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Forrest Capie is Professor of Economic History at Cass Business School, City University, London, where he was Head of the Department of Banking and Finance. After receiving a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics, he taught at the universities of Warwick and Leeds. Professor Capie has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille and at the London School of Economics and a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was editor of the Economic History Review and served on the editorial boards of other journals in the discipline. He is on the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Professor Capie has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 20 books and has written more than 100 journal articles for journals such as the Economic Journal, Economica, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Economic History Review, European Economic History, and British History.

Dr Harold Shipman told his unsuspecting patients he was conducting blood tests as he injected them with a massive dose of heroin; they were dead within minutes. Before his trial, many assumed he was an over-zealous GP who went too far in providing comfort to dying patients. In the end, he was found guilty of deliberately and coldly murdering 218 of his patients. But although Britain's worst serial killer, he is far from alone. Doctors have power over both life and death, and this shocking and grisly book reveals terrifying cases of those who exploit this to meet their twisted pathological needs, including: Dr Harry Bailey, a psychiatrist who dispatched more than 20 patients using Deep Sleep Therapy Dr Radovan Karadizic, the psychiatrist who led the genocide during the Bosnian War Dr William Palmer, who poisoned his victims for insurance money Kaplan analyses the chilling paradox of why these trusted practitioners spent years learning how to preserve life, only to turn their focus on how to end it.

A careful basic theoretical and econometric analysis of the factors determining the real exchange rates of Canada, the U.K., Japan, France and Germany with respect to the United States is conducted. The resulting conclusion is that real exchange rates are almost entirely determined by real factors relating to growth and technology such as oil and commodity prices, international allocations of world investment across countries, and underlying terms of trade changes. Unanticipated money supply shocks, calculated in five alternative ways have virtually no effects. A Blanchard-Quah VAR analysis also indicates that the effects of real shocks predominate over monetary shocks by a wide margin. The implications of these facts for the conduct of monetary policy in countries outside the U.S. are then explored leading to the conclusion that all countries, to avoid exchange rate overshooting, have tended to automatically follow the same monetary policy as the United States. The history of world monetary policy is reviewed along with the determination of real exchange rates within the Euro Area.

A monograph that offers a critical analysis of developments in the field of transnational organised crime under international law. It traces the history of organised crime and explores key concepts and norms relating to the practice from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It looks at legal obligations imposed upon States, There is extensive and detailed academic literature on the legal development of international crimes such as war crimes and crime against humanity. However, not much attention has been paid to other serious crimes, including narcotics-related offences, human trafficking and money laundering, which do not necessarily amount to international crimes in the traditional sense. The purpose of this monograph is to fill this gap and offer a critical analysis of developments in the field of transnational organised crime under international law. The book is divided into two parts. Part I is entitled 'Norms, Principles, and Concepts'. It traces the history of organised crime and explores key concepts and norms relating to the practice from a multi-disciplinary perspective...

Ethics and the youth worker / Sarah Banks -- Working in welfare : youth policy's contradictions and dilemmas / Phil Mizen -- Ethics, collaboration, and the organisational context of youth work / Kenneth McCulloch and Lyn Tett -- Resourcing youth work : dirty hands and tainted money / Tony Jeffs and Mark K Smith -- Youth workers as professionals : managing dual relationships and maintaining boundaries / Howard Sercombe -- Youth workers as moral philosophers : developing right thinking and mindfulness / Kerry Young -- Youth workers as controllers : issues of method and purpose / Tony Jeffs and Sarah Banks -- Youth workers as converters : ethical issues in faith-based youth work / Maxine Green -- Youth workers as critical interpreters and mediators : ethical issues in working with black young people / Umme F. Imam and Rick Bowler -- Youth workers as confidants : issues of welfare and trust / Sue Morgan and Sarah Banks -- Youth workers as researchers: ethical issues in practitioner and participatory research / Janet Batsleer -- Young people as activists : ethical issues in promoting and supporting active citizenship / Jason Wood

"A non-technical guide to The Raiser's Edge-the most widely-used fundraising database package on the market-for the fundraising professional. The first-ever guide to The Raiser's Edge database package for the fundraising professional, Fundraising with The Raiser's Edge: A Non-Technical Guide educates your nonprofit about what The Raiser's Edge can do for you and will help you more effectively work with the staff who are responsible for data entry and output. Helps your organization get much greater return on The Raiser's Edge, and use it to raise more money more effectively and with less stress ; Contains specific and clear direction on the key areas you should know without technical discussion ; Includes numerous checklists to give you practical takeaways. Providing you with the non-technical details you need to know to recruit, manage and retain quality database personnel, Fundraising with The Raiser's Edge: A Non-Technical Guide will help you in your day-to-day fundraising work without needing to become a database expert"--Provided by publisher.

