The past two decades have witnessed a transformation in the corporate human resource (HR) function – moving away from a role of balancing multiple interests toward a narrower focus on business objectives – yet we know little about how this change occurred. This study finds that the...

The Great Depression reached a turning point in the currency crises of 1931, and the German banking and currency crisis was a critical event whose causes are still debated. We demonstrate in this paper that the crisis was primarily domestic in origin; that it was a currency crisis rather than a...

The Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis. In this timely and important book, Peter Temin and David Vines argue that our current predicament is a catastrophe rivaled only by the Great Depression. Taking an...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: An American Dual Economy -- 1 A Dual Economy -- 2 The FTE Sector -- 3 The Low-Wage Sector -- 4 Transition -- II: Politics in a Dual Economy -- 5 Race and Gender -- 6 The Investment Theory of Politics -- 7 Preferences of the Very Rich -- 8 Concepts of...