Economics

This book identifies and systematically confirms the various factors that allow dangerous nuclear power projects to proceed without adequate risk assessment, even as society recognizes the magnitude of risks associated with nuclear power generation.

This book is about the behaviour of systems.

The health of American manufacturing has been a cause of real concern during the 1980s.

This book offers a unique analysis of bilateral investment treaties (BITs).

For centuries Japan, although a totalitarian dictatorship, was ruled by figureheads who signed laws formulated 'behind the screen'.

Interest in biomass energy resources from forests, farms and other sources has been rapidly increasing in recent years because of growing concern with reducing carbon dioxide emissions and developing alternatives to increasingly scarce, expensive and insecure oil supplies.

A collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective.

Bogart puts the current policy debate over urban sprawl into a broader analytical context.

Diccionario Bilingue de Metaforas y Metonimias Cientifico-Tecnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sports science.

Originally published in 1995, this book explores a number of subjects of significance for labor and economic policy, especially the role of U.

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The acclaimed new book from the celebrated author of The Road to Somewhere'Brilliant, will become a classic' Daily Telegraph'Utterly compelling .

Von den Grundregeln der Bilanzierung bis zu Anhang und Offenlegung: Das Buch führt Sie Schritt für Schritt durch den gesamten Ablauf des Jahresabschlusses.

Procedural Politics, first published in 2004, develops a theory of everyday politics with respect to rules.

Improved efficiency and effectiveness in the construction industry provide huge potential savings.

Have you ever felt that you had a great insight that would benefit your department, division, or organization and found that you seem to be the only one who can see it?

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.

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts.

Forget the myth of meritorcracy.

The old cliche states that not every manager is a leader, but the more important part of that sentiment is that to be a good manager, one has to be a good leader.

This book presents a rich collection of research studies on the theory and practice of CSR in Asia.

As cofounders of the leadership coaching and training firm Ridge Associates, authors Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover teach that good interpersonal communication is essential to getting things done.

Endlich ein praxisbezogener Überblick über den Lebensbereich Wirtschaft, wie er real existiert und im Alltag erlebt wird!

In this fourth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Margaret May provide an essential up-to-date guide on social policy.

The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland - socially, politically, demographically and culturally.

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent.

This book discusses Nature and Human Communities in the historical and social background of Asia.

Cohn's topic of global trade is of enormous and proliferating interest.

Perhaps the most confounding characteristic of the competitive marketplace is that everyone wants a piece of the action.

In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized.

This book is a systematic analysis of the trade interconnectivity, logistics, urbanization, and economic development among countries along the Silk Road.

Japanese economists began publishing scientific papers in renowned journals including Econometrica in the 1950s and had made their significant contributions to the sophistication of general equilibrium analysis by intensive use of a variety of mathematical instruments.

Leading scholars assess the transformations in energy security policy that flow from recognition of global climate change.

This volume contains new important research on worker well-being in a changing economy.

Pollution prevention is the current environmental strategy to minimize pollution problems.

Theologian, academic, and third-generation organic farmer Frederick L.

Der Verkehr ist sowohl eine Voraussetzung fur wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand und die Wahrnehmung personlicher Freiheitsrechte als auch ein bedeutender Verursacher lokaler und globaler Umweltprobleme.

Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad.

This book discusses the need for a paradigm shift from Islamic economics universe of discourse to Iqtisad, a socio-economic system that is entirely independent from other economic doctrines and systems of thought.

After seven long years of economic malaise, it is clear that something has gone awry in Japan.

First published in 1997, this volume looks at the rationale for, the implementation of, and the economic and social effect of the World Bank Structural Adjustment Policy (SAP) in Ghana from the early 1980s to the early 1990s.

Erklärungsgegenstand ist die Ausbreitung von Innovationen auf Märkten.

The issue of whether transnational risk can be regulated through a social sphere goes to the heart of what John Ruggie has described as 'embedded liberalism': how capitalist countries have reconciled markets with the social community that markets require to survive and thrive.