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VOLUME I -- Foreword -- PART ONE -- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Reports on The Merits -- Composition of the Commission -- 1. Report No. 5/09 Josefina Ghiringhelli de Margaroli and Eolo Margaroli (Argentina) Case 11.400 -- 2. Report No. 83/09 Horacio Aníbal Schillizzi Moreno (Argentina) Case 11.732 -- 3. Report No. 25/09 Sebastião Camargo Filho (Brazil) Case 12.310 -- 4. Report No. 26/09 Wallace de Almeida (Brazil) Case 12.440 -- 5. Report No. 110/09 Ricardo Israel Zipper (Chile) Case 12.470 -- 6. Report No. 84/09 Nelson Iván Serrano Sáenz (Ecuador) Case 12.525 -- 7. Report No. 27/09 Jorge Odir Miranda Cortez et al. (El Salvador) Case 12.249 -- 8. Report No. 90/09 Medellín, Ramírez Cárdenas, and Leal García (United States) Case 12.644 -- 9. Report No. 117/09 Alfonso Martin del Campo Dodd (Mexico) Case 12.228 -- 10. Report No. 85/09 Víctor Hugo Maciel (Paraguay) Case 11.607 -- 11. Report No. 38/09 National Association of Ex-Employees of the Peruvian Social Institute et al. (Peru) Case 12.670 -- 12. Report No. 28/09 Dexter Lendore (Trinidad and Tobago) Case 12.269 -- 13. Report No. 86/09 Jorge, José, and Dante Peirano Basso (Uruguay) Case 12.553 -- PART TWO -- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Decisions and Judgments -- Composition of the Court -- 1. Case of Tristán-Donoso v. Panama. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of January 27, 2009 -- 2. Case of Ríos et al. v. Venezuela. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of January 28, 2009 -- VOLUME II -- 3. Case of Perozo et al. v. Venezuela. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of January 28, 2009 -- 4. Case of Kawas-Fernández v. Honduras. Merits, Reparations and Costs Judgment of April 3, 2009 -- 5. Case of Reverón-Trujillo v. Venezuela. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of June 30, 2009 -- 6. Case of Acevedo Buendía et al. ("Discharged and Retired Employees of the Office of the Comptroller") v. Peru. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of July 1, 2009 -- 7. Case of Ticona-Estrada et al. v. Bolivia. Interpretation of the Judgment of Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of July 1, 2009 -- 8. Case of Escher et al. v. Brazil. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of July 6, 2009 -- 9. Case of Valle-Jaramillo et al. v. Colombia. Interpretation of the Judgment of Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of July 7, 2009 -- 10. Case of Anzualdo-Castro v. Peru. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of September 22, 2009 -- 11. Case of Garibaldi v. Brazil. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of September 23, 2009 -- VOLUME III -- 12. Case of Dacosta-Cadogan v. Barbados. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of September 24, 2009 -- 13. Case of González et al. ("Cotton Field") v. Mexico Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs Judgment of November 16, 2009 -- 14. Case of Barreto-Leiva v. Venezuela. Merits, Reparations and Costs Judgment of November 17, 2009 -- 15. Case of Usón Ramírez v. Venezuela. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of November 20, 2009 -- 16. Case of Escher et al. v. Brazil. Interpretation of the Judgment of Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs Judgment of November 20, 2009 -- 17. Case of Radilla-Pacheco v. Mexico. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of November 23, 2009 -- 18. Case of Acevedo-Buendía et al. ("Discharged and Retired Employees of the Office of the Comptroller") v. Peru. Interpretation of the Judgment of Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs Judgment of November 24, 2009 -- 19. Case of the "Las Dos Erres" Massacre v. Guatemala. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs Judgment of November 24, 2009.

