Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Theories of Value and Distribution since Adam Smith or Slavery Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey 1640 1960

Theories of Value and Distribution since Adam Smith: Ideology and Economic Theory

Author: Maurice Dobb

Mr Dobb examines the history of economic thought in the light of the modern controversy over capital theory and, more particularly, the appearance of Sraffa's book The Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, which was a watershed in the critical discussions constituted a crucial turning-point in the history of economics: an estimate not unconnected with his reinterpretation of nineteenth-century economic thought as consisting of two streams or traditions commonly confused under the generic title of 'the classical tradition' against which Jevons so strongly reacted.



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Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960

Author: Patrick Manning

The small but important region of Dahomey (now the People's Republic of Benin) has played an active role in the world economy throughout the era of mercantile and industrial capitalism, beginning as an exporter of slaves and becoming an exporter of plain oil and palm kernels. This book covers a span of three centuries, integrating into a single framework the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial economic history of Dahomey. Mr Manning has pieced together an extensive body of new evidence and new interpretations: he has combined descriptive evidence with quantitative data on foreign trade, slave demography and colonial government finance, and has used both Marxian and Neoclassical techniques of economic analysis. He argues that, despite the severe strain on population and economic growth caused by the slave trade, the economy continued to expand from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, and the colonial state acted as an economic depressant rather than a stimulant.



Table of Contents:

Maps; Tables; Figures; Preface;

1. Slavery, colonialism and economic growth, 1640-1960;
2. The Dahomean economy, 1640-1890;
3. Struggles with the gods: economic life in the 1880s;
4. Production, 1890-1914;
5. Demand, 1890-1914;
6. Exchange, 1890-1914;
7. The alien state, 1890-1914;
8. Social struggles for economic ends, 1890-1914;
9. The mechanism of accumulation;
10. Capitalism and colonialism, 1915-60;
11. The Dahomean national movement;
12. Epilogue; Notes; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

International Financial Management or Nonparametric Econometrics

International Financial Management

Author: Cheol Eun

The overriding objective of Eun and Resnick's International Financial Management, 3e is to teach students how to be effective global financial managers. The text covers the fundamentals of the macroeconomic environment of international financial management, discusses the financial environment in which the multinational firm and its managers must function, and covers foreign exchange management and financial management in a multinational firm.



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Nonparametric Econometrics

Author: Adrian Pagan

This book systematically and thoroughly covers a vast literature on the nonparametric and semiparametric statistics and econometrics that has evolved over the past five decades. Within this framework, this is the first book to discuss the principles of the nonparametric approach to the topics covered in a first year graduate course in econometrics, e.g., regression function, heteroskedasticity, simultaneous equations models, logit-probit and censored models. Professors Pagan and Ullah provide intuitive explanations of difficult concepts, heuristic developments of theory, and empirical examples emphasizing the usefulness of modern nonparametric approach. The book should provide a new perspective on teaching and research in applied subjects in general and econometrics and statistics in particular.



Table of Contents:
Preface
1Introduction1
2Methods of Density Estimation5
3Conditional Moment Estimation78
4Nonparametric Estimation of Derivatives160
5Semiparametric Estimation of Single-Equation Models196
6Semiparametric and Nonparametric Estimation of Simultaneous Equation Models254
7Semiparametric Estimation of Discrete Choice Models272
8Semiparametric Estimation of Selectivity Models300
9Semiparametric Estimation of Censored Regression Models317
10Retrospect and Prospect339
AStatistical Methods342
References383
Index419

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Multimedia Wireless Networks or The Global Challenge

Multimedia Wireless Networks: Technologies, Standards and QoS

Author: Aura Ganz

  • Integrating QoS in wireless multimedia network design
  • Delivering QoS in WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, cellular, and satellite networks
  • Covers every leading current and emerging wireless network standard

Integrate QoS into virtually any multimedia wireless network

From entertainment to telephony, emerging wireless systems will make possible a new generation of wireless multimedia applications. To satisfy users, network designers and developers must integrate end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) support throughout all their underlying networks: WANs, WLANs, WPANs, and "last-mile" WLL or satellite distribution systems. However, wireless network standards typically focus on signaling, leaving crucial QoS issues to implementers. Multimedia Wireless Networks is the first book to help network professionals systematically address QoS in today's most important wireless networks -- and tomorrow's.

  • Why users' wireless multimedia performance requirements will require extensive QoS support
  • The fundamentals of QoS -- and how they drive network design
  • WLAN standards from the multimedia network designer's viewpoint: IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN, and HomeRF
  • Wireless MANs: introducing the new 802.16 WirelessMAN standard
  • Integrating QoS into IEEE 802.15 and Bluetooth wireless personal area networks
  • QoS in current and emerging cellular and satellite networks



Table of Contents:
Preface
Pt. 1Multimedia Applications and Quality of Service (QoS)1
Ch. 1Multimedia Applications3
Ch. 2Quality of Service Fundamentals21
Ch. 3QoS Mechanisms39
Pt. 2Wireless Local Area Networks59
Ch. 4IEEE 802.1161
Ch. 5HiperLAN85
Ch. 6HomeRF105
Pt. 3Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks117
Ch. 7IEEE 802.16119
Pt. 4Wireless Personal Area Networks141
Ch. 8Bluetooth143
Ch. 9IEEE 802.15165
Pt. 52.5 and 3G Networks189
Ch. 10GPRS191
Ch. 11UMTS231
Ch. 12cdma2000275
Ch. 13Satellite Communication291
App.: Acronyms and Abbreviations307
Bibliography319
Index325

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The Global Challenge: Frameworks for International Human Resource Management

Author: Paul Evans

During the last decade, we have moved, perhaps irrevocably, into the era of a global economy. Through its focus on human resource management and organization, The Global Challenge: Frameworks for International Human Resource Management, provides a broad guide on how to manage the process of internationalization, with a particular focus on the transnational firm.In this brand new offering, authors Evans, Pucik and Barsoux discuss the "people implications" of traditional strategies for internationalization and how such strategies get executed through human resource management (HRM). They discuss such important topics as: · how to manage expatriates from the parent country · how to go about adapting management practices to circumstances abroad · how to localize management · how to recognize and ultimately avoid obstacles in joint ventures · how to expand across borders through acquisitions · how to respond to the contradictory pressures of the transnational firm, where HRM has a critical role to play in enabling managers to resolve these paradoxes in innovative ways · how global competition is changing the nature of management and organization, even for firms operating in domestic markets. The book draws on practical examples from companies that have experienced the real challenges of international HRM. The authors carefully balance these real business applications with a wide scope of academic research.