Adjusting to globalization

The politics of Northern Ireland

beyond the Belfast agreement

In this book, one of the leading authorities on contemporary Northern Ireland politics provides an original, sophisticated and innovative examination of the post-Belfast agreement political landscape. Written in a fluid, witty and accessible style, the book explores: * how the Belfast Agreement has changed the politics ...

Health governance in Europe

issues, challenges and theories

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyzes the closely interwoven relationship between the European Union and Member States. The authors explore the dynamic ...

The territorial politics of welfare

Since the mid-1970s, European states have been reassessing the welfare state and reconfiguring their relationships with each other. The inter- linkages between these phenomena, however, have never been comprehensively examined. This innovative volume situates the expansion and ongoing development of the welfare state within the ...

¿Y por qué no?

cómo utilizar el ingenio para reiventar mercados y resolver problemas

Hay muchas grandes ideas que sólo están esperando a ser descubiertas... ¿Por qué no hacer que los comerciales le paguen a usted por su tiempo cuando le llaman para venderle algo? O, ¿por qué no ofrecer una póliza de seguros contra la devaluación del precio ...

The United Nations and Human Rights

a guide for a new era

This is a comprehensive and timely guide to the United Nations (UN) human rights machinery. Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to incorporate the promotion or protection of human rights into their programs and activities. "The United Nations and Human ...

Globalization, governmentality and global politics

regulation for the rest of us?

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of nations with accelerating force. This book delivers a keen assessment of how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Transnational social regulation is increasingly becoming the ...

Les nouveaux indicateurs de richesse

Understanding international art markets and management

Network access, regulation and antitrust

Greats architects of international finance

The Bretton Woods era

Les quatre piliers de la science économique

Exchange rates, capital flows and policy

The experiment in the history of economics

Until recently, there was long resistance to the idea that economics can lend itself to experimentation. Going back at least as far as John Stuart Mill and continuing until very recently, it was widely held that economics was not an experimental discipline. The contributions in ...

The future of social security policy

women, work and citizens' basic income

The purpose of the book is to critically assess current welfare reform agendas with specific reference to the world of paid work and social security policy from a feminist economics perspective. It has four main themes: * To explore the concept of social security and analysing ...

Urban geography

a global perspective

Capabilities for strategic advantage

leading through technological innovation

In a competitive environment rivals will quickly respond to changes and improvements. This new contribution demonstrates that companies need to have a methodology for developing strategy with regard to future technology. New technology needs to be integrated into a strategic process and companies who are ...

The Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005

efficiency in an increasingly connected world

Innovation management

strategy and implementation using the pentathlon framework

Designed primarily for students on MBA and executive education courses, this practical text introduces a new 'pentathlon' framework for discussing the key issues in managing innovation. Presenting key theoretical findings and showcasing best practice from successful organizations through more than sixty international case examples, the ...

Exchange rate regimes

fixed, flexible or something in between?