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3D Ethicsby Attracta Lagan; Brian Moran
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2005; US$ 99.00Ethics is not just about morality; it is a complex dimension of personal and corporate life that can lead to higher performance by both business and society. Customers, employees and business partners seek predictable corporate behaviour that is aligned with stated personal, workplace and democratic values. more...
Health and Welfare during Industrializationby Richard H. Steckel; Roderick Floud
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 39.00In this unique anthology, Steckel and Floud coordinate ten essays that bring a new perspective to inquiry about standard of living in modern times. These papers are arranged for international comparison, and they individually examine evidence of health and welfare during and after industrialization in eight countries: the United States, Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia. The essays incorporate several indicators of quality of life, especially real per capita income and health, but also real wages, education, and inequality. And while the authors use traditional measures of health such as life expectancy and mortality rates, this volume stands alone in its extensive use of new "anthropometric" data—information... more...
Development Theoryby Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Sage Publications Ltd. 2009; US$ 40.00This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses' - Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of SussexPraise for the previous edition:'This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies' - Keith Griffin, University of California, RiversideThis is the second edition of this successful book. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, the book: Situates students in the expanding... more...
Governance and Knowledge Management for Public-Private Partnershipsby Herbert Robinson; Patricia Carrillo; Chimay J. Anumba; Manju Patel
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 118.99"The book not only gives a clear picture of the policy and strategic framework of PFI/PPP projects, the governance and knowledge management issues through different phases from planning, design development to operation and service delivery and the processes associated with each phase, but practical tools, methodologies and capabilities needed to deliver PFI/PPP projects in a range of sectors are also explained. It clearly demonstrates the key imperatives that are the hallmark of successful programmes and projects no matter what there method of funding or delivery. I have no doubt that, in undertaking the programmes and projects that I am responsible for delivering and in undertaking OGC Gateway Reviews, to support clients delivering their own... more...
Unified Growth Theoryby Oded Galor
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 59.50For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered the level and distribution of wealth, population, education, and health across the globe. The question ever since has been--why? This is the first book to put forward a unified theory of economic growth that accounts for the entire growth process, from the dawn of civilization to today. Oded Galor, who founded the field of unified growth theory, identifies the historical and prehistorical forces behind the differential transition timing from... more...
Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainabilityby Paul Ekins
Routledge 1999; US$ 65.00Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainabilty, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainabilty of economic growth can be judged. more...
Environmental Consequences of Growthby Douglas Booth
Routledge 1998; US$ 75.00This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change. All the key issues in environmental economics are covered. more...
Japanese Views on Economic Developmentby Kenichi Ohno; Izumi Ohno
RoutledgeCurzon 1998; US$ 200.00This book is the first systematic exposition of the Japanese approach to economic development and systematic transition to appear in the English language and is important reading for students, researchers and professional policy makers. more...
Housing & Family Wealthby R Forrest
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 160.00This work looks at the links between housing, personal sector wealth and the family in contemporary society. more...
Technology, Trade and Growth in OECD Countriesby Valentina Meliciani
Routledge 2001; US$ 190.00Presenting new material and a fresh perspective, This book provides a unifying framework for the exploration of the role played by specialisation in economic growth and international competitiveness. more...