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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781139059138
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 470 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Capabilities, gender, equality
    DDC: 330.9172/4001
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    Keywords: Equality ; Economic development ; Social planning ; Economic development ; Developing countries ; Equality ; Developing countries ; Social planning ; Developing countries ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geschlecht ; Gleichberechtigung ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Entwicklungsländer
    Abstract: Questions of gender, injustice and equality pervade all our lives, and as such, the capabilities or 'human development' approach to understanding well-being and basic political entitlements continues to be debated. In this thought-provoking book, a range of authors provide unique reflections on the capabilities approach and, specifically, Martha C. Nussbaum's contributions to issues of gender, equality and political liberalism. Moreover, the authors tackle a broad range of development issues, including those of religion, ecological and environmental justice, social justice, child care, disability and poverty. This is the first book to examine Nussbaum's work in political philosophy in such depth, bringing together a group of distinguished experts with diverse disciplinary perspectives. It also features a unique contribution from Nussbaum herself, in which she offers reactions to the discussion and her latest thoughts on the capabilities approach. Capabilities, Gender, Equality will interest a wide range of readers and policy-makers interested in new human development policies
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781107015692
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 470 Seiten , 23 cm
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    DDC: 330.9172/4001
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    Keywords: Economic development ; Equality ; Social planning ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139381338
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 194 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moe, Wendy W. Social media intelligence
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Internet marketing Social aspects ; Social media ; Marketing Social aspects ; Consumers Research ; Consumers ; Research ; Social media ; Marketing ; Social aspects ; Internet marketing ; Social aspects ; Soziale Software
    Abstract: In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the physical world to the digital arena. In this new landscape, organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to political campaigns continuously monitor online opinions in an effort to guide their actions. Are consumers satisfied with our product? How are our policies perceived? Do voters agree with our platform? Measuring online opinion is more complex than just reading a few posted reviews. Social media is replete with noise and chatter that can contaminate monitoring efforts. By knowing what shapes online opinions, organizations can better uncover the valuable insights hidden in the social media chatter and better inform strategy. This book can help anyone facing the challenge of making sense of social media data to move beyond the current practice of social media monitoring to more comprehensive use of social media intelligence
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781139015882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 486 Seiten) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge surveys of economic literature
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Browning, Martin James, 1946 - Economics of the family
    DDC: 306.85
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    Keywords: Familienökonomik ; Haushaltsökonomik ; Theorie ; Households Economic aspects ; Families Economic aspects ; Families ; Economic aspects ; Households ; Economic aspects ; Haushaltsökonomie ; Familienökonomie
    Abstract: The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Models of Household Behavior: 1. Facts; 2. The gains from marriage; 3. Preferences and decision making; 4. The collective model: a formal analysis; 5. Empirical issues for the collective model; 6. Uncertainty and dynamics in the collective model; Part II. Equilibrium Models of the Marriage Market: 7. Matching on the marriage market: theory; 8. Sharing the gains from marriage; 9. Investment in schooling and the marriage market; 10. An equilibrium model of marriage, fertility, and divorce; 11. Children and family structure
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107588905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 217 pages)
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    DDC: 306.3613
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    Keywords: Work ethic ; Labor productivity ; Labor productivity / Research ; Organizational behavior ; Slackers ; Faulheit ; Arbeitsethik ; Arbeitsplatz ; Arbeitsmotivation ; Arbeitsmotivation ; Arbeitsethik ; Faulheit ; Arbeitsplatz
    Abstract: While most people work ever-longer hours, international statistics suggest that the average time spent on non-work activities per employee is around two hours a day. How is this possible, and what are the reasons behind employees withdrawing from work? In this thought-provoking book, Roland Paulsen examines organizational misbehavior, specifically the phenomenon of 'empty labor', defined as the time during which employees engage in private activities during the working day. This study explores a variety of explanations, from under-employment to workplace resistance. Building on a rich selection of interview material and extensive empirical research, it uses both qualitative and quantitative data to present a concrete analysis of the different ways empty labor unfolds in the modern workplace. This book offers new perspectives on subjectivity, rationality and work simulation and will be of particular interest to academic researchers and graduate students in organizational sociology, organization studies, and human resource management
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521003858
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 312 Seiten
    Edition: 21st printing
    Series Statement: The John Robert Seeley lectures [3]
    Series Statement: The John Robert Seeley lectures
    DDC: 305.42091724
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    Keywords: Women in development ; Women Developing countries ; Frauen Rechtsstellung von Gruppen ; Soziale Lage ; Human Development ; Entwicklungsplanung ; Feminismus ; Kulturelle Werte und Normen ; Internationale Frauenbewegung Religiöse Faktoren ; Soziale Werte ; Gleichberechtigung ; Indien ; Frau ; Entwicklungsländer ; Politische Philosophie
    Note: Originally published: 2000 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781139052498
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 433 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: 1995
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als People in transit
    DDC: 973/.0431
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    Keywords: German Americans History ; Germans ; Germans History ; Germans ; United States ; History ; German Americans ; History ; Germans ; Foreign countries ; Germany ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; United States ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; United States Emigration and immigration ; History ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; History ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; History ; Deutschland ; Migration ; Auswanderung ; Binnenwanderung ; Geschichte 1820-1930
    Abstract: The demographic shockwaves of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe produced tremendous change in the national economies and affected the political, social, and cultural development of these societies. Migration historians have begun to connect the various European migratory streams during this period with transcontinental migration to North America. This volume contains empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s, placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration to North America. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in the process of migration. By looking specifically at postwar Germany, Klaus J. Bade underscores the relevance of this history in a concluding essay
    Abstract: German emigration research, north, south, and east : findings, methods, and open questions / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- Colonist traditions and nineteenth-century emigration from East Elbian Prussia / Rainer Mühle -- Overseas emigration from Mecklenburg-Strelitz : the geographic and social contexts / Axel Lubinski -- Emigration from Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt/Oder, 1815-1893 / Uwe Reich -- Preserving or transforming role? Migrants and Polish territories in the era of mass migrations / Adam Walaszek -- Traveling workers and the German labor movement / Horst Rössler --Migration in Duisburg, 1821-1914 / James H. Jackson, Jr. -- In-migration and out-migration in an area of heavy industry : the case of Georgsmarienhütte, 1956-1870 / Susanne Meyer -- Foreign workers in and around Bremen, 1884-1918 / Karl Marten Barfuss -- The international marriage market : theoretical and historical perspectives / Suzanne M. Sinke -- Making service serve themselves : immigrant women and doemstic service in North America, 1850-1920 / Joy K. Lintelmann -- German domestic servants in America, 1850-1914 : a new look at German immigrant women's experiences / Silke Wehner --Acculturation of immigrant women in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century / Deirdre M. Mageean -- Communicating the old and the new : German immigrant women and their press in comparative perspective around 1900 / Monika Blaschke -- Return migration to an urban center : the example of Bremen, 1850-1914 / Karen Schniedewind -- Migration, ethnicity, and working-class formation : Passaic, New Jersey, 1889-1926 / Sven Beckert -- Changing gender roles and emigration : the example of German Jewish women and their emigration to the United States, 1933-1945 / Sibylle Quack -- Conclusion : migration past and present : the German experience / Klaus J. Bade -- Research on the German migrations, 1820s to 1930s : a report on the state of German scholarship / Dirk Hoerder
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139600484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxvii, 736 pages)
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    DDC: 303.3/72
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    Keywords: Wirtschaft ; Social problems / Economic aspects ; Problem solving / Economic aspects ; Cost effectiveness ; Economics / Sociological aspects ; Weltproblematik ; Wohlfahrtsoptimum ; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse ; Weltproblematik ; Wohlfahrtsoptimum ; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse
    Abstract: Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how to combat problems ranging from armed conflicts, corruption and trade barriers, to natural disasters, hunger, education and climate change. For each case, 'Alternative Perspectives' are also included to provide a critique and make other suggestions for investment. In addition, a panel of senior economists, including four Nobel Laureates, rank the attractiveness of each policy proposal in terms of its anticipated cost-benefit ratio. This thought-provoking book opens up debate, encouraging readers to come up with their own rankings and decide which solutions are smarter than others
    Description / Table of Contents: Armed conficts / J. Paul Dunne ; Alternative perspective / Anke Hoeffler, Andrew Mack -- Ecosystems and biodiversity / Salman Hussain [and others] ; Alternative perspective / Juha V. Siikamaki ; John C. Whitehead and Paul E. Chambers -- Chronic disease / Prabhat Jha [and others] ; Alternative perspective / Julia Fox-Rushby, Marc Suhrcke -- Climate change. CO₂ abatement / Richard S.J. Tol ; Technology-led mitigation / Isabel Galiana and Christopher Green ; Climate engineering R & D / J. Eric Bickel and Lee Lane ; Climate-change adaptation / Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, and Enrica De Cian ; Alternative perspective / Samuel Fankhauser, Anil Markandya -- Education / Peter F. Orazem ; Alternative perspective / Lant Pritchett, George Psacharopoulos -- Hunger and malnutrition / John Hoddinott, Mark Rosegrant, and Maximo Torero ; Alternative perspective / Anil B. Deolalikar, Beatrice Lorge Rogers -- Infectious disease, injury, and reproductive health / Dean T. Jamison [and others] ; Alternative perspective / Till Bärnighausen, David Bloom, and Salal Humair, David Canning -- Natural disasters / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan ; Alternative perspective / Stéphane Hallegatte, Ilan Noy -- Population growth / Hans-Peter Kohler ; Alternative perspective / Oded Galor, David Lam -- Water and sanitation / Frank Rijsberman and Alix Peterson Zwane ; Alternative perspective / W. Michael Hanemann, Guy Hutton -- Corruption and policy reform / Susan Rose-Ackerman and Rory Truex -- Trade barriers and subsidies / Kym Anderson -- Expert panel ranking / Finn E. Kydland [and others] -- Conclusion : making your own priorization / Bjørn Lomborg
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139208819
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 259 pages)
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    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Organizational learning ; Organizational behavior ; Unternehmen ; Strategisches Management ; Risiko ; Organisation ; Organisationsverhalten ; Unternehmen ; Organisation ; Organisationsverhalten ; Risiko ; Strategisches Management
    Abstract: Could the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers have been avoided? What about the control failures in the recent global financial crisis? Behind these apparently very different events, it is possible to identify a common element of organizational myopia - a syndrome that severely limits the capacity of organizations to foresee the effects of their own decisions and to recognize signs of danger or opportunity. Organizational Myopia explores the barriers that impede organizations from identifying an effective response to the problems that they have to confront. Using real-world cases, the author investigates the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations at the individual, organizational, and interorganizational level in contexts that are complex, uncertain, ambiguous, and changeable. This book will help readers understand how to limit the origins of myopia and therefore increase the capacity of organizations to anticipate and contain unexpected events
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Cases of myopia; 2. Uncertainty and predictability in organizations; 3. The mechanisms of organizational myopia; 4. Anticipating risk: the problem of learning; 5. Implications for organizational design; Epilogue
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139207041
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 431 pages)
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    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Avarice ; Economic man ; Reciprocity (Commerce) ; Social groups ; Social networks ; Wirtschaftspsychologie ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Teamwork ; Verhaltensökonomie ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Homo oeconomicus ; Wirtschaftspsychologie ; Verhaltensökonomie ; Homo oeconomicus ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Teamwork ; Wirtschaftstheorie
    Abstract: Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to abide by group norms? Until now, economics has only been able to partially answer these questions. In this groundbreaking work, Paul Frijters presents a new unified theory of human behaviour. To do so, he incorporates comprehensive yet tractable definitions of love and power, and the dynamics of groups and networks, into the traditional mainstream economic view. The result is an enhanced view of human societies that nevertheless retains the pursuit of self-interest at its core. This book provides a digestible but comprehensive theory of our socioeconomic system, which condenses its immense complexity into simplified representations. The result both illuminates humanity's history and suggests ways forward for policies today, in areas as diverse as poverty reduction and tax compliance
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139035057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 499 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 305.800951
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    Keywords: Equality ; Equality ; China ; China ; Social policy ; 21st century ; China ; Economic conditions ; 2000- ; China Social policy 21st century ; China Economic conditions 2000-
    Abstract: This book, a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008), examines the evolution of inequality in China from 2002 to 2007, a period when the new 'harmonious society' development strategy was adopted under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. It fills a gap in knowledge about the outcomes of this development strategy for equity and inequality. Drawing on original information collected from the recent two waves of nationwide household surveys conducted by the China Household Income Project, this book provides a detailed overview of recent trends in income inequality and cutting-edge analysis of key factors underlying such trends. Topics covered include inequality in education, changes in homeownership and the distribution of housing wealth, the evolution of the migrant labor market, disparities between public and non-public sectors, patterns of work and non-work, gender, ethnicity, and the impacts of public policies such as reforms in taxation and social welfare programs
    Abstract: Rising inequality in China: key issues and findings / Li Shi, Hiroshi Sato, and Terry Sicular -- Overview: Income inequality and poverity in China, 2002-2007 / Li Shi, Luo Chuliang, and Terry Sicular -- Housing Ownership, incomes, and inequality in China, 2002-2007 / Hiroshi Sato, Terry Sicular, and Yue Ximing -- Educational inequality in China: The intergenerational dimension / John Knight, Terry Sicular and Yue Ximinhg -- Inequality and poverity in rural China / Luo Chuliang and Terry Sicular -- The evolution of the migrant labor market in China, 2002-2007 / John Knight, Deng Quheng and Li Shi -- A new episode of increased urban income inequality in China / Deng Quheng and Bjorn̈ Gustafsson -- Unemployment and the rising number of nonworkers in urban China: causes and distributional consequences / Bjorn̈ and Ding Sai -- Do employees in the public sector still enjoy earnings advantages? / Yang Juan, Sylvie Deḿurger and Li Shi -- Redistributive impacts of the personal income in urban China / Xu Jing and Yue Ximimg -- Changes in gender-wage gap in urban China, 1995-2007 / Li Shi and Song Jin -- Intertemporal changes in ethic urban earnings disparities in China / Luo Chuliang, Li Shi, Terry Sicular, Deng Quheng and Yue Ximing
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781107646995 , 1107646995 , 9780521761734
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 320 Seiten , 23 cm
    Edition: First paperback edition
    DDC: 306.301
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    Keywords: Violence Economic aspects ; History ; State, The History ; Social control History ; Social control ; State, The ; Violence Economic aspects ; History ; Social control ; Social control History ; State, The ; State, The History ; Violence Economic aspects ; History ; Violence Economic aspects ; History ; Gesellschaft ; Gewalt ; Sozialordnung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The conceptual framework -- The natural state -- The natural state applied : English land law -- Open access orders -- Explaining the transition from limited to open access orders : the doorstep conditions -- The transition proper -- A new research agenda for the social sciences
    Abstract: All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This study integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 283-305. - Index , Originally published: 2009 , Auf dem Bucheinband: "With a new preface and afterword by the authors" , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107029590 , 9781139845229
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 247 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: The CICSE Lectures in Growth and Development
    Parallel Title: Print version Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability
    DDC: 304.6/32
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    Abstract: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Abstract: Outlines key parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality are related
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability; HalfTitle; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of symbols; List of definitions; List of propositions; Introduction; Part ONE Differential fertility; 1 Benchmark model; 1.1 The model; 1.2 Introducing a lump sum transfer; 1.3 Numerical illustration; 2 Implications for the growth--inequality relationship; 2.1 The model economy; 2.2 Theoretical results; 2.2.1 The tradeoff between the quality and quantity of children; 2.2.2 The balanced growth path; 2.2.3 The dynamics of individual human capital
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.4 Extension with endogenous child rearing time2.3 Computational experiments; 2.3.1 Calibration; 2.3.2 Initial inequality, fertility, and growth; 2.3.3 The dynamics of inequality, fertility, and growth; 2.4 Conclusion; 3 Understanding the forerunners in fertility decline; 3.1 Rouen and Geneva data; 3.2 A simple model of fertility; 3.3 Numerical experimentscalibration; 3.4 Numerical experiments -- comparative statics; 3.5 Additional data; 3.6 Conclusion; Part TWO Education policy; 4 Education policy: private versus public schools; 4.1 The model; 4.1.1 The set-up with private education
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1.2 Fertility and education choices under private education4.1.3 The set-up with public education; 4.1.4 Fertility and policy choices under public education; 4.2 Comparing private and public education; 4.2.1 Long-run dynamics; 4.2.2 Implications for growth; 4.3 Growth and inequality over time; 4.3.1 Calibration; 4.3.2 Initial conditions and growth; 4.3.3 Human capital accumulation and inequality dynamics; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 Education politics and democracy; 5.1 The model economy; 5.1.1 Preferences and technology; 5.1.2 Timing of events and private choices; 5.1.3 The political mechanism
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1.4 The equilibrium5.2 Comparing the education regimes; 5.3 Political power and multiple equilibria; 5.4 Alternative timing assumptions; 5.4.1 Outcomes with full government commitment; 5.4.2 Outcomes with partial government commitment; 5.5 A dynamic extension; 5.5.1 The model economy; 5.5.2 Private choices; 5.5.3 The political mechanism; 5.5.4 The equilibrium; 5.5.5 Comparing the education regimes; 5.5.6 The dynamics of education regimes; 5.6 Extensions to an ethnic dimension; 5.7 Conclusion; 6 Empirical evidence; 6.1 Inequality, fertility, and schooling across US states
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Determinants of fertility and public versus private schooling at the household level6.3 Schooling over time; 6.4 Inequality, fertility, and schooling across countries; 6.5 Public education spending and democracy; 6.6 Conclusion; Part THREE Sustainability; 7 Environmental collapse and population dynamics; 7.1 Historical evidence; 7.2 The model; 7.2.1 Preferences and technology; 7.2.2 The bargaining problem; 7.2.3 The fertility choice; 7.2.4 Dynamics; 7.3 Numerical simulations and robustness analysis; 7.3.1 The Nash Equilibrium; 7.3.2 Resources and population dynamics
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.3.3 Simulation of transition paths
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139225793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 384 pages)
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    DDC: 303.3/72
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2050 ; Geschichte ; Social problems / Economic aspects / History ; Weltproblematik ; Soziale Kosten ; Wirtschaft ; Soziale Probleme ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Weltproblematik ; Soziale Probleme ; Soziale Kosten ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte 1900-2050
    Abstract: There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of the world's leading economists discuss ten problems that have blighted human development, ranging from malnutrition, education, and climate change, to trade barriers and armed conflicts. Costs of the problems are quantified in percent of GDP, giving readers a unique opportunity to understand the development of each problem over the past century and the likely development into the middle of this century, and to compare the size of the challenges. For example: how bad was air pollution in 1900? How has it deteriorated and what about the future? Did climate change cost more than malnutrition in 2010? This pioneering initiative to provide answers to many of these questions will undoubtedly spark debate amongst a wide readership
    Description / Table of Contents: Air pollution : global damage costs from 1900 to 2050 / Guy Hutton -- Armed conflicts : the economic welfare costs of conflict / S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory D. Hess -- Climate change : the economic impact of climate change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Richard S. J. Tol -- Ecosystems and biodiversity : economic loss of ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050 / Anil Markandya and Aline Chiabai -- Education : the income and equity loss of not having a faster rate of human capital accumulation / Harry Anthony Patrinos and George Psacharopoulos -- Gender inequality : a key global challenge : reducing losses due to gender inequality / Joyce P. Jacobsen -- Human health : the twentieth-century transformation of human health : its magnitude and value / Dean T. Jamison ... [et al.] -- Malnutrition : global economic losses attributable to malnutrition 1900-2000 and projections to 2050 / Sue Horton and Richard H. Steckel -- Trade barriers : costing global trade barriers, 1900 to 2050 / Kym Anderson -- Water and sanitation : economic losses from poor water and sanitation : past, present, and future / Marc Jeuland ... [et al.]
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781280647536 , 1280647531 , 9781139378604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xv, 445 p.)) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Governance, regulations and powers on the Internet
    DDC: 303.48330973
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    Keywords: Cyberspace Government policy ; Internet Government policy ; Electronic books ; Internet Government policy ; Cyberspace Government policy ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Internet ; Electronic Government ; Governance ; Cyberspace ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Cyberspace ; Government policy ; Internet ; Government policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Internet ; E-Government ; Governance ; Cyberspace
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139173834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 354 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: 1994
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Skocpol, Theda, 1947 - Social revolutions in the modern world
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    Keywords: Politische Unruhen ; Sozialgeschichte ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Welt ; Revolutions ; Economic history ; Social history ; Social history ; Economic history ; Revolutions ; Sozialrevolution
    Abstract: In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning book States and Social Revolutions (1979), updates her arguments about social revolutions. How are we to understand recent revolutionary upheavals in countries across the globe? Why have social revolutions happened in some countries, but not in others that seem similar? Skocpol shows how she and other scholars have used ideas about states and societies to identify the particular types of regimes that are susceptible to the growth of revolutionary movements and vulnerable to transfers of state power to revolutionary challengers. Skocpol engages in thoughtful dialogue with critics, and she suggests how culture and ideology can properly be incorporated into historical and comparative studies. She also vigorously defends the value of an institutionalist, comparative and historical approach against recent challenges from Marxists, rational choice theorists, and culturally oriented interpreters of particular revolutions
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9780511781841
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxix, 768 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The encyclopedia of migration and minorities in Europe
    DDC: 304.8094/03
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    Keywords: 1600-2000 ; Internationale Migration ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Migranten ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Sozialgeschichte ; Europa ; Immigrants Encyclopedias History ; Immigrants ; Europe ; History ; Encyclopedias ; Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Encyclopedias ; Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects ; Encyclopedias ; Europe Encyclopedias Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects ; Europe Encyclopedias Emigration and immigration ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Migration ; Minderheit ; Geschichte 1600-2005
    Abstract: Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into Europe and this ignorance has grave consequences for the social and political status of immigrants. Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe. The first section contains survey studies of the various regions and countries in Europe covering the last centuries. The second section presents information on about 220 individual groups of migrants from the Sephardic Jews emigration from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present-day migration of old-age pensioners to the holiday villages in the sun. The first resource of its kind, The Encyclopaedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe is a comprehensive and authoritative research tool
    Abstract: The encyclopaedia: idea, concept and realization / Klaus J. Bade [and others] ; -- Terminologies and concepts of migration research / Dirk Hoerder, Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen -- Countries -- Groups
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107402409 , 1107402409
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 v. , 25 cm
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Organizational behavior ; Corporate culture ; Cross-cultural studies ; Cultural relations ; Social values ; Cross-cultural studies ; National characteristics ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Originally published: 2009. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139844796 , 9781107013551
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 287 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Zheng, Yu Managing human resources in China
    DDC: 658.300951
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    Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen ; Personalmanagement ; China ; International business enterprises Personnel management ; China ; Personnel management China ; Electronic books ; International business enterprises -- China -- Personnel management ; Personnel management -- China ; International business enterprises ; China ; Personnel management ; Personnel management ; China ; Electronic books ; Personnel management ; China ; International business enterprises ; China ; Personnel management ; Electronic books ; China ; Personalpolitik ; Multinationales Unternehmen
    Abstract: Introduction: economic transition, multinational corporations (MNCs) and employment practices at workplace level in China -- MNCs and management space: a framework to study subsidiary HRM -- Doing case studies with mixed research methods -- Multinationals in China: an overview -- Household white goods manufacturing plants: targeting an emerging consumer market -- Synthetic fibre manufacturing plants: developing a regional production base -- Management learning, strategic repositioning and power struggles: dynamics in developing subsidiary HRM -- Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Managing Human Resources in China; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Employment practices of MNCs in China; 1.2 Analysing MNCs' subsidiary management in China: an actor-centred approach; 1.3 Studying subsidiary management using ethnographic methods; 1.4 Outline of the book; 2 MNCs and management space; 2.1 Subsidiary HRM top-down: the headquarters-centred approach in studying IHRM; 2.1.1 Convergence, divergence and cross-vergence pressures on subsidiary management; 2.1.2 "Best practice", but whose?
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1.3 Best fit or functional equivalence?Goals and concerns of internationalization; Goals and concerns of internationalization; The contingency approach; The contingency approach; Stage of internationalization; Headquarters' international orientation; Stage of internationalization; Headquarters' international orientation; Stage of internationalization; Headquarters' international orientation; Stage of internationalization; Headquarters' international orientation; Country-of-origin effects/ownership; Country-of-origin effects/ownership; Country-of-origin effects/ownership
    Description / Table of Contents: Country-of-origin effects/ownershipHost-country effects/locality; Host-country effects/locality; Host-country effects/locality; Host-country effects/locality; The logic of global integration and local responsiveness; The logic of global integration and local responsiveness; The logic of global integration and local responsiveness; The logic of global integration and local responsiveness; Industry sector and production strategies; Industry sector and production strategies; Industry sector and production strategies; Industry sector and production strategies
    Description / Table of Contents: Integrative frameworks of studying international human resource managementIntegrative frameworks of studying international human resource management; Integrative frameworks of studying international human resource management; Integrative frameworks of studying international human resource management; Strategic choice and functional equivalence; Strategic choice and functional equivalence; 2.2 Reflection on the IHRM frameworks: the headquarters-centred approach and its limitations; 2.3 Developing an actor-centred approach to studying subsidiary HRM
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.1 Managers' choice: power struggles, strategy enactment and management learning2.3.2 Subsidiary managers as informed and constrained actors; 2.4 Key learning points; 3 Doing case studies with mixed research methods; 3.1 Quantitative vs. qualitative approaches; 3.1.1 Multiple case study with a mixture of qualitative research methods: exploring a contextual and longitudinal process of su; 3.1.2 Sampling strategy: using quantitative data for case selection; 3.2 The research design: constructing validity; 3.3 The research design: constructing reliability; 3.4 Data collection
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 Key learning points
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    ISBN: 9780511898402
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 329 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: 1985
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Population and development projects in Africa
    DDC: 304.6/096
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    Keywords: Economic development projects ; Migration, Internal ; Rural development projects ; Migration, Internal ; Africa ; Economic development projects ; Africa ; Rural development projects ; Africa ; Africa ; Population ; Africa south of the Sahara. Population. Distribution. Effects of development projects ; Africa Population ; Africa Population ; Konferenzschrift 1982 ; Konferenzschrift 1982 ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Bevölkerungsgeografie ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Afrika ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Afrika ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung
    Abstract: The urgent needs of economic development and of specific development projects throughout Africa have marked effects on the mobility, distribution and demography of local populations. In this wide-ranging volume, professional geographers and others examine the problems of relating development goals to their potential impact on populations and population change. Attention is paid to developments in Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and particularly to the Republic of the Sudan, where there is concern for the balance between urgent needs for the economic development of the Nile's waters, and the effects on patterns of human settlement. This book, brought together for the Commission on Population Geography of the International Geographical Union, will be of value to all concerned with the economic, social and political development of Africa
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511581151
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (560 p.)) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Cambridge handbook of culture, organizations, and work
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Corporate culture Cross-cultural studies ; Social values Cross-cultural studies ; National characteristics ; Globalization ; Corporate culture Cross-cultural studies ; Social values Cross-cultural studies ; Corporate culture ; Cross-cultural studies ; Social values ; Cross-cultural studies ; National characteristics ; Globalization ; Internationale Organisation ; Globalisierung ; Kulturkonflikt ; Interkulturelles Management ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Organisationssoziologie ; Globalisierung ; Kulturkontakt ; Internationale Organisation ; Globalisierung ; Interkulturelles Management ; Kulturkonflikt ; Globalisierung ; Kulturkontakt ; Organisationsverhalten ; Organisationssoziologie
    Abstract: It is now widely recognized that countries around the world are becoming increasingly interconnected, and that both public and private organizations are of necessity becoming increasingly global. As political, legal, and economic barriers recede in this environment, cultural barriers emerge as a principal challenge to organizational survival and success. It is not yet clear whether these global realities will cause cultures to converge, harmonize, and seek common ground or to retrench, resist, and accentuate their differences. In either case, it is of paramount importance for both managers and organizational scholars to understand the cultural crosscurrents underlying these changes. With contributions from an international team of scholars, this book reviews, analyzes, and integrates available theory and research to give the best information possible concerning the role of culture and cultural differences in organizational dynamics.
