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Karnac Books British Psychology in Crisis: A Case Study in
Book SynopsisRiven by poor governance and outright corruption, the British Psychological Society (BPS) may now be in terminal decline. Individual members have left it in despair and some groups (for example clinical, educational and organisational psychologists) have already organised themselves outside of the Society, in protest against its mismanagement and distorted priorities. Onlookers are bemused by a simple fact: a psychological organisation has demonstrated total incompetence at understanding itself. Accordingly, today, the BPS is neither a learned nor a learning organisation. This book describes this organisational crisis. It offers a critical account of the Society’s recent history, which has mostly been hidden from public view, due to a lack of suitable democratic structures to ensure proper public scrutiny. Though it has charitable status, its governance has lacked independent trustees. Instead, priorities in the organisation have been compromised repeatedly by conflicts of interest, with an oligarchy of recycled names losing sight of the Society’s shortcomings. In more recent times, these problems have been amplified by a managerial culture with little respect for academic integrity. These weak governance arrangements have led to policy capture by some interest groups which have led to public safety being threatened by the production of poor psychological advice to those on the outside. Those ordinary members opposing this skewed and risky advice have been suppressed by those at the top of the organisation. This important book aims to provide a platform for ordinary members whose criticisms have thus far been suppressed. By promoting the voices of these objectors and exposing the cracks within the organisation, it attempts to bring truth to power.Trade Review'A forensic analysis of the scandals and continuing failings of the organisation which represents itself as the ambassador and champion of British psychology. Essential reading for all British psychologists.' -- Professor Mike Wang, Chair, Association of Clinical Psychologists UKTable of ContentsAbout the editor and contributors Editor’s Preface Chapter 1 The history of the BPS crisis David Pilgrim Chapter 2 The lure of the toxic leader Graham Buchanan Chapter 3 Resisting the silence of the cabal: resorting to social and alternative media Pat Harvey Chapter 4 Policy capture (1) at the BPS: the gender controversy Pat Harvey Chapter 5 Policy capture (2) at the BPS: the memory and law controversy Ashley Conway Chapter 6 An organisation without a memory? David Pilgrim Chapter 7 BPS bullshit David Pilgrim Chapter 8 What is the point of the BPS? David Pilgrim Chapter 9 Some afterthoughts Graham Buchanan, Ashley Conway and David Pilgrim Index
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Oxford University Press Discovering Organizations
Book SynopsisDiscovering Organizations is recommended as core reading by module leaders who seek an engaging, thought-provoking introduction to organizational theory and organization studies. This text operates as a springboard to help readers appreciate the complexity of organization and then have the confidence to delve deeper by reading a range of additional texts, articles, and cases. Our capacity for organization is quite remarkable. I think the organizations we build are among our greatest achievements ... My aim in writing this book is to help people better understand the organizations that surround them and how they work ... by starting at the literal beginning - with where, when, and why we humans started to get organized and the sort of organizations we established. -- Robin BurrowAs well as building students'' understanding of how we have organized ourselves in the past, and how we organize ourselves now, this textbook looks optimistically to the future of organizations. It will aim to p
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Oxford University Press Inc The Influence Economy
Book SynopsisWhat shapes a buyer''s needs and wants? In The Influence Economy, Maxim Sytch explores the influences that nudge buyers toward questionable decisions and consumption, revealing how professional services--consulting, marketing, banking, and legal firms--create demand for unnecessary and potentially harmful products and services. Such supplier-induced demand can take many forms, including superfluous reorganizations, frivolous lawsuits, and ill-conceived acquisitions. These actions may not only fail to produce positive outcomes but can also inflict detrimental consequences on the buying organization, from squandering valuable resources and demotivating the workforce to disrupting business operations and causing various operational, legal, and financial setbacks.Supplier-induced demand is not uniform but occurs under specific circumstances. Through empirical analyses and interviews with buyers and sellers of professional services, Sytch reveals the conditions under which supplier-induced demand is most likely to occur. The book argues that the conditions that give rise to supplier-induced demand are increasingly characteristic of today''s broader knowledge-based economy, with significant implications for managerial control, vertical integration, and the economics of agglomeration. Ultimately, Sytch lays the groundwork for a systematic understanding of the contemporary influence economy and identifies potential strategies for organizations and policymakers to counteract its adverse effects.
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Edinburgh University Press The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy 1895
Book SynopsisDrawing on rich archival research, this book explores how the elite network of the Pilgrims Society whose members included J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie attempted to influence the Anglo-American relationship in the days before it became 'special'.
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Oxford University Press Inc Union Booms and Busts The Ongoing Fight Over the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn ambitious venture through relatively well-trodden ground: the rise and fall of the American labor movement...Recommended. General readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Abbreviations Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Union Density in the Unregulated Period (1900-1934) Chapter 3: Union Density in the Regulated Period (1935-1979) Chapter 4: Union Density in the Dis-Regulated Period (1980-2015) Chapter 5: Conclusion References Appendix A: A Brief History of Major Modern Union Federations Appendix B: Methodological Appendix Index
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Cambridge University Press A History of the Royal Society Volume 1
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Pearson Education Limited Global Citizenship Student Workbook Year 7
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MIT Press Ltd Quest to Learn
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Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd Fire and Rescue Incident Command: A practical guide to incident ground management
Book SynopsisA practical book providing current and potential Incident Commanders with a broad understanding of what is expected of them, and the processes and systems that the British Fire and Rescue Service uses, to safely command an incident. Fire and Rescue Incident Command provides a comprehensive guide to incident ground operations, from small house fires and road traffic accidents, to widespread wildfires, high-rise operations and major transport disasters. It explores: * The tactics and strategies available at an incident * The roles and responsibilities of the Incident Commander and those under his/her command * The legal framework within which fire ground activities must operate * Good communications practice and protocols * The tactics needed to ensure the safety of the public, property and the firefighters on the front line The overall aim of this book is to guide you through some of the key issues that face Incident Commanders in the modern fire and rescue service, to identify good practice, and to present real-life examples of a wide range of incidents and the lessons that can be learned.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Leadership and command at critical incidents - an immediate challenge Chapter 3: Fireground strategy, tactics and tasks - a refresher Chapter 4: Incident command systems Chapter 5: The application of legislation at incident grounds Chapter 6: Information gathering and situational awareness Chapter 7: Decision making and the development of the plan Chapter 8: Organising the incident ground Chapter 9: Organising the incident ground - the command support function Chapter 10: Safety on the incident ground (part 1) Chapter 11: Safety on the incident ground (part 2) Chapter 12: Communications Chapter 13: Closing down an incident Chapter 14: Debriefing and learning lessons Chapter 15: Working together: Intra-operability and JESIP Chapter 16: Major incident management - the UK Concept of Operations Chapter 17: Concluding thoughts: the fire and rescue service and the future
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Brill Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism
Book SynopsisIn Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism Paul Richard Blum shows that Aristotle’s thought remained the touchstone of modern philosophy; for it was the philosophy taught at universities. The concept of philosophy at Jesuit schools forms the first part of this book. Their impact on the sciences and mathematics in combination with Renaissance ideas of nature is the topic of the second part. The transformation of Aristotelian metaphysics and theology under the influence of the Renaissance is the third area of this book. Surprising continuity from the late Middle Ages into modernity and the radical difference of subject centered modern philosophy from ‘teachable’ school philosophy are innovative in these studies.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface PHILOSOPHY AT EARLY MODERN SCHOOLS 1. Philosophers’ Philosophy and School Philosophy 2. Apostolato dei Collegi: On the Integration of Humanism in the Educational Program of the Jesuits 3. Philosophy at Early Modern Universities 4. Péter Pázmány: The Cardinal’s philosophy 5. Philosophy in Hungarian: Pál Bertalanffi SJ, Bernard Sartori OFM, and the scholastic philosophy of the eighteenth century SCIENCE FROM THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ENLIGHTENMENT 6. Jesuits between Religion and Science 7. Principles and Powers: How to Interpret Renaissance Philosophy of Nature Philosophically? 8. The Jesuits and the Janus-faced History of Natural Sciences 9. Benedictus Pererius: Renaissance Culture at the Origins of Jesuit Science 10. “Ubi natura facit circulos in essendo, nos facimus in cognoscendo.” The Demonstrative Regressus and the Beginning of Modern Science in Catholic Scholastics 11. Aristotelianism More Geometrico: Honoré Fabri METAPHYSICS AND THEOLOGY 12. Rodrigo de Arriaga on Immortality as a Response to Platonism 13. Bartolomeo Mastri: From Metaphysics to Natural Theology 14. Natural Theology and Philosophy of Religion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries: Théophile Raynaud, Luis de Molina, Joseph Falck, Sigismund von Storchenau 15. God and Individuals: The Porphyrian Tree in Seventeenth/Eighteenth-Century Philosophy APPENDIX 1. Siger and Saint Thomas in the Paradiso 2. Cultivating Talents and Social Responsibility: Aims and Means of Early Jesuit Education References Index
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Brill Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958: The Long Friendship between the Author and the Translator of The All-Knowing God. With an Appendix of Documents
Book SynopsisRaffaele Pettazzoni (1883–1959), Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Rome and one of the leading historians of religions in the twentieth century, maintained a long correspondence with Herbert Jennings Rose (1883–1961), the gifted Canadian scholar who was Professor of Greek at St Andrews and is best known for his work in the field of ancient religion and folklore. These letters, spanning the years 1927 to 1958, bear witness to the close relationship between the two scholars and focus on two of Pettazzoni’s books, both translated by Rose: Essays on the History of Religions (1954) and The All-Knowing God (1956). They also shed light on Pettazzoni’s initiative to the foundation of the journal NVMEN (1954), and reveal Rose’s brilliant personality.Trade Review"(...) a detailed analysis of the material present in the letters, which is reproduced in full and has an impressive apparatus of notes that explain and comment on the smallest of details, leaving nothing unexplained (...) This is a veritable book within a book, in which Domenico Accorinti gives ample proof of his erudition and philological diligence." -Natale Spineto, University of Turin, History of Religions 59, 2020. "Brill's production is sumptuous and enviable, as well as close to impeccable." -Graham Anderson, Universíty of Kent, Canterbury, UK. In: Folklore, Vol 126, issue 2, 2015. "Questo corposo volume, magistralmente curato da Domenico Accorinti, si colloca in una sede prestigiosa ed è caratterizzato da un notevole impianto critico e da un’alta qualità complessiva (...) L’opus magnum di Accorinti ha dunque un valore che va ben al di là della registrazione e edizione di un epistolario – in sé potenzialmente fruibile anche nell’archivio in cui è conservato – e si propone come modello e punto di riferimento di fondamentale rilevanza." -Alessandro Saggioro, Sapienza Università, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle religioni 84, no 2, 2018. "In conclusione, si deve essere grati ad A. per questo splendido volume che costituisce uno strumento, ben curato ed attendibile, di indubbia importanza non solo per la storia degli studi, ma più in generale per la storia culturale della prima metà del Novecento. Non ci si può che augurare che altre opere come questa contribuiscano a gettare nuova luce sulla vicenda umana e professionale dei grandi studiosi del passato." - Renzo Tosi, Università Di Bologna, Eikasmos XXVII, 2016.
