e-Economy

rhetoric or business reality?

The emrgence of social enterprise

Business, government and sustainable development

Keijzers provides a concise and authoritative introduction to the evolution of the collaborative stakeholder approach to sustainable development in the context of changing environmental policies. The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of ...

W. E. Deming

critical evaluation in business and management

W. Edwards Deming's name is synonymous with Total Quality Management. His ideas were at first enthusiastically adopted by Japanese businesses. Deming is recognized as putting Japan on the road to leadership in international business and industry and was awarded the Second Order of the ...

The costs of crime and justice

A must-read for anyone involved in public policy, this book consolidates the diverse research in this area but also makes one of the most valuable contributions to date to the study of the economics of criminal behavior.

Paul Anthony Samuelson

Samuelson is a key figure in economic thinking. This collection gathers the essential assessments of this important economist, and provides an unparalleled insight into his lasting impact on economics.

How monetary policy works

For monetary policymakers worldwide, developing a practical understanding of how monetary policy transmits to the economy is a day-to-day challenge. The data such policymakers have is imperfect, the maps they use are continually redrawn. With such uncertainty, understanding this complicated issue is rarely straightforward. This ...

The foreign exchange market of London

development since 1900

Economics, economists and expectations

microfoundations to macroapplications

Dealing with the origins and development of modern approaches to expectations in micro and macroeconomics, this book makes use of primary sources and previously unpublished material from such figures as Hicks, Hawtrey and Hart. The accounts of the 'founding fathers' of the models themselves are ...

Alternatives for environmental valuation

ÍNDICE: 1. Exploring alternatives for environmental valuation CLIVE L. SPASH, SIGRID STAGL AND MICHAEL GETZNER PART ONE: Extending the environmental valuation approach 2. A framework for valuing nature: regional biodiversity MICHAEL GETZNER 3. Non-use values and attitudes: wetlands threatened by climate change JÜRGEN MEYERHOFF 4 ...

Studies in applied economics

Léon Walras was one of the key thinkers behind the development of marginal utility theory and introduced the notion of general equilibrium theory - hugely influential to this day. This book is the first English edition of one of Walras's most important contributions: the Études ...

History of globalization

world trade networks, 1920-2000

This book charts the history of the process of globalization over the twentieth century leading up to the time that the term was first coined towards the end of the millennium.

Encyclopedia of world trade

from ancient times to the present

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion...

Encyclopedia of criminology

While the primary focus of the work is on American criminology and contemporary criminal justice in the United States, extensive global coverage of other nations' justice systems is included, and the increasing international nature of crime is explored thoroughly. Thorough and wide-ranging, the Encyclopedia covers ...

The development of China's stockmarket, 1984-2002

equity politics and market institutions

As China's government manages a transition away from the socialist plan, how does it build the regulatory institutions it needs to manage the new market economy? Without the correct institutions, laws and agencies that implement the laws in place, the remarkable growth witnessed in ...

Rethinking ethnicity

majority groups and dominant minorities

How are dominant ethnic groups, whether majority groups or dominant minorities, responding to the pressures of a global era? Are such groups in decline or are they successfully negotiating or resisting the challenge of new global values? The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means ...

Political theory of global justice

a cosmopolitan case for the world state

Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong obligations to people elsewhere, but that accountable integration ...

Globalisation, global justice and social work

This book tackles the effects of the past decade's neoliberalism and globalisation on world-wide social work. The book also grapples with the implications for social work practice of the global social justice/anti-corporate and more.

Doing business in China

Introduction to statistics with SPSS

a guide to the processing, analysing and reporting of (research) data

The new politics of Islam

pan-islamic foreign policy in a world of states

Regionalization of globalised innovation

locations for advanced industrial development and disparities in participation

While processes of innovation are increasingly realised globally, they can also take a highly regionalised expression. In this book, the global networks that link regions are set against the local aspects of innovation. With contributions from international experts, this book examines local 'Islands of Innovation ...