Differences among religious communities have motivated—and continue to motivate—many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and religiously motivated conflicts affected the...

As state support and federal research funding dwindle, universities are increasingly viewing their intellectual property portfolios as lucrative sources of potential revenue. Nearly all research universities now have a technology transfer office to manage their intellectual property, but many...

In the global marketplace of ideas, few realms spark as much conflict as religion. For millions of people, it is an integral part of everyday life, reflected by a widely divergent supply of practices and philosophical perspectives. Yet, historically, the marketplace has not always been...

The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain a mystery to economists. The first...

There is no universally accepted definition of a currency crisis, but most would agree that they all involve one key element: investors fleeing a currency en masse out of fear that it might be devalued, in turn fueling the very devaluation they anticipated. Although such crises—the Latin...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Welcoming Address / Pieroth, Elmar -- Introduction / Allesch, Jürgen / Ewers, Hans-Jürgen -- 1. Regional Development: A Practical Point of View -- 1.1 Innovation and Regional Development in the EEC / Hahn, Ottokar -- 1.2 The Role of the Commission of the...

Frontmatter -- Foreword / Kooy, Gerrit A. -- Contents / Table des matières -- List of contributors / Liste des auteurs -- Introduction. Le cycle de la vie familiale: origine et champ de l'interrogation / Cuisenier, Jean -- I. Cycle theories and history of the concept / Théories du cycle et...

Chapter 1: Introduction - European Comparative Economic Studies: Thirty Years After -- Part 1: Political Economy in Comparative Studies -- Chapter 2: The political economy of socialism revisited -- Chapter 3: The development of thinking on the Czechoslovak economic transformation -- Chapter 4:...