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Capital Market Instruments: Analysis and Valuation
by M. Choudhry D. Joannas G. Landuyt R. Pereira R. PienaarRevised and updated guide to some of the most important issues in the capital markets today, with an emphasis on fixed-income instruments. Fundamental concepts in equity market analysis, foreign exchange and money markets are also covered to provide a comprehensive overview. Analysis and valuation techniques are given for practical application.
Critical International Political Economy: Dialogue, Debate And Dissensus (International Political Economy Ser)
by Stuart Shields Ian Bruff Huw MacartneyThis book gives provocative responses to recent debates in International Political Economy. It provides a much needed and timely intervention to the current anodyne discussions about the evolution of the discipline and prompts wider reflection on the nature of inquiry itself.
Critical International Political Economy: Dialogue, Debate And Dissensus (International Political Economy Ser)
by Stuart Shields Ian Bruff Huw MacartneyThis book gives provocative responses to recent debates in International Political Economy. It provides a much needed and timely intervention to the current anodyne discussions about the evolution of the discipline and prompts wider reflection on the nature of inquiry itself.
The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts (International Political Economy Series)
by Leonard SeabrookeThis book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housing finance and the current international financial crisis.
The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization
by R. BoyceChallenging the standard narrative of Interwar International History, this account establishes the causal relationship between the global political and economic crises of the period, and offers a radically new look at the role of ideology, racism and the leading liberal powers in the events between the First and Second World Wars.
Behavioural and Experimental Economics (The New Palgrave Economics Collection)
by Steven Durlauf L. BlumeSpecially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.
Microeconometrics (The New Palgrave Economics Collection)
by Steven Durlauf L. BlumeSpecially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.
Economic Growth (The New Palgrave Economics Collection)
by Steven Durlauf L. BlumeSpecially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.
Macroeconometrics and Time Series Analysis (The New Palgrave Economics Collection)
by Steven Durlauf L. BlumeSpecially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.
Monetary Economics (The New Palgrave Economics Collection)
by Steven Durlauf L. BlumeSpecially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.
Consumer Culture and Personal Finance: Money Goes to Market (Consumption and Public Life)
by J. BotterillThis book explores the personal savings and credit discourses surrounding post-war British consumer culture. This cultural history highlights the contradictory meanings of home ownership, domesticity, women's consumerism, and banking deregulation that underwrote unprecedented financial crisis and consumer indebtedness.
The South in World Politics
by C. Alden S. Morphet M. VieiraThe South in World Politics is a timely analysis of the influence and effectiveness of developing states in shaping the international order from the politics of the Cold War and North-South confrontation to the contemporary challenges of globalization and the rising power of emerging economies.
The Elephant in the Boardroom: The causes of leadership derailment
by A. FurnhamThis book from the acclaimed management writer Adrian Furnham, explores the dark side of leadership and how and why leaders can have a negative impact upon their companies and organisations. It asks why too often people do not speak out but instead ignore the problems they are causing.
Leading HR
by P. Sparrow M. Hird A. Hesketh C. CooperA book which brings together world-class experts in HR Management to work with top HR directors to overcome the most pressing issues facing senior HR specialists today. The book captures the dual edged challenge facing HR Directors; the need to lead their functions towards effective performance but also to assess leading practice.
Global Agro-Food Trade and Standards: Challenges for Africa (International Political Economy Series)
by P. Gibbon S. Ponte E. LazaroStandards are replacing tariffs as the main trade barriers facing African agro-food exports. This book examines the challenges and opportunities that new public and private standards present to African countries – focusing on food safety, environmental and climate change, and social and labour standards.
Football Brands
by S. BridgewaterThe media increasingly refer to football clubs as brands. Certainly concepts such as loyalty, affiliation, emotional ties with football clubs seem to parallel the relationship between consumer and brand in the broader marketing sphere. This book delves deep into the world of the lucrative business of sports branding.
Football Management
by S. BridgewaterFootball Managers have to deal with a number of unique pressures, yet the challenges of the football manager are similar to those of managers in other sectors. This book examines the management of football and looks at ways that managers and leaders in other industries can use tools and techniques from the sporting world within their own sector.
Technological Innovation: An Intellectual Capital Based View
by Gregorio Martín de Castro Miriam Delgado Verde Pedro López Sáez José Emilio Navas LópezFocusing on innovation management, the authors explore the role of knowledge stocks or intellectual capital blocks such as human, social, technological, organizational and regional capitals, on technological innovation process typologies and firm performance, absorptive capabilities and organizational learning.
Big Business, Big Responsibilities: From Villains to Visionaries: How Companies are Tackling the World's Greatest Challenges
by A. Wales M. Gorman D. HopeBig business is often seen as the villain in terms of the environment or social wellbeing. But some leading businesses are becoming leaders in the fight against climate change and protectors of human rights. This book explains why this is now a core part of strategy and not just philanthropy for these businesses.
The Global Crash: Towards a New Global Financial Regime?
by L. TalaniThis book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary account of the events leading to the financial crisis, its institutional causes and consequences, its economic characteristics and its socio-political implications. It offers an in-depth assessment of the future of global financial stability.
Thinking Skills for Professionals
by B. GreethamThis book gives professionals and business people the essential tools to become better thinkers and decision-makers. It sets out simple methods and techniques to avoid poor decision making by developing our conceptual, creative and critical thinking skills, along with ways of incorporating them within our daily lives.
Legislatures and the Budget Process: The Myth of Fiscal Control
by J. WehnerWhat is the role of legislatures in the budget process? Do powerful assemblies give rise to pro-spending bias? This survey of legislative budgeting tackles these questions using cross-national data and case studies. It highlights the tension between legislative authority and prudent fiscal policy, exploring strategies for reconciliation.
Austrian Economics in Transition: From Carl Menger to Friedrich Hayek
by H. Hagemann T. Nishizawa Y. IkedaThis book analyzes both the consistent and changing elements in the Austrian School of Economics since its foundation in the late 19th Century up to the recent offspring of this School. It investigates the dynamic metamorphosis of the school, mainly with reference to its contact with representatives of history of economic thought.
Workplace Conflict: Mobilization and Solidarity in Argentina
by M. AtzeniBased on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radical perspective. Criticizing the use of injustice as the basis of mobilization, it argues that workers' collective resistance should be seen as a function of the development of solidarity.
Executive Development Journeys: The Essence of Customized Programs
by Cora Lynn Heimer RathboneSummarizing the three main reasons why customized programs are commissioned, this book explains and explores the key aspects of successful development programs, with views from corporate sponsors, participants, faculty contributors and case studies of customised programs commissioned by 6 organizations.