Economics

Governments all round the world are facing problems with their public finances.

This book is a re-interpretation of labour market policy models from a gender perspective, providing an analysis of within-gender inequality and how these policies affect inequality.

The Dutch tax system distorts economic decisions, treats equal economic positions unequally for tax purposes, and is extraordinarily complex.

Over the last years, "e;Creating Shared Value"e; has become a much discussed concept in business practice as well as in management theory and especially in the context of corporate social responsibility.

The relationship between innovation, networks and localities is of central concern for many nations.

This book seeks to explore a fundamental obscurity in electoral behavior literature: while socioeconomic status is typically robustly and positively associated with a higher propensity for voting worldwide, the relationship in Africa is either negative or non-existent.

Multinational corporations now look toward China with both trepidation and anticipation.

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.

This timely new book provides an international perspective on Public Private Partnerships.

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought.

The quality of working life has been central to the sociological agenda for several decades, and has also been increasingly salient as a policy issue, and for companies.

The focus is on the inter action between demand and supply in a small open economy featuring the dynamics of private capital, public debt and foreign assets.

Originally published in 1974 this volume brings together contributions from lawyers, a nuclear physicist, a landscape architect, biologist, engineers and a former Inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Agent-based modelling in economics Lynne Hamill and Nigel Gilbert, Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS), University of Surrey, UK New methods of economic modelling have been sought as a result of the global economic downturn in 2008.

This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, as a means of examining the development of decoloniality discourse and considering the future direction of the African knowledge economy.

This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality.

How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty?

This textbook shows how to bring theoretical concepts from finance and econometrics to the data.

This book expertly presents the first systematic research and comparative analysis ever attempted on the rise and early developments of the Economic Associations founded in Europe, the US and Japan during the nineteenth century.

Early modern European economic development seen through the interaction of two major players in the Mediterranean economy: Venice and England.

Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment.

This book examines Turkey's success within international development cooperation and how this could create a framework for a new international aid architecture.

Employees with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may be hugely beneficial to a workforce, but it can be difficult for individuals with no formal training to manage these employees successfully.

The third volume in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform an economic evaluation of a health intervention.

Caribbean economies have been faced with mounting challenges arising from the increasing pace of economic globalization.

This book assesses South America's most ambitious attempt at economic integration, Mercosur.

The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies.

Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they work, and the language of network analysis that we may apply to solve common, everyday problems.

In 1878 Karl Marx developed the reproduction schema: his model of how total capital is produced and reproduced.

The relationship between technology and development is explored by economists, policy analysts and other experts.

Every law enforcement patrol officer and investigator needs to understand both the tactical considerations of stopping and frisking a suspect, and the legal constraints that should govern that power.

This early work by Richard T.

In Analysing Quantitative Data, Charles A.

This volume explores the concept of the honest merchant, taking a broad perspective and covering a wide range of aspects.

From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens while investors, financiers, bankers and the privileged are protected.

This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history.