Product Description: George Turnbull belongs with a group of early Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, including Francis Hutcheson, who found their native Calvinism too repressive. They sought to relocate religion within a context of reason and science and to establish a tolerant and humane ethic upon values rooted in classical ideals...read more

Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development. Employers are most likely to support social investments in countries with strong peak business associations, that help members form collective preferences and realize policy goals in labor market negotiations. Politicians, with incentives shaped by governmental structures, took the initiative in association-building and those that created the strongest associations were motivated to evade labor radicalism and to preempt parliamentary democratization. Sweeping in its historical and cross-national reach, the book builds on original archival data, interviews, and cross-national quantitative analyses. The research has important implications for the construction of business as a social class and powerful ramifications for equality, welfare state restructuring and social solidarity.

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Product Description: As markets become increasingly integrated and globalised, competition policy is facing new challenges. Contributions from leading international experts explore theoretical and methodological issues of practical relevance for the new competition policy order and give examples of practical policy adjustments...read more

Product Description: This unique book offers a comprehensive survey of the privatization and deregulation of the public sector in a number of important developed and developing economies. The first part examines the privatization and deregulation process in Japan, Korea, India, Latin America, the US and the UK...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Economic development incentives and practices have grown in importance as cities have tried aggressively to rebuild their economies. The different types of incentives provided on the local level range from low-cost loans for small business entrepreneurs to the use of property tax abatements to lure large plants to a community...read more

Product Description: This text presents the new set of managerial and strategic challenges posed by environmental questions. By drawing from concepts throughout the traditional business management curriculum and applying them to this new set of managerial challenges, the authors demonstrate the impact of environmental problems on every functional area: marketing, production, finance, control and strategy...read more

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Product Description: Book by Rushing, Frank, Brown, Carole

The contributors examine the proposition that states and markets are bound together by inextricable symbiotic ties, while at the same time always standing in tension with each other. The conclusion drawn from the nine diverse but very specific viewpoints contained in this work is that even though markets are constructed by geopolitics and state policy, ′geopolitics and markets define the economic and political space in which states operate′.