1 Introduction.- 2 Ethical decision-making: a review of the empirical literature; Robert C Ford and Woodrow D Richardson.- 3 Toward the development of a multidimensional scale for improving evaluations of business ethics; R Eric Reidenbach and Donald P Robin -- 4 Corporate social responsibility theories: mapping the territory; Elisabet Garriga and Domenec N Mele -- 5 A behavioral model of ethical and unethical decision-making; Michael Bommer, Clarence Gratto, Jerry Gravander and Mark Tuttle -- 6 The effects of culture on ethical decision-making: an application of Hofstedes typology; Scott J Vitell, Saviour L Nwachukwu and James H Barnes -- 7 Moral reasoning and business ethics: implications for research, education and management; Linda Klebe Trevino -- 8 Organizational dissidence: the case of whistle-blowing; Janet P Near and Marcia P Miceli -- 9 The social desirability response bias in ethics research; Donna M Randall and Maria F Fernandes -- 10 Methodology in business ethics research: a review and critical assessment; Donna M Randall and Annetta M Gibson -- 11 A review of the empirical decision-making literature: 1996-2003; Michael J O'Fallon and Kenneth D Butterfield -- 12 Judging the morality of business practices: the influence of personal moral philosophies; Donelson R Forsyth -- 13 A review of empirical studies assessing ethical decision-making in business; Terry W Loe, Linda Ferrell and Phylis Mansfield -- 14 A study of the effect of age and gender upon student business ethics; Durwood Ruegger and Earnest W King -- 15 Some initial steps toward improving the measurement of ethical evaluations of marketing activities; R Eric Reidenbach and Donald P Robin -- 16 Differences in ethical perceptions between male and female managers: myth or reality; Jeaneen M Kidwell, Robert E Stevens and Art L Bethke -- 17 Business ethics: a literature review with a focus on marketing ethics; John Tasalikis and David J Fritzsche -- 18 An integrative model for understanding and managing ethical behavior in business organizations; W Edward Stead, Dan L Worrell and Jean Garner Stead -- 19 Concerns of college students regarding business ethics, Richard F Beltramini; Robert A Peterson and George Kozmetsky -- 20 Gender differences in proclivity for unethical behavior; Michael Betz, Lenahan O'Connell and Jon M Shepard -- 21 Predicting unethical behavior: a comparison of the theory of reasoned action and the theory of planned behavior; Man Kit Chang -- 22 Consumer ethics: an investigation of the ethical beliefs of elderly consumers; Scott J Vitell, James R Lumpkin and Mohammed YA Rawwas -- 23 The role of moral intensity in moral judgments: an empirical investigation, Sara A Morris and Robert A Mcdonald -- 24 Will the ethics of business change: a survey of future executives; Thomas M Jones and Frederick H Gautschi -- 25 Situational ethics: an empirical study of differentiators of student attitudes; Charles W McNichols and Thomas W Zimmerer -- 26 The relationship between corporate social performance and organizational size, financial performance and environmental performance; Peter A Stanwick and Sarah A Stanwick -- 27 Business codes of multinational firms: what do they say?; Muel Kaptein -- 28 Consumer ethics: an empirical investigation of factors influencing ethical judgments of the final consumer; Scott J Vitell and James Muncy -- 29 The morality of software piracy: a cross-cultural analysis; William R Swinyard, Heikki Rinne and Au Keng Kau -- 30 The association between corporate social responsibility and financial performance: the paradox of social cost; Moses L Pava and Joshua Krausz -- 31 Corporate ethics practices in the mid-1990's: an empirical study of the Fortune 1000; Gary R Weaver, Linda Klebe Trevino and Philip L Cochran -- 32 Concepts and definitions of CSR and corporate sustainability: between agency and communion; Marcel van Marrewijk -- 33 An experimental examination of the effects of individual and situational factors on unethical behavioral intentions in the workplace; Gwen E Jones and Michael J Kavanagh -- 34 Pinto fires and personal ethics: a script analysis of missed opportunities; Dennis A Gioia.-35 Invited reflections on the Journal of Business Ethics -- Index

