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This paper traces the origins and early history of perceived gender differences in absenteeism in Great Britain and the …
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banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone … history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design … that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber combine political history and …
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banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone … history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design … that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber combine political history and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082767
of popular culture. The work examines the discourses that surrounded the drinking of alcohol in nineteenth century … to a significant impact on UK drinking culture at the end of the nineteenth century. Design/methodology/approach – The … culture and accounting should not therefore be dismissed if no immediate or concrete relationship between culture and …
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(MoD) with the “bribe culture” that surrounds international arms deals. It finds evidence of two phases. The first, which …
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This article highlights the until quite recently neglected political-economic thinking in matters of defense in twentieth-century Britain. It argues that retrieving such analyses from the interwar years is an excellent although partial way to get at an alternative picture of interwar defense...
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Britain is not an independent nuclear power. Its nuclear warheads and delivery systems depend upon American supplied management and technology and have done so since the dawn of the nuclear age. For years these matters were classified and today both governments only supply partial information....
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This article investigates the case of Nanoquest, a small diversification project that was tied to BAE Systems’ earlier incarnation as British Aerospace (BAe). I show that British military firms can have success when diversifying into civilian markets, but the process can be sabotaged by...
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The article addresses the U.K. government’s arms export licensing process to try to account for the discrepancy between its rhetoric of responsibility and practice of ongoing controversial exports. I describe the government’s licensing process and demonstrate how this process fails to...
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of the university in society. Using universities as R&D laboratories creates a culture of secrecy and commercial …
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