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Modern judaism

and Oxford guide

A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, multi-authored guide to contemporary Jewish life and thought. This volume includes 38 newly- commissioned essays, including contributions from leading specialists in their fields. This book covers the major areas of thought in contemporary Jewish Studies, including considerations of religious differences, sociological, philosophical ...

Gender and the city in Euripides' political plays

The first full-length study of Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women to appear in fifty years, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays uses fresh insights into the Greek conception of gender and the Athenian ideology of civic identity to demonstrate at last the ...

Political ideologies

a reader and guide

Political Ideologies: A Reader and Guide provides an extensive collection of extracts from the texts of major intellectuals, politicians, and writers within some of the most important ideological traditions in modern politics which are interspersed with editorial commentaries. These offer a general historical introduction to ...

Bruges, cradle of capitalism, 1280-1390

Teeming with merchants from all over Europe, medieval Bruges provides an early model of a great capitalist city. Bruges established a sophisticated money market and an elaborate network of agents and brokers. Moreover, it promoted co-operation between merchants of various nations. In this book James ...

Regulation and development

In Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less developed countries (LDCs) and offers a ...

Product innovation

leading change through integrated product development

Increasing pressures to produce new products faster and cheaper are resulting in huge efforts to streamline and restructure the traditional new product development (NPD) process. The purpose of the book is to describe, assess, and apply the latest constructs, methods, techniques, and processes to enable ...

Marketing nutrition

soy, functional foods, biotechnology, and obesity

Transforming enterprise

the economic and social implications of information technology

Innovators across all sectors of society are using information and communication technology to reshape economic and social activity. Even after the boom -- and despite the bust -- the process of structural change continues across organizational boundaries. Transforming Enterprise considers the implications of this change from a ...

Fundamental methods of mathematical economics

It has been twenty years since the last edition of this classic book. Kevin Wainwright (British Columbia University and Simon Fraser University), a long time user of the text, has executed the perfect revision: he has updated examples, applications and theory without changing the elegant ...

Moral sentiments and material interests

the foundations of cooperation in economic life

Moral Sentiments and Material Interests presents an innovative synthesis of research in different disciplines to argue that cooperation stems not from the stereotypical selfish agent acting out of disguised self-interest but from the presence of "strong reciprocators" in a social group.Presenting an overview of ...

Venture capital, entrepreneurship, and public policy

The existing literature in both public economics and financial economics often fails to consider how appropriate and effective public policy may be in promoting the venture capital industry. Public economics has dealt extensively with the effect of taxes and subsidies but has neglected the unique ...

Suburban sweatshops

the fight for immigrant rights

Insurance against poverty

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack ...

Global marketing management

changes, challenges and new strategies

Global Strategic Management emphasises the business practices necessary for the successful global manager by offering a thorough analysis and discussion of the concepts, processes, and methods for developing, managing and controlling strategies for global organisations. The text is ideal for final year undergraduate and postgraduate ...

Fundamentals of private pensions

Fundamentals of Private Pensions is, quite simply, the authoritative text for pension plan design and management. Authored originally in 1952 by Dan McGill, Professor of Insurance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, this book has instructed generations about pensions and other employee benefits ...

Explorations in pragmatic economics

For twenty years since the publication of his seminal paper 'The Market for "Lemons"', George A. Akerlof's work has changed the way we see economics. This collection of Akerlof's most important papers provide both an introduction to Akerlof's work and a grounding ...

The econometrics of macroeconomic modelling

Macroeconometric models, in many ways the flagships of the economist's profession in the 1960s, came under increasing attack from both theoretical economist and practitioners in the late 1970s. Critics referred to their lack of microeconomic theoretical foundations, ad hoc models of expectations, lack of ...

Development economics

from the poverty to the wealth of nations

This book provides a comprehensive, systematic treatise on development economics, combining classical political economy, modern institutional theory, and current development issues. It addresses one basic question: Why has a small set of countries achieved a high level of affluence while the majority remains poor and ...

Cooperative strategy

Description *clear and systematic overview of an important topic *alliances, joint ventures, and networks are increasingly common *international/comparative examples *the authors have extensive academic and consulting experience *clear structure making it suitable for course teaching and management training New to this edition *Thoroughly revised ...

Asset pricing in discrete time

a complete market approach

This book covers the pricing of assets, derivatives, and bonds in a discrete time, complete markets framework. It relies heavily on the existence, in a complete market, of a pricing kernel. It is primarily aimed at advanced Masters and PhD students in finance. Topics covered ...