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  • 1
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 626 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: Second edition
    Edition: Reproduction. s.l.
    Series Statement: Social and political science 2010 and before
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The handbook of political change in Eastern Europe
    DDC: 306.20947
    Keywords: Social change ; Post-communism ; Politischer Wandel ; Europe, Eastern Social change 1989- ; Osteuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Osteuropa ; Politischer Wandel
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  • 2
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937857
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Sozialstruktur ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Teacher, scholar, and leader, Neil Smelser stands as an iconic figure in sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars from all walks of the social sciences, reveal the range and depth of Smelser's influence - and his substantial contributions to diverse fields such as British history, social change, collective behavior, higher education, the economy, and psychoanalysis.
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  • 3
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035305131
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 283 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The new knowledge economy of Taiwan
    DDC: 338.95124906
    Keywords: Strukturwandel ; Informationstechnik ; Wissen ; Taiwan ; Information technology Economic aspects ; Knowledge economy ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Taiwan ; Technology and state Taiwan ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Taiwan ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Geschichte 1990-2003 ; Taiwan ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Geschichte 1990-2003
    Abstract: Taiwan, once one of the world's leading manufacturing economies, is now transforming into a service economy, with an emphasis on knowledge-based services. This metamorphosis has not been easy. As well as major changes in the industrial sector, human resource and policy development have been required, the experiences and implications of which are addressed in this book. Although Taiwan is only in the initial stage of transition from a material- or capital-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, the process has already provided valuable lessons to be learnt. The ramification of transformations in manufacturing, agriculture, finance, services, and the information technology industry are examined and discussed. Tain-Jy Chen and Joseph S. Lee go on to reveal the problems and difficulties that Taiwan has encountered in creating itself a new knowledge based economy, including its outmoded service sector, the inability of businesses to pursue global production and services, and the lack of capacity to create knowledge and to innovate. Providing a discernible insight into the transformation of one of the most prominent newly industrialized countries into a knowledge-based economy, this book will greatly appeal to academics, researchers, and those with a specific interest in knowledge management or Asian economies, as well as to economic analysts
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The challenges of the knowledge-based economy -- 2. Taiwan's responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century -- 3. The role of the government in a knowledge-based economy -- 4. The transformation of Taiwanese agriculture -- 5. The transformation of traditional manufacturing industries -- 6. The road to financial globalisation -- 7. The globalisation of business in Taiwan -- 8. Taiwan's knowledge-based service industry -- 9. Us semiconductor patents granted to Taiwan, south Korea and Japan -- 10. Knowledge intensification in Taiwan's it industry -- 11. The changing economic matrix between Taiwan and China -- Index.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781782543824
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 324 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Korean economy
    DDC: 330.95195
    Keywords: Volkswirtschaft ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Südkorea ; Economic stabilization ; Korea (South) Economic conditions 1960-1988 ; Korea (South) Economic conditions 1988-2002 ; Korea (South) Economic policy 1960-1988 ; Korea (South) Economic policy 1988-2002 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Südkorea ; Volkswirtschaft ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Korea ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte 1945- ; Wirtschaft ; Südkorea
    Abstract: Korea has played, and will increasingly play, an important role in the future development of the South East Asian region, including the expansion of regional economic cooperation and interregional trade. Indeed Korea has been a leading proponent of the idea of ASEAN+3. Clearer understanding of this economy, its major contemporary policy and reform issues and its future, are of particular interest from both regional and global perspectives. A remarkable recovery of the post-crisis Korean economy occurred, but questions over its sustainability remain. Korea, therefore, stands at an important economic crossroads. This opportune book draws upon the knowledge of a wide range of experienced Korean economists and specialists to cover in detail many specific sectors and policy areas, ranging from the key reform sectors - financial, corporate, and public and the labour market, to that of monetary and exchange rate policies. The role and contribution of the 'new economy' is also examined along with developments in Korea's trade and foreign direct investment, free trade agreement policy, inter-Korean economic relations, and the core ingredients of a 'new' growth and economic development paradigm. Scholars and researchers of comparative economics as well as more specifically contemporary Korean and Asian economic, development and financial studies will find this book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lessons from the Korean financial crisis -- Part II: Reform and policies -- 3. Financial sector reform -- 4. Corporate restructuring in the wake of the financial crisis -- 5. Reforming the Korean labour market and social safety net: Key pending issues -- 6. Public sector reforms -- 7. Monetary and exchange rate policies -- Part III: Other issues -- 8. A new economy for Korea -- 9. Post-crisis foreign trade and foreign investment in Korea: Korea's recovery and challenges ahead -- 10. Korea's embrace of regionalism and economic effects of its bilateral ftas with Chile and Japan -- 11. A development strategy for the north Korean economy -- Part IV: Prospects -- 12. A new paradigm for the Korean economy: Advanced state development (asd) model approach -- 13. Towards a new economic development model for Korea -- Index.
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  • 5
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035305049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 296 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Developing an annuity market in Europe
    DDC: 368.3/7/0094
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    Keywords: Altersvorsorge ; Pensionskasse ; Lebensversicherung ; Finanzmarkt ; Soziale Sicherheit ; Europa ; Annuities ; Pensions ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Europa ; Rentenfinanzierung ; Rentenmarkt ; Private Altersversorgung
    Abstract: On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities - financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth into a lifelong stream of income. Developing an Annuity Market in Europe provides an analysis of how longevity and return risks are dealt with, besides considering key features from both household and insurance company perspectives. It takes account of the fact that annuity markets are expected to attract much interest in future years given the prospective cuts in public pension expenditure. In order to fill the gap between shrinking pensions and desired retirement consumption, the authors argue, annuities must be well regulated and supplied with financially attractive products. These conditions hardly exist today: thin markets and scant interest prevail, information is incomplete and imperfect, products show significant disparities. The contributors to this book explore the causes of present malfunctioning and examine the changes that may give annuities a new and vital function, which, along with greater competition and greater regulation may significantly alter the present scene of pension finance. Finally, the book offers an overview of regulatory issues including transparency, prudential provisions, appropriate levels of guarantees, and administrative costs. This important and timely book will be invaluable to anyone interested in annuities, from practitioners through to students, researchers and academics concerned in financial or public economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Annuities for an aging world -- 3. Issues in the regulation of annuities markets -- 4. Annuity risk: Volatility and inflation exposure in payments from immediate life annuities -- 5. Pension annuitization and social security claiming -- 6. Longevity risk in living benefits -- 7. Guaranteed annuity conversion options and their valuation -- 8. The behavior of UK annuity prices from 1972 to 2002 -- 9. Private annuities and public pensions in Germany -- 10. Mandated annuities in Switzerland -- 11. The market for annuities in Italy: Reality or chimera? -- Index.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781781958216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (448 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Corporate governance in Russia
    DDC: 338.6/0947
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    Keywords: Corporate Governance ; Russland ; Corporate governance ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Russland ; Corporate Governance ; Russland ; Corporate Governance
    Abstract: Given the past decade of abuse of shareholder rights, corporate governance is essential for Russia's future. In this comprehensive volume, an international group of contributors - academics, corporate executives, government officials, policymakers, specialists from nongovernmental organizations, and legal experts - examine the crucial role of corporate governance as well as the external institutions and forces that affect it. Offering coverage from numerous perspectives, the contributors explore external and institutional influences on corporate governance, its workings within corporations, and the relationships between boards of directors, managers, shareholders, and the government. Case studies of three major companies illustrate the challenges and opportunities involved in creating sound practices. The concluding section provides a summary of the current situation and discusses implications for the future of Russia's corporate governance. A valuable source of information, Corporate Governance in Russia is a must-read for business people, government officials, academic researchers, students, and all those interested in Russia and what the future holds
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I. The political, economic, and cultural context of corporate governance -- 1. The emergence of corporate governance in Russia / Sheila M. Puffer and Daniel J. McCarthy -- 2. Corporate Governance in Russia: A Framework for Analysis / Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer -- 3. View From the Duma: An Interview with Sergey Generalov / Sergey Generalov and Stanislav V. Shekshnia -- 4. Troika Dialog's Ruben Vardanian on Corporate Governance and Attracting Investment / Sheila M. Puffer, Stanislav V. Shekshnia and Daniel J. McCarthy -- 5. Changes and Challenges in Regulating Corporate Governance / Igor V. Kostikov and Igor V. Belikov -- 6. Corporate Governance in a Cultural Context / Anatoly V. Zhuplev and Vladimir Shein -- Part II. Implementing corporate governance in Russian corporations -- 7. Corporate governance and business education / Abel G. Aganbegyan -- 8. A Strategic Approach to Improving Corporate Governance / Ruth C. May -- 9. The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Developing Corporate Governance Practices / James Gillies, Rein Peterson and Alina Pekarsky -- 10. Private Enterprise Owners and Corporate Governance / Andrey Mikhaylenko -- 11. Roles, Responsibilities, and Independence of Boards of Directors / Stanislav V. Shekshnia -- 12. Challenges of Implementing Transparency and International Accounting Standards / Alexey Zheltov -- 13. The Impact of Information Technologies on Corporate Governance / Nikolai Ermochkine -- 14. Privatization: Buy-outs, Corporate Governance Abuses, and Challenges / Mike Wright, Trevor Buck and Igor Filatotchev -- Part III. Company cases -- 15. VimpelCom: From Start-up to the New York Stock Exchange / Stanislav V. Shekshnia and Augie K. Fabela II -- 16. Ilim Pulp Battles a Hostile Takeover / Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer -- 17. Yukos and Mikhail Khodorkovsky: An Unfolding Drama / Bruce W. Bean -- Part IV. The future of corporate governance in Russia -- 18. Russia's Corporate Governance Scorecard in the Enron Era / Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer -- 19. Corporate Governance: Is There a Village Behind the Facade? / Richard N. Dean -- 20. Corporate Governance in Russia: Towards a European, US, or Russian Model? / Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer -- Index.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781035305216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 377 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Financial intermediation in the new Europe
    DDC: 332.1/78
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    Keywords: Finanzintermediation ; Bank ; Internationale Bank ; Bankenregulierung ; EU-Mitgliedschaft ; EU-Staaten ; Banks and banking ; Intermediation (Finance) ; Monetary policy ; Europe Economic integration ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Erweiterung ; Osteuropa ; Kapitalmarkt
    Abstract: What role will the current evolution of banking systems play in the newly adopted EU countries during the historic challenges following enlargement? This book, a blend of economics and political economy, offers a systematic analysis of the current trends in financial intermediation in the countries of the newly enlarged Europe, with particular focus on those policies taken by foreign banks on the one hand, and by regulatory and supervisory authorities on the other. The authors argue that their research has led to one conclusion; in order to enter the EU, the accession countries needed to increase the efficiency of their economic systems rapidly through liberalization and privatization. The book assesses whether the presence of foreign banks will contribute to long term economic growth and financial stability, and how the architecture of banking regulations and supervision should be designed. As a multidisciplinary work, though principally economics, the book will appeal to scholars and academics of politics and law. It also has particular relevance for regulators and supervisory institutions, as well as professionals including bankers, financial operators and also legal compliance officers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Intermediation, firms and financial markets -- 1. Banking industry in central and eastern Europe: The unexpected leader in the transition and integration with the EU -- 2. Deepening financial intermediation in the new Europe: The role of banks -- 3. Financial structures and private sector development in the new Europe -- 4. Financial risk in accession countries -- Part II: Foreign banks -- 5. Who needs foreign banks? -- 6. New Europe banking: The role of international players -- 7. Financial intermediation in accession countries: The role of foreign banks -- 8. Foreign banks and financial stability in the new Europe -- 9. Eastern passages for Italy's banks and industrial districts: Are the two related or independent? -- Part III: Regulation, supervision and monetary policy -- 10. Financial regulation in the new Europe -- 11. Single authority in financial markets supervision: Lessons for EU enlargement -- 12. Deposit insurance in the new Europe -- 13. Interest rate pass-through in EU acceding countries: The case of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland -- Index.
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  • 8
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035305100
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 419 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Oates, Wallace E., 1937 - 2015 Environmental policy and fiscal federalism
    DDC: 333.7/0973
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Finanzbeziehungen ; Gemeindefinanzen ; USA ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Intergovernmental fiscal relations ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Intergovernmental fiscal relations ; Local finance ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Föderalismus ; Fiskalpolitik ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltpolitik ; Steuerpolitik
    Abstract: Wallace Oates is one of the most important scholars in both environmental economics and public finance and this new volume of his essays brings together his recent research in both these areas, covering theory, research and policy. The first half of the book includes papers on the political economy of environmental policy, the analysis of environmental regulation and environmental federalism. The second half deals with fiscal and regulatory competition, state and local government finance and fiscal federalism. This new collection will be essential reading for scholars and students in both environmental economics and public finance
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: The political economy of environmental policy -- Part II: The analysis of environmental regulation -- Part III: Environmental federalism -- Part IV: Fiscal and regulatory competition -- Part V: State and local government finance -- Part VI: Fiscal federalism -- Index.
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  • 9
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781781958667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Modelling in ecological economics
    DDC: 333.7/01/1
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    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Mathematik ; Theorie ; Ökonometrisches Modell ; Environmental economics Methodology ; Environmental economics Econometric models ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltökonomie ; Ökonometrisches Modell
    Abstract: This book focuses on modelling in ecological economics and offers a comprehensive overview of current and emerging methods of applying mathematical, computational and conceptual methods to environmental issues. Following a detailed introduction, the authors investigate various modelling techniques including: * evolutionary modelling * input-output modelling * neo-Austrian modelling * entropy in ecological economics * thermodynamic models * multi-criteria evaluation * agent-based modelling * the environmental Kuznets curve. In each of the specially commissioned chapters, the expert authors have tried to limit the level of complexity to create a unique and accessible resource. As such, this book should have a wide appeal amongst scholars, researchers and students with an interest in modelling techniques and their use in ecological and environmental economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. An Introduction to modelling in ecological economics -- 2. Evolutionary models -- 3. Input-output models -- 4. Neo-austrian models -- 5. Entropy in ecological economics -- 6. Thermodynamic models -- 7. Multi-criteria evaluation -- 8. Agent-based models -- 9. The environmental kuznets curve -- Index.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781035304981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 141 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Vickrey, William S., 1914 - 1996 Full employment and price stability
    DDC: 339.5
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    Keywords: Vollbeschäftigung ; Preisstabilität ; Makroökonomik ; Employment (Economic theory) ; Full employment policies ; Price regulation ; Macroeconomics ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Makroökonomie ; Vollbeschäftigung ; Preisstabilität
    Abstract: Collecting Nobel Laureate William S. Vickrey's articles on macroeconomic theory and policy written towards the end of his career, this volume demonstrates his enduring commitment to full employment and price stability, and his rejection of conventional macroeconomic theorizing. William Vickrey never lost hope that sensible macroeconomic policy could be understood and implemented, a faith inspired by his humanistic vision of a better world for all and his belief that common sense would ultimately prevail. Advocating sensible economic policies, this collection will offer much of value to heterodox and orthodox economists, graduate economics students and also policymakers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface by David Colander -- Introduction -- 1. Budget-smudget: Why balance what, how and when? -- 2. The need for a direct anti-inflation program -- 3. Design of a market anti-inflation program -- 4. Meaningfully defining deficits and debt -- 5. Chock-full employment without increased inflation: A proposal for marketable markup warrants -- 6. An updated agenda for progressive taxation -- 7. Today's task for economists -- 8. My innovative failures in economics -- 9. The other side of the coin -- 10. Necessary and optimum government debt -- 11. Why not chock-full employment? -- 12. A trans-Keynesian manifesto -- 13. Fifteen fatal fallacies of financial fundamentalism: A disquisition on demand side economics -- 14. We need a bigger 'deficit' -- epilogue by James K. Galbraith -- Index.
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781781959602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 352 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Entrepreneurship and regional economic development
    DDC: 338/.04
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Regionalentwicklung ; Regionalökonomik ; Standortwahl ; Entrepreneurship ; Regional planning ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmer ; Regionalentwicklung ; Raumwirtschaftstheorie ; Standortplanung
    Abstract: In a shrinking and increasingly globalised world, it is vital for any entrepreneur to carefully select the location at which production or other economic activities will occur. This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of entrepreneurial behaviour in a spatial context, and links it to important new fields in economics such as endogenous growth theory, the new economic geography and evolutionary theory. Although most of the literature to date has failed to study the geographic element of entrepreneurship, this book redresses the balance by examining the spatial variation in entrepreneurial activity and the implications of this for regional policy. The authors provide an in-depth analysis of the role of the entrepreneur in fostering economic development, document the most important recent theoretical and empirical developments, and explain the reasons why some regions grow whereas others stagnate. They also present a number of empirical analyses including case studies from the manufacturing and ICT sectors, as well as an examination of the role of university-based knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial behaviour. Throughout the book, the role of knowledge, knowledge transmission and knowledge spillovers are considered as they relate to entrepreneurial activity and location decisions. This book presents many important new findings on the relationship between entrepreneurship, agglomeration and economic growth. It will make a substantial addition to the literature and will be essential reading for regional economists, geographers, business and management analysts, and development practitioners and policymakers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Entrepreneurship and economic development -- 2. Firm behaviour and organisation from an evolutionary perspective -- 3. The roles of entrepreneurship in economic growth: Toward a theory of total factor productivity -- 4. Technocapitalism and the new ecology of entrepreneurship -- Part II: Spatial variation in drivers of economic development -- 5. Spatial variation in social capital among uk small and medium-sized enterprises -- 6. The institutionalization and endogenization of venture capital: A regional analysis of northern virginia in the 1990s -- 7. Human capital and regional socio-economic performance: Differential patterns across australia's cities and towns -- Part III: Empirical case studies -- 8. A knowledge-based view on innovation in regional networks: The case of the kic project -- 9. The role of collective learning in ict adoption and use -- 10. Industrial clusters and regional development: A transactions-costs perspective on the semiconductor industry -- 11. Academic knowledge and fostering entrepreneurship: An evolutionary perspective -- Part IV: Theoretical approaches -- 12. Location of engineering and designer services in the information economy -- 13. Firm dynamics and self-organised criticality -- 14. Knowledge, capital formation and innovation behaviour in a spatial context -- Index.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781781958698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Central banking in the modern world
    DDC: 332.11
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    Keywords: Geldpolitik ; Zinspolitik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Banks and banking, Central ; Monetary policy ; Interest rates ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Notenbank
    Abstract: Monetarism is dead! Central bankers are all Wicksellians now! They target low inflation rates, with no regard to monetary aggregates whatsoever, by acting upon short-term real rates of interest. This is the New Consensus in monetary economics, or simply the New Keynesian Synthesis. Yet, this synthesis still hinges on variants of the long-run vertical Phillips curve originally proposed by Milton Friedman, the father of old-line monetarism. Contributors to the volume question this New Consensus. While they agree that the money supply should be conceived as endogenous, they carefully examine the procedures pursued by central banks, the monetary policy transmission mechanisms suggested by central bankers themselves, and the assumptions imbedded in the New Consensus. They propose alternative analyses that clearly demonstrate the limits of modern central banking and point to the possible instability of monetary economies. Heterodox and orthodox monetary macroeconomists alike will find this illuminating book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: The new consensus -- 1. The new consensus on monetary policy seen from a post-Keynesian perspective -- 2. Central banking, stability and macroeconomic outcomes: A comparison of new consensus and post-Keynesian monetary macroeconomics -- 3. Interest rate operating procedures and income distribution -- 4. Monetary policy when money is endogenous: Going beyond the 'new consensus' -- Part II: Transmission mechanisms -- 5. Monetary dialogue and dogma at the bank of Canada: Inside -- 6. Interest rate policy at the bank of Canada: Setting the agenda -- 7. Modern central banks only have real effects -- 8. Central banking in the monetary circuit -- 9. Long-term interest rates, liquidity preference, and the limits of central banking -- 10. The role of monetary policy in post-Keynesian stock-flow consistent macroeconomic growth models -- Part III: Historical perspectives -- 11. The effectiveness of monetary policy in open economy macroeconomics: Dornbusch versus tobin -- 12. Minsky and tobin on the instability of a monetary economy -- 13. Considerations on allan h. Meltzer's history of the federal reserve -- 14. Central banking in early industrialization -- Index.
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781782543237
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 278 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Competition and corporate governance in Korea
    DDC: 338.095195
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    Keywords: Konglomerat ; Corporate Governance ; Wettbewerbspolitik ; Regulierung ; Südkorea ; Corporations Finance ; Corporate governance ; Corporations Government policy ; Competition ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Südkorea ; Konzern ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Mischkonzern ; Corporate Governance ; Geschichte 1997-2004 ; Südkorea ; Konzern ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ; Corporate Governance
    Abstract: The business environment of the chaebol (large corporations in Korea) has changed drastically since the outbreak of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This book discusses the attempts of the Korean government to remedy structural weaknesses in the corporate sector by launching an aggressive chaebol reform package, supported by the IMF and other international agencies. Its main objective was to restore competitiveness in the corporate sector and to upgrade business conditions to that of international practices and standards. Competition and Corporate Governance in Korea critically reviews government policy towards the chaebol and provides a comprehensive investigation of the relationship between corporate governance and economic performance as well as the interaction of economic institutions with the chaebols' incentive structure and management behaviour. Policy implications based on objective and rigorous empirical analyses of data on the chaebol are also discussed. Notwithstanding the fact that the chaebol have already undergone considerable governance, capital, and business portfolio restructuring, this volume suggests a road map for further restructuring, and the creation of a new incentive structure to help strengthen chaebol competitiveness. This richly informative book will appeal to academics and researchers of industrial organization, economics and corporate reform as well as those involved in Asian studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Government and chaebols: Institutional perspectives -- 1. The chaebol, corporate policy and korea's development paradigm -- 2. An alternative perspective on government policy towards the chaebol in korea: Industrial policy, financial regulations and political democracy -- Part II: Corporate governance and chaebol reform -- 3. Corporate governance and chaebol reform in korea -- 4. The monitoring role of financial institutions in the korean corporate sector -- 5. Restructuring and corporate governance of the korean chaebol -- Part III: Chaebol restructuring policy and its evaluation -- 6. Chaebol restructuring revisited: A coasian perspective -- 7. Government-led restructuring of firms' excess capacity and its limits: Korean 'big deal' case -- Part IV: Chaebol business structure and survival strategies -- 8. The evolution and restructuring of diversified business groups in emerging markets: The lessons from chaebols in korea -- 9. Portfolio restructuring based on strategic relatedness between businesses: A suggestion for the chaebol -- Index.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203169582
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Frau ; Ethnizität ; Nationalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political or social transition provide new opportunities for women, or instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them. Using contemporary case-studies, each author looks at the interaction of gender ethnicity and class in a divided society. The varying experiences of women are discussed in the following countries: Northern Ireland; South Africa; the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; Yemen; Lebanon and Malaysia.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203492567
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.2422
    Keywords: Jugendpsychologie ; Jugendsoziologie ; Mädchen ; Weibliche Jugend ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This groundbreaking collection offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st Century. These are the riot grrls and the Spice Girls, the good girls and the bad girls who are creating their own "girl" culture and giving a whole new meaning to "grrl" power. Featuring provocative essays from leaders in the field like Michelle Fine, Angela McRobbie, Valerie Walkerdine, Nancy Lesko, Niobe Way and Deborah Tolman, this work brings to life the ever-changing identities of today's young women. The contributors cover all aspects of girlhood from around the world and strike upon such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity. This is new scholarship at its best.
