Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies Paperback - Softcover

Pryor, Frederic L.

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ISBN 10: 0521613477 ISBN 13: 9780521613477

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Frederic L. Pryor uses a multidisciplinary approach (economics, anthropology, statistics, history) to examine large samples of foraging, agricultural, and industrial societies. He isolates and studies the development of their economic systems, explores societies and their use of these systems, and examines the impact of these economic systems on their performance.

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' ... rich and dense with data ...' Journal of Economic Issues

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Frederic L. Pryor, a Senior Research Scholar at Swarthmore College, is one of the world's leading specialists in the comparative study of economic systems. His career has spanned both the academic and the consulting worlds. In addition to teaching at Swarthmore, Professor Pryor has also been affiliated with the University of California, Stanford, the University of Michigan, Indiana University, and several universities in France and Switzerland. His academic work includes the authorship of twelve books, including Economic Evolution and Structure: The Impact of Complexity on the U.S. Economic System (1996), Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market (1999, coauthored with David L. Schaffer), and The Future of U.S. Capitalism (2002), all published by Cambridge University Press. He has also written more than one hundred articles in professional journals, primarily on the comparative study of different economic systems. As an economic consultant and researcher, Professor Pryor has worked at a variety of positions for the World Bank, several departments of the U.S. government, the Danish government, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Soros International Economic Advisory Group in Ukraine, the Hoover Institution, the Brookings Institution, and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. He also serves on the boards of several nonprofit institutions.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521613477
• ISBN 13: 9780521613477
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332