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Par Francis Baert, T nia Fel cio, Philippe Lombaerde. 2012
This unique book investigates the implications of the rising importance of supra-national regional organizations for global governance in general, and…
for the United Nations, in particular. It touches upon issues such as regional representation at the UN, high-level dialogues with regional organisations, as well as the coordination of UN member states' voting behaviour in the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council. The book further explores the regional dimension and coordination of UN operations in areas such as peace and security, human rights, and sustainable development. The contributions to the book are both in-depth chapters and shorter viewpoints, written by a combination of academics, policy-makers at regional organizations, and experts from international think tanks. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of global governance.Par Vinod K. Aggarwal, Kristi Govella. 2006
In this volume, a set of issue and country experts tackle the questions surrounding the challenges of a resurgent Russia…
for the world order as well as for relations between the European Union and the United States. Following a brief introduction laying out the circumstances of Russia's rise, the book proceeds in three sections. In the first, Russian scholars tackle the topic of how a newly resurgent Russia sees the world. The second section examines Russia's role in the contemporary global political economy in terms of trade and financial flows and nuclear energy. The third section looks at American and European responses to Russia, and the conclusion draws together the findings from each of the chapters and presents some broad propositions regarding Russia's rise and the challenges that it presents for the US, EU and the international order in the years to come. The implications of this collection are very broad and far-reaching, with ramifications for each of the players involved as well as for the development and refinement of general international relations theories concerning global conflict and cooperation, making the book relevant for both policy-makers and scholars of international relations, Russian studies, and international political economy.Par Michela Betta. 2016
Ethicmentality is an innovative book. It blends ethics withmentality to capture the interdependence of ethical life and social lifecreatively. The…
book is also innovative because of the way this interdependenceis explored. By focusing on practical ethical behavior in today's economy,business, and society, Michela Betta has advanced an understanding of ethics freedfrom the burden of moral theory. By introducing a new type of analysis thisbook also contributes to methodological innovation. Familiar issues are revisitedthrough the notion of ethicmentality. Capitalist economy is presented in termsof a mentality embedded in society, culture, and politics. Government is revealedas mentality about how to govern economically through market freedom ratherthan human rights. The rise of the financial economy is described aschallenging the traditional capitalist mentality of equal opportunities. Amoney mentality around debts and owing is perceived as having replaced credit andowning, and the rise of corporation managers as having destroyed the oldmentality of ownership. Ethicmentality shows the potential of constructive critique from economic, business, andsociety perspectives. It also breaches traditional limits by developing the ideaof ethical capital and entrepreneurial ethics. Ethical thinking is infused withthe Aristotelian notion of virtues and moderation to reflect about modern work. Ethicmentality helps us see thecomplexity of social and personal life. Given the pervasive nature of mentalityand ethics' focus on individual deliberation, ethicmentality represents their productivecombination, a new blend for ethical and social analysis.Par Mikkel Thorup. 2016
The book investigates the many ways thateconomic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historicallyand at present. The book…
explores economic and moral thinking as a historicallycontingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributorsuse case studies including economic practices, such as trade and finance andtax and famine reforms in the British colonies to explore the intellectualhistory of how economic and moral issues interrelate.Par Reuben Advani. 2013
Problem-Solving and Selected Topics in Euclidean Geometry: ?in the Spirit of the Mathematical Olympiads'' contains theorems which are of particular…
value for the solution of geometrical problems. Emphasis is given in the discussion of a variety of methods, which play a significant role for the solution of problems in Euclidean Geometry. Before the complete solution of every problem, a key idea is presented so that the reader will be able to provide the solution. Applications of the basic geometrical methods which include analysis, synthesis, construction and proof are given. Selected problems which have been given in mathematical olympiads or proposed in short lists in IMO''s are discussed. In addition, a number of problems proposed by leading mathematicians in the subject are included here. The book also contains new problems with their solutions. The scope of the publication of the present book is to teach mathematical thinking through Geometry and to provide inspiration for both students and teachers to formulate ''positive'' conjectures and provide solutions.Par Jeremy Bernstein. 2008
Over the years, Jeremy Bernstein has been in contact with many of the world's most renowned physicists and other scientists,…
many of whom were involved in politics, literature, and language. In this diverse collection of essays, he reflects on their work, their personal relationships, their motives, and their contributions. Even for those people he writes about that he did not know personally, he provides important insights into their lives and work, and questions their character, their decisions, and the lives they led. In the first three essays, Professor Bernstein looks at economic theory and how some physicists who developed interesting economic models based on derivatives and hedge funds almost led to the country into bankruptcy. In later essays, he discusses a suspect visit to Poland by the great Heisenberg during the Nazi era, a visit that there is almost nothing written about. Included also are essays on ancient languages and a nuclear weapons program in South Africa that was supposedly dismantled. In one particularly humorous essay, he describes how an ill-conceived manned spaceship to be powered by an atomic bomb was being developed by some of the country's most powerful intellects. The project never got off the ground. Dipping into these pages is like rummaging around in the mind of a genius who has a potpourri of interests and an abundance of fascinating experiences. Bernstein has not only rubbed elbows with some of the finest minds in world, he has worked and played with them. He has sometimes mourned with them and laughed at them. His sharp wit and even sharper analysis make for a fascinating read.Par Martin Peterson, Sabine Roeser, Per Sandin, Rafaela Hillerbrand. 2012
Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is…
also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered in the Handbook of Risk Theory. The topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such as: What is risk? What can decision theory contribute to the analysis of risk? What does the human perception of risk mean for society? How should we judge whether a risk is morally acceptable or not? Over the last couple of decades questions like these have attracted interest from philosophers and other scholars into risk theory. This brief offers the essentials of the handbook provides for an overview into key topics in a major new field of research and addresses a wide range of topics, ranging from decision theory, risk perception to ethics and social implications of risk. It aims to promote communication and information among all those who are interested in theoretical issues concerning risk and uncertainty. The Essentials of Risk Theory brings together internationally leading philosophers and scholars from other disciplines who work on risk theory. The contributions are accessibly written and highly relevant to issues that are studied by risk scholars. The Essentials of Risk Theory will be a helpful starting point for all risk scholars who are interested in broadening and deepening their current perspectives.Par Klaus Hoeyer. 2012
This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about 'markets in human body parts' which is antagonistically divided into…
pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it. Assumptions about markets and bodies that characterize this debate are analyzed and described while the author argues that these assumptions are in fact constitutive for exchanges of human bodily material - but in unacknowledged ways. It is concluded that what we need is a different analytical approach to better understand the mechanisms at play when organizations exchange organs, tissues and cells for use in transplantation and fertility medicine.Par Antonia Rosa Gurrieri, Marilene Lorizio, Annamaria Stramaglia. 2014
In light of the recent dynamics of the recession sparked by the global economic crisis, a roadmap for the growth…
and recovery of national economies is urgently needed. As such, this book focuses on the potential offered not only by the manufacturing sector but also by the agricultural and tertiary sectors. In fact, during the crisis these sectors demonstrated remarkable resilience in the Italian economy and there have even been positive trends in specific segments. This book points out how an exit strategy could be applied that involves all economic sectors and which can be replicated in various national economies.Par Giovanni Michelagnoli. 2012
The present book analyses the work of Ezio Tarantelli, a remarkable Italian scientist and economist killed by the Red Brigades…
in 1985 after only a short life (1941-1985). Tarantelli's work and its implications are not only of importance for Italian researchers, but also represents a contribution of interest to economists worldwide. The first chapter of this volume shows the most important features of the European and Italian economy from 1970 to 1985. The contribution of Tarantelli, in fact, was his attempt to address the questions arising from such a context, incorporating the thought of F. Modigliani and J. Robinson in the process. After some brief biographical notes in the second chapter, the third and the fourth concentrate on Tarantelli's theoretical contribution. The fifth chapter and the conclusions, finally, show how, from his economic analysis, he derived some economic policy proposals that still hold relevance today. The text includes a complete bibliography of his scientific writings.Par Andrew Scott Cooper. 2011
struggling with a recession . . . European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans . . . A…
possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s. Oil Kings is the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. As Richard Nixon fought off Watergate inquiries in 1973, the U.S. economy reacted to an oil shortage initiated by Arab nations in retaliation for American support of Israel in the Arab- Israeli war. The price of oil skyrocketed, causing serious inflation. One man the U.S. could rely on in the Middle East was the Shah of Iran, a loyal ally whose grand ambitions had made him a leading customer for American weapons. Iran sold the U.S. oil; the U.S. sold Iran missiles and fighter jets. But the Shah's economy depended almost entirely on oil, and the U.S. economy could not tolerate annual double-digit increases in the price of this essential commodity. European economies were hit even harder by the soaring oil prices, and several NATO allies were at risk of default on their debt. In 1976, with the U.S. economy in peril, President Gerald Ford, locked in a tight election race, decided he had to find a country that would sell oil to the U.S. more cheaply and break the OPEC monopoly, which the Shah refused to do. On the advice of Treasury Secretary William Simon and against the advice of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Ford made a deal to sell advanced weaponry to the Saudis in exchange for a modest price hike on oil. Ford lost the election, but the deal had lasting consequences. The Shah's economy was destabilized, and disaffected elements in Iran mobilized to overthrow him. The U.S. had embarked on a long relationship with the autocratic Saudi kingdom that continues to this day. Andrew Scott Cooper draws on newly declassified documents and interviews with some key figures of the time to show how Nixon, Ford, Kissinger, the CIA, and the State and Treasury departments--as well as the Shah and the Saudi royal family-- maneuvered to control events in the Middle East. He details the secret U.S.-Saudi plan to circumvent OPEC that destabilized the Shah. He reveals how close the U.S. came to sending troops into the Persian Gulf to break the Arab oil embargo. The Oil Kings provides solid evidence that U.S. officials ignored warning signs of a potential hostage crisis in Iran. It discloses that U.S. officials offered to sell nuclear power and nuclear fuel to the Shah. And it shows how the Ford Administration barely averted a European debt crisis that could have triggered a financial catastrophe in the U.S. Brilliantly reported and filled with astonishing details about some of the key figures of the time, The Oil Kings is the history of an era that we thought we knew, an era whose momentous reverberations still influence events at home and abroad today.Par A Leslie Robb, Byron Spencer, Frank Denton. 1980
While the unemployment rate for young people has always tended to be well above the average, this tendency has been…
greatly accentuated in recent years. There is a large turnover in the youth labour force, and the employment of experience of those between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five has been marked by seasonal variations. This study discusses the factors which contribute to the high youth unemployment rate, examines the historical record of labout force participation, and provides some projections into the future.Par Wilhelm Roscher. 2013
Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher was a German economist from Hanover. He studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of…
Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844, and subsequently at Leipzig in 1848. The main origins of the historical school of political economy may be traced to Roscher. Roscher tried to establish the laws of economic development by using the historical method from investigation of histories legal, political, cultural and other aspects, and developed a cyclical theory where nations and their economies pass though youth, manhood, and senile decay.Par Thorstein Veblen. 2012
The Theory of the Leisure Class is one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed…
critique of consumerism. Veblen argues that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social vestiges from pre-historic times. Drawing examples from his time (turn-of-the-century America) and anthropology, he held that much of today's society is a variation on early tribal life. It was in this book that the term conspicuous consumption was first used.Par Zsófia Barta. 2018
Why do rich countries flirt with fiscal disaster? Between the 1970s and the 2000s, during times of peace and prosperity,…
affluent countries—like Belgium, Greece, Italy, and Japan—accumulated so much debt that they became vulnerable and exposed themselves to the risk of default. In the past three decades, an extensive scholarly consensus emerged that these problems were created by fiscal indiscipline, the lack of sufficient concern for budgetary constraints from policy makers as they try to please voters. This approach formed the foundation for the fiscal surveillance system that attempted to bring borrowing in European countries under control via a set of fiscal rules. In the Red demonstrates that the problem of sustained, large-scale debt accumulation is an adjustment issue rather than a governance failure. Irrespective of whether the original impetus for borrowing arose from exogenous changes or irresponsible decision making, policy makers invariably initiate spending cuts and/or tax increases when debt grows at an alarming rate for several years in a row. Zsófia Barta argues that explaining why some countries accumulate substantial amounts of debt for decades hinges on understanding the conditions required to allow policy makers to successfully put into place painful adjustment measures.Par Ricardo Ffrench-Davis. 2018
Una visión completa de la economía chilena del destacado Premio Nacional de Humanidades y de Ciencias Sociales Una lectura crítica…
de la economía chilena con sus tres momentos fundamentales: la implementación del neoliberalismo ortodoxo, la aplicación de modificaciones «pragmáticas» durante los ochenta y las «reformas a las reformas» que comenzaron en 1990 con la recuperación de la democracia y que durante casi tres décadas se han concentrado en la búsqueda del crecimiento con igualdad y de la reducción de la pobreza. En esta nueva edición, corregida y aumentada, el autor incluye nuevos capítulos con valiosa y relevante información, donde explica, principalmente, cómo la evaluación de las políticas de equilibrio macroeconómico acontecidas durante la última década resulta decisiva, según el autor, para volver a establecer un modelo de crecimiento equitativo e inclusivo.Par Rachel Cole, Quintin Brewer. 2013
Unlock your full potential with these revision guides which focus on the key content and skills you need to knowWith…
My Revision Notes for Edexcel A2 Economics you can:Take control of your revision: plan and focus on the areas you need to revise with content summaries and commentary from authors Quintin Brewer and Rachel ColeShow you fully understand key topics by using specific examples to place economic theory in a real-world contextApply economic terms accurately with the help of definitions and key words on all topicsImprove your skills to tackle specific exam questions such as data response with self-testing and exam-style questions and answersGet exam-ready with last-minute quick quizzes at www.hodderplus.co.uk/myrevisionnotesIn Economics For Life, Ian Harper shares insights gained from his professional career as an economist during an exciting period…
of world history. Dr Harper demonstrates why economics is a good servant but a bad master. While he suggests that 'It is surely good that millions of human beings have been delivered from grinding poverty by economic systems variously based on market principles,' he also observes that 'The creation and acquisition of wealth has become, for many people, the sole purpose of their existence and the sole criterion of value in their lives.' He shares not only what he has learned as one of Australia's best-known economists, but also something of the values which undergird his worldview.Par Kaushik Basu. 2018
A leading economist offers a radically new approach to the economic analysis of the lawIn The Republic of Beliefs …
Kaushik Basu one of the world s leading economists argues that the traditional economic analysis of the law has significant flaws and has failed to answer certain critical questions satisfactorily Why are good laws drafted but never implemented When laws are unenforced is it a failure of the law or the enforcers And most important considering that laws are simply words on paper why are they effective Basu offers a provocative alternative to how the relationship between economics and real-world law enforcement should be understood Basu summarizes standard neoclassical law and economics before looking at the weaknesses underlying the discipline Bringing modern game theory to bear he develops a focal point approach modeling not just the self-interested actions of the citizens who must follow laws but also the functionaries of the state the politicians judges and bureaucrats enforcing them He demonstrates the connections between social norms and the law and shows how well-conceived ideas can change and benefit human behavior For example bribe givers and takers will collude when they are treated equally under the law And in food support programs vouchers should be given directly to the poor to prevent shop owners from selling subsidized rations on the open market Basu provides a new paradigm for the ways that law and economics interact a framework applicable to both less-developed countries and the developed world Highlighting the limits and capacities of law and economics The Republic of Beliefs proposes a fresh way of thinking that will enable more effective laws and a fairer societyPar J. R. Arnold. 1961
As every schoolboy knows, Canada is one of the larger trading countries of the world but, from the point of…
view of balancing her international merchandise trade payments, she does not export enough. The purpose of this book is to describe, not in broad economic terms, but in daily practical detail, the work of the exporter and importer. Pitfalls abound for the unwary trader, and Mr. Arnold knows them all. His book is written about the activities of an export merchant, since he, unlike his confrères in a larger type of organization, deals directly himself with banks, brokers, suppliers, shippers, buyers, insurance agents, freight forwarders, and the other agencies serving the exporter and importer. Thus the reader acquires an all-round understanding of the trader's business world. The book is written with admirable directness and clarity, with an astute and alert business sense underlying the writing. The book will also make useful reading for any student of international trade theory and would be especially helpful to commerce classes and to trainees in business firms of all kinds associated with Canadian trade.