Comparative category: 2220 books
American Law
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book provides an introduction to the American legal system for a broad readership. Its focus is on law in practice, on the role of the law in American society; and how the social context affects the living law of the United States. It covers the institutions of law creation and application, law...
The Logic of Discipline
Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values...
Economics
An Awkward Corner
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Originally published in 1966, this book has enduring validity. In analysing the economic situation of the late 1960s Joan Robinson discusses the contradictions which arise from the need to readjust the organisation of society to the fantastic capacity for producing material wealth that capital accumulation...
Rethinking Corporate Governance
The Law and Economics of Control Powers
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The standard approach to the legal foundations of corporate governance is based on the view that corporate law promotes separation of ownership and control by protecting non-controlling shareholders from expropriation. This book takes a broader perspective by showing that investor protection is a...
The Asian Economy
Spearheading the Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia. The region not only remained unharmed by the global financial crisis initially but also recovered the fastest. In addition, it was also the principal driver of the...
The Political Economy and Media Coverage of the European Economic Crisis
The case of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The European economic crisis has been ongoing since 2008 and while austerity has spread over the continent, it has failed to revive economies. The media have played an important ideological role in presenting the policies of economic and political elites in a favourable light, even if the latter’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This two-volume set offers an in-depth analysis of the leading tax treaty disputes in the G20 and beyond within the first century of international tax law. Including country-by-country and thematic analyses, the study is structured around a novel global taxonomy of tax treaty disputes and includes...
by Dipali Mukhopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Warlords have come to represent enemies of peace, security, and 'good governance' in the collective intellectual imagination. This book asserts that not all warlords are created equal. Under certain conditions, some become effective governors on behalf of the state. This provocative argument is based...
Building Wealth
The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
There is no doubt that we are in the middle of a transition to a knowledge-based economy. Breakthrough technologies in microelectronics, biotechnology, new materials, telecommunications, robotics, and computers are fundamentally changing the game of creating wealth. While these new industries are...
Health Economics
A Critical and Global Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Health economics applies the tools of economic analysis to the problems of health care finance and delivery. This introductory text uses clear, non-technical language to explain the available economic tools, and critically examine their strengths and weaknesses in relation to health policy and management issues.
Fast Food/Slow Food
The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production,...
Remade in China
Foreign Investors and Institutional Change in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Since opening to foreign investment in 1979, China has emerged as the leading investment site for multinational corporations. Remade in China looks beyond the macroeconomic effects of China's investment boom to analyze how foreign investors from the US, Japan, and other nations are shaping China's...
The Long Haul
A Social Histry of the British Commercial Vehicle Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Originally published in 1975 this book charts the history of Foden, a name inseparably linked with the growth and development of the haulage industry. The history of Foden provides the perfect backdrop to the history of the entire industry and the commercial vehicle generally, as it unfolds against...
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America. Nelson does not see "theology" as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying...