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Climate Law and Developing Countries: Legal and Policy Challenges for the World Economy (New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law) מאת Benjamin Richardson `The phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change has become of critical importance to all countries. However, while the majority of developing countries contribute the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, they will generally bear the major burden of the social, environmental and economic impac...

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Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations (New Horizons in Management) מאת Kim S. Cameron `This is a very readable and excellently presented volume. It will interest anyone concerned with organizational effectiveness and the competing values model.'- Economic Outlook and Business Review`I recommend this book to anyone wishing to understand and practice leadersh...

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Macroeconomic Methodology: A Post-Keynesian Perspective מאת Jesper Jespersen `Methodological practice is at the heart of divisions between schools of macroeconomic thought. Jesper Jespersen's book explains why and precisely how, and gives the reader the insight to choose between rival approaches. His own inspiration comes from Critical Realism and Popper's Three World anal...

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Women in Family Business Leadership Roles: Daughters on the Stage מאת Mary Barrett `Using the metaphor of the stage, the authors shed light on experiences of women who stumbled into the leadership spotlight in their family firms, and others who methodically built their own stage. An interesting strategic leadership tactic of directing the spotlight on others is found useful by som...

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Globalisation, Development and Transition: Conversations With Eminent Economists מאת Brian Snowdon `By reading this book, students should be able to grasp the historical background of current theory in development economics. The book provides useful supplementary reading for courses on development economics. Moreover, the comprehensive bibliography at the end is valuable not only for students, bu...

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The Impact of the WTO: The Environment, Public Health and Sovereignty מאת Trish Kelly `The Impact of the WTO is essential to any discussion involving the group and is highly recommended to economics and political science library collections.' - Midwest Book Review `In this important contribution to the international trade literature, Kelly presents case studies of the nin...

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Inventing Leadership: The Challenge of Democracy (New Horizons in Leadership Studies) מאת J. Thomas Wren `Tom Wren's book is a masterpiece of intellectual history. It explores the philosophical and historical foundations of democracy in a compelling way. Wren is a sparkling and graceful writer. He makes a potentially dry subject come alive with wit and insight. The issues Wren addresses are extremely t...

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Natural Disaster Analysis After Hurricane Katrina: Risk Assessment, Economic Impacts and Social Implications מאת Peter Gordon Hurricane Katrina was a pivotal event in the history of disaster mismanagement. Its impact will be felt well into the future and its lessons will be applied around the world. This influential volume explores key policy implications arising from the storm and its aftermath. Leading scholars from fiel...

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Public or Private Economies of Knowledge?: Turbulence in the Biological Sciences מאת Mark Harvey `This book embraces a fundamental issue for the modern information economy, namely the creation, negotiation and institutionalization of private and public knowledge. The authors argue that as new biological knowledge develops, the actors must help create and negotiate the boundaries of what can be ...

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Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism מאת Tim Congdon `Tim Congdon has been Britain's leading monetarist for about three decades. . . He has a sharp eye for statistics, for history, for the twists and flows of intellectual fads, and for the political arena where debate hardens suddenly into the stone of decision. He is subtle, practical, bellicose and ...

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Keynes and His Battles מאת Gilles Dostaler `This is an admirable book about an admirable human being.' - Bruce Littleboy, Economic Analysis & Policy `This is an excellent book that is likely to challenge the reader's conception of Keynes's work.' - Elke Muchlinski, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought `. . . the ...

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Meta-organizations מאת Goran Ahrne A growing number of organizations are meta-organizations; rather than individuals they have other organizations as their members. This comprehensive book explains, in-depth, the unique way in which meta-organizations function, how they differ from organizations with individual membership, and how th...

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A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia (Elgar Original Reference) מאת Andrew Tan `This is an important and worthwhile book that should be read by anyone seeking to understand the history and evolution of political violence in Southeast Asia, including the origins of contemporary militant Islamist terrorism.' - Paul J. Smith, Contemporary Southeast Asia `This very ...

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Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise (New Horizons in Entrepreneurship) מאת Saras D. Sarasvathy `The concept of effectuation is as subtle as it is profound. On the one hand, it challenges long held beliefs about the nature of cause and effect in social science. On the other hand, it generates a host of new insights about social phenomena. This concept is particularly well suited to analyzing e...

