Gender and the politics of time

feminist theory and contemporary debates

Women's increased role in the labour market has combined with concerns about the damaging effects of long working hours to push time-related issues up the policy agenda in many Western nations. This wide-ranging and accessible book assesses policy alternatives in the light of feminist ...

Rescuing social capital from social democracy

Many of those on the left of the political debate regard social capital as the 'magic bullet', arguing that intervention to provide social capital will allow socialist policies to succeed. Their argument is comprehensively undermined in this Hobart Paper, which shows that social capital itself ...

La sociedad sitiada

Hoy la sociedad está sitiada, el estado-nación sufre un doble acoso: el de la globalización y el de la biodiversidad; ambas corroen las fronteras que la modernidad había considerado sólidas e infranqueables. Las instituciones políticas, confinadas territorialmente y ligadas al suelo, son incapaces de hacer ...

Microsimulation as a tool for the evaluation of public policies

methods and applications

Ed. Amedeo Spadaro. Microsimulation as a Tool for the Evaluation of Public Policies: Methods and Applications recoge las contribuciones de los expertos que participaron en el encuentro internacional del mismo nombre, celebrado con el apoyo de la Fundación BBVA. Durante este encuentro, se presentó el ...

Principios de política económica

ejercicios de test y cuestiones resueltas

Applying the dismal science

when economists give advice to governments

In this exciting collection, Iain McLean and Colin Jennings bring together some of the most eminent social scientists to have advised British governments since 1964. Successive chapters show what went wrong in UK economic policy making in the 1960s and 1970s, what goes better now ...

Principled agents?

the political economy of good government

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their own? These questions and ...

Key debates in new political economy

This is a concise and highly informative overview of the major intellectual debates within the field of political economy over the last decade. Each chapter provides a review of a key area written by a distinguished expert in the field. A comprehensive introduction locates these ...

The Oxford handbook of political economy

"The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science" is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual ...

When cultures collide

leading across cultures

The successful managers for the next century will be the culturally sensitive ones. You can gain competitive advantage from having strategies to deal with the cultural differences you will encounter in any international business setting. Richard Lewis provides a guide to working and communicating across ...

Involuntary unemployment

the elusive quest for a theoty

The Great Depression of the 1930s with its dramatic unemployment rates was one of the most striking economic events of the past century. It shook economists' belief in the existence of self-adjusting forces and prompted Keynes to write his masterwork, The General Theory of Employment ...

The European Union

economics and policies

The European Union is designed for readers from all disciplines studying the EU, its economics and policies, and the effects of economic integration. Its wealth of information, detail and analysis will ensure that it is read by students, researchers and professional policymakers alike. The European ...

Between politics and markets

firms, competition, and institutional change in Post-Mao China

Between Politics and Markets examines how the decline of central planning in post-Mao China was related to the rise of two markets - an economic market for the exchange of products and factors, and a political market for the diversion to private interests of state assets ...

Las privatizaciones y la desnacionalización de América Latina

En este libro se analizan las políticas neoliberales impulsadas por las instituciones financieras internacionales y aplicadas por los distintos gobiernos desde los años noventa hasta el 2002. Se estudian de manera crítica los postulados teóricos que han dejado a la Argentina y a la mayoría ...

State/Space

A reader.

The political economy of the European Union

institutions, policy and economic growth

The wealth of nature

how mainstream economics has failed the environment

Explaining why neoclassical economic theory cannot account for the costs of doing business in a global environment, this text demonstrates that the central legitimating construct in neoclassical economics, Adam Smith's "invisible hand", is a product of 18th Century Deism

Pension reform in Europe

process and progress

The economics of health and health care

Dix-Huit leçons sur la politique économique

à la recherche de la régulation