"The bond markets are a vital part of the world economy. The fourth edition of Professor Moorad Choudhry's benchmark reference text An Introduction to Bond Markets brings readers up to date with latest developments and market practice, including the impact of the financial crisis and issues of relevance for investors. This book offers a detailed yet accessible look at bond instruments, and is aimed specifically at newcomers to the market or those unfamiliar with modern fixed income products. The author capitalises on his wealth of experience in the fixed income markets to present this concise yet in-depth coverage of bonds and associated derivatives. Topics covered include: Bond pricing and yield Duration and convexity Eurobonds and convertible bonds Structured finance securities Interest-rate derivatives Credit derivatives Relative value trading. Related topics such as the money markets and principles of risk management are also introduced as necessary background for students and practitioners. The book is essential reading for all those who require an introduction to the financial markets"--

Introduction: The Point Is To Change It: Noel Castree [and others] -- Now and Then / Michael J. Watts -- The Idea of Socialism: From 1968 to the Present-day Crisis / Hugo Radice -- The Revolutionary Imperative / Neil Smith -- To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations / Tania Murray Li -- Postneoliberalism and Its Malcontents / Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner -- D/developments after the Meltdown / Gillian Hart -- Is the Globalization Consensus Dead? / Robert Wade -- The Uses of Neoliberalism / James Ferguson -- Crisis, Continuity and Change: Neoliberalism, the Left and the Future of Capitalism / Noel Castree -- Money Games: Currencies and Power in the Contemporary World Economy / John Agnew -- Pre-Black Futures / Katharyne Mitchell -- The Shape of Capitalism to Come / Paul Cammack -- Who Counts? Dilemmas of Justice in a Postwestphalian World / Nancy Fraser -- The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms: Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies for the 21st Century / Erik Swyngedouw -- An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene / J.K. Gibson-Graham and Gerda Roelvink

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Austrian economics and the political economy of freedom -- chapter 2 Ludwig von Mises: Political economist of liberty -- chapter 3 Ludwig von Mises and the Vienna of his time -- chapter 4 Austria- Hungary's economic policies in the twilight of the "liberal" era: Ludwig von Mises' writings on monetary and fiscal policy before World War I -- chapter 5 The economist as the historian of decline: Ludwig von Mises and Austria between the two World Wars -- chapter 6 Planning for freedom: Ludwig von Mises as political economist and policy analyst -- chapter 7 The Austrian economists and the Keynesian revolution: The Great Depression and the economics of the short run -- chapter 8 Two variations on the Austrian monetary theme: Ludwig von Mises and Joseph A. Schumpeter on the business cycle -- chapter 9 Money, economic fluctuations, expectations and period analysis: The Austrian and Swedish economists in the interwar period -- chapter 10 Human action, ideal types, and the market process: Alfred Schutz and the Austrian economists.

A brief introduction to media choice / Tilo Hartmann -- Social cognitive theories of media selection / Robert LaRose -- Action theory, theory of planned behavior and media choice / Tilo Hartmann -- Money does matter / Helmut Scherer & Teresa K. Naab -- The effect of subjective quality assessments on media selection / Jens Wolling -- Fast and frugal media choices / Julian N. Marewski, Mirta Galesic, & Gerd Gigerenzer -- Cognitive dissonance theory : a roller coaster career / Wolfgang Donsbach -- Informational utility as determinant of media choices / Matthias R. Hastall -- Affect as a predictor of entertainment choice : the utility of looking beyond pleasure / Mary Beth Oliver -- Media choice as avoidance behavior: avoidance motivations during television use / Andreas Fahr & Tabea Böcking -- Media choice on a micro level : on-line selective strategies in watching television / Helena Bilandzic -- The role of structure in media choice / James G. Webster -- Media choice despite of multitasking? / Cees M. Koolstra, Ute Ritterfeld & Peter Vorderer -- Media synchronicity and media choice : choosing media for performance / Alan R. Dennis, Robert M. Fuller, & Joseph S. Valacich -- Media adoption and diffusion / Thilo von Pape