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    ISBN: 9780203390689
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 pages)
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    DDC: 791.430233092
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    Abstract: Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He worked with Margaret Mead, John Marshall and Napoleon Chagnon, lived and filmed on every continent except Antarctica, and won numerous international prizes. His work, which includes 'The Ax Fight' and more than 50 other films of the Yanomamö Indians of Venezuela, comprises the most widely used resource in the teaching of anthropology today. Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film combines a biographical overview of Asch's life with theoretical and critical perspectives, giving a definitive guide to his background, aims and ideas, methodology and major projects. Beautifully illustrated with 60 photos, and featuring articles from many of Asch's friends, colleagues and collaborators as well as an important interview with Asch himself, it is an ideal introduction to his work and to a range of key issues in ethnographic film.
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    ISBN: 9780203647219
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
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    Abstract: Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations of space that these processes both reflect and reproduce. Transnational Spaces takes a innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.
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    ISBN: 9780203606445
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Environmental Anthropology v.41
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    Keywords: Nachhaltigkeit ; Lokales Wissen ; Entwicklungsländer ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: There is a revolution happening in the practice of anthropology. A new field of 'indigenous knowledge' is emerging, which aims to make local voices hear and ensure that development initiatives meet the needs of indigenous people. Development and Local Knowledge focuses on two major challenges that arise in the discussion of indigenous knowledge - its proper definition and the methodologies appropriate to the exploitation of local knowledge. These concerns are addressed in a range of ethnographic contexts.
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    ISBN: 9780203499719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Philosophie ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    ISBN: 9780203643617
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Interethnische Herkunft ; Rassenmischung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.
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    ISBN: 9780203011256
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1910 ; Sklaverei ; Afrika ; Indischer Ozean ; Asien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The abolition of slavery in and around the Western Indian Ocean have been little studied. This collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in relation to specific indigenous societies and to Islam, a religion that embraced the entire region, and draws comparisons between similar developments in the Atlantic system. Case studies include South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Benadir Coast, Arabia, the Persian Gulf and India. This volume marks an important new development in the study of slavery and its abolition in general, and an original approach to the history of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Asia regions.
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    ISBN: 9781135766207
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Series Statement: The Metropolis and Modern Life
    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Stadtforschung ; Ethnologie ; Feldforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers in sociology and anthropology. Broken down into sections that cover key aspects of ethnographic research, Ethnography and the City will expose readers to important works in the field, while also guiding students to the study of method as they embark on their own work.
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    Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789027295286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 pages)
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    Keywords: Konversationsanalyse ; Pragmatik ; Theorie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by Harvey Sacks, the authors produce detailed empirical accounts of talk in interaction that make fundamental contributions to our understanding of turntaking, action formation and sequence organization. One distinguishing feature of this collection is that each of the contributors worked directly with Sacks as a collaborator or was trained by him at the University of California or both. Taken together this collection gives readers a taste of CA inquiry in its early years, while nevertheless presenting research of contemporary significance by internationally known conversation analysts.
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    Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789027294937
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (367 pages)
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    Keywords: Kommunikation ; Mehrsprachigkeit ; Soziolinguistik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In a world of increasing migration and technological progress, multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding communication between members of different linguistic groups and contains a collection of original papers by members of the German Science Foundation's research center on multilingualism at Hamburg University and by international experts, offering an overview of the most important research fields in multilingual communication. The book is divided into four sections dealing with interpreting and translation, code-switching in various institutional contexts, two important strands of multilingual communication: rapport and politeness, and contrastive studies of Japanese and German grammar and discourse. The editors' preface presents the relevant theoretical and methodological background to the issues discussed in this book and points to useful directions for future research.
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    Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 pages)
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    Keywords: Habermas, Jürgen ; Kritische Theorie ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (393 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Einrichtung ; Soziale Situation ; Zivilisation ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    New York : Columbia University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780231503204
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-2000 ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Minderheitenpolitik ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Featuring essays by leading historians, this brief history is a timely introduction to the interrelated themes of race, ethnicity, and immigration in American history. The book is comprehensive both chronologically -- spanning from 1600 to 2000 and covering everything from the Trail of Tears to the Black Power movement -- and in terms of ethnic groups addressed: it examines not only the history of black-white relations in America, but also the experiences of Irish Catholics, Native Americans, Latinos, Jews, and many others.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 780.89
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    Keywords: Musikethnologie ; Weltmusik ; Ensemble ; Volksmusikgruppe ; Musikerziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning processes. Their perspectives, drawing upon expertise in Caribbean steelband, Indian, Balinese, Javanese, Philippine, Mexican, Central and West African, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Jewish klezmer ensembles, provide a uniquely informed and many-faceted view of this complicated and rapidly changing landscape. The authors examine the creative and pedagogical negotiations involved in intergenerational and intercultural transmission and explore topics such as reflexivity, representation, hegemony, and aesthetically determined interaction. Performing Ethnomusicology affords sophisticated insights into the structuring of ethnomusicologists' careers and methodologies. This book offers an unprecedented rich history and contemporary examination of academic world music performance in the West, especially in the United States. "Performing Ethnomusicology is an important book not only within the field of ethnomusicology itself, but for scholars in all disciplines engaged in aspects of performance-historical musicology, anthropology, folklore, and cultural studies. The individual articles offer a provocative and disparate array of threads and themes, which Solís skillfully weaves together in his introductory essay. A book of great importance and long overdue."-R. Anderson Sutton, author of Calling Back the Spirit Contributors: Gage Averill, Kelly Gross, David Harnish, Mantle Hood, David W. Hughes, Michelle Kisliuk, David Locke, Scott Marcus, Hankus Netsky,...
    Abstract: Ali Jihad Racy, Anne K. Rasmussen, Ted Solís, Hardja Susilo, Sumarsam, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Roger Vetter, J. Lawrence Witzleben.
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    ISBN: 9780203485811
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (351 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Intelligence
    DDC: 303.37509409045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1960 ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Kultur ; Westeuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The idea of the Cold War as a propaganda contest as opposed to a military conflict is being increasingly accepted. This has led to a re-evaluation of the relationship between economic policies, political agendas and cultural activities in Western Europe post 1945. This book provides an important cross-section of case studies that highlight the connections between overt/covert activities and cultural/political agendas during the early Cold War. It therefore provides a valuable bridge between diplomatic and intelligence research and represents an important contribution towards our understanding of the significance and consequences of this linkage for the shaping of post-war democratic societies.
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    ISBN: 9780203413845
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (329 pages)
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    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    DDC: 303.483
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    Abstract: Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index.
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    ISBN: 9780203004883
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
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    Series Statement: Critical Geographies
    DDC: 304.2/7
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    Keywords: Mensch ; Tiere ; Geografie ; Raum ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and power. As humans we have placed different animals into different categories, according to some notion of species, usefulness, domesticity or wildness. As a result of these varying and often contested orderings, animals are assigned to particular places and spaces. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places shows us that there are many exceptions and variations on the spatiality of human-animal spatial orderings, within and across cultures, and over time. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourages us to find better ways for humans and animals to live together.
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    ISBN: 9781410610089
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Brehm, Jack Williams ; Sozialpsychologie ; Sozialverhalten ; Soziale Motivation ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book honors Jack W. Brehm's contributions to psychology, all of which revolve around a central theme of motivation and social behavior. It begins with two personal chapters and then presents a collection of cutting-edge, substantive chapters authored by researchers whose work Brehm has strongly influenced. It concludes with a chapter by Jack Brehm that reflects on the field of psychology, discusses a new theory of social influence, and offers ideas about the direction in which our understanding of human behavior could move. Motivational Analyses of Social Behavior will be of value to research scientists, educators, and practitioners interested in social motivational processes and those who developed major theories in this area. Interested readers include individuals specializing in social, clinical, organizational, personality, health, and motivational psychology, and psychophysiology. The book would also be ideal for advanced courses on social motivation and the history of psychology.
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    ISBN: 9781410610249
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (697 pages)
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    Keywords: Sexualität ; Zweierbeziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Although sexuality is an integral part of close romantic relationships, research linking these two constructs has been less systematic than other areas pertaining to close relationships. To date, researchers in communication, sociology, family studies, psychology, and psychiatry, have made significant advances in both of these fields. The editors' goal is to integrate this research into one volume. They bring together major scholars from the diversity of fields working on close relationship topics to examine past contributions and new directions in sexuality. The emphasis is on theoretical integration and stimulation, methodological rigor, and critical analysis. This volume explores: *early sexual experiences and their impact on late life sexuality; *how life's stresses impact sexuality and satisfaction with closeness; *the affect of postpartum depression on sexuality; and *the relationship between control, power, anger, as well as revenge and sexual processes in couples. The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships is intended for students and researchers in the disciplines of social, clinical, developmental, and health psychology; family studies; counseling; and interpersonal, family, and health communication. An excellent reference in advanced courses in close relationships taught in psychology, communications, sociology, anthropology, and family studies, the material in Part V will also appeal to clinical psychologists, health professionals, and policymakers.
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    ISBN: 9781410610300
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (451 pages)
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    Keywords: Familie ; Psychologie ; Generationsbeziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This edited book draws from work that focuses on the act of telling family stories, as well as their content and structure. The process of telling family stories is linked to central aspects of development, including language acquisition, affect regulation, and family interaction patterns. This book extends across traditional developmental psychology, personality theory, and family studies. Drawing broadly on the epigenetic framework for individual development articulated by Erik Erikson, as well as on conceptions of the family life cycle, the editors bring together contemporary examples of psychological research on family stories and their implications for development and change at different points in the life course. The book is divided into sections that focus on family stories at different points in the life cycle, from early childhood and the beginnings of narrative skill, through adolescence, young adulthood, midlife, and then mature adulthood and its intergenerational meaning. During each of these periods of the life cycle, research focusing on individual development within an Eriksonian framework of ego strengths and virtues is highlighted. The dynamic role of family stories is also featured here, with work exploring the links between family process, intergenerational attachment, and storytelling. Sociocultural theories that emphasize how such development is situated in the wider cultural context are also featured in several chapters. This broad lifespan developmental focus serves to integrate the exciting diversity of this work and foster further questions and research in the emerging field of family narrative. The book is intended primarily for researchers and advanced-level students in the fields of developmental and personality psychology, as well as those in family studies and in gerontology. It may also be of interest to those in...
    Abstract: the helping professions who are concerned with family therapy and family issues, and may--due to its content and illustrative material--have appeal to a wider market of the lay public. The chapters are written in a readily accessible style and the analyses are presented in a fairly non-technical way. Because family stories are charted across the lifespan, it would be a suitable companion book to a more traditional lifespan textbook in certain courses.
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    ISBN: 9780203491577
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (113 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Medieval History and Culture v.27
    DDC: 270.5/082
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    Abstract: This study examines partnerships between medieval women and scribes. Kimberly Benedict argues that medieval female visionaries often play prominent roles in collaboration while their male amanuenses serves as supports and foils.
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    ISBN: 9781441146434
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
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    Series Statement: Open Linguistics
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Konversationsanalyse ; Textlinguistik ; Soziolinguistik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Any piece of primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review. The key advantage of a systematic review over the traditional narrative review is its ability to identify all the available evidence in a systematic and relicable manner. This book describes a? the key steps to undertaking a systematic review and b/ the process of untertaking a meta-analysis. The book includes step-by-step examples of how to design data extraction forms, search strategies and combine in a meta-analysis.
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    Palo Alto : Stanford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780804767248
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (405 pages)
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    Keywords: Wohneigentum ; Soziale Schichtung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Ithaca : State University of New York Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780791483909
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
    Series Statement: SUNY Series in Israeli Studies
    DDC: 306.766308992405694
    Keywords: Lesbe ; Israel ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    ISBN: 9780203329757
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
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    Keywords: Popmusik ; Folk music ; Propaganda ; Protestbewegung ; Politischer Protest ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Music, Power, and Politics presents sixteen different cultural perspectives on the concept of music as a site of socio-political struggle. Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which music's long-acknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or even silence listeners, has been used to advance agendas of power and protest. The essays included examine: music used to convey political ideology in Nazi Germany, apartheid-era South Africa, and modern-day North Korea postcolonial musical efforts to reclaim ethnic heritage in Serbia and the Caribbean music as a means of establishing new cultural identities for recently empowered social groups in the UK and Brazil the subversion of racial stereotypes through popular music in the USA music as a tool of popular resistance to oppressive government policies in modern day Iran and the Bolivian Andes.
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    ISBN: 9780203503812
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (357 pages)
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    Abstract: The terrorist attacks of September 11th and more recent atrocities in Russia, Indonesia and Kenya have demonstrated that terrorism now poses the most dangerous threat to stability, democracy and prosperity around the world. This major new book examines how the world has reacted to, and been affected by, the attacks on September 11th, ensuing war in Afghanistan and President George W. Bush's declaration of a 'war on terror' as the 'first war of the 21st century'. The contributions by distinguished specialists in the field examine the domestic implications of terrorism and counter terrorist initiatives across the world. Few books can boast the quality and range of the contributions to this volume, which locate the war on terror in a truly global and intellectual context.
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    ISBN: 9780203420409
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
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    Keywords: Feminismus ; Frauenbewegung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Over the last two decades there has been considerable enthusiasm for the concept of civil society amongst researchers, practitioners and activists. Yet despite this enthusiasm for the concept, the gendered nature of civil society and the impact of feminist organizing on civil society has received minimal attention. This edited volume seeks to address this gap, and considers: * how the political environment and nature of the state shapes the way women organize, the issues they address, and their capacity to affect changes in state policies on gender * is the women's movement structurally different from other civil society organizations? * does the gender lens alter our vision of civil society? The chapters in this volume pursue two or more of these questions and cover a diversity of contexts, including the US, East and Central Europe, China, the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, Central America and Chile. This book not only draws together the concepts of gender and civil society, but also adopts an international perspective, highlighting the diverse trajectories of women organizing in different country contexts and the historical, cultural and political specificities of civil society.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203577929
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
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    Keywords: Datenbank ; Humangenetik ; Gesundheitswesen ; Sozialethik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases. Drawing on original empirical research and theoretical debates in the fields of sociology, anthropology and legal studies, the contributors to this book challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of informed consent and explore the relationship between personal privacy and the public good. They also consider the multiple meanings attached to human tissue and the role of public consultations and commercial involvement in the creation and use of genetic databases. The authors argue that policy and regulatory frameworks produce a representation of participation that is often at odds with the experiences and understandings of those taking part. The findings present a serious challenge for public policy to provide mechanisms to safeguard the welfare of individuals participating in genetic databases.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203769362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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    Keywords: Visuelle Medien ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Feldforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation. Drawing upon projects undertaken both 'at home' in their native countries and abroad in locations such as Ethopia and Venezuela, the book's contributors demonstrate how visual methods are used in the field, and how these methods can produce and communicate knowledge about our own and other cultures. As well as focusing on key issues such as ethics and the relationship between word and image, they emphasize the huge range of visual methods currently opening up new possibilities for field research, from cartoons and graphic art to new media such as digital video and online technologies.
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    Clevedon : Multilingual Matters | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781853596483
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (359 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism Series
    DDC: 306.446
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    Keywords: Mehrsprachigkeit ; Identität ; Selbstbewusstsein ; Sprachliche Minderheit ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable.
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    Clevedon : Multilingual Matters | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781853597800
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (438 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters S.
    DDC: 306.446094
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    Keywords: Mehrsprachigkeit ; Einwanderer ; Minderheitensprache ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The final outcome of the Multilingual Cities Project, this book offers multidisciplinary, crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on the status of immigrant minority languages at home and school in a dominant Germanic or Romance environment.
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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410611840
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Series Statement: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Regionale Identität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly. Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among the communities affected by these changes. The authors make a case for why it is important for local social practices, communicative conventions, linguistic realities, and knowledge paradigms to actively inform language policies and practices for classrooms and communities in specific contexts, and to critically inform those pertaining to other communities. Engaging with the dominant paradigms in the discipline of applied linguistics, the chapters include research relating to second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, literacy, and language planning. The majority of chapters are case studies of specific contexts and communities, focused on situations of language teaching. Beyond their local contexts these studies are important for initiating discussion of their relevance for other, different communities and contexts. Taken together, the chapters in this book approach the task of reclaiming and making space for the local by means of negotiating with the present and the global. They illuminate the paradox that the local contains complex values of diversity, multilingualism, and plurality that can help to reconceive the multilingual society and education for postmodern times.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511164156
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (347 pages)
    DDC: 306.74
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    Keywords: Prostitution ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2004, explores the influence of women's movements and women's policy agencies on policy and legislation relating to prostitution.
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    London : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781412933711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
    DDC: 303.34
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    Keywords: Führung ; Macht ; Organisation ; Identität ; Sozialpsychologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Leadership and Power is a synthesis of contributions from eminent social psychologists and organizational scientists that addresses issues from a fresh perspective. In recent years, these themes have been re-examined through the lens of social categorization approaches that highlight people's social identity and social roles as group members, as well as the processes that influence perceptions of and expectations about people and groups. The book is wide-ranging; chapters cover such diverse issues as interpersonal versus group-oriented styles of leadership, leadership of totalist groups, political leadership, and gender and leadership. It represents a state-of-the-art overview of this burgeoning field that will be important to a host of disciplines.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313062872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages)
    Series Statement: Teen Life around the World
    DDC: 305.235/09729
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    Keywords: Jugend ; Soziale Situation ; Lateinamerika ; Karibik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Teens in Latin America and the Caribbean generally face a difficult path to adulthood. Poverty and unemployment, violence, political instability, and emigration are frequently the norm in their native countries. Those from poorer families must often work as well as attend school, and opportunities for higher education and good jobs are limited. Wealthier teens, on the other hand, are sheltered from harshness and enjoy private schools, vacations abroad, and access to American consumer products. Yet family is important no matter what the class, and most of these teens share a love of parties, music, and current fashions. Latin America and the Caribbean are important regions to the United States, since large numbers of Americans can trace their roots there. Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean allows U.S. teens to understand the unique challenges and opportunities of teens in 15 Latin American or Caribbean countries. Photos complement the text.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313053016
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
    Series Statement: A World View of Social Issues
    DDC: 304.8/2
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    Keywords: Migration ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The post-World War II period has been called the age of migration, since an unprecedented number of people worldwide have been on the move. This reference surveys migration and immigration past and present in 14 representative countries. Historical, social, political, and economic consequences of migration are considered. Students and researchers will find the synthesis indispensable and the format ideal for comparisons. The collective analysis of the contributors, who hail from a range of disciplines, ultimately defies the simple characterization of migration as a choice of people seeking better income opportunities. The authors are sensitive to the ways that race, class, and gender dynamics influence the composition of migratory flows, the reasons why people migrate, and the outcomes of population movements. Each chapter explicates the human cost of migration, giving readers a better understanding of social issues underlying migration at the beginning of the 21st century.
