Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with...

As Buy-Outs became larger and more levered in the mid 2000's the European Leveraged Finance market experienced a wave of innovations. This research is concentrating on the capitalisation process of leveraged Buy-Outs in Europe, taking the perspective of an equity investor.We embark on the quest...

List of illustrations and maps -- List of tables and graphs -- Preface -- Introduction -- The coastal trade in French wines and brandy -- Case studies: Nantes and Rotterdam -- Periodization and historiography -- Structure of the book -- Chapter One The Dutch Community in Nantes -- Settlement...

Efforts to preserve, display and promote Breton cultural differences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant advance in heritage tourism, and a departure from what is commonly perceived to be a French intolerance of cultural diversity within its borders. This...

This textbook surveys the spectacular transformation that the French economy has undergone over the past century. It offers a general introduction to the long-term as well as more recent transformations of the French economy and surveys the major themes associated with French economic...

European pension systems are increasingly under pressure. In this book Giuliano Bonoli examines policymakers' efforts to cope in the context of public support for existing pension schemes and the implications of an ageing population. The book compares and assesses the process of pension...

The aim of this work is to shed new light on the historical development of the Third Republic French labor movement and to develop a more generic understanding of schism and solidarity in organizations and social movements

This is the first comprehensive analysis of public and private welfare in France available in English or French, which offers a deeply-researched explanation of how France's welfare state came to be and why the French are so attached to it

In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer marketplace beset the industrialized nations of the West. In France, various commentators expressed concern that rampant commercialization threatened the republican ideal of civic-mindedness as...