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Brill The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisThis volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe—including the Accademia del Cimento in Florence; the Royal Society in London; the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris; and the Academia naturae curiosorum in Schweinfurt. The essays detail the multiple backgrounds that prompted seventeenth-century savants—from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal—to establish new forms of scientific organizations, in which to institutionalize collaborative research as well as modes of communication with like-minded individuals and associations.Table of ContentsPreface Giulia Giannini I Research in Institutional Setting 1 Between Teaching and Research: The Place of Science in Early Modern English Universities Mordechai Feingold 2 The Academisation of Parisian Science (1660-1789): Review Essay on a Spatial Turn Stéphane Van Damme 3 Asymmetries of Symbolic Capital in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Transactions: Placentinus’s Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and Lubieniecki Pietro D. Omodeo II Founding and Shaping Scientific Institutions 4 An indirect convergence between the Accademia del Cimento and the Montmor Academy: the “Saturn dispute” Giulia Giannini 5 The Edifying Science. Academies, Courtly Culture and the Patronage of Science in early modern Portugal (1647-1720) Luis Miguel Carolino 6 The Paris Observatory in the Early modern Ecosystem of Knowledge (1669-1712) Dalia Deias 7 The Early History of the Paris and London Academies: Two Paths towards the Institutionalization of Science Aurellien Ruellet, François Mallet III Making and Reporting Experiments: Scientific Styles and Publishing Policies 8 Professionalizing Doubt: Johann Daniel Major’s Observation ‘On the Horn of the Bezoardic Goat,’ the Curiosity Market, and the Institutionalization of Natural History Vera Keller 9 Experiments on collections at the Royal Society of London and the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1660-1740 Michael Bycroft 10 “I am very much troubled that there is so great an expectation raised of that pamphlet”: Publishing strategy and the early Royal Society Noah Moxham Summarizing Commentaries—Institutions and Knowledge Systems: Theoretical Perspectives Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz
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Brill Teyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and Its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779: A Key Moment in the History of a Learned Institution
Book SynopsisTeyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779, edited by Ellinoor Bergvelt and Debora Meijers, examines for the first time this institution in the context of scientific, museological, political, artistic, religious and philosophical developments. The key moment was the decision in 1779 to give a free interpretation to the testament of its founder, the Mennonite entrepreneur Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702–1778): stimulated by the naturalist Martinus van Marum, the Foundation’s board decided to build an impressive museum room and to establish a natural science collection. The institution thus entered an era in which older scientific and collecting traditions engaged with new developments towards a research institution and a public museum of natural history, physics and art. Contributors: Ellinoor S. Bergvelt, Terry van Druten, Arnold Heumakers, Eric Jorink, Paul Knolle, Debora Meijers, Wijnand Mijnhardt, Bert Sliggers, Koenraad Vos, and Holger Zaunstöck.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors PART 1 Introduction and Background 1 Purpose and Structure of the Book Debora J. Meijers and Ellinoor S. Bergvelt 2 Teyler’s Foundation and the Two Societies: Emergence and Development up to c. 1800 Debora J. Meijers 3 A Museum within the Foundation, 1779–2020 Debora J. Meijers PART 2 Teyler’s as a Case in a Re-reading of the History of Science 4 ‘The World We Have Lost’: In Praise of a Comprehensive Ideal of Science and Scholarship Wijnand W. Mijnhardt 5 The First Museum in the Netherlands? The Establishment of Teyler’s Oval Room in Historical Perspective (c. 1600–1800) Eric Jorink 6 How to Collect Minerals, Rocks and Fossils for a Museum: The International Networks of Martinus van Marum (1750–1837) Bert Sliggers PART 3 Teyler’s between the Natural Sciences and the Visual Arts 7 ‘Truth-to-Nature’ in the Museum? Wybrand Hendriks, Martinus van Marum and the ‘Reasoned Image’ Koenraad Vos 8 An Asset to Art. The Purchase of Italian Old Master Drawings from the Odescalchi Collection in Rome by Teyler’s Foundation in 1790: Motivation, Function, and the Context of Art Theory in the Netherlands Paul Knolle 9 Collecting and Displaying Art in Teyler’s Museum, 1778–1885: The Usefulness of Drawings, Prints and Contemporary Paintings, and the Development of Public Access Terry van Druten PART 4 Teyler’s in an International Perspective 10 Visiting Haarlem: August Hermann Niemeyer, the Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities at the Halle Orphanage, and Teyler’s Museum Holger Zaunstöck 11 The Rise of the Modern Romantic Concept of Art and the Art Museum Arnold Heumakers Bibliography Photo Credits Index
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Brill A Unifying Enlightenment: Institutions of Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Spain (1700–1808)
Book SynopsisThis book contains a systematic study of economic institutions during the Spanish Enlightenment in the areas of print culture (the press, merchants’ handbooks, teaching materials), education (university chairs in political economy and commerce) and the organisation of financial matters at state level (economic societies, trade consulates and the official statistics agency). A Unifying Enlightenment is a fresh interpretation of political economy’s contribution to the development of the European Enlightenment. Jesús Astigarraga shows that, far from being a straightforward intellectual phenomenon, this new science played a crucial role in both the circulating and institutionalisation of Enlightenment culture and the process of political unification and articulation undergone by the Spanish monarchy, which culminated in a constitutional culture.Table of ContentsPreliminary Note Introduction 1 Merchants’ Handbooks (1699–1759): Educate, Inform, Reform 1 Introduction 2 From Pérez de Moya to Corachán 3 From Corachán to Bordázar 4 The Financiers’ Revolt 5 Other Channels of Mercantile Information 6 Final Remarks 2 Graef’s Discursos Mercuriales (1752–1756) and the Origins of the Economics Press in Spain 1 Introduction: Graef and the Discursos Mercuriales 2 The 1755 Discurso Preliminar 3 The Chief Source of the Discursos: The Journal Oeconomique 4 Oikonomia in the Discursos Mercuriales 5 From Oikonomia to the “Science of Commerce:” The Discourse on Commerce in General (1755–1756) 6 Final Remarks 3 Political Economy in the Spectators Era of the Spanish Press (1758–1771) 1 Introduction 2 Nifo and the Estafeta de Londres (1762) 3 Nifo and the Correo General de Europa (1763) 4 The Miscelánea Política (1763) by Barberi 5 The Saura´s Semanario Económico (1765–1767) 6 Final Remarks 4 Decentralising the Ilustración, Disseminating the Political Economy 1 Introduction 2 The Trade Consulates and Economic Societies 3 The Memorias of the Economic Societies 4 Going beyond the Memorias of the Economic Societies 5 Economic Societies and the Promotion of the Economic Press 6 Final Remarks 5 Commerce and Political Economy Dictionaries 1 Introduction 2 Oikonomia and Commerce in the Encyclopaedic Literature of Eighteenth Century Europe 3 A Commerce Dictionary in Spain: The Project Phase 4 A Commerce Dictionary in Spain: The Creation Phase 5 Encyclopaedic Literature: The Encyclopédies Compiled by Diderot and D’Alembert and Panckoucke 6 Final Remarks 6 In Support of the Enligthened Reforms: The Memorial Literario (1784–1808) 1 Introduction: The Press in the “Golden Age” 2 Political Economy in the Press: Diverse Channels 3 The Memorial Literario 3.1 The Memorial Literario in Spain’s Territorial Pluralism 3.2 The Journalism Power of Controversies 3.3 Agriculture, Industry and Trade 4 Final Remarks 7 The Critical Press and Public Opinion: El Correo de Madrid (1786–1791) and the Espíritu de Los Mejores Diarios (1787–1791) 1 Introduction 2 El Correo de Madrid o de los ciegos (1786–1791) 3 The Espíritu de los Mejores Diarios (1787–1791) 4 Final Remarks 8 Training the New Bureaucrats: The Political Economy Chairs (1784–1808) 1 Introduction 2 Maturing the Projects, Shaping “Opinion” 3 The Saragossa Chair: An Official and Experimental Experience 4 The Forgotten Natural Law and Moral Philosophy Chairs 5 Beyond Saragossa: Madrid, Majorca and Salamanca 6 The Counter-Enlightenment Reaction 7 Final Remarks 9 Merchants’ Handbooks (1760–1808): From Office Desks to Chairs of Commerce 1 Introduction: An Overview (1699–1808) 2 The Strengthening of Local Genealogies (1760–1790) 3 Bails and Enlightened Reformism Handbooks 4 The Correo Mercantil and the Modernisation of Trading Culture 5 The Purpose of Drafting a Code of Commerce 6 The Chairs of Commerce and Their Handbooks 7 Final Remarks 10 The Specialised Economics Press: The Correo Mercantil (1792–1808) and the Semanario de Agricultura (1797–1808) 1 Introduction: Board of Trade and the Official Statistics Agency 2 The Correo Mercantil de España y sus Indias (1792–1808) 3 The Semanario de Agricultura y Artes dirigido a los párrocos (1797–1808) 4 Final Remarks Epilogue Appendix Bibliography, Sources and Abbreviations Index
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Brill Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Learning
Book SynopsisEarly Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Education publishes twenty essays on early modern institutional academic networks and the history of the book. The case studies examine universities, schools, and academies across a wide geographical range throughout Europe, and in Central America. The volume suggests pathways for future research into institutional hierarchies, cultural ties, and how networks of policy makers were embedded in complex scholarly and scientific developments. Topics include institutions and political entanglements; locality and mobility, especially the movement of scholars and scholarship between institutions; communication, collaboration, and the circulation of academic knowledge. The essays use studies of print and book cultures to provide insights into cooperative interregional markets, travel and trade. Contributors: Laurence Brockliss, Liam Chambers, Liam Chambers, Peter Davidson, Mordechai Feingold, Alette Fleischer, Willem Frijhoff, Anja- Silvia Goeing, Martina Hacke, Michael Hunter, Urs B. Leu, David A. Lines, Ian Maclean, Thomas O’Connor, Glyn Parry, Yarí Pérez Marín, Elizabeth Sandis, Andreas Sohn, Jane Stevenson, Iolanda Ventura, and Benjamin Wardhaugh.Table of ContentsEditors’ Preface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Anja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, and Mordechai Feingold PART 1 The Political Entanglement of Institutions 1 Colleges and the University of Paris, Professors and Students, Religion and Politics: Some Remarks on the History of Europe in the Late Middle Ages (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) Andreas Sohn 2 Structures and Networks of Learning in Early Modern Bologna David A. Lines 3 Church and State: Sixteenth Century Higher Education in Zurich and Its Ties to the City-State Government Anja-Silvia Goeing 4 The Beginnings of the German Academia Naturae Curiosorum (1652–1687) and the Character of German Intellectual Life Ian Maclean 5 The Academy, the University and Cultural Warfare: The Case of Thomas Digges (1546–1595) Glyn Parry PART 2 Locality and Mobility: Institutions, the Migration of Scholars, and Scholarships 6 Domestic Academies Jane Stevenson 7 The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain: A Plural Landscape Yarí Pérez Marín 8 A Multifaceted Educational Landscape: The Dutch and Their Schools in and outside the Dutch Republic Willem Frijhoff 9 Schemes for Students’ Mobility in Protestant Switzerland during the Sixteenth Century Karine Crousaz 10 Domestic Grammar Schools and Overseas Colleges in the Formation of Irish Catholic Clergy (1560–1620) Thomas O’Connor 11 The Importance of Location: The Eighteenth-Century University and the Intellectual Rendez-Vous Laurence Brockliss PART 3 Communication, Collaboration, and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge 12 Performing Networks and Relationships on Stage at the Early Modern Universities: Theater and Ritual at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Inns of Court Elizabeth Sandis 13 Defacing Euclid: Reading and Annotating the Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain Benjamin Wardhaugh 14 Archibald Pitcairne Heterodoxy and Its Milieu in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh Michael Hunter 15 The Collections of the University of Aberdeen, 1495–1807: Centers and Peripheries, Networks and Culture Peter Davidson and Jane Stevenson PART 4 Cooperative Interregional Worlds: Production, Markets, Travel and Trade 16 The Messengers of the Nations of the University of Paris and the Book Trade (Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries) Martina Hacke 17 The Cooperation between Professors and Printers in Basel and Zurich during the Early Modern Period Urs B. Leu 18 Typologies and Pharmaceutical Markets: The Reception of Pseudo-Mesue’s Schriftencorpus in Print Iolanda Ventura 19 Traveling Salesmen or Scholarly Travelers?: Early Modern Botanists on the Move Marketing Their Knowledge of Nature Alette Fleischer 20 “Abroad Colleges,” Print Culture, and Book Collections: The Irish Colleges, Paris, 1676–1794 Liam Chambers Bibliography of Secondary Literature Index
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Edinburgh University Press A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and
Book SynopsisProvides an unusual history of an important institution promoting Islamic scholarship in Britain, The Gibb Memorial TrustTrade Review"This multi-authored volume presents an unparalleled account of the advance of Middle Eastern studies in twentieth-century Britain by way of a history of the Gibb Memorial Trust. The committee's trustees have been scholars of Arabic, Persian or Turkish of the first rank and their careers and contributions to the publication programme of the Trust are sketched by current scholars who are of a similar eminence. Taken as a whole the story of the Gibb Memorial Trust is one of stupendous erudition, energy, scholarly rancour and eccentricity." -Robert Irwin, London University
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Europa World of Learning 2019
Book SynopsisNow in its 69th edition, The Europa World of Learning is one of the world's leading reference works. Updated to the highest editorial standards, entries are sourced directly from the organizations to ensure accurate and reliable information. The accreditation status of every university and college is verified before its entry is approved.Every type of academic institution is covered, including over:7,800 universities and colleges 5,800 research institutes 3,400 museums and art galleries 5,000 learned societies 3,600 libraries and archives 850 regulatory and representative bodies Separate chapters for countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe each feature an introductory survey of the country's higher education system. A separate section covers international organizations concerned with higher education and scholarship.Subscribers may download these online at www.worldoflearning.com alongside an archive of essays from past editions.Table of ContentsVolume 1. Part 1: Introductory Essays Part 2: International Organizations Part 3: Afghanistan – Nigeria Volume 2. Part 4: Norway – Zimbabwe
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Iudicium Verlag DIE OAG 1873 1979
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Oxford University Press Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy XIV
Book SynopsisThe lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain''s intellectual life. The Fellows of the British Academy who are remembered in this volume are:Colin Francois Lloyd Austin, Anne Barton, James Thompson Boulton, Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford, Richard Charles Cobb, Geoffrey de Bellaigue, John Davies Evans, Michael Johannes Frede, Peter Thomas Geach, Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, Ian Gray Kidd, Mark Kinkead-Weekess, Wilfred George Lambert, Rachel Maxwell-Hislop, William Richard Mead, James Mellaart, Donald MacGillivray Nicol, Geoffrey Fillingham Nuttall, Roland Anthony Oliver, Alan Turner Peacock, Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Charles Thurston Shaw, John Kinder Gowran Shearman, Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Irene Joan Thirsk.Their scholarship ranged over the humanities and social science disciplines, including subjects as diverse as: medieval history, geogrTable of ContentsColin Francois Lloyd Austin ; Anne Barton ; James Thompson Boulton ; Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford ; Richard Charles Cobb ; Geoffrey de Bellaigue ; John Davies Evans ; Michael Johannes Frede ; Peter Thomas Geach ; Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm ; Ian Gray Kidd ; Mark Kinkead-Weekes ; Wilfred George Lambert ; Rachel Maxwell-Hislop ; William Richard Mead ; James Mellaart ; Donald MacGillivray Nicol ; Geoffrey Fillingham Nuttall ; Roland Anthony Oliver ; Alan Turner Peacock ; Siegbert Salomon Prawer ; Charles Thurston Shaw ; John Kinder Gowran Shearman ; Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah ; Irene Joan Thirsk
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British Academy Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy XIX
Book SynopsisThe lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain''s intellectual life.Table of Contents1: by Edwin Cameron, John Gardner, Nicola Lacey, and Detlef Liebs: Tony Honoré, 1921-2019 by John A. Davis: 2. Denis Mack Smith, 1920-2017 by Jonathan Dancy: Derek Parfit, 1942-2017 3: by Boyd Hilton: Geoffrey Best, 1928-2018 Isobel Armstrong: Barbara Hardy, 1924-2016 4: by Helen Hughes-Brock: Nancy Sandars, 1914-2015 by Francis Reynolds: 5. Guenter Treitel, 1928-2019 6: by James Goudkamp: Patrick Atiyah, 1931-2018 7: by Philip Alexander and Martin Goodman: Geza Vermes, 1924-2013 8: by Christopher Pelling and Michael Winterbottom: Donald Russell, 1920-2020 9: by Carole Hillenbrand: Bernard Lewis, 1916-2018 10: by Ingrid A. R. de Smet: Ann Moss, 1938-2018 by Martin Daunton: 11. Michael Thompson, 1925-2017 12: by John Eekelaar and David Feldman: Stephen Cretney, 1936-2019 13: by Wim Blockmans: Peter Spufford, 1934-2017 14: by John Gray, Ian Diamond, and Fiona Steele: Harvey Goldstein, 1939-2020 15: by Ray Chambers, Ian Diamond, Tim Holt, Paul A. Smith, and Fiona Steele: Chris Skinner, 1953-2020 16: by Albert Weale: Tony King, 1934-2017 17: Eve V. Clark and Ruth Kempson: John Lyons, 1932-2020 18: David Crystal and P. H. Matthews: Frank Palmer, 1922-2019 19: by Anthony O'Hear: Roger Scruton, 1944-2020 20: by David Reynolds: Zara Steiner, 1928-2020
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Oxford University Press Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy 20
Book SynopsisThe lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain''s intellectual life.Table of Contents1: Hugh Collins and Antony Duff: John Gardner, 1965-2019 2: Alan Bowman and Martin Goodman: Fergus Miller, 1925-2019 3: Malcolm Schofield: Myles Burnyeat, 1939-2019 4: Jeremy Lawrance: Trevor Dadson, 1947-2020 5: Charles Pattie, Peter Taylor, and Kelvyn Jones: Ron Johnston, 1941-2020 6: Anthony Harding: John Coles, 1930-2020 7: David D'Avray and John Hudson: Susan Reynolds, 1929-2021 8: Ritchie Robertson: W. Edgar Yates, 1938-2021 9: Roderick Beaton: William St Clair, 1937-2021 10: Christopher Dyer: Christopher Taylor, 1935-2021 11: Hew Strachan: Michael Howard, 1922-2019 12: Martti Koskenniemi and Gerry Simpson: James Crawford, 1948-2021 13: J. L. Lightfoot: Andrew Barker, 1943-2021 14: Dorothy V. M. Bishop: Oliver Braddick, 1944-2022 15: Richard Swinburne: John Lucas, 1929-2020 16: Stephen M. Hart: James Higgens, 1939-2021 17: Bill Burgwinkle: Simon Gaunt, 1959-2021 18: James McLaverty: Roger Londsale, 1934-2022 19: Malcolm Schofield and Francisco Hernández: Peter Linehan, 1943-2020 20: Edward Hughes and Ben Hutchinson: George Steiner, 1929-2020
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Companion to Organizations
Book SynopsisDrawing on the research of more than 50 influential international scholars, this extensive interdisciplinary survey consolidates and evaluates what is known and not known about organizations, and critically examines how we learn about and study them. Contributors include 50 influential international scholars.Trade Review"The book is absolutely outstanding! It is an intellectual tour de force by a stellar cast of more than 50 superb scholars. It achieves the impossible - both tremendous breadth and depth on the most important topics in organization theory today. No serious student of organizations can possibly do without this book." Christine Oliver, York University "The quality of the contributors and the intelligence of the comprehensive editorial framework assure that we have, at last, a worthy successor to March's classic Handbook of Organizations (1965). The commitment to a common enterprise, the connections constructed across levels of analysis, and a devotion to cumulative knowledge are welcome attributes of this valuable collection." W. Richard Scott, Stanford University "Baum has brought together a diverse and wily asemblage of authors to write a coherent book of the state of the art of organizations. The chapters show that organization studies has a defined frontier and research program." Bruce Kogut, University of Pennsylvania "...the volume reaches beyond its espoused role as a "companion" and provides a bold statement that we believe will help guide the next generation of organizational theory scholars and spark disquiet (and perhaps consternation) among organizational researchers who are at the margins of this movement." Administrative Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Figures viii List of Tables ix Contributors xi Preface xxvii Howard E. Aldrich Acknowledgments xxx Companion to Organizations: An Introduction 1 Joel A. C. Baum and Tim J. Rowley Part I: Intraorganizational Level 35 1 Intraorganizational Institutions 37 Kimberly D. Elsbach 2 Intraorganizational Networks 58 Holly Raider and David J. Krackhardt 3 Intraorganizational Ecology 75 D. Charles Galunic and John R. Weeks 4 Intraorganizational Evolution 98 Massimo Warglien 5 Intraorganizational Cognition and Interpretation 119 C. Marlene Fiol 6 Intraorganizational Power and Dependence 138 Daniel J. Brass 7 Intraorganizational Technology 158 Melissa A. Schilling 8 Intraorganizational Learning 181 Linda Argote and Ron Ophir 9 Intraorganizational Complexity and Computation 208 Kathleen M. Carley 10 Intraorganizational Economics 233 Edward J. Zajac and James D. Westphal Part II: Organizational Level 257 11 Organizational Institutions 259 Donald A. Palmer and Nicole Woolsey Biggart 12 Organizational Networks 281 Ranjay Gulati, Dania A. Dialdin, and Lihua Wang 13 Organizational Ecology 304 Joel A. C. Baum and Terry L. Amburgey Terry L. Amburgey and Jitendra V. Singh Theresa K. Lant 14 Organizational Evolution 327Terry L. Amburgey and Jitendra V. Singh 15 Organizational Cognition and Interpretation 344Theresa K. Lant 16 Organizational Power and Dependence 363William Ocasio 17 Organizational Technology 386Michael L. Tushman and Wendy Smith 18 Organizational Learning 415Martin Schulz 19 Organizational Complexity and Computation 442Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Mahesh M. Bhatia 20 Organizational Economics 467Brian S. Silverman Part III: Interorganizational Level 495 21 Interorganizational Institutions 497David Strang and Wesley D. Sine 22 Interorganizational Networks 520Wayne E. Baker and Robert R. Faulkner 23 Interorganizational Ecology 541Hayagreeva Rao 24 Interorganizational Evolution 557Henrich R. Greve 25 Interorganizational Cognition and Interpretation 579Joseph F. Porac, Marc J. Ventresca, and Yuri Mishina 26 Interorganizational Power and Dependence 599Mark S. Mizruchi and Mina Yoo 27 Interorganizational Technology 621Toby E. Stuart 28 Interorganizational Learning 642Paul Ingram 29 Interorganizational Complexity and Computation 664Olav Sorenson 30 Interorganizational Economics 686Arjen Van Witteloostuijn Part IV: Organizational Epistemology and Research Methods 713 31 Updating Organizational Epistemology 715Jane Azevedo 32 Contemporary Debates in Organizational Epistemology 733Mihnea C. Moldoveanu and Joel A. C. Baum 33 Model-Centered Organization Science Epistemology 752Bill McKelvey 34 Survey Research Methods 781David Knoke, Peter V. Marsden and Arne L. Kalleberg 35 Archival Research Methods 805Marc J. Ventresca and John W. Mohr 36 Simulation Research Methods 829Kevin Dooley 37 Grounded Theory Research Methods 849Deborah Dougherty 38 Field Research Methods 867Andrew H. Van de Ven and Marshall Scott Poole Appendix: Glossary of Epistemology Terms 889Bill McKelvey Index 899
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Princeton University Press The Institutional Foundation of Economic
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Princeton University Press The Institutional Foundation of Economic
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ML - Temple University Press Push Back Move Forward The National Council of Womens Organizations and Coalition Advocacy
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Push Back Move Forward
Book SynopsisAn in-depth explanation of the origin, workings, strengths and weaknesses of the National Council of Women's Organizations
£23.39
University of Toronto Press Materializing Difference
Book SynopsisHow do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the iTable of ContentsIntroduction: Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies Part I. Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging 1. Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference 2. The Gabors’ Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture 3. From Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Re-contextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market 4. Creating Symbolic and Material Patina 5. The Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management 6. Political Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse Part II. Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles 7. Gabor Roma, Cărhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures 8. Interethnic Trade of Prestige Objects 9. Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity 10. The Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping Part III. Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies 11. Things-In-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method 12. Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000-2007 13. Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992-2012 Conclusion: The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods
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University of Toronto Press States and Nations Power and Civility
Book SynopsisIn this volume, twelve leading sociologists and historians leverage the conceptual work of John A. Hall to explore the complex and profoundly consequential relationship between states, nations, power, and civility.Table of ContentsPart One: National Contexts 1. Is America Breaking Apart? The Rise of Donald Trump 2. How Homogenous Need America Be? Nation, Race, and Civility 3. Roadblocks to Civility: Lessons from Turkish Nationalism 4. Urban Civility Defying Political Authoritarianism? Unpacking Turkey’s Reversal of Democracy 5. Under Stress: Civility, Compassion, and National Solidarity – The Refugee Crisis in Germany after 1945 Part Two: International and Comparative Contexts 6. Nationalism and Imperialism as Enemies and Friends: Nation-State Formation and Imperial Projects in the Balkans 7. The Despotic and Infrastructural Powers of Democratic, Autocratic, and Authoritarian Regimes 8. Resistance and Nationalist Violence: A Hallsian Approach to Nation-Building in a Colonial Context 9. Two Communist Revolutions: A Hallsian Comparison of China and Russia 10. Religious Toleration in Pre-Modern Empires 11. Ashoka and Constantine: On Mega-Actors and the Politics of Empires and Religions
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University of Toronto Press Poetry and Crisis
Book SynopsisOn March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrid’s largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded. This event, known in Spain as 11-M, was the second of three highly visible jihadist attacks on the West between 2001 and 2005, and the first in Europe, occurring just days before the national elections in Spain. Arguing that 11-M marked a critical turning point in Spanish society, this book reveals how poetry played a unique role and reflected a new political and cultural sensibility defined by informal and non-hierarchical networks of communication and memorialization. After the attacks, poems circulated in public spaces in unexpected ways, creating links and relationships that were binding: they were inscribed on banners and monuments; musicalized in anthems, protest songs, and hip-hop music; reproduced on manifestos and blogs; sent by email and text; scribbled on scraps of paper and postedTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Poetry, Politics, Performance 1. Rhetoric and Ideology in Grassroots Memorials and Official Monuments 2. Circulation and Performance in Memorial and Media Sites 3. Archives and Grassroots Anthologies: Preservation, Social Action, and Affect Part 2: Poets, Cultural Politics, and Crisis 4. Body, Affect, Flesh 5. Pixel, Bar Code, Algorithm Conclusions Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Materializing Difference
Book SynopsisHow do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the iTable of ContentsIntroduction: Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies Part I. Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging 1. Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference 2. The Gabors’ Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture 3. From Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Re-contextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market 4. Creating Symbolic and Material Patina 5. The Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management 6. Political Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse Part II. Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles 7. Gabor Roma, Cărhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures 8. Interethnic Trade of Prestige Objects 9. Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity 10. The Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping Part III. Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies 11. Things-In-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method 12. Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000-2007 13. Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992-2012 Conclusion: The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy
Book SynopsisThis path-breaking collaboration by leading Black scholars examines the complexities of Black life in Canadian post-secondary education.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface: The Nuances of Blackness: A Genesis and Outline Acknowledgments Introduction: A Meditation on the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, and Handel Kashope Wright Part One: Blackness: What’s in a Name? Commentary on Part I: Why the Study of Blackness Is Critical at This Historical Juncture George J. Sefa Dei 1. The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Canadian Academy Handel Kashope Wright 2. Exposed! The Ivory Tower’s Code Noir Delia D. Douglas 3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition Ali A. Abdi 4. What Have Deleuze and Guattari Got to Do with Blackness? A Rhizomatic Analysis of Blackness Awad Ibrahim 5. Dancing with the Invisibility/Inaudibility: Nuances of Blackness in a Francophone Context Gina Thésée Part Two: Blackness and Academic Pathways Commentary on Part II: Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Challenges, Contestations, and Contradictions Wisdom J. Tettey 6. Hidden Figures: Black Scholars in the Early Canadian Academy Malinda S. Smith 7. Committed to Employment Equity? Impediments to Obtaining University Appointments Carl E. James 8 Black Gay Scholar and the Provocation of Promotion Wesley Crichlow 9 “Certain Uncertainty”: Phenomenology of an African Canadian Professor Tamari Kitossa 10. Socio-Cultural Obligations and the Academic Career: The Dual Expectations Facing Black Canadian Academics Kay-Ann Williams and Gervan Fearon Part Three: Blackness: A Complicated Canadian Conversation Commentary on Part III: “Killing Us Softly” – with Questions Annette Henry 11. Fitting (Out-Fitting) In Henry Daniel 12. The Caged Bird Still Sings in Harmony: The Academy, Spoken Word Poetry, and the Making of Community Emmanuel Tabi 13. States of Being: The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, & Diasporic Woman Juliane Okot Bitek 14. Intersectionality in Blackface: When Post-racial Nationalism Meets Black Feminism Délice Mugabo 15. Re-spatializing the Boundaries of Belonging: The Subversive Blackness of Muslim Women Jan-Therese Mendes Part Four: Black Pasts, Black Futurity Commentary on Part IV: Surviving Anti-Blackness: Vulnerability, Speaking Back, and Building Black Futurity Shirley Anne Tate 16. (Re)situating Black Studies at York University: Unsilencing the Past, Locating the Present, Routing Futures at the York University Black Graduate Students’ Collective 17. Community Service Learning and Anti-Blackness: The Cost of Playing with Fire on the Black Female Body Delores v. Mullings 18. Blackness and the Limits of Institutional Good Will Omisoore H. Dryden 19. Leadership in Neoliberal Times: A Road to Nowhere Jennifer R. Kelly 20. Vocation of the Black Scholar in the Neoliberal Academy: A Love Story Adelle Blackett 21. The Changing Same: Black Lives Matter, the Work of History, and the Historian’s Craft Barrington Walker 22. Charting Black Presence and Futures in the Canadian Academy Malinda S. Smith Contributors
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University of Toronto Press Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy
Book SynopsisThis path-breaking collaboration by leading Black scholars examines the complexities of Black life in Canadian post-secondary education.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface: The Nuances of Blackness: A Genesis and Outline Acknowledgments Introduction: A Meditation on the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, and Handel Kashope Wright Part One: Blackness: What’s in a Name? Commentary on Part I: Why the Study of Blackness Is Critical at This Historical Juncture George J. Sefa Dei 1. The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Canadian Academy Handel Kashope Wright 2. Exposed! The Ivory Tower’s Code Noir Delia D. Douglas 3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition Ali A. Abdi 4. What Have Deleuze and Guattari Got to Do with Blackness? A Rhizomatic Analysis of Blackness Awad Ibrahim 5. Dancing with the Invisibility/Inaudibility: Nuances of Blackness in a Francophone Context Gina Thésée Part Two: Blackness and Academic Pathways Commentary on Part II: Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Challenges, Contestations, and Contradictions Wisdom J. Tettey 6. Hidden Figures: Black Scholars in the Early Canadian Academy Malinda S. Smith 7. Committed to Employment Equity? Impediments to Obtaining University Appointments Carl E. James 8 Black Gay Scholar and the Provocation of Promotion Wesley Crichlow 9 “Certain Uncertainty”: Phenomenology of an African Canadian Professor Tamari Kitossa 10. Socio-Cultural Obligations and the Academic Career: The Dual Expectations Facing Black Canadian Academics Kay-Ann Williams and Gervan Fearon Part Three: Blackness: A Complicated Canadian Conversation Commentary on Part III: “Killing Us Softly” – with Questions Annette Henry 11. Fitting (Out-Fitting) In Henry Daniel 12. The Caged Bird Still Sings in Harmony: The Academy, Spoken Word Poetry, and the Making of Community Emmanuel Tabi 13. States of Being: The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, & Diasporic Woman Juliane Okot Bitek 14. Intersectionality in Blackface: When Post-racial Nationalism Meets Black Feminism Délice Mugabo 15. Re-spatializing the Boundaries of Belonging: The Subversive Blackness of Muslim Women Jan-Therese Mendes Part Four: Black Pasts, Black Futurity Commentary on Part IV: Surviving Anti-Blackness: Vulnerability, Speaking Back, and Building Black Futurity Shirley Anne Tate 16. (Re)situating Black Studies at York University: Unsilencing the Past, Locating the Present, Routing Futures at the York University Black Graduate Students’ Collective 17. Community Service Learning and Anti-Blackness: The Cost of Playing with Fire on the Black Female Body Delores v. Mullings 18. Blackness and the Limits of Institutional Good Will Omisoore H. Dryden 19. Leadership in Neoliberal Times: A Road to Nowhere Jennifer R. Kelly 20. Vocation of the Black Scholar in the Neoliberal Academy: A Love Story Adelle Blackett 21. The Changing Same: Black Lives Matter, the Work of History, and the Historian’s Craft Barrington Walker 22. Charting Black Presence and Futures in the Canadian Academy Malinda S. Smith Contributors
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University of Toronto Press Leading for Equity and Social Justice
Book SynopsisEducational institutions, and in particular educational leaders, play critical roles in identifying and rectifying the many inequities that oppress, marginalize, and exclude individual students, educational actors, and some minoritized groups in Canadian education. Leading for Equity and Social Justice provides a deep look at some of these inequities and injustices and offers transformative leadership as one way for leaders to stimulate, support, and foster equitable and socially just practices in educational institutions. This collection emphasizes the systemic nature of inequality and supports the necessity of systemic change to target not only individuals but also structures, policies, and far-reaching practices. Focusing on various marginalized groups including the Indigenous community, LGBTQ2S+ peoples, refugees, newcomers, and specific groups of teachers chapters explore transformative leadership in practice and how to achieve inclusion, respect, and excellenceTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Leading for Systemic Educational Transformation in Canada Part I. Transformative Leadership in Practice 1. Transformative Leadership Theory: A Comprehensive Approach to Equity, Inclusion, Excellence, and Social Justice 2. Transformative Leadership: Leading French-Language Schools in Canadian Anglo-Dominant Contexts 3. Transformative Educational Leadership: Leading for Equity and Social Justice in the 21st Century Part II. Equitable and Socially Just Approaches to Leadership 4. Challenges and Choices: Sustaining Social Justice Leadership in Ontario Schools 5. Disrupting and Dismantling Deficit Thinking in Schools through Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogy 6. Perspectives of Social Justice Leadership: A Duo-ethnographic Study 7. Social Justice Teaching and Leadership in Higher Education: Decentring Whiteness and Addressing Alt-Right Resistance Part III. Decentring Discrimination 8. Canadian Indigenous Leadership for Social Justice in the Face of Social Group Apraxia: Renovating the State Colonization Built 9. Washroom Dramas and Transgender Politics: A Transformative Approach to Gendered Spaces in Canadian Public Schools 10. Supporting Newcomer Refugee Students’ Adaptation in Schools: Challenges, Practices and Recommendations through the Lens of a Compassion-Based Framework 11. New Canadian Student Leadership: “It’s More than Just a Tour” 12. School Leadership in the Era of Bill 21: A Call for Commitment and Courage Conclusion: The Future of Leading for Systemic Educational Transformation in Canada Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Capitalism and Classical Social Theory Third
Book SynopsisIn this book, two experts on classical social theory explain why we must find context in the works of classical thinkers to better understand the complexities of today’s issues.Trade Review"This book offers an interesting discussion of the development of sociological theory, with a specific emphasis on the ways that capitalism shaped the field of sociology during its early years.... Its presentation of the social, historical, and economic context from which early sociological theory emerged is exemplary: detailed, thorough, and compelling." * Teaching Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface PART I: Context 1. Introduction: Why Classical Social Theory? 2. Modernity and Social Theory 3. European Enlightenment and Early Social Thought PART II: The Classical Triumvirate 4. Karl Marx: Philosophy and Methodology 5. Karl Marx: Theory of History 6. Karl Marx: Economics of Capitalism 7. Émile Durkheim: The Division of Labour in Society 8. Émile Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological Method and On Suicide 9. Émile Durkheim: Religion and Education 10. Max Weber: Methodology 11. Max Weber: Capitalism and Modernity 12. Max Weber: Social Classes and Legitimate Domination\ PART III: Expanding the Canon 13. Gender and Social Theory 14. W.E.B. Du Bois on Race 15. G.H. Mead on Self and Society PART IV: Classical Social Theory Today 16. Concluding Thoughts on the Classical Canon Further Reading and Sources Index
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Liverpool University Press Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length biography of Dorothy Morland (1906–99), to date the only female director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Based on unpublished letters and other archival sources, as well as interviews and personal recollections, this book traces her busy private and public life from the 1930s up until the 1990s. It tells the story of one of the unacknowledged contributors to the success of the ICA and to the understanding of the international avant garde in post-war Britain. As a female arts administrator, Dorothy Morland’s work has been largely overlooked, and this book aims to highlight her significant contribution to the public understanding of modernism. She was part of a network which included the Surrealist Roland Penrose, art critic Herbert Read, architect Jane Drew and wealthy philanthropists, Peter Gregory and Peter Watson. She was also the protector and advocate for the Independent Group. Dorothy Morland always mixed business with pleasure (dancing with Picasso in Antibes while there on ICA business), and tirelessly oversaw the chaotic organisation that was the ICA in Dover Street from 1950 until 1968. After leaving the ICA she worked hard on assembly the organisation’s archives and securing their safekeeping at Tate.Trade Review'With her characteristic sensitivity to socioeconomic context and questions of gender and class, Massey seeks to intercept the male-dominated narratives that have come to frame the formation of the ICA. In her new book, she again takes the patrilineage of art history to task by drawing attention to an overlooked – but highly influential – female administrator and director. [...] In fact, it is this layering of the author’s academic career with the professional life of her protagonist that truly animates the text ' Rosie Ram, Art History'The book is remarkable for the way in which it interweaves a detailed account of Morland’s life with the early history of the ICA and a broad network of artists and art professionals... [Dorothy Morland Making ICA History] provides a welcome and captivating history of one of the most intriguing chapters in modern British art.'Elena Crippa, The Burlington Magazine ‘This reflective period can be the right time to take stock of postwar history, of incomplete and inaccurate histories and narratives, and to recognize previously downplayed contributions. Morland’s status as a female curator needs to be emphasized, as does her place in British art history… This book is the culmination of decades of research and is enriched by different forms of visual representation that combine elements of the personal memoir with scholarship of the highest order.’ Rina Arya, Journal of Curatorial Studies
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length biography of Dorothy Morland (1906–99), to date the only female director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Based on unpublished letters and other archival sources, as well as interviews and personal recollections, this book traces her busy private and public life from the 1930s up until the 1990s. It tells the story of one of the unacknowledged contributors to the success of the ICA and to the understanding of the international avant garde in post-war Britain. As a female arts administrator, Dorothy Morland’s work has been largely overlooked, and this book aims to highlight her significant contribution to the public understanding of modernism. She was part of a network which included the Surrealist Roland Penrose, art critic Herbert Read, architect Jane Drew and wealthy philanthropists, Peter Gregory and Peter Watson. She was also the protector and advocate for the Independent Group. Dorothy Morland always mixed business with pleasure (dancing with Picasso in Antibes while there on ICA business), and tirelessly oversaw the chaotic organisation that was the ICA in Dover Street from 1950 until 1968. After leaving the ICA she worked hard on assembly the organisation’s archives and securing their safekeeping at Tate.Trade Review'With her characteristic sensitivity to socioeconomic context and questions of gender and class, Massey seeks to intercept the male-dominated narratives that have come to frame the formation of the ICA. In her new book, she again takes the patrilineage of art history to task by drawing attention to an overlooked – but highly influential – female administrator and director. [...] In fact, it is this layering of the author’s academic career with the professional life of her protagonist that truly animates the text ' Rosie Ram, Art History'The book is remarkable for the way in which it interweaves a detailed account of Morland’s life with the early history of the ICA and a broad network of artists and art professionals... [Dorothy Morland Making ICA History] provides a welcome and captivating history of one of the most intriguing chapters in modern British art.'Elena Crippa, The Burlington Magazine ‘This reflective period can be the right time to take stock of postwar history, of incomplete and inaccurate histories and narratives, and to recognize previously downplayed contributions. Morland’s status as a female curator needs to be emphasized, as does her place in British art history… This book is the culmination of decades of research and is enriched by different forms of visual representation that combine elements of the personal memoir with scholarship of the highest order.’ Rina Arya, Journal of Curatorial Studies
£47.49
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Institutions, Contracts and Organizations:
Book SynopsisThis outstanding book presents new original contributions from some of the world's leading economists including Ronald Coase, Douglass C. North, Masahiko Aoki, Oliver E. Williamson and Harold Demsetz. It demonstrates the extent and depth of the New Institutional Economics research programme which is having a worldwide impact on the economics profession.The book lays out the fundamental dimensions of the research programme with special emphasis on the interaction between institutional factors, both formal and informal, and the performance of different arrangements that organize transactions. After examining the foundations of New Institutional Economics and honouring Ronald Coase's contribution to the field, it presents controversial and conflicting views on the sources of growth. It places special emphasis on organizations and transactions, focusing on issues of trust, corruption, enforcement of contracts and modes of organization. Written by an eminent group of scholars, Institutions, Contracts and Organizations is an important landmark in the development of New Institutional Economics.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Foundations Part II: Homage to Ronald H. Coase Part III: Sources of Growth: Technology, Natural Endowments or Institutions? Part IV: Trust, Distrust and Corruption Part V: Enforcement Issues Part VI: Institutions and Modes of Organizations Part VII: Models and Measures Index
£142.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economics Confronts the Economy
Book SynopsisEconomics Confronts the Economy is a challenging and unorthodox look at contemporary economic analysis. Philip Klein presents a highly reasoned and yet personal view of the state of economics today. While his views may be contentious to some, it is an accessible book that will provoke discussion and debate to a wide readership.Professor Klein begins with the assumption that the basic function of economic theory is to provide a sound guide for public policy in assisting society in defining what it means by 'economic progress'. In the words of Thorstein Veblen it involves economic activity as explicit steps to be taken at any given time to enable the economy to play its most effective role in 'enhancing human life'. The book argues that modern mainstream economics is failing in this task in terms of what it teaches young economists, what it contributes to public policy debates and what it has done to the field of economics.This book will have a wide audience throughout the many and varied fields of economics including heterodox economics, micro- and macroeconomics, history of economic thought and economic policy.Trade Review'To break the mind-numbing, stupefying grip of the neoclassical elite and make economics important once again is Klein's dream; and the dream is important because the past and present use of neoclassical economics has imposed untold hardship upon millions. The way forward he suggests is to go down the theoretical road of heterodox economics.' -- Frederic S. Lee, Journal of Economic Issues'Phil Klein, in a low key but deeply reasoned text, critiques economic theory for its misrepresentations of the economy and other shortcomings. In particular, Klein provides a critique of how mainstream economists - creating a corpus of doctrines that seem "quantitative, precise, logical, elegant, rigorous, and beautiful" - have made more of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" than did Smith himself. Some will agree and others will disagree with various of Klein's arguments. But all economists, and the discipline itself, will be better off if individual economists will diagnose WHY they agree and disagree, and both the bases and the implications thereof.' -- Warren Samuels, Michigan State University, US'I believe it to be a most significant contribution to a continuing assessment of the heartland of orthodox economic theory and its policy applications. I consider this volume to be the most pertinent and significant contribution of the last decade for the necessary and continuing critique of the relevance and applicability of mainstream neoclassical economic analysis. Professor Klein considers at length the substantive character and relevance of neoclassical orthodoxy as continuing futile efforts are made to salvage its contents and preserve its dominion as the encompassing discipline. He explores its trivialization; he examines its distorted views of the public sector; he laments its overly extensive deference to mathematical expression; he disputes its claim to dominion and exclusive relevance as an inquiry approach for the study of the economic process. In the concluding chapter he presents his persuasive alternative view of what a non-ideological, non-mathematical, but pertinent mode of economic inquiry would encompass.' -- Marc R. Tool, California State University, Sacramento, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Unchanging Focus of Modern Economics 2. Making Progress with Theory: Do We Get What We Want or Want What We Get? 3. Lowering the Learning in Economics, 1950–2000 4. Trivialization and Elegance I: The World of Microeconomics 5. Trivialization and Elegance II: The World of Macroeconomics 6. Theory and the Role of the Public Sector 7. Focus on ‘Mainstream Economics’: Obstacles to the Competition for New Ideas 8. Economics Confronts the Economy: An Alternative View – Don’t Cry for Me, Economics Index
£130.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory
Book SynopsisThe motivation behind this book is the desire to integrate complexity theory into economic models of technological evolution. By means of developing an evolutionary model of complex technological systems, the book contributes to the neo-Schumpetarian literature on innovation, diffusion and technological paradigms.Recent advances in complexity theory provide a new understanding of technological innovation and complex problem-solving. This book offers an approach based on Stuart Kauffman's NK-model of complex systems to better understand and analyse search strategies that firms apply to develop new technologies. The models deal with a range of topics including bounded rationality, myopia, decomposability, modularity and the emergence of technological paradigms. Empirical applications include the evolution of early 18th century steam engine technology, 20th century aircraft and helicopter designs and recent innovations in personal computers. Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory makes excellent use of complexity theory and large datasets on technologies with which to complement the analysis.The book will be of great interest to evolutionary and innovation economists and academics as well as scholars in the interdisciplinary field of complexity theory and industrial organisation.Trade Review'. . . this book will not fail to have an impact on the profession. . . this is a very valuable book that shows the long way evolutionary economics has come in the past fifteen years.' -- Andreas Reinstaller, Journal of Evolutionary EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Part I: Theoretical Contributions 1. Introduction 2. Technology Landscapes 3. Generalised Genotype-Phenotype Maps 4. A Model of Technological Paradigms Part II: Empirical Applications 5. Entropy Statistics 6. Early Evolution of Steam Engines 7. Trajectories in Aircraft and Helicopters 8. The Advent of Portable Computers 9. Directions for Future Research References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Post-Keynesian Principles of Economic Policy
Book SynopsisPost-Keynesian economics is moving beyond criticism of mainstream economics and is focusing on providing a positive alternative to orthodoxy. This book gathers carefully selected and original papers by a number of distinguished post-Keynesian writers from Europe and the Americas and converges on the principles that should guide post-Keynesian economic policy in the 21st century.The policy prescriptions examined and discussed in this book include the New Consensus, inflation targeting, fiscal and monetary policies to name but a few. It puts forth a coherent approach to policy and is divided into three components: monetary policy, fiscal policy and effective demand, and international issues, including discussion of currency boards, dollarization and the EMU. The contributors aim to emphasize the post-Keynesian ability to provide renewed principles of economic policy in contrast with the failures of the mainstream approach.Scholars and researchers of economics and political economy at all levels will find much to engage them within this book.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Claude Gnos and Louis-Philippe Rochon PART I: MONETARY POLICY 1. Interest Rates and the Real Economy Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer 2. Banking Behaviour and the Brazilian Economy After the End of the Real Plan: A Post-Keynesian Approach Luiz Fernando De Paula and Antonio J. Alves, Jr 3. Is There an Active Role for Monetary Policy in the Endogenous Money Approach? Giuseppe Fontana and Alfonso Palacio-Vera 4. The Post-Keynesian Consensus, the New Consensus and Endogenous Money Virginie Monvoisin and Louis-Philippe Rochon 5. A Post-Keynesian Framework for Monetary Policy: Why Interest Rate Operating Procedures Are Not Enough Thomas I. Palley PART II: FISCAL POLICY AND EFFECTIVE DEMAND 6. What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Can We Muddle Through Without Fiscal Policy? Stephanie Kelton and L. Randall Wray 7. Views on Long-term Investment and Finance: Keynes’s Heterodoxy Co-Opted Omar F. Hamouda 8. The Absolute Paradox of Economic Policy in Contemporary Capitalism Alain Parguez 9. Fiscal Policy, Government Intervention and Endogenous Money: Are Chartalist and Circuitist Theories Complementary? Corinne Pastoret 10. Monetary Policy, Labour Market Institutions and US Macroeconomic Performance During the 1990s Mark Setterfield PART III: REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES 11. A Fully Coherent Post-Keynesian Model of Currency Boards Marc Lavoie 12. The Post-Keynesian Case for No Exchange Rates Basil J. Moore 13. EMU and EU Enlargement: Lessons and Perspectives Sergio Rossi Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Beyond the Regulation Approach: Putting Capitalist Economies in their Place
Book SynopsisThis book presents a detailed and critical account of the regulation approach in institutional and evolutionary economics. Offering both a theoretical commentary and a range of empirical examples, it identifies the successes and failures of the regulation approach as an explanatory theory, and proposes new guidelines for its further development. Although closely identified with heterodox French economists, there are several schools of regulation theory and the approach has also been linked to many topics across the social sciences. Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum provide detailed criticisms of the various schools of the regulation approach and their empirical application, and have developed new ways of integrating it into a more general critical exploration of contemporary capitalism. The authors go on to describe how the regulation approach can be further developed as a progressive research paradigm in political economy. Also presented is a detailed philosophical as well as theoretical critique of the regulation approach and its implications for the philosophy of social sciences and questions of historical analysis (especially periodization).Addressing the implications of the regulation approach for both the capitalist economy and the changing role of the state and governance, this book will be of great interest to a wide-ranging audience, including institutional and evolutionary economists, economic and political sociologists and social and political theorists.Trade Review'With this high theoretical work, Jessop and Sum offer a broad overview and critique of the regulation approach.' -- Emmanuelle Michotte, Sociology'Every now and then, a book comes along that you positively want to be asked to read and review, and this is one of them - a major work of scholarship in its own right, while at the same time, a ground-clearing exercise for what is to follow. . . . This, it should be emphasized, is a hugely impressive body of work, an expansive statement of Jessop's contribution as a major figure within the world of regulation approaches.' -- Ray Hudson, Economic GeographyTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: On the Regulation Approach 1. Early Regulation Approaches in Retrospect and Prospect 2. Fordism and Post-Fordism 3. Fordism, Post-Fordism and the Capitalist State Part II: Applications and Critical Appreciations of the RA 4. Neo-Conservative Regimes and the Transition to Post-Fordism 5. A Regulationist Re-reading of East Asian Newly Industrializing Economies: From Peripheral Fordism to Exportism 6. A Regulationist Perspective on the Asian ‘Crisis’ and After Part III: Developing the Regulation Approach 7. Regenerating the Regulation Approach 8. Bringing Governance into Capitalist Regulation 9. Rescaling Regulation and Governance in a Global Age Part IV: Moving Beyond the Regulation Approach 10. Critical Realism and the Regulation Approach: A Dialogue 11. Rethinking Periodization After Fordism 12. Gramsci as a Proto- and Post-Regulation Theorist Conclusion: Putting Capitalist Economies in their Place Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Classical, Neoclassical and Keynesian Views on
Book SynopsisThis book reconsiders and analyses the different approaches historically proposed in the literature on growth and distribution. The contributors have achieved, through a comprehensive and cohesive analysis of the approaches of different schools of thought, a wide-ranging interpretation of a variety of important economic phenomena. The book identifies elements characterising each approach and tries to derive from them a range of insights into the complexity of the growth process.Classical, Neoclassical and Keynesian Views on Growth and Distribution is an original, insightful and thought-provoking book which, it is intended, will generate further research in the area of growth and income distribution.The book will appeal to scholars and researchers at many different levels of academe, and in many different schools of thought, interested in the theory of economic growth and in the analysis of the complexity of growth processes.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Carlo Panico and Neri Salvadori Part I: Classical Views 1. Growth and Distribution: A Return to the Classical Tradition Renato Balducci 2. Natural Wage Dynamics in a Ricardian Growth Model Davide Fiaschi and Rodolfo Signorino 3. Co-evolution of Population and Natural Resources: A Simple Ricardian Model Simone D’Alessandro 4. Some Aspects of Structural Change in Marx’s Analysis Maria Daniela Giammanco Part II: Neoclassical Views 5. Growth, Income Distribution and Age Heterogeneity in the Neoclassical Economy: A Potential Conflict between Dynamic Efficiency and Equity Luciano Fanti and Piero Manfredi 6. Distribution and Growth in the Neoclassical Traditions Mario Pomini 7. Reconsidering the Early Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution and Interest Arrigo Opocher 8. Tobin Financial Growth Models: A Reconstruction Michele Limosani Part III: Keynesian Views 9. Unemployment and Growth: A Critical Survey Enrico Bellino 10. Growth, Unemployment and Wages: Disequilibrium Models with Increasing Returns Luciano Boggio 11. Behind Goodwin’s Real Wage Function: Which Kind of Labour Market? Giuseppe Mastromatteo 12. Entry and Stationary Equilibrium Prices in a Post-Keynesian Growth Model Antonio D’Agata 13. Are Kalekian Models Relevant in the Long Run? Pasquale Commendatore Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economics, Evolution and the State: The
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the emerging field of evolutionary economic policy, highlighting the interface between the state, markets, and the evolutionary complexity of modern economies. The contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of governance, and provide a unique platform for the advancement of modern evolutionary economic theory. Decision-making is discussed, with particular reference to: economic evolution as an open process self-organization and networks the political economy of complexity. Issues of evolutionary economic governance at various levels of aggregation are also examined. Inspired by evolutionary thinking, a range of models emerge from the study, illustrating the variety and complexity of evolutionary governance of economic systems.Exploring the little investigated aspects of an evolutionary economic policy, this collection of original papers goes beyond the traditional confines of positive theory, making a long overdue contribution to the field of evolutionary economics. It will therefore be invaluable to a wide ranging audience including evolutionary and institutional economists, governmental scientists, management scientists and scholars following an interdisciplinary approach in the social and cognitive sciences.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Kurt Dopfer Part I: Economic Evolution as Open Process 1. Heterogeneity and Evolutionary Change – Concepts and Measurement Uwe Cantner and Horst Hanusch 2. Is the Notion of Progress Compatible with an Evolutionary View of the Economy? C. Christian von Weizsäcker 3. Reconciling Evolutionary Economics with Liberalism Gerhard Wegner 4. Historical Economics and Evolutionary Economic Policy – Coasean Perspectives Matthias Klaes Part II: Self-organisation and Networks 5. The Concept of Network Organisation – Biotechnology-based Industries as Exemplar Andreas Pyka and P. Paolo Saviotti 6. Sociodynamics – An Integrated Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences Wolfgang Weidlich 7. The Concept of Space in Trade – Some Evolutionary Basics Carsten Herrmann-Pillath 8. Economic Policy – A Process of Communication Lambert T. Koch 9. Why Endogeneity is Not Enough to Explain Technological Change – A Critique of Paul Romer Malcolm H. Dunn Part III: The Political Economy of Complexity 10. Innovation and the Learning Policy Maker – An Evolutionary Approach Based on Historical Experience Joachim Schwerin and Claudia Werker 11. The National German Innovation System – Its Development in Different Governmental and Territorial Structures Hariolf Grupp, Icíar Dominguez Lacasa and Monika Friedrich-Nishio 12. Emergence and Diffusion of Disastrous Innovations – A Case Study Reiner Peter Hellbrück 13. Applying Evolutionary Economics to Public Policy – The Example of Competitive Federalism in the EU Wolfgang Kerber 14. Can Evolutionary Economics Make a Billion $ Difference for 60 Per Cent of the World’s Poor in Asia? Hans-Peter Brunner Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Schumpeter on the Economics of Innovation and the
Book SynopsisThis book is a valuable insight into the life and work of Joseph A. Schumpeter. Bringing together an extensive collection of his essays, Arnold Heertje provides an overview of Schumpeter's life, his work and methodological approach. Schumpeter's vision of the role of the state and the capitalist system is thoroughly analysed by the author, who goes on to track the changing interpretation of Schumpeter's grand vision on the capitalist system through time. He also examines Schumpeter's ideas on technical change, innovation and economic growth and discusses neo-Schumpeterians and economic theory.Schumpeter on the Economics of Innovation and the Development of Capitalism will appeal to academics, students and scholars interested in an in-depth study of the great economist.Trade Review'I think that Heertje's book presents interesting debates initiated by the work of Schumpeter. . . I fully recommend Arnold Heertje's book. Moreover, readers who want to buy a book on Schumpeter for their library would do well purchasing this collection of reprinted essays written by Arnold Heertje.' -- Falko Juessen, Papers in Regional Science'. . . a vivid and engaging account of Schumpeter's approach to major social and economic issues and methodology, and his empirical research on economic dynamics and technical change. . . . an invaluable contribution to the academic debates on Schumpeter's ideas, and will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates, post-graduates and academics studying the history and theory of political economy.' -- Rachel S. Turner, Political Studies Review'The book offers a solid introduction to the insights of Schumpeter's vision, as well as an interesting firsthand account on the evolution of Schumpeter's influence within economics over the past several decades . . . On the whole, this book offers a nice presentation of Schumpeter's views on technical change, innovation, and entrepreneurs form one of the leading scholars on Schumpeter's life and work. The book will certainly be of value to scholars of Schumpeter, but will also be of interest to novice-Schumpeterians interested in a concise and accessible critique on Schumpeter's work.' -- Mark W. Frank, EH.NetTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: Overview 1. Schumpeter: A Life 2. Schumpeter and the Economics of Technical Change 3. Schumpeter and Methodological Individualism Part II: Evolutionary Economics and the Future of Capitalism 4. Schumpeter’s Model of the Decay of Capitalism 5. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy After Fifty Years 6. From Schumpeter to Stiglitz Part III: Technical Change, Innovation and Economic Growth 7. Schumpeter and Technical Change 8. Schumpeter, Keynes and Technical Change 9. Schumpeter on Economic Growth, Economic Development and Welfare 10. Evolving Technology and Market Structure: Studies in Schumpeterarian Economics 11. Neo-Schumpeterarians and Economic Theory Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Social Capital, Networks and Economic
