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Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- World Revolution, 1917-1936 -- Preface -- Introductory -- 1. Marxism -- 2. The Forerunners of the Third International -- 3. The War and the Russian Revolution -- 4. The Failure of the World Revolution and the Foundation of the International -- 5. Lenin and Socialism -- 6. Stalin and Socialism -- 7. Stalin Kills the 1923 Revolution -- 8. The Kulak and the British General Council -- 9. Stalin Ruins the Chinese Revolution -- 10. The Platform and the Five-Year Plan -- 11. Industry and the Plan -- 12. "After Hitler, Our Turn" -- 13. The Great Retreat -- 14. The Revolution Abandoned -- 15. A Fourth International the Only Hope -- Appendix on Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Soviet Communism -- Notes -- Reviews of World Revolution -- Selected Reviews of the Original British Edition -- "The Rise and Fall of the Communist International: James's Book Reviewed by Fenner Brockway," in New Leader -- Reply from C. L. R. James -- "Du Côté de Chez Trotsky," in New Statesman, by Raymond Postgate -- "Lunacy or Logic? Two Views of One Book," in Controversy -- "Communist" by J. R. Campbell -- "Trotskyist" by Harry Wicks -- "World Revolution," in Fight, by H[arry] W[icks] -- "World Revolution 1917-36," in Youth Militant, by H[ans] V[adja] -- "Is There Real Democracy in Russia? Stalin and His Critics," in Forward, by E[mrys] H[ughes] -- "Communist Internationals: An Indictment of Stalin," in the Times Literary Supplement -- "Betrayed Revolutions," in Information Bulletin of the British Committee for the Defence of Leon Trotsky, by Charles Sumner [Hilary Sumner-Boyd] -- "Leninism Trotskified," in Left Review, by R. F. Andrews [Andrew Rothstein] -- "The Retreat of Moscow," in The Plebs, by Rowland Hill -- "World Revolution," in International Affairs, by E. H. Carr.

International payments unions and clearing houses have been employed by 88 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean to liberalise regional trade and payments during the past 50 years. Yet, their impact on participating countries has not been well understood. When the republics of the former Soviet Union were deciding on new monetary regimes, many economists proposed a payments union but could not estimate its potential benefits or risks. This book presents the first fully articulated theory of international payments unions and clearing houses in order to answer the questions: When should a country choose to participate in a payments union? What benefits and costs have actually resulted from existing and past clearing houses? When should countries in a clearing house seek to form a payments union?

Intro -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- I. About Professor Jonathan Fitchen and his Work -- II. About this Collection -- III. Thanks -- PART I: THE EVOLVING NATURE AND SCOPE OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW -- 2. Private International Law and Pluralism -- I. Introduction -- II. Private International Law as a Product of Pluralism -- III. The Pluralism of Private International Law -- IV. Pluralism as a Product of Private International Law -- V. Conclusions -- 3. The Private International Law of Mediated Settlement Agreements -- Tribute -- I. Introduction -- II. What are Mediated Settlement Agreements? -- III. Enforcement -- IV. Conclusion -- 4. Vulnerability and Private International Law: Mapping a Normative Approach Towards Asymmetrical Substantive Equality -- I. Introduction -- II. Vulnerability: Mapping the Concept and the Parties in Private International Law -- III. Vulnerability and the Theory and Techniques of Private International Law -- IV. Vulnerability in Private International Law: Recognition Through Asymmetrical Substantive Equality -- V. Conclusion -- 5. Private International Law as the Final Frontier for Feminist Scholarship? -- I. Introductory Remarks -- II. Family Life -- III. Economic Life: Corporate Governance -- IV. Conclusions: Private International Law and the Taxonomy of Feminist Legal Thought -- PART II: CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL MATTERS IN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW -- 6. Damage -- I. Introduction -- II. Conception -- III. Ontogenesis -- IV. Conclusion -- 7. Cryptocurrency Transfers in Distributed Ledger Technology-Based Systems and their Characterisation in Conflict of Laws -- I. Introduction -- II. Cryptocurrencies and their Transfers in Distributed Ledger Technology-Based Systems.

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The aim of this article is to investigate to what extent small-firm foreign patents differ from those of their larger counterparts. The research setting consists of the population of U.S.-owned small and large businesses with patent applications at the World International Patent Organization during 1996-2006 in the emerging field of nanotechnology. Findings reveal a significant and growing contribution of small firms to the globalization of patents. The analysis also suggests that small-firm patents tend to be more novel and embedded in domestic innovation networks than large-firm patents. Policy implications are multiple, including putting international patenting on the policy agenda and helping highly innovative small companies to explore foreign commercial opportunities in new markets of capital and technology. Adapted from the source document.