John Authers looks at how the financial world has taken shape over the last 50 years and answers key questions about how it has affect us. This book helps readers understand why everything went wrong at the same time and it will also help them understand investment strategies th…
"In this book, Rugman and Doh question some of the traditional development assumptions and paradigms, arguing that many are outdated or misguided. Drawing from recent research in international business and multinational management, they bring an incisive, microeconomic, "on the …
In this book, James Davis examines the morality, ethics and laws that underpinned all dealings in the marketplaces of medieval England.
Presenting an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of Ghana's Customs Service, this book explores the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty.
In recent decades international aid policy has converged around a set of market-liberal ideals. The fall of the Soviet Union helped to reaffirm this trend whilst also enabling a more radical interventionism in the South. The contemporary aid paradigm can be challenged on a numbe…
Reforms to pension policies inevitably face challenges and potential trade-offs. These include the desirability of providing adequate replacement income and tackling problems of poverty in old age; the imbalance between time spent in work and in retirement; the appropriate mix o…
Reforms to pension policies inevitably face challenges and potential trade-offs. These include the desirability of providing adequate replacement income and tackling problems of poverty in old age; the imbalance between time spent in work and in retirement; the appropriate mix o…
This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an …
"Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of embroilm…
"Business as a System of Power was the direct product of extensive and continuing study of the rise of bureaucratic centralism. The project was begun in 1934, and resulted a decade later in this volume, arguably the most important work in comparative and historical economics to …
The global energy system stands at the verge of a far-reaching paradigm shift. The established model of centralized supply services will be challenged by new, decentralized technologies, with Germany being an international role model for energy efficiency and renewable energy ge…
Decentralized energy supply increases independence from fossil resources, reduces the carbon footprint of a society and enhances local value creation. But many of the technologies deployed are still in their infancy and depend on subsidies. Entrepreneurs, representatives of ener…
In this engaging book--the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace--Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans' attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed since the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Tr…