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    ISBN: 9781282943605 , 128294360X , 9780511859687 , 0521768640 , 9780521768641
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xv, 383 p.)) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rice, Ronald E. Organizations and unusual routines
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Organizational learning Electronic books ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational change ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational change ; Organizational learning ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational change ; Organizational learning ; Electronic books ; Organisation ; Routinearbeit ; Organisationswandel ; Systemanalyse
    Abstract: This book examines the way that people deal with dysfunctional feedback and unusual routines in organizational contexts.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Crazy systems, Kafka circuits, and unusual routines -- Two stories of mundane complexity and dysfunctional feedback -- Sweeping it under the rug -- A poetic license to steal -- Just stories? -- Crazy systems -- Causes -- Conflicting goals -- Poor feedback -- Symbolic uses and manipulation -- Barriers to perception -- Kafka circuits -- Symptoms -- Unusual routines -- The rest of the book -- 2 Causes, symptoms, and subroutines of unusual routines in six computer information/communication systems -- Causes of unusual routines in three ICTs -- Labor cost system -- Conflicting goals -- Poor feedback -- Symbolic uses and manipulation -- Barriers to perception -- Conflicts in more sophisticated construction systems -- Home Sale Automation system -- Conflicting goals -- Poor feedback -- Symbolic uses and manipulation -- Barriers to perception -- Voicemail system -- Poor feedback -- Symbolic uses and manipulation -- Causes, symptoms, and subroutines of unusual routines in three ICTs -- Technical issue help request system -- Cause: conflicting goals -- Cause: poor feedback -- Cause: symbolic uses and manipulation -- Symptom: secrecy -- Symptom: manipulation -- Symptom: rigidity -- Online database query system -- Symptom: non-responsiveness -- Symptom: secrecy -- Symptom: manipulation -- Symptom: denial -- Symptom: rigidity -- Subroutine: work -- Subroutine: delay -- Subroutine: error -- An employee time reporting system -- Symptom: denial -- Subroutine: error -- Subroutine: blame -- Conclusion -- Invisibility, embeddedness, and routinization of unusual routines -- Unusual and unintended consequences of unusual routines -- 3 Getting personal: unusual routines at the customer service interface.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Crazy systems, Kafka circuits, and unusual routines; 2 Causes, symptoms, and subroutines of unusual routines in six computer information/communication systems; 3 Getting personal: unusual routines at the customer service interface; 4 A multi-theoretical foundation for understanding unusual routines; 5 A detailed case study of unusual routines; 6 Summary and discussion of the case study results; 7 Individual and organizational challenges to feedback
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 A multi-level and cross-disciplinary summary of concepts related to unusual routines9 Recommendations for resolving and mitigating unusual routines and related phenomena; 10 Summary and a tentative integrated model of unusual routines; References; Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511664458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Perspectives on public choice
    DDC: 302.13
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    Keywords: Neue politische Ökonomie ; Theorie ; Political science Economic aspects ; Social choice ; Social choice ; Political science ; Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511762475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages)
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    DDC: 304.2/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Klimaänderung ; Menschenrecht ; Human beings / Effect of climate on ; Human security ; Human rights ; Climatic changes / Social aspects ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltethik ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Umweltethik ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is increasingly considered to be the greatest societal challenge for humankind. Written by international experts, it argues that climate change must be viewed as an issue of human security, and not an environmental problem that can be managed in isolation from larger questions concerning development trajectories, and ethical obligations towards the poor and to future generations. The concept of human security offers a new approach to the challenges of climate change, and the responses that could lead to a more equitable and sustainable future. Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners concerned with the human dimensions of climate change, as well as to upper-level students in the social sciences and humanities interested in climate change
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521515467 , 9780511744457 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 426 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780511744457
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 304.6408832095
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    Keywords: Sozialpolitik ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Demokratie ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Ostasien ; Lateinamerika ; Electronic books
    Abstract: James W. McGuire explores why some East Asian and Latin American societies have done better than others at raising life expectancy and reducing infant mortality.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511622328
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 361 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 305.5/62/09430904
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    Keywords: Mason, Timothy W. ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1943 ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Faschismus ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Working class / Germany / History / 20th century ; Labor policy / Germany / History ; National socialism ; Fascism / Germany / History / 20th century ; Arbeiterklasse ; Sozialpolitik ; Streik ; Nationalismus ; Bibliografie ; Arbeiter ; Arbeitspolitik ; Nationalsozialismus ; Drittes Reich ; Deutschland ; Germany / Social conditions / 1933-1945 ; Germany / Politics and government / 1933-1945 ; Deutschland ; Turin ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arbeiterklasse ; Nationalsozialismus ; Drittes Reich ; Arbeiterklasse ; Deutschland ; Arbeiterklasse ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Deutschland ; Arbeiterklasse ; Arbeitspolitik ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Drittes Reich ; Arbeiterklasse ; Arbeitspolitik ; Nationalismus ; Sozialpolitik ; Mason, Timothy W. 1940-1990 ; Bibliografie ; Deutschland ; Arbeiter ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Deutschland ; Arbeitspolitik ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Turin ; Streik ; Geschichte 1943
    Abstract: This collection of essays, four of which are published in English for the first time, represents the life's work of the historian Tim Mason, one of the most original and perceptive scholars of National Socialism, who pioneered its social and labour history. His provocative articles and essays, written between 1964 and 1990, exhibit a combination of empirical rigour and theoretical astuteness which made them landmarks in the definition and elaboration of major debates in the historiography of National Socialism. These ten essays collect together Mason's most significant writings, including discussions of the domestic origins of the Second World War, the role of Hitler, and the character of working-class resistance, as well as his pathbreaking study of women under National Socialism, and examples of comparative work on fascism and Nazism. A complete bibliography of his publications is also appended
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    ISBN: 9780511779886
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (400 p.)) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rice, Ronald E. Organizations and unusual routines
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Organizational change ; Organizational learning ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational change ; Organizational learning ; Organisation ; Routinearbeit ; Organisationswandel ; Systemanalyse
    Abstract: Everyone working in and with organizations will, from time to time, experience frustrations and problems when trying to accomplish tasks that are a required part of their role. This is an unusual routine - a recurrent interaction pattern in which someone encounters a problem when trying to accomplish normal activities by following standard organizational procedures and then becomes enmeshed in wasteful and even harmful subroutines while trying to resolve the initial problem. They are unusual because they are not intended or beneficial, and because they are generally pervasive but individually infrequent. They are routines because they become systematic as well as embedded in ordinary functions. Using a wide range of case studies and interdisciplinary research, this book provides researchers and practitioners with a new vocabulary for identifying, understanding, and dealing with this pervasive organizational phenomenon, in order to improve worker and customer satisfaction as well as organizational performance
    Abstract: Crazy systems, Kafka circuits and unusual routines -- Causes, symptoms, and subroutines of unusual routines in six computer information/communication systems -- Getting personal: unusual routines at the customer service interface -- A multi-theoretical foundation for understanding unusual routines -- A detailed case study of unusual routines -- Summary and discussion of the case study results -- Individual and organizational challenges to feedback -- A multi-level and cross-disciplinary summary of concepts related to unusual routines -- Recommendations for resolving and mitigating unusual routines and related phenomena -- Summary and a tentative integrated model of unusual routines
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521517447
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 541 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to management
    Parallel Title: Print version Organizational Control
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Organization ; Management ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book sheds light on the long-neglected phenomenon of organizational control and provides important directions for future research
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures ; Contributors; Foreword; Part I: Introduction and history; Chapter 1: Control is fundamental; Chapter 2: A historical perspective on organizational control; Part II: Conceptions of organizational control; Chapter 3: A configurational theory of control; Chapter 4: Critical perspectives on organizational control: reflections and prospects; Part III: Identity, attention, and motivation in organizational control; Chapter 5: Identity work and control in occupational communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Organizational identity and control: can the two go together?Chapter 7: Attention and control; Chapter 8: The role of motivational orientations in formal and informal control; Part IV: Relational control; Chapter 9: Relational networks, strategic advantage: collaborative control is fundamental; Chapter 10: Toward a theory of relational control: how relationship structure influences the choice of controls; Chapter 11: Peer control in organizations; Part V: Managerial and strategic control
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12: Control to cooperation: examining the role of managerial authority in portfolios of managerial actionsChapter 13: Consequences and antecedents of managerial and employee legitimacy interpretations of control: a natural open system approach; Chapter 14: Managerial objectives of formal control: high motivation control mechanisms; Chapter 15: Control configurations and strategic initiatives; Index of terms ; Author index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511803871
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nitsan, Shemuʾel, 1948 - Collective preference and choice
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    DDC: 302.3
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    Keywords: Social choice Mathematical models ; Group decision making Mathematical models ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Group decision making ; Mathematical models ; Social choice ; Mathematical models ; Gruppenentscheidung ; Entscheidungstheorie ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Collective decision-making is a familiar feature of our social, political, and economic lives. It ranges from the relatively trivial (e.g. the choice of the next family car) to the globally significant (e.g. whether or not a country should go to war). Yet, whether trivial or globally significant, such decisions involve a number of challenging problems. These problems arise in the standard social choice setting, where individuals differ in their preferences. They also arise in the standard decision-making setting, where individuals share the same preferences, but differ in their decisional capabilities. The distinctive feature of Collective Preference and Choice is that it looks at classical aggregation problems that arise in three closely related areas: social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty. Using a series of exercises and examples, the book explains these problems with reference to a number of important contributions to the study of collective decision-making
    Abstract: The reason for the problems -- Brief overview of the problems -- The relationship between preferences and choice -- Do social preferences exist? -- Arrow's and Sen's impossibility theorems -- The desirable decision rule: axiomatization -- Rule selection based on compromise with the unanimity criterion -- Paradoxes of voting -- Majority tyranny -- The problems of inefficient provision of public goods -- Do individuals reveal their true preferences?
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    ISBN: 9780511750656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 406 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Keywords: Infants Mortality ; Infants Mortality ; Infants ; Mortality ; East Asia ; Infants ; Mortality ; Latin America ; East Asia ; Social policy ; East Asia ; Economic policy ; Latin America ; Social policy ; Latin America ; Economic policy ; East Asia Social policy ; East Asia Economic policy ; Latin America Social policy ; Latin America Economic policy ; Ostasien ; Sozialpolitik ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized. These conclusions are based on case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as on cross-national comparisons involving these cases and others
    Abstract: Incomes, capabilities, and mortality decline -- Democracy, spending, services, and survival -- Costa Rica : a healthy democracy -- Chile : the Pinochet paradox -- Argentina : big welfare state, slow infant mortality decline -- Brazil : from laggard to leader in basic health service provision -- Taiwan : from poor but healthy to wealthy and healthy -- South Korea : small welfare state, fast infant mortality decline -- Thailand : democratization speeds infant mortality decline -- Indonesia : authoritarianism slows infant mortality decline -- Wealth, health, democracy, and mortality
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  • 31
    ISBN: 9780521808781 , 9780521004886 , 0521004888 , 0521808782
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 191 Seite , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 38
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    Keywords: Prognose 2005-2100 ; Geschichte 1700-2004 ; Aliments - Approvisionnement - Histoire ; Développement économique - Aspect nutritionnel ; Gezondheid ; Levensverwachting ; Malnutrition - Histoire ; Nutrition - Histoire ; Politique alimentaire ; Voeding ; Geschichte ; Diet trends ; Food supply History ; Life Expectancy trends ; Malnutrition History ; Medical care History ; Mortality History ; Mortality trends ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Ernährungspolitik ; Unterernährung ; Verhungern ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Lebensmittelversorgung ; Mangelernährung ; Bibliografie ; Bibliografie ; Ernährungspolitik ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Geschichte 1700-2004 ; Unterernährung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Geschichte 1700-2004 ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Lebensmittelversorgung ; Mangelernährung ; Verhungern ; Prognose 2005-2100
    Abstract: Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their average longevity and to increase their average body size by over 50 per cent. Larger, healthier humans have contributed to the acceleration of economic growth and technological change, resulting in reduced economic inequality, declining hours of work and a corresponding increase in leisure time. Increased longevity has also brought increased demand for health care. Professor Fogel argues that health care should be viewed as the growth industry of the twenty-first century and systems of financing it should be reformed. His book will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy.
