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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities. The authors observe a trend from a compensatory paradigm towards supply oriented social policy, and investigate how this phenomenon is linked to distributional outcomes....
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Maximizing Value in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Public sector organizations are about to enter one of the most challenging environments they have ever had to face as they bear much of the cost of the credit crunch. This timely book shows public sector leaders what they need to understand in order to be able to cope with these challenges.
by H. Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals provides an original look at how Marx understood the role of money, extending his theory to consider how prices move over the course of business cycles. Key modern theories of price are also analysed; Neoclassical, Post Keynesian and Sraffian theories are contrasted with Marxian thought.
Language, Education and Nation-building
Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region.
Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Experts from business, academia, governmental agencies and non-profit think tanks to form a transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the combined challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in the United States and Germany.
Financial crises and the nature of capitalist money
Mutual developments from the work of Geoffrey Ingham
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This volume is a debate about a sociology and economics of money: a form of positive trespassing. It is unique in being written by scholars of both disciplines committed to this mutual venture and in starting from the original groundwork laid by Geoffrey Ingham. The contributors look critically at...
Keeping Cool in Southeast Asia
Energy Consumption and Urban Air-Conditioning
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian considers how people keep cool, from Metro Manila to other mega-cities in Southeast Asia.
The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis
Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociology has much to gain from incorporating rather than overlooking or marginalizing psychoanalysis and psychosocial approaches to a wide range of social topics.
Social Science Methods for Psychodynamic Inquiry
The Unconscious on the World Scene
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
This book explains, with case examples, a variety of social science research methods suitable for studying the unconscious components of irrational social and political actions in world affairs, which can be defined as those that are intensely destructive, self-destructive, or extremely bizarre. The...
by Nahid Aslanbeigui, Guy Oakes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-59) reconceptualized economics as a theory of economic welfare and a logic of policy analysis. Misconceptions of his work abound. This book, an essay in demystification and the first reading of the entire Pigouvian oeuvre, stresses his pragmatic and historicist premises.
The Family Business Map
Assets and Roadblocks in Long Term Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Combining the expertise of two consultants and academics from East and West, this book provides an international guide for family businesses, showing how to identify and implement the best governance strategies. Packed with case studies and interviews, this is the ultimate guide for family businesses wanting to achieve long-term success.
by J. Stephan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Foreign direct investment (FDI) assumed a prominent role in Central East Europe (CEE) early on in the transition process. Foreign investors were assigned the task of restructuring markets, providing capital and knowledge for investment in technologically outdated and financially ailing firms.
by A. Thirlwall
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This volume of essays contains 16 papers the author has written over the last 40 years on various aspects of the life and work of John Maynard Keynes and Nicholas Kaldor. It covers both theoretical and applied topics and highlight the continued relevance of Keynesian and Kaldorian ideas for understanding the functioning of capitalist economies.
Governing African Gold Mining
Private Governance and the Resource Curse
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms...