Palgrave Macmillan: 11161 books
by M. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in different ways. Meeting these challenges requires creation of knowledge and development of wisdom. This book draws together forty years of scholarship, practice and original research, to catalyze our expertise in learning about what we don't know.
by R. Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A complete and accessible explanation of the factors contributing to the onset of the 2007 financial and economic crisis. The myriad factors are explained in an orderly way with simple terms. The anticipation (or not) and reception of the crisis by mainstream economists and by Austrian economics leads to reflection on the state of economic theory.
Health and Prosperity
Efficient Health Systems for Thriving Nations in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Murtin examines the long-term causes of health improvements over the last two centuries. Focusing on the relative importance of income and education, Murtin finds that education alone accounts for the bulk of health improvements since 1870, and explains the strong correlation between longevity and...
Nature and Wealth
Overcoming Environmental Scarcity and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, this book argues that growing environmental degradation and wealth inequality are linked to how nature is exploited to create economic wealth. Ending the under-pricing of natural capital and insufficient human capital accumulation is essential to overcoming structural imbalance in modern economies.
Exchange Rates and International Financial Economics
History, Theories, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The recent financial crisis has troubled the US, Europe, and beyond, and is indicative of the integrated world in which we live. Today, transactions take place with the use of foreign currencies, and their values affect the nations' economies and their citizens' welfare. Exchange Rates and International...
Maritime Economics
A Macroeconomic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
This book analyses shipping markets and their interdependence. This ground-breaking text develops a new macroeconomic approach to maritime economics and provides the reader with a more comprehensive understanding of the way modern shipping markets function.
Education and State Formation
Europe, East Asia and the USA
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Education has always been a key instrument of nation-building in new states. National education systems have typically been used to assimilate immigrants; to promote established religious doctrines; to spread the standard form of national languages; and to forge national identities and national cultures....
by D. Vigneswaran
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This book deconstructs territoriality in the context of current and past European politics to advance international relations scholars' understanding of the uses and limits of territory in European history as well as the origin of an international system. It looks to the future of migration regimes beyond the territorially exclusive state.
Real Leaders Negotiate!
Gaining, Using, and Keeping the Power to Lead Through Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book examines the central role of negotiation in gaining, exercising, and retaining leadership within organizations, large and small, public and private. Its aim is to instruct readers on the way to use negotiation to lead effectively.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This important book focuses on the role of human dignity, its protection and promotion in the context of organization and Humanistic Management. The recent phenomenon of humanism in management already has a rich body of literature and takes up many themes both theoretically, and from a practitioner...
Managing Innovation Driven Companies
Approaches in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Emphasizing the practical side of Technology and Innovation Management, this book includes significant contributions to the practice of strategizing, management of competences and innovation management. While the findings are research-based, each contribution has 'managerial implications' which cover the recommended implementation.
The Future of European Social Democracy
Building the Good Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
European social democracy is in crisis. In the last decade it has ceased to be about either society or democracy. The authors explore its values, how it can be revived and what kind of political economy it requires to thrive. This book includes a foreword by the two leaders of the 'Building the Good Society' project, Andrea Nahles and Jon Cruddas.
Fruitful Economics
Papers in honor of and by Jean-Paul Fitoussi
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi. Fitoussi's pluralistic scholarship has shaped modern macroeconomics, political economy, economics of inequality and, more recently, the economics of sustainability.
States, Markets and Education
The Rise and Limits of the Education State
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Education policy is a core element of the state's sovereignty and autonomy. This book analyzes the rise of the western education state and its limits in times of transition from western to non-western globalization and of waning newspaper interest in France, Germany, the UK and the US.