1. Agency / Edward J. McKenna and Diane C. Zannoni -- 2. Australia / J.E. King -- 3. Austrian school of economics / Stephen D. Parsons -- 4. Babylonian mode of thought / Sheila C. Dow -- 5. Balance-of-payments-constrained economic growth / John S.L. McCombie -- 6. Banking / Gillian Hewitson -- 7. Bastard Keynesianism / John Lodewijks -- 8. Behavioural economics / Therese Jefferson and J.E. King -- 9. Brazil / Luiz Fernando de Paula and Fernando Ferrari-Filho -- 10. Bretton Woods / Matías Vernengo -- 11. Budget deficits / Joëlle Leclaire -- 12. Business cycles / Peter Skott -- 13. Cambridge economic tradition / G.C. Harcourt -- 14. Capital theory / Ben Fine -- 15. Central banks / Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho -- 16. Chartalism / Sergio Rossi -- 17. Choice under uncertainty / Victoria Chick and Sheila C. Dow -- 18. Circuit theory / Riccardo Realfonzo -- 19. Competition / Nina Shapiro -- 20. Consumer debt / Robert H. Scott, III -- 21. Consumer theory / Marc Lavoie -- 22. Consumption / David Bunting -- 23. Conventions / David Dequech -- 24. Credit rationing / Martin H. Wolfson -- 25. Critical realism / Andrew Brown -- 26. Development finance / Rogério Studart -- 27. Econometrics / Paul Downward -- 28. Economic development / Stephanie Blankenburg and Gabriel Palma -- 29. Economic policy / Malcolm Sawyer -- 30. Effective demand / Mark Setterfield -- 31. Efficient markets hypothesis / Mark Hayes -- 32. Employer of last resort / Pavlina R. Tcherneva -- 33. Employment / Engelbert Stockhammer -- 34. Environmental economics / Adrian Winnett -- 35. Environmental policy / Neil Perry -- 36. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium / Donald W. Katzner -- 37. Exchange rates / John T. Harvey -- 38. Expectations / Éric Tymoigne -- 39. Export-led growth / Arslan Razmi -- 40. Financial instability hypothesis / Louis-Philippe Rochon -- 41. Financial markets / Jörg Bibow -- 42. Financial reform / Aldo Barba -- 43. Financialization / Till Van Treeck -- 44. Fiscal policy / J.W. Nevile -- 45. Full employment / William Mitchell and Martin Watts -- 46. Fundamentalist Keynesians / Bill Gerrard -- 47. Galbraith's economics / Stephen P. Dunn -- 48. Gender / Colin Danby -- 49. Germany and Austria / Torsten Niechoj -- 50. Global financial crisis / Stephanie Blankenburg -- 51. Growth and income distribution / Carlo Panico -- 52. Growth theory / Steve Keen -- 53. Households / Zdravka Todorova -- 54. Income distribution / Thomas I. Palley -- 55. Inflation / John Smithin -- 56. Innovation / Jerry Courvisanos -- 57. Institutionalism / Steven Pressman -- 58. International economics / Robert A. Blecker -- 59. International financial reform / Leanne Ussher -- 60. Investment / Tracy Mott -- 61. Italy / Andrea Pacella and Guido Tortorella Esposito -- 62. Japan / Toichiro Asada -- 63. Joan Robinson's economics / Maria Cristina Marcuzzo -- 64. Journal of post Keynesian economics / Phillip Anthony O'Hara -- 65. Kaldorian economics / A.P. Thirlwall -- 66. Kaleckian economics / Jan Toporowski -- 67. Keynes's general theory / Paul Davidson -- 68. Keynes's treatise on money / Giuseppe Fontana -- 69. Keynes's treatise on probability / Rod O'Donnell -- 70. Latin American structuralism / Gerardo Fujii -- 71. Liquidity preference / Stephanie Kelton (née Bell) -- 72. Macroeconomic methodology / Jesper Jespersen -- 73. Marginalism / Harry Bloch -- 74. Market governance / Tuna Baskoy -- 75. Microfoundations / Steven Fazzari -- 76. Monetary policy / Peter Howells -- 77. Money / L. Randall Wray -- 78. Money manager capitalism / Yeva Nersisyan -- 79. Multiplier / Andrew B. Trigg -- 80. New classical economics / Alessandro Vercelli -- 81. New Keynesian economics / Wendy Cornwall -- 82. New neoclassical synthesis / Sebastian Dullien -- 83. Non-ergodicity / Stephen P. Dunn -- 84. Open systems / Andrew Mearman -- 85. Pluralism in economics / Rob Garnett -- 86. Price rigidity / Jordan Melmiès -- 87. Prices and pricing / Gyun Cheol Gu and Frederic S. Lee -- 88. Production / Amitava Krishna Dutt -- 89. Profits / Elizabeth Webster -- 90. Rate of interest / Massimo Pivetti -- 91. Regional monetary policy / Carlos J. Rodríguez-Fuentes -- 92. Saving / Robert Pollin -- 93. Say's law / Claudio Sardoni -- 94. Socialism / Howard J. Sherman -- 95. Sraffian economics / Gary Mongiovi -- 96. Stagflation / Mark Setterfield and John Cornwall -- 97. Stock-flow consistent modelling / Tarik Mouakil -- 98. Sustainable development / Jerry Courvisanos -- 99. Technology and innovation / Amaia Altuzarra -- 100. Time in economic theory / John F. Henry -- 101. Time-series econometrics / Flavia Dantas -- 102. Tobin tax / Philip Arestis -- 103. Transition economies / Christine Rider -- 104. Traverse / Peter Kriesler -- 105. Uncertainty / Murray Glickman -- 106. Underconsumption / J.E. King -- 107. Unemployment / Mathew Forstater -- 108. University of Missouri--Kansas City / Frederic S. Lee -- 109. Wage deflation / Jan Priewe -- 110. Wage- and profit-led regimes / Eckhard Hein -- 111. Walrasian economics / M.C. Howard -- 112. Welfare economics / Tae-Hee Jo.

1: Econometric Decision Models: Introduction to the Conference and Survey of Some Recent Developments -- 1. Introduction to the conference on econometric decision models: for better balanced research and more interdisciplinary and international cooperation -- 2. Some recent developments in policy making with macroeconometric models -- 2: Optimal Control of Econometric Decision Models -- 3. Optimal stabilization with a macroeconometric model for Hungary: investigating the effects of different objective functions and time horizons -- 4. On causality and control in economic systems -- 5. Optimal control of nonlinear stochastic macroeconometric models: an algorithm and an economic example -- 6. Game theoretical approach to optimal control of economic systems -- 7. Nonlinear optimal control simulations of development strategies -- 8. On some properties of the solution of the optimal control problem for the original long-term macroeconomic model -- 3: Multiple Criteria Decision Making (Vector Optimization) with Econometric Models -- 9. Implementing the reference-point approach to multi-criteria decision making in econometric models in the computerprogram LOS -- 10. Optimal economic policy making with an econometric model using interactive methods of vector optimization -- 4: Constructing Objective Scalarvalued Functions for Econometric Decision Models -- 11. Public preferences and their role in the design of economic policy -- 12. Least squares estimation of quadratic preference functions for econometric decision models based on survey data -- 13. Operationalizing a macro-economic preference function -- 14. On constructing objective functions -- 15. Optimal dictatorial and multi-dictatorial choice in Arrow's model with applications to multicriteria decision making -- 5: Rational and Adaptive Expectations Models -- 16. Rational versus adaptive expectations in present value models -- 17. The Finnish rational expectations QMED model: estimation, dynamic properties and policy results -- 18. Qualms about the linearized expectations hypothesis and variance-bounds studies of the interest rate term structure -- 6: Cointegration: Estimators, Tests and Applications -- 19. The power function of the likelihood ratio test for cointegration -- 20. Long-run relations in a well-defined statistical model for the data generating process. Cointegration analysis of the PPP and the UIP relations for Denmark and Germany -- 21. Interest rate linkages between EC countries participating in the European monetary system: an application of cointegration -- 7: Econometric Estimators and Tests for Various Models and Their Properties -- 22. Estimating the second moments of random coefficients -- 23. Tighter bounds for the effects of ARMA disturbances on tests for regression coefficients -- 24. True vs. nominal size of the F-test in the linear regression model with autocorrelated disturbances -- 25. Asymptotic and small-sample properties of the fixpoint-estimator for rational expectations models -- 26. The analysis of non-metric endogenous variables in latent variable models: The MECOSA approach -- 27. Econometric modelling with interval coefficients — a non-stochastic approach -- 8: Analyzing the Structure and Sensitivity of Econometric Models -- 28. Optimal triangulation of a matrix and a measure of interdependence for a linear econometric equation system -- 29. Evaluating the number of zero eigenvalues in a dynamic model -- 30. Forecast and multiplier sensitivity analysis with respect to changes of structural equations and submodels in dynamic systems -- 31. Structural sensitivity analysis in econometric models: an application to the model of the West Germany textile and apparel industry -- 9: Econometric Modeling of Environmental and Energy Problems -- 32. The optimum price of energy: a thermoeconomic analysis -- 33. Energy resources depletion and economic growth -- 34. Econometric methods as an instrument for estimating external costs per unit of emission: the case of a groundwater model -- 10: Econometric Models of Countries, Markets Etc., Based on Microdata and Macrodata, and Their Performance in Policy Analyses -- 35. Microeconometric research at the Sonderforschungsbereich 3 -- 36. Income and price policy making with an econometric model of financial incomes and expenditures of Poland's population -- 37. Keynesian or classical unemployment in West Germany? — an empirical analysis with a disequilibrium model -- 38. A macroeconometric disequilibrium model for Poland -- 39. Evaluating econometric models: the 1988 forecast of the RWI-business cycle model in retrospect -- 40. The macroeconometric model of the Deutsche Bundesbank — a brief review -- Alphabetical list of authors.

Session I: Plenary -- 1. Composite Materials Education in the United States -- 2. Engineering Plastics—Some Factors Affecting Technology Transfer -- Session II: Bolted Connections -- 3. Analysis of the Shearout Failure Mode in Composite Bolted Joints -- 4. Stress and Strength Analysis of Bolted Joints in Composite Laminates -- 5. Some Environmental and Geometric Effects on the Static Strength of Graphite Cloth Epoxy Bolted Joints -- Session III: Environmental Effects -- 6. The Stress-Rupture Behaviour of GRP Laminates in Aqueous Environments -- 7. Water Absorption by Glass Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Resin -- 8. Failure of GRP in Corrosive Environments -- Session IV: Research and Development: Analytical Studies -- 9. Large Deflection Analysis of Bimodular Cross-Ply Strips … -- 10. Analysis of Thermally Stressed Variable Thickness Composite Discs—a CAD Technique -- 11. Optimization of Laminated Shells with Multiple Loading Conditions and Fabrication Constraints -- Session V: Research and Development: Marine Applications -- 12. Recent Developments in Polyester Matrices and Reinforcements for Marine Applications, in Particular Polyester/ Kevlar Composites -- 13. The Testing and Analysis of Novel Top-Hat Stiffener Fabrication Methods for use in GRP Ships -- 14. The Development of Improved FRP Laminates for Ship Hull Construction -- Session VI: Research and Development: Modelling Techniques -- 15. Development of Cylindrically Orthotropic Model Material for Transmission Photoelasticity -- 16. Photoelastic Techniques for the Complete Determination of Stresses in Composite Structures -- 17. A Boundary Layer Approach to the Calculation of Transverse Stresses Along the Free Edges of a Symmetric Laminated Plate of Arbitrary Width Under In-Plane Loading -- Session VII: Physical and Mechanical Characteristics (1) -- 18. On the Orthotropic Elastic Behaviour of a Rubber Composite -- 19. The Viscoelastic Response of a Graphite/Epoxy Laminate -- 20. Viscoelastic Properties of Composite Materials -- Session VIII: Structural Analysis: Platework Systems -- 21. Advances in Vibration, Buckling and Postbuckling Studies on Composite Plates -- 22. On the Use of the Effective Width Concept for Composite Plates -- 23. Unsymmetrical Buckling of Laterally Loaded, Thin, Initially Imperfect Orthotropic Plates -- Session IX: Structural Analysis: Structural Systems -- 24. The Effect of Mode Interaction in Orthotropic Fibre Reinforced Composite Plain Channel Section Columns -- 25. The Stability Analysis of a Continuum/Skeletal Fibre Matrix System -- 26. The Postbuckling Behaviour of Composite Box Sections … -- Session X: Physical and Mechanical Characteristics (2) -- 27. The Effect of Thermal Strains on the Microcracking and Stress Corrosion Behaviour of GRP -- 28. Electrically Conductive Prepreg Systems -- Session XI: Structural Evaluation Techniques -- 29. Analysis of Composite Materials by Dynamic Thermomechanometry (Dynamic Mechanical Analysis) -- 30. Evaluation of Composite Structures by Stress-Wave-Factor and Acoustic Emission -- 31. Vibration Testing of Composite Materials -- Session XII: Design -- 32. A Minimum Energy Composite Automobile -- 33. Structures in Reinforced Composites -- 34. Properties and Performance of GRC -- Session XIII: Experimental Studies -- 35. Buckling of Platestrips—An Evaluation of Six Carbon-Epoxy Laminates -- 36. The Damage Tolerance of High Performance Composites -- 37. Tensile Fatigue Assessment of Candidate Resins for Use in Fibre Reinforced Composite Repair Schemes -- 38. Temperature Increase in SMC Fatigue Testing -- Session XIV: Fabrication Studies including Natural Fibre Composites -- 39. A Unique Approach to Fabricating Precision Space Structures Elements -- 40. Manufacturing Methods for Carbon Fiber/Polyimide Matrix Composites -- 41. The Use of Natural Organic Fibres in Cement: Some Structural Considerations -- 42. On the Possibility of Using Natural Fibre Composites -- Session XV: Fracture and Failure Analysis -- 43. Stress Intensity Factor Measurements in Composite Sandwich Structures -- 44. Progressive Failure Model for Advanced Composite Laminates Containing a Circular Hole -- Session XVI: Research and Development: Analysis of Laminated Structures -- 45. Nonlinear Response of Angle-Ply Laminated Plates to Random Loads -- Session XVII: Physical and Mechanical Characteristics (3) -- 46. Effects of Elastomeric Additives on the Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Resin and Composite Systems -- Session XVIII: Finite Element Studies -- 47. A Comparison of the Failure Pressure as Predicted by Finite Element Stress Analysis with the Results of Full Scale Burst Tests on GRP Flanges -- 48. Elastic-Plastic Flexural Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates by the Finite Element Method.

Why the state is the elephant in the room of political theory, too long ignored, and how to put this rightThe future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Or is the state just not up to the task? In this book, the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit examines the nature of the state and its capacity to serve goals like peace and justice within and beyond its borders. Doing so, he breaks new ground by making the state the focus of political theory—with implications for economic, legal, and social theory—and presents a persuasive, historically informed image of an institution that lies at the center of our lives.Offering an account that is more realist than utopian, Pettit starts from the function the polity is meant to serve, looks at how it can best discharge that function, and explores its ability to engage beneficially in the life of its citizens. This enables him to identify an ideal of statehood that is a precondition of justice. Only if states approximate this functional ideal will they be able to deal with the perennial problems of extreme poverty and bitter discord as well as the challenges that loom over the coming centuries, including climate change, population growth, and nuclear arms

This book investigates the less-explored dimensions of how industries in different Indian subnational spaces or states have responded to the growing phenomenon of internationalization. What factors have influenced firms participating in global business? Have state (both central and provincial) policies acted as catalyst for local firms? Not only does this study delve into these issues; it also painstakingly develops a comprehensive database that remains unique in the absence of reliable official statistics on this subject to date. Efforts have been made to establish a reasonably consistent dataset for the period 1990-2008 derived from the CMIE-PROWESS database. Care has been taken to condense the data and classify it by sector, location, size and ownership. The study delineates export patterns by firm and state and explores factors influencing export decisions according to sector, size and location. A further interesting aspect is the book's critical examination of industrial and trade promotion policies at the state/regional level that might have contributed to or hindered exporting by firms. The states considered for detailed policy discussions are highly diverse and include Gujarat, Odisha and Karnataka. To address the glaring absence of literature on the role of subnational factors in enterprises' export performance, a preliminary state-by-state analysis of the spatial determinants of firms' export activities is also provided. Jaya Prakash Pradhanis an associate professor at the Centre for Studies in Economics Planning, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, India. He has earlier served on the faculties of the Central University of Karnataka (Gulbarga), Sardar Patel Institute of Economic Social Research (Ahmedabad), the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (New Delhi), the Gujarat Institute of Development Research (Ahmadabad), and has worked as a consultant to the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (New Delhi). He obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a recipient of UGC Research Award (2014-16) and at present undertaking a study on the linkages between quality of inward FDI and development.He has been involved in research studies for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under the Ministry of Science and Technology (Government of India); and Indian Council for Social Science Research under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India).He is the author of Indian Multinationals in the World Economy: Implications for Development(Bookwell Publisher, New Delhi, 2008); co-editor of The Rise of Indian Multinationals: Perspectives on Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment(Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010) and Industrialization, Economic Reforms and Regional Development: Essays in Honour of Professor Ashok Mathur(Shipra Publication, New Delhi, 2005); and co-author of Transnationalization of Indian Pharmaceutical SMEs(Bookwell Publisher, New Delhi, 2008).Keshab Dasis a professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India. He holds M.Phil. (Applied Economics) and Ph.D. (Economics) degrees from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi through the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. He is a recipient of the VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences (Economics). He holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the Berhampur University, Orissa.He has been a visiting researcher or faculty at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy; International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, Netherlands; University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan; CNRS-REGARDS, Bordeaux, France; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH), Paris, France; and Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He has undertaken CNRS Research Missions to the Netherlands and Italy and CNRS-British Academy Research Mission to the United Kingdom concerning issues on SME competitiveness and regional development in Asian developing countries.He has undertaken research studies sponsored by various Indian Government Ministries (Industry; Science and Technology; Rural Development; Human Resource Development; and Environment and Forests); Planning Commission; Government of Gujarat; International Commission of Jurists; UNICEF; UNIDO; ILO; Ford Foundation; University of Sussex; French Ministry of Research; IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program; Centre for Environment Education; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Bangkok; International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada; National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS), Paris, France; Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.He has authored/co-authored/edited the following books: Globalization and Standards: Issues and Challenges in Indian Business (Springer, New Delhi, 2014); Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Competitiveness: Issues and Initiatives(Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation, Gandhinagar, 2011); Micro and Small Enterprises in India: The Era of Reforms(Routledge, New Delhi, 2011); Policy and Status Paper on Cluster Development in India(Foundation for MSME Clusters, New Delhi, 2007); Indian Industrial Clusters(Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2005); The Growth and Transformation of Small Firms in India(Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2001); and Peasant Economy and the Sugar Cooperative: A Study of the Aska Region in Orissa(CDS, Trivandrum, 1993).Published extensively, his research concerns issues in regional development, industrialization, small firm development, industrial clusters, informal sector, labor and basic infrastructure in both rural and urban areas.

"Inequality of wages among workers and inequality of income and wealth among families and households has been rising steadily for the past half-century in the United States and other developed economies. However, the United States stands out for having the most unequal wage and income distributions to begin with and for experiencing the fastest rise in inequality over the following decades. While this has been a long-developing situation and the subject of academic interest for some time, it is only in the last decade or so that inequality has attracted considerable public attention and become a political issue. Inequality has also become a subject of renewed interest among economists, with a growing number of scholars engaged in the development of new databases and the analysis of the causes and effects of increased inequality. This book provides an overview of the economic analysis of wage, income and wealth inequality in the United States, with a focus on this recent research. It provides the reader with an understanding of the complex causes of rising inequality, the serious consequences that make rising inequality an issue for public policy, and the potential policy actions that might be taken to slow or reverse rising inequality. The author presents an economic and statistical analysis in clear non-technical language to allow the general reader or student in an undergraduate course to learn the insights that economists have gained into the issue of inequality in advanced economies. The book contends that rising wage inequality among workers and income and wealth inequality among families reflects the complex interaction of profound changes in the US economy over the last half-century. These are not limited to economic changes like new technology, increased globalization, changes in the internal structure of firms, and the rise of new growth sectors in tech, finance, and health care. Of additional critical importance are changes in public opinion and political platforms and policies that replaced the New Deal view of the economic role of government with a pro-business, free-market philosophy that has changed labor market policy in a direction promoting increased inequality. This major change in the environment raises important questions about the efficacy of policy proposals. An additionally intriguing issue is the ultimate impact of the financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic on perceptions of and support for government policies designed to reverse the seemingly inexorable trend toward greater inequality. This book traces the evolution of inequality over time through key concept illustrations and language that is easy enough to understand, even for the general reader"--

"Taking Intelligence to the Next Level: Advanced Intelligence Analysis Methodologies Using Real-World Business, Crime, Military, and Terrorism Examples examines intelligence gathering and analysis and the significance of these programs. Coverage assumes a basic understanding of the intelligence cycle and processes, and the book builds upon the author's previous text, Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals-also published by CRC Press-to further address various types of intelligence, the function and increasing usage of intelligence in both the private and public sectors, and the consumption of intelligence products to inform strategic decision-making. Developed for a classroom environment, chapters are packed with multiple examples, visuals, and practical exercises tailored for the intelligence community (IC), military intelligence analyst, criminal, or business analyst alike. The text begins with a chapter on analytical ethics, an important topic that sets the tone for those to come that cover intelligence gathering analytical techniques. The author utilizes multiple instructive learning approaches to build on the student's existing analytical skills gained from other training resources, their experience, or some other combination. While topics covered are germane to all intelligence analysis fields-including military, national, political, criminal, and business-specific chapters and sections and most instructional examples, scenarios, exercises, and learning activities focus on the Homeland Security Mission and the associated problem sets. The training presentation methods and instructional approaches are the product of much thought, research, and discussion, and a variety of US government and commercial analytical training methodologies are presented. The book closes with a final chapter looking at future trends in intelligence analysis. Key Features: Provides tools to challenge intelligence assessments systematically and objectively, a prerequisite to vetted intelligence conclusions Outlines diagnostic techniques to explain events or data sets, anticipate potential outcomes, predict future trends, and make decisions for optimal outcomes Details how to conduct research to effectively write, edit, format, and disseminate reports to best effect An accompany Instructor's Guide, for use in the classroom, contains the same practical exercises as those found in the student text, as well as facilitator's guides, practical exercise solutions, discussion points, sample test questions, and answer keys, to include other websites that can provide additional instructional content. Taking Intelligence to the Next Level serves as an essential course textbook for programs in intelligence, terrorism, and Homeland Security in additional to serving a useful reference for practiving professionals. Ancillaries including PowerPoint lecture slides, as well as the Instructor's Guide with Test Bank, are available for qualified course adopters"--

