Gunnar myrdal and his works

The readers of Gunnar Myrdal and His Works are getting two books in one. Part I deals with the biography of our subject and his contribution to social democracy, the "Swedish model," the famous (or notorious) "third way," to amelioration of the race problem in the USA, and to development in South...

The doom loop in the financial sector

In the past two years, the world has experienced how unsound economic practices can disrupt global economic and social order. Today’s volatile global financial situation highlights the importance of managing risk and the consequences of poor decision making. The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector ...

The entrepreneurial effect

Every entrepreneur wants to know more and to able to do more, learning from those that have succeeded is one of the best ways to accomplish that. The entrepreneurs in this book discuss the skills needed to be successful in starting, growing and managing technology-based business in the 21st centu...

The income revolution

You've probably thought about where you will live in retirement and how you plan to spend your time. But do you know how much income you will need to pay for the type of retirement you want? With Social Security's uncertain future, as well as the increasing cost of healthcare, you need to formula...

Critiques

Critiques offers a compelling defence of development, showing that Marxist approaches to this contentious concept still have much to offer us today. Tom Brass pushes back against claims that development is outdated, environmentally destructive and Eurocentric, arguing instead for the revival of...

Practical accounts & bookkeeping in easy steps

Shows the non-accountant how to understand business finances - in easy steps. Master basic bookkeeping: sales ledgers, purchase ledgers, and nominal ledgers, VAT, Capital Accounts, Double-Entry Bookkeeping, Fixed and Current Assets, and more!

Your emergency contact

In venture capital, money and ambition may open doors, but trust determines who gets to stay in the room. In Your Emergency Contact: Why Trust Drives Venture Capital Success, Jonathan Hung shares hard-earned lessons from investing in more than 250 companies and 50 funds.

Running l&d like a business

Become Indispensable in Driving Business Growth L&D leaders must know how to connect learning strategies with business strategies and communicate effectively with leaders to improve employee performance and drive revenue. In other words, L&D needs to run like a business. Enter learning op...

Arctic abstractive industry

Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

Hunters and gatherers in the modern world

In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the denial of sovereignty, the world's more tha...

Flexible capitalism

Explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. Introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary ec...

The brave new world of european labor

European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in the post-World War II era. The recent shift to low...

Experiencing wages

When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as traditi...

Global ambitions and local identities

This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an American competitor offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the social and personal ramifications of mergers. Based upon in-depth fieldwork, the book explores the reality behind the statistics, balance s...

Rural property and economy in post-communist albania

For nearly half a century, Albania had been one of the most isolated and enigmatic countries in the world, where the confiscation of private property was more thoroughly accomplished than anywhere else in Europe. In an abrupt and radical turnaround beginning in 1991, the bulk of the country's l...

Silent dilemmas of project managers

A fastidious investigation into the nature of self-identity, Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers uses the context of project management to challenge the perceived separation of objective experience from subjective perception, highlighting how these adopted self-notions act as the object of exis...

Assembling financialisation

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global c...

Financialization

Making a difference?

A collection of detailed and informative essays and case studies. Explores the emerging and important field of social assessment practices, including displacement and resettlement, in China. Utilises real-life experiences from the various contributors to highlight development policie...

Market frictions

Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai.

Developmentality

It provides an ethnography of aid partnership drawing on detailed analysis of BOTH the donor (World Bank) and recipient (Uganda) , as well as their practical encounter. The analysis builds on multi-sited fieldwork conducted WITHIN both the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry. Novel in ...

Corporate social responsibility and the paradoxes of state capitalism

Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad.

European business, dictatorship, and political risk, 1920-1945

For much of the twentieth century, the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has left business, especially multinational firms, with a series of complex and for the most part unwelcome choices. This volume, which includes essays by noted American and European scholars such as Mira Wilkins, Gerald F...

The dynamics of german industry