Textbook and reference book on petroleum and the petroleum industry - covers industrial structure trends (incl. The USSR), geologycal and technical aspects, production costs, techniques used in drilling and offshore installations, manufacturing processes and marketing of petrole…
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Study analysing economic growth, employment creation and income distribution in Brazil - challenges the orthodox view of inequitable economic development; reviews productivity patterns and employment trends since 1945; examines economic indicators of standard of living, absolute…
The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry explores how tourism is defined and examines whether or not tourism can be conceptualized as an industry. Detailed analyses of key sectors of the travel and tourism industry, such as tour operators, airlines and the hotel industry, …
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Principles of economics
by Case, Karl E., Fair, Ray C., Oster, Sharon M.
fromGobal edition
An introduction to the functioning of the economy and the power and breadth of economicsReviewers tell us that Case/Fair/Oster is one of the all-time bestselling principles of economics texts because they trust it to be clear, thorough, and complete. Readers of Principles of Eco…
La economía es un estudio de la humanidad en los negocios ordinarios de la vida." Así lo escribió Alfred Marshall, el gran economista del siglo xix, en su libro Principios de Economía. Aun cuando hemos aprendido mucho acerca de la economía desde la época de Marshall, esta defini…
For students who care about how the world works, microeconomics is probably the most relevant, interesting, and important subject they can study. (Macroeconomics is the second-most important subject.) A good grasp of microeconomics is vital for managerial decision making, for de…