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  • Rewards for High Public Office in Europe and North America

    Edited by Marleen Brans, B.Guy Peters ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    Anyone observing the recent scandals in the United Kingdom could not fail to understand the political importance of the rewards of high public office. The British experience has been extreme but by no means unique, and many countries have experienced political over the pay and perquisites of public officials.This book addresses an important element of public governance, and does so in longitudinal ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Corruption of Capitalism

    Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay

    by Guy Standing ...
    Politicians, financiers and bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, yet they have built the most unfree market system ever created. In this Gilded Age, income is funnelled to the owners of property – financial, physical and intellectual – at the expense of society. Wages stagnate as labour markets are transformed by outsourcing, automation and the on-demand economy, generating ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Rights in Business

    Removal of Barriers to Access to Justice in the European Union

    Edited by Juan José Álvarez Rubio, Katerina Yiannibas ...
    The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economic power that multinational companies wield in the global economy. At the same time, it appears that it is difficult to regulate the activities of multinational companies in such a way that they conform to international human, labour and environmental ... Read more

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  • The European Union

    Economics and Policies

    by Ali M. El-Agraa ...
    The European Union has established itself as a leading text that provides readers from all disciplines with a sound understanding of the economics and policies of the EU. Its wealth of information, detail and analysis has ensured that previous editions have been read by a generation of students, researchers and policy makers. It covers all major EU policy areas as well as theories of economic ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Canadian Public Finance

    Explaining Budgetary Institutions and the Budget Process in Canada

    by Genevieve Tellier ...
    Broken down into five sections explaining how public budgets are developed, Canadian Public Finance presents a comprehensive account of the budget process of the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. With a specific focus on the public policy process, Geneviève Tellier walks readers through the five steps involved in the budget process including agenda-setting, formulation, adoption, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations

    by Damian Grimshaw ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries. Building on original industry case studies, the analysis goes beyond general debates about the relative merits of labor market regulation to reveal ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Licensed larceny

    Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South

    by Nicholas Hildyard ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • International Trade: Theory, Evidence And Policy

    by Richard Pomfret ...
    International Trade: Theory, Evidence and Policy provides an integrated non-mathematical account of trade theory and policy that can be read straight through. The footnotes provide caveats, extensions and entry points, or further reading.This book is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the core theoretical analysis of international trade that has evolved over a quarter-millennium. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy

    by Berkeley Hill ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications. There is little available which attempts to increase understanding of the nature of existing policies, their development, intentions, problems and successes.The aim of this book is to improve knowledge and understanding of the ‘policy process’ and its ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Economic Integration of Europe

    by Richard Pomfret ...
    The clearest and most up-to-date account of the achievements—and setbacks—of the European Union since 1945.Europe has been transformed since the Second World War. No longer a checkerboard of entirely sovereign states, the continent has become the largest single-market area in the world, with most of its members ceding certain economic and political powers to the central government of the European ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda

    Edited by Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama, Dries Lesage, Wouter Lips ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume addresses the link between international taxation, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the medium-term revenue strategy concept. It also analyses how countries and governments can reinforce this link in current and future initiatives in international taxation, including the base erosion profit shifting project initiated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation ... Read more

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  • Regulation Of Foreign Investment: Challenges To International Harmonization

    by Zdenek Drabek, Petros C Mavroidis ...
    Series Book 21 - World Scientific Studies In International Economics
    The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules. Particular attention is paid to the most controversial and contentious issues with the view of appraising the prospects for establishing global rules. The book is divided into three parts; the first part includes papers ... Read more

    $55.99 USD