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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.
by Ms Marian Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
If you are in search of a concise yet authoritative overview of mediation as a process of dispute resolution, then you need look no further.
Marian Roberts' A-Z of Mediation succinctly captures the concepts, applications, debates and critiques that are shaping this rapidly expanding field....
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...
Central Bank Independence
Cultural Codes and Symbolic Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
By engaging in an ethnography of the social text of German, European and USA monetary affairs, this book introduces a new analytical framework that will enable practitioners and academics, particularly within sociology, economics, political economy, and political science, to gain a clear understanding of the role of culture in central banking.
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.
Global Enterprise Management, Volume I
New Perspectives on Challenges and Future Developments
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Global Enterprise Management unites theory, academic knowledge, and practitioner experience to provide students, educators, and practitioners with the skills to succeed in the global managerial landscape.
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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.
Servant Leader Human Resource Management
A Moral and Spiritual Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Servant Leader Human Resource Management provides a comprehensive conceptual framework based on a dignity enhancing stewardship model that integrates and balances mission achievement with motive, means and ends integrity from both a line manager and human resource department perspective.
Financial Communications
Information Processing, Media Integration, and Ethical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Financial Communications showcases why it is crucial for financial institutions to enhance key communication processes, rebuild trust with its customer base, improve relationships, and derive better brand awareness amongst key stakeholders within the industry.
Mobilizing Resources in Latin America
The Political Economy of Tax Reform in Chile and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of institutional strength (not just design) as well as informal institutions (in addition to formal ones) for policy reform.
Swedish Taxation
Developments since 1862
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
By taking the long view on the evolution of this country's tax policies through the past few decades, Henrekson and Stenkula explain how Sweden developed the highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the world, until the beginning of the 2000s.