Niklas Luhmann's theory of politics and law

The credit risk of complex derivatives

Since the publication of the 2nd edition of The Credit Risk of Complex Derivatives in 1997, the world of derivatives has gone through a period of dramatic change - in the external operating environment, product and market characteristic and risk management techniques. In the light of ...

Creative business

achieving your goals through creative thinking and actions

While many people in business have strong analytic skills, creativity has been undervalued in many organisations. The authors draw attention to creative thinking and action and how this can be used to solve business problems and improve performance. They show how some companies have achieved ...

The practice of business statistics

using data for decisions

This text and CD-ROM immerses students in the course immediately, involving them in practical, statistics-supported business decision making from the outset. Using real data to provide a context for tackling modern business problems, the book introduces a range of core ideas early including data production ...

The global negotiator

making, managing and mending deals around the world in the Twenty- First century

Human Resource Development in a Knowlege Economy provides a critical approach to the study of human resource development and emphasises the need for its effective integration with human resource management, as well as with the strategic management of the organisation. With special reference to workers ...

Strategic public finance

Strategic Public Finance takes a multidisciplinary approach to public finance. It considers the nature of public finance and its symbiotic relationship with economy and society. It considers its philosophical underpinnings, the nature of the services it finances, its relative scale, how it is raised and ...

Corporate treasury and cash management

The book is an analysis of corporate treasury and cash management with the principal financial instruments used by the corporate treasurer. The objectives of the book are to describe how corporate treasury departments should establish a framework for the identity, measurement and management of risk ...

New activism and the corporate response

This book looks at the new militant and radical forms of lobbying and activism and the ways in which companies and organizations can devise strategies to respond or create new communication strategies that will avoid conflict and confrontation. The book draws upon the work of ...

Why the markets went crazy

and what it means for investors

Tim Lee has a unique insight into the workings of the stock market bubble of 1995-2000 and the implications for the future. He argues that the bubble of the dot.com era reveals far more than has been realised. Deep-seated flaws in the whole investment ...

Coaching for meaning

the culture and practice of coaching and team building

This book is a translation of a bestselling management book originally published in French. Its focus is on the concept of the leader as a bearer of meaning and purpose within the organization, and the significance of this for coaching and team-building. The author presents ...

The recurrent crisis in corporate governance

Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s. This book proposes specific changes in conduct to resolve these crises, principally by ...

Enterprise programme management

delivering value

Many large scale projects are delivered over schedule and over budget. Programme management is a new approach to maximize the likelihood of successful change management. While being based around a set of techniques this book describes an approach to programme management that outlines the skills ...

Japan and East Asia in transition

trade policy, crisis and evolution, and regionalism

This book examines how Japan has changed its economic relationship with East Asia since the mid 1990s by looking at its commitments to import relief, regional financial and industrial transformations, and regionalism. While the Japanese government has taken proactive initiatives to sustain the sound development ...

Hayek's journey

The mind of Friedrich Hayek

While Alan Ebenstein's biography of Friedrich Hayek was the first biography of this major twentieth century thinker, the book itself was not - per se - an intellectual biography. Hayek's Journey will be the follow-up volume that will give readers an in-depth look at the ...

The real world economic outlook

the legacy of globalization : debt and deflation

Real World Economic Outlook is a yearly publication that reviews issues in the global economy from a different, radical and more realistic perspective. In stark contrast to the output of other institutions like the IMF and World Bank, this annual report is written in an ...

Keynes, Pigou and Cambridge Keynesians

authenticity and analytical perspective in the Keynes-classics debate

The economics of European agriculture

The Economics of European Agriculture explains the demand and supply characteristics of agricultural markets, as well as government intervention in agriculture, with an emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan also analyses the fifth enlargement and its implications for agriculture in Europe ...

Economic models of climate change

a critique

The climate policy debate has been dominated by economic estimates of the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the models used to derive those estimates are based on assumptions that have largely gone untested. The conventional approach embodies structural features that rule ...

Global markets and the developing economy

E.V.K. FitzGerald takes a fresh approach to the macroeconomics of developing countries, based on the influence of global markets on domestic savings, private investment, firm behaviours, employment levels and income distribution. He suggests that a Keynesian approach is still relevant today when reformulated ...

Promises not kept

poverty and the betrayal of Third World development

The 6th edition of this very accessible introductory text - the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan - has been revised throughout to take account of the 'new American hegemony' and 'war on terrorism' of the early 21st century. Presenting a wide range of up-to-date facts ...

Management consultancy and banking in an era of globalization

Management consultancy and investment banking have been held up as industries at the forefront of contemporary globalization. Using an inter-disciplinary approach ranging across economics, economic geography, sociology and management studies, Andrew Jones analyzes the nature of globalization within business service transnational corporations in these sectors ...

The economics of enlargement

In this volume, well-known scholars examine the challenges facing the EU at the start of the Eastern enlargement, whose first wave should be decided at the end of 2002 and implementation in 2004-2006. This enlargement is not to be underestimated as it involves in the ...