This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how successfully the state-socialist trade unions have adapted to their new role of representing the rights and interests of workers.
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This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "reform" and "adjustment".
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This book examines key trends in emerging strategic technologies and the implications for geopolitics and human dignity. Al-Rodhan argues that future evolution into transhumans is inevitable. In preparation, the global community is urged to establish strict moral and legal guidelines balancing innovation with the guarantee of dignity for all.
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As the international community struggles with major issues such as deforestation, it is increasingly turning to sustainable development and market-based mechanisms to tackle environmental problems. Focusing on forestry, this book investigates the legitimacy of global forums and evaluates the quality of global governance in the current era.
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Somebody in Charge : A Solution to Recessions?
Pierre Lemieux | Palgrave Macmillan | 2011 | ISBN10: 0230112692
Somebody in Charge : A Solution to Recessions?
"Lemieux argues that the government's clumsy and ill-considered attempts to control market outcomes have often been at the heart of economic instability, and that the recent subprime crisis is a telling example of the costs of risky interventionism into the...
Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Vol. 1: Credibility
Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini | The MIT Press | 1994 | ISBN 10 : 0262660873 | 2 MB
How will the private sector react to different governmental policies? What policies will produce the most desirable outcomes? These two volumes bring together major contributions to a new theory of macroeconomic policy that analyzes which policies are credible or politically feasible, topics that are central to...
Experimental and Behavioral Economics (Advances in Applied Microeconomics)
J. Morgan | Emerald Group Publishing Limited | 2005 | ISBN 10 : 0762311940 | 1 MB
As demand to substantiate predictions from economic theory with causal empirical evidence increases, economists have more and more turned towards controlled laboratory experiments. As this field has blossomed it has provided evidence confirming some of the key predictions of economic...
The Law and Economics of Corporate Governance : Changing Perspectives
Alessio M. Pacces | Edward Elgar Pub | 2010 | 313 Pages | ISBN10 : 184844897X | 2.1 MB
The law and economics of corporate governance is approached from a range of angles. This study reveals that perspectives are changing: they differ between the economic and the legal standpoint; they vary across countries; they evolve over time. A group of leading scholars offer their...
