This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums on the City of London's burgeoning South American sovereign debt market by selling bonds of the State of Poyais.
Industrial Relations in the Public Services (1989) assesses the changes in industrial relations following Thatcher's 1979 election in three particular parts of the public sector: local authorities, the national health service and the civil service.
British Industrial Relations (1983) provides a comprehensive and balanced approach to British industrial relations, an often controversial subject with a variety of academic interpretations which achieved a large significance in national politics.
Gamification plays a major role in individual and business decision-making in today's digital era, remarkably changing the way businesses perform basic functions.
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages.
Der Autor zeigt auf, dass sich der ökologische Nutzen des Getrenntsammelns mittels gelbem Sack nach über dreißigjähriger Praxis immer noch unter Null bewegt.
This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the 17th century through to 1900.
This book explains the concerted efforts being implemented to promote environmentally and socially responsible practices within Africa's finance and insurance sectors.
This book offers an in-depth study of German neoliberalism between 1924 and 1963, arguing that a neoliberal network was established in the interwar period, decades before elite networks in Great Britain and the United States fostered the 'neoliberal revolution' of the Thatcher and Reagan administrations.