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This Handbook presents a broad yet nuanced portrait of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, its socio-political rifts, economic challenges, foreign policy priorities and historical complexities.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has traditionally been an oasis of peace and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-30
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Predatory Value Extraction explains how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as 'maximizing shareholder value' (MSV) that emerged in the 1980s came to dominate strategic thinking in business schools and corporate boardrooms in the United States....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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With protectionist sentiment and economic nationalism on the rise, international trade and how it is governed is at the heart of some of the most important contemporary economic and political debates. Comprehensive and clear, this book skilfully outlines and analyses...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-12
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What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conflict? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out. His vivid account of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-11
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In 1984, Pranab Bardhan published his classic work The Political Economy of Development in India. It went on to become one of the most influential references on the political economy of development in the pre-reform period of independent India. Class and Conflict...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-11-09
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This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper? Written mainly for a technical audience, yet accessible to the lay reader, Economics of a Crowded Planet addresses the ontology, epistemology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Looming trade wars and rising nationalism have stirred troubling memories of the 1930s. Will history repeat itself? Do we face the chaotic breakdown of the global economic system in the face of stagnation, protectionism and political tumult? Jeremy Green argues that,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-08
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This book presents an innovative democratic framework that ensures public participation, based on applying principles of good governance to facilitate urban transport decision-making in an integrated and structured manner. While – given the need for mobility in cities –...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-21
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This book discusses Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and their potential to protect and maintain critical infrastructure in a variety of global governmental settings. Critical infrastructure is defined as essential services that underpin and support the backbone of a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-18
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This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region. The book assesses the current well-being situation in Latin American countries and offers an explanation based on its many drivers,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-14
Collection :
Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making
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Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. However, despite being the cause of debate...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-10-14
Collection :
What is Political Economy?
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Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-24
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The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that "stability is destabilizing" – that the seeds of the bust are sown in the boom. This financial instability hypothesis received...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-09-06
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In dieser Open-Access-Publikation analysieren die Autoren die öffentliche Debatte um Chancen und Risiken von Big Data und diskutieren die konkreten Implikationen in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen.In einer repräsentativen Befragung vermessen sie das Wissen und die...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2019-08-30
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Technological dominance is shifting the balance of global economic stability. This is the central premise behind the latest book from Lorenzi and Berrebi who view the rise of artificial intelligence, robotics, use of private data, and genetic transformation, among other...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-14
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This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put into question the values of free trade and liberal democracy. The book’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-06
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Using the basic economic principle of making decisions using a cost-benefit framework—and how changes in one or the other can result in a different decision—this book uncovers how various groups responded to incentives provided by the Prohibition legislation.Using this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-08-02
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Simon Dombrowski zeigt, dass das Entstehen und die Dynamik der explosionsartig wachsenden deutschen Märkte für biologische Lebensmittel nicht ohne die Koordinationsleistungen von Wirtschaftsverbänden wie Bioland, Demeter oder Naturland zu erklären ist. Sowohl die ...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-31
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