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Showcases scholarship by historical, political, and economic sociologists grouped around three broad subjects with historical relevance. The subjects in this volume are: the relationship between race, class, and urban politics, and how racial identities interact with each other; and more.

A collection of papers which engage issues in the crossroads where biology, psychology, and economics meet. It considers altruism, selfishness, group selection, methodological individualism, dominance hierarchies, and other issues relating evolutionary psychology to economics.

Focusing on the role of the state in capitalist society, by showing the welfare state as an historical product of the class structure of English agrarian capitalism, this volume addresses price and technical choice in capitalism, and economic democracy within socialism, defending direct democracy and economic calculation in terms of labor time.

A collection of papers which examine the impact of the minimum wage. It applies experimental methods to study respondent's attitudes toward inequality and risk. It also investigates the properties of "intermediate" measures of inequality.

Publishes articles dealing with several aspects of taxation. Articles can address tax policy issues at the federal, state, local, or international level. This series primarily publishes empirical studies that address compliance, computer usage, education, legal, planning, or policy issues.

Contains papers on agriculture and on macro issues related to the Great Depression. This book explores the degree to which the Neolithic revolution was in fact revolutionary. It also estimates world agricultural production from 1800 to 1938.

This is a comprehensive, insightful, and state-of-the-art overview of the everyday work and activities of legal and social control professionals, functionaries, and participants, highlighting the distinctive contributions that ethnographic and ethnomethodologically-informed studies have to offer research on law and social control.

Contains ten papers, by prominent authors, examining antitrust issues. The first paper summarizes the other papers and presents research on the meaning of consumer welfare and the sources of buyer power. The next five articles evaluate antitrust cases to determine whether the decisions reached, the relief ordered enhanced consumer welfare.

While gender has so often been found to be an important determinant of prevalence and outcomes of mental illness, economists have rarely focused on gender differences as a central element of their analyses.

Presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. This title examines fresh perspectives on political relationships, politics and legal reform, and law and the family.

Part of a series dealing with all aspects of taxation, including tax policy and issues at the federal, state, local, or international level. The series primarily publishes empirical studies that address compliance, computer usage, education, legal, planning, or policy issues.

A collection of essays that is devoted to the work of Peter Hall in communications and sociological inquiries. This title emphasises developments in interactionist theory, and examples of post-modern ethnograohy and performance texts on border crossings and performances.

The papers that comprise this study explore how power structures are created within a society, especially in the realm of the struggle between the social classes. The analyses of these structures extends beyond the political to gender, national cultures, literature and the arts.

"Advances in Health Care Management".

Part of "Foundations in Library and Information Science" series, this title deals with the topics in library and information science.

This annual publication is devoted to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting. It aims to advance innovative and applied ethics research in all accounting-related disciplines on a global basis and to improve ethics education in the field.

This series is designed to foster debates on the sociology of social problems by presenting a forum where sociologists of this discipline can present and argue opposed positions on epistemological, moral and political issues that are central to the field.

The issues associated with population ageing are already assuming prominence in OECD countries. This volume describes the modelling approaches and research, providing insights into how different countries are facing the challenges associated with population ageing.

Europe is facing a political crisis because it has not solved a double dilemma. The first one is institutional and concerns the frontiers of the Union and thus the number of regions. The second one is economic. This book finds the coexistence of national convergence and regional divergence for western countries and converse for the Eastern ones.

Consists of research papers from an international community of specialists on race and ethnic relations. This book explores theoretical and empirical developments in the field. It is oriented towards graduate students and scholars in sociology who focus on race and ethnic relations.

Covers a variety of topics in the field of research in strategic management and information technology that include organizational fit and flexibility and the determinants of business unit reliance on information technologies.

Covers such topics as the content for corporate environmental action, the framework for analysis of corporate environmentalism, the costs of environmental protection and legal compliance, and consumer demand in the market.

Part of a series that reflects research and theory concerned with motivation and achievement in work, school and play, this title focuses on a particular issue or theme.

Part of a series which aims to articulate allegiances underlying accounting practice and research; increase the social self-awareness of accountants; and, encourage them to form various alliances and assume responsibility for the profession's social role.

Part of a series concerned with the theoretical, empirical and applied research into the macro and micro accounting issues of developing countries, and the relevance of international accounting standards to the Third World. These essays explore the experience of various Third World nations.

Family and Mental Illness

Consists of selected papers from the Annual High Technology Small Firms (HTSFs). This book addresses strategic growth for small firms; and discusses how to harness external resources to promote growth (that is, government and/or larger firms) while maintaining a win-win.

Addresses coastal vulnerability around the world with examples from the Ebro Delta (Spain), the crumbling cliffs of Corton Village/Suffolk (UK), tsunami-worn Phuket (Thailand/Indian Ocean), and others. This work is intended for academics, researchers, students and policy advisors in geography, economics, sociology, and environmental science.

Pioneering a Modern Small Business

Contains several interesting articles dealing with different aspects of environmental disclosures. This book addresses the Kyoto Protocol on an international level, discusses how an accountant measures pollution-related performance and cost, and investigates the motive behind disclosure of environmental information.