The american political economy

institutional evolution of market and State

Policy debates - particularly within political science and economics - are often grounded, explicitly or implicitly, within the conceptual confines of a state-market dichotomy, as though the two existed in complete isolation. In this innovative text, Marc Allen Eisner portrays the state and the market as inextricably ...

The future of global currency

the Euro versus Dollar

Can the euro challenge the supremacy of the U.S. dollar as a global currency? From the time Europe's joint money was born, many have predicted that it would soon achieve parity with the dollar or possibly even surpass it. In reality, however, the ...

How the Law works

How the Law Works is a refreshingly clear and reliable guide to today's legal system. Offering interesting and comprehensive coverage, it makes sense of all the curious features of the law in day to day life and in current affairs. Explaining the law and ...

Shakespearean genealogies of power

a whispering of nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, MacBeth, The merchant of Venice, and the Winter's Tale

"Shakespearean Genealogies of Power: A Whispering of Nothing" addresses the new perspective on normativity opened up by Shakespeare's stage, as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law.

Finance

the basics

Finance: The Basics is a clear and practical introduction to the world of finance, allowing the reader to grasp relevant financial concepts and apply them to daily activities and studies. This fully revised and updated edition captures the most important aspects of a changing financial ...

Tourists, tourism and good life

Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial interventions to create well-being and happiness on the entire planet. Yet there is a lack of specific attention to the ways in which we can better understand and evaluate the relationship between well-being and travel. The ...

Monetary and banking history

essays in honour of Forrest Capie

Eds. Geoffrey Wood, Terence C. Mills, Nicholas Crafts. Forrest Capie is an eminent economic historian who has published extensively on a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on banking and monetary history, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also in other areas ...

Europe and Tunisia

democratisation via association

This book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia#s specific mode of democratization works in ...

Introduction to estimating economic models

This book's comprehensive coverage on the application of econometric methods to empirical analysis of economic issues is impressive. It uncovers the missing link between textbooks on economic theory and econometrics and highlights the powerful connection between economic theory and empirical analysis perfectly through examples ...

Crime and the life course

an introduction

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a comprehensive overview ...

Jordan

a Hashemite legacy

Created as a mechanism for maintaining British influence through a local patron, Jordan's future never looked certain. Nevertheless, under the leadership of the Hashemite monarchy led by Abdullah and then his grandson Hussein, the Kingdom of Jordan became a permanent feature on the map ...

The ethics of doping and anti-doping

redeeming the soul of sport?

With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Moller argues that the fight against doping - promoted as an initiative to cleanse sport of cheats - is ...

Budgetary politics in american governments

The public budgeting process intensifies political competition at all levels of the U.S. federal system. Gosling clearly explains the intergovernmental dynamics of the actors, institutions, and processes of U.S. public budgeting at the local, state, and federal levels - both now and through changes ...

Identity of the constitutional subject

selfhood, citizenship, culture, and community

The last fifty years has seen a worldwide trend toward constitutional democracy. But can constitutionalism become truly global? Relying on historical examples of successfully implanted constitution regimes, ranging from the older experiences in the United States and France to the relatively recent one in Germany ...

Apollo

Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god. From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to ...

Savage economics

wealth, poverty, and the temporal walls of capitalism

This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. Rereading classical authors including Adam Smith, James Steuart, Adam Ferguson, Hegel, and Marx, it provides a systematic and fundamental cultural critique of political economy ...

Fundraising management

analysis, planning and practice

Presents the principles underpinning professional practice. This book examines key issues and introduces important management tools for the modern fundraiser.

The economics of tourism

Auts. Mike J. Stabler...[et.al]. Presents a contribution to the theory and practice of tourism. This book is suitable for those who study and undertake research into tourism from economic, environmental and social perspectives.

Brand management

research, theory and practice

Foreword by Leslie de Chernatony. For over two decades, it has been argued that the brand is an important value creator and should therefore be a top management priority. However, the definition of what a brand is remains elusive. This comprehensive textbook presents the reader ...

Maritime economics

For 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and today it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe. Yet despite its economic complexity, shipping retains much of the competitive cut and thrust of the #perfect# market of classical economics. This ...

Archaeological investigation

Drawing its numerous examples from Britain and beyond, Archaeological Investigation explores the procedures used in field archaeology travelling over the whole process from discovery to publication. Divided into 4 parts, it argues for a set of principles in Part 1, describes work in the field ...

Kalecki's principle of increasing risk and keynesian economics

Kalecki was one of an important generation of Cambridge economists. Here, Tracy Mott's impressive book examines the relationship of Kalecki's economics to different economic areas and its relationship to major alternative schools, such as Keynes and Marx. Mott looks at Kalecki's 'principle ...