Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Gender Equality and Inequality in Rural India
Blessed with a Son
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
As India strives to improve overall social and economic conditions and gender relations through policies such as the abolishment of dowry, increasing the legal age at marriage, and promoting educational opportunities for girls, serious challenges remain, especially in rural areas. Gender Equality...
Egyptian Revolution 2.0
Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution.
Managing Organizations in the United Arab Emirates
Dynamic Characteristics and Key Economic Developments
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Managing Organizations in the United Arab Emirates seeks to familiarize readers with the nature of doing business and managing organizations in the Middle East by bringing together case studies on United Arab Emirate (UAE) organizations, one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing economies in the world.
Soft Power in China
Public Diplomacy through Communication
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
This book is about how China strives to rebuild its soft power through communication. It recounts China's efforts by examining a set of public diplomacy tactics and programs in its pursuit of a 'new' and 'improved' global image. These case studies invites the reader to a more expansive discussion on the instruments of soft power.
The Roots of American Exceptionalism
Institutions, Culture, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to explain why they adopt different policies for common problems. It compares the United States with Sweden on tax policy, Canada on financing medical care, France on abortion policy, and Japan on immigration.
Getting Development Right
Structural Transformation, Inclusion, and Sustainability in the Post-Crisis Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The celebratory tone about the emergence of the BRICs and the improved growth in Sub Saharan Africa and Latin America during the 2000s obscures the reality that, for large parts of the developing world, the development challenges are more acute than ever before. After three decades of Washington Consensus...
Accepting the Invisible Hand
Market-Based Approaches to Social-Economic Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
This collection of essays by prominent economists and philosophers showcases the important contributions that markets can make to important topics within social economics, including practical issues such as poverty and disaster relief, as well as more general concerns regarding ethics and well-being.
Breaking Up the Euro
The End of a Common Currency
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The drama of the common currency is a hot topic. The Euro was planned for the European Union's member states, bringing economically strong nations like Germany and Holland and weaker nations like Greece, Spain and Italy under one set of currency rules. A dozen years of its implementation has shown...
by Weiping He
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book offers an in-depth analysis of China’s contemporary securities markets regulatory system, with a focus on regulation in practice. Examining the roles of both the China Securities Regulatory Commission and local governments, He argues that the government has built and developed markets...
The Manipulation of Choice
Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
This timely book makes a forceful argument that the analyses from behavioral economists are incomplete, the policies advocated by libertarian paternalists are misguided and unethical, and both actually reinforce the cognitive biases and dysfunctions that motivate 'nudges' in the first place. In a...
Strategy by Design
A Process of Strategy Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Strategy by Design illustrates how to use many of the principles, processes and tools of the design profession to create innovative break-through organizational strategies.
Clout
Finding and Using Power at Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
There is one major factor that explains business actions that has thus far escaped thorough exploration. That factor is clout, or as it is more broadly understood, power. Those with clout in the business organizations make the decisions and influence what the business does. Yet the origins and uses...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The book investigates the many ways that economic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historically and at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historically contingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributors use case studies including...
International Students and Global Mobility in Higher Education
National Trends and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This book examines current trends in global student mobility patterns in several key host and destination countries, including the United States, China, India, South Africa, Mexico, Australia, and Germany, among others, and will explore the national and global-level factors that contribute to these trends.