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Taiwan's Long Road to Democracy: Bitter Taste of Freedom מאת Katutugu Yoshida This edited translation of Katutugu Yoshida's Jiyuno Nigaiaji analyses the gradual process of reform in Taiwan over the past 100 years. It pays particular attention to the dilemmas, compromises and pitfalls that have faced reformists as they have strived to bring democratic change under a series o...

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Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance: An Exploratory Essay (New Thinking in Political Economy) מאת Richard E. Wagner `Richard Wagner's process-oriented analysis of the public sector offers an insightful alternative to standard public finance theory and a powerful critique of neoclassical welfare economics. His ideas will prove valuable to any scholar interested in understanding the economic activities of governmen...

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The Making of a European Economist מאת David Colander `In this captivating volume, David Colander scrutinizes economics in Europe, which is currently undergoing a radical process of convergence, standardization and metrication. While he acknowledges that the USA is the world leader in terms of journal publications in economics, he also suggests that ...

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Public Private Partnerships: The Worldwide Revolution in Infrastructure Provision and Project Finance מאת Darrin Grimsey This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings t...

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Frontiers in Pension Finance מאת Sylvester Eijffinger `In this fresh and valuable volume, experts from across the world provide guidance on pension design, risk management, and governance that is urgently needed in this rapidly changing pension environment. Aging populations are putting pressure on pay-as-you-go pension systems and spurring a shift to ...

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The Strategy of Small Firms: Strategic Management and Innovation in the Small Firm מאת Tim Mazzarol `Mazzarol and Reboud present an extremely well documented book that offers grounded approaches through insightful case studies. It is a rare book from which practitioners, students, teachers and researchers will gain both knowledge of and enthusiasm for the subject.' - Louis Jacques Filion, HEC Mon...

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Social Policy in an Ageing Society: Age and Health in Singapore מאת David Reisman Around half the world's population live in countries where the fertility rate is far below the replacement rate and where life expectancy is increasing dramatically. Using Singapore as a case study, Social Policy in an Ageing Society explores what might happen in a dynamic and prosperous society whe...

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Law, Knowledge, Culture: The Production of Indigenous Knowledge in Intellectual Property Law מאת Jane E. Anderson `Combining unique practical experience with a sophisticated historical and theoretical framework, this impressive work offers a new basis to explore indigenous intellectual property. In this wide-ranging and imaginative study, Anderson has laid the groundwork for future scholarship in the field. Ho...

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Management and Innovation in the Media Industry מאת Hans Van Kranenburg This comprehensive book covers relevant issues on how media companies are currently embracing innovation, the levels at which they are doing so, and how innovation can help media companies to meet their development needs in the future. The primary focus of this study is the relationship b...

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Health Care and Public Policy מאת David Reisman Health care is absorbing an increasing share of resources in all countries. It is the task of public policy to ensure that the nation secures good quality attention at an affordable price. This book, distinguishing clearly between health status and health care, examines the ways in which governments...

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Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly מאת Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee `This is a tour de force that carefully assembles and incisively interrogates perhaps the most pressing problem of our age: how to harness the resources of corporations to tackle global problems of poverty, oppression and environmental degradation? Banerjee does not present us with glib pronouncemen...

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Unfunding Terror: The Legal Response to the Financing of Global Terrorism מאת Jimmy Gurule `Jimmy Gurulé knows how to bankrupt terrorists like few others do. As Undersecretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, he spearheaded the fight against al-Qaeda's global bank accounts, helping to earn the highest grade awarded on the 9/11 Commissioners' report card. As an author, he performs once ag...

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Regulatory Capitalism: How It Works, Ideas for Making It Work Better מאת John Braithwaite `Everyone who is puzzled by modern "regulocracy" should read this book. Short and incisive, it represents the culmination of over twenty years' work on the subject. It offers us a perceptive and wide-ranging perspective on the global development of regulatory capitalism and an important analysis o...

