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Wellbeing at work in a turbulent era
Brough, Paula (ed.); Kinman, Gail (ed.) - 2024
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the physical and mental health challenges facing workers today, focusing particularly on the social, technological, and political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Delving into core perceptions of work culture, chapters also map out ways of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635754
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The political economy of HIV/AIDS in developing countries : TRIPS, public health systems, and free access
Coriat, Benjamin (contributor) - 2008
The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the issue of universal and free access to treatment (a goal now taken to heart by the international community), it assesses the progress made and presents a rigorous diagnosis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850669
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The Kennedy-Johnson tax cut : a revisionist history
Prachowny, Martin F. J. - 2000
as to scholars and students interested in economic history and in the formulation and implementation of economic policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473869
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851930
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30 years of transition in Europe : looking back and looking beyond in CESEE countries
Holzmann, Robert (ed.); Ritzberger-Grünwald, Doris (ed.);  … - 2020
Contents: Preface -- PART I A historic transformation: heterogeneity in CESEE in a changing global context -- 1 Looking back on 30 years of transition - and looking 30 years ahead / Robert Holzmann -- 2 1989: the year of the great ambivalence / Anton Pelinka -- 3 The price of unity: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416716
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The challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good : interdisciplinary perspectives
Akrivou, Kleio (contributor); Sison, Alejo G. (contributor) - 2016
Introduction / Kleio Akrivou -- Part I the common good in history: virtue epistemology as knowledge foundation for the …'s influence in western history / Agustín González Enciso -- 2. The 'medieval', the common good and accounting / Alisdair Dobie … inspiration from European history and continental philosophical traditions on virtue. Editors Kleio Akrivou and Alejo José G …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419817
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Conversations on growth, stability and trade : an historical perspective
Snowdon, Brian - 2002
debates in economic history. The author examines the many controversies relating to the role of government in a modern economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420073
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Global control : information technology and globalization since 1845
McMahon, Peter - 2002
1. Social organization, control and information technology -- 2. Telecommunications and the nineteenth-century liberal-international world order -- 3. Information technology and US industro-military development -- 4. Telematics and the post-war international order -- 5. Telematics as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420112
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Markets versus hierarchies : a political economy of Russia from the 10th century to 2008
Brancato, Ekaterina - 2009
This unique book uses a transaction cost perspective to illustrate how hierarchies influenced the structure of markets and behaviour of individual businesses and cartels in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and present-day Russia
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850770
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A comparative history of central bank behavior : consistency in monetary policy in the US and UK
Wood, John H. - 2022
and US over the course of the last two centuries. Professors and students of finance will find A Comparative History of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537820