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Product Description: The book examines important labour market themes from within a European context. The authors bring a refreshingly interdisciplinary perspective to labour market issues.

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Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this book explores the processes of innovation at the global, national and corporate levels. It provides important evidence and arguments on the processes of innovation and, in doing so, addresses real challenges for policymakers, managers, and academics alike. (view table of contents)

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The Political Economy of Competitiveness offers an original perspective on the relationship between economic theory and policy. It places the issues within an accessible political economy perspective. Rejecting the narrowness of mainstream economics the authors deploy an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of economic growth, placing it in its historical and political context. Issues covered include: * trade theory and policy * industrial decline and policy * markets, competition and innovation * globalisation, unemployment and government policy. The book provides a valuable guide to the major economic policy issues for both economists and business students. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Political Economy of South Africa's Transition provides the basis for a critical examination of the recent history and politics of the process of economic policy formulation in South Africa. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking – and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines – could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the mainstream economics tradition, while Michie and Oughton draw explicitly on institutional and evolutionary economics. The various authors represent a range of disciplinary backgrounds and approaches. This book draws on the strengths of each and all of these approaches to analyse environmental issues and what can be done to tackle these through corporate and public policy. This book makes the case for an inter-disciplinary approach. Two themes which emerge repeatedly throughout the book are the need for an interdisciplinary theory of technological change, and the need for a similarly interdisciplinary approach to the study of human behaviour and how it influences both production and consumption choices. The two themes are of course related. Resolving environmental questions requires an understanding of their nature, of their causes and, to the extent that they are anthropogenic, of how to change human behaviour. These fundamental issues are the focus of the four chapters that form Part 1 of this volume. The remainder of the volume develops them in more detail.  .

'This deep two-volume, 1,200-entry pair offers students, teachers, and librarians expert advice and analysis to an overwhelming amount of secondary material available in the social sciences. Fully cross-referenced, the title identifies the key published works and includes evaluative essays on a vast number of topics. An excellent research and collection development tool.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2002. (view table of contents)