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  • Pensions at Work

    Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds

    by Jack Quarter, Isla Carmichael, Sherida Ryan ...
    Pension funds have come to play an increasingly important role within the new economy. According to Statistics Canada, in 2006, trusteed pension funds in Canada had $836 billion of assets and represented the savings of 4.6 million Canadian workers. Pensions at Work is a unique collection of papers that uses a labour perspective to deal with the socially responsible investment of pension funds. ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

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  • Policy Analysis

    Concepts and Practice

    by David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining ...
    Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through ... Read more

    $150.00 USD

  • The Tools of Government

    A Guide to the New Governance

    Edited by Lester M. Salamon ...
    The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Safety Net

    The Future of Welfare in Australia

    by Daniel Mulino ...
    The welfare state is one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century, giving citizens access to healthcare, pensions, disability and unemployment benefits. This unprecedented expansion of the state was a product of the postwar period of the late 1940s, when governments ramped up investment in this grand safety net. By the 1970s, half of all government spending went towards social-welfare ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hard Choices

    Financial Exclusion, Fringe Banks and Poverty in Urban Canada

    by Jerry Buckland ...
    When low-income city dwellers lack access to mainstream banking services, many end up turning to ‘fringe banks,’ such as cheque-cashers and pawnshops, for some or all of their financial transactions. This predicament of ‘financial exclusion’ – faced by those underserved by conventional financial institutions – is comprehensively examined in Jerry Buckland's powerful study, Hard Choices.The first ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Finance Ethics

    Critical Issues in Theory and Practice

    by John R. Boatright ...
    Series Book 11 - Robert W. Kolb Series
    A groundbreaking exploration of the critical ethical issues in financial theory and practiceCompiled by volume editor John Boatright, Finance Ethics consists of contributions from scholars from many different finance disciplines.It covers key issues in financial markets, financial services, financial management, and finance theory, and includes chapters on market regulation, due diligence, ... Read more

    $63.00 USD

  • The Handbook of International Corporate Governance: A Definitive Guide

    by Institute of Directors ...
    New legislation concerning corporate governance - notably the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US, and the UK's Companies Act - means new duties and benchmarks for directors and senior managers, particularly those with cross-jurisdictional responsibilities.  With commentary from the World Bank, BP, 3i, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Watson Wyatt, The Handbook of International Corporate Governance looks at ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Comparative Corporate Governance

    Legal Perspectives

    by Veronique Magnier ...
    Comparative Corporate Governance considers the impact of globalization on corporate governance issues and highlights how, despite the effect it has clearly had, predictions of legal convergence have not come true. By adopting a comparative legal approach, this book explores the tensions that exist between convergence attempts and the persistence of local models of governance in the US, Europe and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Comparative Competition Law and Economics

    by Roger J. Van den Bergh ...
    Offering a concise and critical comparison of EU competition law and US antitrust law from an economic perspective, this is the ideal textbook for international and interdisciplinary courses combining law and economic approaches.The book provides thorough coverage including the definition of market power, the use of horizontal and vertical restrictions, mergers and the unilateral conduct of ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Public Financial Management and Its Emerging Architecture

    by M. Mr. Cangiano, Teresa Ms. Curristine, Michel Mr. Lazare ...
    The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed an influx of innovations and reforms in public financial management. The current wave of reforms is markedly different from those in the past, owing to the sheer number of innovations, their widespread adoption, and the sense that they add up to a fundamental change in the way governments manage public money. This book takes stock of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance

    Edited by Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey, Igor Filatotchev ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has been the subject of extensive media and policy scrutiny in light of the financial crisis of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Employment in the Lean Years:Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Edited by David Marsden ...
    Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'. However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and key labour market policy makers ensure the labour market ... Read more

    $35.09 USD