"'Bold Conscience' chronicles the shifting conception of conscience in early modern England, as it evolved from a faculty of restraint--what the author labels "cowardly conscience"--to one of bold and forthright self-assertion. Caught at the vortex of public and private concerns, the concept of the conscience played an important role in post-Reformation England, from clerical leaders on down to laymen, not least because of its central place in determining loyalties during the English Civil War and the consequent regicide of King Charles I. Yet within this mix of perspectives, the most sinuous, complex, and ultimately lasting perspectives on bold conscience emerge from deliberately literary, rhetorically artistic voices--Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Joshua Held argues that literary texts by these authors, in re-casting the idea of conscience as a private, interior, shameful state to one of boldness fit for the public realm, parallel a historical development in which the conscience becomes a platform both for royal power and for common dissent in post-Reformation England. With the 1649 regicide of King Charles I as a fulcrum that unites both literary and historical timelines, Held tracks the increasing power of the conscience from William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henry VIII to John Donne's court sermons, and finally to Milton's Areopagitica and Charles's defense of his kingship, Eikon Basilike. In a direct attack on Eikon Basilike, Milton destroys the prerogative of the royal conscience in Eikonoklastes, and later in Paradise Lost proposes an alternative basis for inner confidence, rooting it not in divine right but in the 'paradise within,' a metonym for conscience. Applying a fine-grain literary analysis to literary England from about 1601 to 1667, this study looks backward as well to the theological foundations of the concept in Luther of the 1520s and forward to its transformation by Locke into the term 'consciousness' in 1689. Ultimately, Held's study shows how the idea of a conscience in early modern England, long central to the private self and linked to the will, memory, and mind-emerges as a nexus between the private self and the realm of public action, a bulwark against absolute sovereignty, and its attenuation as a means of more limited, personal certainty. Whether in Milton's struggle against King Charles or Hamlet's against King Claudius, the conscience born of the Reformation becomes less a state of inner critique and more a form of outward expression fit for the communal life and commitments demanded by the early modern era"--

"Taking Intelligence to the Next Level: Advanced Intelligence Analysis Methodologies Using Real-World Business, Crime, Military, and Terrorism Examples examines intelligence gathering and analysis and the significance of these programs. Coverage assumes a basic understanding of the intelligence cycle and processes, and the book builds upon the author's previous text, Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals-also published by CRC Press-to further address various types of intelligence, the function and increasing usage of intelligence in both the private and public sectors, and the consumption of intelligence products to inform strategic decision-making. Developed for a classroom environment, chapters are packed with multiple examples, visuals, and practical exercises tailored for the intelligence community (IC), military intelligence analyst, criminal, or business analyst alike. The text begins with a chapter on analytical ethics, an important topic that sets the tone for those to come that cover intelligence gathering analytical techniques. The author utilizes multiple instructive learning approaches to build on the student's existing analytical skills gained from other training resources, their experience, or some other combination. While topics covered are germane to all intelligence analysis fields-including military, national, political, criminal, and business-specific chapters and sections and most instructional examples, scenarios, exercises, and learning activities focus on the Homeland Security Mission and the associated problem sets. The training presentation methods and instructional approaches are the product of much thought, research, and discussion, and a variety of US government and commercial analytical training methodologies are presented. The book closes with a final chapter looking at future trends in intelligence analysis. Key Features: Provides tools to challenge intelligence assessments systematically and objectively, a prerequisite to vetted intelligence conclusions Outlines diagnostic techniques to explain events or data sets, anticipate potential outcomes, predict future trends, and make decisions for optimal outcomes Details how to conduct research to effectively write, edit, format, and disseminate reports to best effect An accompany Instructor's Guide, for use in the classroom, contains the same practical exercises as those found in the student text, as well as facilitator's guides, practical exercise solutions, discussion points, sample test questions, and answer keys, to include other websites that can provide additional instructional content. Taking Intelligence to the Next Level serves as an essential course textbook for programs in intelligence, terrorism, and Homeland Security in additional to serving a useful reference for practiving professionals. Ancillaries including PowerPoint lecture slides, as well as the Instructor's Guide with Test Bank, are available for qualified course adopters"--

This volume critically analyses the conceptual contours of pedagogical transformations in the field of creative business education. It calls for an integrated and ethnographic approach to understand, to analyse and to innovate creative curricula that is different from traditional business and management educations and its compliant culture. The book argues for a pluriversal vision based on social intelligence, critical thinking, inclusivity and creativity resulting in a holistic pedagogy that understands the social needs of people and of the planet. The critical reflections on everyday realities of life is central to this intercultural pedagogic approach to understanding and explaining different forms of contemporary crisis. The book brings together interdisciplinary academic practitioners and their praxis with different philosophical orientations within a single ethnographic and theoretical narrative to reclaim global citizenship rights in the age of artificial intelligence, democratic deficit, hyperreality and alienation. In this way, the volume breaks away from the narrow silo of disciplinary boundaries to outline the pedagogical praxis of creative and critical business education that challenges existing knowledge, power and institutions while offering alternative pedagogic approaches to learning, teaching and research. Bhabani Shankar Nayak is a political economist and works as Professor of Business Management and Programme Director of Strategic Business and Management at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. His research interests consist of closely interrelated and mutually guiding programmes surrounding political economy of religion, business, and capitalism, along with faith and globalisation, and economic policies. He is the author of Political Economy of Development and Business (2022), Modern Corporate Strategies at Work (2022), China: The Bankable State (2021), Disenchanted India and Beyond: Musings on the Lockdown Alternatives (2020), Hindu Fundamentalism and the Spirit of Global Capitalism in India (2018) and Nationalising Crisis: The Political Economy of Public Policy in India (2007). Philip Powell is Professor of Creative Business and Director of the Business School for the Creative Industries. Philip was previously Executive Dean, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise and Innovation), and Professor of Management at Birkbeck, University of London and Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics at the University of Hull. His research has resulted in over 350 published outputs in information systems, management, operations, and higher education management. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Information Systems Journal. He has served on a variety of public bodies concerned with skills development, enterprise and entrepreneurship and currently sits on the Institute for Apprenticeships Business and Management Route Panel.

How can we better understand the past, present and future of Social Action for Music (ASPM)?