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A Theory of Organizing מאת Barbara Czarniawska `This statement by a, if not the, leading organization scholar of our time provides a provocative, insightful synthesis of 40 years of Czarniawska's work with that of other organization scholars, as well as philosophers, feminists, and intellectuals of other stripes. Czarniawska calls for studying t...

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Where Does Europe End?: Borders, Limits and Directions of the EU מאת Sten Berglund This original and thought provoking book addresses the major issues in the present debate surrounding the EU, including the impact of eastward enlargement as well as the prospect of further expansion. Treating the EU as a single political entity comparable to other political systems, the ...

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The Making of a European Economist מאת David Colander David Colander's highly original and thought provoking book considers ongoing changes in graduate European economics education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the 'economist production function' in which universities take student 'raw materi...

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Politicians and Public Services: Implementing Change in a Clash of Cultures מאת Kate Jenkins `This book is an authoritative account of the establishment of the Next Steps agencies, the greatest change in the UK civil service of recent years. The saga is told superbly from the author's vantage point as a leading participant in helping to shape the change. She reveals the pressures on, and ...

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The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity מאת Jesus Huerta de Soto "The Austrian School" forms a concise but comprehensive exposition of the main tenets of the modern Austrian School of Economics while also providing a detailed explanation of the differences between the Austrian and the neoclassical (including the Chicago School) approaches to economics. The book a...

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The Handbook of Service Industries (Elgar Original Reference) מאת John R. Bryson `It contains an impressive array of important and useful material that should be familiar to anyone interested in economic growth and change. . . the potential value to be gained from these collected works is great.' - James E. Pratt, Growth and Change Service activities are now acknowledged ...

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Taxes and the Economy: A Survey on the Impact of Taxes on Growth, Employment, Investment, Consumption and the Environment מאת Willem Vermeend This book discusses the impact of taxation on economic growth, employment, investment, consumption and the environment. The public finance literature commonly distinguishes between three major functions of taxation: the traditional function of raising revenue to finance government expenditure; the...

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The Technology Imperative מאת Gregory Tassey `Tassey's work is timely, thought-provoking and essential reading for understanding the scope and depth required for S&T policy analysis in the new era where the current economic leader is struggling to retain its position.' - Irene C. Makar, Research Policy `Page after page, this book...

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Debt, Innovations and Deflation: The Theories of Veblen, Fisher, Schumpeter and Minsky מאת J. Patrick Raines In Debt, Innovations, and Deflation, the authors analyze the deflation theories of Thorstein Veblen, Irving Fisher, Joseph A. Schumpeter, and Hyman Minsky. In so doing, they develop a paradigm for understanding the phenomenon of deflation. They explain how technological, organizational, and financ...

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The Dictionary of Health Economics (Elgar Original Reference) מאת Anthony J. Culyer `Anthony Culyer once again makes a significant contribution to health economics with a Dictionary that is succinct but also comprehensive. It will be particularly valuable to economists entering the health field and to health specialists who lack familiarity with terms originating in economics and...

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The Political Economy of Financing Scottish Government: Considering a New Constitutional Settlement for Scotland (Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-Local Finance) מאת C. Paul Hallwood `The Barnett formula is doomed. These authors provide a readable and convincing guide to the alternatives. The volume is a wonderful example of what tight economic reasoning can do - its case for fiscal autonomy is unanswerable'. - Professor Michael Artis, University of Swansea, UK 'Written b...

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Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster (Advances in Ecological Economics) מאת Peter A. Victor `At last, Managing without Growth, a book that puts economics in its proper place within the real world and points the direction we must go in confronting the ecological crisis of the planet. As an economist, environmental studies professor Peter Victor is eminently qualified for the task. He examin...

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Handbook of Worldwide Postal Reform (Advances in Regulatory Economics) מאת Michael A. Crew The postal and delivery sector has been the subject of considerable interest in recent years. This book brings together a number of contributions directed at understanding developments in the field of postal reform. The authors review the experience and plans of individual countries to provide some ...

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A Grammar of Organizing מאת Maria Bengtsson `I found A Grammar of Organizing an intriguing and compelling read. It is a conceptually rich text, which deals with fundamental questions concerning our understanding of and activities within organizations. To this end the authors develop a theoretical framework built around fundamental generatin...

