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  • The Economics of Creativity

    Art and Achievement under Uncertainty

    by Pierre-Michel Menger ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Amy Jacobs, Arianne Dorval, Lisette Eskinazi, Emmanuelle Saada, Joe Karaganis ...
    Creative work has been celebrated as the highest form of achievement since at least Aristotle. But our understanding of the dynamics and market for creative work--artistic work in particular--often relies on unexamined clichés about individual genius, industrial engineering of talent, and the fickleness of fashion. Pierre-Michel Menger approaches the subject with new rigor, drawing on sociology, ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

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  • Dangerously Sleepy

    Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness

    by Alan Derickson ...
    Workers in the United States are losing sleep. In the global economy a growing number of employees hold jobs—often more than one at once—with unpredictable hours. Even before the rise of the twenty-four-hour workplace, the relationship between sleep and industry was problematic: sleep is frequently cast as an enemy or a weakness, while constant productivity and flexibility are glorified at the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Death and Life of American Labor

    Toward a New Worker's Movement

    by Stanley Aronowitz ...
    The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of laborUnion membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Organizations

    Structures, Processes and Outcomes

    by Pamela S. Tolbert, Richard H. Hall ...
    Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this text forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society. ... Read more

    $160.00 USD

  • Handbook of Labor Economics

    Edited by Orley Ashenfelter, David Card ...
    Series Book 4 - Handbooks in Economics
    What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?Developments in Research Methods and their Application, Volume 4A summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, contributors cover subjects as diverse as field and laboratory experiments, program evaluation, and behavioral models. The combinations of ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • The Service-Dominant Logic of Marketing

    Dialog, Debate, and Directions

    by Robert F. Lusch, Stephen L. Vargo ...
    Expanding on the editors' award-winning article "Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing," this book presents a challenging new paradigm for the marketing discipline. This new paradigm is service-oriented, customer-oriented, relationship-focused, and knowledge-based, and places marketing, once viewed as a support function, central to overall business strategy. Service-dominant logic defines ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • MGNREGA: Employment, Wages and Migration in Rural India

    by Parmod Kumar, Dipanwita Chakraborty ...
    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted in India with the multiple objectives of providing employment in a rights-based framework, addressing rural poverty, checking migration, and building rural infrastructure. As such, every year around 15–20 per cent of households in India overall and 30 per cent in rural India receive some form of employment share under ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Work-Life Balance in Europe

    The Role of Job Quality

    Edited by S. Drobnic, A. Guillén ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Examining the debate on quality of jobs in Europe, this book focuses on the work-life balance-a central element of the EU agenda. It addresses tensions between work and private life, examining job quality, job security, working conditions and time-use patterns of individuals and households as well as institutional contexts. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • People with Disabilities

    Sidelined or Mainstreamed?

    by Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, Peter Blanck ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    To what extent are people with disabilities fully included in economic, political and social life? People with disabilities have faced a long history of exclusion, stigma and discrimination, but have made impressive gains in the past several decades. These gains include the passage of major civil rights legislation and the adoption of the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • From a Market Economy to a Finance Economy

    The Most Dangerous American Journey

    by A. Samli ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In this gripping book, Dr. Samli makes the case that the US economy is shifting for the worse, tilting towards a finance-driven economy, and argues that investing in innovation will bring us out of the recession and back to a successful, market-driven economy. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Management of Changes in Socio-Economic Systems

    Edited by Dmitry A. Endovitsky, Elena G. Popkova ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book addresses changes in socio-economic systems. To do so, it employs the evolutional approach, which views changes in socio-economic systems from an evolutionary standpoint connecting the past, present and future, and focuses on preventing sudden, high-risk changes. The changes in socio-economic systems are also studied with the help of the system approach, which calls for assessing complex ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Iranian Entrepreneurship

    Deciphering the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Iran and in the Iranian Diaspora

    Edited by Shahamak Rezaei, Leo-Paul Dana, Veland Ramadani ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in Iran, and among the Iranian Diaspora. The major contributions in this book address topics such as innovation, female entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, migrant entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, institutional support of entrepreneurial initiatives and more. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD