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A Theory of the Producer-Consumer Household: The New Keynesian Perspective on Self-Employment
by Yoshihiro Maruyama Tadashi SonodaThe quick recovery of Asian economies from recent recessions in comparison to the struggling American and European economies can be attributed in part to the positive aggregate-demand externalities of their self-employment sectors. This book presents a behavioural analysis of this effect, with a detailed focus on producer households.
An Enquiry into the Ideology and Reality of Market and Market System
by J. LepperWhy do markets exist? How are they maintained? What are market systems and how are they formed? This book addresses these fundamental questions and challenges the traditional view that markets and market systems are 'natural', asserting instead that they are ideologically coloured and of dubious scientific value.
Green Trade Agreements
by D. ColyerGreen Trade Agreements reviews and analyses the environmental provisions that have become an important characteristic of the growing number of bilateral and regional free trade agreements. This book examines the range of approaches to these environmental provisions, evaluates their effectiveness and suggests potential improvements to the process.
Russia's Encounter with Globalisation: Actors, Processes and Critical Moments
by Julie Wilhelmsen and Elana Wilson RoweAn analysis of Russia's response to globalization. This book explores how Russian domestic politics shape this international engagement. Thematically, the focus is on Russia's external engagement with areas of policy relating to globalization, namely energy, climate, health, direct foreign investment, finance, and international terrorism.
Working for the State: Employment Relations in the Public Services
by Susan Corby and Graham SymonThis book examines the impact of public sector reforms and reorganisations on the experiences of the UK public sector's six million workers and those employed in the private sector but providing public services. Chapters bring long-standing topics up-to-date, such as worker representation and reward.
Personal Finance (PDF)
by George Callaghan Ian Fribbance Martin HigginsonFulfilling the need for a UK-centred introductory personal finance text, this dedicated author team provide academic, professional and general readers with what they really need to know about personal finance. Personal Finance is an innovative text that builds confidence and competence in making personal financial decisions. Using a socio-economic approach to personal finance, it illuminates the many factors and relationships that help improve financial capability, including: * Decisions on spending, borrowing, saving and investing are set within a broader context. * Concepts such as income and expenditure, risk and return, and assets and liabilities are related to issues of home ownership, caring responsibilities and lifestyle changes. * The impact of important economic events, such as the financial crises of recent years, on individuals and households is shown. * Case studies are used to demonstrate practical relevance, while diagrams and activities help distil complex issues into digestible form.
Positive and Normative Analysis in International Economics: Essays in Honour of Hiroshi Ohta
by Hironobu Nakagawa Tatsuya UchidaThis volume addresses profound issues in international economics, with contributions from leading researchers on the implications of trade. Empirical studies address preferential trading arrangements, global imbalances and exchange rates, facilitating an understanding of how the economy functions and enabling detailed policy evaluation.
What's Next?: How Professionals Are Refusing Retirement
by D. Roche-Tarry D. Roche-LebrecStudies the steps taken by a group of professionals from the Boomer generation as they move from a linear career path into an uncharted stage somewhere between middle age and old age, a continued professional life and traditional retirement. What is next for those professionals who do not want to take a back seat at retirement age?
The Happiness Agenda: A Modern Obsession
by S. BurnettExplores why contemporary Anglo-American society is obsessed with happiness. Striving to be happy is now a morally imperative pursuit. Through the lens of novel social theory, this book explicates how this has transpired as consequence of a complex 'conspiracy of coordination' between political, organisational and psychological developments.
Globalization and Self-Regulation: The Crucial Role That Corporate Codes of Conduct Play in Global Business
by S. SethiCorporate strategy expert Prakash Sethi takes an in-depth look at global structures and how regulation works from a corporate perspective, providing case studies of several industries and governments who have begun implementing voluntary codes of conducts, including Equator Principles, ICMM, and The Kimberly Process.
Changing Female Identities: Decisions and Dilemmas in the Workplace
by A. KaufmannChanging Female Identities explores the influence of parental figures, the role models that women adopt, the diverse feelings that arise as a result of family mandates and the emotions that arise from cooperation or competition among siblings.
The Global Football League: Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age (Global Culture and Sport Series)
by P. MillwardThis book tackles issues of globalization in the English Premier League and unpicks what this means to fan groups around the world, drawing upon a range of sociological theories to tell the story of the local and global repertoires of action emanating from the popular protests at Liverpool and Manchester United football clubs.
On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays: Selected Essays of G. C. Harcourt
by G. HarcourtOn Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays is a collection of essays, biographies, review articles and tributes, focusing on the lives and times of the Cambridge School of Economists, and the immense contribution that these thinkers, including the author, made to the discipline.
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest
by G. HarcourtThe Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's twenty eight years in Cambridge, before his return to Australia. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays.
Keys to Governance: Strategic Leadership for Quality of Life
by Y. ArgüdenGood governance is key to the sustainability of organizations and improving quality of life for all. Governance is much more than a set of rules, it is a culture and a climate of responsibility, accountability and fairness that is deployed throughout an institution. In this new book the author outlines the keys to good governance.
Family Policy in Transformation: US and UK Policies
by D. WoodsIn the US and UK there has been a transformation in child care, family leave, social assistance and tax credits over the last twenty years. This book explores the factors behind these changes. With detailed case studies, it shows that ideas and the power to wield them are crucial factors in the transformation of family policy.
Ethics in Investment Banking
by John N. Reynolds Edmund NewellThe financial crisis focused unprecedented attention on ethics in investment banking. This book develops an ethical framework to assess and manage investment banking ethics and provides a guide to high profile concerns as well as day to day ethical challenges.
The Politics of Tourism Development: Booms and Busts in Ireland
by A. O'BrienMoving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.
Financing Long-Term Care in Europe: Institutions, Markets and Models
by Joan Costa-Font and Christophe CourbageForecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years. This book offers a full understanding of the institutional responses and mechanisms in place to finance old age and provides analysis of demand and supply factors underpinning the development of financial instruments to cover long-term care in Europe.
Success in Six Cups of Coffee: How Smart Networking Conquers Hidden Obstacles
by P. BethencourtCan it be that in order to reach the investor you need for your new venture, or to find the employer who will give you the chance of a lifetime, you only need to have six cups of coffee? Research tells us there is an average of six intermediate people that form an invisible chain between you and the person who will help you succeed.
The Future of Employment Relations: New Paradigms, New Developments (Elgar Original Reference Ser.)
by Adrian Wilkinson Keith TownsendEPUB
Strategic Management and Public Service Performance
by R. Andrews G. Boyne J. Law R. WalkerStrategic management makes a difference to the performance of public organizations. This book demonstrates that the most appropriate response is 'it all depends': on which aspects of strategy content and processes are pursued together, and how these are combined with organizational structure and the technical and institutional environment
The Life Cyclists: Fisher, Keynes, Modigliani and Friedman (Great Minds in Finance)
by C. ReadRead addresses the contributions of significant individuals to our understanding of financial decisions and markets. Great financial theorists created the basis for what we now know as personal finance and this volume describes four great minds in finance that forever established the role of the rate of return and life cycle decision-making.
Globalization, Hegemony and the Future of the City of London
by L. TalaniThis 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.
Simply Seven: Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business (IE Business Publishing)
by E. Schlie J. Rheinboldt N. WaeschePublished as part of Palgrave Macmillan's IE Business Publishing Series, Simply Seven is a practical guide to Internet business for students, entrepreneurs and executives. The book presents a practical blueprint created to get entrepreneurs and executives started on finding the right Internet business model for their web site.