States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic
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Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax system that originated with Peter the...
The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World
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Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other...
The Contemporary Crisis of the European Union: Prospects for the Future
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The European Union widened and deepened integration when it introduced the Single Market and the...
The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline
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Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2016 The world's most intractable...
The Organization of the Expert Society
Andreas Werr and Staffan Furusten
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It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals...
The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems
Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding
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Much of the existing literature within the "varieties of capitalism" (VOC) and "comparative business...
The Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Douglas J. Cumming, Igor Filatotchev, Geoffrey Wood and Juliane Reinecke
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Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) represent both an increasingly important - and potentially dominant -...
The Paradoxes of Aid Work: Passionate Professionals
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This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are...
The Russian Economy and Foreign Direct Investment
Kari Liuhto, Sergei Sutyrin and Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
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Before the recent Ukrainian crisis, Russia was one of the main sources of foreign direct investment...
The Value of Labor: The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956
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At the heart of today's fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism...