Julie Froud: 3 books
What a Waste
Outsourcing and How it Goes Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests - is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy. The outsourcing revolution has happened quietly but is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and simultaneously...
After the Great Complacence
Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
What is the relationship between the financial system and politics? In a democratic system, what kind of control should elected governments have over the financial markets? What policies should be implemented to regulate them? What is the role played by different elites - financial, technocratic,...
Financialization and Strategy
Narrative and Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Considering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly...