Political economy

Building and maintaining effective financial modelsSee-Through Modelling provides a solid theoretical and practical basis for becoming an advanced financial modeller in Excel.

As a small business owner, having knowledge of crucial numbers is the most important tool you can equip yourself with to survive today's competitive marketplace.

With over three decades of experience in public sector HR, Bob Lavigna gives managers the tools they need to leverage the talents of government's most important resource: its people.

Demographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change, but they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead.

Offering real-world insight and explanations, this book provides a roadmap for organizations looking to develop a profitable big data strategy and reveals why it's not something they can leave to the I.

Too much debt?

It can seem impossible to find a way out of debt--and the more complicated the proposed solution, the harder it is to stick with it.

An invaluable playbook for startup founders looking to partner with big business.

This book has done all the homework for you and provides a succinct, accessible overview on the training and tools available for process improvement that fills that gap of being not too rigid nor too blase.

Any organization can win more customers and increase sales if they learn to be more strategic with their customer service.

Did you know there's a much better tool for spreading influence and generating revenue--one with far less competition?

This book provides business professionals with the clearest, easiest roadmap to achieving highly effective departments and organizations.

Marketing is changing rapidly, so sometimes it's hard to keep up.

Project mishaps are all too common but often easy to avoid.

With sales of more than 160,000 copies, Fundamentals of Project Management has helped generations of project managers navigate the ins and outs of every aspect of this complex discipline.

As organizations strive to meet stringent budgets, the mandate to produce greater results with fewer resources is no longer sufficient.

Not only does government bureaucracy often make hiring a cumbersome, slow-moving process, but poor performers enjoy more protection from losing their jobs than their counterparts outside of government.

This guide gives current and future government employees powerful advice for starting out and maneuvering through their entire career.

Almost everyone has faced the frustrating task of negotiating with government-local, state, national, or foreign-at some point in their lives.

Written by Robert Zimmerman and Ann Lehman--leading experts in the field of fundraising and board development--Boards That Love Fundraising not only shows that all board members (no matter the level of experience) can learn to raise funds but also provides effective tips to the more experienced fundraisers.

Managing Risk in Organizations offers a proven framework for handling risks across all types of organizations.

This updated edition of Mal Warwick's landmark book Revolution in the Mailbox has been thoroughly revised to provide your nonprofit organization with the most current and comprehensive survey of direct mail fundraising available anywhere.

How remittances-money sent by workers back to their home countries-support democratic expansionIn the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration.

*The Sunday Times Bestseller*'Inspiring and illuminating' JAMES O'BRIENPicked as a 2023 highlight by the Guardian---------------Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and powerful.

In fast-moving markets, no organization can expect to identify and keep the best ideas by working in isolation; innovation is now running on an open model, with input from a variety of disciplines and sources, including specialists, employees, suppliers and, in particular, customers and clients.

Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape.

The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.

In this enormously influential book, Jurgen Habermas examines the deep tensions and crisis tendencies which underlie the development of contemporary Western societies and develops a powerful analysis of the legitimation problems faced by modern states.

As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society.

The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check.

Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation.

Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, a new Cold War is being waged in our societies.

The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.

At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite - that of the renowned social scientist and economic historian, Karl Polanyi.

If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse.

Once deemed a dysfunctional democracy with a feckless set of political institutions and a drunk economy, today s Brazil has undergone a complete reversal of fortune.

The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains.

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled dark continent.

The book investigates the ways in which state-centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global, political, economic and cultural processes.

"e;Rai subjects the projects of both national development and globalization to searching scrutiny through a gender lens.

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault.

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope.

With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important.

Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century.