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  • 32
    ISBN: 9780511499401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxiv, 375 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1949-1994 ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Social stratification / China ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Soziale Situation ; Soziale Schichtung ; China / Social conditions / 1949- ; China / Economic policy / 1976-2000 ; China ; Bibliografie ; Bibliografie ; China ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziale Situation ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geschichte 1949-1994
    Abstract: This book presents a systematic study of social stratification processes in urban China, from 1949 to 1994. Based on the life histories of a sample of urban residents from 20 Chinese cities, this book addresses two themes: (1) the interplay between redistribution and social stratification under state socialism in urban China, especially the impact of the state and state policies on individual life chances, in such areas as education, labor force participation, promotion in organizations, and the distribution of manifest and latent economic benefits; (2) an assessment of sources and extent of China's economic transformation since the 1980s. The author blends sociological analysis and sensitivity to the historical context in interpreting changes and continuity in the 45-year history of state socialist China. This is a comprehensive and rigorous study of social stratification in China
    Description / Table of Contents: Redistribution and stratification dynamics under state socialism -- Overview : historical context and research design -- Educational stratification -- Entry into the labor force : patterns of first-job attainment -- Children of the cultural revolution : the send-down episode -- Climbing the political ladder : bureaucratic career patterns -- Economic transformation and changes in income inequality -- Redistribution and latent economic benefits -- Institutional changes and patterns of job shifts -- Economic transformation and life chances : a life-course perspective -- Social stratification under state socialism : summary and assessment -- Stratification dynamics and institutional transformation
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    ISBN: 0521520444 , 0521817285
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 448 Seiten , Diagramme , 24 cm
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    Keywords: Risk perception ; Risk Sociological aspects ; Public opinion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Risikogesellschaft ; Soziale Wahrnehmung
    Abstract: The social amplification of risk : assessing fifteen years of research and theory / Jeanne X. Kasperson ... [et al.] -- The logical structure of the social amplification of risk framework (SARF) : metatheoretical foundations and policy implications / Eugene A. Rosa -- Social amplification of risk and the layering method / Glynis M. Breakwell and Julie Barnett -- Institutional failure and the organizational amplification of risks : the need for a closer look / William R. Freudenburg -- Trust, transparency, and social context : implications for social amplification of risk / Lynn J. Frewer -- Risk and relativity : BSE and the British media / John Eldridge and Jacquie Reilly -- After amplification : rethinking the role of the media in risk communication / Graham Murdock, Judith Petts, and Tom Horlick-Jones -- Plague and arsenic : assignment of blame in the mass media and the social amplification and attenuation of risk / Arvind Susarla -- The dynamics of risk amplification and attenuation in context : a French case study / Marc Poumad(c)·re and Claire Mays -- Public response to Y2K : social amplification and risk adaptation : or, "how I learned to stop worrying and love Y2K" / Donald G. MacGregor -- The social dynamics of environmental risk perception : implications for risk communication research and practice / Tom Horlick-Jones, Jonathan Sime, and Nick Pidgeon -- Understanding amplification of complex risk issues : the risk story model applied to the EMF case / Peter M. Wiedemann, Martin Clauberg, and Holger Sch(c)ơtz -- Integrating politics with the social amplification of risk framework : insights from an exploration in the criminal justice context / M.V. Rajeev Gowda -- Nuclear stigma / James Flynn -- Searching for the public policy relevance of the risk amplification framework / William Leiss -- Social amplification of risk in participation : two case studies / Ortwin Renn
    Description / Table of Contents: The social amplification of risk : assessing fifteen years of research and theory / Jeanne X. Kasperson ... [et al.] -- The logical structure of the social amplification of risk framework (SARF) : metatheoretical foundations and policy implications / Eugene A. Rosa -- Social amplification of risk and the layering method / Glynis M. Breakwell and Julie Barnett -- Institutional failure and the organizational amplification of risks : the need for a closer look / William R. Freudenburg -- Trust, transparency, and social context : implications for social amplification of risk / Lynn J. Frewer -- Risk and relativity : BSE and the British media / John Eldridge and Jacquie Reilly -- After amplification : rethinking the role of the media in risk communication / Graham Murdock, Judith Petts, and Tom Horlick-Jones -- Plague and arsenic : assignment of blame in the mass media and the social amplification and attenuation of risk / Arvind Susarla -- The dynamics of risk amplification and attenuation in context : a French case study / Marc Poumadère and Claire Mays -- Public response to Y2K : social amplification and risk adaptation : or, "how I learned to stop worrying and love Y2K" / Donald G. MacGregor -- The social dynamics of environmental risk perception : implications for risk communication research and practice / Tom Horlick-Jones, Jonathan Sime, and Nick Pidgeon -- Understanding amplification of complex risk issues : the risk story model applied to the EMF case / Peter M. Wiedemann, Martin Clauberg, and Holger Schütz -- Integrating politics with the social amplification of risk framework : insights from an exploration in the criminal justice context / M.V. Rajeev Gowda -- Nuclear stigma / James Flynn -- Searching for the public policy relevance of the risk amplification framework / William Leiss -- Social amplification of risk in participation : two case studies / Ortwin Renn.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511550461
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 448 pages)
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    Keywords: Risk perception ; Risk / Sociological aspects ; Public opinion ; Risikoverhalten ; Gesellschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Risikoverhalten ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen perceptions of risk and through this create secondary effects such as stigmatisation of technologies, economic losses or regulatory impacts. This volume, edited by three of the world's leading analysts of risk and its communication, brings together contributions from a group of international experts working in the field of risk perception and risk communication. Key conceptual issues are discussed as well as a range of recent case studies (spanning BSE and food safety, AIDS/HIV, nuclear power, child protection, Y2K, electromagnetic fields, and waste incineration) that take forward the state-of-the-art in risk amplification theory. The volume also draws attention to lessons for public policy, risk management and risk communication practice
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511806551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Japanese society
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    Keywords: Families / Japan ; Family policy / Japan ; Public welfare / Japan ; Social problems / Japan ; Applied anthropology / Japan ; Familienpolitik ; Sozialpolitik ; Japan / Social policy ; Japan / Social conditions ; Japan ; Konferenzschrift 1999 ; Konferenzschrift 1999 ; Japan ; Familienpolitik ; Sozialpolitik
    Abstract: Social policies reflect and construct important ideas in societies about the relationship between the state and the individual. This 2002 book examines this relationship in a number of hitherto unexplored areas in Japanese society including policies relating to fertility, peri-natal care, child care, child abuse, sexuality, care for the aged and death. The conclusion is that a great change has taken place in all these areas through the 1990s as a consequence of Japan's changing economy, demography and the development of civil society. The case studies, based on intensive anthropological fieldwork, not only demonstrate how and why family and social policies have evolved in the world's second largest economy, but in the process provide a challenge to many of the assumptions of western policymakers. The empirical material contained in this volume will be of interest to anthropologists and to students and practitioners
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    ISBN: 9780511492600
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxii, 360 pages)
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Social capital (Sociology) ; Poverty ; Economic development ; Rural development ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Finanzwirtschaft ; Soziales Kapital ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Soziales Kapital ; Finanzwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: Previously the role of social capital - defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, and the associated norms and values - in programs of poverty alleviation and development has risen to considerable prominence. Although development practitioners have long suspected that social capital does affect the efficiency and quality of most development processes, this book provides the rigorous empirical results needed to confirm that impression and translate it into effective and informed policymaking. It is based on a large volume of collected data, relying equally on quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to establish approaches for measuring social capital and its impact. The book documents the pervasive role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development, facilitating the provision of goods and services, and easing political transition and recovery from civil conflicts
