In the UK automobile and aerospace industries, the struggle over job control and rewards for labour expended in the production process was particularly intense in the period of steady economic growth, high and stable employment, and low inflation, following the Second World War. This struggle...

This work seeks to develop a high quality prognostic model for the CARE-HF data; see (Richardson et al. 2007). The CARE-HF trial was a major study into the effects of cardiac resynchronization. Cardiac resynchronization has been shown to reduce mortality in patients suffering heart failure due to...

Chapter 1 focuses on corporate governance and business cycles. The delegation of control to insiders fosters initiative but it also gives them the opportunity to expand their firm beyond the profit-maximizing size. When goods markets are imperfectly competitive, firms are too small relative to...