Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
The Global Financial Crisis in Retrospect
Evolution, Resolution, and Lessons for Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This book provides a uniquely comprehensive explanation of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and resulting scholarly research in the context of building an agenda for reform. With the clarity provided by almost a decade of hindsight and a careful eye toward planning for prevention, Elson guides...
Unequal Ageing in Europe
Women's Independence and Pensions
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
While much is known about the situation in the labour market in the form of gender pay and earnings gaps, rather little is understood about their sequel in old age the gender pension gap. Entering the world of pensions may well signal a step backwards as far as women's independence is concerned, particularly...
Exchange Entitlement Mapping
Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The main aim of this book is to develop and implement an innovative tool: exchange-entitlement mapping, or E-mapping for short. This tool enables us to look at the economic and social opportunities to develop human capabilities for different groups of individuals, depending on their group identity such as age, ethnicity or gender.
by B. Barratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This political analysis of Harry Potter uses the beloved wizarding world to introduce readers to the equally murky and intimidating world of politics. Rowling's work provides us with entries into all of the most important political questions in history, from terrorism and human rights to the classic foundations of political thought.
by B. Strawser, L. Hajjar, S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Does the lethal use of drones pose any new or difficult moral problems? Or is the controversy over these weapons merely a distraction from deeper questions regarding the justice of war and the United States' bellicose foreign policy? Opposing Perspectives on the Drone Debate pulls no punches in answering...
Enacting Dismal Science
New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the latest contributions to the performativity debate the...
U.S. Organic Dairy Politics
Animals, Pasture, People, and Agribusiness
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Based on a decade of study, this book provides a scholarly overview of organic dairy politics, showing how politics, policy, and protest both inside and outside of agriculture can determine a future of pastoral landscapes resembling an earlier time in the western world or, alternatively, one made of dystopian ruralities.
The Capacity for Civic Engagement
Public and Private Worlds of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
How do we form a connection to the ideals and institutions of public life? This connection is sometimes expressed in the language of civic engagement, public service, and commitment to the public good. While we do not lack for literature to guide us in thinking about public life, we have less to call...
Developing Teacher Diversity in Early Childhood and Elementary Education
The REACH Program Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book explores the effects of the REACH program (Recruiting and Enlightening through Access to and Communication with High-need schools), a seven-year initiative devised to help find, attract, and prepare diverse teacher candidates interested in working with young children. The book analyzes how...
by Jun Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
In this book, Dr. Jun Zhang rebuts the widely-held view that Chinese economic growth is unsustainable due to low consumption and a reliance on exports and enormous fixed-asset investments. Though many believe this “structural imbalance” of the Chinese economy will become a serious problem in the...
by Terry Wu
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book examines both the theory and applications of marketing higher education in a global environment. Universities and colleges face new challenges in student recruitment and international competition. This book is designed to offer new insights into international marketing of higher education. With...
Japan's Great Stagnation and Abenomics
Lessons for the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
As the global Great Recession continues, policymakers, economists, and the public are turning to Japenses economic revitalization for answers. Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in Economics, once said that Japan was a "full-dress rehearsal for the current crisis." Japan has experienced and valiantly...
Rethinking Turkey-Iraq Relations
The Dilemma of Partial Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book explores key historical episodes to understand the reasons and consequences of the enduring partiality problem in cooperation between Turkey and Iraq. Notwithstanding their mutual material interdependence and common cultural heritage, these two close neighbors have stayed far from achieving...
The Age of Lincoln and Cavour
Comparative Perspectives on 19th-Century American and Italian Nation-Building
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
In the 19th century, both Italy and the US were young countries pursuing liberal nationalism even as unity was threatened by a recalcitrant southern population. This nuanced analysis of abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism, Lincoln and Cavour, and the nation's two civil wars provides powerful new insights into their histories.