Gorbachev's Economic Plans
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 1184
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Introduction to Social Systems Engineering
Author: Huijiong Wang
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-28
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13: 9811070407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book integrates the basic theories (GST and Parson’s AGIL framework), applying them to the components of social systems, state-run and business firms. China’s development experience offers a valuable case study that can provide readers deeper insights into this comparatively young discipline, and into China. Though the discipline of systems engineering and its application to hardware engineering system are well established, social systems engineering is an emerging discipline still being explored. This book may be the first English-language publication on this promising subject.
The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insider's History
Author: Michael Ellman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-24
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 131745748X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inside story of the political collpase of the Soviet Union is far better understood than the course of economic and social disintegration. In order to capture the story, the editors compiled a list of questions which they addressed to former top Soviet officials and economic and other policy advisors (both Soviet and foreign) who were privy not only to data on the functioning of the Soviet economy but also to the internal policy debate during the 1980s. This volume assembles the Informants' analyses of key issues and the turning points, and weaves them into a compelling history of systemic collapse. Among the topics investigated are: economic policies in the 1980s; the standard of living: the reliability of Soviet statistics; Gosplan's projections for the economy to the year 2000; was the arms race starving the civilian economy? the role of ideology in supporting the functioning of an economic system; the party's participating in economic management; the influence of foreign advisors; the struggle over a transition program; the functioning and collapse of the supply system, the CMEA, and the foreign trade system.
Situation and Outlook Series
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 442
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Author: Laurie A. Brand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-02-27
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 1139450891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the fact that the majority of emigration today originates in the global south, most research has focused on the receiving states of Europe and North America, while very little attention has been paid to the policies of the sending states toward emigration or toward their nationals abroad. Taking the country cases of Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan, this work explores the relationship between the government of the sending states, the outmovement of their citizens and the communities of expatriates that have developed. By focusing on the evolution of government institutions charged with various aspects of expatriate affairs, this work breaks new ground in understanding the changing nature of the relationship between expatriates and their home state. Far from suggesting that the state is waning in importance, the conclusions indicate that this relationship provides evidence both of state resilience and of new trends in the practice of sovereignty.
De Facto Federalism in China
Author: Yongnian Zheng
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9812706801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first attempt to conceptualize ChinaOCOs central-local relations from the behavioral perspective. Although China does not have a federalist system of government, the author believes that, with deepening reform and openness, ChinaOCOs central-local relations is increasingly functioning on federalist principles. Federalism as a functioning system in China is under studied. The author defines the political system existing in China as OC de facto federalismOCO, and provides a detailed analysis of its sources and dynamics in the book. The system is mainly driven by two related factors OCo inter-governmental decentralization and globalization. While economic decentralization since the 1980s has led to the formation of de facto federalism, globalization since the 1990s has accelerated this process and generated increasingly high pressure on the Chinese leadership to institutionalize de facto federalism by various measures of selective recentralization."
Economies in Transition Agriculture Report
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch Handbook on Transnational Corporations
Author: Alice de Jonge
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-01-27
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1783476915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransnational corporations (TNCs) have moved to the forefront of regulatory governance both within states and in the international arena. The Research Handbook on Transnational Corporations provides expert background commentary and up-to-date insights into regulatory frameworks impacting on TNCs at global, industry and national levels. Written by global experts in their field, this unique collection of essays provides in-depth understanding of how the forces of globalisation affect the world’s largest corporations, and how those corporations, in turn, shape globalisation.
Challenges to Multilateral Trade
Author: Ross P. Buckley
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9041127119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProgress in multilateral negotiations to liberalize trade under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become more difficult since newer members are generally developing countries with different interests than the United States, the European Union and other industrialized countries. More than 250 free trade agreements (FTAs) have come into effect since 1948. Partly as a result of the WTO impasse, over 130 FTAs have been ratified just in the past ten years; each agreement has been designed to eliminate trade restrictions and subsidies between the parties involved. Almost all of the WTO Members participate in one or more FTAs (some Members are party to twenty or more). Most books on FTAs are country- or region-specific, while others deal with the subject from a particular perspective. This timely work, produced by some of the world's leading experts in their respective fields, employs a broader approach exploring FTAs from the interdisciplinary perspectives of international law, political economy, culture and human rights
Regional Development in China
Author: Yehua Dennis Wei
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1134591268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study systematically examines uneven regional development in China, focusing on three central agents: the foreign investor, the state and the region. Wei's findings have important implications for theories of, and policy towards, Chinese regional development. This book is a vital resource for those with an interest in transition economies.
