Libros de la editorial: Palgrave MacMillan

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

This book presents a vital and unsettling analysis of the foreign policy-making processes of the two Bush administrations prior to the attacks on Iraq. In a systematic and thorough comparison, Hybel and Kaufman show how ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

This popular and highly praised text provides a lively and accessible introduction to the governance and politics of Europe. Thematically structured to address the key institutions and issues, it is genuinely pan-European in scope. Although ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

Foreword by Alex J. Pollock, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, USA. He was President and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago from 1991 to 2004 and is the ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

Taxation in Latin America is largely viewed as a means of generating income to keep the government in business. In recent years, progress has been made towards increasing total revenue, but most countries in the ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling "Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller," Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

ts lively, engaging style and authoritative and comprehensive coverage have made this highly successful text the first choice introduction to politics for students and instructors alike. The fourth edition has been has been systematically revised ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

An Introduction to Global Financial Markets describes the financial sector in clear, easy to understand terms, providing a broad and balanced introduction to financial markets across the world. In the constantly fluctuating state of modern ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

A look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand's bold defense of free markets can help us change course. " " The rise of the Tea Party and ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

The international monetary system is characterized by vast numbers of daily transactions involving huge sums of money. In an increasingly globalized world economy, these trades can have enormous repercussions on economies and can occasionally cause ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

Microeconomics: Equilibrium and Efficiency is an innovative textbook that introduces microeconomic theory in an applied way, making use of real-world empirical examples. Key benefits: * Concise and intuitive: students will not only become familiar with the ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

This major new text on EU policy-making provides a concise but systematic introduction to the main policy areas in which the EU is active and the way in which EU policy is made, explaining how ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

Jonathan Gruber's groundbreaking Public Finance and Public Policy was the first textbook to truly reflect the way public policy is created, implemented, and researched. Like no other text available, it integrated real-world empirical work ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

The Financial Crisis has brought the pensions time bomb centre stage due to a decade of low returns increasing unfunded pension liabilities and lowering future retirement incomes. This is because most investors have been unable ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

The final quarter of the twentieth century witnessed the beginnings of a transformation - the decline of the industrial economy and rise of the information economy. Innovations in information technology facilitated the globalization of markets, production ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

Macroeconomics presents a new approach to macroeconomics, based on microeconomic foundations combined with Keynesian-style short-run policy analysis. The book features: * A pronounced international stance, systematically presenting data from several countries * Consistent treatment of the long ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

What did witchcraft and magic in Early Modern Europe really involve? Now available for the first time in paperback, The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic explores the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

Today's global marketplace offers opportunities for fast growth, but a winning strategy over the long term raises a special challenge: how to make major strategic changes while maintaining high levels of performance. Business historian ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

What is masculinity? Looked at across time - from antiquity to the modern day - the contours of 'manliness' take on an intriguing complexity. As the various contributors to this volume demonstrate, the ideas and practices of ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

China has created its own distinctive pathway to becoming one of the world's largest economies - and the country's economic and political development over the next decade will have profound implications for the rest ...

2012 Palgrave MacMillan

The recent upheavals in the Middle East are challenging long-held assumptions about the dynamics between the United States, the Arab world, and Israel. In Pathways to Peace, today's leading experts explain these changes in ...