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  • Military R&D after the Cold War

    Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe

    Edited by Philip Gummett, Mikhail Boutoussov, Janos Farkas, Arie Rip ...
    Series Book 6 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    Countries establish defence industries for various reasons. Chief among these are usually a concern with national security, and a desire to be as independent as possible in the supply of the armaments which they believe they need. But defence industries are different from most other industries. Their customer is governments. Their product is intended to safeguard the most vital interests of the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Postcapitalism

    A Guide to Our Future

    by Paul Mason ...
    "A fascinating set of ideas . . . Politicians of all stripes should take note. And so should the people who vote for them." — Financial TimesWe know that our world is undergoing seismic change—but how can we emerge from the crisis as a better society?Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes—economic cycles that veer from boom to bust—from which it has always ... Read more

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  • Progressive Capitalism

    How to achieve economic growth, liberty and social justice

    by David Sainsbury ...
    The neo-liberalism that dominated economic thinking since the advent of Thatcher and Reagan is now seen to have serious flaws. Progressive Capitalism seeks to replace it with a new Progressive political economy, based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries differ, and what firms have to do to achieve competitive advantage in today's global economy. The cornerstone of the political ... Read more

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  • What Would the Great Economists Do?

    How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

    by Linda Yueh ...
    A timely exploration of the life and work of twelve world-changing thinkers and how their ideas would solve the great economic problems we face today.A Newsweek "Best 50 Books of the Year (So Far)" Pick"A highly accessible and acute guide to thinking and learning from the men and woman whose work can inform and ultimately aid us in understanding the great national and global crises we're ... ... Read more

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  • Mindless

    Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans

    by Simon Head ...
    We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) -- the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Innovation

    Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology

    by Mark Zachary Taylor ...
    Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and levels of expertise a comprehensive introduction to the debates over national S&T competitiveness. It synthesizes over fifty years of theory and research on national innovation rates, bringing together the current ... Read more

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  • Public Management Reform

    A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    by Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert ...
    Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, ... Read more

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  • Business History

    Complexities and Comparisons

    by Franco Amatori, Andrea Colli ...
    This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business – from just before the industrial revolution right up to the present day.Business History is global in scope and looks at the major players – Europe, the US and Japan – as well as emerging economies, such as China and India ... Read more

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  • The Bleeding Edge

    Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World

    by Bob Hughes ...
    It’s hammered into us from birth that ‘all good things come at a price’. Today, that price looks apocalyptic, with wars, exploitation and environmental collapse in every part of the globe. Some suggest that the carnage is “a price worth paying” for technological progress. No pain, no gain.But technology is precisely the business of minimising the costs and impacts of existence… and by whole orders ... Read more

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  • The american challenge

    by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber ...
    "The signs and instruments of power are no longer armed legions or raw materials or capital... The wealth we seek does not lie in the earth or in numbers of men or in machines, but in the human spirit. And particularly in the ability of men to think and to create.' -- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber in his international bestseller, The American Challenge.The American Challenge was 50 years ahead of ... Read more

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  • Compliance Capitalism

    How Free Markets Have Led to Unfree, Overregulated Workers

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    Series series The Business, Management and Safety Effects of Neoliberalism
    In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever—and still, things can go spectacularly wrong.Much has been privatized and deregulated, ... Read more

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  • Learning From Comparative Public Policy

    A Practical Guide

    by Richard Rose ...
    This textbook offers a fresh approach to the study of comparative politics and public policy. Instead of concentrating on why countries differ, Learning From Comparative Public Policy explores how countries can learn from each other about the success and failure of policy initiatives. With its theory and practice focus, the lively narrative analyzes the cultural and resources problems involved in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD