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Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Appendix tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; I; II; III; Bibliography; 2 Economic slowdown in the early modern age: Alternative explanations under the 'great divergence' hypothesis; I; II; III; IV; V; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Coal mining: Dissemination of mineralogical knowledge and railway networking; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Notes; Bibliography; 4 Iron smelting and its downstreams: Conflicts in the core-periphery relationship; I; II; III; IV.

Vol. numbers assigned by General Library, University of California, Berkeley ; Includes Transmittal Sheets no.1(Oct. 1975)-12(July 1979). ; Mode of access: Internet.

Provides detailed coverage of America's business history, from the Hudson fur trade to the Internet. More than 400 entries profile corporate titans and tycoons, Wall Street wizards, industry leaders, and major events and institutions of American business - spanning the period after American independence

Impermanence and fragility have become the defining conditions of the digital age. Technologies that were ubiquitous barely a decade ago, like floppy disks, now look like archaeological relics. It takes only a few years, if not months, before software environments are replaced by newer versions, often with limited backward compatibility. At the same time, digital technologies rely on hardware that has short life expectancy. The radical obsolescence of this new digital register raises a number of important questions. How are we going to prevent the fragile memories of contemporary digital cultures from receding into oblivion? This essay answers this question by looking at one of the institutions in which the problems associated with digital fragility are most especially felt, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and by exploring the ontological displacements that digital objects are operating at the heart of the museum.

AbstractCompetition is often thought of a fairly obvious thing, a rivalry. In a market context the meaning of competition is usually taken to be a rivalry among the sellers. The article seeks to broaden this view by considering other competitive relationships in the marketplace. Using the simplifying assumption that there are only two types of market actors, sellers and consumers, there are three possible types of relationships or interdependencies among these actors in a market. In competitive terms this includes the familiar competition among sellers but there is also the possibility of competition between sellers and consumers, as well as competition among consumers. The article outlines essential characteristics of the three modes. Implications of multi‐mode competition for market performance and welfare are discussed.

AbstractEthnic Arab communities in medieval India originate mainly from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. Among these Arabs, the ones that gained widespread fame within India and abroad were the Sayyids of Hadhramaut, descendants of Prophet Muhammad, through his daughter Fatima. Many of these Hadhrami Sayyids achieved rapid upward social mobility in India through their ascribed status as the Prophet's descendants, as exemplars of good Muslims, and as preachers and teachers of Islam in a non-Muslim environment. However, migration to India at the dawn of the modern era heralded changes in their traditional status and occupation. The sources of this article are primary works in Arabic, Persian and, Urdu, supplemented with interviews and field observations.