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Corporate governance and the business life cycle

Filatotchev, Igor (contributor) - 2010

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Recruitment, retention, and retirement in higher education : building and managing the faculty of the future

Ma, Jennifer (contributor); Clark, Robert Louis (contributor) - 2005

, rapid increases in health care costs and trends in retiree health insurance, and adoption of phased and early retirement … health plans on faculty retirement decisions -- 8. Faculty recruitment, retention and retirement : a case study of human … resources policymaking at Syracuse University -- 9. The value of phased retirement -- 10. Faculty retirement inventives by …

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Beyond conventional economics : the limits of rational behaviour in political decision making

Hamlin, Alan P. (contributor); Eusepi, Giuseppe (contributor) - 2006

Beyond Conventional Economics presents new original work from leading scholars on the interface between the individual and political and social institutions. The book offers a critique of the inadequacies of the conventional economic approach to politics and a state-of-the-art view of new...

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Political economy and public finance : the role of political economy in the theory and practice of public economics

Shibata, Hirofumi (contributor); … - International Institute of Public Finance <Linz, … - 2002

There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which politics plays no role. The purpose of this book is to...

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Pension reform and economic theory : a non-orthodox analysis

Cesaratto, Sergio - 2005

The book is the first of its kind to attempt to deal with the economics of pensions and ageing on the basis of a rigorous theoretical framework alternative to neoclassical economics. Sergio Cesaratto breaks the dominant conformism in the current pension debate and explains that the strength of...

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Enterprise and the welfare state

Rein, Martin (ed.); Wadensjö, Eskil (ed.) - 1997

The economic demands of an ageing population, coupled with the crisis of public spending pose one of the greatest challenges to social policy in both the East and West. This book focuses on the political economy of pensions, particularly on the interaction between private and state provision....

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Politics as a peculiar business : insights from a theory of entangled political economy

Wagner, Richard E. - 2016

1. Public choice and the Virginia tradition of political economy -- 2. Alternative paths for a theory of political economy -- 3. Systems theory and parts-to-whole relationships -- 4. The logic of economizing action : universal form and particular practice -- 5. Reason, sentiment, and electoral...

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Public choice and the challenges of democracy

Casas Pardo, José (contributor); … - 2007

This timely and important volume addresses the serious challenges faced by democracy in contemporary society. With contributions from some of the world's most prestigious scholars of public choice and political science, this comprehensive collection presents a complete overview of the threats...

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Pioneers of industrial organization : how the economics of competition and monopoly took shape

Jong, H. W. de (contributor); … - 2007

This encyclopaedic work celebrates the scores of leading pioneers who created the modern economic field of industrial organization, at the heart of which lie competition and monopoly, the two great forces that drive modern markets. Their pioneering work has shaped the field's growing research as...

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The political economy of welfare reform in the United States

Reintsma, Mary - 2007

Social welfare policy -- Comparative social welfare policy -- Traditional public interest model -- The public choice perspective -- Government and its bureaucracy -- The origins of the new welfare law -- The genesis of the new welfare law -- Institutional analysis -- An econometric analysis of...

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