50 years a keynesian an other essays

In the title essay of this classic collection, the author reviews retrospectively his developing ideas on theory and policy since he first encountered Keynes's writings in 1950. The essays in section one are concerned with Keynes now, specifically the coming back into favour of ...

The council of ministers

The Council of Ministers lies at the fulcrum of decision-making in the European Union. It is a key legislative institution, an executive institution in important policy areas, and a forum through which politicians and policy-makers from the member states address shared challenges and develop collective ...

Global stock markets and portfolio management

This book presents the latest empirical findings on stock markets in a number of emerging markets, including Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Middle East and North Africa. In each case the authors employ the latest techniques to assess the response of emerging markets stocks ...

Stalin's terror revisited

In this ground-breaking collection of essays by an international team of leading experts in the field, a detailed examination is provided of three under-researched aspects of Soviet political repression in the 1930s: case studies of regional and sectoral dimensions of the purges, 'victim studies' of ...

The handbook of logistics contracts

a practical guide to a growing field

The third-party logistics industry is a growing field. Relationships between third-party logistics providers and customer firms demand the creation of logistics contract, where the necessary business and legal agreements are stipulated. Until now, the creation and negotiation of these agreements have been based on custom ...

Eternal Iran

continuty and chaos

From pillar of stability to rogue state, Iran's politics have been a centre of world attention and concern. With a glorious history as an empire, ethnically diverse population, and youthful inhabitants, the country has and will continue to play a critical role as a ...

Post-revolutionary Europe

1815-1856

Martyn Lyons re-assesses European history between the fall of Napoleon and the Crimean War. Instead of seeing the period in traditional terms of Restoration and Reaction, this fresh account emphasizes the problems of remembering and forgetting the recent revolutionary and Napoleonic past, and of either ...

Greed and corporate failure

the lessons from recent disasters

Shareholders have lost vast amounts of money as a result of corruption and collapse of well known companies. Why did auditors and regulators fail to spot what was going to happen? These cases and stories together reveal many commonalities behind the disasters. The book explains ...

The Re-emergence of global finance

Gary Burn examines how in 1950s London, City bankers invented a new form of money and escaped offshore, beyond the jurisdiction of monetary authority. This most momentous financial innovation since the bank note, paved the way for globalization. It was a first shot in the ...

Innovations in health care

a reality check

"Innovations in Health Care" is the fourth title in an ongoing series from the biennial conference, "Organizational Behaviour in Health Care". It compiles case examples of innovations within complex healthcare settings that are working, providing some credible and valuable examples of what can be and ...

The evolution of creditary structures and controls

Money is negotiable debts. Monetarist principles have to date largely ignored the supply of new credit and trade credit. High interest rates cause inflation, stagflation and unemployment, but never cure. The author argues that governments use faulty methods for regulating credit and argues the use ...

The perverse economy

the impact of markets on people and the environment

The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies self-defeating policies that encourage wanton use of the environment and ...

International organization

theories and institutions

This book is an introduction to the study of international organizations in the field of International Relations directed toward students in the discipline. It looks at the different ways in which IOs are studied and then applies these different modes of study to a variety ...

The making of the modern state

a theoretical evolution

Nelson provides a historical overview of the theoretical and ideological evolution of the modern state, from pre-state and pre-modern state formations to the present. Major themes and key thinkers are treated in some depth and specificity. At the same time, structural changes, both socio-economic and ...

Fiscal policy surveillance in Europe

The Stability and Growth Pact provides for the systematic surveillance of the fiscal policies of a large and heterogeneous group of twenty-five EU Member States. On this basis, this book provides a comprehensive overview of central themes in current fiscal policy, including the impact of ...

Turkish dynamics

bridge across troubled lands

Turkey is a pivotal state whose domestic political, economic, and social developments have important implications for both the United States and Europe. Here, a leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages along secular-religious lines, ethnicity, and ...

A history of Slovakia

the struggle for survival

This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying tribute to Slovakia's resilience and struggle for survival, it describes contributions to European civilization in the Middle Ages; the development ...

Women, power, and religious patronage in the middle ages

As sisters and successive countesses of Flanders and Hainaut in the thirteenth century, Jeanne and Marguerite actively shaped the political landscape of northern Europe, and compiled an impressive record of monastic patronage. By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides ...

The new indicators of well-being and development

The growth of GDP remains the principal focus of attention when it comes to judging the progress of the 'wealth of nations', however other attempts have been made, most of them since the 1990's, to enlarge such a narrow vision. New indicators of development ...

Economic growth with income and wealth distribution

The book deals with economic issues related to income and wealth among individuals, regions and countries. It presents a general theory with endogenous capital, knowledge and preference changes for an economic system with heterogeneous households, multiple sectors, multiple regions and multiple countries. Economic issues and ...