As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate. In moments of political stability, governments emphasize a capitalistic work ethic (even if it means working a job that will leave one impoverished); when times are less politically stable, states liberalize welfare policies to recreate the conditions for political acquiescence. Sanford Schram argues in...
Contemporary Economic Problems and Issues
by Thomas J. Hailstones and Frank V. Mastrianna
This book should be of interest to for all economic students.
The Economics of John Kenneth Galbraith
by Director of Strategy Nhs East of England Stephen P Dunn
The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardisation would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanisation, as the division of labour created many jobs requiring mindless repetition rather than conscious involvement with work. In our own modern times, a comparable revolution has been wrought by information technology. In this book Daniel Cohen traces the roots of this revolution bac...
Aktieninvestmentfonds weisen durch ihre breiten Diversifikationsmoglichkeiten und ihr professionelles Portfoliomanagement scheinbar gute Voraussetzungen fur die Situation in Emerging Markets auf. Allerdings zeigt ein Vergleich der Performance von Emerging Markets-Fonds, dass dies nur zum Teil zutrifft. Als theoretischer Bezugsrahmen fur die Ableitung eines Modells zur strategischen Ausrichtung von Investmentfonds am Beispiel von Zentral- und Osteuropa dient die neoinstitutionalistische Finanzthe...
A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes-and failures-of free-market economicsSince 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets often work so well, but it can't explain why they often fail so badly-or what we should do when they stumble. As Nobel Pr...
Verhandlungen in Und Zwischen Organisationen (Bildung Und Organisation, #21)
by Udo Kreggenfeld
Die zunehmende Globalisierung erhoeht den Wettbewerbsdruck und die Eigenverantwortung von Mitarbeitern und Fuhrungskraften in Organisationen. Erfolgreiche Verhandlungen und Verhandlungsaktivitaten werden in diesem Kontext immer wichtiger. Der Autor geht der Frage nach, welches Wissen und welche Kompetenzen erfolgreiche Verhandlungen und Verhandlungsaktivitaten in und zwischen Organisationen ermoeglichen. Dazu werden Verhandlungen und Verhandlungsaktivitaten aus Sicht verschiedener wissenschaftli...
Rundfunk-, Multimedia- Und Telekommunikationsrecht (Schriften Zum Wirtschafts- Und Medienrecht, Steuerrecht Und, #22)
by Thomas Miserre
Eine trennscharfe und praktikable Abgrenzung der Anwendungsbereiche von Rundfunkstaatsvertrag, Teledienstegesetz, Mediendienstestaatsvertrag und Telekommunikationsgesetz ist moeglich. Selbst kunftige, bislang nicht absehbare Medienangebote werden sich anhand der gefundenen Abgrenzungskriterien in das bestehende Regelungssystem einordnen lassen. Die Arbeit macht darum deutlich, dass es nicht notwendig ist, dieses anhand der Kompetenzverteilung zwischen Bund und Landern ausdifferenzierte System zu...
In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in the halls of academia, in the pages of radical newspapers, and in the jungles and the streets. From Marx through the Battle of Seattle and beyond, A...
Haftung Innerhalb Von Konzernstrukturen Auf Horizontaler Ebene Der Konzerne (Europaeische Hochschulschriften Recht, #4065)
by Tom-Eric Moeller
Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the U.S. and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a spring 2004 conference of leading historians, business analysts, sociologists, and labor leaders that immediately attracted the attention of the national media, drawing profiles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Review of Books. Th...
Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades. Forever associated with the conviction politics of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the free-market project has since become synonymous with the 'Washington consensus' on international development policy and the phenomenon of corporate globalization, where it has come to mean privatization, deregulation, and the opening...
Rethinking Capitalism (Political Quarterly Monograph)
"Thought provoking and fresh - this book challenges how we think about economics."Gillian Tett, Financial Times For further information about recent publicity events and media coverage for Rethinking Capitalism please visit http://marianamazzucato.com/rethinking-capitalism/ Western capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated or declined, and inequality has risen dramatically. Economic policy has neither reformed the financial system nor resto...
Mutant Ecologies traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science, genome editing and the biotech industry. CRISPR crops, fast-growing salmons, heat-resistant Slick™ cows, Friendly™ Mosquitoes, humanised mice, pigs growing human organs – these are but a few of the dazzling new life-forms that have recently emerged from corporate and university labo...