This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits.

In this book, Dow and Saville expound a theory of monetary policy, and examine how it has worked in the UK. Writing from personal experience of working in a central bank, they analyse the behaviour of the banking system and the difficulties of central bank control. In a clearly written account...

This book seeks to understand the Right to Buy, the most controversial housing policy of the last 30 years, on its own terms, rather than most studies which focus on its negative impact. It explains how the policy links with a coherent ideology based on self-interest and the care of things close...

- Preface - Foreword - Executive summary - List of acronyms and abbreviations - Assessing the links between business dynamics and policy settings - Employment growth of establishments in the Brazilian economy: Results by age and size groups - The role of mergers and acquisitions in employment...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship is Becoming a Social Movement -- Figure 1.1. Triple helix for developing entrepreneurial intent -- 1.1 Social Changes - The Driving Forces of Change -- 1.1.1 Free Markets and Democracy -- 1.1.2 The Business of Government is not...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Work": A Four Letter Word -- 3 "Second Class Citizens -- 4 Managing Slavs -- 5 Negotiating Research Access -- 6 Managing the Shopfloor -- Chapter One - Power and Subjectivity in Organizations -- 1 Introduction. -- 2...

Kathleen Scanlon Research Fellow LSE London London School of Economics Christine Whitehead Professor of Housing Department of Economics London School of Economics Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia Research Officer LSE London London School of Economics Contributors The contributors are among the...

Architects of Austerity argues that the seeds of neoliberal politics were sown in the 1950s and 1960s. Suggesting that the postwar era was less socially democratic than we think, Aaron Major presents a comparative-historical analysis of economic policy in the United States, the United Kingdom,...

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- The Mining Imaginary -- Place, Identity, and the Mining Landscape -- Notes -- CHAPTER TWO Toluca -- The Longwall Mining District -- A "Rip-Roaring" Town -- Mine Closure...

Are entrepreneurs essentially the same everywhere? Are the processes of entrepreneurship similar? Or are they shaped by their environments? If so, how? This study brings insights from entrepreneurship to comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism, and vice versa, and draws on two...