Asset management standards

Corporate Governance for Asset Management.

Business cooperation

From theory to practice.

Operations strategy

Logistics

An introduction to Supply Chain Management.

The behaviour of fiscal authorities

stabilisation, growth and institutions

Description: The behaviour of fiscal authorities and its interplay with budgetary institutions is a recent and increasingly important area of economic research, heightened by the move to single currency in Europe. This volume provides a systematic analysis of issues including the determinants of fiscal retrenchment ...

The distorted Economy

Descripción: An economy does not always work according to idealized textbook models. Frequently, economic systems are subject to wide-ranging distortions and require remedy via subsidy and taxes to restore their social optimum. In "The Distorted Economy", Hans C. Blomqvist and Mats Lundahl describe how to ...

Challenges to german idealism

Schelling, Fichte and Kant

This text offers a reappraisal of Schelling's philosophy and his relationship to German idealism. Focusing on Schelling's self critique in early identity philosophy, the author rejects those criticisms of Schelling made by both Hegel and Heidegger. This work significantly redraws the boundaries of ...

Foreign ministries in the European Union

Integrating Diplomats.

What role, if any, does the foreign ministry perform in contemporary world politics? Is the argument that it is in a state of terminal decline accurate or rooted in only partial understandings of its changing character? Foreign Ministries in the European Union explores this theme ...

Studies in International Mediation

Studies in International Mediation brings together a number of prominent scholars in the field of international relations. The central concern of the contributors is mediation effectiveness and how best to achieve it. Within these parameters, three major themes are highlighted - the determinants of mediation success ...

Economics and Its Enemies

Two Centuries of Anti-Economics.

Contents: PART I 1. The Damnation of Economics PART II 2. The 'Wretched Procurers of Sedition' 3. The 'Apostles of the Rich' 4. The Dream of Nationhood 5. The Totalitarian State and the 'Economist-Scoundrels' PART III 6. 'The General Contagion of its Mechanic Philosophy' 7 ...

Captivity and imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300

Productivity Growth and Economic Perfomance

Essays on Verdoorn's Law.

Contemporary peacemaking

Conflict, Violence and Peace Processes.

The monstrous regiment of women

female rulers in early modern Europe

In The Monstrous Regiment of Women, Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The ...

World list of universities and other institutions of higher education

The World List of Universities and Other Institutions of Higher Education in a concise dictionary providing critical contact information for over 14,000 higher education institutions and national academic bodies in over 170 countries. Each entry includes:Name of Institution (in English and the language ...

Microeconomic change in central and east Europe

The realities of work

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Lord and Lady

Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender- power relations relegated her to the position of ...

Was greek thought religious?

on the use and abuse of Hellenism from Rome to Romanticism

The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the first century, to Romanticism in the nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture - we even debate the place of ...

Antisemitism

myth and hate from antiquity to the present