The Rise of Offshoring: It's Not Wine for Cloth Anymore
... uneconomic in a world in which the coordination of production activities in remote locations was difficult if not impossible. No wonder that Ricardo illustrated his principle of comparative advantage with an example involving the exchange of one good for another. Almost two centuries later, the core o ...
... uneconomic in a world in which the coordination of production activities in remote locations was difficult if not impossible. No wonder that Ricardo illustrated his principle of comparative advantage with an example involving the exchange of one good for another. Almost two centuries later, the core o ...
Tinbergen`s business cycle analysis
... the Bible (Genesis 41,29). Joseph had to interpret the Pharaoh's dream and came up with a simple businesscycle model: the total length of the cycle is 14 years, 7 abundant years followed by 7 lean years. In his capacity as political adviser Josef suggested to the Pharaoh not only a theory (at that t ...
... the Bible (Genesis 41,29). Joseph had to interpret the Pharaoh's dream and came up with a simple businesscycle model: the total length of the cycle is 14 years, 7 abundant years followed by 7 lean years. In his capacity as political adviser Josef suggested to the Pharaoh not only a theory (at that t ...
A Powerful Public Sphere? - VBN
... sphere and questioned the claim that public discourses in a democracy should be conceptualised as a single public sphere. As an alternative, she proposed different types of publics and subaltern publics, i.e. the concepts of strong and weak publics, which have been adapted by Habermas in Between Fac ...
... sphere and questioned the claim that public discourses in a democracy should be conceptualised as a single public sphere. As an alternative, she proposed different types of publics and subaltern publics, i.e. the concepts of strong and weak publics, which have been adapted by Habermas in Between Fac ...
LECTURE 10
... 3. balance of payments effects - a country’s balance-ofpayments account is a record of a country’s payments to and receipts from other countries. •The current account is a record of a country’s export and import of goods and services •Governments typically prefer to see a current account surplus tha ...
... 3. balance of payments effects - a country’s balance-ofpayments account is a record of a country’s payments to and receipts from other countries. •The current account is a record of a country’s export and import of goods and services •Governments typically prefer to see a current account surplus tha ...
The American University in Cairo
... widening the inequality gaps not only among the different countries but within each country depending on where that country stands from the development ladder. As a result, various theoretical and empirical researches in different social science disciplines were directed to study the factors of prod ...
... widening the inequality gaps not only among the different countries but within each country depending on where that country stands from the development ladder. As a result, various theoretical and empirical researches in different social science disciplines were directed to study the factors of prod ...
+Full Paper
... astride major illicit trafficking routes. Economic, social, political and security risks are also strongly tied to the speed at which Petrocaribe might come to an end. A sudden collapse would clearly have much more negative consequences for the member states. But there are strong reasons for Venezue ...
... astride major illicit trafficking routes. Economic, social, political and security risks are also strongly tied to the speed at which Petrocaribe might come to an end. A sudden collapse would clearly have much more negative consequences for the member states. But there are strong reasons for Venezue ...
Methodological & Epistemological Foundations of EAP
... and then try to establish causal relations among them. … ...
... and then try to establish causal relations among them. … ...
History and sociology in Britain: a review article
... Giddens, the most prominent theorist in British sociology today, made his most influential contributions largely through synthesizing and commenting on Continental European social theory.13 Others have done the same for modern American sociology's only theory of "classical" stature—Parsonsian functi ...
... Giddens, the most prominent theorist in British sociology today, made his most influential contributions largely through synthesizing and commenting on Continental European social theory.13 Others have done the same for modern American sociology's only theory of "classical" stature—Parsonsian functi ...
Chapter 7. A Stake in Democracy—citizenship and
... Standard economic theory deals with the individual’s wants and needs, and how they are satisfied, with self-interest as the sole motive. When the setting was a group of people, whether they be co-workers, neighbours or club members, who have personal knowledge of each other, then inter-personal rela ...
... Standard economic theory deals with the individual’s wants and needs, and how they are satisfied, with self-interest as the sole motive. When the setting was a group of people, whether they be co-workers, neighbours or club members, who have personal knowledge of each other, then inter-personal rela ...
CULTURAL THEORY AND HISTORY: THEORETICAL ISSUES
... Although the theories of history proposed by Foucault or Dominick LaCapra are detailed and thoroughly worked out, they still remain within the intellectual horizon opened up by Nietzsche. Even the interpretation of the construction of historical knowledge construction according to class interests, t ...
... Although the theories of history proposed by Foucault or Dominick LaCapra are detailed and thoroughly worked out, they still remain within the intellectual horizon opened up by Nietzsche. Even the interpretation of the construction of historical knowledge construction according to class interests, t ...
IDENTITY THEORY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
... identity theory. Further, to suggest that one theory can be pitted against the other to determine empirically which is better assumes that each is trying to account for the same range of phenomena. As we will show, this historically has not been entirely the case; there are important differences. Ho ...
... identity theory. Further, to suggest that one theory can be pitted against the other to determine empirically which is better assumes that each is trying to account for the same range of phenomena. As we will show, this historically has not been entirely the case; there are important differences. Ho ...