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    Champaign : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780252090431
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Wallfahrt ; Tourismus ; Religionsethnologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Starting from the premise that religion--broadly defined--involves a quest for meaning, Intersecting Journeys seeks to bridge the conceptual dichotomy between pilgrimage as religious travel and tourism as secular journeying. _x000B__x000B_The appeal of sacred sites remains undiminished at the start of the twenty-first century, as unprecedented numbers of visitors travel to Lourdes, Rome, Jerusalem, and Santiago de Compostela. Likewise, locations not conventionally considered shrines, such as Ground Zero or Star Trek conventions, attract visitors in search of links to a collectivity larger than the self. This book's ethnographic analysis of the conflicts over resources and meanings associated with such sites, as well as the sense of community they inspire, provides compelling evidence emphasizing the links between pilgrimage and tourism. _x000B__x000B_.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203201824
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Medienforschung ; Medienpolitik ; Massenmedien ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: International Media Research offers a rigorous and critical review of key approaches and concerns that have recently defined the field of media research. In this clearly argued collection of essays, the contributors analyze and reflect upon dominant themes and debates that have made media research an increasingly important element of cultural theory. The volume begins with a critical evaluation of the work of the leading media scholar, Elihu Katz, and continues with an exploration of the relationship between media studies and adjacent disciplines: cultural studies and gender and sexuality. Contributors drawn from Britain, America, Canada and Belgium consider the relationships between media research and media policy in different national and international contexts. Focusing on the European Union, East-Central Europe, North America and Latin America, chapters assess the impact of social, economic and political circumstances on policy debates and the shaping of the research agenda. The final chapter adopts a transatlantic perspective in tracing and analysing the history of the media's role in reporting war.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203491348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (501 pages)
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    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Schwarze ; Schwarze Frau ; Ethnische Identität ; Bildung ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203339978
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
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    Series Statement: Comedia
    DDC: 305.8/00941
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    Keywords: Kulturerbe ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined? This book interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'. Bringing together a wide range of contributors, including academics, practitioners, policy makers and curators, it examines how many different of types of heritage - from football to stately homes, experience attractions to education - deal with the complex legacies of the idea of 'race'. Whether exploring the fallout of colonialism, the domination of 'England' over the other three nations, holocaust memorials, or the way British heritage is negotiated overseas, a recurring theme of this book is the need to accept that Britain has always been a place of shifting ethnicities, shaped by waves of migration, diaspora and globalization. Analyzing both theory and practice, this book is concerned with understanding the processes through which changes to heritage happens, and with exploring problems and possibilities for the future.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203563243
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    DDC: 303.484095
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    Keywords: Politik ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Soziale Bewegung ; Protestbewegung ; Asien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book provides new perspectives on transnational activism with a specific regional focus on Asia. By offering an innovative approach, its theoretical chapters and empirical case studies examine macro as well as micro aspects of power and how cross-border activities of civil society groups are related to problems of democracy.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203209653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (209 pages)
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    DDC: 305.40901
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    Keywords: Frau ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Written by an international range of renowned academics, this volume explores how women in antiquity influenced aspects of culture normally though of as male. Looking at politics, economics, science, law and the arts, the contributors examine examples from around the ancient world asking how far traditional definitions of culture describe male spheres of activity, and examining to what extent these spheres were actually created and perpetuated by women. Women's Influence of Classical Civilization provides students with a valuable wider perspective on the roles and influence of women in the societies of the Greek and Roman worlds.
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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410611628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 pages)
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Bildersprache ; Sprachverstehen ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together recent research concerning the social and cultural influences on figurative language cognition. These influences include gender, cultural differences, economic status, and inter-group effects, among others. The effects these influences have on people's use, comprehension, and even processing of figurative language, comprise the main theme of this volume. No other book offers such a look at the social and cultural influences on a whole family of figurative forms at several levels of cognition. This volume is of great interest to scholars and professionals in the disciplines of social and cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition, as well as cognitive and other fields of linguistics where scholars have interests in pragmatics, metaphor, symbol, discourse, and narrative. Some knowledge of the empirical and experimental methods used in language research, as well as some familiarity with theories underlying the use, comprehension, and processing of figurative language would be helpful to readers of this book.
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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410611529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (554 pages)
    Series Statement: Applied Psychology Series
    DDC: 306.3/6
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    Keywords: Familie ; Berufstätigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Work-family researchers have had much success in encouraging both organizations and individuals to recognize the importance of achieving greater balance in life. Work and Life Integration addresses the intersect between work, life, and family in new and interesting ways. It discusses current challenges in dealing with work-life integration issues and sets the stage for future research agendas. The book enlightens the research community and informs the public debates on how workplaces can be made more family sensitive by providing contributions from psychologists, sociologists, and economists who have not shied away from asserting the policy implications of their findings. This text appeals to both practitioners and academics interested in seeking ways to create meaningful lives.
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    Ottawa : International Development Research Centre | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781552500040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (373 pages)
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Globalisierung ; Menschenrecht ; Postkolonialismus ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungsländer ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Indigenous peoples today are enmeshed in the expanding modern economy, subject to the pressures of both market and government. This book takes indigenous peoples as actors, not victims, as its starting point in analysing this interaction. It assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies and wider thematic explorations, primarily from North America, and particularly the Cree, the Haudenausaunee (Iroquois) and Chippewa-Ojibwe peoples who straddle the US/Canadian border, but also from South America and the former Soviet Union. It explores the complex relationships between indigenous peoples, civil society, and the environment. It shows how the boundaries between indigenous peoples' organizations, civil society, the state, markets, development and the environment are ambiguous and constantly changing. These complexities create both opportunities and threats for local agency. People resist or react to the pressures of market and state, while sustaining 'life projects' of their own, embodying their own local history, visions and strategies.
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    New York, NY : Brookings Institution Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780815796336
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
    DDC: 301.0947
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kunst ; Kultur ; Intellektueller ; Geistesleben ; Sowjetunion ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West in 1921. He first returned to Russia in 1945, when he met the writers Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak. These formative encounters helped shape his later work, especially his defense of political freedom and his studies of pre-Soviet Russian thinkers. Never before collected, Berlin's writings about the USSR include his accounts of his famous meetings with Russian writers shortly after the Second World War; the celebrated 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin; his account of Stalin's manipulative 'artificial dialectic'; portraits of Osip Mandel´shtam and Boris Pasternak; his survey of Soviet Russian culture written after a visit in 1956; a postscript stimulated by the events of 1989; and more. This collection includes essays that have never been published before, as well as works that are not widely known because they were published under pseudonyms to protect relatives living in Russia. The contents of this book were discussed at a seminar in Oxford in 2003, held under the auspices of the Brookings Institution. Berlin's editor, Henry Hardy, had prepared the essays for collective publication and here recounts their history. In his foreword, Brookings president Strobe Talbott, an expert on the Soviet Union, relates the essays to Berlin's other work. The Soviet Mind will assume its rightful place among Berlin's works and will prove invaluable for policymakers, students, and those interested in Russian politics, past, present and future.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511211768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (364 pages)
    Series Statement: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    DDC: 302.2244
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    Keywords: Bachtin, Michail Michajlovič ; Lerntheorie ; Spracherwerb ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This 2004 book represents a multidisciplinary collaboration that highlights Mikhail Bakhtin's theories and modern scholarship.
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    Leiden : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781433705687
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (429 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/72/094090511
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    Keywords: Grundwerte ; Wertorientierung ; Familie ; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Religion ; Arbeit ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book provides insights in and explanations of the varieties ans similarities in values in Europe in a number of life spheres at the turn of the millennium.
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    ISBN: 9781433707575
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1700-1950 ; Sozialgeografie ; Historische Geografie ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In this collection authors apply spatial analysis to case studies of social, economic, and political dynamics in West, Central, and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Also included is a lengthy essay re-interpreting tropical Africa, 1800-1930, using spatial theory.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781444118995
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
    Series Statement: Hodder Arnold Publication
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Anthropogeografie ; Sozialgeografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Bringing together many of the leading human geographers from around the English-speaking world, Envisioning Human Geographies offers a series of personal visions for the future of human geography. The result is a vigorous and far-sighted debate about what human geography could and should be concerned with in the twenty-first century. The individual contributors develop their arguments to address the shape and direction of human geographies, with each chapter looking forward and envisioning an intellectual future for the subject. The result is a set of powerful statements written around the themes of: ·space ·nature ·enclosure ·political-economy ·non-representation ·post-colonialism ·feminism ·post-structuralism ·computation ·morality ·spirituality ·activism. The statements are tied via an introduction that discusses the ideological, academic and aesthetic prompts that fire the human geographical imagination. Envisioning Human Geographies maps out important new territories of enquiry for human geography, and is essential reading for all students studying the nature and philosophy of the subject.
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    New York, NY : Berghahn Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780857456809
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (302 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.48/243073/09045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1990 ; Amerikanismus ; Deutschland ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to understand the process of culture transfer and its effects on local societies and their attitudes toward the United States. This volume presents Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two unusually destructive wars, massive ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster. Drawing on examples from history, culture studies, film, radio, and the arts, the authors explore the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism, as reflected in the reception and rejection of American popular culture and, more generally, in European-American relations in the "American Century.".
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    ISBN: 9780739155981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: Rückwanderung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back to places of origin. By including a range of homecoming experiences, Markowitz and Stefansson destabilize key oppositions and terminologies that have vexed migration studies for decades.
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814722916
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
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    Keywords: Feiertag ; Fest ; Ritual ; Gemeinschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: How did Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday become a national holiday? Why do we exchange presents on Christmas and Chanukah? What do bunnies have to do with Easter? How did Earth Day become a global holiday? These questions and more are answered in this fascinating exploration into the history and meaning of holidays and rituals. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, one of the most influential social and political thinkers of our time, this collection provides a compelling overview of the impact that holidays and rituals have on our family and communal life. From community solidarity to ethnic relations to religious traditions, We Are What We Celebrate argues that holidays such as Halloween, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day play an important role in reinforcing, and sometimes redefining, our values as a society. The collection brings together classic and original essays that, for the first time, offer a comprehensive overview and analysis of the important role such celebrations play in maintaining a moral order as well as in cementing family bonds, building community relations and creating national identity. The essays cover such topics as the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday; the importance of holidays for children; the mainstreaming of Kwanzaa; and the controversy over Columbus Day celebrations. Compelling and often surprising, this look at holidays and rituals brings new meaning to not just the ways we celebrate but to what those celebrations tell us about ourselves and our communities. Contributors: Theodore Caplow, Gary Cross, Matthew Dennis, Amitai Etzioni, John R. Gillis, Ellen M. Litwicki, Diana Muir, Francesca Polletta, Elizabeth H. Pleck, David E. Proctor, Mary F. Whiteside, and Anna Day Wilde.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511211645
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (318 pages)
    DDC: 304.23094
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    Keywords: Politische Geografie ; Globalisierung ; Souveränität ; Nationalstaat ; Europa ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book looks at how internationalization has transformed political institutions and styles of governing.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Kultur ; Bildung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and large-scale immigration are affecting children and youth, both in and out of schools. Taking into consideration broad historical, cultural, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors-all leading social scientists in their fields-suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver. Drawing from comparative and interdisciplinary materials, the authors examine the complex psychological, sociocultural, and historical implications of globalization for children and youth growing up today. The book explores why new and broader global visions are needed to educate children and youth to be informed, engaged, and critical citizens in the new millennium. Published in association with the Ross Institute.
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    ISBN: 9783110197389
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (388 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Communications Monograph [CM] v.3
    DDC: 302.23094
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Kommunikationsforschung ; Kommunikationswissenschaft ; Handlungstheorie ; Mass media -- Research -- Europe ; Social action -- Europe ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The action theoretical approach has already proved its value as a framework for communication research, most especially in the study of media audiences and media use. The approach privileges the perspective of the acting individual but offers guidelines for connecting the subjective orientation with networks of social interaction and for treating 'behaviour' as a social process. Research within this framework takes account of the wider social context and calls for a careful combination of empirical observation and interpretation, with a corresponding diversity of methodologies. The contributions to the volume shed light on the significance of media use in everyday experience and contribute to an understanding of communication in society.
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    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781412973489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (513 pages)
    DDC: 305.31
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    Keywords: Mann ; Geschlechterrolle ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities is an interdisciplinary and international culmination of the growth of men's studies that also offers insight about future directions for the field. The Handbook provides a broad view of masculinities primarily across the social sciences, with the inclusion of important debates in some areas of the humanities and natural sciences. The various approaches presented in this Handbook range across different disciplines, theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and conceptualizations in relation to the topic of men. Editors Michael S. Kimmel, Jeff Hearn, and Robert W. Connell have assembled an esteemed group of contributors who are among the best-known experts in their particular fields.
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    Leiden : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781433707049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (311 pages)
    DDC: 305.235096
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    Keywords: Jugend ; Politisches Verhalten ; Politischer Konflikt ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book contains a range of original studies on one of the major challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory militias, as in Somalia, Sierra Leone or Congo, but, more generally, that of the problematic insertion of large numbers of young people in the socio-economic and political order of post-colonial Africa. Even educated youths are being confronted with a lack of opportunities, blocked social mobility, and despair about the future. African youth, while forming a numerical majority, largely feel excluded from power, are socio-economically marginalized, thwarted in their ambitions, and have little access to representative positions or political power.
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    Champaign : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780252091360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (343 pages)
    Series Statement: New Black Studies
    DDC: 305.488
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    Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Sklaverei ; Abschaffung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Amerika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
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    London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781909821682
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (501 pages)
    Series Statement: Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser. v.17
    DDC: 305.89240438
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Stetl ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The majority of Polish Jews always lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls. Much of what we know of life in the shtetls comes from literary accounts rather than from historical research. This volume redresses that imbalance, with leading experts investigating the social and economic history of the shtetl as well as the way in which shtetl life has been reflected in Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish literature.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781351877848
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Series Statement: Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series
    DDC: 305.89435043
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    Keywords: Sozialraum ; Interkulturalität ; Türkischer Einwanderer ; Ethnische Identität ; Kulturkonflikt ; Assimilation ; Akkulturation ; Türken ; Deutschland ; Türkei ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 199 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: Reproduction. s.l.
    Series Statement: Social and political science 2010 and before
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The dynamics of social exclusion in Europe
    DDC: 305.56094
    Keywords: Marginality, Social Cross-cultural studies ; Armut ; Ausgrenzung ; Großbritannien ; Österreich ; Griechenland ; Deutschland ; Portugal ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutschland ; Armut ; Griechenland ; Großbritannien ; Österreich ; Portugal ; Deutschland ; Ausgrenzung ; Österreich ; Griechenland ; Großbritannien ; Portugal
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    New York, NY : Berghahn Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781789204223
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    DDC: 305.8/00995
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    Keywords: Ethnosoziologie ; Ozeanien ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Hove : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410608994
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (394 pages)
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Kulturpsychologie ; Ethnopsychologie ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: How is it that cultures come into existence at all? How do cultures develop particular customs and characteristics rather than others? How do cultures persist and change over time? Most previous attempts to address these questions have been descriptive and historical. The purpose of this book is to provide answers that are explanatory, predictive, and relevant to the emergence and continuing evolution of cultures past, present, and future. Most other investigations into "cultural psychology" have focused on the impact that culture has on the psychology of the individual. The focus of this book is the reverse. The authors show how questions about the origins and evolution of culture can be fruitfully answered through rigorous and creative examination of fundamental characteristics of human cognition, motivation, and social interaction. They review recent theory and research that, in many different ways, points to the influence of basic psychological processes on the collective structures that define cultures. These processes operate in all sorts of different populations, ranging from very small interacting groups to grand-scale masses of people occupying the same demographic or geographic category. The cultural effects--often unintended--of individuals' thoughts and actions are demonstrated in a wide variety of customs, ritualized practices, and shared mythologies: for example, religious beliefs, moral standards, rules for the allocation of resources, norms for the acceptable expression of aggression, gender stereotypes, and scientific values. The Psychological Foundations of Culture reveals that the consequences of psychological processes resonate well beyond the disciplinary constraints of psychology. By taking a psychological approach to questions usually addressed by anthropologists, sociologists, and other social scientists, it suggests that...
    Abstract: psychological research into the foundations of culture is a useful--perhaps even necessary--complement to other forms of inquiry.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511204111
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 Seiten)
    DDC: 304.66309
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1894-1999 ; Geschichte 1900-1999 ; Völkermord ; Massenmord ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Crimes against humanity ; Genocide ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2000
    Abstract: Offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analyses of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035305018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 195 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The economics of knowledge sharing
    DDC: 338.9/001
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    Keywords: Neue Institutionenökonomik ; Innovation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Wissensmanagement ; Institutional economics ; Knowledge management ; Institutional economics ; Knowledge management ; Konferenzschrift ; Wissensmanagement ; Institutionenökonomie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Institutionenökonomie ; Wissensmanagement
    Abstract: The Economics of Knowledge Sharing claims that useful economic knowledge is the most important foundation for the development of a sufficiently strong process of innovation. Within the framework of new institutional economics, the book looks at the institutional conditions required for the interactive sharing and dissemination of knowledge in the development of economies. It outlines in four distinct parts the complex societal process of human interaction by which knowledge is effectively generated and used. The book first considers knowledge sharing institutions, differentiating between types of interaction and types of actors. Secondly, it examines the economic role of knowledge and cognition, asking how and why human actors gather knowledge. It goes on to revisit historical questions of knowledge and embeds them within the contemporary debate, before finally reflecting on the significant relationship between technology and knowledge sharing in the digital age. Opening up a new area of research encompassing the institutional framework of the innovation process, this pathbreaking volume will be of enormous interest to a wide-ranging audience including economists in the fields of theory, innovation research, new institutional economics, evolutionary economics, history of economic thought, and education policy. As knowledge sharing interactions are akin to other kinds of competition aside from economic, this book will also be warmly welcomed by social and political scientists specialising in a variety of related topics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Knowledge sharing institutions -- 2. The institutional economics of knowledge sharing: Basic issues -- 3. New institutional economics and knowledge sharing -- Part II: Knowledge and cognition -- 4. Motivation, learning, knowledge sharing and division of labour -- 5. Processes of knowledge sharing: From cognitive psychology to economics -- 6. The cognitive basis of institutions: An evolutionary aspect -- Part III: The knowledge issue in economics -- 7. Human capital, knowledge and knowledge sharing: A view from the history of economic thoughts -- 8. Knowledge, knowledge sharing and convention in keynes' thinking -- Part IV: The regulations for digital technology -- 9. The internet: Universal information infrastructure for the emerging knowledge society -- 10. Digitalization and regulation: The German case -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781781957271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 242 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Competition policy and global competitiveness in major Asian economies
    DDC: 337.5
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    Keywords: Wettbewerbspolitik ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Asiatisch-pazifischer Raum ; Ostasien ; Südostasien ; Australien ; Competition Case studies Government policy ; Competition Government policy ; Globalization Case studies Economic aspects ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Competition, International ; East Asia Case studies Commercial policy ; Australia Commercial policy ; East Asia Case studies Foreign economic relations ; Australia Foreign economic relations ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ostasien ; Handelspolitik ; Wettbewerbspolitik ; Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum ; World Trade Organization ; Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum ; Australien ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
    Abstract: In this book, Tran Van Hoa reveals how competition policy and competitiveness are essential for contemporary economic, financial and trade management as well as national and international governance. Containing new in-depth studies of these issues and their development, the book focuses on major Asian economies encountering increasing globalisation and the prevailing influence of the WTO. In major Asian economies, competition policy, while being important for trade, development and growth, is nascent. Competition Policy and Global Competitiveness in Major Asian Economies surveys the fundamentals of competition policy and investigates how, in practice, it has been developed in major economies in the Asian region. It also contains previous lessons and experiences in the formulation and implementation of competition policy and the pitfalls that may be avoided in similar future developments. Suggesting solutions in economic development and policy reform for Asian economies in the face of increasing globalisation and WTO membership requirements, this important book will be of enormous interest to economic policymakers and advisers, academics, government officials, business executives and tertiary students
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Competition policy and global competitiveness in major Asian economies: An overview -- 2. Competition policy and global competitiveness: Theory and practice -- 3. Competition policy in apec, asean and the WTO -- 4. Competition law in apec economies and in Vietnam -- 5. Competition policy and smes in Asian transition economies: The experience of China -- 6. Korea's competition policy and its applications to other Asian economies -- 7. Thailand's global competitiveness: Some indicators -- 8. Anti-trust law and competition policy in Vietnam: Macroeconomic perspective -- 9. Competition and smes in Vietnam -- 10. Australian competition law: Experience and lessons for drafting competition law -- 11. Competition policy, global competitiveness and trade and business development in Asian economies: The future and prospects -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304752
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 362 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Cooperation, networks and institutions in regional innovation systems
    DDC: 338.8/7
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Regionalökonomik ; Regionales Cluster ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Industrieforschung ; Regionalpolitik ; Wissenstransfer ; Theorie ; Welt ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Regional planning ; Regional economics ; Technology and state ; Research, Industrial ; Industrial promotion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmenskooperation ; Innovationsförderung ; Netzwerk ; Regionalwirtschaft ; Kongress ; Technische Innovation ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Innovation ; Kooperation
    Abstract: This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of clusters which have reached different stages of maturity. The authors address the topic from an empirical, theoretical and political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They offer a comprehensive overview of different approaches in the field and present numerous case studies which stress the influence of networks and local institutions. Significantly, they also introduce several new approaches to regional innovation systems, including contributions which explicitly discuss the design and potential of policy measures to promote regional development. The policy recommendations are based on sound theorising which, in turn, is based on extensive empirical research. This book is a valuable addition to a complex and growing literature which offers new perspectives and insights on cooperation, networks and institutions, and their role in the development of local systems of innovation. The combination of empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented approaches will ensure this book is essential reading for academics and policymakers in the fields of regional economics, innovation research and economic geography
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Towards a political perspective and unifying concept -- Part I. Theoretical approaches -- 2. Local culture and regional innovation networks: Some propositions -- 3. Entrepreneurial activities in a regional context -- 4. The role of trust and power in the institutional regulation of territorial business systems -- 5. Cognitive coordination, institutions and clusters: An exploratory discussion -- 6. Problems and solutions in knowledge transfer -- 7. learning pathologies in losing areas: towards a definition of the cognitive obstacles to local development -- 8. On the unit of analysis in the study of networks -- Part ii. Case studies -- 9. Is Nanjing's concentration of it companies an innovative cluster? -- 10. TV content production in media regions: the necessities and difficulties of public policy support for a project-based industry -- 11. How many networks in a local cluster? Textile machine production and innovation in Brescia -- 12. 'Lock-in' of regional clusters: the case of offshore engineering -- Part III. Policy implications -- 13. Entrepreneurship stimulation in regional innovation systems - public promotion of university-based start-ups in Germany -- 14. Cooperation and knowledge-pooling in clusters: Designing territorial competitiveness policies -- 15. policy measures to support the emergence of localised industrial clusters -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035304714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 220 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Evolutionary economics and human nature
    DDC: 330.1
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    Keywords: Evolutionsökonomik ; Menschen ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Evolutionary economics ; Psychology ; Evolutionary economics ; Psychology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft
    Abstract: For much of the twentieth century, mainstream economists have treated human agents in their models as if they were rational beings of unbounded computational capacity - the notorious 'Homo Economicus' of much economic theory. However, the patent inadequacies of this understanding of human nature have become increasingly apparent, and economists have begun looking for more realistic models, incorporating the insights of evolutionary theory. The authors address the question of human nature in economics, examining not only some of the recent writing on this subject in evolutionary psychology and related disciplines, but also the ideas of important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition. Beginning with the ancient Greeks and progressing to the modern day, the contributors explore the works of such thinkers as Augustine, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Alfred Marshall and Kenneth Boulding. Many of these works are placed in a Darwinian, evolutionary perspective, with the imperative that the study of human nature must be consistent with our understanding of human evolution, and should consider how human beings are moulded by cultural and institutional influences. Naturally, Darwin's own view of human nature is also explored, undermining the mistaken notion that Darwinism promotes human nature as greedy, uncooperative and self-seeking. This enlightening, original and highly readable work will be of great interest to professional economists and students, researchers and teachers of evolutionary economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface by geoffrey m. Hodgson -- Introduction -- 1. Evolution and the nature of man in greek thought -- 2. Augustine on economic man -- 3. Adam smith's theory of human nature -- 4. Malthus on indolence -- 5. Charles darwin on human nature -- 6. Alfred marshall on homo oeconomicus: Evolution versus utilitarianism? -- 7. Kropotkin and reclus: Geographers, evolution, and 'mutual aid' -- 8. Sounding the trumpet: T.a. Jackson on darwin, marx and human existence -- 9. Kenneth boulding: Man of images -- 10. Fritz machlup: 'how one thing led to another' -- 11. Toward an evolutionary theory of homo oeconomicus: The concept of universal nomadism -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781008416
