Keynes and his critics

treasury responses to the Keynesian Revolution 1925-1946

These documents, published here for the first time, present the Treasury's counter-arguments during the period when Keynes was developing the ideas that led to the Keynesian revolution in economic policy. Keynes spent much effort trying to persuade the Treasury to adopt policies designed to ...

Britain and Ireland 1050-1530

economy and society

Blackstone's guide to the asylum and immigration (treatment of claimants, etc)

Act 2004

The Blackstone's Guide Series delivers concise and accessible books covering the latest legislation changes and amendments. Published within weeks of an Act, they offer expert commentary by leading names on the effects, extent and scope of the legislation, plus a full copy of the ...

Compliance with decisions of the International Court of Justice

This book examines the compliance record of states parties to proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial body of the United Nations. It undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the follow-up of the ICJ's judgments and interim measures from the Court ...

International sale of goods in the conflict of laws

This book is the first one in English to focus in depth upon the private international law problems raised by the sale of goods. It begins with the substantive law and practice, and uses this as the basis for a comparative and critical discussion of ...

Democracy beyond borders

justice and representation in global institutions

Global institutions exercise unprecedented power, yet they are often unaccountable to the people they claim to serve. From the hallowed halls of the United Nations to the closed boardrooms of multinational corporations, decisions are made that impact on all our lives, but are not necessarily ...

The practice of value

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which honor the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner, are presented annually at each of nine universities in the United States and Great Britain. They were established at the University of California, Berkeley, beginning in the 2000 ...

Business cycles and economic growth

an analysis using leading indicators

This volume is a collection of articles on business cycles from researchers across the globe, covering a wide spectrum of issues from forecasting, monitoring, and measurement of economic activity

The future of imprisonment

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have become worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian ...

FEAR

the history of a political idea

For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination - the first intellectual history of its kind - fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemorial. From the Garden of ...

Stalinism and the politics of terror

ideas and power in inter-war Russia

The relationship between ideas and politics in inter-war Russia has long been controversial, and historians have been sharply divided over the influence of Marxism on Stalinist politics. This study presents a reassessment of Bolshevik ideology, and of the ways in which it interacted with other ...

Catastrophe

risk and response

Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the possible extinction events that are sufficiently ...

Legal reasoning and legal theory

What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in ...

Inheritance and originality

Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

What might it mean to think of philosophy as being in the condition of modernism - in which its relation to its own past, and hence its sense of its own future, has become an undismissable problem? If philosophy's hitherto-defining conventions can neither be taken ...

The psychology of economic decisions

Vol. I: Rationality and well-being

Psychologists and economists often ask similar questions about human behaviour. This volume brings together contributions from leaders in both disciplines. The editorial introduction discusses methodological differences between the two which have until now limited the development of mutually beneficial lines of research. Psychologists have objected ...

Political philosophy

A very short introduction

This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?' It looks at political authority, the reasons why we need ...

The history of Astronomy

a very short introduction

The psychology of economic decisions

. Vol. I: rationality and well-being

Time series with long memory

This volume provides in a convenient format for students and researchers the core papers in long memory time series analysis. Long memory time series are characterized by a strong dependence between distant events. Various methods and their theoretical properties are discussed, with empirical applications. The ...

Postal savings and fiscal investment in Japan

the PSS and the FILP

Japan's Postal Savings System (PSS) and Fiscal Investment and Loan Programme (FILP) are major institutional features of Japanese finance that support a wide ranging system of government financial intermediation. Despite their size and importance, they have not received extensive attention outside of Japan. These ...

State banking in Early America

a new economic history

Political determinants of corporate governance

political context, corporate impact