A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China territory forbidden to foreigners to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. "For All the Tea in China" is the remarkable account of Fortune's journeys into China a thrillin...
The 2005 Economic and Product Market Databook for Hamilton, Canada
by Philip M. Parker
Embedded in an historical account of the development of U.S. capitalism up to the present day, this book gives the reader a thorough description of the major aspects of the U.S. economy, as well as a theoretical understanding of the overall economy. A particular focus of this book is how free markets work in capitalism and the interrelationship between markets and the government. Of particular interest in the current economic situation is the question of what can the government do to get the ec...
Curious Correlations - Party Politics and Economics (Curious Correlations, #1)
by Jan S Raymond
World Change and World Security
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics) (Counterpoint S.)
by Max Weber
A brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization. The book analyzes the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude toward the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged-even sanctified-the human quest for prosperity.
Peasant Economic Development within the English Manorial System
by J.A. Raftis
A study of the role of the peasant in the medieval economy, which challenges the view that peasants were serfs at the mercy of their lords.
Changing Economy in Indonesia (Changing Economy in Indonesia)
Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows.
Manufacturing Industry 1870-1942 (Changing Economy in Indonesia)
In Quest of Trade and Security
Série de Prix Applicables Aux Travaux de Couvertures En Ardoises, En Tuiles, En Tôle Galvanisée (Sciences Sociales)
by Hebert-P
Managing Information in the Roman Economy (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies)
This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information, generates advantages and inequalities; at the same time, it is a source of profit, legal and illegal, and of transaction costs. The contributions that make up the present book aim to deepen our understanding of the economy of Ancient Rom...
Der Auslandsbezug Des Betriebsverfassungsgesetzes (Europhaische Hochschulschriften. Reihe II, Rechtswissenschaf, #324)
by Georg Jaeger
Die im Zuge des steigenden internationalen Wirtschaftsverkehrs auftretenden grenzuberschreitenden Arbeitsverhaltnisse stellen das internationale Arbeitsrecht vor die Aufgabe, zu klaren, welche nationalen arbeitsrechtlichen Vorschriften hierauf anzuwenden sind. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht diese Frage fur das BetrVG der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Der Darstellung der in Literatur und Rechtsprechung vertretenen Auffassungen folgt eine an den jeweiligen Norminhalten bemessene Anwendungsbestimm...
This book is the first on the history of the marine fisheries of Southeast Asia. It takes as its central theme the movement of fisheries into new fishing grounds, particularly the diverse ecosystems that make up the seas of Southeast Asia. This process accelerated between the 1950s and 1970s in what the author calls the great fish race. Catches soared as the population of the region grew, demand from Japan and North America for shrimps and tuna increased, and fishers adopted more efficient ways...
Die Entstehungsgeschichte Der Betriebssoziologie in Deutschland (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #83)
by Hans-Michael Rummler
Die Herausbildung der Betriebssoziologie als empirische Sozialwissenschaft vollzog sich in der Strukturkrise der sich entfaltenden Industriegesellschaft, am Wandel der gesellschaftlichen Konstitution von Industriearbeit und in der Hinwendung von der sozialen Frage zur Arbeiterfrage im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert. Neben den wirtschafts- und sozialhistorischen Voraussetzungen gehoren zur Entstehung der Betriebssoziologie praktische soziale Betriebsfuhrung und staatlich initiierte betriebliche Sozi...
The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in consequence of the inter-dependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive societies. In their quest for horses, fragrances, and spices, gems, glassware, and other exotics from the lands to their west,...