Author: John Walker Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265582848 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 636
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Excerpt from Essays on Natural History and Rural Economy Been grasped by two men. This was a Iliccory, which he measured geometrically, and found it to be 180 feet high. But he added, that there were many Pines of a much larger size. It is likely, however, that the trees in the American woods in general, are more remarkable for their great height, than for the grossness of their trunk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Vitek Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300069617 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 308
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This book is dedicated to the notion that human lives are enriched by participation in a social community that is integrated into the natural landscape of a particular place. The writers explore the loss of community, the philosophical foundations of communities, Amish communities, and the current renewal of community life.
Author: Barbara Ingham Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000986446 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 110
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Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the "missing female voices" of early development economics. This biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears. The biography covers her early years in Barbados, her time at boarding school in England, at McGill University in Canada where she focused on human behaviour under the influence of changing social and political histories and also published an early path-breaking study of black migrants into Canada, and her later research at Harvard and Columbia in the United States and at the London School of Economics. Individual chapters follow her career acting as economic adviser to the Colonial Office in London, where she worked alongside Arthur Lewis, and at the fledgling United Nations in New York. She published in top journals and produced an outstanding study of the influence of colonial monetary systems on poor countries. This accessible biography provides unexpected insights into personalities and institutions during a critical period in late colonial history. The issues it raises of class and race, gender and inequality, poverty and unemployment, are of no less relevance today than they were in her lifetime.
Author: William J. Barber Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351312383 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 166
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Economists and the Economy seeks to explain how economic theories are formed in response to specific incidents affecting economic events. The work covers both major historical events, such as the English Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, and the Great Depression, and intellectual developments in economic thought. Among the theories examined are neoclassical growth theory and the Harrod-Domar model.
Author: Walter Scheidel Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136069461 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 310
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The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and provides a valuable guide to scholarly debates on the subject. The book describes and examines the economic processes and fluctuations of the ancient world, and shows how these relate to political and social change and conditions. Leading experts address the central issues, from agricultural production to the uses of money and the creation of markets. Taken as a whole the book exemplifies the range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the ancient economy, and illustrates the methodological approaches scholars have deployed to understand it. In doing so it draws on literary, ecological and archaeological evidence.
Author: John Walker
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Author: William Vitek
Author: University of Edinburgh. Theological Library
Author: Barbara Ingham
Author: William J. Barber
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Author: Walter Scheidel
Author: Robert H. Nelson