Systems of production

Markets, organisations and performance

The accumulation of capital

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from ...

Negotiation games

applying Game Theory to bargaining and arbitration

The concept of negotiation is critical to coping with all manner of strategic problems that arise in the everyday dealings that people have with each other and organizations. Game theory illustrates this to the full and shows how these problems can be solved. This is ...

Central banking systems compared

The ECB, the pre-euro Bundesbank, and the Federal Reserve System

Basic mathematics for economists

The crisis in economics

the post-autistic economics movement: the firt 600 days

Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining ...

Reorienting economics

Patrons, clients, and empire

chieftaincy and over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific

This is a wide-ranging comparative study of relationships between the indigenous leadership of traditional states and colonizing Europeans from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It challenges stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies and seeks to answer the fundamental question ...

Fifty years of prosopography

the Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and beyond

France

the dark years, 1940-1944

This is the first comprehensive study of the German occupation of France between 1940 and 1944. The author examines the nature and extent of collaboration and resistance, different experiences of Occupation, the persecution of the Jews, intellectual and cultural life under Occupation, and the purge ...

The structure and dynamics of geographic ranges

In the grip of disease

studies in the Greek imagination

This original and lively book uses texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion to explore the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues are deeply implicated: causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, the mind-body relationship ...

State power and world markets

the international political economy

Encouraging the heart

a leader's guide to rewarding and recognizing others

All too often, simple acts of human kindness are often overlooked and under utilized by people in leadership roles. Advising mutual respect and recognition of accomplishments, Encouraging the Heart shows us how true leaders encourage and motivate those they work with by helping them find ...

Credibility

how leaders gain and lose it, why people demand it

Leadership is personal. It's not about the corporation, the community, or the country. It's about you. If people don't believe in the messenger, they won't believe the message. If people don't believe in you, they won't believe in what ...

Del buen pensar y mejor hacer

mejora permanente y gestión del conocimiento

La evaluación de la acción y de las políticas públicas

La evaluación de la Acción y de las Políticas Públicas es el primer texto en español que abarca la discusión de la metodología de la evaluación, el alcance conceptual de la evaluación de la acción pública en un Estado en transformación, el análisis de la ...

Empresas y personas

Gestión del conocimiento y capital humano

Cómo preparar estudios de inversión en el sector sanitario

Hoy no cabe ignorar que en todo acto médico debe procederse a evaluar los recursos tecnológicos que presuntamente pueden favorecer los procesos diagnósticos y terapéuticos, para comprobar si efectivamente se amparan en sólidos criterios de utilidad, eficacia, efectividad, equidad, idoneidad, evidencia científica, necesidad y coste ...

Citizen brands

putting society at the heart of your business