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The alcoholic empire : vodka & politics in late Imperial Russia / Patricia Herlihy.
Published 2003Full text (Wentworth users only)
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Industrial Revolution.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Class and class conflictCurrent perspectives; 2 The Economy and the State; The macroeconomic perspective; Macro estimates and macro interpretations; Method and measurement; Sources; Identifying the industrial revolution; Productivity and innovation; The state; Central government revenue; Government expenditure and war; The impact of the Napoleonic Wars; Economy, society and the fiscal military state; Conclusion; 3 Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution; Productivity and innovation; Productivity estimates; Technical innovations; Capitalist farming; Enclosure.…”
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The Economic and Social Structure of Mauritius.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN INDUSTRYThe Provision of Industrial Services; (i) Electricity; (ii) Transport and communications; (iii) Water; GOVERNMENT AND PRODUCTIVE INDUSTRY; CHAPTER 7 Finance; INTRODUCTORY; PUBLIC FINANCE; The Principal Sources of Government Revenue; Company Tax; Personal Income Tax; Import Duties; Other Taxes; Summary of Taxation Proposals; Government Expenditure; The Current Surplus; The Capital Budget; Revenue for the Capital Development Programme; Budget Contributions; Reserves; Internal Loans; External Finance; Private Finance; The Commercial Banks…”
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Addressing inequality in South Asia / Martín Rama, Tara Béteille, Yue Li, Pradeep K. Mitra, and John Lincoln Newman.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Urban jobs are a ticket to the middle classInadequate support; 21 The composition of urban employment varies with city size and governance in India; 22 In Pakistan, poorer and richer households cope with shocks in different ways; 23 Social assistance is less adequate than social insurance but has greater coverage; Maps; 1 Government revenue in South Asia is low compared with the rest of the world; References; 24 Electricity subsidies favor the better-off; 25 Development spending per person is lower in poorer states and districts; 1. …”
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