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Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society
Edited by Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas’ survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth – an era in which urban is the norm ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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CSR as a Management Idea
Edited by Mats Jutterström, Peter Norberg
CSR (corporate social responsibility) has become a widely diffused concept in the business world. This book explores CSR as a management idea, that is, as a tool for organizational reform. It shows that CSR has much in common with other ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Teaching Post Keynesian Economics
Edited by Jesper Jespersen, Mogens Ove Madsen
This book contends that post Keynesian economics has its own methodological and didactic basis, and its realistic analysis is much-needed in the current economic and financial crisis. At a time when the original message of Keynes’ Genera...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law
Edited by Josef Drexl, Nari Lee
Considering the arguments from the perspectives of innovation, competition law and patent law, this book explores the difficult question of balancing protection with access, highlighting the difficulties in harmonization and coordination...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Regulatory Failure and the Global Financial Crisis]()
Regulatory Failure and the Global Financial Crisis
Edited by Mohamed Ariff, John H. Farrar, Ahmed M. Khalid
This fascinating book presents a lively discussion of key issues resulting from the recent financial crisis. The expert contributors explore why the global financial crisis occurred, how it destroyed wealth, triggered mass unemployment a...eBook:Find out more$43.16
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Fact and Fantasy about Leadership
Micha Popper
This inspiring book posits that followers are the key to understanding the leadership phenomenon. It analyses leader–follower dynamics in social and organizational settings and in politics which will strongly appeal to students of social...eBook:Find out more$34.36
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Law and the Limits of Government
Frank Fagan
Why do legislatures pass laws that automatically expire? Why are so many tax cuts sunset? In this first book-length treatment of those questions, the author explains that legislatures pass laws temporarily in order to reduce opposition f...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Governance of Distressed Firms
David Milman
The concept of a distressed firm covers businesses that are struggling, but have not yet entered formal insolvency, as well as those businesses that are undergoing a formal insolvency process. With reference primarily to English law, thi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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How Can HR Drive Growth?
Edited by George Saridakis, Cary Cooper
The ten up-to date research reviews that are presented in this book provide new insights into the HR academic literature. The chapters provide clear lessons that can be learnt from, along with strategies, approaches and processes in whic...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Human Rights
Sanae Fujita
The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank are two of the world’s major institutions conducting development projects. Both banks recognize the importance of transparency, participation and accountability. Responding to criticisms and ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Defending the History of Economic Thought
Steven Kates
This book explains the importance of the history of economic thought in the curriculum of economists, whereas most discussions of this kind are devoted only to explaining why such study is of value simply to the individual economist. Ste...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Neojihadism
Pete Lentini
Many years after 9/11 we are still struggling to categorize groups like Al Qaeda, home-grown cells and others that claim to be perpetrating and justifying terrorist acts under the banner of jihad. This book introduces the concept of ‘neo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
