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  • 1
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    Should you believe wikipedia? : online communities and the constructions of knowledge (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108780704
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 302.231
    RVK:
    ST 205
    RVK:
    MS 6950
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108780704
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  • 2
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    Wretched refuse? : the political economy of immigration and institutions (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108776899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 330.9
    RVK:
    LB 56000
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    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: Economic arguments favoring increased immigration restrictions suggest that immigrants undermine the culture, institutions, and productivity of destination countries. But is this actually true? Nowrasteh and Powell systematically analyze cross-country evidence of potential negative effects caused by immigration relating to economic freedom, corruption, culture, and terrorism. They analyze case studies of mass immigration to the United States, Israel, and Jordan. Their evidence does not support the idea that immigration destroys the institutions responsible for prosperity in the modern world. This nonideological volume makes a qualified case for free immigration and the accompanying prosperity.
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  • 3
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    Gender equality and public policy : measuring progress in Europe (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108525886
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 211 pages)
    DDC: 305.42094
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    MS 3105
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    MS 3100
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    QV 221
    Abstract: Despite formal UN and European Commission commitments to improve gender imbalances, progress towards gender equality in wealth and pay has progressed at a discouragingly slow pace in recent decades. European countries have been more proactive in their support for corrective policies, such as family leave and gender quotas for corporate boards, yet measuring the effectiveness of these policies has proven difficult. This book offers a close comparative analysis of gender-targeted policies in Europe, providing an in-depth overview of how public policy is shaping gender equality, and how the presence of women in the economy and decision-making positions is itself shaping public policy. Paola Profeta bases her analysis on new data and an innovative interdisciplinary perspective for understanding the relationship between gender, equality and public policy, and their final impact on the European economy and society, with lessons that resonate beyond Europe.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Apr 2020)
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  • 4
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    Governing complexity : analyzing and applying polycentricity (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108325721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 295 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 117
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    QP 320
    Abstract: There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides an updated explanation of the concept of polycentric governance. The editors provide examples of it in contemporary settings involving complex natural resource systems, as well as a critical evaluation of the utility of the concept. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book makes the case that polycentric governance arrangements exist and it is possible for polycentric arrangements to perform well, persist for long periods, and adapt. Whether they actually function well, persist, or adapt depends on multiple factors that are reviewed and discussed, both theoretically and with examples from actual cases.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Sep 2019)
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  • 5
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    The Cambridge handbook of stakeholder theory (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108123495
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 280 pages)
    DDC: 302.3/5
    RVK:
    QP 300
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    QR 600
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    QP 323
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the decades since R. Edward Freeman first introduced stakeholder theory, which views firms in terms of their relationships to a broad set of partners, the stakeholder approach has drawn increasing attention as a model for ethical business. Edited by Freeman, alongside other leading scholars in stakeholder theory and strategic management, this handbook provides a comprehensive foundation for study in the field, with eighteen chapters covering some of the most important topics in stakeholder theory written by respected and highly cited experts. The chapters contain an overview of the topic, an examination of the most important research on the topic to date, an evaluation of that research, and suggestions for future directions. Given the pace of new scholarship in the field, this handbook will provide an essential reference on both foundational topics as well as new applications of stakeholder theory to entrepreneurship, sustainable business, corporate responsibility, and beyond.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2019)
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  • 6
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    Nature, society, and justice in the anthropocene : unravelling the money-energy-technology complex (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108554985
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 288 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    DDC: 303.44
    RVK:
    QC 340
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    AR 28300
    Abstract: Are money and technology the core illusions of our time? In this book, Alf Hornborg offers a fresh assessment of the inequalities and environmental degradation of the world. He shows how both mainstream and radical economists are limited by a particular worldview and, as a result, do not grasp that conventional money is at the root of many of the problems that are threatening societies, not to mention planet Earth itself. Hornborg demonstrates how market prices obscure asymmetric exchanges of resources - human labor, land, energy, materials - under a veil of fictive reciprocity. Such unequal exchange, he claims, underpins the phenomenon of technological development, which is, fundamentally, a redistribution of time and space - human labor and land - in world society. Hornborg deftly illustrates how money and technology have shaped our thinking and our social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. He also offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jun 2019)
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  • 7
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    Sustainability transformations : agents and drivers across societies (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108766975
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 230 pages)
    DDC: 304.2
    RVK:
    AR 14300
    RVK:
    QR 536
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    MS 9000
    Keywords: Nachhaltigkeit ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politische Unterstützung ; Akteur
    Abstract: Societal transformations are needed across the globe in light of pressing environmental issues. This need to transform is increasingly acknowledged in policy, planning, academic debate, and media, whether it is to achieve decarbonization, resilience, national development plans, or sustainability objectives. This volume provides the first comprehensive comparison of how sustainability transformations are understood across societies. It contains historical analogies and concrete examples from around the world to show how societal transformations could achieve the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through governance, innovations, lifestyle changes, education and new narratives. It examines how societal actors in different geographical, political and cultural contexts understand the agents and drivers of societal change towards sustainability, using data from the academic literature, international news media, lay people's focus groups across five continents, and international politics. This is a valuable resource for academics and policymakers working in environmental governance and sustainability.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2019)
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  • 8
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    Organization and decision (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108560672
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 410 Seiten)
    Uniform Title: Organisation und Entscheidung
    DDC: 302.3/5
    RVK:
    PI 2770
    RVK:
    MQ 3470
    RVK:
    MS 5650
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    QP 340
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    QP 342
    RVK:
    CC 7750
    Keywords: Organisation ; Entscheidung ; Systemtheorie ; Soziales System ; Autopoiese ; Kommunikation
    Abstract: Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's modern classic, Organization and Decision, explores how organizations work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how they order and structure society. Luhmann argues that organization is order, yet indeterminate. In this book, he shows how this paradox enables organizations to embed themselves within society without losing autonomy. In developing his autopoietic perspective on organizations, Luhmann applies his general theory of social systems by conceptualizing organizations as self­reproducing systems of decision communications. His innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the material (spanning organization studies, management and sociology) is integral to any study of organizations. This new translation, edited by one of the world's leading experts on Luhmann, enables researchers and graduate students across the English-speaking world to access Luhmann's ideas more readily.
    Note: Translation from the German language edition: Organisation und Entscheidung by Niklas Luhmann, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Copyright © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2011 , Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Oct 2018)
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108560672
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  • 9
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    Climate without nature : a critical anthropology of the anthropocene (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108525633
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 167 pages)
    DDC: 577.55
    RVK:
    LC 51100
    RVK:
    RB 10844
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Mar 2018)
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  • 10
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    Tomorrow 3.0 : transaction costs and the sharing economy (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108602341
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 338.5/1
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    LB 85000
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    MS 5560
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    QD 140
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    QC 131
    Keywords: Sharing Economy ; Transaktionskostenansatz
    Abstract: With the growing popularity of apps such as Uber and Airbnb, there has been a keen interest in the rise of the sharing economy. Michael C. Munger brings these new trends in the economy down to earth by focusing on their relation to the fundamental economic concept of transaction costs. In doing so Munger brings a fresh perspective on the 'sharing economy' in clear and engaging writing that is accessible to both general and specialist readers. He shows how, for the first time, entrepreneurs can sell reductions in transaction costs, rather than reductions in the costs of the products themselves. He predicts that smartphones will be used to commodify excess capacity, and reaches the controversial conclusion that a basic income will be required as a consequence of this new 'transaction costs revolution'.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Mar 2018)
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  • 11
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    Expert failure (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316481400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 279 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 001
    RVK:
    QX 840
    RVK:
    MS 6960
    Keywords: Expertise ; Fehler ; Wissenssoziologie
    Abstract: The humble idea that experts are ordinary human beings leads to surprising conclusions about how to get the best possible expert advice. All too often, experts have monopoly power because of licensing restrictions or because they are government bureaucrats protected from both competition and the consequences of their decisions. This book argues that, in the market for expert opinion, we need real competition in which rival experts may have different opinions and new experts are free to enter. But the idea of breaking up expert monopolies has far-reaching implications for public administration, forensic science, research science, economics, America's military-industrial complex, and all domains of expert knowledge. Roger Koppl develops a theory of experts and expert failure, and uses a wide range of examples - from forensic science to fashion - to explain the applications of his theory, including state regulation of economic activity.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2018)
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  • 12
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    Climate change and cities : second assessment report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316563878
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xlii, 811 Seiten)
    DDC: 304.2/091732
    RVK:
    RB 10438
    RVK:
    QT 800
    Keywords: Stadt ; Klimaänderung ; Anpassung ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: The Urban Climate Change Research Network's Second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2) is the second in a series of global, science-based reports to examine climate risk, adaptation, and mitigation efforts in cities. The book explicitly seeks to explore the implications of changing climatic conditions on critical urban physical and social infrastructure sectors and intersectoral concerns. The primary purpose of ARC3.2 is to inform the development and implementation of effective urban climate change policies, leveraging ongoing and planned investments for populations in cities of developing, emerging, and developed countries. This volume, like its predecessor, will be invaluable for a range of audiences involved with climate change and cities: mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban planners; policymakers charged with developing climate change mitigation and adaptation programs; and a broad spectrum of researchers and advanced students in the environmental sciences.
    DOI: 10.1017/9781316563878
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  • 13
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    Incentives : motivation and the economics of information (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139547390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 685 pages)
    Edition: Third edition.
    DDC: 302/.13
    RVK:
    QC 010
    Abstract: When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective, and institutional standpoints. This third edition is fully updated and expanded, including a new section on the 2007-08 financial crisis and a new chapter on networks as well as specific applications of school placement for students, search engine ad auctions, pollution permits, and more. Using worked examples and lucid general theory in its analysis, and seasoned with references to current and past events, Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information examines: the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs; the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to medical panels deciding who gets kidney transplants; a wide range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets to the entire economy. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying incentives as part of courses in microeconomics, economic theory, managerial economics, political economy, and related areas of social science.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Sep 2018)
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  • 14
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    A European social union after the crisis (2017)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108235174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xl, 522 Seiten) , Diagramme
    DDC: 306.094
    RVK:
    QX 000
    RVK:
    MK 5220
    RVK:
    PS 2580
    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Soziale Sicherheit ; Sozialpolitik ; Soziale Situation
    Abstract: Today, many people agree that the EU lacks solidarity and needs a social dimension. This debate is not new, but until now the notion of a 'social Europe' remained vague and elusive. To make progress, we need a coherent conception of the reasons behind, and the agenda for, not a 'social Europe', but a new idea: a European Social Union. We must motivate, define, and demarcate an appropriate notion of European solidarity. We must also understand the legal and political obstacles, and how these can be tacked. In short, we need unequivocal answers to questions of why, what, and how: on that basis, we can define a clear-cut normative and institutional concept. That is the remit of this book: it provides an in-depth interdisciplinary examination of the rationale and the feasibility of a European Social Union. Outstanding scholars and top-level practitioners reflect on obstacles and solutions, from an economic, social, philosophical, legal, and political perspective.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017)
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108235174
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  • 15
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    The political economy of everyday life in Africa : beyond the margins (2017)
    Suffolk : James Currey | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781787440517
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 364 pages)
    DDC: 338.96
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    Keywords: Alltag ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Politische Ökonomie ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the political economy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial and apartheid pasts. Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press). ...
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    Discourse on leadership : a critical appraisal (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107279162
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 314 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/4
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    QV 584
    Abstract: In a wide-ranging and provocative new study, Bert A. Spector provides a critical analysis of past and present theories of leadership. Spector asserts that our perception of leadership influences who we vote for, who we hire and promote, and ultimately, who we choose to grant our authority to. Focusing on leadership in discourse, the book sets out to explore how the notion of leadership has been articulated, studied and debated by academics, but also by practitioners, journalists, and others who seek to influence the thoughts of others. Paying particular attention to the social, economic, political, intellectual and historical forces that have helped shape the discussion, Discourse on Leadership offers an insightful historiography of leadership as a concept and how our understanding of it continues to evolve.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016)
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    The political economy of predation : manhunting and the economics of escape (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316460139
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 406 pages)
    DDC: 303.3
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    Keywords: Macht ; Unterordnung ; Gewalt ; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse
    Abstract: Still in early stages of development, conflict theory presents a growing interest in understanding the economic costs and benefits of conflicts. In this book, Mehrdad Vahabi analyses one type of conflict in particular: manhunting, or predation, in which a dominant power hunts down its prey and the goal of the prey is to escape and thus survive. This contrasts with traditional warfare, in which two (or more) powers enter into a conflict and the goal is to fight to win domination. The economics of escape casts light on costs and benefits of predatory activities, and explores the impact of violence as an impediment to developing countries with respect to assets structure. This book is unprecedented in its research and thought and develops a new theory of predation in economics that makes a significant contribution to the field.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Dec 2015)
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    Sustainability in the global city : myth and practice (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139923316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 404 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Stadtentwicklung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Stadtökologie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life - particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
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    Across forest, steppe and mountain : environment, identity, and empire in Qing China's borderlands (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107706095
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 336 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
    DDC: 304.20951
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    NO 8500
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    Abstract: In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan within a corporatist 'Han Chinese' imperial political order. This unprecedented imperial unification resulted in the great human and ecological diversity that exists today. Using natural science literature in conjunction with under-utilized and new sources in the Manchu language, Bello demonstrates how Qing expansion and consolidation of empire was dependent on a precise and intense manipulation of regional environmental relationships.
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    New histories of the Andaman Islands : landscape, place and identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790-2012 (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139924641
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 324 pages)
    DDC: 954/.8803
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790-2012 ; Andamanen und Nikobaren
    Abstract: This innovative, multidisciplinary exploration of the unique history of the Andaman Islands as a hunter-gatherer society, colonial penal colony, and state-engineered space of settlement and development ranges across the theoretical, conceptual and thematic concerns of history, anthropology and historical geography. Covering the entire period of post-settlement Andamans history, from the first (failed) British occupation of the Islands in the 1790s up to the year 2012, the authors examine imperial histories of expansion and colonization, decolonization, anti-colonialism and nationalism, Japanese occupation, independence and partition, migration, commemoration and contemporary issues of Indigenous welfare. New Histories of the Andaman Islands offers a new way of thinking about the history of South Asia, and will be thought-provoking reading for scholars of settler colonial societies in other contexts, as well as those engaged in studies of nationalism and postcolonial state formation, ecology, visual cultures and the politics of representation.
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    Saudi Arabia in transition : insights on social, political, economic and religious change (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139047586
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 351 pages)
    DDC: 306.09538
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    MH 70086
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    MH 70070
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    NQ 8837
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    Keywords: Politik ; Politischer Wandel ; Erdölpolitik ; Wirtschaft ; Islam ; Fundamentalismus ; Sozialer Wandel ; Saudi-Arabien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.
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    Economics of the family (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139015882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 486 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge surveys of economic literature
    DDC: 306.85
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    Abstract: The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.
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    Social-spatial segregation : concepts, processes and outcomes (2014)
    Bristol : The Policy Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781447301363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 438 pages)
    DDC: 305.8
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    RB 10805
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    RN 70805
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    Keywords: Segregation ; Segregation ; Social isolation ; Sociology, Urban ; Social distance ; Spatial analysis (Statistics) ; USA ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: This edited volume, bringing together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, offers a new approach to conceptualising segregation.
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    Mixed methods social networks research : design and applications (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139227193
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 373 pages)
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 36
    DDC: 302.3
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    QP 342
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    Keywords: Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisation
    Abstract: This edited volume demonstrates the potential of mixed-methods designs for the research of social networks and the utilization of social networks for other research. Mixing methods applies to the combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. In social network research, mixing methods also applies to the combination of structural and actor-oriented approaches. The volume provides readers with methodological concepts to guide mixed-methods network studies with precise research designs and methods to investigate social networks of various sorts. Each chapter describes the research design used and discusses the strengths of the methods for that particular field and for specific outcomes.
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    Tales and traditions of the eskimo : with a sketch of their habits, religion, language and other peculiarities (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107281172
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Polar exploration
    Uniform Title: Eskimoiske eventyr og sagn
    DDC: 398.2/089971
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    Keywords: Rink, Hinrich Johannes ; Geschichte 1800-1899 ; Eskimo ; Alltag ; Ethnologie ; Grönland
    Abstract: The Danish geologist and geographer Hinrich Rink (1819–93) amassed decades of experience in exploring Greenland, becoming well versed in the language and customs of the Inuit. The present work is a condensed version of his investigations into indigenous culture, first published in two volumes in 1866 and 1871. Rink revised and translated the work from Danish into English for this 1875 publication, and the text was emended by the Scottish scientist and explorer Robert Brown (1842–95). In the book's first part, Rink describes succinctly the Inuit mode of life in Greenland. The second part, which is significantly longer, recounts the legends and folk tales that Rink had recorded on his travels. The book also includes a number of illustrations drawn and engraved by the Inuit people themselves. This work will appeal to those interested in the history of Inuit culture and nineteenth-century ethnography.
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107281172
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    The social atlas of Europe (2014)
    Bristol, UK : Policy Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781447313557
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 211 pages)
    DDC: 304.2094
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Sozialstatistik ; Population geography Maps ; Human geography Maps ; Population geography ; Human geography ; Europe Maps Social conditions ; Europe Maps Population ; Europe Social conditions ; Europe Population ; Atlas
    Abstract: CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2015 Many of us think of European countries as discreet entities their own languages, cultures, food, and economies squarely contained within their national boundaries. But in fact Europe is at once a unified place and a sophisticatedly fragmented one, and national boundaries rarely reflect its social and economic realities. The social atlas of Europe is the first atlas to map Europe according to these realities, from the perspective of human geography rather than simply a political one. Using innovative full-color visualization methods, it reconsiders European identity through its many different facets: economy, culture, history, and human and physical geography, visualizing Europe and its people in a more fluid way, in some cases using maps without artificial national boundaries. It utilizes the latest available demographic, social, and economic data through state-of-the-art geographical information systems and new cartography techniques. Through these new visualizations, this highly illustrated book offers fresh perspectives on a range of topics, including social values, culture, education, employment, environmental footprints, health and well-being, and social inequalities and cohesion. It is a bold rethinking of Europe as we know it and will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the continent in its truest form.
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    International migration : evolving trends from the early twentieth century to the present (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139170079
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 317 pages)
    DDC: 304.8
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    LB 56000
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    MS 3600
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2014 ; Internationale Migration ; Migrationspolitik
    Abstract: States have long been wary of putting international migration on the global agenda. As an issue that defines sovereignty - that is, who enters and remains on a state's territory - international migration has called for protection of national prerogatives and unilateral actions. However, since the end of World War I, governments have sought ways to address various aspects of international migration in a collaborative manner. This book examines how these efforts to increase international cooperation have evolved from the early twentieth century to the present. The scope encompasses all of the components of international migration: labor migration, family reunification, refugees, human trafficking and smuggling, and newly emerging forms of displacement (including movements likely to result from global climate change). The final chapter assesses the progress (and lack thereof) in developing an international migration regime and makes recommendations towards strengthening international cooperation in this area.
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    Empty labor : idleness and workplace resistance (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107588905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 217 pages)
    DDC: 306.3613
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    Abstract: While most people work ever-longer hours, international statistics suggest that the average time spent on non-work activities per employee is around two hours a day. How is this possible, and what are the reasons behind employees withdrawing from work? In this thought-provoking book, Roland Paulsen examines organizational misbehavior, specifically the phenomenon of 'empty labor', defined as the time during which employees engage in private activities during the working day. This study explores a variety of explanations, from under-employment to workplace resistance. Building on a rich selection of interview material and extensive empirical research, it uses both qualitative and quantitative data to present a concrete analysis of the different ways empty labor unfolds in the modern workplace. This book offers new perspectives on subjectivity, rationality and work simulation and will be of particular interest to academic researchers and graduate students in organizational sociology, organization studies, and human resource management.
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    Global problems, smart solutions : costs and benefits (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139600484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 736 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/72
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    Abstract: Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how to combat problems ranging from armed conflicts, corruption and trade barriers, to natural disasters, hunger, education and climate change. For each case, 'Alternative Perspectives' are also included to provide a critique and make other suggestions for investment. In addition, a panel of senior economists, including four Nobel Laureates, rank the attractiveness of each policy proposal in terms of its anticipated cost-benefit ratio. This thought-provoking book opens up debate, encouraging readers to come up with their own rankings and decide which solutions are smarter than others.
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    How much have global problems cost the world? : a scorecard from 1900 to 2050 (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139225793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 384 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/72
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2013 ; Prognose 2013-2050 ; Geschichte 1900-2050 ; Soziale Probleme ; Umweltverschmutzung ; Kosten ; Wirtschaft ; Weltproblematik ; Soziale Kosten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of the world's leading economists discuss ten problems that have blighted human development, ranging from malnutrition, education, and climate change, to trade barriers and armed conflicts. Costs of the problems are quantified in percent of GDP, giving readers a unique opportunity to understand the development of each problem over the past century and the likely development into the middle of this century, and to compare the size of the challenges. For example: how bad was air pollution in 1900? How has it deteriorated and what about the future? Did climate change cost more than malnutrition in 2010? This pioneering initiative to provide answers to many of these questions will undoubtedly spark debate amongst a wide readership.
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    The economics of ethnic conflict : the case of Burkina Faso (2013)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781782041610
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 212 pages)
    DDC: 305.80096625
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    Keywords: Ethnizität ; Minderheitenfrage ; Grundeigentum ; Burkina Faso ; Boulgou
    Abstract: Through richly detailed anthropological case studies of the rural economics and administrative policies in Burkina Faso, and reassessment of current models of conflict, resource management and modern administration, this book explores the current political, economic and social transformation of Western Africa. Ethnic tensions, the case studies suggest, are a strategic part of social and economic local relations - a pattern that is repeated when ethnic stereotyping finds its way into the higher echelons of national administration and of international development cooperation. Conflicts are shown to be ethnicized by local and administrative elites, creating screens impenetrable to those involved in the states' formal administration, and behind which informal local economies thrive. In these 'concealed economies' individuals exploit the ethnic divide by hiding friendly and profitable inter-ethnic relations behind a rhetoric of ethnic tensions and staged conflict. Cultivating ties across ethnic divides is not limited, however, to rural relations but becomes common practice at almost all levels of national and civil administration. Andreas Dafinger is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the Central European University, Budapest. He has worked on Burkina Faso for almost twenty years.
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    An environmental history of ancient Greece and Rome (2012)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511843761
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 186 pages)
    Uniform Title: Umweltgeschichte der Antike.
    DDC: 304.20938
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500 v. Chr.-500 ; Umwelt ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich
    Abstract: In ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. On the one hand, nature was conceived as a space characterized and inhabited by divine powers, which deserved appropriate respect. On the other, a rationalist view emerged, according to which humans were to subdue nature using their technologies and to dispose of its resources. This book systematically describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans intervened in the environment and thus traces the history of the tension between the exploitation of resources and the protection of nature, from early Greece to the period of late antiquity. At the same time it analyses the comprehensive opening up of the Mediterranean and the northern frontier regions, both for settlement and for economic activity. The book's level and approach make it highly accessible to students and non-specialists.
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    Governance, regulations and powers on the Internet (2012)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139004145
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 445 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/330973
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Digital technologies have prompted the emergence of new modes of regulation and governance, since they allow for more decentralized processes of elaboration and implementation of norms. Moreover, the Internet has been raising a wide set of governance issues since it affects many domains, such as individual rights, public liberties, property rights, economic competition, market regulation, conflict management, security and the sovereignty of states. There is therefore a need to understand how technical, political, economic and social norms are articulated, as well as to understand who the main actors of this process of transformation are, how they interact and how these changes may influence international rulings. This book brings together an international team of scholars to explain and analyse how collective regulations evolve in the broader context of the development of post-modern societies, globalization, the reshaping of international relations and the profound transformations of nation-states.
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    Climate change and human mobility : challenges to the social sciences (2012)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139555043 , 9781283638418
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 263 Seiten) , Diagramme, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: ProQuest Ebook Central
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Climate change and human mobility
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Migration, Internal Environmental aspects ; Climatic changes ; Global environmental change Social aspects ; Human geography Electronic books ; Migration ; Klimaänderung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Climatic changes ; Human geography ; Globalisierung ; Mobilität ; Umweltpolitik ; Klimaänderung ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Migration
    Abstract: This book examines general questions and particular cases of climate-change related mobility and explores their implications for the social sciences
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    Wealth and the wealthy : exploring and tackling inequalities between rich and poor (2012)
    Bristol : Policy | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781847423092
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 255 pages)
    DDC: 305.5234
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    Keywords: Soziale Ungleichheit ; Reichtum ; Wealth ; Rich people ; Wealth ; Rich people ; Income distribution ; Equality
    Abstract: Using many data sources, this timely book provides a comprehensive discussion of issues of wealth, looking at potential policy responses, including 'asset-based' welfare and taxation.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781847423085.001.0001
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    Labour in Vietnam (2011)
    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9789814311953
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 346 pages)
    DDC: 306.0959705
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift 2008 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2008 ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Two decades after Vietnam introduced a programme of economic renovation commonly known in Doi Moi, the country today allows market competition in industry, and a new working class has been created. This is the first book to focus on the role and conditions of workers in the new economic regime. The authors of the book trace Vietnam's labour history, explore the impact of the socialist legacy and examine the reasons for the large number of recent strikes. The book provides insights into the workforce of one of Asia's most rapidly developing industrial economies.
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    Faith and money : how religion contributes to wealth and poverty (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139028547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 248 pages)
    DDC: 201/.73
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, generate social influence and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Even a small amount of savings can improve security, mitigate the effects of job loss and other financial setbacks and improve well-being dramatically. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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    Collective preference and choice (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511803871
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 255 pages)
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    Keywords: Gruppenentscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Entscheidungstheorie
    Abstract: Collective decision-making is a familiar feature of our social, political, and economic lives. It ranges from the relatively trivial (e.g. the choice of the next family car) to the globally significant (e.g. whether or not a country should go to war). Yet, whether trivial or globally significant, such decisions involve a number of challenging problems. These problems arise in the standard social choice setting, where individuals differ in their preferences. They also arise in the standard decision-making setting, where individuals share the same preferences, but differ in their decisional capabilities. The distinctive feature of Collective Preference and Choice is that it looks at classical aggregation problems that arise in three closely related areas: social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty. Using a series of exercises and examples, the book explains these problems with reference to a number of important contributions to the study of collective decision-making.
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    Europe since 1980 (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 331 pages)
    Series Statement: The World since 1980
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    Abstract: This book tells the dramatic story of the economic, social, political, and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from the Cold War to the European Union. Ivan Berend charts, in particular, the overwhelming impact of the collapse of communism on every aspect of European life. Europe became safer and more united, and Central and Eastern Europe started on the difficult road to economic modernization. However, the western half of Europe also changed. European integration gained momentum. The single market and the common currency were introduced, and the Union enlarged from nine to twenty-seven countries. This period also saw a revolution in information and communication technology, the increasing impact of globalization and the radical restructuring of the political system. The book explores the impact of all of these changes as well as the new challenges posed by the economic crisis of 2008–9 and asks which way now for Europe?...
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    Too smart for our own good : the ecological predicament of humankind (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511840357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 530 pages)
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    Keywords: Humanökologie ; Hominisation
    Abstract: We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
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    Adapting to climate change : thresholds, values, governance (2009)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511596667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 514 pages)
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    MF 9150
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Umweltpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents top science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change. Written by experts, both academics and practitioners, it examines the risks to ecosystems, demonstrating how values, culture and the constraining forces of governance act as barriers to action. As a review of science and a holistic assessment of adaptation options, it is essential reading for those concerned with responses to climate change, especially researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and graduate students. Significant features include historical, contemporary, and future insights into adaptation to climate change; coverage of adaptation issues from different perspectives: climate science, hydrology, engineering, ecology, economics, human geography, anthropology and political science; and contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from around the world.
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    Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries : who really gets hurt? (2008)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511438338 , 0511437668 , 9780511438332 , 9780511437663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 294 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rudra, Nita Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    Keywords: Globalization Economic aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization ; Globalization ; Economic aspects ; Globalization ; Social aspects ; Social policy ; Internationalisatie ; Sociaal-economische aspecten ; Armoede ; Globalisierung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Sozialpolitik ; Armut ; Sozialhilfe ; Developing countries Social policy ; Ontwikkelingslanden ; Developing countries ; Entwicklungsländer
    Abstract: The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public services are risking detrimental effects to the populace. Conventional wisdom suggests that it is the poorer members of these societies who stand to lose the most from these pressures on welfare protections, but this new study argues for a more complex conceptualization of the subject. Nita Rudra demonstrates how and why domestic institutions in developing nations have historically ignored the social needs of the poor; globalization neither takes away nor advances what never existed in the first place. It has been the lower- and upper-middle classes who have benefited the most from welfare systems and, consequently, it is they who are most vulnerable to globalization's race to the bottom
    Abstract: The race to the bottom in developing countries -- Who really gets hurt? -- LDC welfare states : convergence? What are the implications? -- Globalization and the protective welfare state : case study of India -- Globalization and the productive welfare state : case study of South Korea -- Globalization and the dual welfare state : case study of Brazil -- Introduction -- Appendix A: LDC social spending -- Appendix B: Assessing potential labor power -- Appendix C: Additional tests for the RTB hypothesis -- Appendix D: Variables in the inequality model -- Appendix E: Technical notes on Gini coefficients -- Appendix F: LDC Gini coefficient statistics -- Appendix G: Robustness check -- Appendix H: Conditional impact of trade on inequality -- Appendix I: Descriptions and sources of variables -- Appendix J: Cluster results minus outcome variables -- Appendix K: Dendogram for cluster analysis -- Appendix L: Poverty tables -- Appendix M: Social expenditures on social security, health, and education in India (percent of GDP) based on national data.
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    Interpersonal networks in organizations : cognition, personality, dynamics, and culture (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511753749
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 30
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Organisationspsychologie ; Organisationsverhalten ; Soziales Netzwerk
    Abstract: This book brings a social networks perspective to bear on topics of leadership, decision-making, turnover, organizational crises, organizational culture, and other major organizational behavior topics. It offers a new direction for organizational behavior theory and research by drawing from social network ideas. Across diverse research topics, the authors pursue an integrated focus on social ties both as they are represented in the cognitions of individuals and as they operate as constraints and opportunities in organizational settings. The authors bring their 20 years worth of research experience together to provide a programmatic social network approach to understanding the internal functioning of organizations. By focusing a distinctive research lens on interpersonal networks, they attempt to discover the keys to the whole realm of organizational behavior through the social network approach.
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    A world of chance : betting on religion, games, Wall Street (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 339 pages)
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    Abstract: Although financial markets often try to distance themselves from gambling, the two factors have far more in common than usually thought. When, historically, there were no financial institutions such as banks, lotteries constituted the ways by which expensive items were disposed of, and governments raised money quickly. Gambling tables fulfilled roles that venture capital and banking do today. 'Gamblers' created clearinghouses and sustained liquidity. When those gamblers bet on price distributions in futures markets, they were redefined as 'speculators'. Today they are called 'hedge fund managers' or 'bankers'. Though the names have changed, the actions undertaken have essentially stayed the same. This book shows how discussion on 'chance', 'risk', 'gambling', 'insurance', and 'speculation' illuminates where societies stood, where we are today, and where we may be heading.
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    Natural resources and conflict in Africa : the tragedy of endowment (2007)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 353 pages)
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    Abstract: 'Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa' is the first book to offer a detailed look at conflict over various natural resources in several African countries. Abiodun Alao undertakes this broad survey by categorizing natural resources into four groups: land (including agricultural practices and animal stock), solid minerals, oil, and water. Themes linking these resources to governance and conflict are then identified and examined with numerous examples drawn from specific African countries. Alao's approach offers considered conclusions based on comparative discussions and analysis, thus providing the first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. Abiodun Alao is a Senior Research Fellow at the Conflict, Security, and Development Group, School of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College, University of London.
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    Incentives : motivation and the economics of information (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511617430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 591 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    DDC: 302/.13
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    Keywords: Motivation ; Informationsökonomie ; Mathematisches Modell ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Anreiz ; Asymmetrische Information ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2006, examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid general theory, and illustrations drawn from news stories. Of the seventy different topics and sections, only twelve require a knowledge of calculus. The second edition offers new chapters on auctions, matching and assignment problems, and corporate governance. Boxed examples are used to highlight points of theory and are separated from the main text.
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    The political economy of state-society relations in Hungary and Poland : from communism to the European Union (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511584350
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 277 pages)
    DDC: 306.2/09438/09045
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Ungarn ; Polen
    Abstract: The profound transformations that preceded the downfall of Communism originated in Poland and Hungary, but played out in strikingly different ways. Hungary led through economic reform, Poland through open political struggle. Analysis of these transformational variants yields important insights into systemic change, marketization, and democratization. This book shows how these changes were possible in authoritarian regimes as, over time, state and society became mutually vulnerable, neither fully able to dictate the terms of engagement. For Poland this meant principled confrontation; for Hungary, innovative accommodation. This book argues that different conceptual frameworks and strategies of persuasion account for these divergences in virtually identical institutional settings. Seleny traces the different political-institutional residues which, in both Hungary and Poland, now function as constraining or enabling legacies. In particular, she demonstrates that state socialist legacies account for salient differences between these two new capitalist democracies, and now condition their prospects in the European Union.
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    Critical perspectives on activity : explorations across education, work, and everyday life (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511509568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 295 pages)
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The last two decades have seen an international explosion of interest in theories of mind, culture, and activity. This unique collection is the first to explicitly reach back to the tradition's original critical impulse within which the writings of Karl Marx played such a central role. Each author pushes this impulse further to address leading contemporary questions. It includes a diverse array of international scholars working from the fields of education, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, communications, industrial relations, and business studies. Broken into three main sections - education, work, and everyday life - each chapter builds from an analysis of practice and learning as social cultural participation and historical change in relation to the concept of activity, contradiction, and struggle. This book offers insight into an important complex of overlapping practices and institutions to shed light on broader debates over such matters as the 'knowledge economy' and 'lifelong learning'.
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    Age discrimination : an historical and contemporary analysis (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511550560
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 308 pages)
    DDC: 331.3/98133
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-2005 ; Alter ; Diskriminierung ; USA ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Age discrimination is a highly topical issue in all industrialised societies, against a background of concerns about shortening working lives and ageing populations in the future. Based upon detailed research, and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this unique study traces the history of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA since the 1930s. It critically analyses the concepts of ageism in social relations and age discrimination in employment. Case-studies on generational equity and health care rationing by age are followed by an analysis of the British government's initiatives against age discrimination in employment. The book then traces the history of the debate on health status and old age, addressing the question of whether working capacity has improved sufficiently to justify calls to delay retirement and extend working lives. It concludes with a detailed examination of the origins and subsequent working of the USA's 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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    Organizational design : a step-by-step approach (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511812415
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 235 pages)
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    Abstract: In today's volatile business environment, organizational design is a serious challenge for any manager, whether of a multinational enterprise or a small team. This book sets out a step-by-step approach to designing an organization. All the key aspects of organizational design are covered, including goals, strategy, structure, process, people, coordination and control, and incentives. The text engages with critical issues affecting organisations, such as globalization, worldwide competition, deregulation and ever-new technologies, and contains many helpful features such as end-of-chapter reviews and unique step-by-step diagrams to orientate the reader in the design process. Diagnostic questions help the reader to determine the changes needed in an organization. The action oriented approach of this text helps the reader to assess and re-design the complex organizations of today, and plan for the information-rich organizations of tomorrow.
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    Population issues in social-choice theory, welfare economics and ethics (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139052245
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 369 pages)
    Series Statement: Econometric Society monographs 39
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    Abstract: This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever lived). The axiomatic method is employed, and topics investigated include: the measurement of individual well-being, social attitudes toward inequality of well-being, the main classes of population principles, principles that provide incomplete rankings, principles that rank uncertain alternatives, best choices from feasible sets, and applications. The chapters are divided, with mathematical arguments confined to the second part. The first part is intended to make the arguments accessible to a more general readership. Although the book can be read as a defense of the critical-level generalized-utilitarian class of principles, comprehensive examinations of other classes are included.
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    A sociology of work in Japan (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511610387
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 303 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Japanese society
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    Abstract: What shapes the decisions of employees in Japan? The authors of this comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the relationship between work and society in Japan argue that individual decisions about work can only be understood through the broader social context. Many factors combine to affect such choices including the structuring of labour markets, social policy and, of course, global influences which have come increasingly to impinge on the organisation of work and life generally. By considering labour markets, social policy and relationships between labour and management, the book offers penetrating insights into contemporary Japanese society and glimpses of what might come in the future. Underlying the discussion is a challenge to the celebration of Japanese management practices which has dominated the literature for the last three decades. This is an important book for students of sociology and economics.
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    Stereotypes and prejudice in conflict : representation of Arabs in Israeli Jewish society (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 483 pages)
    DDC: 305.892/705694
    RVK:
    CV 5000
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    MS 1246
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    Keywords: Juden ; Vorurteil ; Palästinenser ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Israel
    Abstract: In the last two decades, the study of social stereotypes and prejudice has become one of the central interests in social psychology in particular. One reflection of this growing interest is the focus on shared stereotypes and prejudices. The primary reason for this development is the recognition that stereotypes and prejudice play a determinative role in shaping intergroup relations. In situations of conflict, they are simultaneously outcomes of the accumulated animosity between the involved groups and also feed on the continuation of the conflict by furnishing the cognitive-affective basis for the experienced mistrust by the parties. In spite of this recognition, no systematic analysis of the stereotypes and prejudice was carried out in real situations. This book tries to rectify this by applying a general and universal conceptual framework to the study of the acquisition and development of stereotypes and prejudice in a society involved in an intractable conflict.
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    Macrojustice : the political economy of fairness (2004)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511082150 , 9780511082153
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 537 pages , Illustrationen , 25 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2005 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
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    Parallel Title: Print version Macrojustice
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Economics Moral and ethical aspects. ; Distributive justice. ; Income distribution. ; Wealth. ; Poverty. ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Wealth ; Poverty ; Income distribution ; Distributive justice ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Distributive justice ; Income distribution ; Wealth ; Poverty ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects. ; Distributive justice. ; Income distribution. ; Wealth. ; Poverty. ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; General ; Distributive justice ; Economics ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Income distribution ; Poverty ; Wealth ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Economische ethiek ; Distributieve rechtvaardigheid ; Inkomensverdeling ; Rijkdom ; Armoede ; Répartition du revenu ; Justice distributive ; Science économique ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
    Abstract: "The concept of equalization labour is a measure of the degree of community, solidarity, reciprocity, redistribution, and equalization of the society under consideration. It is determined by a number of methods presented in this study, which also emphasizes the rationality, meanings, properties, and ways of practical implementation of this optimum distribution. This result is compared with the various distributive principles found in practice and in political, philosophical, and economic thinking, with the conclusion that most have their proper specific scope of application. The analytical presentation of the social ethics of economics is particularly enlightening."--Jacket
    Abstract: pt. 1. Bases: consensus, freedoms, and capacities -- pt. 2. Overall distributive justice: Elie (equal labour income equalization) -- pt. 3. Comparisons with policies and philosophies -- pt. 4. The degree of community, equality, reciprocity, and solidarity -- pt. 5. Comparison with economics' social ethics.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-523) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2005
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    Ecological networks and greenways : concept, design, implementation (2004)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511606762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 345 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in landscape ecology
    DDC: 304.2
    RVK:
    AR 28000
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    RB 10525
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The establishment of ecological networks in Europe and greenways in America has required some of the most advanced applications of the principles of landscape ecology to land use planning. This book provides a thorough overview of recent developments in this emerging field, combining theoretical concepts of landscape ecology with the actual practice of landscape planning and management. In addition to biological and physical considerations important to biodiversity protection and restoration, equal weight is given to cultural and aesthetic issues to illustrate how sympathetic, sustainable land use policies can be implemented. Examples are given for large scale areas (Estonia and Florida) as well as regional areas such as Milano, Chicago and the Argentinian Yungas. This invaluable book will provide a wealth of information for all those concerned with biodiversity conservation through networks and greenways and their relevance to the planning process, whether researcher, land manager or policy maker.
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    The state and life chances in urban China : redistribution and stratification, 1949-1994 (2004)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511499401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 375 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/12
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    Keywords: Bibliografie ; Bibliografie
    Abstract: This book presents a systematic study of social stratification processes in urban China, from 1949 to 1994. Based on the life histories of a sample of urban residents from 20 Chinese cities, this book addresses two themes: (1) the interplay between redistribution and social stratification under state socialism in urban China, especially the impact of the state and state policies on individual life chances, in such areas as education, labor force participation, promotion in organizations, and the distribution of manifest and latent economic benefits; (2) an assessment of sources and extent of China's economic transformation since the 1980s. The author blends sociological analysis and sensitivity to the historical context in interpreting changes and continuity in the 45-year history of state socialist China. This is a comprehensive and rigorous study of social stratification in China.
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    Women and the state in modern Indonesia (2004)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: x, 257 p. S. , 24 cm
    Edition: Electronic text and image data Mode of access: Intranet Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text
    Series Statement: ACLS Humanities E-Book
    Series Statement: ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
    DDC: 305.42095980904
    RVK:
    MS 3000
    RVK:
    LB 44420
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    RR 60980
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Rational herds : economic models of social learning (2004)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511165978 , 0511165382 , 0511616376 , 0511164823 , 9780511165382 , 9780511616372 , 9780511164828 , 9780511165979
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 402 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chamley, Christophe Rational herds
    DDC: 303.3/2
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    QH 300
    Keywords: Social learning ; Social learning Mathematical models ; Decision making ; Collective behavior ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Collective behavior ; Decision making ; Social learning ; Soziales Lernen ; Kollektives Verhalten ; Mathematisches Modell ; Sociaal leren ; Wiskundige modellen ; Aprendizagem social ; Aprendizagem social (modelos matemáticos) ; Tomada de decisão ; Comportamento coletivo ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I. Social learning : 2. Bayesian tools : The bayesian framework ; Binary and Gaussian information ; Private signals and beliefs ; Martingales -- 3. Social learning with a common memory : A canonical model of social learning ; Efficient learning ; Observation noise ; Extensions -- 4. Cascades and herds : The basic model of herding ; The standard model with bounded beliefs ; The convergence of beliefs ; Herds and the slow convergence of beliefs ; Pricing the informational externality ; Crashes and booms -- 5. Limited memories : The sequential model with sampling ; The welfare-improving principle ; Sampling in a very large population ; Social learning or sampling in a large population? -- 6. Delays : The simplest model ; A general model with heterogeneous beliefs ; Properties -- 7. More delays : The length of a period ; Continuous times ; Buildup of private information ; Observation of payoffs -- 8. Outcomes : Incomplete learning ; The determinant of economic success: luck or effort? ; Complete learning with a diversity of private beliefs -- 9. Networks and diffusion : Optimization and diffusion of innovations ; Learning in networks -- 10. Words : Advice by one expert ; Larger sets of states and messages ; Panel of experts ; The receiver does not make the evaluation -- Part II. Coordination : 11. Guessing to coordinate : Overview ; Eductive stability in a standard market ; Strategic complementarities ; Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate -- 12. Learning to coordinate : A distribution with a cluster ; Observation noise -- 13. Delays and payoff externalities : Strategic substitutability ; Strategic complementaries -- Part III. Financial herding : 14.l Sequences of financial trades : Learning in the model of Glosten and Milgrom ; Herds ; Avalanches ; Herding in auctions -- 15. Gaussian financial markets : Actions in the CARA-Gauss model ; Markets ; The convergence of beliefs ; Multiple equilibria, crashes, and booms -- 16. Financial frenzies : Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate ; Information delays in financial markets ; The crash of a bubble.
    Abstract: This book is the first in the exciting new field of social learning
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    The escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100 : Europe, America, and the Third World (2004)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511214154 , 0511215940 , 0511817649 , 9780511214158 , 9780511215940 , 9780511817649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 191 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 38
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fogel, Robert William Escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100
    DDC: 304.6/4
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    Keywords: Food supply History ; Malnutrition History ; Medical care History ; Mortality History ; Life Expectancy trends ; Diet trends ; Mortality trends ; Socioeconomic Factors ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; Food supply ; Malnutrition ; Medical care ; Mortality ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Unterernährung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Ernährungspolitik ; Voeding ; Gezondheid ; Levensverwachting ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Abstract: 1. The persistence of misery in Europe before 1900 -- 2. Why the twentieth century was so remarkable -- 3. Tragedies and miracles in the Third World -- 4. Prospects for the twenty-first century -- 5. Problems of equity in health care -- Postscript : how long can we live?
    Abstract: A compelling new study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, examining health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-181) and index
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    Alternatives for welfare policy : coping with internationalism and demographic change (2003)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511064845 , 9780511064845 , 0511120540 , 9780511120541
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 383 pages , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
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    Parallel Title: Print version Alternatives for welfare policy
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare Scandinavia ; Public welfare OECD countries ; OECD countries ; Scandinavia ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Services ; Public welfare ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Social Services & Welfare ; OECD countries ; Scandinavia ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Nordische Staaten ; Wohlfahrtsstaat
    Abstract: International integration and the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen -- The changing age structure and the public sector / Thomas Lindh -- Emigration from the Scandinavian welfare states / Peder J. Pedersen, Marianne Røed and Lena Schröder -- Productivity and costs in public production of services / Jørn Rattsø -- Use of fees in the provision of public services in OECD countries / Carl Emmerson and Howard Reed -- Privitisation of social insurance with reference to Sweden / Lars Söderström and Klas Rikner -- Occupational welfare / Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg -- Pathways to retirement and retirement incentives in Sweden / Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson -- Social insurance and redistribution / Pierre Pestieau -- Assessing the effect of introducing welfare accounts in Sweden / Stefan Fölster ... [et al.] -- Taxation in a global economy / Bernd Huber and Erik Norrman -- Taxation and education investment in the tertiary sector / Fredrik Andersson and Kai A. Konrad -- Debt strategies for Sweden and Europe / Martin Flodén -- Policy options for reforming the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen and Per Molander
    Description / Table of Contents: International integration and the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen -- The changing age structure and the public sector / Thomas Lindh -- Emigration from the Scandinavian welfare states / Peder J. Pedersen, Marianne Røed and Lena Schröder -- Productivity and costs in public production of services / Jørn Rattsø -- Use of fees in the provision of public services in OECD countries / Carl Emmerson and Howard Reed -- Privatisation of social insurance with reference to Sweden / Lars Söderström and Klas Rikner -- Occupational welfare / Ann-Charlotte St°ahlberg -- Pathways to retirement and retirement incentives in Sweden / M°arten Palme and Ingemar Svensson -- Social insurance and redistribution / Pierre Pestieau -- Assessing the effect of introducing welfare accounts in Sweden / Stefan Fölster ... [et al.] -- Taxation in a global economy / Bernd Huber and Erik Norrman -- Taxation and education investment in the tertiary sector / Fredrik Andersson and Kai A. Konrad -- Debt strategies for Sweden and Europe / Martin Flodén -- Policy options for reforming the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen and Per Molander
    Description / Table of Contents: International integration and the welfare state / Torben M. AndersenThe changing age structure and the public sector / Thomas Lindh -- Emigration from the Scandinavian welfare states / Peder J. Pedersen, Marianne Røed and Lena Schröder -- Productivity and costs in public production of services / Jørn Rattsø -- Use of fees in the provision of public services in OECD countries / Carl Emmerson and Howard Reed -- Privitisation of social insurance with reference to Sweden / Lars Söderström and Klas Rikner -- Occupational welfare / Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg -- Pathways to retirement and retirement incentives in Sweden / Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson -- Social insurance and redistribution / Pierre Pestieau -- Assessing the effect of introducing welfare accounts in Sweden / Stefan Fölster ... [et al.] -- Taxation in a global economy / Bernd Huber and Erik Norrman -- Taxation and education investment in the tertiary sector / Fredrik Andersson and Kai A. Konrad -- Debt strategies for Sweden and Europe / Martin Flodén -- Policy options for reforming the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen and Per Molander.
    Note: Subtitle on cover: Reconciling policy goals with demgraphic change and internationalism , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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    The social amplification of risk (2003)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511550461
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 448 pages)
    DDC: 302/.12
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    RVK:
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen perceptions of risk and through this create secondary effects such as stigmatisation of technologies, economic losses or regulatory impacts. This volume, edited by three of the world's leading analysts of risk and its communication, brings together contributions from a group of international experts working in the field of risk perception and risk communication. Key conceptual issues are discussed as well as a range of recent case studies (spanning BSE and food safety, AIDS/HIV, nuclear power, child protection, Y2K, electromagnetic fields, and waste incineration) that take forward the state-of-the-art in risk amplification theory. The volume also draws attention to lessons for public policy, risk management and risk communication practice.
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    Navigating social-ecological systems : building resilience for complexity and change (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511541957
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 393 pages)
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Soziales System ; Ökosystem ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umweltverträglichkeit ; Sozialökologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the effort towards sustainability, it has become increasingly important to develop conceptual frames to understand the dynamics of social and ecological systems. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is central in this context. Resilient social-ecological systems have the potential to sustain development by responding to and shaping change in a manner that does not lead to loss of future options. Resilient systems also provide capacity for renewal and innovation in the face of rapid transformation and crisis. The term navigating in the title is meant to capture this dynamic process. Case studies and examples from several geographic areas, cultures and resource types are included, merging forefront research from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities into a common framework for new insights on sustainability.
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    Coastal processes : with engineering applications (2002)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511019084 , 9780511019081
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 475 p , ill., maps , 26 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2002 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
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    Parallel Title: Print version Coastal processes
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Coastal engineering. ; Coastal engineering ; Coastal engineering ; Coastal engineering. ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Hydraulics ; Coastal engineering ; Küstenschutz ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Küstenschutz ; Küstenschutz
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE INTRODUCTION TO COASTAL PROCESSES; PART TWO HYDRODYNAMICS OF THE COASTAL ZONE; PART THREE COASTAL RESPONSE; PART FOUR SHORELINE MODIFICATION AND ANALYSIS; Author Index; Subject Index.
    Abstract: This text is organized in four parts: (1) an overview of coastal engineering, using case studies to illustrate problems; (2) hydrodynamics of the coastal zone, reviewing storm surges, water waves, and low frequency motions within the nearshore and surf zone; (3) coastal responses including equilibrium beach profiles and sediment transport; (4) applications such as erosion mitigation and shoreline management
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2002
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    Rethinking performance measurement : beyond the balanced scorecard (2002)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511064632 , 0511753829 , 9780521812436 , 0521812437 , 9780511064630 , 0511073097 , 9780511073090 , 0511120370 , 9780511120374 , 9780511753824
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 202 pages , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Meyer, Marshall W Rethinking performance measurement
    DDC: 658.4/01
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    Keywords: Organizational effectiveness Measurement. ; Performance Measurement. ; Total quality management. ; Organizational effectiveness Measurement ; Performance Measurement ; Efficacité organisationnelle Mesure ; Rendement au travail Mesure ; Qualité totale ; Total quality management ; Organizational effectiveness Measurement ; Performance Measurement ; Organizational effectiveness Measurement. ; Performance Measurement. ; Total quality management. ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Corporate Governance ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Leadership ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Organizational Development ; Organizational effectiveness ; Measurement ; Performance ; Measurement ; Total quality management ; Bedrijfsresultaten ; Balansanalyse ; Efficacité organisationnelle ; Analyse coûts-avantages ; Évaluation de la performance ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Workplace Culture ; Leistungsmessung ; Unternehmen ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Leistungsmessung ; Unternehmen ; Leistungsmessung
    Abstract: Why are performance measures so bad? -- Running down of performance measures -- In search of balance -- From cost drivers to revenue drivers -- Learning from ABPA -- Managing and strategizing with ABPA
    Abstract: A major new study by a leading management scholar from top-ranked Wharton School of Business on problems of performance measurement systems. Highlights particular shortcomings of the widely adopted 'balanced scorecard' technique. Outlines an alternative approach capturing fundamentals of firm performance. Essential reading for management faculty, MBA students and thoughtful practitioners
    Description / Table of Contents: Why are performance measures so bad? -- Running down of performance measures -- In search of balance -- From cost drivers to revenue drivers -- Learning from ABPA -- Managing and strategizing with ABPA
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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    Population and climate change (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511529450
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 266 pages)
    DDC: 304.6
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Demographie ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung
    Abstract: Population and Climate Change provides the first systematic in-depth treatment of links between two major themes of the twenty-first century: population growth and associated demographic trends such as aging, and climate change. It is written by a multidisciplinary team of authors from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, who integrate both natural science and social science perspectives in a way that is readable by members of both communities. The book will be of primary interest to researchers in the fields of climate change, demography, and economics. It will also be useful to policy-makers and NGOs dealing with issues of population dynamics and climate change, and to teachers and students on courses such as environmental studies, demography, climatology, economics, earth systems science, and international relations.
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    Decisions and elections : explaining the unexpected (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511606076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 240 pages)
    DDC: 658.4/03
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    Keywords: Arrow, Kenneth Joseph ; Sen, Amartya ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Wahl ; Entscheidungsfindung
    Abstract: It is not uncommon to be frustrated by the outcome of an election or a decision in voting, law, economics, engineering, and other fields. Does this 'bad' result reflect poor data or poorly informed voters? Or does the disturbing conclusion reflect the choice of the decision/election procedure? Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow's famed theorem has been interpreted to mean 'no decision procedure is without flaws'. Similarly, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen dashes hope for individual liberties by showing their incompatibility with societal needs. This highly accessible book offers a new, different interpretation and resolution of Arrow's and Sen's theorems. Using simple mathematics, it shows that these negative conclusions arise because, in each case, some of their assumptions negate other crucial assumptions. Once this is understood, not only do the conclusions become expected, but a wide class of other phenomena can also be anticipated.
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    Second nature : economic origins of human evolution (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511754937
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/093
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    RB 10123
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    WH 8908
    Keywords: Wirtschaft ; Evolution ; Mensch
    Abstract: Was exchange an early agent of human evolution or is it merely an artefact of modern civilisation? Spanning two million years of human evolution, this book explores the impact of economics on human evolution and natural history. The theory of evolution by natural selection has always relied in part on progress in areas of science outside biology. By applying economic principles at the borderlines of biology, Haim Ofek shows how some of the outstanding issues in human evolution, such as the increase in human brain size and the expansion of the environmental niche humans occupied, can be answered. He identifies distinct economic forces at work, beginning with the transition from the feed-as-you-go strategy of primates, through hunter-gathering and the domestication of fire to the development of agriculture. This highly readable book will inform and intrigue general readers and those in fields such as evolutionary biology and psychology, economics, and anthropology.
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    Women and human development : the capabilities approach (2000)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511841286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 312 pages)
    Series Statement: The Seeley lectures 3
    DDC: 305.42/09172/4
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    CC 7200
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    Abstract: In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. Nussbaum argues that international political and economic thought must be sensitive to gender difference as a problem of justice, and that feminist thought must begin to focus on the problems of women in the third world. Taking as her point of departure the predicament of poor women in India, she shows how philosophy should undergird basic constitutional principles that should be respected and implemented by all governments, and used as a comparative measure of quality of life across nations.
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    Workplace studies : recovering work practice and informing system design (2000)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511628122
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 283 pages)
    DDC: 306.36
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    MS 5200
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    QP 413
    Keywords: Kommunikation ; Unternehmen ; Organisation ; Arbeitsplatz ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Workplace studies are of growing significance to people in a broad range of academic disciplines and professions, in particular those involved in the development of new technologies. This ground breaking book, first published in 2000, brings together key researchers in Europe and the US to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a number of detailed case studies that not only provide an insight into the issues central to workplace studies but also some of the problems involved in carrying out such research. Part II focuses on the interrelationship between workplace studies and the design of new technologies. This book provides a valuable, multidisciplinary synthesis of the key issues and theoretical developments in workplace studies and a guide to the implications of such research for new technology design and the workplace.
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    Technology in action (2000)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511489839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 269 pages)
    Series Statement: Learning in doing : social, cognitive and computational perspectives
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    SR 850
    Keywords: Informationstechnik ; Techniksoziologie
    Abstract: Despite the extraordinary advances in digital and communication technology over recent years, we know very little about the way these complex systems affect everyday work and interaction. This book seeks to explore these issues through a series of video-based field studies. It begins by discussing the introduction of basic information systems in general medical practice and ends with an exploration of interpersonal communication in advanced media spaces; in the process also looking at news production, the control room of London Underground and computer aided design in architectural practice. Social interaction forms a particular focus of these studies as they explore the way individuals use various tools and technologies and coordinate their actions and activities with each other. The authors also show how video-based field studies of work and interaction can inform the design, development and deployment of new technology, in this valuable new resource for academics, researchers and practitioners.
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    Urbanism, health, and human biology in industrialised countries (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511525698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series 40
    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Gesundheit ; Verstädterung ; Humanbiologie ; Industriestaaten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Over seventy per cent of the population in industrialized nations live in cities; soon, so will most of the world's population. This volume examines the impact of urban living on human health and biology. Cities pose numerous and diverse social and biological challenges to human populations which bear little resemblance to the forces that moulded human biology through millions of years of evolution. Urban populations in industrialized nations have distinctive patterns of behaviour, social stratification, stress, infectious disease, diet, activity and exposure to pollutants from years of industrialization. These features affect diverse aspects of human function including human nutrition, energy expenditure, growth and reproduction. This volume begins with an introduction to the history of urbanism and poverty, infectious disease, reproductive function, child health, nutrition, physical activity and psychosocial stress. The book will appeal to workers in urban planning, human biology, anthropology, preventative medicine, human ecology and related areas.
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    From education to work : cross-national perspectives (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511527876
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 352 pages)
    DDC: 305.235
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    QV 221
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    DU 3000
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    MS 2250
    Keywords: Internationaler Vergleich ; Berufsanfang ; Jugend ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Structural transformations in the international economy and the restructuring of work have made the transition from education to employment increasingly problematic. School-to-work pathways have become more socially segmented and the risk of under-employment and joblessness has increased for both vocationally and academically educated youth. Continuous passages have become less common and have given way to multiple entries and exits between schooling and working, under-employment, unemployment and domestic work. This edited volume of empirical studies is based on a series of comparable longitudinal research projects which draw on survey and biographical data from important players in the international economy, the USA, Great Britain, Canada and Germany. The studies document that social and gender inequality is a persistent structural feature that restricts the possibilities to take advantage of educational opportunities and career options. Furthermore, different institutional arrangements are shown to play a crucial role in distributing transition opportunities in a more equal way.
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    Global nation? : Australia and the politics of globalisation (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511552250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 202 pages)
    DDC: 337.94
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    QF 090
    Abstract: Globalisation was one of the most ubiquitous buzzwords of the late twentieth century, yet its meaning was often elusive. Retrenchments, trade alliances, global warming, currency devaluations, and so on are often explained as unavoidable consequences of globalisation, and even everyday things - from the food we eat to the television we watch and the clothes we wear - are apparently impacted upon by globalisation. This 1998 book provides an accessible exploration of the meanings and implications of globalisation. The discussion is carefully grounded in the changing social, economic, ecological, and political relationships of Australia. Global Nation? also looks at a range of existing and potential responses to the globalisation process, arguing that there may be alternatives, even though we are increasingly told that there are not.
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    Perspectives on public choice : a handbook (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511664458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 672 pages)
    DDC: 302.13
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    MD 7200
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    QC 160
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government.
