Civil service and public sector

Winner of the the inaugural 'Best Book Award' from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management!

Winner of the the inaugural 'Best Book Award' from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management!

This work addresses one of the most central and timely subjects in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory and especially how to assess its implications for everyday practice.

Using data from the 2000 Census, this collection examines the major demographic and employment trends in the rural Midwestern states with special attention to the issues that state and local policy makers must address in the near future.

Using data from the 2000 Census, this collection examines the major demographic and employment trends in the rural Midwestern states with special attention to the issues that state and local policy makers must address in the near future.

This book presents the economic heartbeat and institutional details that shaped Athenian society during the Classical period (508-323 BCE), employing an innovative and outside-the-box approach to studying history.

This book tackles global economic and social issues from a perspective that may seem obvious but which no author has yet taken: that we humans are living beings.

Joseph Stiglitz examines the theory behind the economic downturns that have plagued our world in recent times.

Murtin examines the long-term causes of health improvements over the last two centuries.

This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation.

The Public Sector R&D Enterprise combines a primer on how government R&D programs actually work with a sophisticated methodology for prospectively putting a dollar figure on the value of R&D investments before they are made.

In The Financial Crisis Reconsidered, Aronoff challenges the conventional view that reckless credit produced the US housing boom and the financial crisis, explaining how the large current account deficit, and its mercantilist origin, was a more fundamental cause.

This book addresses a longstanding issue that emerged fifty years ago and continues to persist- the lack of an accounting and reporting system for financial sustainability.

Why is it that government debt in the developed world has risen to world war proportions in a time of peace?

Aging populations are a major consideration for socio-economic development in the early 21st century.

Basic income is an innovative, powerful egalitarian response to widening global inequalities and poverty experiences in society, one that runs counter to the neoliberal transformations of modern welfare states, social security, and labor market programs.

This book argues for the reconsideration of Frank Knight and the Chicago School of Economic thought in a post-Financial Crisis world.

Over the last three decades, Europe's generous social benefits have encouraged a massive surge of 'welfare migration,' especially of low skilled laborers.

Creating a Eurasian Union offers a detailed analysis of the economies of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan and the proposed Eurasian Union.

In Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets , Ashraf analyses the role of social safety nets in a time when our global economy threatens our way of life, as entire cities such as Detroit are declared bankrupt.

The volume is at the forefront of the academic and policy debates on effective labour regulation, offering innovative approaches to research and policy.

In this follow up to From a Market Economy to a Finance Economy, Samli reflects on his more than half a century of economic experience and research, maintaining that financiers, the government and many decision makers in both politics and the economy, do not really the 'free market.

Just the Facts Ma'am is the only book written from an economics perspective that addresses one of the most remarkable cases of the reversal of corruption in the history of the United States - a case of corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department.

In Who Needs Jobs?

Will history repeat itself, leaving Saudi Arabia to face another financial crisis due to drastic overspending and/or a dramatic drop in oil revenue?

Betrayed takes a new approach to the subject of global poverty, one that doesn't blame the West but also doesn't rely on the West for solutions.

Toward a Future Beyond Employment proposes that as poor nations move to the emerging stage and as emerging economies become advanced, advanced economies are transitioning to a stage of their own, to a type of post-employment economy where society works less, consumes less, but instead has more time.

A brand new text that examines the latest thinking in values-based leadership in the public sector.

This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing.

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Varieties of Capitalism' typology, into a unified typology of capitalist diversity.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period.

This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits.

The reason for the depth the 2008's global depression lies in the intractability of modern economic systems.

Richard Tresch's Public Sector Economics is a new learning and teaching concept for undergraduate public finance courses.

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas.

In the wake of the economic crisis, many public services are facing a challenging environment in which they receive less funding but are expected to deliver better services.

This book examines the management of Procuring Complex Performance (PCP) in large-scale programmes that includes the downstream support phase in sectors such as construction, healthcare, transport, aerospace, marine and defence.

This book examines the management of Procuring Complex Performance (PCP) in large-scale programmes that includes the downstream support phase in sectors such as construction, healthcare, transport, aerospace, marine and defence.

That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree.

That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree.

HRM is a core element in public service organizations, whose employees are often their most valuable resource.

HRM is a core element in public service organizations, whose employees are often their most valuable resource.

After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy.

After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy.

It is the rare book that remains in print for nearly fifty years, earning wide acclaim as a classic.

It is the rare book that remains in print for nearly fifty years, earning wide acclaim as a classic.

President Bush's number-one management initiative for the federal government is the Strategic Management of Human Capital.

Stealth KM presents an innovative way to drive successful knowledge management initiatives in the public sector.

Stealth KM presents an innovative way to drive successful knowledge management initiatives in the public sector.

This book meticulously elaborates on the theory of public goods supply, delving into government supply, market (private) supply, voluntary supply, and multi-stakeholder cooperative supply mechanisms.