"Who do you think of when you imagine a hedge fund manager? A greedy fraudster, a visionary entrepreneur, a wolf of Wall Street? These tropes capture the public imagination of a successful hedge fund manager. But behind the designer suits, helicopter commutes, and illicit pursuits are the...

Struggling Collectively for Truth and Justice -- Defamilisation and the Welfare State -- Elder Rights in the Context of the New Human Rights Discourse -- Active Aging and Citizenship -- The Political and Legal Contexts of Eldercare in Mexico -- Labor Unions and the Struggle for Political Power...

"This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on the subject of knowledge management in industrial history. With contributions on knowledge management, knowledge transfer, knowledge loss, knowledge...

"This book is about the convergence of trends in two American institutions - the economy and the criminal justice system. The American economy has radically transformed in the past half-century, led by advances in automation technology that have permanently altered labor market dynamics. Over...

Introduction, Context, Cases -- Theorizing Local Development Strategies -- Patterns in the Industry - Patterns in Location -- The Industrial Recruitment of Automotive Assembly Plants in the South -- The Business of Partnerships -- The Political and Economic in Partnership -- Axiomatic? A Weird,...

"Combining balance sheet analysis with historical institutional analysis, this book traces the evolution of social sector financial balance sheets in the US from 1960-2018. This innovative historical-institutional approach, ranging from the micro level of households to the macro level of the...

"A gripping account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British...