Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
Eutopia
New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
There is a vacuum of philosophy to make sense of a world dominated by a disorderly global economy, by science and engineering, by ideologies, and by popular culture. There is a vacuum of law to bring order to relations between states that are more threatening than they have ever been. Thomas More’s...
by Dirk Lindebaum
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Emotion is often used by organisations to manipulate and repress workers. However, this repression can have adverse psychological and social consequences for them. This book articulates the pathways through which this repression occurs, and offers emotion regulation as a tool for workers to emancipate themselves from this repression and social control.
The Value of Applied Economics
the Life and Work of Arthur (A.J.) Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This biography of the applied English economist Arthur (A.J.) Brown, an English economist from the late 1930s to the 1980s, sets his work in the context of the Great Depression, the emergence of Oxford University as a centre of applied economic research, the contraction of British colonialism in Africa,...
The International Law of State Responsibility
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This highly readable book examines the law of State responsibility, presenting it as a fundamental aspect of public international law. Covering the key aspects of the topic, it combines a clear overview with use of specific case studies in order to provide a deeper understanding.
by B. Guy Peters
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Making effective public policies is a difficult task, but considering policymaking as a problem of design analogous to architecture or engineering can assist in that process. This book outlines three vital components of policy design: understanding the causes behind the problem being addressed; identifying...
Public Policy and Professional Sports
International and Australian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This volume provides a comprehensive examination of public policy aspects of the economics of professional sports. The book offers a unique focus on public policy, covering regulation and competition in the sports industry and its labour markets, governance issues including unethical behaviour (corruption,...
Monopolies and Underdevelopment
From Colonial Past to Global Reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This ambitious analysis is centered on the evolution of economic structures in colonized economies, showing the effects of these structures on today’s global reality for all economies, whether they are considered ‘developed’ or ‘underdeveloped.’ The result is an illuminating study of historical restriction and exploitation and its impact on present day markets around the world.
How Capitalism Destroyed Itself
Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Capitalism has been sustained by inherited moral values that are now all but exhausted. A unique combination of a new belief in individualism and a long tradition of property rights had traditionally ensured that self-interested action also produced public benefit. However, these rights, including the...
Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership
Communities and Social Change from Below
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book explores new forms of democracy in practice following the 2011 global uprisings; democracy that comes from below, by and for the ‘have-nots’. Combining theories of social innovation and collective leadership, it analyses how disadvantaged communities have addressed the effects of economic recession in two global cities: Barcelona and New York.
Biotechnological Inventions and Patentability of Life
The US and European Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In today’s technological world, biotechnology is one of the most innovative and highly invested-in industries for research, in the field of science. This book analyses the forms and limitations of patent protection recognition for biotechnological inventions, with particular regard to patentability of life.
Organizational Opportunity and Deviant Behavior
Convenience in White-Collar Crime
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Ever since Sutherland coined the term ‘white-collar crime’, researchers have struggled to understand and explain why some individuals abuse their privileged positions of trust and commit financial crime. This book makes a novel contribution to the development of convenience theory as a framework to understand and explain ‘white-collar crime’.
Global Infrastructure Networks
The Trans-national Strategy and Policy Interface
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Infrastructure represents the core underpinning architecture of the global economic system. Adopting an approach informed by realism, this insightful book looks at the forces for the integration and fragmentation of the global infrastructure system. The authors undertake a thorough examination of...
Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience
Responding to Climate Change and the Relevance of the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Cities, and the built environment more broadly, are key in the global response to climate change. This groundbreaking book seeks to understand what governance tools are best suited for achieving cities that are less harmful to the natural environment, are less dependent on finite resources, and can better...