Interest rate modelling

This book provides the first summary and critical appraisal of the thinking that currently informs the management of business relationships, from the perspectives of both the buyer and supplier. The authors argue that these approaches are one-dimensional and instead recommend a more holistic approach based ...

Perpetuating the family business

50 lessons learned from long-lasting,successful families in business

John L. Ward is a leading world expert on the family business. In this book he brings together a vast amount of experience to show the, 'best practices' of the most successful and long-lasting families in business. He provides a framework of five insights and ...

Sales force desing for strategic advantage

This book focuses upon the role of the sales force in today's changing world and how to design a sales force for strategic advantage. It includes sections on how to assess the current sales force design and how to implement change and covers customer ...

The dynamics of employee relations

Nationalist Politics in Europe

The Constitutional and Electoral Dimensions

What global economic crisis?

Economics has become an excessively esoteric discipline. Opportunities to bridge the gap between theorizing and policymaking are becoming increasingly limited. One issue of great importance to modern policymakers is the relationship between globalization and economic crisis. With unprecedented trends towards globalization (in part propelled by ...

World democratic federalism

peace and justice indivisible

Myron J. Frankman provides an interrelated set of initiatives whose components are consistent with the logic of both the process of globalization and the emerging properties of our time: Sustainability, democratization, equal opportunity, diversity and peace. He brings together the case for global public finance ...

Exhaustion of the dollar

its implications for global prosperity

The U.S. dollar has served as the key currency of the international economic/financial system for over fifty years. This study assesses the proposition that the series of U.S. current-account deficits over the last twenty years will shortly exhaust the capability of the ...

Frenzy

bubbles, busts and how to come out ahead

Despite all the hype, the technology bubble of the 1990s was not driven by the Internet. It was driven by innate human forces that transcend the Internet, the 1990s, the twentieth century, and the United States. Extraordinary, incalculable opportunity frequently creates bubbles. In this situation ...

Europeanization,european integration and financial services

developing theoretical frameworks and synthesising methodological approaches

This book deals with the political philosophy that underpins theories of European integration and develops an understanding of Europeanization based on downloading and up-loading. Downloading is the means by which EU policy is amalgamated with domestic legislation and institutions. Up- loading indicates the use of ...

The national element in development of fiscal theory

Price theory has provided solutions to myriad problems affecting society without invoking any precepts beyond those encapsulated in the standard economic postulate. Fiscal theory, meanwhile, has been closely attentive to the political, sociological and historical circumstances that bear upon the fiscal act. This methodological duality ...

Global markets and financial crises in Asia

towards a theory for the 21st century

Khan presents a new theory of financial crises in the age of globalization from an evolutionary perspective and suggests policies that may be necessary for averting or managing new financial crises. Starting with the Asian financial crises, he identifies new types of financial crises that ...

Recent developments on exchange rates

This collection examines recent developments in exchange rate analysis. In the first part, two exchange rate models are proposed: a model which combines heterogeneous agents and transaction costs, and a dynamic general-equilibrium two-country sticky-price model. The second part of the book deals with econometric aspects ...

Monopoly capitalism in crisis

The world economy is on the brink of a profound crisis. The threat of global deflation and the emergence of chronic excess global capacity characterizes the contemporary phase of crisis and stagnation. Lucarelli argues that these pathological features of globalization acquire a remorseless logic during ...

Globalization and the welfare state

With contributions from leading thinkers such as J. Bhagwati and Robert Solow, this edited collection examines some hotly debated issues in today's world. The significance of globalization and its effects on welfare states is discussed and analyzed. A special chapter is devoted to terrorism ...

Growth and employment in Europe

Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of growth. It asks, both in theory and in evidence, whether a change in the growth rate of the economy will affect the level of unemployment which the ...

Penal Practice and Culture; 1500-1900

Punishing yhe English

Land Law

Land Law provides a clear and straightforward introduction to the basic English land law rules enabling the student to gain a firm grounding in the subject. It uses accessible language, tables and diagrams, and stresses a full understanding of a few important cases rather than ...

Developments in the European Union 2

Bringing together specially- commissioned chapters by leading authorities and rigorously edited for coherence and accessibility, this all-new replacement for Developments in the European Union provides state-of-the-art coverage of the EU as it expands and reconstitutes itself in the early Twenty-first-century. Ranging broadly across the economic ...

Europe recast

a history of European Union