2012 Palgrave

A Course in Behavioral Economics is a concise and reader-friendly introduction to one of the most influential areas of economics today. Covering all core areas of the subject, the book requires no advanced mathematics and ...

2012 Palgrave

An Introduction to Behavioral Economics offers a comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to what is one of the most rapidly advancing areas in economics today. It considers the debates in this exciting field through a ...

2012 Palgrave

The current global recession has exacerbated the political and social crisis of finance-led neoliberal capitalism. Despite this, fears of its demise appear to have receded. In fact the crisis seems to present an opportunity: to ...

2012 Palgrave

John Stuart Mill was one of the most important figures in political philosophy, and his ideas are hugely influential in political philosophy. Whilst much has been written about Mill's key work on liberty, not much ...

2012 Palgrave

This thoroughly revised second edition of Applied International Trade presents the leading theoretical and applied methods used in the field of international trade. It highlights the importance of linking theory to data and of verifying ...

2012 Palgrave

The product of eight years of research, Levine's study divides Marx's relation to Hegel into two provinces, areas of discontinuity and continuity. Marx's discontinuity from Hegel arose from his negation of the Hegelian System, the ...

2012 Palgrave

Job quality matters. It contributes to economic competitiveness, social cohesion and personal well-being. Focusing on 'bad jobs', this book outlines debates, developments, issues and trends in job quality whilst asking the question are bad jobs ...

2012 Palgrave

Euro Crash turns the conventional diagnosis of the failure of the European Monetary Union on its head. It argues that the main problem was not sub-optimal currency areas nor profligate government spending but fatal flaws ...

2012 Palgrave

Basic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities. This book examines the arguments for and against basic income from the point of view of economic and ...

2012 Palgrave

Quantitative techniques are fundamental to the correct interpretation of commercial reality, and can aid practical business decision making and problem solving. The fifth edition of Essential Quantitative Methods has been updated to suit the changing ...

2012 Palgrave

International institutions, including the United Nations and World Bank, and numerous multinational companies (MNCs) have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. Yet the scale and ...

2012 Palgrave

Designed to replace the same author's "The European Union and the Third World," this new text provides systematic coverage of the European Union's policies in relation to the developing world in the twenty-first century and ...

2012 Palgrave

Like all professions, diplomacy has spawned its own specialized terminology and it is this lexicon which provides the thematic spine of this dictionary. The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy also includes entries on legal terms ...

2012 Palgrave

In Us before Me, a philosopher argues that persistent, unabated human suffering, requires that the traditional tools of moral philosophy and everyday ethics, be supplemented with a new moral principle that shifts the focus from ...

2011 Palgrave

The market turmoil and the new Basel III capital requirements are re-shaping the financial competitive landscape. More than ever, banking competition is based on the ability to assess, to price and to manage the cost ...

2011 Palgrave

Marketing Shares, Sharing Markets focuses on stocks, stock markets and the relevantprofessionals. Previously, financial markets were epitomized by the stock exchange, a physical space where traders communicated about and engaged in market transactions on behalf ...

2011 Palgrave

The impressive growth of trade and investments between China and Latin America in the last few years has attracted the attention of the business world and policy makers; this book is one of the first ...

2011 Palgrave

What makes some international firms and managers successful and why do others fail? What can firms and managers do to adjust to the specific local business environment? Can we observe patterns that could guide the ...

2011 Palgrave

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has stimulated much reflection on the political, economic and social transitions that have taken place in the past two decades. Many Central European and Baltic ...

2011 Palgrave

For almost a century the representative agent in economic science was characterised byreason and sophistication, routinely and resolutely balancing costs and benefits when he had to take a decision. Since the discovery that people possess ...