Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 An Overview -- Introduction -- The Structure of Qatar's Government -- Growth of Population and Product -- High Rate of Population Growth -- Labour Force -- Growth of Gross Domestic Product, Sectoral and Per Capita --...

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- 1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- Towards an international economy -- Colonialism -- Emigration and the export of capital -- Why did not all countries develop? -- Economic development between the wars -- A world order comes into being -- The...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- SECTION 1: INTERNATIONAL INTERDEPENDENCE AND GLOBALISATION: DEFINITIONS AND ISSUES -- Chapter 1 Introduction: interdependence and globalisation in the contemporary international system-dispositions and definitions -- Central problems -- Contrasting implications of...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Section 1 Urban Politics and Economic Policy -- 1 Does Politics Matter? -- 2 Transforming Needs into Expenditure Decisions -- 3 Party Influence on Local Spending in Denmark -- 4 Economics, Politics, and Policy in Norwegian Communes -- Section 2 Urban Systems and...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: The General Economic Rationale for Offshore Finance Centre Development -- Chapter I: The Importance of National Friction Structures and Distortions Therein and the International Politico-economic Friction Matrix --...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. U.S. Policy and the Third World: The Postwar Era -- U.S. Interests and the Postwar World -- The Seventies: The System in Crisis -- The 1973 Oil Crisis and Negotiations -- The Assault from the Third World --...

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Quantity Theory of Money -- 2. From the Quantity Theory to Monetarism -- 3. The Methodology of Testing Economic Theories -- 4. The Evidence on Monetarist Claims -- 5. Has Monetarism Failed? -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G --...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Dark Designs -- On Reading Classical Political Economy -- Summary -- 1 Primitive Accumulation -- Introduction -- Commodity Production and the Social Division of Labor -- The Household as an Agent of Production -- A Simple Schematic of the Social...

Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 How Crises Change Political Values -- 3 Micropolitics and Macropolitical Consequences in Mexico -- 4 Micropolitics and Macropolitical Consequences in Canada -- 5 Mexico's Energy Policies in the Seventies and Eighties: an Analysis -- 6 Canada's Energy...