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (lvi, 588 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Modern theories of money
    DDC: 332.4/01
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    Keywords: Geldtheorie ; Postkeynesianismus ; Bargeld ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Theorie ; Money ; Capitalism ; Keynesian economics ; Money ; Capitalism ; Keynesian economics ; Geldtheorie ; Neokeynesianismus ; Keynesianismus ; Geld ; Kapitalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geldtheorie ; Neokeynesianismus ; Geldkreislauf ; Keynessche Theorie ; Kapitalismus
    Abstract: This book unites diverse heterodox traditions in the study of endogenous money - which until now have been confined to their own academic quarters - and explores their similarities and differences from both sides of the Atlantic. Bringing together perspectives from post-Keynesians, Circuitists and the Dijon School, the book continues the tradition of Keynes's and Kalecki's analysis of a monetary production economy, emphasising the similarities between the various approaches, and expanding the analytical breadth of the theory of endogenous money. The authors open new avenues for monetary research in order to fuel a renewed interest in the nature and role of money in capitalist economies, which is, the authors argue, one of the most controversial, and therefore fascinating, areas of economics. Providing new theoretical and empirical grounds for the construction of a general, policy oriented theory of money, this thought-provoking collection will appeal to academics, researchers and students interested in monetary economics. It will also be welcomed by monetary policymakers and central bank officials
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: The post Keynesian monetary approach -- Part II: The theory of the monetary circuit -- Part III: The theory of money emissions -- Part IV: Further contributions to monetary analysis -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304646
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 405 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Witt, Ulrich, 1946 - The evolving economy
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    Keywords: Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Evolutionary economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Change manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. The Evolving Economy covers a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the biological foundations of economic behavior to the co-evolution of firms, markets, and institutions. Ulrich Witt's individualistic approach synthesizes elements familiar from the writings of Veblen and Schumpeter on economic evolution. A conceptual debate on what the notion of evolution means in the economic context is as much emphasized as is the discussion of concrete hypotheses explaining why and how evolutionary economic change comes about. Offering an outline of a paradigm focusing on endogenous economic change, this book will be of great interest to economists and economic historians. Sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists will also find this work invaluable as it presents an encompassing assessment of the role of Darwinian thought for understanding human behavior and societal evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Evolutionary economics and the extension of evolution to the economy -- -- Part II: Evolutionary concepts and methodology -- 2. Emergence and dissemination of innovation: Some principles of evolutionary economics -- 3. Evolutionary concepts in economics -- 4. Coordination of individual economic activities as an evolving process of self-organization -- 5. Firms' market behavior under imperfect information and economic natural selection -- 6. "lock-in" vs. "critical masses" - industrial change under network externalities -- -- Part III: The darwinian perspective and the continuity hypothesis -- 7. Bioeconomics as economics from a darwinian perspective -- 8. Economics, sociobiology, and behavioral psychology on pReferences -- 9. Economic behavior and biological evolution: Some remarks on the sociobiology debate -- 10. Self-organization and economics - what is new? -- -- Part IV: Evolution in the context of new institutional economics and public choice -- 11. The evolution of economic institutions as a propagation process -- 12. The endogenous public choice theorist -- 13. Multiple equilibria, critical masses, and institutional change. The coup d'état problem -- 14. Evolution and stability of cooperation without enforceable contracts -- 15. Between appeasement and belligerent moralism: The evolution of moral conduct in international politics -- 16. Innovations, externalities and the problem of economic progress -- -- Part V: The evolutionary approach and the austrian school of economics -- 17. Subjectivism in economics - a suggested reorientation -- 18. Endogenous change - causes and contingencies -- 19. Turning austrian economics into an evolutionary theory -- 20. Do entrepreneurs need firms? A contribution to a missing Chapter in austrian economics -- -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781957295
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 456 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 330.952
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    Keywords: Internationale Wirtschaft ; Auslandsinvestition ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geldpolitik ; Japan ; Monetary policy Congresses ; Japan ; Japan Wettbewerbspolitik ; Geldpolitik/Kreditpolitik ; Wirtschaftsunternehmen ; Unternehmenspolitik ; Politische Reformen ; Management (funktional) ; Unternehmensorganisation ; Außenhandel ; Direktinvestition ; Unternehmensfinanzierung ; Beschäftigung ; Wirtschaftslage ; Japan Congresses Commercial policy ; Japan Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Japan Economic policy 1989- ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Japan ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaft ; Währungspolitik ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Handelspolitik
    Abstract: The contributors to this book, from the US and Japan, explore the main issues involved in the international trade, foreign direct investment, and macro/financial relations of the United States and Japan and provide guidance to policymakers for measures to help overcome Japan's economic stagnation since the early 1990s. The book is divided into three parts. Part I contains an empirical analysis of trade diversion under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a theoretical analysis of time in determining the structure and effects of trade with an application to Japan, and an empirical analysis of Japan's changing import behavior. Part II is focused on foreign direct investment (FDI), trade, and the behavior and structure of Japanese firms. Part III deals with macro/financial issues of current interest and importance in Japan. The analytical focus of the chapters is intended to enhance the understanding of the issues addressed and to provide some guidance to policymakers in the design of measures that will improve economic efficiency and welfare and help to overcome the economic stagnation that Japan has experienced in the past decade or more. Economists, political scientists and policymakers will find the analysis provided in this volume invaluable in understanding the Japanese economy and economic relations between Japan and the United States
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction and overview -- Part I: Trade and related issues -- 2. Trade diversion under nafta -- 3. Time and trade: The role of time in determining the structure and effects of international trade, with an application to Japan -- 4. An analysis of Japan's changing import behavior -- Part II: Foreign direct investment, trade, and the behavior and structure of Japanese firms -- 5. Sources of variation in the productivity of Japanese manufacturers -- 6. Foreign direct investment in Japan: Empirical analysis based on the establishment and enterprise census -- 7. Exports and foreign direct investment accelerate corporate reforms: Evidence from Japanese micro data -- Part III: Macro/financial issues -- 8. Prospective Japanese economic recovery: Perspectives from European economic recovery in the 1930s -- 9. Japan's lost decade and weaknesses in its corporate governance structure -- 10. Zero-interest-rate policy, the forward-rate curve, and policy-duration effect -- 11. Demographic changes and their implications for Japanese household savings -- 12. Restoring full employment in Japan: Domestic and international policy considerations -- Index.
    Note: "This volume contains the papers and comments that were prepared in connection with a conference, 'Analytical issues in the trade, foreign direct investment, and macro/financial relations of the United States and Japan,' which was held at Keio University in Tokyo on May 18-19, 2001"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035304288
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 317 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Current issues in ecological economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Environmental thought
    DDC: 333.7/2
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    Keywords: Ökologie ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung ; Environmental sciences Philosophy ; Umweltschutz ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltökonomie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltwissenschaften ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: During the past twenty years there has been an explosive growth in research into environmental issues from a social science perspective. Ecological economics, in particular, has emerged as a true transdiscipline which seeks to conceptualise environmental concerns, thus allowing for the formulation of appropriate policy measures. This volume takes stock of this emerging body of work and offers an authoritative insight into current environmental thought. The book is divided into three broad sections: Disciplinary Approaches, Concepts and Issues. Under the heading of disciplinary approaches, the authors review the state of environmental thinking in the diverse fields of philosophy, politics, sociology, economics and law. The concepts addressed include the precautionary principle, sustainable development, environmental security and ecological modernisation. Finally, in the last section, they assess a range of crucial environmental issues such as consumption, biodiversity, global climate change and population. Each of the specially commissioned chapters is written by a recognised expert in the field, while the book as a whole offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Ecological economists, environmental researchers and environmental policy analysts will all find this an accessible and highly rewarding introduction to contemporary environmental thinking
    Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to environmental thought / Edward A. Page and John Proops -- Philosophy / Andrew Brennan -- Politics / Karena Shaw and Matthew Paterson -- Sociology / Ted Benton -- Economics / Mick Common -- Law / David Wilkinson -- The precautionary principle / Meira Hanson -- Sustainable development / Paul Ekins -- Environmental security / Edward A. Page -- Ecological modernisation / John Barry -- Consumption / Lucia A. Reisch -- Biodiversity / Bernd Klauer -- Global climate change / Matthew Paterson -- Population / Frank Jöst.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035304882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 269 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The evolutionary analysis of economic policy
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftspolitik ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Evolutionary economics ; Economic policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: This important book analyses evolutionary approaches to economic policy. Its main purpose is to explore the policy implications of evolutionary economics, in particular of approaches inspired on the one hand by Schumpeter and revived by Nelson and Winter which deal with industrial evolution under constant institutions and, on the other hand, of approaches inspired by Hayek and North, which analyse the ways in which institutions themselves evolve. Hitherto evolutionary economists have paid little attention to policy issues, and the relatively few policy implications that they have produced are divergent. Whereas the Neo-Schumpeterian approach has often been used to support political interventions, the Hayekian viewpoint holds that economic policy detracts from economic performance. More systematic evolutionary analysis of economic policy is required if these one-sided findings are to be transcended. Furthermore, such analysis can be expected to develop a coherent theory of economic policy which will plug the gaps and rectify the errors (such as approval of socialist planning and Japanese industrial policies) of both neoclassical and alternative approaches to policy. Evolutionary economists and policy analysts will find this book of great interest, as will economists and students of economics who are interested in enlarging their views with excursions outside the standard curriculum
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: Evolutionary thinking on economic policy -- 2. Why economic policies need comprehensive evolutionary analysis -- 3. Evolutionary markets and the design of institutional policy -- 4. Knowledge and economic policy: A plea for political experimentalism -- 5. Democracy as an evolutionary method -- 6. Ideologies, beliefs, and economic advice - a cognitive-evolutionary view on economic policy making -- 7. Equilibrium and evolutionary foundations of competition and technology policy: New perspectives on the division of labour and the innovation process -- 8. Institutional evolution, regulatory competition and path dependence -- 9. The German neuer markt as an adaptive institution -- 10. Understanding and the mobilisation of error: Eliminating controls in evolutionary learning -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035304998
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 322 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New dimensions in networks
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Innovations in financial and economic networks
    DDC: 330/.01/5195
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    Keywords: Netzwerk ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Wirtschaftsmodell ; Theorie ; Finance Mathematical models ; Economics, Mathematical ; Equilibrium (Economics) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Netzwerk ; Wirtschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaft ; Netzwerk ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Networks provide the foundation for the functioning of our societies and economies. Their study has had a long tradition in such fields as engineering, operations research, management science and computer science. More recently, the disciplines of finance and economics have come to be rich and fascinating sources of network-based problems and applications. This focused and refereed volume of contributions from leading international scholars provides a wealth of innovations in the study of financial and economic networks. The volume presents entirely new results: the conceptualization of the stock market as a graph, the evolution of financial systems as networks, the incorporation of electronic transactions in international finance (from a network perspective), new formalisms for the study of supply chains (as fluid models and in an network economic framework) and new applications of agent-based computational economics trade networks with intermediaries and worker-employer networks. Finally, trade networks in web-based caching are introduced. Financial applications covered include: portfolio optimization with transaction costs, integrated pension and corporate planning, evolutionary financial networks, international finance and electronic transactions as well as hedging instruments for transportation networks. Innovative approaches to economic networks are developed in the context of supply chain and distribution networks, a variety of trade (including web-based caching) networks and even worker-employer networks. A major addition to this exciting and important subject, Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks will be an invaluable resource for economists and the networks community, as well as researchers and students in computational economics and finance, operations research, management science, applied mathematics and computer science
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Financial and economic networks: An overview -- Part I: Financial networks -- 2. On structural properties of the market graph -- 3. Multistage stochastic mean-variance portfolio analysis with transaction costs -- 4. A stochastic network approach for integrating pension and corporate financial planning -- 5. Variational inequalities for evolutionary financial equilibrium -- 6. The growing importance of networks in finance and its effects on competition -- 7. International financial networks with electronic transactions -- 8. Using financial options to hedge transportation capacity in a deregulated rail industry -- Part II: Economic networks -- 9. A supply chain network economy: Modeling and qualitative analysis -- 10. Applications of fluid modeling in distribution systems -- 11. An agent-based evolutionary trade network simulation -- 12. Evolution of worker-employer networks and behaviors under alternative non-employment benefits: An agent-based computational study -- 13. Capacity provision networks: A technology framework and economic analysis of web cache trading hubs -- Index.
