Technology and human capital in historical perspective

One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history. Different approaches to human capital as well as technology are applied, and besides historical surveys are total factor productivity ...

Minimum wages and employment

static and dinamic non-market-clearing equilibrium models

Christian Ragacs develops new contributions to the theory of minimum wages, while taking rationing and spill-over effects on markets other than the labour market into account. Following an introduction into the theory of minimum wages and a discussion of methodological problems, four new theoretical models ...

Competition and growth

innovations and selection in industry evolution

Jati K. Sengupta examines the market dynamics of the evolution of industry and the impact of new technology with R&D and knowledge capital. The book builds the theory of innovations in the contexts of the high-tech industries of today such as computing and telecommunications ...

The European population, 1945-2000

The European Population since 1945 is the second volume of two on demographics. This is a comparative and historical data handbook and accompanying CD-ROM presenting series data on demographic developments, population and household structures for the countries of Western and Central Europe. All major fields ...

The idea of the West

culture, politics and history

The Middle East and Palestine

global politics and regional conflict

Taking issue with the convenient views that the Middle East is an irrational and exceptional region of world politics, and that the long and bloody history of the Palestine conflict is proof, the authors combine theoretical reflection and empirical investigation, marrying International Relations theory and ...

A history of Japan

from Stone Age to Superpower

Jewish Resistance during The Holocaust

moral uses of violence and will

Stalin's terror

high politics and mass repression in the Soviet Union

Early Modern military history

1450-1815

Beyond Calvin

the intellectual, political and cultural world of Europe's Reformed Churches, c.1540-1620

T'ang China

the rise of the East in world history

Terrorism

the philosophical issues

Max Weber and Postmodern Theory

rationalization versus re-enchantment

Migration in the new Europe

east-west revisited

The French revolution, 1789-1804

authority, liberty, and the search for stability

The global competitiveness report 2004-2005

The World Economic Forum continues its tradition of excellence with the 25th edition of the annual Global Competitiveness Report featuring the latest national statistics and results of the Executive Opinion Survey, which captures the perception of over 8,700 business leaders. The report provides the ...

The Palgrave concise historical atlas of the Second World War

Renaissances

the cultures of Italy, c.1300-c.1600

The conflict in Iraq 2003