    Description / Table of Contents: Social capital and poverty: a microeconomic perspective / Paul Collier -- Social capital, growth, and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence / Stephen Knack -- Mapping and measuring social capital through assessment of collective action to conserve and develop watersheds in Rajasthan, India / Anirudh Krishna and Norman Uphoff -- Social capital and the firm: evidence from agricultural traders in Madagascar / Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten -- How do participation and social capital affect community-based water projects? Evidence from Central Java, Indonesia / Jonathan Isham and Satu Kähkönen -- Does social capital increase participation in voluntary solid waste management? Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh / Sheoli Pargal, Daniel O. Gillian, and Mainul Huq -- The impact of development assistance on social capital: evidence from Kenya / Mary Kay Gugerty and Michael Kremer -- Induced social capital and federations of the rural poor in the Andes / Anthony J. Bebbington and Thomas F. Carroll -- Social capital and social cohesion: case studies from Cambodia and Rwanda / Nat J. Colletta and Michelle L. Cullen -- Ethnicity, capital formation, and conflict: evidence from Africa / Robert H. Bates and Irene Yackovlev -- Conclusion: measuring impact and drawing policy implications / Christiaan Grootaert and Thierry Van Bastelaer
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139175302
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages)
    Series Statement: Political economy of institutions and decisions
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Institutional economics ; Social institutions ; Economic development ; Organizational change ; Marktentwicklung ; Theorie ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Verhalten ; Markt ; Individuum ; Institution ; Institutionenökonomie ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Individuum ; Verhalten ; Institution ; Institutionenökonomie ; Markt ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Theorie ; Marktentwicklung ; Institution ; Individuum ; Verhalten ; Institutionenökonomie
    Abstract: Individuals, Institutions, and Markets offers a theory of how the institutional framework of a society emerges and how markets within institutions work. The book shows that both social institutions, defined as the rules of the game, and exchange processes can be analyzed along a common theoretical structure. Mantzavinos' proposal is that a problem solving model of individual behavior inspired by the cognitive sciences provides such a unifying theoretical structure. Integrating the latest scholarship in economics, sociology, political science, law, and anthropology, Mantzavinos offers a genuine political economy showing how social institutions affect economic outcomes
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    ISBN: 9780511529450
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 266 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Keywords: Climatic changes ; Population ; Climatic changes ; Population ; Klimaänderung ; Bevölkerung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung
    Abstract: Population and Climate Change provides the first systematic in-depth treatment of links between two major themes of the twenty-first century: population growth and associated demographic trends such as aging, and climate change. It is written by a multidisciplinary team of authors from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, who integrate both natural science and social science perspectives in a way that is readable by members of both communities. The book will be of primary interest to researchers in the fields of climate change, demography, and economics. It will also be useful to policy-makers and NGOs dealing with issues of population dynamics and climate change, and to teachers and students on courses such as environmental studies, demography, climatology, economics, earth systems science, and international relations
    Abstract: Climate change -- Climate primer -- Evidence of climate change -- Contributions to greenhouse gas emissions -- Projecting future climate change -- Imapacts on society and ecosystems -- Global warming: a historical sketch -- Human population -- Demographic trends: a global summary -- Fertility decline in less developed countries -- Population projections -- IIASA 1996 population projections methodology and assumptions -- IIASA 1996 population projections: results -- Impact of global climate change on the population outlook -- Population, economic development, and environment -- Population and economic development -- Population and economic development -- Population and environment -- Vicious-circle models -- Economic impacts of population aging -- Population and greenhouse gas emissions -- Population, consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions -- Demographic impact identities -- Population sensitivity analyses -- Population and adaptation: agriculture, health and environmental security -- Food and agriculture -- Health -- Environmental security -- Population and climate change: policy implications -- Basis for climate policy -- Basis for population policies -- Climate change and population policies
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    ISBN: 9781316036495
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1735-1995 ; Life expectancy ; Lebenserwartung ; Lebenserwartung ; Sozialgeschichte 1735-1995
    Abstract: Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change, called the health transition, is characterized by a transition both in how long people expected to live, and how they expected to die. The most common age at death jumped from infancy to old age. Most people lived to know their children as adults, and most children became acquainted with their grandparents. Whereas earlier people died chiefly from infectious diseases with a short course, by later decades they died from chronic diseases, often with a protracted course. The ranks of people living in their most economically productive years filled out, and the old became commonplace figures everywhere. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History examines the way humans reduced risks to their survival, both regionally and globally, to promote world population growth and population aging
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    ISBN: 9780511628122
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 283 pages)
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    Keywords: Organizational change / Management ; Technological innovations / Management ; Technological innovations / Employee participation ; Communication in design ; Communication and technology ; Technische Innovation ; Kommunikationstechnik ; Organisationswandel ; Arbeitsplatz ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arbeitsplatz ; Organisationswandel ; Kommunikationstechnik ; Technische Innovation
    Abstract: Workplace studies are of growing significance to people in a broad range of academic disciplines and professions, in particular those involved in the development of new technologies. This ground breaking book, first published in 2000, brings together key researchers in Europe and the US to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a number of detailed case studies that not only provide an insight into the issues central to workplace studies but also some of the problems involved in carrying out such research. Part II focuses on the interrelationship between workplace studies and the design of new technologies. This book provides a valuable, multidisciplinary synthesis of the key issues and theoretical developments in workplace studies and a guide to the implications of such research for new technology design and the workplace
    Description / Table of Contents: Making a case / Lucy Suchman -- Design by problem-solving / Graham Button and Wes Sharrock -- Analysing cooperative work in an urban traffic control room for the design of a coordination support system / Jacques Theureau and Genevieve Filippi -- Expert systems in (inter) action / Jack Whalen and Erik Vinkhuyzen -- The critical role of workplace studies in CSCW / Kjeld Schmidt -- From individual action to collective activity and back / Yrjö Engeström -- Analysing work practice and the potential role of new technology at the International Monetary Fund / Richard H.R. Harper -- Ethnography, communication and support for design / John Huges [and others] -- Where the rubber hits the road / Bob Anderson -- Situating workplace studies within the human-computer interaction field / Liam J. Bannon -- Analysing the workplace and user requirements / Marina Jirotka and Lincoln Wallen -- Supporting interdisciplinary design / Thomas Erickson
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    ISBN: 9780511841286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxi, 312 pages)
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    Keywords: Entwicklungsländer ; Frau ; Women in development ; Women / Developing countries ; Capabilities approach (Social sciences) ; Frau ; Entwicklungsländer ; Entwicklungsländer ; Frau
    Abstract: In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. Nussbaum argues that international political and economic thought must be sensitive to gender difference as a problem of justice, and that feminist thought must begin to focus on the problems of women in the third world. Taking as her point of departure the predicament of poor women in India, she shows how philosophy should undergird basic constitutional principles that should be respected and implemented by all governments, and used as a comparative measure of quality of life across nations
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