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Distortions to agricultural incentives a global perspective, 1955-2007 /

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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Africa

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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Asia

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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Latin America

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Agricultural price distortions, inequality, and poverty

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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Europe's transition economies

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How we misunderstand economics and why it matters : the psychology of bias, distortion and conspiracy / by Leiser, David, Shemesh, Yhonatan

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Distorted Time Preferences and Structural Change in the Energy Industry A Theoretical and Applied Environmental-Economic Analysis / by Heinzel, Christoph

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Neopatriarchy a theory of distorted change in Arab society / by Sharabi, Hisham, 1927-2005

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The Dao of capital Austrian investing in a distorted world / by Spitznagel, Mark, 1971-

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Economists and the powerful convenient theories, distorted facts, ample rewards / by Häring, Norbert

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Commodity price volatility and inclusive growth in low-income countries /

Table of Contents: “…/ Pierre Jacquet -- Trade distortions and food price surges / Will Martin and Kym Anderson -- The role of transparency and civil society in managing commodities for inclusive growth and development / Antonie Heuty.…”
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The power of productivity wealth, poverty, and the threat to global stability / by Lewis, William W., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Findings : the global economic landscape -- Japan : a dual economy -- Europe : falling behind -- The United States : consumer is king -- Korea : following Japans path -- Brazil : big government is big problem -- Russia : distorted market economy -- India : bad economic management from democratic government -- Patterns : clear and strong -- Why bad economic policy around the world? …”
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The economics of taxation by Salanié, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…Some history -- Current tax systems -- Overview of the book -- References -- I the effects of taxation -- Distortions andwelfare losses -- Tax incidence -- Optimal taxation -- Indirect taxation -- Direct taxation -- Mixed taxation -- Risk and time -- Pigovian taxation in partial equilibrium -- Criticisms of optimal taxation -- Some current debates -- Low-income support -- Taxation and globalwarming -- A some basic microeconomics -- B optimal control.…”
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Against prediction profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age / by Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Burgess and parole prediction -- The proliferation of actuarial methods in punishing and policing -- The critique of actuarial methods -- The mathematics of actuarial prediction : the illusion of efficiency -- The ratchet effect : an overlooked social cost -- The pull of prediction : distorting our conceptions of just punishment -- Toward a more general theory of punishing and policing -- A case study on racial profiling -- Shades of gray -- The virtues of randomization.…”
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Applying scientific reasoning to the field of marketing make better decisions / by Grapentine, Terry

Table of Contents: “…Worldviews: the lens that can distort reality -- Section 2. Thinking scientifically -- 6. …”
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Reforming severance pay an international perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Severance pay under review : key issues, policy conclusions, and research agenda / Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec -- Severance pay programs around the world : history, rationale, status, and reforms / Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget, Milan Vodopivec, and Michael Weber -- Mandated severance pay and firing cost distortions : a critical review of the evidence / Donald O. …”
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Learning from the global financial crisis creatively, reliably, and sustainably /

Table of Contents: “…/ Tony Tinker and Aida Sy -- The normative foundation of finance : how misunderstanding the function of models distorts the way we think about the efficiency of financial markets / Andreas Georg Scherer and Emilio Marti -- A multi-level, multi-systems approach to sustainable finance / Mark Starik -- The global financial crisis : lessons from India / Murali Murti and N.V.Krishna.…”
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Taxation, the state and society the fiscal sociology of interventionist democracy / by Leroy, Marc, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The importance of multidisciplinary fiscal sociology -- The fiscal state and interventionist democracy -- Tocqueville pioneer of fiscal sociology -- Tocqueville and the expenditures of democracy -- Finance, centralization, and revolution -- The founders of fiscal sociology -- The Austrian founders -- Pareto's fiscal sociology -- The Italian school (strictu sensu) -- Fiscal sociology as a social science -- The factors of institutional recognition -- Fiscal sociology viewed as a social science -- The relation of fiscal sociology to other disciplines -- The political logic of the evolution of the tax state -- The tax genesis of the modern state in Western Europe -- The modern tax state in the history of ideas (an outline) -- Typological approach of the tax state -- The public finance system -- The systemic analysis of tax revenue -- Public revenue and expenditure in the OECD -- The case of developing countries -- The elemental factors of fiscal policy -- The influence of ideas -- The institutional shaping -- Socio-economic groups -- The left-right division -- Obstacles to fiscal democracy -- Against the determinism of contectual factors -- The distorted configuration of fiscal public action -- Bureaucratic regulation -- Fiscal bureaucracy in France -- The organization of tax control -- The individual's logic in the face of taxes -- The factors involved in tax revolts -- The concrete rationality of taxpayer -- The citizen's contribution-tax -- Fiscal deviance becoming commonplace -- The phenomenon of fiscal deviance -- The deviation of fiscal state regulation -- The destabilization of the functions of the interventionist tax state -- The financial function -- The economic function -- The social function -- The ecological territorial function -- The political function -- Globalization, Europe, and taxation -- Durkheim's model of economic anomie -- Neo-liberal globalization of the economy -- The insufficiencies of the European response.…”
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Changing structure of Mexico political, social, and economic prospects /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Changing constraints of monetary policy: distortions and resolution in Mexico's financial system / Eugenia Correa. -- Mexico's public sector debt and debt management / Graciana del Castillo. -- Changing patterns in Mexican science and technology policy (1990-2003): still far from economic development / Jordy Micheli Thirión and Rubén Oliver Espinoza. -- The reshaping of agricultural policy in Mexico / Antonio Yúnez-Naude and Fernando Barceinas Paredes. -- Mexican oil, gas, electricity generation, and energy consumption / Juan Quintanilla Martínez and Mariano Bauer E…”
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