In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the country is trying to introduce additional renewable energy sources (RES) but still has to overcome a series of hurdles in order to deploy them. Unlike other developing countries, oil countries such as Venezuela do not lack financial means and sometimes show a tendency to solve problems by using money when other approaches could be more helpful. The main goal of this qualitative, comparative policy analysis is to find out whether the availability of oil revenues restraints or favors the adoption of RES. Based on the rentier state theory, Germán Massabié examines the reasons why Petro states try to dispose of their natural wealth to take advantage of non-conventional energy sources. He analyses and interprets primary and secondary data collected in Germany and in Venezuela and draws on interviews with Venezuelan experts, policy makers, and key actors. The study allows a look beyond laws, development programs, and official statements.

Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World Bank, developing countries have experienced lower growth and rising inequality compared to previous periods. In Beyond the World Bank Agenda, Howard Stein argues that the controversial institution is plagued by a myopic, neoclassical mindset that wrongly focuses on individual rationality and downplays the social and political contexts that can either facilitate or impede development. Drawing on the examples of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and transitional European economies, this revolutionary volume proposes an alternative vision of institutional development with chapter-length applications to finance, state formation, and health care to provide a holistic, contextualized solution to the problems of developing nations. Beyond the World Bank Agenda will be essential reading for anyone concerned with forging a new strategy for sustainable development.

Fijicoup.com --The Sun Set at Noon Today --An Historic View of Fiji --Refections on the Civilian Coup in Fiji --An Analysis of the Current Political Crisis in Fiji --Constitutional Order in Multi-Ethnic Societies --Thoughts on Fiji's Third Coup D'Etat --On Being Fijian --Outcasts of the Pacific --Race, Speight and the Crisis in Fiji --Peace in Fiji --On Reconciliation --Two Countries Called Fiji --Living in Unusual Times --Who Will Pick up the Pieces? --Fiji Villagers' Bus Trip to Freedom --Guns and Money --Conversations at Mahendra Chaudhry's Home --Fiji's New Western Confederacy --The 'Ghostly Smell' of Indian Coolies too Strong for Speight --The Race Bandwagon --The Strange Saga of Speight's Siege in Suva --Chaudhry's Last Public Address before He Was Made Hostage --Confidential Draft and Statement of 22 May 2000 --Statement to the Commonwealth by the Fiji People's Coalition Government --Statement to the Members of the Commonwealth Ministerial Group --Statement of the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma on the Armed Seizure of Government --A Public Statement by the President of the Methodist Church in Fiji --Coup Timeline 1987-2001.

Between 1550 and 1800 the Northern Netherlands went through a period of intense economic development. This did not leave the surrounding regions untouched. International trade blossomed, tens of thousands of foreign workers found employment in the Netherlands and many millions of guilders were channelled abroad to finance foreign commercial undertakings and government policies. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the international impact of Dutch economic development and investigates the economic consequences of Dutch dominance in the areas bordering the North Sea. By using a wide variety of sources and literature Christiaan van Bochove describes the international flows of goods, people and money, focussing attention on the effects on the prices of everyday goods, the wages of labourers and interest rates. This book shows how, by the end of the eighteenth century, the development of the Dutch economy had turned the North Sea region into an integrated spatial economy that operated at the frontier of what was technologically and institutionally possible.

Introduction-- F. Contini and G. Francesco Lanzara PART I: PERSPECTIVES: ICT, INSTITUTIONS AND E-GOVERNMENT Building Digital Institutions: ICT and the Rise of Assemblages in Government-- G. Francesco Lanzara How Institutions are Inscribed in Technical Objects and what it may mean in the case of the Internet-- B. Czarniawska The Regulative Regime of Technology-- J. Kallinikos ICT, Marketization and Bureaucracy in the UK Public Sector: Critique and Reappraisal-- A. Cordella and L. Willcocks PART II: EXPERIENCES: ICT, INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXITY, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-SERVICES E-justice in Finland and in Italy: Enabling Versus Constraining Models-- M. Fabri Aligning ICT and Legal Frameworks in Austria's e-bureaucracy: From Mainframe to the Internet-- S. Koch and E. Bernroider Institutional Complexity and Functional Simplification: The Case of Money Claim Online Service in England and Wales-- J. Kallinikos Assemblage-in-the-making: Developing the e-services for the Justice of the Peace Office in Italy-- M. Velicogna and F. Contini ICT, Assemblages and Institutional Contexts: Understanding Multiple Development Paths-- F. Contini