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  • The Growth of Firms, Middle East Oil and Other Essays

    by Edith Penrose ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1971: At first glance it might seem that the three subjects dealt with in the essays written over the last twenty years and now collected in this volume could hardly be more diverse, beginning with the growth of the firm and moving from the international petroleum industry to the Middle East generally. Oddly enough, however, these subjects are connected by the same type of historical ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Large International Firm (RLE International Business)

    by Edith Penrose ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: International Business
    This book is a study of the economics of the large international firm, but is at the same time a study of one of the world’s most important industries. International firms face difficult problems in attempting to deal with the conflicts between their own interest as world-wide economic organisations on the one hand, that of the countries in which they operate on the other, and with the conflicts ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Libya: Agriculture and Economic Development (RLE Economy of Middle East)

    Edited by J.A. Allan, K.S. McLachlan, Edith Penrose ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Economy of the Middle East
    Oil revenues have made Libya rich since 1961, when oil exports began. This new wealth has affected all sectors of the economy and especially the agricultural sector; there have been considerable movements of population, changes in the use of land, and, possibly most important, there has been a profound change in the expectations of the Libyan people. Agriculture was the major contributor to GDP ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Theory of the Growth of the Firm

    by Edith Penrose, Christos Pitelis ...
    There are not many books that are genuine classics, and only a handful in business and management whose insights and ideas last for 50 years and more. This book is one of the very few ‘must reads’ for anybody seriously interested in the role of management within the firm. Originally published in 1959, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm has illuminated and inspired thinking in strategy, ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

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  • Twilight in the Desert

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    by Matthew R. Simmons ...
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  • The Predator State

    How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

    by James K. Galbraith ...
    The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to ... Read more

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  • Out of the Desert

    My Journey From Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil

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  • Liquidated

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