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The Internationalisation of Mobile Telecommunications: Strategic Challenges in a Global Market מאת Peter Curwen `The Internationalisation of Mobile Telecommunications is a comprehensive look at the rapidly-changing market structure, the alternative technologies, the extent of globalization, and the ownership of firms in increasingly competitive mobile telecommunications markets around the world. This is an ex...

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Entrepreneurship Research Challenge מאת Per Havidsson Entrepreneurship is an emerging, dynamic and to a considerable extent, unpredictable phenomenon. Thus, it makes for a challenging research subject. In this book, one of the most experienced empiricists in the field has collected some of his most important ideas on how improved conceptualization and ...

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A Handbook of Industrial Districts מאת Marco Bellandi In this comprehensive new reference work, the editors have brought together an unrivalled group of distinguished scholars and practitioners to comment on the historical and contemporary role of industrial districts (IDs). This Handbook is uniquely positioned to shed light on the role of ...

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Entrepreneurship and the Financial Community: Starting Up and Growing New Businesses מאת Juan Roure This highly accessible book brings together the insights of leading academics and researchers to promote a better understanding of the role of private equity providers in the development of growth-oriented start-ups and the management of growth processes. The book explores the domain of start-up and...

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International Business Marketing in Emerging Country Markets: The Third Wave of Internationalization of Firms מאת Hans Jansson This book explores how multinational corporations (MNCs) solve business marketing problems encountered in large emerging country markets such as China, India, Russia and Poland. These countries are involved in the final stage of the globalization of markets, defined as the third wave of internationa...

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The European Constitution: Cases and Materials in Eu and Member States' Law מאת Giuliano Amato `I can enthusiastically recommend and endorse this book. It serves the very important purpose of collecting key documents together in an elegant and accessible text. There currently exists a huge proliferation of material on the EU Constitution - this volume makes a very wise selection of this profu...

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Organizational Routines: Advancing Empirical Research מאת Marcus C. Becker `One of the major challenges facing organization studies has been for long time to develop an operational content to the notion of "routines". This book offers important advances in this direction, both conceptually and through illuminating case studies.' - Giovanni Dosi, Sant'Anna School of Advanc...

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An Introduction to the Economic Theory of Market Behavior: Microeconomics from a Walrasian Perspective מאת Donald W. Katzner `This is an important, rigorous, and thoroughly engaging text on the economic theory of market behavior. It is unique in the attention devoted to the philosophical underpinnings and the historical background of the Walrasian Theory. Professor Katzner challenges his readers to understand the strength...

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The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy Reform in Latin America: The Distributive and Institutional Context מאת Eduardo Wiesner `This book is a must read for anyone interested in policy reforms in Latin America. The author combines tremendous experience in the field and deep knowledge of economic theory: a rare combination.' - Alberto Alesina, Harvard University, US `One of the key contributions of this book is...

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Trade Liberalisation and the Poverty of Nations מאת A. P. Thirlwall `This book breaks out of the standard distinction between "free trade" and "protectionism", and shows how to think constructively about trade policy as an instrument of national economic strategy. It is highly recommended for those who wish to think beyond orthodoxy, and especially for those in deve...

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Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress Michael J. Trebilcock

Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress מאת Michael J. Trebilcock `This book offers a sophisticated yet pragmatic account of the proper purposes of rule of law reform, the obstacles to achieving it, and the role that the international community can play. The procedural conception of the rule of law offers an appealing alternative to both one-size-fits-all universa...

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EU Regulation of GMOs: Law and Decision Making for a New Technology (Biotechnology Regulation) מאת Maria Lee Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are an extraordinary innovation. They raise great expectations of economic prosperity and improved capacity to address pressing problems of poverty and environmental degradation, whilst simultaneously raising great concerns about the type of social and physica...

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Say's Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How Macroeconomic Theory Lost Its Way Steven Kates

Say's Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How Macroeconomic Theory Lost Its Way מאת Steven Kates `Steven Kates has written an important 250 page pamphlet on the history of Say's Law and its misinterpretation in The General Theory. He argues that Keynes is responsible for a fundamental misunderstanding of classical - and in fact all pre-Keynesian - economics, which has disfigured mainstream macr...