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This volume explores fundamental macroeconomic and financial issues of today from fresh perspectives. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners in the fields, it analyzes the light that the recent crisis has shed on the global macro economy, sectoral structure and financial architecture, and proposes policies needed to address systemic financial risks and foster a sustainable growth. It also explores the measurement of economic and social progress in our societies, and proposes new frameworks to integrate economic dimensions with other aspects of human wellbeing. This volume provides valuable suggestions for how to foster robust recovery from the crisis, and how to prevent its recurrence.

Organisations and institutions of higher education are more and more challenged by current economic, social and political conditions to react competitively and innovatively on new requirements, such as demographic change, globalisation or skilled labour shortage. In addition, universities and companies alike, have to compete for the most qualified staff. In order to produce more innovative solutions and to perform better, it is essential to integrate gender and diversity perspectives as important elements of organisational and human resources development. This anthology presents different theoretical and practical approaches, best practice examples and important aspects of gender and diversity management in organisations.

Running Regressions introduces first-year social science undergraduates, particularly those studying economics and business, to the practical aspects of simple regression analysis, without adopting an esoteric, mathematical approach. It shows that statistical analysis can be simultaneously straightforward, useful and interesting, and can deal with topical, real-world issues. Each chapter introduces an economic theory or idea by relating it to an issue of topical interest, and explains how data and econometric analysis can be used to test it. The book can be used as a self-standing text or to supplement conventional econometric texts. It is also ideally suited as a guide to essays and project work

Law touches every aspect of our daily lives, and yet the main concepts, terms, and processes of the legal system remain obscure to many. This Very Short Introduction provides a clear, jargon-free account of modern legal systems, explaining how the law works both in the Western tradition and around the world. - ;Law underlies our society - it protects our rights, imposes duties on each of us, and establishes a framework for the conduct of almost every social, political, and economic activity. The punishment of crime, compensation of the injured, and the enforcement of contracts are merely some

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition -- Preface -- Exploring Ethnic Identity -- Introduction -- Identity: some preliminary soundings -- 'Tribalism' on the Copperbelt -- Tribal associations -- 'Tribe', 'class', and 'situation' -- Urban-dwellers and tribal chiefs -- Ethnic identity and social change in Melanesia -- The crisis of Tolai identity -- Aspects of Jewish identity in the United States -- The second generation in Yankee City -- From gilded ghetto to the suburbs -- A "non-Jewish" Jew? -- Ethnicity and identity -- 2. Military Ethos and Ethnic Ranking on the Copperbelt -- 3. Identification with the Grandparents and Ethnic Identity -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index

This comprehensive collection of essays provides a full account of the complexities of sex and gender as they relate to HIV/AIDS, in Ghana specifically and in Africa more generally. They offer perspectives from various disciplines and fields of study including anthropology, demography, history, literature, public health and sociology. The contributions stress the urgency of the pandemic and its threat to the existence of the African State. They further illustrate how aspects such as gender roles, social transformation, poverty, mobility, communication, changing cultural norms, cultural anxieties and exploitation are all interwoven in this multifaceted disease, and its various ramifications.

"A lot of people are starting to use the Internet to reconnect themselves to their neighborhood, their community, and the world. The Power of Many is a great survey of the way this is really being accomplished by many individuals working together."-Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.org "What a fascinating topic. If you're interested in the future, the past, or the present, then you should read this book."-Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder of Meetup.com and Fotolog.net The development of social networks on the Web touches countless aspects of our everyday lives. With instant access to people of si

The author tries to assess how arms control and disarmament are both affected by and contribute to wider conditions of international peace and security. He begins with a general assessment of arms control and disarmament with a historical analysis on arms control and disarmament proposals culminating into the roles of superpowers, UN and Africa with specific reference to its adverse effect to social and economic impact to Africa. The second part looks into the sub-regional aspects of arms control and disarmament with recognition to the civil society and the NGOs. The final part briefly touches the issue of international terrorism. (GIGA-Sbd)

