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Author : Ulrika Stavlöt
Publisher : Stockholm University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays on Culture and Trade written by Ulrika Stavlöt and published by Stockholm University. This book was released on 2005 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David D. Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cultures of Print written by David D. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the interchange between popular and learned cultures, and the practices of reading and writing. The essays reflect Hall's belief that the better the production and consumption of books is understood, the closer readers can come to a social history of culture.
Author : Kenneth Pomeranz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317453824
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The World That Trade Created written by Kenneth Pomeranz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of brief vignettes the authors bring to life international trade and its actors, and also demonstrate that economic activity cannot be divorced from social and cultural contexts. In the process they make clear that the seemingly modern concept of economic globalisation has deep historical roots.
Author : István Tamás Kónya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Essays on Immigration, Culture and International Trade written by István Tamás Kónya and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation examines the interplay among migration, international trade and culture. The first two chapters analyze the role of culture in migration and foreign trade, and the third chapter explains how trade and migration can lead to large regional inequalities even in a small country. Chapter One uses a general equilibrium model of two countries to examine the role of cultural conflict in immigration and immigration policy. The equilibrium outcome is contrasted with the social planner's solution and policy recommendations are given. The main result is that immigration policy has to target the size and composition of immigration flows at the same time. It is shown that some popular policy tools that fail to take this into account result in suboptimal outcomes. The model also predicts that there are structural differences in immigration from developed, middle income and poor source countries. Thus an optimal immigration policy would be conditioned on the characteristics of the source country. Chapter Two studies a particular way to endogenize transportation costs that captures some basic properties of cultural and language barriers. In particular, cultural barriers can be overcome by learning, but the learning decision is subject to externalities and economies of scale. Thus learning decisions are in general inefficient and there is a role for the social planner to subsidize or tax learning. The model also predicts that under some circumstances it is beneficial for a country to tax learning unilaterally. This practice can be called "cultural protectionism", and it is similar in its mechanism to strategic trade policy. Thus the model can rationalize the attempt of some countries to promote their own language and culture over others. Chapter Three examines the interplay between migration and international trade. It explains how income differentials emerge between regions of a particular country as a consequence of foreign trade, and how these differentials are magnified by subsequent migration. The model introduces human capital heterogeneity and migration costs into an increasing-returns-to-scale trade framework with transportation costs. The main contribution of the model is to show that in the presence of human capital heterogeneity even a small migration flow can lead to large regional inequalities if it involves the most skilled. Thus even trivial geographical differences can lead to large regional inequalities in a short period of time, if migration of skilled people is taken into account.
Author : Jeremy Adelman
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Trading Cultures written by Jeremy Adelman and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume confront stereotypical images of merchants as men, and sometimes women, who stood outside their cultures, beyond history. Ranging across eras, from medieval business practices to modern hucksterism of autobiographical morality tales, the authors of this volume find that merchants cannot be separated from their times. From the (Ottoman) Middle East to the (American) Midwest, the contributors to Trading Cultures emphasize the embeddedness of merchants in geographically and culturally specific contexts. The trading careers reconstructed in this book dwell on mercantile concerns with honor as much as profit, trust as much as truck, and, above all, familial connections as much as individuated enterprise.
Author : Carlo Carraro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319399691
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Benedetto Cotrugli – The Book of the Art of Trade written by Carlo Carraro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The book is an impassioned defense of the legitimacy of mercantile practices, and includes the first scholarly mention of double-entry bookkeeping. Its four parts focus respectively on trading techniques, from accounting to insurance, the religion of the merchant, his public life, and family matters. Originally handwritten, the book was printed in 1573 in Venice in an abridged and revised version. This new translation makes reference to the new critical edition, based on an earlier manuscript that has only recently been discovered. With scholarly essays placing Cotrugli's work into historical context and highlighting key themes, this volume is an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of management and trade practices.
Author : Richard A. Shweder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521318310
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Culture Theory written by Richard A. Shweder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-12-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind, self, and emotion in culture.
