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Tankers in Trouble
This book analyses the causes and effects of the shipping market crisis in the 1970s and 1980s - the most severe of the twentieth century. It approaches the subject from three viewpoints. The first is the tanker sector, where the crisis began, spread, and caused the most damage. The second is from a national perspective - focusing on the impact on Norwegian shipping and shipowners. The third, narrowed further in scope, analyses the crisis from the business perspective of four individual tanker owners - taking into account their business strategies and eventual fates. The aim of the journal is to add to the knowledge of recent maritime history by examining the transformation of the industry d...
Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought
Who are the greatest economic thinkers of Sweden? Seventeen essays on seven Swedish economists aim to answer this question, exploring the contributions of Knut Wicksell, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin, Torsten Gårdlund, Sven Rydenfelt, Staffan Burenstam Linder and Jaime Behar. Swedish academic economists have by and large withdrawn from the public debate but this book celebrates Swedish Economic Thought from Knut Wicksell to the present.
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Supermarkets and the Meat Supply Chain The Economic Impact of Food Retail on Farmers, Processors and Consumers
This volume examines the economic impacts of increasing retailer concentration on consumers, processors and farmers.
The Blackwell Companion to Maritime Economics
Maritime Economics The Blackwell Companion to Maritime Economics presents a comprehensive and in-depth coverage of shipping and port economics. Featuring contributions from the most respected international specialists in the field, this reference offers up-to-date insights into maritime carriers and their markets (e.g., freight, intermodal and passenger), shipping economics (e.g., dry bulk, liquid bulk, container, regulation, taxation, seafaring, safety and piracy), ship economics (e.g., equity, bond and hedging ship finance) and port economics (e.g., governance, labor, competition, efficiency, choice, investment, clusters, inspection and security). In addition to providing a comprehensive s...
Learning from Capitalists
Technology assimilation as an outcome of a nation's acquisition of foreign technology has not been explicity interpreted the way assimilation is normally understood - assimilation of knowledge and behaviour in an individual's cognitive development, or assimilation as a means for organisms' enhanced control of the environment. Why not consider technology assimilation as a process by which nations learn from existing technology abroad, thereby not only developing domestic civilian industry but also enhancing their control of the external, international environment by means of military - technical expertise? Soviet assimilation of Western technology, as one major example of this process, is both a means for domestic industrial modernization and a way in which the USSR strengthens its military power. analysis based on the conceptual framework indicated above. It suggests new directions in technology assimilation data analysis, and presents further insights into how Western technology is assimilated in the USSR. problems of assimilation occur, which Soviet countermeasures there are, and how the USSR and Sweden adapt to international technology trade restraints.
