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by Rob Watts
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which sell...
by Simon Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book explores the role of integrity in business and discusses why all leaders seek to have it. The author argues that it is less about ‘having’ integrity as an attribute, and more about practising it. The Practice of Integrity in Business examines how taking responsibility for ideas, values...
Making Culture Count
The Politics of Cultural Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book is a collection of diverse essays by scholars, policy-makers and creative practitioners who explore the burgeoning field of cultural measurement and its political implications. Offering critical histories and creative frameworks, it presents new approaches to accounting for culture in local, national and international contexts.
The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract
Working and Living in Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions.
Economic Crisis and Political Economy
Volume 2 of Essays in Honour of Tadeusz Kowalik
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Micha? Kalecki made important contributions to twentieth century political economy that guided the thinking of their student Tadeusz Kowalik. The chapters of this volume examine how the ideas of Luxemburg, Lange, Kalecki and Kowalik can illuminate our understanding of the crisis in twenty-first century capitalism.
by S. Maatsch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-communist countries. This book challenges anti-immigration discourses to show that given the high percentage of skilled immigrants, it is the sending rather than the receiving countries who lose out.
From Keynes to Piketty
The Century that Shook Up Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
From Keynes to Piketty provides the reader with an accessible and entertaining insight into the development of economic thought over the past century. Starting with John Maynard Keynes's bestseller, The Economic Consequences of Peace (1919), and ending with Thomas Piketty's blockbuster, Capital...
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part VI, Good Dictators, Sovereign Producers and Hayek's "Ruthless Consistency"
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In this sixth volume contributors examine Hayek's neoliberal economics and politics in the 20th century, and the demise of the socialist system. Taking a closer look at Hayek's time in Australia, and his time spent travelling in the east.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This book presents a collection of nine studies which contribute to a more robust and richer understanding of entrepreneurship, self-employment and retirement in a diversity of settings, including the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore and the US, by drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data.
by Cristina Trullols
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
As a result of the recent financial crisis, new ways of doing finance have developed, creating alternatives to the regular financial system. This book explores non-conventional banking and financing mechanisms in detail, with case studies and examples in which these alternative methods have succeeded.
Measuring Global Poverty
Toward a Pro-Poor Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framework for analyzing poverty conceptions and measures, and concludes with concrete recommendations regarding both the procedures for and substance of future global poverty measurement.
Private Ratings, Public Regulations
Credit Rating Agencies and Global Financial Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Credit rating agencies play a powerful and contentious role in the governance of global financial markets. Introducing an original framework for delegating political authority to private actors, this book explains common trends in the regulatory use of private ratings for public purposes and analyzes regulatory changes after the Financial Crisis.
by L. Talani
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
This book gives a detailed account of the primacy of the City of London, both as a domestic actor and as a global financial centre. It focuses on whether the hegemonic position of the City of London can be threatened by the globalization process and how this relates to its role as an international money laundering centre.
Private Company Valuation
How Credit Risk Reshaped Equity Markets and Corporate Finance Valuation Tools
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The recent crisis in financial markets has seen a gradual erosion of risk-free asset classes. In equity markets the credit risk has reached a critical level in valuation. Here a new cost of equity method for private companies is presented based on the pricing of junior subordinated notes. Global business cases are illustrated to support this.