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KONDRATIEFF WAVES
This fourth issue of the Yearbook ‘Kondratieff Waves’ has the subtitle ‘The Spectrum of Opinions’, as its papers cover a whole range of problems. The Yearbook consists of three sections. The Introduction of this issue is dedicated to Nikolai Kondratieff's ideas which still are important to an analysis of the world economic situation. The first section (Long Waves in the Context of World Economy and Politics) includes five contributions devoted to the study of different spheres from economy to jihadism. The speeches of Kondratieff medal laureates are published in the second section (Kondratieff Medal: Winners' Speeches). It presents a very impressive collection of different views of well-known and young researchers. The last section (Reviews and Notes) includes Antony Harper's re view of Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev and Arno Tausch's monograph ‘Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery’ published by Springer International Publishing. This issue will be useful for economists, social scientists, as well as for a wide range of those interested in the problems of the past, present, and future of global economy and globalization.
Crisis and Sustainability
This book offers a novel interpretation of the Great Recession and the ensuing Euro Crisis as a consequence of the evolution of capitalism since the 1970s. Chapters argue that the neoliberal development trajectory pursued in recent decades is unsustainable, and posit that neither sound macroeconomics nor empirical data support the unqualified faith in free markets that inspired it. The book begins by providing a broad critical perspective on key concepts such as freedom, free market, free trade, globalisation and financialisation, before going on to analyse the long and deep recent crisis as a result of the neoliberal policy strategy adopted since the early 1980s. The alternative narrative outlined in the book provides insights into the policy strategy required to achieve a sustainable development trajectory.
Kondratieff Waves: Dimensions and Prospects at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Kondratieff waves constitute a sort of mystery that has been haunting economic and social researchers for almost a century. Why do we observe such regularity in the long-term behavior of economic and non-economic indicators? Why in certain periods do we observe prolonged upswings, whereas in other periods – notwithstanding all the enormous efforts of interested macroeconomic actors – economic development is accompanied by prolonged depressions? What gets out of order in social and economic mechanisms? Since the seminal works published by Kondratieff, a number of outstanding researchers have made significant contributions to our understanding of the possible factors affecting and provokin...
The Dog Bone Portfolio
Like so many of us, Margret Kopala lost a significant portion of her life savings in the stock market crash of 2008. Unlike us, however, she went on a long and intense financial odyssey to find out what caused the losses and what she could do to protect herself in the future. Armed with her skills as a journalist and public policy analyst, fueled by equal measures of fear and determination, and mentored by successful investment strategist and financial broadcaster John Budden, Kopala researched and wrote this magisterial analysis of how Russian economist Nikolai Kondratieff’s long-wave theory is playing out in what many today describe as a financial Winter. Along the way, she is introduced...
Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary
This book provides brief expositions of the central concepts in the field of Global Studies. Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev says, “The book is intelligent, rich in content and, I believe, necessary in our complex, turbulent, and fragile world.” 300 authors from 50 countries contributed 450 entries. The contributors include scholars, researchers, and professionals in social, natural, and technological sciences. They cover globalization problems within ecology, business, economics, politics, culture, and law. This interdisciplinary collection provides a basis for understanding the concepts and methods within global studies and for accessing lengthier and more technical research in the field. The articles treat such important topics as the biosphere, ozone depletion, land resources and pollution, world health challenges, education, global modeling, sustainable development, war, weapons of mass destruction, and terrorism. The book also promotes academic cooperation, political dialogue, and mutual understanding across diverse traditions and national identities that are needed to engage successfully the many daunting challenges of globalization.
The Emergence of the Global Political Economy
The Emergence of the Global Political Economy challenges the assumption that the international political economy is a recent phenomenon. Instead this volume asserts that the current global political economy began to take shape around 1500 and that some of today's key processes were already perceivable several hundred years ago. The book explains the interdependence between long-term economic growth, global political leadership and global war and how this interdependence has evolved over the last 500 years, and includes discussion of: *the ascendence of Western Europe and the significance of the 1490s *the military superiority thesis *sequences of leadership and of challenge to the global political economy *the importance of commodities from sugar and cloth to slaves and bullion *the Anglo-American rivalry until the First World War.
The Making of a Digital World
This book offers a unique perspective on current changes. Describing globalization as a long-term process of intertwined technological, economic, political, and cultural changes, the author identifies distinct phases in the global system development, and concludes that the pattern of change continues even with the rise of new digital technologies.
Profecías sobre el fin de los tiempos
¿Sabías que muchas profecías de distinto origen y formuladas tanto hace siglos como en años recientes en distintos pueblos y culturas presentan inquietantes coincidencias como... ? Un fuerte cambio climático, la caída del capitalismo y del actual sistema económico financiero, una guerra rápida y terrible en la que intervendrán numerosos países... Este libro representa una recopilación exhaustiva de profecías - muchas de ellas hasta ahora desconocidas- recogidas del cristianismo, judaísmo, islam, hinduísmo, de culturas desaparecidas y escritas o reveladas a lo largo de los siglos, muchas de ellas debidas a personajes muy conocidos como Leonardo Da Vinci, George Washington, o a hombres y mujeres anónimos además de las referencias clásicas como Nostradamus o los textos proféticos tradicionales.
Rubles to Dollars
Combining an insider's knowledge with his unique Wall Street perspective, Elder provides a road map to Russia's exciting new investment frontier.
Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation
This empirical study encompassing a century of the US patent database probes industrial change and underpinning rules of technological transformation. From this evolutionary framework, Andersen (management, U. of London), with the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition at the U. of Manchester, challenges several dogmas of economic reasoning (e.g., those of Schumpeter, 1939) with respect to the dynamics of technological innovation. Major themes include: structural changes in trajectories of technological opportunities; the hunt for S-shaped and wave-like patterns in innovation trajectories; industrial dynamics from a competence bloc approach; the diversity of firms and path dependency; and technological leadership. The author concludes with 21 "stylized facts" of the nature of technological expansion in particular sectors. c. Book News Inc.
