Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Preface to the English Edition -- 1. The Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Questioning the Current Model -- The recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risks -- Critical...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The New Citadels -- 2 An Americanized Society -- 3 The Management of Public Opinion -- 4 The Defection of the Working Class -- Conclusion -- Appendix: An Index of Socioeconomic Fragility -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C...

This book offers an appraisal of what governments are currently doing to regulate transnational corporations across the world, and highlights a marked contrast in the concern different countries have over transnationals' activities

The context of a life's work -- Bastiat through his correspondence -- Bastiat and England -- Salvation through science -- History and progress -- Issues and debates -- Freedom and its foes -- Social and economic harmonies

Zvi Griliches, a world-renowned pioneer in the field of productivity growth, has compiled in a single volume his pathbreaking research on R&D and productivity. Griliches addresses the relationship between research and development (R&D) and productivity, one of the most complex yet vital issues...

For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to...