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Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Pakistan, a Country Study
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Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Area Handbook for Pakistan
Author: Richard F. Nyrop
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Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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新收洋書総合目錄
Author: 国立国会図書館 (Japan)
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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The Great Wave
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199741069
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of prices--"the history of change," as Fischer puts it--covering the dazzling sweep of Western history from the medieval glory of Chartres to the modern day. Going far beyond the economic data, Fischer writes a powerful history of the people of the Western world: the economic patterns they lived in, and the politics, culture, and society that they created as a result. As he did in Albion's Seed and Paul Revere's Ride, two of the most talked-about history books in recent years, Fischer combines extensive research and meticulous scholarship with wonderfully evocative writing to create a book for scholars and general readers alike. Records of prices are more abundant than any other quantifiable data, and span the entire range of history, from tables of medieval grain prices to the overabundance of modern statistics. Fischer studies this wealth of data, creating a narrative that encompasses all of Western culture. He describes four waves of price revolutions, each beginning in a period of equilibrium: the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and finally the Victorian Age. Each revolution is marked by continuing inflation, a widening gap between rich and poor, increasing instability, and finally a crisis at the crest of the wave that is characterized by demographic contraction, social and political upheaval, and economic collapse. The most violent of these climaxes was the catastrophic fourteenth century, in which war, famine, and the Black Death devastated the continent--the only time in Europe's history that the population actually declined. Fischer also brilliantly illuminates how these long economic waves are closely intertwined with social and political events, affecting the very mindset of the people caught in them. The long periods of equilibrium are marked by cultural and intellectual movements--such as the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Victorian Age-- based on a belief in order and harmony and in the triumph of progress and reason. By contrast, the years of price revolution created a melancholy culture of despair. Fischer suggests that we are living now in the last stages of a price revolution that has been building since the turn of the century. The destabilizing price surges and declines and the diminished expectations the United States has suffered in recent years--and the famines and wars of other areas of the globe--are typical of the crest of a price revolution. He does not attempt to predict what will happen, noting that "uncertainty about the future is an inexorable fact of our condition." Rather, he ends with a brilliant analysis of where we might go from here and what our choices are now. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the state of the world today.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199741069
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of prices--"the history of change," as Fischer puts it--covering the dazzling sweep of Western history from the medieval glory of Chartres to the modern day. Going far beyond the economic data, Fischer writes a powerful history of the people of the Western world: the economic patterns they lived in, and the politics, culture, and society that they created as a result. As he did in Albion's Seed and Paul Revere's Ride, two of the most talked-about history books in recent years, Fischer combines extensive research and meticulous scholarship with wonderfully evocative writing to create a book for scholars and general readers alike. Records of prices are more abundant than any other quantifiable data, and span the entire range of history, from tables of medieval grain prices to the overabundance of modern statistics. Fischer studies this wealth of data, creating a narrative that encompasses all of Western culture. He describes four waves of price revolutions, each beginning in a period of equilibrium: the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and finally the Victorian Age. Each revolution is marked by continuing inflation, a widening gap between rich and poor, increasing instability, and finally a crisis at the crest of the wave that is characterized by demographic contraction, social and political upheaval, and economic collapse. The most violent of these climaxes was the catastrophic fourteenth century, in which war, famine, and the Black Death devastated the continent--the only time in Europe's history that the population actually declined. Fischer also brilliantly illuminates how these long economic waves are closely intertwined with social and political events, affecting the very mindset of the people caught in them. The long periods of equilibrium are marked by cultural and intellectual movements--such as the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Victorian Age-- based on a belief in order and harmony and in the triumph of progress and reason. By contrast, the years of price revolution created a melancholy culture of despair. Fischer suggests that we are living now in the last stages of a price revolution that has been building since the turn of the century. The destabilizing price surges and declines and the diminished expectations the United States has suffered in recent years--and the famines and wars of other areas of the globe--are typical of the crest of a price revolution. He does not attempt to predict what will happen, noting that "uncertainty about the future is an inexorable fact of our condition." Rather, he ends with a brilliant analysis of where we might go from here and what our choices are now. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the state of the world today.
Policy modeling of a dual grain market
Author: Raj Krishna
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896290409
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The background of government policy and operations; The wheat model and results; The reduced form of the model; Programming simulations.
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896290409
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The background of government policy and operations; The wheat model and results; The reduced form of the model; Programming simulations.
Research Report
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Category : Nutrition policy
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Nutrition policy
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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World Rice Statistics 1990
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Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9712200175
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Rice production, area, and yield; Imports and exports; Food aida; Consumption and stocks; Domestic prices; World prices and tariff and nontariff measures; Land use, irrigation, and farm size; Population, labor force, and wages; Modern rice varieties; Fertilizer use and prices; Rice costs and returns.
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9712200175
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Rice production, area, and yield; Imports and exports; Food aida; Consumption and stocks; Domestic prices; World prices and tariff and nontariff measures; Land use, irrigation, and farm size; Population, labor force, and wages; Modern rice varieties; Fertilizer use and prices; Rice costs and returns.
Survey of Recreation Services (private), 1981-82
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Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Merchant Fleets of the World
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Monthly Statistical Bulletin
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Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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