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Contributors from diverse disciplinary, ideological, and theoretical perspectives, examine the multiple aspects and…

Explores the idea that Europe's growth problems may be caused by weaknesses in capital markets and in the access to risk…

Explains how William Gladstone responded to the 'Irish Question', and in so doing changed the British and Irish political…

This volume proposes a move away from the universalized and general modern ethical method, as it is currently practiced in…

Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a…

This book applies a spatial economics perspective to the understanding of the recent dynamism of the global economy, with…

Alongside other factors, cultural values and identities help to explain different regulatory frameworks for genetically…

This book retraces the formation of modern English Studies by departing from philological scholarship along two lines: in…

Hong Kong SAR is now highly unusual as a large economy running a currency board system that pegs the Hong Kong Dollar to the…

In doing so, the author illuminates the 'receiving side' of private regulation and governance, developing a nuanced…

This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of…

Read addresses the contributions of significant individuals to our understanding of financial decisions and markets. Great…

This book gives an in-depth and invigorating analysis of reflexivity in recent British drama - the way drama comments on…

This book explains the causes of the 'lost decade' in the Japanese economy and the series of policy mistakes which lead to a…

This study explores the role of refugees in international relations by looking at the largest involuntary migration of…

This book searches for the origins of modern thinking in one of the best-known stories of our cultural heritage. By applying…

This book is an examination of the contemporary ethical problems of business in a philosophical context. It analyses various…

This book examines the words and actions of people who live in regions in the state of Maharashtra in Western India to…

Argues for the necessity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. The essays in…

Most studies of famine and the African food crisis stress how the socio-economic context influences the occurrence of food…

This book addresses distributive justice across generations and includes original theories from distinguished economists on…

• Rok vydání 1978

Describes the origins (since 1925), the foundation (1978) and the evolution (until today) of the 'European People's Party'…

Processes of change, stagnation and development in the countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council are analyzed in this book.…

This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities…

This work provides an accessible case study approach to European health care systems, medicine and nursing. The…

This volume surveys the interplay between state and non-state actors in Latin American foreign policies and attitudes…

This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of…

Adopting a comparative approach, the book examines the evolution of nationality law across the European Union since WWI.…

This book explores what the privatization of global rule-making means for democracy. It reconstructs three prominent…

This collection discusses China's contemporary national and international identity as evidenced in its geopolitical impact…

The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights,…

This book sheds fresh light on developments in British nuclear weapons policy between October 1964, when the Labour Party…

South Asians in Diaspora is a collection of essays concerning the history, politics, and anthropology of migration in India,…

Crisis and Consensus in British Politics focuses on the collapse of the post-war consensus in the mid 1970s crisis and the…

This book uses stigma theory to provide meaningful insight into the coping mechanisms of employees who experience critical…

Overall, the book finds that the regional benefit of FDI location is unlikely to be long-lasting, owing both to the nature…

The book is part of a wider study of the management of contemporary peace processes and has a strong comparative theme.…

Starting with an overview of Modigliani's life, the authors explain and assess his influential theories, including his…

Many of the world's leading authorities in history, sociology, political science and psychology shed new light on the major…

Comparative social policy has long neglected welfare development in Asia. They are late starters in social welfare but each…

An examination of the role of Nicholas Kaldor within economics. Topics covered range from Kaldor's discovery of the Von…

This new collection of essays explores questions of subjectification, selfhood and identity in the contemporary Asia…

Collections of essays surveying the historical discipline at the end of the 1970s heralded the new approached being…

The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume reflect the full range of Raymond Williams's interests and…

In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political…

The toughness model proposed in this book incorporates psychological research and neuroscience to explain how a variety of…

This book seeks to clarify the positive and negative lessons in the experiences of late development under neoliberal…

The economic theories of the English economist and social scientist J.A. Hobson is best known by today's economists for his…