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    The gift of generations : Japanese and American perspectives on aging and the social contract (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511571077
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 226 pages)
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    Abstract: Modern societies today contend with population dynamics that have never before existed. As the number of older people grows, these countries must determine how best to provide for the needs of this population. The constraints are real: fiscal and material resources are finite and must be shared in a way that is perceived as just. As such, societies confront the fundamental question of who gets what, how, and why, and ultimately must reappraise the principles determining why some people are considered more worthy of help than others. This study systematically explores the Japanese and American answers to this fundamental question. This is the only US-Japan comparative work of its kind, utilizing systematically comparable data from both countries. It also draws on interview material that presents the choices, disappointments, and satisfactions of old age in the individual's own words.
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    Virtual individuals, virtual groups : human dimensions of groupware and computer networking (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511574986
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 389 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge series on human-computer interaction 11
    DDC: 302.3
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Designers, implementers, and users of computer network applications are all deeply involved in the processes of social and cultural change, whether or not they consciously and actively choose to consider these processes. Issues such as community and privacy, dependence and individualism are no longer simply the province of philosophers and social scientists; they are tightly interwoven in the design and use of network applications. Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups explores the social dimensions of the powerful computing applications that are shaping our culture. It addresses design and theoretical issues relating to groupware and other applications of computer networks. It considers computer network applications in terms of the notions of genre and narrative, in a framework that is broadly applicable to the development of a wide range of computing and communication systems, such as virtual reality and multimedia.
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    Fair division : from cake-cutting to dispute resolution (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511598975
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 272 pages)
    DDC: 303.6/9
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    Abstract: Cutting a cake, dividing up the property in an estate, determining the borders in an international dispute - such problems of fair division are ubiquitous. Fair Division treats all these problems and many more through a rigorous analysis of a variety of procedures for allocating goods (or 'bads' like chores), or deciding who wins on what issues, when there are disputes. Starting with an analysis of the well-known cake-cutting procedure, 'I cut, you choose', the authors show how it has been adapted in a number of fields and then analyze fair-division procedures applicable to situations in which there are more than two parties, or there is more than one good to be divided. In particular they focus on procedures which provide 'envy-free' allocations, in which everybody thinks he or she has received the largest portion and hence does not envy anybody else. They also discuss the fairness of different auction and election procedures.
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    People in transit : German migrations in comparative perspective, 1820-1930 (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139052498
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 433 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    DDC: 973/.0431
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    QU 400
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1815-1945 ; Deutsche ; Auswanderung ; Deutscher Einwanderer ; Deutschland ; USA ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1991
    Abstract: The demographic shockwaves of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe produced tremendous change in the national economies and affected the political, social, and cultural development of these societies. Migration historians have begun to connect the various European migratory streams during this period with transcontinental migration to North America. This volume contains empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s, placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration to North America. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in the process of migration. By looking specifically at postwar Germany, Klaus J. Bade underscores the relevance of this history in a concluding essay.
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    The New economics of human behavior (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511599040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 238 pages)
    DDC: 330/.01/9
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftssoziologie ; Wirtschaftspsychologie
    Abstract: This 1995 volume views important social and political issues through the eyes of economists. Pioneered by Gary Becker, this approach asserts that all actions, whether working, playing, dating, or mating, have economic motivations and consequences, and can be analysed using economic reasoning. Intended as an introduction to the current state of the field, the essays are informal and non-technical, while still using up-to-date economic reasoning to illuminate such topics as crime, marriage, discrimination, immigration, fads and fashions. The expanding domain of economics is illustrated, as problems from sociology, political science, anthropology, and public policy are all included in this Beckerian view: the world of human interaction, as seen by an economist.
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    The origins of industrial capitalism in India : business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 (1994)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511583551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 468 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge South Asian studies 51
    DDC: 305.5/62/09547923
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Rajnarayan Chandavarkar presents the first major study of the relationship between labour and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth-century. He explores the emergence of capitalism in the region, the development of the cotton textile industry, its particular problems in the 1920s and 1930s and the mill owners' and the state's responses to them. The author also investigates how a labour force was formed in Bombay - its rural roots, urban networks, industrial organisation and the way in which it shaped capitalist strategies. In a subject dominated by the assumption of unities, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar convincingly demonstrates the fragmentation of class, on the side of both capital and labour. Their interaction sometimes exacerbated their internal differences. But, the author also asks on what terms, to what ends, and under what circumstances solidarities could be forged between workers.
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    Time, labor, and social domination : a reinterpretation of Marx's critical theory (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511570926
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 424 pages)
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. He does so by developing concepts aimed at grasping the essential character and historical development of modern society, and also at overcoming the familiar dichotomies of structure and action, meaning and material life. These concepts lead him to an original analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of 'actually existing socialism'. According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination rather than as means of human emancipation. This reinterpretation entails the form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society to the alienation and domination at the heart of capitalism. This reformulation, Postone argues, provides the foundation for a critical social theory that is more adequate to late twentieth-century capitalism.
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    The Industrial revolution and British society (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511622137
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 295 pages)
    DDC: 306/.0941
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Industrial Revolution and British Society is an original and wide-ranging textbook survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. The distinguished international team of contributors each focus on topics at the very centre of scholarly interest, and draw together the prevailing research in an accessible and stimulating manner: the intention throughout is to introduce a broad student readership to important, but less familiar aspects and consequences of the first Industrial Revolution. A variety of different disciplinary skills are employed in the analysis of empirical and conceptual data, and each chapter opens up its subject with indications for further reading. The Industrial Revolution and British Society offers a topical overview on perspectives of this central historical problem, and will be widely used as a course text by teachers in the field.
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    Language repertoires and state construction in Africa (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511666759
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 205 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    DDC: 306.4/49/096
    RVK:
    RS 10817
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    MI 10968
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    EP 13070
    Keywords: Gründung ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Staat ; Afrika
    Abstract: Most African countries have a population composed of a multitude of language groups and most African citizens have a varied repertoire allowing them to rely on different languages for use in the home, at school, in the market, at work and in communicating with political authorities. Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa analyses the complex language scene in Africa today and asks whether this distinctive web of language use is symptomatic of the early stage of state construction. If so, one would expect that as each of these states develops there will be a rationalisation of language use and agreement on a common language within the country's borders. Alternately, Africa's language scene may be the result of a particular historical context of state construction, with the implication that political development will not lead to the one-state, one-language outcome typical of the idealised nation-state.
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    Social choice : a framework for collective decisions and individual judgements (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511521911
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 152 pages)
    DDC: 302/.13
    RVK:
    QC 160
    RVK:
    MR 2200
    Keywords: Kollektiventscheidung
    Abstract: This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject, (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgements) with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that centre on the revelation of true preferences. The literature on the subject presently consists of a great many papers. This book draws them together in common notation and points out interpretations which are often missing in specialist papers. Applications in economics, electoral politics, and ethics are discussed. The book will be used by senior undergraduate and graduate students of economics, political science and philosophy as a text book in the subject.
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    Barter, exchange, and value : an anthropological approach (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511607677
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (203 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/4
    RVK:
    LC 24000
    RVK:
    MS 4800
    RVK:
    QC 010
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book concerns barter, a transaction in which objects are exchanged directly for one another without the use of money. Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, and assume that it is normal only in 'primitive' economies or marks the breakdown of more developed exchange mechanisms. For their part, anthropologists have been more interested in the social and moral complexities of the 'gift', and treat barter dismissively as mere haggling. The authors of this collection do not accept that barter occupies a residual space between monetary and gift economies. Using accounts from different parts of the world, they aim to demonstrate that it is more than a simple and self-evident economic institution. Barter may constitute a mode of exchange with its own social characteristics occupying a specific moral space. This novel treatment of barter represents an original and topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology.
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    Interpersonal comparisons of well-being (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139172387
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 400 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in rationality and social change
    DDC: 303.3/72
    RVK:
    QC 010
    RVK:
    CC 7750
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    CC 7200
    Keywords: Einstellung ; Sozialethik ; Utilitarismus ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: In this volume a diverse group of economists, philosophers, political scientists, and psychologists address the problems, principles, and practices involved in comparing the well-being of different individuals. A series of questions lie at the heart of this investigation: What is the relevant concept of well-being for the purposes of comparison? How could the comparisons be carried out for policy purposes? How are such comparisons made now? How do the difficulties involved in these comparisons affect the status of utilitarian theories? This collection constitutes the most advanced and comprehensive treatment of one of the cardinal issues in social theory.
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    By women, for women : a study of women's organizations in Thailand (1991)
    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9789814376273
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 186 pages)
    DDC: 305.4/06/0593
    RVK:
    QM 400
    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: An increasing number of women's groups are working independently in Thailand to promote women's rights. The aim of this study is to document the strategies adopted by a selection of these groups, and the programs that they are implementing in Thailand, in order to understand how cultural specificity (of mobility and education) guides their participation, and how gender relations are formed and transformed. While attempting to synthesize the disparate data collected on Thai women and their organizations, the authors have tried to evolve an analytical framework to study the meaning and significance of women's lives and efforts.
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    Power and the ruling classes in northeast Brazil : Juazeiro and Petrolina in transition (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511527531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 383 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Latin American studies 69
    DDC: 305.5/2/098142
    RVK:
    MI 84010
    RVK:
    RW 60801
    Keywords: Politische Elite ; Oberschicht ; Elite ; Wirtschaft ; Brasilien ; Juazeiro ; Petrolina
    Abstract: This case study of the structure of power and ruling-class domination in the heart of the sertão of Northeast Brazil is based upon six field trips over a period of fifteen years. Analysis of the political economy of Juazeiro, Bahia, and Petrolina, Pernambuco - two contiguous towns along the São Francisco River - focuses on the history of patriarchal families, ruling class, and patrimonial governments. Family dominance is related to the rise of the Coelhos in Petrolina and the decline of the Vianas in Juazeiro. Agressive tactics and links to Recife allowed the Coelhos to expand and assume control over most commerce in Petrolina and neighbouring municipalities to Juazeiro. In both situations the intervention of the state in the region, usually bolstered by international credits, affected traditional standards of living. The construction of the Sobradinho Dam, for example, brought problems for small farmers along the banks of the São Francisco who could no longer count on the natural flow of river water. State policy also favored corporations to the detriment of small producers on cooperative farms.
