When cultures collide

leading across cultures

The successful managers for the next century will be the culturally sensitive ones. You can gain competitive advantage from having strategies to deal with the cultural differences you will encounter in any international business setting. Richard Lewis provides a guide to working and communicating across ...

Involuntary unemployment

the elusive quest for a theoty

The Great Depression of the 1930s with its dramatic unemployment rates was one of the most striking economic events of the past century. It shook economists' belief in the existence of self-adjusting forces and prompted Keynes to write his masterwork, The General Theory of Employment ...

The European Union

economics and policies

The European Union is designed for readers from all disciplines studying the EU, its economics and policies, and the effects of economic integration. Its wealth of information, detail and analysis will ensure that it is read by students, researchers and professional policymakers alike. The European ...

Between politics and markets

firms, competition, and institutional change in Post-Mao China

Between Politics and Markets examines how the decline of central planning in post-Mao China was related to the rise of two markets - an economic market for the exchange of products and factors, and a political market for the diversion to private interests of state assets ...

Las privatizaciones y la desnacionalización de América Latina

En este libro se analizan las políticas neoliberales impulsadas por las instituciones financieras internacionales y aplicadas por los distintos gobiernos desde los años noventa hasta el 2002. Se estudian de manera crítica los postulados teóricos que han dejado a la Argentina y a la mayoría ...

State/Space

A reader.

The political economy of the European Union

institutions, policy and economic growth

The wealth of nature

how mainstream economics has failed the environment

Explaining why neoclassical economic theory cannot account for the costs of doing business in a global environment, this text demonstrates that the central legitimating construct in neoclassical economics, Adam Smith's "invisible hand", is a product of 18th Century Deism

Pension reform in Europe

process and progress

The economics of health and health care

Dix-Huit leçons sur la politique économique

à la recherche de la régulation

Políticas sociales y estado del bienestar en España

informe 2003

Políticas sociolaborales

Economic geography and public policy

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However ...

Developement policy as public finance

How to raise and spend revenues in order to promote development in practice involves second-best considerations, which the analysis of the role of international trade, liberalization, and other economic reforms must take into account. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost- benefit analysis as a ...

Political economy

This thought-provoking introduction to economics exposes readers to the workings of the market in a democratic state. The text explains basic economic concepts from a political perspective: how the price mechanism substitutes for central authority in determining production and allocation of goods; the use of ...

Inequality and growth

theory and policy implications

Even minute increases in a country's growth rate can result in dramatic changes in living standards over just one generation. The benefits of growth, however, may not be shared equally. Some may gain less than others, and a fraction of the population may actually ...

Social foundations of markets, money and credit

What is the difference between money and capital? Is anti-globalization necessarily anti-money? These points and many more are debated and dealt with in "Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit". The book examines the case that the capitalist economy is permeated with non- economic relations ...

The new political economy of Russia

Can Russia's burst of economic growth be sustained? Taking a comprehensive look at the economic and political regime shift from Yeltsin to Putin, this book explores the key challenges facing the Russian economy: to narrow the productivity gap between Russian and Western firms and ...

Las políticas sociales en las sociedades complejas

Pretende ofrecer al estudioso de la materia las bases informativas esenciales para comprender cómo se está configurando la política social en la sociedad hodierna, compleja y post-moderna INDICE Capítulo I. La política social desde la primera industrialización a las sociedades complejas Capítulo II. Sociología y ...