Anthem Press: 226 books
by Paige Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms, and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture closely examines how Irish writers...
The Deoband Madrassah Movement
Countercultural Trends and Tendencies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This innovative book analyses the growth of Deobandi Islam, a religious sect whose followers include extremist groups, through the frame of a counterculture in conflict with mainstream Muslim society. Due to its relationship with the Taliban, close links to al-Qaeda, and worldwide reach through the...
Quakernomics
An Ethical Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book explores Quaker enterprises from 1700 to the twentieth century as examples of an ethical capitalism, and tests them against prominent economists and their concern for economic justice. King offers ‘Quakernomics’ as a model for corporate social responsibility in the modern world, exploring...
The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors
Generating Social and Environmental Value through Capital Investing
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
"The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors" offers an introductory overview for investors interested in generating financial returns with the creation of social and environmental impact. In addition to discussions of portfolio structure and strategy, the handbook offers an overview of due...
by The International Credit Insurance & Surety Association
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
‘A Guide to Trade Credit Insurance’ is a reference book on trade credit insurance, written from an international perspective. It is a compilation of contributions from various authors and reviewers drawn from ICISA member companies. The book provides an overview of the whole process regarding...
Economists and the Powerful
Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
“Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards” explores the workings of the modern global economy – an economy in which competition has been corrupted and power has a ubiquitous influence upon economic behavior. Based on an array of empirical and theoretical...
The Labyrinth of Sustainability
Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ offers the first comprehensive effort to analyze corporate sustainability systematically in the Latin American context—and to extract lessons for companies across the developing world. Featuring an introduction by the prizewinning author and Yale professor Daniel...
by John F. Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
How much do economists really know? In most cases, they claim to have profound knowledge but in fact understand little and obscure almost everything. Most people are convinced that economics should be left to the ‘experts’, when they themselves are perfectly capable of understanding it. This book...
Development Without Aid
The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
“Development Without Aid” opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world’s poorest countries. Growing up in Malawi the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique of foreign aid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that...
Environmental Problem-Solving A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT
An Overview of the Tools of Environmental Policy-Making and Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The book is divided into four sections: The first section focuses on how certain environmental problems can only be solved through active government effort to implement policies that effectively take science and politics into account. This section introduces readers to foundational concepts, including...
Green Growth, Smart Growth
A New Approach to Economics, Innovation and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
We find ourselves at a crossroads between environmental disaster and a new industrial revolution: a shift from the ruthless exploitation of nature toward cooperation with it. Decoupling economic growth from environmental consumption is an ambitious goal, but also an achievable one. ‘Green Growth,...
Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia
Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
‘Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia’ brings together Pakistan and Afghanistan as two inseparable entities by investigating areas such as the evolution and persistence of the Taliban, quest for Pashtun identity, the ambivalent status of the tribal region and the state of civic clusters...
China and Sustainable Development in Latin America
The Social and Environmental Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
During Latin America’s China-led commodity boom, governments turned a blind eye to the inherent flaws in the region’s economic policy. Now that the commodity boom is coming to an end, those flaws cannot be ignored. High on the list of shortcomings is the fact that Latin American governments—and...
China and Sustainable Development in Latin America
The Social and Environmental Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
During Latin America’s China-led commodity boom, governments turned a blind eye to the inherent flaws in the region’s economic policy. Now that the commodity boom is coming to an end, those flaws cannot be ignored. High on the list of shortcomings is the fact that Latin American governments—and...