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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Originally published in 1987, this book brings together leading authorities from Germany and the USA who analyze how the East German economy actually operated - planning and management, pricing, investment and innovation, the financial system, agriculture and foreign trade (including the special concessions...
by Diane B Kunz
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This book, originally published in 1987 sets the British political and financial crisis of 1931 in an international context by concentrating on the bankers who were primarily responsible for leading the fight to protect sterling in a world context. 1931 marks the point at which the near-autonomy which...
Adam Smith
Essays on Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Their Interval Valued Approaches to Probability, Decision Making, and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Adam Smiths original path-breaking work on decision making, uncertainty, and public policies to minimize the impact of uncertainty in the economy has been overlooked for well over two hundred years. One need only peruse the badly analyzed work of Smith in this area, as presented by Henry D. MacLeod...
by James J. Gosling, Marc Allen Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This text introduces students to the interrelationship of politics and economics in American public policymaking: how economic concerns have been legislated into law since Franklin Roosevelt's time and how politics (e.g., Washington gridlock) affects the economy and the making of public policy. Students...
by Kristian Cedervall Lauta
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Disasters and their management are today central to public and political agendas. Rather than being understood as exclusively acts of God and Nature, natural disasters are increasingly analysed as social vulnerability exposed by natural hazards. A disaster following an earthquake is no longer seen...
Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America
The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Few tasks are as crucial for the future of democracy in Latin America—and, indeed, in other underdeveloped areas of the world—as strengthening the rule of law and reforming the system of taxation.
In this book, Marcelo Bergman shows how success in getting citizens to pay their taxes is...
Islam and the Rule of Justice
Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientations, images of binding doctrine and unbounded choice...
The Brazilian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization
The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of globalization's impact on the Brazilian legal profession. Employing original data from nine empirical studies, the book details how Brazil's need to restructure its economy and manage its global relationships contributed to the emergence of a...
The Great Financial Plumbing
From Northern Rock to Banking Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The financial crisis has led to a far-reaching redesign of the European regulatory and supervisory framework. Following the commitments made in the context of the G-20, but also reacting to internal shortcomings, the EU engaged in a massive program to re-regulate financial markets. The EU furthermore...
International Investment Law
A Chinese Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Increasing and intensified cross-border economic exchange such as trade and investment is an important feature of globalization. In the past, a distinction could be made between capital importing and exporting countries, or host and home countries for foreign direct investment (FDI). Due to globalization,...
The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka
From Communalism to Secession
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Among the examples of civil wars, armed secessionist movements and minority uprisings in the world today, many involve conflict between a minority group’s aim for political self-determination, and the nation state’s resistance to any diminution of sovereignty. With the expansion of the international...
by Teemu Ruskola
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
After the Cold War, how did China become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the U.S positioned itself as the chief exporter of the rule of law? Teemu Ruskola investigates globally circulating narratives about what law is and who has it, and shows how “legal Orientalism” developed into a distinctly American ideology of empire.
Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols
European Bans on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Written in accessible language, Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols is a comprehensive analysis of a topical subject that is being widely debated across Europe. The book provides an overview of emerging case law from the European Court of Human Rights as well as from national courts and equality...
Hidden Thailand
Boxed Sets, #3
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Hidden Thailand comprises 5 books on Thai Lifestyle and Culture
A Thailand Diary shows, through its 365 pages, a real Thailand that many do not see.
The 10 chapters of Thailand Take Two look at the main cultural concepts found in Thailand, its different lifestyle and values. From Face...