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Cultural work and higher education

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The cultural industries are an area of continued international debate. This edited volume brings together original contributions to examine the experiences and realities of working within a number of creative sectors and address how higher education can both enable students to p…

Cultural work and higher education

by Noonan, Caitriona, Ashton, Daniel

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The cultural industries are an area of continued international debate. This edited volume brings together original contributions to examine the experiences and realities of working within a number of creative sectors and address how higher education can both enable students to p…

Cultural work and higher education

0 Type: Book

The cultural industries are an area of continued international debate. This edited volume brings together original contributions to examine the experiences and realities of working within a number of creative sectors and address how higher education can both enable students to p…

Economic growth and sustainable development

by Hess, Peter N.

fromRoutledge textbooks in environmental and agricultural econo…

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This interdisciplinary textbook uses a blend of formal models, empirical evidence, history and statistics to provide a comprehensive treatment of economic growth and sustainable development.

Economic growth and sustainable development

by Hess, Peter N.

fromRoutledge textbooks in environmental and agricultural econo…

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Economic growth makes possible an improved material standard of living, but sustainable development goes further in catering for the needs of future generations as well as the current one. This interdisciplinary textbook provides a comprehensive look at both economic growth and …

Microeconomics: a very short introduction

by Dixit, Avinash K.

fromVery short introductions

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The issues of microeconomics - including individuals' financial choices and firms' decisions about hiring and firing - have a large impact on the economic world, arguably as much, if not more than, macroeconomics. In this book, Avinash Dixit clearly explains what microeconomics …

What unions no longer do

by Rosenfeld, Jake

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"From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in ten, and just one in twenty in the private sector--t…

The customs union issue

by Viner, Jacob

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Jacob Viner's 'The Customs Union Issue' is indispensible for international economists, political scientists, and historians. This new edition places the book in the context of Viner's work and the post-WWI economic and political situation, traces the reception of Viner's work, a…

The Routledge companion to the cultural industries

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'The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries' is a collection of contemporary scholarship on the cultural industries and seeks to re-assert the importance of cultural production and consumption against the purely economic imperatives of the 'creative industries'. Across 4…

Food safety: the science of keeping food safe

by Shaw, Ian C.

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Recognising that food safety is not only concerned with microbiology, this comprehensive and accessible book addresses all the topics pertinent to a full understanding of keeping food safe.

The clash of globalizations: essays on the political economy of trade and deve…

by Gallagher, Kevin

fromAnthem frontiers of global political economy

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Collecting and synthesizing a series of essays on the political economy of trade and development policy, this book explores the following research questions: to what extent is the global trading regime reducing the ability of nation states to pursue policies for financial stabil…

Rescuing Prometheus

by Hughes, Thomas Parke

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A look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles. The first use of computers to run systems was developed for the …

Aid on the edge of chaos: rethinking international cooperation in a complex…

by Ramalingam, Ben

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Aid has become a tangle of donors and recipients, so unwieldy that it is in danger of collapse. This ground-breaking book presents fresh thinking that transcends the 'more' verses 'less' arguments. Drawing on complexity theory it shows how aid could be transformed into a truly d…

Aid on the edge of chaos: rethinking international cooperation in a complex…

by Ramalingam, Ben

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Aid has become a tangle of donors and recipients, so unwieldy that it is in danger of collapse. This ground-breaking book presents fresh thinking that transcends the 'more' versus 'less' arguments. Drawing on complexity theory it shows how aid could be transformed into a truly d…

Entrepreneurship: a global perspective

by Roper, Stephen

fromRoutledge-ISBE masters in entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurs exist in every country but the nature and level of entrepreneurial activity differs remarkably. Why is this? What shapes the level of entrepreneurial activity in each country? What defines entrepreneurial activity? As more and more teaching and research into entrep…

States and markets in hydrocarbon sectors

fromInternational political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan …

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Research on the role of states and markets in the hydrocarbon sector is highly topical in contemporary International Political Economy. In some areas, this is a result of new hydrocarbon discoveries, in others it relates to factors like unsatisfactory progress in energy markets …