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780253110671
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (327 pages)
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    Keywords: Philosophie ; Rasse ; Rassentheorie ; Rassismus ; Kontinentaleuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The 15 original essays in Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy explore the resources that continental philosophy brings to debates about contemporary race theory and investigate the racism of some of Europe's most important thinkers. Attention is devoted to the influence of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Wright, and Frantz Fanon. Questions about race in European philosophy -- especially in the work of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lévi-Strauss, and Arendt -- are also considered. This volume provides an indispensable critical introduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520929869
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (404 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including essays by pioneers who have logged nearly two decades in the field of gender and immigration, and new empirical work by both young scholars and well-established social scientists bringing their substantial talents to this topic for the first time.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781781956854
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
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    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Women Economic conditions ; Women Social conditions ; Sex role Economic aspects ; Classical school of economics ; Economics History ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought is the first volume to explore how the classical economists explained the status of women in society. As the essays show, the focus of the classical school was not nearly as limited to the activities of men as conventional wisdom has supposed. The contributors explore their insights and how they illuminate contemporary economic debates regarding women's status. The classical school specified a number of fundamental research themes which have since dominated how economists approach this topic. A sophisticated response was developed to the question: why is it that in all human societies women have suffered a lower status than that enjoyed by men? Those who theorized on the question are covered here and include: Poulain de la Barre, John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Nicolas and Sophie de Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Priscilla Wakefield, Jean-Baptiste Say, Nassau Senior, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, Harriet Martineau, William Thompson and Anna Wheeler. Economists interested in the history of their discipline as well as women's studies scholars from history, philosophy and politics will find this an enlightening volume. Non-technical in nature, it will also appeal to anyone interested in how economists have explained the economic and social status of women
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Gender relations and classical economics - the evolution of a tradition -- 2. Poulain de la barre and the rationalist analysis of the status of women -- 3. John locke, equality of rights and diversity of attributes -- 4. Biology and environment: Montesquieu's relativist analysis of gender behaviour -- 5. Adam smith, stage theory and the status of women -- 6. Women's progress and 'the end of history' -- 7. Condorcet and equality of the sexes: One of many fronts for a great fighter for liberty of the eighteenth century -- 8. Cultivating sympathy: Sophie condorcet's letters on sympathy -- 9. 'Let there be no distinction between the sexes': Jeremy bentham on the status of women -- 10. An eighteenth-century English feminist response to political economy: Priscilla wakefield's reflections (1798) -- 11. The market for virtue: Jean-baptiste say on women in the economy and society -- 12. Women in nassau senior's economic thought -- 13. William thompson and anna doyle wheeler: A marriage of minds on jeremy bentham's doorstep -- 14. Taking harriet martineau's economics seriously -- 15. John stuart mill, harriet taylor and French social theory -- Index.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203168257
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (261 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Durkheim, Émile ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: International scholarship over the last twenty years has produced a new understanding of Emile Durkheim as a thinker. It has contributed to reassembling what, for Durkheim, was always a whole: a sociological selection on morals and moral activism. This volume presents an overview of Durkheim's thought and is representative of the best of contemporary Durkheim scholarship.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203428603
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (285 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: ASA Monographs
    DDC: 307.14
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    Keywords: Ethnotheorie ; Angewandte Anthropologie ; Entwicklungsländer ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203165706
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Transformations
    DDC: 306.4
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    Keywords: Haut ; Körper ; Soziologie ; Feminismus ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless re-inscription. Individual chapters consider such issues as the significance of piercing, tattooing and tanning, the assault of self harm upon the skin, the relation between body painting and the land among the indigenous people of Australia and the cultural economy of fur in Canada. Pierced, mutilated and marked, mortified and glorified, scarred by disease and stretched and enveloping the skin of another in pregnancy, skin is seen here as both a boundary and a point of connection - the place where one touches and is touched by others; both the most private of experiences and the most public marker of a raced, sexed and national history.
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    Clevedon : Multilingual Matters | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781853596940
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism Series
    DDC: 306.446
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    Keywords: Dreisprachigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: With the focus on family, school and the wider community, this text illustrates personal, social, cultural and political factors contributing to the acquisition and maintenance of trilingualism and highlights a rich pattern of trilingual language use.
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    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780567536068
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (180 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: New Germany in Context
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Politische Identität ; Kulturelle Identität ; Auswirkung ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book explores the nature of the dramatic growth in a distinct sense of East German identity in the years since the events that led to formal unification in 1990. While it is problematic to see 'East Germanness' as a singular and homogenous identity, it can be perceived as a distinctive phenomenon and a level of identification that exists alongside local, regional and national identities. The essays in this volume hope to challenge the commonly held misconception that East German regional identity is a problem that needs to be overcome in the process of unification. Through analyses of the social, political and cultural behaviour of East Germans and their perception of their own place in German society, this volume makes a complex and nuanced contribution to discussions on German national identity and the unification process.
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    Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789027296849
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (183 pages)
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Pragmatik ; Diskursanalyse ; Sprachschichtung ; Kontext ; Interaktion ; Soziolinguistik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Interview
    Abstract: This book features a fascinating and extended focal interview with Professor John J. Gumperz, who ranges over his long career trajectory and reflects on his scientific achievements and how they relate to the contemporary linguistic scene. In this way, the reader is presented with a snapshot introduction to Gumperz's work in a contemporary context.A number of commentaries provide a stimulating and illuminating series of theoretical and applied encounters with Gumperz's work from different perspectives. In so doing, they shed new light on Gumperz's seminal contribution to the study of language and interaction. In his Response Essay and in a final discussion, Gumperz clarifies his views on many of the topics discussed in the volume, as well as sharing with readers his views on some other approaches to language and interaction that are closely aligned to his own.Sociolinguistics, the ethnographic approach to language, language and social interaction, intercultural communication, communicative conventions, contextualization - these are some of the key terms which Professor John J. Gumperz discusses in this wide ranging and searching interview about his career as an anthropological linguist and sociolinguist interested in cultural diversity and intercultural communication. John J. Gumperz, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, is one of the founders of Sociolinguistics whose early work on speech communities and on the relationship of linguistic to social boundaries helped lay the basis for much current work in the field. Since the 1970s he has concentrated on a theory and methods of discourse analysis that can account for the intrinsic diversity of today's communicative environments.His publications include: Language in Social Groups (1962); Ethnography of Communication (1964) and Directions in Sociolinguistics...
    Abstract: (1972/2002), both coedited with Dell Hymes; Discourse Strategies (1982); Language and Social Identity (1982); and Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (1996), coedited with Steven Levinson. He is currently working on a collection of studies New Ethnographies of Communication (coedited with Marco Jacquemet); and Language in Social Theory.
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    Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789027295743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (338 pages)
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Habermas, Jürgen ; Luhmann, Niklas ; Kommunikation ; Pragmatik ; Kommunikationswissenschaft ; Selbstdarstellung ; Diskursanalyse ; Konversationsanalyse ; Soziologie ; Konstruktivismus ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume breaks open traditional disciplinary confines and approaches the full complexity of communicative interaction from an impressive range of exciting state-of-the-art perspectives in social psychology, conversation analysis, hermeneutics, constructivist psychology, communication theory, computational neuroscience, sociology of communication, second language pragmatics, ergonomic interaction theory and computer-mediated interaction studies. In so doing, it sets out to establish a new research agenda in which communication science is understood as a human-social science par excellence. This collection of fifteen essays by seventeen scholars from Canada, the United States, Brazil, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK will be of interest to scholars and students in all of the above fields. The editor, Colin B. Grant, is Reader in Modern Languages in the School of Management and Languages, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, where he runs the interdisciplinary social communication science research group. He is author of Literary Communication from Consensus to Rupture (1995), Functions and Fictions of Communication (2000) and chief editor of Language-Meaning-Social Construction (2001).
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    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781452263014
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
    Series Statement: International and Intercultural Communication Annual v.26
    DDC: 303.482071
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    Abstract: Ferment in the Intercultural Field: Axiology/Value/Praxis, Volume 26 of The International and Intercultural Communication Annual examines how the field of intercultural communication has encouraged new techniques in the area of research. Editors William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen, along with a diverse group of distinguished contributors, recall the 1983 topical issue of The Journal of Communication that reported a critical turn and a shift of paradigms in communication research.   Recommended for scholars and researchers in the area of intercultural communication, Ferment in the Intercultural Field is also a vital resource for upper-level undergraduate and graduate communication students.
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