This groundbreaking book examines the development of La Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín, a network of 27 schools founded in 1996 in Colombia's second largest city in response to its reputation as the most dangerous city on Earth. Inspired by El Sistema, the founding Venezuelan music education program, La Red is, however, remarkably different: its history is one of multiple reinventions and a continuous search to improve its educational offer and better achieve its social objectives. His insights and attempts at transformation shed valuable light on ASPM's past, present, and future.

Based on a year of intensive fieldwork in Colombia and written by Geoffrey Baker, author of El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth (2014), this important volume offers new perspectives on ASPM and its evolution both in academia and in practice. It will be of interest to a wide variety of audiences: employees and leaders of ASPM programs; music educators; sponsors and political leaders; and students and scholars from fields such as ASPM, music education, ethnomusicology, and other related fields. - ¿Cómo podemos comprender mejor el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la Acción Social por la Música (ASPM)?

Este libro pionero examina el desarrollo de La Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín, una red de 27 escuelas fundada en 1996 en la segunda ciudad principal de Colombia como respuesta a su reputación como la ciudad más peligrosa en la Tierra. Inspirada en El Sistema, el programa venezolano fundacional de educación musical, La Red es, no obstante, notablemente diferente: su historia es una de múltiples reinvenciones y de una búsqueda continua para mejorar su oferta educativa y alcanzar mejor sus objetivos sociales. Sus reflexiones internas e intentos de transformación arrojan luz valiosa sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de ASPM.

Basado en un año de trabajo de campo intensivo en Colombia y escrito por Geoffrey Baker, autor de El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth (2014), este importante volumen ofrece nuevas perspectivas sobre ASPM y su evolución tanto en el ámbito académico como en la práctica. Será de interés para un público muy variado: empleados y líderes de programas ASPM; educadores musicales; patrocinadores y responsables políticos; y estudiantes y académicos de campos como ASPM, la educación musical, la etnomusicología y otros campos relacionados.

'Scholars have waited long and keenly for a book-length treatment of the subject of caste panchayats. Their expectations could not have been more substantially fulfilled. This is a work that combines real historical depth of learning with acute theoretical analysis. It is highly instructive and illuminating not only on the nature and function of caste panchayats, but on the wider details of caste's relation to politics and, quite generally, on the claims of Indian political modernity.' –Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Professor, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 'The volume makes an important contribution in analytical understanding of castes and their historical formation in Panchayats. More importantly, the research work maps out the role these panchayats have been playing in consolidating both property as well political power relations. The author offers a careful account of complex phenomena such as caste panchayats.' —Gopal Guru, Former Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Editor, EPW, India The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past. In tracing the long career and evolution of intra-caste governance from 300 BC to the present, it challenges several orthodoxies in the caste scholarship. Most prominently, it questions the assumptions of modernization theory that became internalized in the very definition of caste based political organisations as caste became a subject of study in politics in the 1960s and 70s. In doing this, the book reflects in some detail on the uncomfortable question of the persistence of caste-based conservatism despite the current dominance, so to say, of caste-based democratization in the Indian polity. It tries to make visible the limitations of 'caste politics from below', as it is being imagined today, making a plea for a radical re-imagination of caste as an identity that does not require a self-perpetuation of the primordial aspects of caste to purse the opportunities offered by modern democracy, but one that can facilitate the empowerment of caste through the pursuit of the ameliorations on offer as well as the annihilation of caste, as eventually mutual goals. Anagha Ingole teaches at the Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, India. She has been a Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University New York, where she wrote a large part of this book. She started her work on caste panchayats while working with BARTI, Pune and has written on the topic since, in national and international publications.

Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and archives that have until recently remained closed. This interdisciplinary volume argues that photography is central to a different understanding of the social and political complexities of Palestine in this period. While Biblical and Orientalist images abound, the chapters in this book go further by questioning the impact of photography on the social histories of British Mandate Palestine. This book considers the specific archives, the work of individual photographers, methods for reading historical photography from the present and how we might begin the process of decolonising photography. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine presents a timely and much-needed critical evaluation of the role of photography in Palestine. Drawing together leading interdisciplinary specialists and engaging a range of innovative methodologies, the volume makes clear the ways in which photography reflects the shifting political, cultural and economic landscape of the British Mandate period, and experiences of modernity in Palestine. Actively problematising conventional understandings of production, circulation and the in/stability of the photographic document, Imaging and Imagining Palestine provides essential reading for decolonial studies of photography and visual culture studies of Palestine." - Chrisoula Lionis, author of Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first and much needed overview of photography during the British Mandate period. From well-known and accessible photographic archives to private family albums, it deals with the cultural and political relations of the period thinking about both the Western perceptions of Palestine as well as its modern social life. This book brings together an impressive array of material and analyses to form an interdisciplinary perspective that considers just how photography shapes our understanding of the past as well as the ways in which the past might be reclaimed." - Jack Persekian, Founding Director of Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine draws together a plethora of fresh approaches to the field of photography in Palestine. It considers Palestine as a central node in global photographic production and the ways in which photography shaped the modern imaging and imagining from within a fresh regional theoretical perspective." - Salwa Mikdadi, Director al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art, New York University Abu Dhabi. Readership: Anyone interested in the Middle East, Palestinian history, history of photography, Middle Eastern visual culture, religious and Orientalist imaging, decolonising photography, cultural studies, and cultural histories.