This Palgrave Pivot presents a series of political economy short stories of collective agency, weaving together the history of a progressive change with a discussion of the role of institutions to effect change. These stories highlight sustained activism around valuing caring, ending...

Preface -- Part I: Greece and European Integration -- Part II: Issues in the Methodology of Economics -- Part III: Institutions and the Free Market Economy -- Part IV: Insights for Today from Ancient Greece -- Part V: Indices -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy. Based on multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of law is the most important area of economic freedom...

This volume explores organizational legitimacy in business, featuring examples from a variety of industries around the world. Synthesizing the most current theoretical insights and best practices, the contributing authors examine the ways in which organizational legitimacy can be understood, its...

1 Problemstellung -- 2 Legitimität und Effizienz administrativer Innovationen -- 2.1 Administrative Innovationen -- 2.2 Legitimität und Innovation -- 2.3 Legitimität und Effizienz -- 3 Legitimitätsgrundlagen und Grad der Legitimität -- 3.1 Quellen der Legitimität -- 3.2 Bestimmungsfaktoren...

In dem vorliegenden Buch analysiert René Berg die informationsökonomische Bedeutung von Informationsintermediären bei der Kanalisierung legitimer nachhaltiger Unternehmensaktivitäten. Auf Basis einer institutionentheoretisch entwickelten Soll-Nachhaltigkeitskonzeption wird ein asymmetrischer...

How should a free society protect privacy? Dramatic changes in national security law and surveillance, as well as technological changes from social media to smart cities mean that our ideas about privacy and its protection are being challenged like never before. In this interdisciplinary book,...

Innovatively combining existentialist philosophy with cutting edge post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives, this book boldly reconsiders market freedom. Bloom argues that present day capitalism has robbed us of our individual and collective ability to imagine and implement alternative...

The contributions to this collection examine the shortcomings of the economic development policies in the MENA region before and after the Arab Spring, with particular attention to the role of gender and the ways in which policies translate into economic outcomes

This book addresses the tendency to mischaracterise liberalism as a “neoliberal” reform project, arguing that liberal political philosophy is concerned only to sustain the conditions that make individual freedom possible. This is illustrated with reference to the design of pensions....