Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts.
This book is the first to present an extensive analysis of the international evidence for the similarities of the consumption patterns of such controversial commodities as alcohol, tobacco and marijuana, using recent data from a number of developed and less developed countries over a number of years.
Critics contend that identity economics overemphasizes social identities as drivers of economic activity, potentially obscuring other elements including personal preferences, incentives, and market pressures.
Many of the rules that govern labor markets in Latin America (and elsewhere) raise labor costs, create barriers to entry, and introduce rigidities in the employment structure.
An intense debate has played out in recent years regarding how to implement a so-called "e;flexicurity system"e;-a labor market reform that combines flexibility, particularly in the hiring and firing process of firms, with security in the employment and income of the workforce.
This volume is the proceedings of a symposium entitled, "e;Strategic Human Resource Planning Applications"e; which was held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on December 4-6, 1985.
This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.
In this collection, academics and policy-makers from Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore present research results on a variety of topics based around three key themes: macroeconomics and trade, labour and social issues, and taxes and government spending.
The Northern Sea Route and the Economy of the Soviet North (1956) evaluates the commercial value of the route on the basis of a detailed study of the economy of the Soviet North.
This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts - of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change.
The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.
The last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children and the elderly.
This book explores a quiet revolution reshaping global capitalism: the rise of employee ownership, worker cooperatives, and profit-sharing enterprises.
Originally published in 1976, the 14 papers in this collection discuss the history and significance of the concept of 'involuntary unemployment', particularly as seen from a Keynesian perspective.
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces women's journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at homeA century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family.