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    The Earth in transition : patterns and processes of biotic impoverishment (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511529917
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 530 pages)
    DDC: 304.2
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    RB 10844
    Keywords: Ökosystem ; Ökologie ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Life occurs, as far as we know, only as part of the earthly biosphere. Yet the earth's biotic resources are experiencing a spreading crisis that is leading not only to the most rapid loss of species in the last 65 million years, but also causing abrupt changes in the structure and function of natural communities. This disturbance, unfortunately, is the result of human carelessness in the name of advancing civilisation. As our technologies and societies continue to improve and grow, we remove ourselves more and more from our natural habitat; as a consequence, we destroy countless numbers of species of every style and complexity. To identify and begin rectifying this dangerous situation, a group of outstanding environmental scientists has compiled a collection of case studies that illustrate the changes being wrought on the biosphere by the human presence.
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    The Economic limits to modern politics (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511559174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 226 pages)
    Series Statement: Murphy Institute studies in political economy
    DDC: 306.2
    RVK:
    QD 050
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    MD 1800
    Keywords: Ökonomische Theorie der Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1986 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1986
    Abstract: The central problem of modern government and political action is how to choose and implement effective economic policies. For this reason, the economic considerations of public policy have assumed a more prominent place in contemporary political thought. Despite efforts among political scientists, economists, and sociologists to fathom the complexities of this added dimension, none of these solid sciences offers a satisfying approach to the problem. This volume attempts to display the historical novelty and intellectual importance of this dilemma, to uncover its origins, and to procure a remedy through a clearer and steadier focus. The book's contributors range from historians of ideas to economic theorists, who bring the approach of their own intellectual discipline to bear upon the issue.
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    Migration in colonial Spanish America (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511522239
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 399 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in historical geography 16
    DDC: 304.8/09171/246
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    NN 1710
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    RV 10835
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Binnenwanderung ; Migration ; Hispanoamerika ; Lateinamerika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analysis of migration in Latin America. Ranging in time from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, the studies will attract the attention of all Latin American specialists. They provide conclusive evidence of the ubiquity of migration in the early modern period, challenging views of immobile peasants held in the grip of static colonialism. They show that to migrate was one of the most important means of coping with Spanish colonialism. The essays are written from a multi-disciplinary perspective and thus provide data and interpretations that are novel and represent important contributions to colonial Latin American studies. They address the basic questions of who migrated, why did they migrate, how can one interpret migration fields, what role did economic opportunity or ecological conditions play, and not least, what was the impact of migrants on non-migrant communities in both rural and urban areas. The picture that emerges is one of colonial Spanish America in continual flux: spatial mobility was no less pronounced than social/racial change.
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    The theory of social situations : an alternative game-theoretic approach (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139173759
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 187 pages)
    DDC: 302
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    MR 2800
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    MS 6600
    RVK:
    QH 430
    Keywords: Spieltheorie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: This book, first published in 1991, offers an integrative approach to the study of formal models in the social and behavioural sciences. The theory presented here unifies both the representation of the social environment and the equilibrium concept. The theory requires that all alternatives that are available to the players be specified in an explicit and detailed manner, and this specification is defined as a social 'situation'. A situation, therefore, not only consists of the alternatives currently available to the players, but also includes the set of opportunities that might be induced by the players from their current environment. The theory requires that all recommended alternatives be both internally and externally stable; the recommendation cannot be self-defeating and, at the same time, should account for alternatives that were not recommended. In addition to unifying the representation and the solution concept, the theory also extends the social environments accommodated by current game theory.
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    Conversations in Colombia : the domestic economy in life and text (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511558009
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 207 pages)
    DDC: 330.9861/0632/08998
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    MS 9500
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    Abstract: Drawing upon their joint fieldwork, the authors cast this book as a conversation involving themselves, a Colombian rural people, and the writings of past economists. In their view, the material practices of the rural folk constitute a house model of the economy, and the Colombian voices provide a window on prior European fold conversations about the house. The house and the corporation have been the principal modes of material organization in Western life: the former is older, but the latter now predominates. The authors suggest, through use of the Colombian conversations, that textualists of the past transformed and inscribed similar folk voices for their emerging theories of the corporation and the market. They argue that economic knowledge is not simply the product of a scientific community but is often appropriated from folk practices. By situating the knowledge gained from fieldwork within their own traditions, and by using that knowledge to reflect upon the origins of contemporary wisdom, the book implicates the modern-day ethnographer, rural folk, and economist as participants in a long conversation.
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    The cement of society : a study of social order (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511624995
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 311 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in rationality and social change
    DDC: 305
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    CC 7700
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    MR 5800
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    MR 7200
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    MR 7300
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    MS 1090
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    QC 160
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    QX 000
    Abstract: The question Jon Elster addresses in this challenging book is what binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war. He analyses two concepts of social order: stable, predictable patterns of behaviour, and co-operative behaviour. The book examines various aspects of collective action and bargaining from the perspective of rational-choice theory and the theory of social norms. It is a fundamental assumption of the book that social norms provide an important kind of motivation for action that is irreducible to rationality. The book represents a major statement by Elster, which will be of particular interest to political scientists, political philosophers, sociologists, and economists.
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    Upland communities : environment, population, and social structure in the Alps since the sixteenth century (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511523533
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 325 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 8
    DDC: 304.6/09494/7
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    Abstract: This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists. The book therefore deals at length with such problems as the causes and consequences of emigration and patterns of marriage and inheritance in favouring or hampering the adjustments of local populations to changing economic or ecological circumstances, and tackles the vexed question of the relative importance of cultural and environmental factors in shaping family forms and community structures. Although its foundation lies in a long period of anthropological fieldwork conducted in an Alpine community, Upland Communities relies on the methods and conceptual tools of historical demography. Combined with a long-term historical perspective, its broad comparative approach unveils an unexpected diversity in regional and spatial demographic patterns and questions a number of deep-rooted but ultimately misleading notions concerning mountain society and its alleged backwardness in the past.
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    Bad year economics : cultural responses to risk and uncertainty (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511521218
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 145 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in archaeology
    DDC: 306/.3
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Lebensmittelversorgung ; Vorratswirtschaft ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Konferenzschrift 1984 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1984 ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Bad Year Economics explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and ancient and modern history, the contributors range widely in time and space across hunting, farming and pastoralism, across ancient states, empires, and modern nation states. The aim, however, is a common one: to analyse in each case the structure of variability - particularly with regard to food supply - and review the range of responses offered by individual human communities. These responses commonly exploit various forms of mobility, economic diversification, storage, and exchange to deploy local or temporary abundance as a defence against shortage. Different levels of response are used at different levels of risk. Their success is fundamental to human survival and their adoption has important ramifications throughout cultural behaviour.
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    Money and the morality of exchange (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511621659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 276 pages)
    DDC: 306/.3
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    MS 9400
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    QK 000
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    Keywords: Geld ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships.
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    Age, class, politics, and the welfare state (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511557781
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 199 pages)
    Series Statement: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
    DDC: 361
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    Keywords: Alter ; Sozialpolitik ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Sozialausgaben ; Sozialstaat ; Politik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Soziale Klasse
    Abstract: This analysis of the growth of welfare spending examines the relative impact of class and status groups versus demographic composition and political structures. Special attention is given to the role of the aged as representative of the importance of ascription and middle-class groups in welfare growth, and to the effect of welfare spending on income inequality. Aggregate cross-national data from the UN, ILO, and the World Bank are analysed and the conclusion is drawn that a large aged population, especially in combination with democratic political processes, is a direct and crucial influence on the level of welfare spending.
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    Peasants, politicians, and producers : the organisation of agriculture in France since 1918 (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511599354
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 209 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in historical geography 14
    DDC: 306.34
    RVK:
    MS 1630
    RVK:
    NW 7900
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    QS 100
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    RN 20663
    Keywords: Geschichte 1918-1988 ; Bauernverband ; Landwirtschaftsgenossenschaft ; Agrarpolitik ; Landwirtschaft ; Frankreich
    Abstract: This book examines the social history and historical geography of the most important agricultural pressure groups in France since about 1918. Some were practical and pragmatic groups (co-operatives, banks and mutual-aid associations), others were inspired by right- or left-wing political movements (the Peasant Corporation under Vichy), yet others were sponsored by the Catholic Church (the Young Christian Farmers). Whatever their origins, all were important in shaping the evolution of French farming this century. The transformation of an isolated, autarkic peasantry into highly efficient agricultural producers, the role of the state in influencing agricultural modernization and the place of the European community in French political and agricultural life have been affected by an increasingly complex and interlinked network of organizations that are the subject of this book. Their history and geography are revealing indicators of the social, cultural and economic evolution of rural France and, by combining an historical approach with a consideration of their contemporary role, the book serves to elucidate their role in shaping the countryside of the future.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511599354
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    Demographic behavior in the past : a study of fourteen German village populations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1988)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511523403
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 587 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 6
    DDC: 304.6/0943
    RVK:
    ND 8740
    RVK:
    MS 4200
    RVK:
    ND 8700
    RVK:
    NW 2250
    RVK:
    QU 300
    Keywords: Bevölkerungsstruktur ; Waldeck-Höringhausen ; Bad Arolsen- Massenhausen ; Diemelsee-Vasbeck
    Abstract: This book provides a detailed examination of the demographic behavior of families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a sample of fourteen villages in five different regions of Germany. It is based on the reconstituted family histories of vital events (births, deaths and marriages) compiled by genealogies for the entire populations of these villages. The book applies the type of micro-level analysis possible with family reconstitution data for the crucial period leading to and encompassing the early stages of the demographic transition, including the initial onset of the decline of fertility to low modern levels. The analysis explores many aspects of demographic behavior which have been largely ignored by previous macro-level investigations of the demographic transition. These include infant and child mortality, maternal mortality, marriage, marital dissolution, bridal pregnancy and illegitimacy. The core of the study, however, deals with marital reproduction, examining the modernization of reproductive behavior in terms of the transition from a situation of natural fertility to one characterized by pervasive family limitation.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523403
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