Intro -- Preface -- 1 The Dialectics of Work and Welfare -- 2 Early Retirement: Stability, Reversal, or Redefinition -- 3 The Netherlands: The Loreley-Effect of Early Exit -- 4 Germany: The Concerted Transition from Work to Welfare -- 5 Sweden: Policy Dilemmas of the Changing Age Structure in a...

Intro -- Introduction: Privatising the World? -- Part I. International Privatisation Policy -- Chapter 1. The Internationalisation of Privatisation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Growth of Public Ownership -- 1.3 The Challenge to Public Ownership -- 1.4 Explaining the Spread of Privatisation:...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. The Hidden Wound -- 2. This Imperious Company -- 3. Out of the Shadows -- 4. The Bengal Revolution -- 5. The Great East Indian Crash -- 6. Regulating the Company -- 7....

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Keynes Returns, but Which Keynes? -- 2. The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Economics -- 3. Keynes the Moral Philosopher: Confronting the Challenges to Capitalism -- 4. Keynes the Physician: Developing a Theory of a Capitalist Economy -- 5. Keynes's Ambiguous Revolution -- 6....

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Capitalist Diversity in Open Economies -- 2. Governments, Business, and the Design Problem -- 3. Three Models of Open Governance -- 4. Britain: From Replacing to Reinforcing a Liberal Market Economy -- 5. France: The Centralized Market Economy and Its...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- A Brief History Of Spin-Outs -- Technology Transfer -- Starting A Spin-Out Company -- Oxford Molecular Ltd -- Oxford Molecular Group Plc -- Wider University Coverage - IP Group Plc -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. Understanding the Lean Automobile Industry -- Introduction -- Lean Production -- the Context and the Promises -- Lean Production for Whom? -- Objectives of the Book -- 2. The Prehistory of Lean Production:...

Cover -- Halt-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: Fashioning Professionals: History, Theoryand Method -- Part One: Inventing -- 1. Media in the Museum: Fashioning the Design Curator at the...

Taxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Alvin Rabushka...