Corporate treasury and cash management

The book is an analysis of corporate treasury and cash management with the principal financial instruments used by the corporate treasurer. The objectives of the book are to describe how corporate treasury departments should establish a framework for the identity, measurement and management of risk ...

New activism and the corporate response

This book looks at the new militant and radical forms of lobbying and activism and the ways in which companies and organizations can devise strategies to respond or create new communication strategies that will avoid conflict and confrontation. The book draws upon the work of ...

Why the markets went crazy

and what it means for investors

Tim Lee has a unique insight into the workings of the stock market bubble of 1995-2000 and the implications for the future. He argues that the bubble of the dot.com era reveals far more than has been realised. Deep-seated flaws in the whole investment ...

Coaching for meaning

the culture and practice of coaching and team building

This book is a translation of a bestselling management book originally published in French. Its focus is on the concept of the leader as a bearer of meaning and purpose within the organization, and the significance of this for coaching and team-building. The author presents ...

The recurrent crisis in corporate governance

Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s. This book proposes specific changes in conduct to resolve these crises, principally by ...

Enterprise programme management

delivering value

Many large scale projects are delivered over schedule and over budget. Programme management is a new approach to maximize the likelihood of successful change management. While being based around a set of techniques this book describes an approach to programme management that outlines the skills ...

Japan and East Asia in transition

trade policy, crisis and evolution, and regionalism

This book examines how Japan has changed its economic relationship with East Asia since the mid 1990s by looking at its commitments to import relief, regional financial and industrial transformations, and regionalism. While the Japanese government has taken proactive initiatives to sustain the sound development ...

Hayek's journey

The mind of Friedrich Hayek

While Alan Ebenstein's biography of Friedrich Hayek was the first biography of this major twentieth century thinker, the book itself was not - per se - an intellectual biography. Hayek's Journey will be the follow-up volume that will give readers an in-depth look at the ...

The real world economic outlook

the legacy of globalization : debt and deflation

Real World Economic Outlook is a yearly publication that reviews issues in the global economy from a different, radical and more realistic perspective. In stark contrast to the output of other institutions like the IMF and World Bank, this annual report is written in an ...

Keynes, Pigou and Cambridge Keynesians

authenticity and analytical perspective in the Keynes-classics debate

The economics of European agriculture

The Economics of European Agriculture explains the demand and supply characteristics of agricultural markets, as well as government intervention in agriculture, with an emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan also analyses the fifth enlargement and its implications for agriculture in Europe ...

Economic models of climate change

a critique

The climate policy debate has been dominated by economic estimates of the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the models used to derive those estimates are based on assumptions that have largely gone untested. The conventional approach embodies structural features that rule ...

Global markets and the developing economy

E.V.K. FitzGerald takes a fresh approach to the macroeconomics of developing countries, based on the influence of global markets on domestic savings, private investment, firm behaviours, employment levels and income distribution. He suggests that a Keynesian approach is still relevant today when reformulated ...

Promises not kept

poverty and the betrayal of Third World development

The 6th edition of this very accessible introductory text - the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan - has been revised throughout to take account of the 'new American hegemony' and 'war on terrorism' of the early 21st century. Presenting a wide range of up-to-date facts ...

Management consultancy and banking in an era of globalization

Management consultancy and investment banking have been held up as industries at the forefront of contemporary globalization. Using an inter-disciplinary approach ranging across economics, economic geography, sociology and management studies, Andrew Jones analyzes the nature of globalization within business service transnational corporations in these sectors ...

The economics of enlargement

In this volume, well-known scholars examine the challenges facing the EU at the start of the Eastern enlargement, whose first wave should be decided at the end of 2002 and implementation in 2004-2006. This enlargement is not to be underestimated as it involves in the ...

Managing the world economy

Managing the World Economy, while recognizing how much has been achieved since the start of the Industrial Revolution, challenges the view that much better results could have been attained. It argues that faster economic growth and much better use of the available human talent could ...

Global finance at risk

on real stagnation and instability

Sunanda Sen offers an analysis of the ongoing malaise in the world economy, which include the financial and real instability as well as economic recession and lack of development. Rejecting the explanations advanced by the orthodoxy, she deplores the retrograde steps in the interest of ...

Value and the world economy today

production, finance and globalization

Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of globally renowned scholars of international political economy and critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for understanding the world economy today. The book is unique in the way that it connects ...

Ideology and the international economy

the decline and fall of Bretton Woods

For twenty-five years, the International Monetary Fund administered a worldwide system of fixed exchange rates until their system was destroyed by a combination of market forces and those who advocated market forces. The first destructive element has been extensively analyzed; the second has hitherto been ...