"This book provides a post-Covid recovery strategy that is based on all aspects of health, but also addresses the ever-greater threat from global warming. Health and sustainability are interlocked. More than other European nations, we favour libertarian values over social equity, privatized...

1. Liberalism and social transformation -- 2. The World Bank, sovereignty and development -- 3. From structural adjustment to good governance -- 4. Governance, liberalism and social transformation -- 5. Transformation in practice -- 6. Sovereignty, development and the liberal project.

1. The sovereign order -- 2. Development theory in the sovereign order -- 3. Development institutions in the sovereign order -- 4. Development practice in the sovereign order -- 5. The liberal order -- 6. Development theory in the liberal order -- 7. Development institutions in the liberal order...

In recent years western aid agencies have come to embrace the language and practices of "ownership". This signals a shift away from conditionality as the dominant mode of relationship between these agencies and recipient states. The principle concern of this paper is to locate this shift in the...

This paper has been inspired by a suggestion made by Margaret Canovan that liberalism should be understood as a 'project to be realized'. It argues that we should follow Canovan by having an expendet account of what 'liberalism' might be that focuses on the connection between liberal theory and...

This paper describes methods by which manufacturing task description and control may be modelled by a formal string grammar with varying degrees of non-determinism. We first describe the sorts of formal grammars which are useful for these purposes, and provide an introduction to the terminology...

This paper explores some of the critical issues in the development of factory automation systems. Amongst the most significant of these can be considered the role of people, the generation of controls software, the reconfiguration of the manufacturing hardware and software to allow an increased...