Intro -- Table of Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Working Women and the Question of Care and Culture in Europe -- 2. Cinderella and Snow White Are Fairy Tales: Linking Care and Citizenship -- 3. Policy or Culture? Explaining Women's Employment Differences in Europe --...

VOLUME 1: AfricaVOLUME 2: Europe, Central Asia, and Other Regions"This is a superb manuscript, and one that will become a standard reference in the field for students of conflict and civil war." -Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University The two volumes of...

Social Security in the United States and in Europe is at a critical juncture. Through the essays assembled in Social Security Pension Reform in Europe, Martin Feldstein and Horst Siebert, along with a number of distinguished contributors, discuss the challenges facing Social Security reform in...

This book reviews the cultural tourism market in Europe from a survey carried out in 1997. It analyzes the way in which cultural attractions are produced for, and used by, cultural tourists and how such cultural attractions as museums, art galleries, monuments and heritage attractions are marketed.

Here, Lachmann offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing regions and cities within and across England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands from the 12th through 18th centuries, he shows how conflict among feudal...

States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain...

Ten or fifteen years ago global business was mainly in the hands of a select number of multinational giants. Small and medium-sized business concentrated on their home markets and perhaps one or two neighboring countries. Not so any longer. Even the smallest businesses have realized that they...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The ideal of equal opportunities and the practice of unequal chances -- 2. Ethnic inequality and discrimination in the labour market -- 3. Migrant and minority women, inequalities and discrimination in the labour market -- 4. Employment equity policies in work...

The volume explores late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, decision-making, legal and ethical issues, as well as selected aspects of production, consumption and market integration. The essays span a variety of local, regional, and...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- 1. Law and Long-Term Economic Change: An Editorial Introduction -- 2. The Evolution of Law: Political Foundations of Private Law in Medieval Europe and Japan -- 3. Law and Economy in Traditional China: A "Legal Origin"...