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Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between philosophy and organization theory (OT)? This title includes the papers that explore connections between several streams in philosophy and OT. It explores the question: What does a particular philosophy contribute to OT?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction: why philosophy matters to organization theory. Analytic philosophy and organization theory: philosophical problems and scientific solutions. Pragmatism: A lived and living philosophy. What can it offer to contemporary organization theory?. MacIntyre, neo-Aristotelianism and organization theory. Marxist philosophy and organization studies: Marxist contributions to the understanding of some important organizational forms. Beyond universalism and relativism: Habermas's contribution to discourse ethics and its implications for intercultural ethics and organization theory. Hermeneutic philosophy and organizational theory. Phenomenology and organization theory. Organizing Derrida organizing: Deconstruction and organization theory. Thinking becoming and emergence: process philosophy and organization studies. Theory as therapy: Wittgensteinian reminders for reflective theorizing in organization and management theory. Triangulating philosophies of science to understand complex organizational and managerial problems. Richard Rorty, women, and the new pragmatism. Research in the sociology of organizations. Research in the sociology of organizations. Copyright page. Advisory Board.

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Book SynopsisBehind the scenes of the private world at the heart of royalty, as revealed by a distinguished royal commentator.This is the real story of what goes on inside the royal palaces, as witnessed by members of the royal staff and household past and present. Buckingham Palace is effectively an independent kingdom with its own rules and customs, now explained by Brian Hoey. Hundreds of anecdotes reveal the conditions in which the staff live and work and also their relationship with the Royals they serve.How does one get a job as personal footman to the Queen? Why does Prince Charles still have to send a note to her Page of the Backstairs requesting a meeting with his mother? How much do members of the household earn? Why does the Queen hate men in three-piece suits? Why are the Queen's bedsheets six inches longer than Prince Philip's? Why do her maids have to vacuum walking backwards? Why doesn't the Queen allow square ice-cubes to be put in her drinks?

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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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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.

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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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Book SynopsisCo-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination of activists and social scientists alike. In centering economic democracy and a collectivist-democratic logic, and in embodying a third way alternative to profit-maximizing corporations and state-owned enterprises, co-operatives offer the promise of a more sustainable and equitable economy.Despite extensive study of co-operatives'' real and imagined benefits, we know little about the conditions under which they achieve the lasting scale needed to be a viable alternative and transform the economy. Under what conditions can co-operatives achieve such scale? And are such conditions present in the United States, where, despite repeated organizing efforts, co-operatives remain exceptionally rare at scale?Through a rigorous comparative-historical analysis of co-operative enterprises in different national contexts, this book seeks to answer these questions. Deploying two different variants of the new institutionalism, Spicer treats the United States as a central case of comparative failure, as contrasted to three rich democracies where the co-operative business model has been more successful: Finland, France, and New Zealand.The cause of co-operatives'' comparative weakness in the United States is identified as reflecting the joint effect of economic liberalism and structural racism. Only in the United States did the co-operative face, in its initial development, two well-entrenched incumbents operating with competing ownership models: the investor-owned firm and the race-based chattel slavery system of ownership of people. Proponents of these two models acted to deprive the co-operative movement of resources, and undermined the solidarity at the co-operative business model''s heart, splintering the American co-operative movement in the process. In subsequent waves of co-operative organizing, advocates have never fully succeeded in overcoming these initial obstacles, resulting in a different outcome in the United States, consistent with broader conceptions of the United States as a perennial outlier (i.e., American exceptionalism). In contrast, in the successful cases, advocates were better able to leverage resources to animate a national solidarity and procure the necessary political and economic resources to achieve scale.

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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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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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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the function of informal institutions in Latin America and how they support or weaken democratic governance. This work examines how informal rules shape the performance of state and democratic institutions, offering insights into contemporary problems of governability, and unrule of law.Trade ReviewOne of the most interesting and illuminating works on Latin American politics to appear in recent years. -- Joe Foweraker Journal of Latin American Studies 2007 Rich in empirical material and in provoking theoretical questions. -- Julian Durazo Herrmann European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2007Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. The Informal Politics of Executive-Legislative Relations1. Accommodating Informal Institutions and Chilean Democracy2. How Informal Electoral Institutions Shape the Brazilian Legislative Arena3. Crafting Legislative Ghost Coalitions in Ecuador: Informal Institutions and Economic Reform in an Unlikely CasePart II. Informal Institutions and Electoral Politics4. Informal Institutions When Formal Contracting Is Prohibited: Campaign Finance in Brazil5. The Difficult Road from Caudillismo to Democracy: The Impact of Clientelism in Honduras6. Do Informal Rules Make Democracy Work? Accounting for Accountability in ArgentinaPart III. Informal Institutions and Party Politics7. The Birth and Transformation of the Dedazo in Mexico8. Election Insurance and Coalition Survival: Formal and Informal Institutions in Chile9. Informal Institutions and Party Organization in Latin AmericaPart IV. Informal Judicial Institutions and The Rule of Law10. The Rule of (Non)Law: Prosecuting Police Killings in Brazil and Argentina11. Mexico's Postelectoral Concertacasiones: The Rise and Demise of a Substitutive Informal Institution12. Dispensing Justice at the Margins of Formality: The Informal Rule of Law in Latin AmericaConclusionAfterword: On Informal institutions, Once AgainNotesReferences

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the function of informal institutions in Latin America and how they support or weaken democratic governance. This work examines how informal rules shape the performance of state and democratic institutions, offering insights into contemporary problems of governability, and unrule of law.Trade ReviewOne of the most interesting and illuminating works on Latin American politics to appear in recent years. -- Joe Foweraker Journal of Latin American Studies 2007 Rich in empirical material and in provoking theoretical questions. -- Julian Durazo Herrmann European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2007Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. The Informal Politics of Executive-Legislative Relations1. Accommodating Informal Institutions and Chilean Democracy2. How Informal Electoral Institutions Shape the Brazilian Legislative Arena3. Crafting Legislative Ghost Coalitions in Ecuador: Informal Institutions and Economic Reform in an Unlikely CasePart II. Informal Institutions and Electoral Politics4. Informal Institutions When Formal Contracting Is Prohibited: Campaign Finance in Brazil5. The Difficult Road from Caudillismo to Democracy: The Impact of Clientelism in Honduras6. Do Informal Rules Make Democracy Work? Accounting for Accountability in ArgentinaPart III. Informal Institutions and Party Politics7. The Birth and Transformation of the Dedazo in Mexico8. Election Insurance and Coalition Survival: Formal and Informal Institutions in Chile9. Informal Institutions and Party Organization in Latin AmericaPart IV. Informal Judicial Institutions and The Rule of Law10. The Rule of (Non)Law: Prosecuting Police Killings in Brazil and Argentina11. Mexico's Postelectoral Concertacasiones: The Rise and Demise of a Substitutive Informal Institution12. Dispensing Justice at the Margins of Formality: The Informal Rule of Law in Latin AmericaConclusionAfterword: On Informal institutions, Once AgainNotesReferences

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Book SynopsisOver the past three decades, Meyer, Jepperson, and colleagues have contributed to the development of one of the leading approaches in social theory, by analyzing the cultural frameworks that have shaped modern organizations, states, and identities. Bringing together key articles and new reflections, this volume collects the essential theoretical ideas of ''sociological neoinstitutionalism.'' It clarifies the core ideas and situates them within social theory writ large. Among other topics, the authors discuss the changing nature of the actors that have operated within contemporary social structure. The book concludes with the evolving frameworks that have structured social activity in the postWorld War II period of ''embedded liberalism,'' in the more recent neoliberal period, and in an emergent post-liberal period that appears to be a radical departure.Trade Review'Despite its influence, neoinstitutional theory has long been known by its parts, with organizational theorists focusing one strand and political sociologists on another. Institutional Theory, a collection of foundational and in some case little known essays and new reflective chapters by the theory's progenitor, John Meyer, and one of its most gifted expositors, Ron Jepperson, is the first volume to present institutional theory as a single coherent approach to social analysis, with compelling results. Because most work in institutional theory has been published in conventional journal-article format, using unpretentious language and familiar comfortably positivist methods, it has been easy to underestimate the extent to which it represents a fundamentally radical break with received theory, challenging and reworking such basic categories as action and agency, levels of analysis, and organization in ways that will defamiliarize and reconstitute the reader's understanding of the social world. This welcome volume will be a critically important resource for social theory for many years to come.' Paul DiMaggio, Professor of Sociology, New York University'Starting as a movement against mainstream realistic views of actorhood, neoinstitutional theory has established itself as sociology's core paradigm which tells us what makes it distinct in the family of the social and economic sciences. This collection of milestone essays demonstrates this achievement in all its depth and ramifications.' Richard Münch, Senior Professor for Theory of Society and Comparative Macrosociology, Zeppelin University'We have waited decades for a book long treatment of new institutional theory to be published. Simply put, the Jepperson-Meyer statement is a gem that was worth the wait. It presents many of the most important statements of the theory, a summary of the theory's substantial research program, and renewed theoretical analysis with a proposal for a reinvigorated empirical project.' Neil Fligstein, Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley'Jepperson and Meyer expound the hugely influential institutional approach to understanding the individual, the corporation, and nation-state as cultural projects. These institutions arose by historical happenstance to become part of a global project that has culturally aligned societies around the world. The theory is not so much an alternative to prevailing theories of politics, structures, power, and self-interest as a corrective to all contemporary theorizing. This sophisticated, witty, volume theorizes not only where modern global society came from but, importantly, where it is going.' Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University'While modern common sense takes actors for granted, social theory must also look inside and beyond the black box of actorhood. In this important book, Jepperson and Meyer show how modern individuals, organizations and states are constructed from cultural models. They delineate and carefully elaborate a compelling theoretical account that spans multiple levels of analysis and provides illuminating insights into contemporary world society and its cultural-institutional framework.' Boris Holzer, Professor of General Sociology and Macrosociology, University of KonstanzTable of ContentsCredits; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: cultural institutionalism; Part II. Institutional Theory: Its Role in Modern Social Analysis; 2. Society without culture (1988); 3. Institutions, institutional effects, and institutionalism (1991); 4. The development and application of sociological neo-institutionalism (2002); 5. Reflections on Part II: institutional theory; Part III. The Institutional Level of Analysis: 6. Multiple levels of analysis and the limitations of methodological individualisms (2011); 7. The limitations illustrated: examples from the research literature on macrosocial change (2007); 8. Reflections on Part III: levels of analysis; Part IV. Institutions of Modernity and Post-Modernity: The Construction of Actors: 9. The 'actors' of modern society: the cultural construction of social agency (2000); 10. Reflections: institutional theory and world society (2009); 11. Reflections on Part IV: the construction of actors; Part V. Conclusion: 12. Concluding reflections: evolving cultural models in global and national society.

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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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Book SynopsisDiscover how, for more than a century, the Pasteur Institute has led the world’s struggle against infectious diseases

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth explanation of the origin, workings, strengths and weaknesses of the National Council of Women's Organizations

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book SynopsisPerforming Institutions: Contested Sites and Structures of Care builds upon scholarly work rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research, (at)tending to the ways that institutions are necessarily political and performed. By evoking the idea of Performing Institutions, it foregrounds all kinds of ‘actors’ that engage with (re)imagining creative practices - social, artistic, and pedagogical - that critically interact with institutional frameworks and the broader local and global society of which these institutions are part. With case studies and critical reflections from Denmark, Ireland, Finland, the UK, Canada, the USA, Chile, Asia and Australasia contributors show how they envision or pursue performing artistic, cultural, social and educational practices as caring engagements with contested sites, addressing the following questions. How do current institutions perform – academically, spatially, custodially and structurally? How might we stay engaged with the ways that institutions are inherently contested sites, and what role do care, and counter-hegemonic practices play in rearticulating other ways of performing institutions, and how they perform on us? These are the questions central to this book as it stages a productive tension between two main themes: structures of care (instituting otherwise) and sites of contestations (desiring change). Some of the texts in this collection stage a productive tension between ideas about caring contestations and contestation as a caring engagement in practice, with a view towards institutional transformation. Other contributors investigate the idea of caring contestations as a critical concept that draws attention to questions of power and to the exclusions produced and reproduced in and through specific institutional practices. As such, this collection of writing puts forward caring contestations as a critical mode for (re)enacting institutional engagements. This also brings forward questions of agency and how, for those of us who perform within institutional structures, we care to engage and/or contest those institutional engagements. It is primarily aimed at scholars, educators, research-practitioners and postgraduate students in the fields of performance studies, theory, creation and design, those working at art institutions and art schools Also relevant to researchers working across various fields of organizational as well as educational approaches to performance culture.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Contested Sites and Structures of Care – Shauna Janssen and Anja Mølle Lindelof ACT ONE 1. Silver: Self/Site-Writing A Courthouse Drama – Jane Rendell 2. Act 01: Love. On Political Love vs. Institutional Loyalty – Sepideh Karami 3. The Thinkers: Thought–Action Figures #7 – Jon McKenzie and Aneta Stojnić ACT TWO 4. Performing Indigenization: New Institutional Imperatives Post Truth and Reconciliation – Kathleen Irwin 5. Foolish White Men: Tree-Felling and Wrestling: Performing the Institution of the White Man from an Aotearoa Perspective – Mark Harvey ACT THREE 6. Performing Aural and Temporal Architecture: Re-framing the University through The Verbatim Formula – Maggie Inchley, Paula Siqueira, Sadhvi Dar, Sylvan Baker and Mita Pujara 7. Performance Design as Education of Desire – Franziska Bork Petersen and Michael Haldrup 8. Mode D: Evental Forms of Exchange in Art Education – Glenn Loughran 9. Performative Urbanism: Mapping Embodied Vision – Christina Juhlin and Kristine Samson 10. Performance Design: Performative Gestures within Academic Institutions – Rodrigo Tisi ACT FOUR 11. Caring Buildings – Liisa Ikonen 12. Alieni nati: Journey-Performance at S. Maria della Pietà Former Psychiatric Hospital in Rome – Fabrizio Crisafulli ACT FIVE 13. From Garage to Campus: Exploring the Limits of the Museum in Contemporary Russia – Anton Belov and Katya Inozemtseva 14. Not Not Research – Henk Slager 15. LGB’s Manifest – LGB Society of Mind ACT SIX 16. Dis-establishment – Sam Trubridge 17. Reclaiming Subjectivity through Urban Space Intervention: The People’s Architecture Helsinki – Maiju Loukola 18. Public-Making as a Strategy for Spatial Justice – Kenneth Bailey and Lori Lobenstine, Design Studio for Social Intervention Notes on Contributors

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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