Author : Margarita M. Kalamova
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631621394
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Essays in International Trade and Public Economics written by Margarita M. Kalamova and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2012 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays of this book are contributions to the empirical Literature in International Trade and Public Economics. They deal with the relationship between the structure and quality of the public sector and the process of economic integration. Two of the essays add to the empirical determinants of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) and to the numerous applications of the theory of government decentralization. Decentralization tends to discourage inward FDI and domestic trade and to increase imports and exports. A third essay focuses on the effect of governments' intangible assets - such as consumer perceptions about countries and products from these countries - on FDI. A country's nation brand is shown to have a significant and large positive effect on investment flows.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401200424
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Cultural Visions: Essays in the History of Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection opens with an inquiry into the assumptions and methods of the historical study of culture, comparing the new cultural history with the old. Thirteen essays follow, each defining a problem within a particular culture. In the first section, Biography and Autobiography, three scholars explore historically changing types of self-conception, each reflecting larger cultural meanings; essays included examine Italian Renaissance biographers and the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Mohandas Gandhi. A second group of contributors explore problems raised by the writing of history itself, especially as it relates to a notion of culture. Here examples are drawn from the writings of Thucydides, Jacob Burckhardt, and the art historians Alois Riegl and Josef Strzygowski. In the third section, Politics, Nationalism, and Culture, the essays explore relationships between cultural creativity and national identity, with case studies focusing on the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, the place of Castile within the national history of Spain, and the impact of World War I on work of Thomas Mann. The final section, Cultural Translation, raises the complex questions of cultural influence and the transmission of traditions over time through studies of Philo of Alexandria's interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, Erasmus' use of Socrates, Jean Bodin's conception of Roman law, and adaptations of the Hebrew Bible for American children.
Author : Kenneth Pomeranz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317190106
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The World That Trade Created written by Kenneth Pomeranz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization. Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. The chapters are grouped thematically, each featuring an introductory essay designed to synthesize and elaborate on key themes, both familiar and unfamiliar. It includes ten new essays, on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean, to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped change work habits in both Europe and East Asia, and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. The introductory essays for each chapter, the overall introduction and epilogue, and several of the essays have also been revised and updated. The World That Trade Created continues to be a key resource for anyone teaching world history, world civilization, and the history of international trade.
Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137566248
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World written by Michael Pearson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian Ocean. This collection includes empirical studies and essays focused on particular area or production. The essays cover various aspects of trade and exchange, the Indian Ocean as a world-system, East African and Chinese connections with the Indian Ocean World, and the movement of people and ideas around the ocean.
Author : John Hinks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book From Compositors to Collectors written by John Hinks and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection trace texts from their creation and printing through to their publication, dissemination, and collection. In doing so, they show how production processes change texts and how collectors subsequently appropriate them for their own ends. By examining the diverse activities of those involved in both textual creation and collection over a long period, these essays highlight both continuities and changes in the book trade. Taken together, this collection offers considerable new insights into many facets of the book trade, ranging from creation to consumption. This newest addition to the Print Networks series includes nineteen essays from leading book history scholars, including Mariko Nagase, Daniel Cook, Stephen Brown, Brian Hillyard, Catherine Delafield, Rob Allen, Rachel Bower, Iain Beavan, and more. The "compositors" section covers everything from The Mayor of Quinborough, published in 1661, to My Name is Salma, published in 2007. Essays on "collectors" include Dr. James Fraser, Titus Wheatcroft, Sir Walter Scott, the USA Armed Services, and more. The book is illustrated throughout in black and white. Available in the UK from The British Library.
Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789601916
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The Future as Cultural Fact written by Arjun Appadurai and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality. Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart of his work, offering writing based on firsthand research among urban slum dwellers in Mumbai, in which he examines their struggle to achieve equity, recognition and self-governance in conditions of extreme inequality. Finally, in his work on design, planning, finance and poverty, Appadurai embraces the "politics of hope" and lays the foundations for a revitalized, and urgent, anthropology of the future.
Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
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Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Culture in Practice written by Marshall Sahlins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field. Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, Culture in Practice unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. The book opens with Sahlins's early general studies of culture, economy, and human nature. It then moves to his reportage and reflections on the war in Vietnam and the antiwar movement, the event that most strongly affected his thinking about cultural specificity. Finally, it offers his more historical and globally aware works on indigenous peoples, especially those of the Pacific islands. Sahlins exposes the cultural specificity of the West, developing a critical account of the distinctive ways that we act in and understand the world. The book includes a play/review of Robert Ardrey's sociobiology, essays on "native" consumption patterns of food and clothes in America and the West, explorations of how two thousand years of Western cosmology affect our understanding of others, and ethnohistorical accounts of how cultural orders of Europeans and Pacific islanders structured the historical experiences of both. Throughout, Sahlins offers his own way of thinking about the anthropological project. To transcend critically our native categories in order to understand how other peoples have historically constructed their modes of existence--even now, in the era of globalization--is the great challenge of contemporary anthropology.
Author : Francesca Trivellato
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199379211
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Religion and Trade written by Francesca Trivellato and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not always led to unity and harmony. From the era of the Crusades to the dawn of colonialism, exploitation and violence characterized many trading ventures, which required vessels and convoys to overcome tremendous technological obstacles and merchants to grapple with strange customs and manners in a foreign environment. Yet despite all odds, experienced traders and licensed brokers, as well as ordinary people, travelers, pilgrims, missionaries, and interlopers across the globe, concocted ways of bartering, securing credit, and establishing relationships with people who did not speak their language, wore different garb, and worshipped other gods. Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the second millennium. Written by an international team of scholars, the essays in this volume examine a wide range of commercial exchanges, from first encounters between strangers from different continents to everyday transactions between merchants who lived in the same city yet belonged to diverse groups. In order to broach the intriguing yet surprisingly neglected subject of how the relationship between trade and religion developed historically, the authors consider a number of interrelated questions: When and where was religion invoked explicitly as part of commercial policies? How did religious norms affect the everyday conduct of trade? Why did economic imperatives, political goals, and legal institutions help sustain commercial exchanges across religious barriers in different times and places? When did trade between religious groups give way to more tolerant views of "the other" and when, by contrast, did it coexist with hostile images of those decried as "infidels"? Exploring captivating examples from across the world and spanning the course of the second millennium, this groundbreaking volume sheds light on the political, economic, and juridical underpinnings of cross-cultural trade as it emerged or developed at various times and places, and reflects on the cultural and religious significance of the passage of strange persons and exotic objects across the many frontiers that separated humankind in medieval and early modern times.
Author : Christopher P. Hanscom
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824839048
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Imperatives of Culture written by Christopher P. Hanscom and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains translations—many appearing for the first time in the English language—of major literary, critical, and historical essays from the colonial period (1910–1945) in Korea. Considered representative of the debates among and between Korean and Japanese thinkers of the colonial period, these texts shed light on relatively unexplored aspects of intellectual life and take part in current conversations around the nature of the colonial experience and its effects on post-liberation Korean society and culture. The essays, each preceded by a scholarly introduction giving necessary historical and biographical context, represent a diverse spectrum of ideological positions and showcase the complexity of intellectual life and scholarship in colonial Korea. They allow new perspectives on an important period in Korean history, a period that continues to inform political, social, and cultural life in crucial ways across East Asia. The translations also provide an important counterpoint to the imperial archive from the perspective of the colonized and take part in the ongoing reevaluation of the colonial period and “colonial modernity” in both Western and East Asian scholarship. Imperatives of Culture is intended in part for the increasing number of undergraduate and graduate students in Korean studies as well as for those engaged in the study of East Asia as a whole and a general, educated audience with interests in modern Korea and East Asia. The essays have been carefully selected and introduced in ways that open up avenues for comparison with analyses of colonial literature and history in other national contexts.
Author : Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476623139
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Mexican Business Culture written by Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western business owners and managers are increasingly interested in doing business in Mexico. Yet few have thoroughly investigated the country's business climate and culture. This collection of new essays by contributors who work in and research the business culture of Mexico takes a combined academic and real-world look at the country's vibrant and dynamic commerce. Topics include business and the government, conceptions of time, Mexican entrepreneurialism and the place of women in business. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
