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  • The Deadly Shipwrecks of the Powhattan & New Era on the Jersey Shore

    by Captain Robert F. Bennett, Susan Leigh Bennett, Commander Timothy R. Dring ...
    Series series Disaster
    In 1854, two horrendous shipwrecks took place off the New Jersey coast. The Powhattan and the New Era were both American-flag sailing packet ships carrying hopeful European immigrants to new lives in America. The ships ran aground on the offshore sandbars along the shoreline between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Inlet, claiming the lives of many passengers and crew. The staggering casualties finally ... Read more

    $17.90 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia's Uncertain Economic Future

    by John P. Hardt, Robert F. Bennett ...
    The contributors to this volume analyze the present state of the Russian economy and its future prospects - which now seem brighter than at any previous time in the country's history. The Russian economy is now showing positive GDP growth and a positive balance of payments, portending a trend of sustained growth. The record of the Putin presidency with respect to the establishment of market ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

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  • Globalization and Its Discontents

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Wheel of Fortune

    The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia

    by Thane Gustafson ...
    The Russian oil industry—which vies with Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer and exporter of oil, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply—is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through the Russian economy and worldwide. Wheel of Fortune provides an authoritative account of this vital industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. Tracking the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Putinomics

    Power and Money in Resurgent Russia

    by Chris Miller ...
    When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin’s economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin’s Russia, Chris Miller examines its economic policy ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Rural Transition in Azerbaijan

    by Zvi Lerman, David Sedik ...
    Series series Rural Economies in Transition
    In 1995–96 the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alieyev, launched a program of agrarian reforms that caused a sweeping and irreversible shift from Soviet-style collective agriculture to individual farming in his country. These reforms led to an impressive recovery and substantial productivity improvements in agriculture. The agrarian transition in Azerbaijan contrasts with that in Russia, Ukraine, ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Tax Politics in Eastern Europe

    Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise

    by Hilary Appel ...
    “This is the first book to systematically examine the variation in policies of Eastern European countries. There is a theoretical contribution to understandings of variation in tax policies, but just as impressive is the in-depth empirical analysis and in particular the data from interviews with key players in the process.”—Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-MadisonPost-Communist tax reform, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy

    Edited by Michael Alexeev, Shlomo Weber ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    By 1999, Russia's economy was growing at almost 7% per year, and by 2008 reached 11th place in the world GDP rankings. Russia is now the world's second largest producer and exporter of oil, the largest producer and exporter of natural gas, and as a result has the third largest stock of foreign exchange reserves in the world, behind only China and Japan. But while this impressive economic growth ... Read more

    $175.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Putin's Russia

    by Pekka Sutela ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia’s economic development and economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia. After the slow decline and sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked upon a multi-faceted change. This included transition from central management to a market economy, from one-party rule to democracy, from multi-national ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Russia's Response to Sanctions

    How Western Economic Statecraft is Reshaping Political Economy in Russia

    by Richard Connolly ...
    In the first in-depth analysis of the effects of sanctions on the Russian political economy, Richard Connolly details the Western sanctions targeting the energy, defense and financial sectors, and the Russian response. He explores how the Western sanctions have caused Russian officials to formulate rapid policy responses to enable the country to adapt to the new circumstances. The sanctions and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Unveiling the North Korean Economy

    Collapse and Transition

    by Byung-Yeon Kim ...
    North Korea is one of the most closed and secretive societies in the world. Despite a high level of interest from the outside world, we have very little detailed information about how the country functions economically. In this valuable book for both the academic and policy-making circles, Byung-Yeon Kim offers the most comprehensive and systematic analysis of the present day North Korean economy ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

    by International Monetary Fund ...
    Series Book 183 - Occasional Papers
    This occasional paper provides an overview of the economic reform experiences of the Central Asian states of the former Soviet Union since their independence at the turn of the decade. The choice of countries reflects not only a geographical grouping, but also similarities in the types of transition challenges faced by these countries notwithstanding considerable variations in their sizes, ethnic ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD