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  • The Economic Sociology of Capitalism

    Edited by Victor Nee, Richard Swedberg ...
    This book represents a major step forward in the use of economic sociology to illuminate the nature and workings of capitalism amid the far-reaching changes of the contemporary era of global capitalism. For the past twenty years economic sociologists have focused on mesa-level phenomena of networks, but they have done relatively little to analyze capitalism as an overall system or to show how such ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Remaking the American Mainstream

    by Richard D. ALBA, Victor Nee ...
    In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Longtime Californ'

    A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown

    by Victor Nee, Brett De Bary ...
    Beginning with the immigrants who left poverty-ridden villages in China to try for a better livelihood in America, the narratives and extensive interviews of Longtime Californ’ tell the true story of the Chinese in America. A young Chinese girl tells of being sold into slavery, brought to America, and rescued by a missionary; men of Chinatown recall the awful conditions and long waits on Angel ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research

    Edited by Rafael Wittek, Tom A.B. Snijders, Victor Nee ...
    The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology.Taking on issues ranging from ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Capitalism from Below

    Markets and Institutional Change in China

    by Victor Nee, Sonja Opper ...
    More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private enterprise overcome ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

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  • Management, Leadership and Operations

    by Alan S. Gutterman ...
    This book provides a one-of-a-kind comprehensive comparative survey of management, leadership and operational practices and research covering countries from all over the world, both developed and developing. Countries and regions included in the survey include the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Nordic Europe, Israel, Israel, China, India, Vietnam, Mexico, ... Read more

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  • Playing Our Game : Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten The West

    by Edward S. Steinfeld ...
    Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything, China's economic emergence is good for America. In this fascinating new book, Steinfeld asserts ... Read more

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  • Re-Imagining Capitalism

    Edited by Dominic Barton, Matthias Kipping, Dezsö Horváth ...
    Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing proportion of humanity out of poverty. But its effects, and hence its future, have come increasingly under question: Is capitalism still improving wealth and well-being for the many? Or, is long-term value creation being ... Read more

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  • The Global Auction

    The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

    by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, David Ashton ...
    For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Global Auction forces us to reconsider our deeply held and ... Read more

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  • The World that Changes the World

    How Philanthropy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship are Transforming the Social Ecosystem

    Edited by Willie Cheng, Sharifah Mohamed ...
    If there is an X PRIZE for collaborative thought leadership of the social ecosystem, this book would get it.Dr. Peter H. DiamandisChairman and CEO, X PRIZE FoundationThe World that Changes the World is thought leadership at its best—envisioning the future through reflection and analysis of past trends and contemporary challenges.Senator the Hon. Ursula StephensAustralian Parliamentary Secretary ... Read more

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  • Co-operatives for Sustainable Communities

    by Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network ...
    Editors: Leslie Brown, Chiara Carini, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Lou Hammond Ketilson, Elizabeth Hicks, John McNamara, Sonja Novkovic, Daphne Rixon and Richard Simmons.The Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network and the Centre of Excellence in Accounting and Reporting for Co-operatives joined forces to organize an international conference, focused on how and why co-operatives assess ... Read more

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