Society, State, and Public Finance: Setting the Analytical Stage -- Welfare Economics and Public Finance -- Fiscal Contitutionalism -- Growth in the Real Size of Government Since 1970 -- Rules, Politics and the Normative Analysis of Taxation -- Taxation, Production, and Redistribution -- Public Revenue from Land Rent -- Debt, Money, and Public Finance -- Regulation by Taxation -- Taxation, Black Markets, and Other Unintended Consequences -- Public Enterprise: Retrospective Review and Prospective Theory -- Privatization, Nationalization, and Aspects of Transition -- Social Insurance -- Redistribution, Poor Relief, and the Welfare State -- Economic Analysis and Efficiency in Public Expenditure -- Local Public Finance -- Federalism and Subsidiarity in National and International Contexts -- Fiscal Sociology: What For?

This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy, Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought. She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyses his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistemological, psychological, historical and sociological thought interconnect to form a utopian image. The book will be eagerly sought out by students and specialists in philosophy, social and political theory, intellectual history, literary theory and cultural studies

"This new Seminar Study presents a full, succinct and balanced overview of the policies and impact of the Thatcher Governments from 1979 to 1990. Within a chronological framework, the authors analyse the many controversial episodes and aspects of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, including the Falklands War; the miners' strike; Britain's relationship with the USA and the stationing of missiles at Greenham Common; the bitter relationship with Europe and the ill-fated poll tax. In addition, there is a chapter discussing the impact that her policies had on Britain's social and economic landscape and on the British people at large."--Jacket

This book employs a Marxist framework to analyse aspects of Ghanaian politics during the 1966-81 period. Its central claim is that the present Ghanaian social formation which is dominated by foreign capital through the domestic bourgeois and petit-bourgeois classes is incapable of transforming itself into an independent autonomous system. Hence, it is characterised by recurring political and economic crises. Industrial strikes and other forms of struggle by the lower classes are responses to the deprivations which they suffer as a result of these crises, and constitute attempts to reject the rule of the country's ruling classes. (DÜI-Hff)

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- 1 Einleitung -- Einführung -- 1.1 Hintergrund -- 1.2 Aufbau -- 2 Theorie und Begriffe -- Einführung -- 2.1 Zur Sozialität der Sprache -- 2.2 Interaktion -- 2.3 Situation -- 2.4 Praktiken -- 2.5 Medien -- 2.6 Zusammenfassung -- 3 Twitter -- Einführung -- 3.1 Sehfläche -- 3.2 Das Posting -- 3.3 Operatoren -- 3.4 Zusammenfassung -- 4 Forschungsüberblick, Methodologie und Methode -- 4.1 Forschungsüberblick -- 4.2 Methodologie -- 4.3 Methode -- 5 Analyse -- 5.1 Daten & Korpus -- 5.2 Der Fall Magdeburg -- 5.3 Der Fall Dresden -- 6 Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse -- Einführung -- 6.1 Protestkommunikation: situativ, medial, interaktiv -- 6.2 Protestphasen und grundlegende Protestpraktiken -- 6.3 Spezifische Protestpraktiken -- 6.4 Resümee -- 7 Schlussbemerkungen -- 8 Literatur -- 9 Transkriptionskonventionen

Words matter, especially in times of crisis. This article analyses the complexities of political discourse on vulnerability by considering the case of the Dutch COVID-19 response. Our study finds that the framing of vulnerability as a predetermined and naturalised condition, linked to old age and pre-existing medical conditions, draws attention away from aspects of precarisation tied to economic position, social class, cultural background and living conditions. This rhetorical strategy can be understood as a practice of de-responsibilisation through which attention is rhetorically diverted from the way(s) in which political authorities are implicated in producing, exacerbating or failing to mitigate vulnerabilities.

Cognitive warfare is a new phenomenon that differs from any forms of action previously used in the information space aiming to affect the thinking of target groups. The main difference consists in the targeted and sophisticated use of scientific knowledge from neuroscience, with special attention on consciousness and perception of reality. This deeper understanding of how the human mind works has impacted distributed narratives and the choice of the most suitable technological platforms for their distribution to the target audience. This article presents a conceptual classification of cognitive warfare and defines its three core segments: neuroscience, technology and aspects of social science.