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- catalog contributor b3842779.
- catalog coverage "Japan Economic conditions 1945-".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "A little trip down memory lane -- Take a little international trip -- 1. The Roots of Change. Crisis? What crisis? The spatial fix. New preoccupations for retailers -- 2. Retailing and International Political Economy: Shared Issues. What IPE allows. Superpowers. Key themes in IPE. Alternative paradigms. The 'taken for granted world'. Mercantilism and globalism at all scales. Power. Power: an example -- 3. Japan: The Rising Power of the Rising Sun. A tilt at modern western society and post-industrialisation. Japan and export effort. Roots of the Japanese system. Core workers and 'Just in Time'. Japan, its banking system and MITI. Distilling the 'Japan effect'. Japanese retailing. Summary -- 4. Bringing Mercantilism to the High Street. A natural mercantilist. Globalist aspects of UK retailing. Summary -- 5. The Post-Industrial 'Problem'. The primacy of the product. Restructuring. Company culture. The City and industry. A nation of shopkeepers. Nothing seems to have changed -- 6. The Financial Markets.".
- catalog description "Early mercantilism. The Pax Britannica. A new world order. The God Almighty Dollar. Contradiction and confusion. Eurodollars. Beating inflation. The threat to the bondholders. The Fed fights back -- 7. The New Right. The debt cycle. Rewards at the top. The fate of the worker-consumer. Yet more debt. Monetarism on the run. Junk. Feeding the goose that laid the golden egg. Grounding 'worth'. Government-provided investment opportunities. Laffer curves speed up the consumption treadmill. Hirsch or Laffer? The bond market in revolt. The Lawson experience -- 8. Operations of the Financial Markets. Moving the markets. Mergers and acquisitions. Merger mania. Mergers and taxation. Mergers and 'churning'. Mergers and capital. Accounting for accounting. Mergers -- and on to unbundling. The Gateway saga. Debt or equity? Choose your poison. Banking: hands on capital -- 9. The Financial Markets and Retail Firms. Safeway. Letting labour take the strain. The Campeau affair. The race for Federated. Confidence.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-195) and index.".
- catalog description "Trading trouble. Discussion -- 10. A Technology-Driven Cycle of Change. Information technology. IT adds power. EPOS. EFTPOS. An end to consumer sovereignty? Electronic Data Interchange -- EDI -- 11. The Brave New Consumer. Mass employment. Psychographics. New social attitudes. The cult of the individual. Positional goods. Consumer credit. The credit explosion. Credit and money supply. Conflating credit and positional goods. Sale and leaseback. The particular status of the motor car. The unequal consumer. A potential underclass? -- 12. The Future for Capital -- And Consumers? Modelling change. The Markusen cycle. Saturation. Europe -- the final frontier? The Ceccini report. The EC and labour. Subsidy to industry. Retail, '1992'. Collaborative alliances. Combative responses to 'Europe 1992'. Portfolio investment. Looking ahead. Costs.".
- catalog extent "viii, 199 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "New geography of consumer spending.".
- catalog identifier "0470219300 (U.S.)".
- catalog identifier "1852932007".
- catalog isFormatOf "New geography of consumer spending.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Belhaven Press ; New York : Halsted Press,".
- catalog relation "New geography of consumer spending.".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "Japan Economic conditions 1945-".
- catalog subject "339.4/7/094 20".
- catalog subject "Consumption (Economics) Europe.".
- catalog subject "Finance Europe.".
- catalog subject "HC240.9.C6 H34 1992".
- catalog subject "Retail trade Europe.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A little trip down memory lane -- Take a little international trip -- 1. The Roots of Change. Crisis? What crisis? The spatial fix. New preoccupations for retailers -- 2. Retailing and International Political Economy: Shared Issues. What IPE allows. Superpowers. Key themes in IPE. Alternative paradigms. The 'taken for granted world'. Mercantilism and globalism at all scales. Power. Power: an example -- 3. Japan: The Rising Power of the Rising Sun. A tilt at modern western society and post-industrialisation. Japan and export effort. Roots of the Japanese system. Core workers and 'Just in Time'. Japan, its banking system and MITI. Distilling the 'Japan effect'. Japanese retailing. Summary -- 4. Bringing Mercantilism to the High Street. A natural mercantilist. Globalist aspects of UK retailing. Summary -- 5. The Post-Industrial 'Problem'. The primacy of the product. Restructuring. Company culture. The City and industry. A nation of shopkeepers. Nothing seems to have changed -- 6. The Financial Markets.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Early mercantilism. The Pax Britannica. A new world order. The God Almighty Dollar. Contradiction and confusion. Eurodollars. Beating inflation. The threat to the bondholders. The Fed fights back -- 7. The New Right. The debt cycle. Rewards at the top. The fate of the worker-consumer. Yet more debt. Monetarism on the run. Junk. Feeding the goose that laid the golden egg. Grounding 'worth'. Government-provided investment opportunities. Laffer curves speed up the consumption treadmill. Hirsch or Laffer? The bond market in revolt. The Lawson experience -- 8. Operations of the Financial Markets. Moving the markets. Mergers and acquisitions. Merger mania. Mergers and taxation. Mergers and 'churning'. Mergers and capital. Accounting for accounting. Mergers -- and on to unbundling. The Gateway saga. Debt or equity? Choose your poison. Banking: hands on capital -- 9. The Financial Markets and Retail Firms. Safeway. Letting labour take the strain. The Campeau affair. The race for Federated. Confidence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Trading trouble. Discussion -- 10. A Technology-Driven Cycle of Change. Information technology. IT adds power. EPOS. EFTPOS. An end to consumer sovereignty? Electronic Data Interchange -- EDI -- 11. The Brave New Consumer. Mass employment. Psychographics. New social attitudes. The cult of the individual. Positional goods. Consumer credit. The credit explosion. Credit and money supply. Conflating credit and positional goods. Sale and leaseback. The particular status of the motor car. The unequal consumer. A potential underclass? -- 12. The Future for Capital -- And Consumers? Modelling change. The Markusen cycle. Saturation. Europe -- the final frontier? The Ceccini report. The EC and labour. Subsidy to industry. Retail, '1992'. Collaborative alliances. Combative responses to 'Europe 1992'. Portfolio investment. Looking ahead. Costs.".
- catalog title "The new geography of consumer spending : a political economy approach / Alan G. Hallsworth.".
- catalog type "text".