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  • Competing in a Global Economy

    An Empirical Study on Trade and Specialization

    by Robert Ballance, Helmut Forstner ...
    Global patterns of production and trade in manufactures have changed tremendously over the past two decades. The growth of world trade has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the number of products, suppliers and buyers involved in international markets. At the same time, the means by which manufacturers compete and collaborate have been changing. The great challenges that these developments ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Collapse and Survival

    Industry Strategies in a Changing World

    by Robert Ballance, Stuart Sinclair ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1983, Collapse and Survival was written as an examination of the position of industry worldwide at the time of publication.The book looks at the post-war growth of output and the policies adopted in advanced countries, socialist countries, and LDCs to bolster and shape this growth. It explores in detail the experience of firms across several of the industries at the forefront of ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

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  • Edge of Chaos

    Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracyAround the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Political Economics

    Explaining Economic Policy

    by Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini ...
    Series series Zeuthen Lectures
    What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government deficits, and the stance of monetary policy during the course of business and electoral cycles? A large and rapidly growing literature in political economics attempts to answer these questions. But so far there is ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • GDP

    A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition

    by Diane Coyle ...
    How GDP came to rule our lives—and why it needs to changeWhy did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece’s chief statistician charged with treason in ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • Build, Innovate and Grow

    My Vision for Our Country

    by Kingsley Moghalu ...
    Nigeria today appears rudderless, with no particular direction. Our country has no purposeful destiny that we can say with conviction is our lodestar. Our citizens are increasingly unsure, what being a Nigerian means... This is a fundamental challenge we must overcome, for a nation or a country without a clear worldview simply cannot become a prosperous and powerful one. The book 'Build Innovate ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Economics of Developing and Emerging Markets

    by Charles van Marrewijk, Steven Brakman, Julia Swart ...
    This textbook presents an innovative new perspective on the economics of development, including insights from a broad range of disciplines. It starts with the current state of affairs, a discussion of data availability, reliability, and analysis, and an historic overview of the deep influence of fundamental factors on human prosperity. Next, it focuses on the role of human interaction in terms of ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • A Time Traveller's Guide to Our Next Ten Years

    by Frans Cronje ...
    Picture South Africa ten years from now: Are the angry poor rising up and seizing land and businesses? Or has economic reform created jobs and growth? Is an increasingly desperate government clamping down on freedoms? Or do the middle classes still braai in suburban bliss? South Africa is at a tipping point, and small shifts in political and economic conditions can bring about dramatic changes. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Great African Society

    A Plan for a Nation Gone Astray

    by Hlumelo Biko ...
    Only a dramatic, imaginatively crafted intervention - a massive redistribution programme managed by the private sector, far-reaching policy changes in schooling, housing and health, and better, disciplined governance - will deliver the genuine liberation South Africa's still-poor millions expected from the 1994 settlement. Without it, without the real promise of a free, meritocratic society, South ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Statistics

    An Introduction

    by Antony Davies ...
    The modern world is brimming with statistical information—information relevant to our personal health and safety, the weather, or the robustness of the national or global economy, to name just a few examples. But don’t statistics lie?Well, no—people lie, and sometimes they use statistical language to do it. Knowing when you’re being hoodwinked requires a degree of statistical literacy, but most ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Africa First!

    Igniting a Growth Revolution

    by Jakkie Cilliers ...
    What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment.Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and models fundamental ... Read more

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  • A Manifesto for Social Change

    How to Save South Africa

    by Moeletsi Mbeki, Nobantu Mbeki ...
    A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country’s – and the continent’s – development obstacles.Architects of Poverty (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating and promoting their fellow Africans’ misery.Advocates for Change (2011) showed that there were short-term to medium-term ... Read more

    $9.69 CAD