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Early education -- The lasting legacy of McGill -- Harvard, Bryn Mawr and the London School of Economics -- Modern production among backward peoples (1935) -- American interlude -- The colonial office and LSE -- Colonial monetary conditions -- Towards a conclusion -- Ida Greaves : a pioneer development economist?

What does it mean to say that citizens have control over their leaders? In a democracy, citizens should have some control over how they are governed. If they do not participate directly in making policy, they ought to maintain control over the public officials who design policy on their behalf. Rule by Multiple Majorities develops a novel theory of popular control: an account of what it is, why democracy's promise of popular control is compatible with what we know about actual democracies, and why it matters. While social choice theory suggests there is no such thing as a 'popular will' in societies with at least minimal diversity of opinion, Ingham argues that multiple, overlapping majorities can nonetheless have control, at the same time. After resolving this conceptual puzzle, the author explains why popular control is a realistic and compelling ideal for democracies, notwithstanding voters' low levels of information and other shortcomings.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Strategic management of people, organization and relationships -- Locating the value in people management -- Adding and creating more value -- Linking activities with human and organizational outcomes -- Competing and cooperating through social relationships -- Developing social capital in your business -- Creating a social architecture -- Organizing people to do work -- Selecting an organization structure : traditional opportunities -- Selecting an organization structure : new opportunities -- Enabling the organization -- Designing the workplace -- Tending an organizational society -- Recruiting, managing and developing people -- Facilitating dyads, triads, groups and organization effectiveness -- Using social technologies and analytics -- Index

The Military Covenant states that in exchange for their military service and their willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice, soldiers should receive the nation's support. Exploring the concept's invention by the Army in the late 1990s, its migration to the civilian sphere from 2006 and its subsequent entrenchment in public policy, Ingham seeks to understand the Covenant's progress from the esoteric confines of Army doctrine to national recognition.

Now with a substantial new postscript on the financial crisis This book provides a basic introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of capitalism. It starts by examining the classic accounts of capitalism found in the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and John Maynard Keynes. Each placed emphasis on different institutional elements of capitalism - Smith on the market's 'invisible hand'; Marx on capital's exploitation of labour; Weber on the foundations of economic rationality; and Schumpeter and Keynes on the instability that results from capitalism's essenti