks that promote private investment, entrepreneurship, and social progress around the world. In this endeavor, The Global Competitiveness Report remains an invaluable tool by identifying existing impediments to economic growth and thus helping in the design of policy measures to remove such obstacles as a precondition for advancing human well-being across the globe. This year's Report appears in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks in the United States. The unprecedented tragedy that occurred - and the events these attacks have triggered - have profoundly affected the global economic outlook. In response to this extraordinary economic shock, the 2001-2002 Report includes a separate, shorter-term analysis of the world economy in the new Introduction. Based on responses from 90 senior executives whose companies are part of the World Economic Forum, this "flash survey" assesses the magnitude of the effects of September 11 over the coming months. In addition, no fewer than 17 countries have been added to the country profile analysis, reflecting the rising integration of developing countries into the global economy. It also ensures that The Global Competitiveness Report remains the most authoritative source for policymakers, the business community, and other key stakeholders. Data CD-ROM: For the first time ever, results from the World Economic Forum/Harvard University Executive Opinion Survey are available to researchers and policymakers on CD-ROM. This includes many of the same results used in the construction of the Growth Competitiveness Index and the Current Competitiveness Index.Customer Reviews:
Excellent organization and review, but not recent. .......2007-08-09
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The Global Competitiveness Report 2002-2003 (Global Competitiveness Report)
World Economic Forum Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0195159810 |
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The annual Global Competitiveness Report is widely recognized as the world's leading cross-country comparison of data and information relating to economic competitiveness and growth. Over the years, the Report has become the most authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the comparative strengths and weaknesses of national economies throughout the world. The World Economic Forum continues its tradition of excellence with The Global Competitiveness Report 2002-2003, which provides the most updated and recent data, rankings and analysis of 75 industrialized and emerging economies and the latest thinking and research from prominent academics and international institution leaders on global competitiveness. This year's report begins by presenting the widely quoted global competitive index that really comprises two indices-one for growth and one for productivity. It then provides global and regional analyses, with examinations of the competitive landscapes of Africa., Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. Essays on a wide range of special topics follow, including national innovative capacity, governance, foreign direct investment, and trade performance. The Report concludes with detailed country profiles, data presentation and an exhaustive survey of senior business executives that touches on business conditions, infrastructure, the character of the regulatory regime, the quality of government, organized labor, corruption and tax evasion. The Global Competitiveness Report 2002-2003 provides essential information for business leaders, government decision-makers and for academics to examine the critical challenges facing a multitude of the world's economies.
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The Latin American Competitiveness Report 2001-2002 (World Economic Forum)
World Economic Forum Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0195152565 |
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Throughout the last decade, Latin America has made tremendous progress in undertaking significant structural reforms. In many countires, state-owned enterprises have been privatized, basic infrastructure has been built, and capital markets have been established. In more advanced countries in the region, foreign investment flows have soared and trade performance has dramatically improved. These reforms are even more remarkeable when placed in the context of the numerous upheavals, both economic and financial, that have affected the region in recent years. However, Latin America is also a region that has failed to deliver the kind of economic performance that most observers expected, given its wealth of natural resources, proximity to North America and Europe, and relative level of development. Despite the region's indisputable economic and social accomplishments, gains have varied widely among these countries. While some have successfully implemented macroeconomic, political, and institutional reforms, many countries have yet to create the necessary conditions for fostering economic growth and competitiveness. The Latin American Competitiveness Report 2001-2002 highlights the prospects for growth in the region, and, more importantly, reveals the obstacles to competitiveness. Through in-depth analysis of regional trends and detailed country profiles, the Report assesses the comparative strengths and weaknesses of the leading economies in Latin America. It also contains essays on a variety of issues relevant to competitiveness along with an assessment of the impact of the events of September 11th on the longer-term prospects of the region. The Latin American Competitiveness Report 2001-2002 is an invaluable tool for policymakers, business strategists, and other important stakeholders as well as essential reading for all with an interest in the region.
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The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2002-2003 (Economics)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 019516170X |
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In recent years, the delicate political climate in the Middle East has often overshadowed critical discussions related to economic and social development in the Arab world. The region's economic fragility has intensified due to the economic backlash following the September 11 attacks. The Arab World Competitiveness Report - now available for the first time - focuses on the challenges of improving the region's competitiveness at a particularly critical time. Written by an elite team of academics, scholars, and leaders of international organizations, this landmark report is the first systematic benchmarking exercise for the Arab region. It highlights the enormous difficulties that the Arab world currently faces, problems that will only worsen unless drastic changes are made in these countries. The Report reveals why growth in the region has stagnated since the 1980s in spite of some of the highest investment rates in the world. It also examines why, despite its distinct natural resource endowments, the region has failed to capture a greater proportion of international trade and capital flows. Noting the implications of exploding population growth in the region, the Report stresses the need to intensify job creation and to develop educational systems that prepare the population for the rapidly evolving global economy. It also emphasizes the profound environmental sustainability challenges faced by the region. Through in-depth analyses of regional trends, detailed country profiles of sixteen Arab world nations, and data-driven essays that cover a range of relevant issues, this groundbreaking report highlights the prospects for growth among countries in the Arab world and, more importantly, reveals the obstacles to competitiveness. In addition, the Executive Opinion Survey - which includes responses by top business executives in ten Arab world countries - lends depth to the analysis by providing a snapshot of how business leaders in the Arab world perceive present competitiveness and future prospects. The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide of its kind, The Arab World Competitiveness Report is an invaluable tool for identifying existing impediments to growth, thereby advancing the human well-being of the region.
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The World Competitiveness Yearbook 2002
Stephane Garelli Manufacturer: IMD, International Institute for Management Development ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 2970012162 |
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The World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the world's most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations, ranking and analyzing how a nation's environment sustains the competitiveness of enterprises.The WCY is an invaluable, dynamic and constantly updated benchmark for decision-makers. The business community uses it as an essential tool in determining investment plans and assessing locations for new operations. Government agencies find important indicators to benchmark their policies against those of other countries and to evaluate performance over time. The academic world also uses the exceptional wealth of data in the WCY to help analyze world competitiveness.
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China Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook
USA International Business Publications Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739747355 |
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This yearbook contains basic information on export-import, investment and business opportunities in the respected country. Provides information on government structure, economy, business climate, regulations, and more... Includes basic statistics, information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.
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China Business And Investment Opportunities Yearbook
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739796240 |
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China Investment & Business Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment & Business Opportunities Library)
USA International Business Publications Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739712357 |
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This yearbook contains information on investment business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, marketing and export-import opportunities information.
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China Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business and Investment Opportunities Library)
Igor Oleynik Manufacturer: International Business Publications USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00005R52V Release Date: 2006-01-01 |
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Major investment, export-import and other Strategic business opportunities and contacts, basic info for conducting business in the countryDownload Description
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