Book SynopsisThis book analyses productive systems from a structural relational perspective, linking the structure and evolution of productive systems to economic development. An epistemological approach is adopted, which considers the social nature of economic actors and the importance of historical and geographical aspects. MarIa Semitiel GarcIa uses the structure and evolution of an agro-food and a metal-mechanical regional productive system to illustrate the benefits of adopting the network perspective as a methodological approach in economic research. The existence and persistence of inter-regional development differences, the structure of production systems, the role of services in these systems and the role of social capital in development are also discussed. Highlighting a holistic and comprehensive study of productive systems and its relationship with development, this book will strongly appeal to a wide-ranging audience, encompassing those with a special interest in regional development, institutional economics, industrial economics and policy, social network analysis and economic sociology.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Network Perspective and the Concept of Productive System 3. Data Characteristics and Methods Explanation 4. Regional Productive Structures and Production Systems 5. Regional Productive Systems and Development Processes 6. Conclusions Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks
Book SynopsisMarianna Klochko and Peter Ordeshook address an under-studied issue from rational choice theory - the common assumption that individual time preferences are exogenous and fixed. They then present empirical evidence to suggest that this is not the case, exploring a computer simulation model that allows for the evolutionary change of time preferences. This is done, moreover, in the context of social networks that are themselves endogenously determined.Beginning with the observation that individual time preferences are endogenous to social context, the authors develop a computer simulation of endogenous time preferences in social networks, the structure of which are themselves allowed to be endogenous. The core conclusion offered, aside from demonstrating the inter-relationship between time preference and network structure, is to show how social complexity can arise from even simple linear structures - a degree of complexity unlikely to be describable with close form analytic models. This volume, moreover, is an application of evolutionary game theory to our understanding of dynamic social processes.Economists concerned with networks, information, behavioral processes and evolutionary games, political scientists and sociologists interested in social networks, and students in all of these disciplines will find this illuminating book a welcome addition to their librariesTrade Review'Peter Ordeshook is an outstanding scholar and is addressing a very important question. As he points out on the first page of Chapter 1, social norms do exist and are adhered to, constitutions survive, people cooperate with others in some settings, but not in others. The topic of this book is very exciting and important - this is a real winner.' -- Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Cooperation and Time Discounting 2. Evidence of the Endogenous Determination of Discount Rates 3. The Evolutionary Perspective 4. Investment, Consumption and Change 5. A 3-Node Network: Part 1 6. A 3-Node Network: Part 2 7. Endogenous Networks: Part 1 8. Endogenous Networks: Part 2 9. Summary Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Hardship of Nations: Exploring the Paths of
Book SynopsisAfter more than two decades of widespread hardship for most nations, what are the different paths available for them to resume steady growth and welfare? Will they actually succeed in building new growth models that meet the challenges of the present phase of internationalisation? This book attempts to answer these questions by analysing different perspectives and discussing the conditions for new national growth trajectories to emerge. The book provides conceptual tools for characterising alternative growth regimes by analysing their institutional backgrounds and political context. Unlike standard convergence theories, the authors argue that the diversity of capitalism is likely to persist as national economies adapt to the forces of globalisation. Still these national paths remain strongly conditioned by the kind of governance set up at both regional and fully international levels.The Hardship of Nations will be of great interest to undergraduates and graduates in the social sciences - economics, political sciences, sociology, geography and management - who require an overview of the debates on growth of national economies in the present stage of globalisation.Table of ContentsContents: General Introduction Benjamin Coriat, Pascal Petit and Geneviève Schméder PART I: A NEW FINANCE-LED CAPITALISM 1. The Future of Capitalism Michel Aglietta 2. The Special Position of the United States in the Finance-led Regime: How Exportable is the US Venture Capital Industry? François Chesnais 3. Moves Towards Finance-led Capitalism: The French Case Benjamin Coriat PART II: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM 4. Socio-Institutional Changes in the Post-Fordist Era Pascal Petit 5. Is the New Economy Made in America? Pascal Petit 6. To Have or to Be: A Topological Approach of the Interaction between State and Economy Bruno Théret PART III: REGIONAL PROCESSES UNDER STRAIN 7. The Institutional and Policy Weaknesses of the European Union: The Evolution of the ‘Policy Mix’ Robert Boyer 8. Disruptive Effects of Financial Deregulation: The Japanese and Korean Crises Benjamin Coriat and Patrice Geoffron 9. Argentina’s Structural Crisis Luis Miotti and Carlos Quenan 10. Convergence and Diversity in National Trajectories of Post-Socialist Transformation Bernard Chavance and Eric Magnin PART IV: GLOBAL TENSIONS 11. From the Cold War to the New International Disorder Geneviève Schméder 12. Shadow Economy and Economic Criminalisation in Transition Economies Jacques Sapir 13. Global Geography of Post-Fordism: Knowledge and Polarisation El Mouhoub Mouhoud PART V: CONCLUSION 14. Post-Fordisms in a More Globalised Capitalism Benjamin Coriat, Pascal Petit and Geneviève Schméder Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Evolving Economy: Essays on the Evolutionary
Book SynopsisChange manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. The Evolving Economy covers a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the biological foundations of economic behavior to the co-evolution of firms, markets, and institutions. Ulrich Witt's individualistic approach synthesizes elements familiar from the writings of Veblen and Schumpeter on economic evolution. A conceptual debate on what the notion of evolution means in the economic context is as much emphasized as is the discussion of concrete hypotheses explaining why and how evolutionary economic change comes about.Offering an outline of a paradigm focusing on endogenous economic change, this book will be of great interest to economists and economic historians. Sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists will also find this work invaluable as it presents an encompassing assessment of the role of Darwinian thought for understanding human behavior and societal evolution.Trade Review'This is a genuine tour de force and what must be acknowledged by anyone who has followed the evolution of evolutionary economics since the early 1980s is the original, pioneering nature of these essays and the ideas they contain. . . These essays are a pleasure to read and to reflect on at leisure. Many, like this reviewer, will recognise that Ulrich Witt has followed the path of novelty in these essays and that in relation to much of our present understanding of evolutionary economics he has exercised enterprise and leadership. . . The best acknowledgement that we can give Witt's enterprise is to continue to follow along the path marked out by these essays and extend the evolutionary perspective into new channels of economic and social experience.' -- Stan Metcalfe, Journal of Bioeconomics'Together, these papers underline Ulrich Witt's well-deserved status as one of the leading and most innovative of evolutionary economists in the world today. . . The book is a worthy monument to the scientific contribution of its author over a period of seventeen years. It shows a lively, enquiring and evolving mind, from which we expect much in the future.' -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Journal of Evolutionary Economics'Economics is more than economising and maximising subject to a fixed-resources constraint. It is also the study of evolutionary processes and innovation-led search. Ulrich Witt musters an extensive knowledge of the economics of development and change in the essays collected together in this book. Building on authors such as Schumpeter and Hayek but contributing his own theoretical insights on biology, games, constitutions, progress, he demonstrates convincingly that economics can be a humanitarian discipline and a kaleidoscope of surprise.' -- David Reisman, University of Surrey, UK and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore'In this collection, we find the germs of an evolutionary theory of economic systems based firmly on the most solid elements of economic theory. This is not short praise, since mainstream economics often ignores issues discussed here. As the articles, due to their topics, have not appeared in large circulation journals so far, this book is a most welcome addition to the library of any scholar grappling with the difficulties of understanding economic change. The book should stimulate the ongoing discussion on issues of transformation, but also, in the context of globalisation, the problems of institutional and system change which this process necessitates.' -- Jurgen G. Backhaus, Erfurt University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Evolutionary Economics and the Extension of Evolution to the Economy Part II: Evolutionary Concepts and Methodology 2. Emergence and Dissemination of Innovation: Some Principles of Evolutionary Economics 3. Evolutionary Concepts in Economics 4. Coordination of Individual Economic Activities as an Evolving Process of Self-Organization 5. Firms’ Market Behavior Under Imperfect Information and Economic Natural Selection 6. “Lock-in” vs. “Critical Masses” – Industrial Change Under Network Externalities Part III: The Darwinian Perspective and the Continuity Hypothesis 7. Bioeconomics as Economics from a Darwinian Perspective 8. Economics, Sociobiology, and Behavioral Psychology on Preferences 9. Economic Behavior and Biological Evolution: Some Remarks on the Sociobiology Debate 10. Self-Organization and Economics – What is New? Part IV: Evolution in the Context of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice 11. The Evolution of Economic Institutions as a Propagation Process 12. The Endogenous Public Choice Theorist 13. Multiple Equilibria, Critical Masses, and Institutional Change. The Coup d’état Problem 14. Evolution and Stability of Cooperation Without Enforceable Contracts 15. Between Appeasement and Belligerent Moralism: The Evolution of Moral Conduct in International Politics 16. Innovations, Externalities and the Problem of Economic Progress Part V: The Evolutionary Approach and the Austrian School of Economics 17. Subjectivism in Economics – A Suggested Reorientation 18. Endogenous Change – Causes and Contingencies 19. Turning Austrian Economics into an Evolutionary Theory 20. Do Entrepreneurs Need Firms? A Contribution to a Missing Chapter in Austrian Economics Index
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