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Globalization, Trade, and Economic Development
The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This is the most in-depth study of the economic partnership between the European Union and the CARIFORUM countries, a group of fifteen small developing economies in the Caribbean. The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is the first trade agreement of its kind, as it is a new type of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This book examines the role of race in athletic programs in the United States. Intercollegiate athletics remains a contested terrain where race and racism are critical issues often absent in the public discourse. Recently, the economic motives of intercollegiate athletic programs and academic indiscretions...
Gender Politics in US College Athletic Departments
The Case of the University of Minnesota Merger
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This book examines the gendered politics in the context of a merger of the women’s and men’s athletic departments at the University of Minnesota over a ten year plus span. Examining the athletic department merger helps us understand women's continual under-representation in University athletics...
Financial Institutions and Markets
2007-2008 -- The Year of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
This book is a collection of research papers that contribute to the understanding of ongoing developments in financial institutions and markets both in the United States and globally.
Work, Regulation, and Identity in Provincial France
The Bordeaux Leather Trades, 1740–1815
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy.
Oppression and Resistance in Southern Higher and Adult Education
Mississippi and the Dynamics of Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book explores the long history of oppression and resistance in adult and higher education, situated in Mississippi. The state serves as a unique site in which intersecting narratives around race, ethnicity, social class, opportunity, democracy, and equity have played out over the past several...
Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society
New Translations on Politics, Bureaucracy, and Social Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century. Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highlights his contributions to the social sciences and politics, credited with highlighting concepts such as "iron cage," "bureaucracy,"...
by Sieglinde Lemke
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy of the structural narrative of poverty and the opportunity narrative, Lemke's modified concept of...
On American Freedom
A Critique of the Country’s Core Value with a Reform Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Although freedom is America's core value, few Americans have a clear idea of what it means or - worse - enjoy much freedom in any of its conventional meanings. Drawing from republican tradition, the book critiques the contemporary American value of freedom as it appears in politics, the economy, and culture.
American Democracy
Selected Essays on Theory, Practice, and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy. Written from the standpoint of democratic theory, and from a progressive point of view, the book explores different facets of American democratic culture and its various deficits – deficits that can lead to the crippling of democratic politics.
American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education
A History of the Relationship between Higher Education and the United States, 1862–2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This volume examines the role of higher education in producing and reproducing American cultural identity from 1862 to 2015 and considers whether changes in federal policy regarding higher education result in paradigm shifts that directly impact the purpose of higher education. American institutions...
The Economics of Henry George
History's Rehabilitation of America's Greatest Early Economist
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Henry George the greatest, most famous and most rejected of early American economists who trained himself in classical economics and developed a theory of a 'single tax'. There is much literature on many specific facets and aspects of George's work, but we lack a book which provides an overview of George's economics... until now!
Private Equity in Emerging Markets
The New Frontiers of International Finance
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This collected edition captures the essence of private equity development in emerging markets, examining the evolution of the private equity industry as well as exit opportunities, financial performance, and anticipated future trends. It also discusses the 'hands-on' aspects of private equity investing in emerging markets.
by T. McFall
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The economics of the NCAA Division I men's basketball league are peculiar because it fails to hire the best college-aged players and does little to enhance competitive balance within the league. The league's policy decisions and its ability to remain economically viable, despite its short-sighted governance decisions, are discussed.