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The authors have studied the effects of global economic development on individuals and cultures for the last three decades and have concluded that the most strategic and effective way of building a more positive future is through economic localisation. Fundamentally, localisation is about...
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Die Dissertation untersucht am Beispiel des Volkskommissariates für Außenhandel die Entstehung der frühen Sowjetbürokratie und analysiert administrative und politische Prozesse, die der Herausbildung des Stalinismus vorangingen. Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die Probleme des staatlich...
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dynamics of capitalism. This led to the major hypothesis, which states: understanding the political economy of capitalism will … capitalism in a disembedded economy (where the 'economy' tends to dominate other aspects of culture). Multiple contradictions … life are both relatively autonomous yet interconnected. There are multiple contradictions of capitalism to be explored, but …
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To help guide development of the Gross National Happiness (GNH), this paper analyzes Western economic systems. Drivers of environmental and social problems will be discussed with the goal of helping Bhutan avoid these pitfalls. The paper then suggests a strategy for developing the GNH as well as...
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Guanxi, a type of particularistic trust observed in Confucian societies has mostly been viewed as a static phenomenon. It is not clear how the role of guanxi changes over time during institutional transitions. This field study of twenty one small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in two...
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This article examines the type of economic analyses of capitalism presented by leading exponents of the neoclassical … that all except the institutionalist school are largely insensitive to different types of structure within capitalism and … are blind to the cultures and institutions which characterize different kinds of capitalism. This conclusion is reached by …
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A study of the oil industry in its modern development from the 1850s to 1973. During this period the industry underwent significant changes in terms of its productive expansion, the diversity of its products, its role in general production, its corporate organisation and in terms of its...
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capitalism. But within this movement that links North and South, 'developed' and less 'developed' nations worldwide, the debate … (many in our own heads) arguing that this or that element of an alternative project is no different from capitalism or is … enacting economic alternatives to capitalism is an affective stance that will enable us, as authors, researchers and activists …
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Net private capital flows (Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Portfolio Investment and private credit flows) to emerging market economies declined significantly after the 1997 Financial Crisis. In 2002, the world's net private capital flows to emerging markets declined to the lowest level in the...
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