Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Beyond the Western Liberal Order
Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
This book introduces the political thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961), the most prominent Japanese social scientist working on empire, population migration and colonial policy, and uses it as a platform which to examine the global challenges faced by the U.S. hegemonic world order today, or what is often described as the Western liberal order.
Constructing China's Capitalism
Shanghai and the Nexus of Urban-Rural Industries
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
By investigating the nexus of relationships between urban and rural factories in the Shanghai region of China, this book shines light on an overlooked part of China's massive industrial growth since the 1980s.
Chinese Village, Global Market
New Collectives and Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation, this book shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship.
African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling
From the Colonial Period to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Tracing the history of black schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes within black communities - which led to black children being separate from the white majority. In African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the...
by N. Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The Oslo Process of September 1993 to January 2001 ultimately brought about a permanent break in American Judaism's traditional wall-to-wall support for any Israeli government. Drawing on extensive new sources, Rubin analyzes what this meant for the American and Israeli Jewish communities—critical constituencies in past and future negotiations.
Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment
Unity of Knowledge in Economics: Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life. This exciting new volume is unique in that it is the first book of its kind in which these problems are analyzed using a unified...
Basic Income and the Free Market
Austrian Economics and the Potential for Efficient Redistribution
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Discusses whether the Basic Income Guarantee could offer an alternative to both laissez-faire and existing welfare systems in developed countries - often criticized by both advocates and critics of laissez-faire - thus opening a constructive dialog in policy discussion.
Room for Development
Housing Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Latin American and Caribbean countries are the most urban in the developing world and have very high home ownership rates. However, many of the region's inhabitants are still poorly housed. This book examines three key contributing issues: high housing prices relative to family income, lack of access to mortgage credit, and high land prices.
Customer Sense
How the 5 Senses Influence Buying Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
An insightful look at how touch, taste, smell, sound, and appearance effect how customers relate to products on a sensory level, and how small sensory changes can make a huge impact. Customer Sense describes how managers can use this knowledge to improve packaging, branding, and advertising to captivate the consumer's senses.
by A. Saleh
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
While the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a dominated "Persian hegemony," the systematic neglect of ethnic groups by both the Islamic Republic and its predecessor regime has resulted in the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran.
Moroccan Monarchy and the Islamist Challenge
Maintaining Makhzen Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book examines the factors behind the survival and persistence of monarchical authoritarianism in Morocco and argues that state rituals of power affect the opposition forces ability to challenge the monarchy.
by J. Scorse
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Easy-to-read and filled with real-world examples of the most complex environmental challenges, this book demonstrates that sound economic analysis and reasoning can be one of the environmental community's strongest allies. This is sure to become an invaluable resource for students, environmental organizations, and policymakers.
Financial Deepening and Post-Crisis Development in Emerging Markets
Current Perils and Future Dawns
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This collection empirically and conceptually advances our understanding of the intricacies of emerging markets’ financial and macroeconomic development in the post-2008 crisis context. Covering a vast geography and a broad range of economic viewpoints, this study serves as an informed guide in the...
Foreign Direct Investments from Emerging Markets
The Challenges Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Collected here are papers from the conference, Thinking Outward, which dealt with a range of issues related to the key players in this process - firms, home countries and host countries and the book will have a foreword from Jeffrey Sachs. In the wake of the financial crisis, these issues remain increasingly critical for developing countries.