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Presents an array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law. These scholars examine law and culture, the complex intersections of law and policy, and the place of religious values in legal life.

Includes conceptual papers that are designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. This title contains 8 papers on critical issues in the field of human resources management and develops an informed understanding of the field.

Offers a series of critical articles and commentaries that examine issues ranging from the relations between class, power and history, to the role of states and culture in mediating those dynamics. This title pays special attention to race, gender, citizenship and civil society in the formation of such structures and processes.

The effects and impact of employee participation and employee ownership are themes of enduring interest to social scientists from a range of disciplines. This volume includes papers that deal with the issue of privatization in transition economies. It also covers themes such as profit sharing in both East and West Europe.

The increasing amounts of money paid out in compensation to corporate executives have become the subject of a heated public policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic. This book covers a wide range of issues, including: corporate law and regulation in the area of corporate governance; and, prosperity and growth effects of compensation contracts.

Contains a comprehensive analysis of foreign aid from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. This volume is divided into two parts: Theory of Aid and Empirical Studies on Aid. It examines aid practices in a variety of countries and under a variety of conditions.

The monograph concentrates on recent developments in modelling economic processes on a macro level. It focuses on two main areas, namely, co-integration analysis and the use of high frequency time series. Special emphasis is put on testing, application of VEqCM models to I(1) as well as I(2) variables and structuralization of VAR.

Discusses such topics in the field of litigation economics as forensic economics, estimating damages in personal injury and wrongful death cases, forecasting medical costs in tort cases and economic analysis of business interruption losses.

Examines research in corporate social performance and policy. This title covers such topics as: political strategies and industry environments; evaluating corporate claims of social responsibility and self-deception; and, interviews with the founders of the Sim Oral History Project.

The second volume in a series examining international research in the business disciplines, this book discusses such topics as consumerism in the global market-place, the Japanese business perspective, and applying military concepts to corporate strategy.

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.

Illustrates the ways in which US sociologists of education plumb the depths of fundamental questions about how schools are organized and consequences of school organization for students and teachers. This volume generates a host of questions that warrant sustained inquiry by our community.

Focuses on defining leadership and questioning the relationships among leaders and followers through a series of case studies. This book offers analyses of a variety of leadership styles in schools working toward structural and academic reform. It reflects themes that include shifts in leadership roles through participative decision making.

"The Texas Institutionalists".

Part of an annual series which brings together studies of issues in the former USSR and Eastern Europe, this title covers both domestic and international developments. It bridges the gap between specialist research and journalistic accounts.

Discussed topics such as the role of science in public policy; and public policy in developing and developed countries.

Part of a series which serves as a research annual for the publication of academic tax research, this title discusses topics that include: the relationship between Pac contributions and industry income tax burdens; and potential bias in the US tax court.

This book looks at the rise of electronic media and changes in the dissemination of research; outlines the problems and concerns of researchers/librarians/publishers; discusses research practices across scholarly disciplines; and investigates the biases/intentions of practitioners.

Deals with the frontiers in financial theory of economics. This work covers most aspects of finance - domestic corporate and investment issues as well as questions and problems of topical value in international finance. It includes topics such as: initial public offerings, debt restructuring, mergers, dividend policy, stock returns, and more.

This fourth volume of the Handbook of Special Education: Research and Practice deals with the nature and nurture of gifted and talented youth, issues affecting students with severe disabilities and children and youth at risk. Section one focuses on gifted and talented youth, their identification, practices to accelerate and enrich their learning, their socio-emotional adjustment, and special categories of gifted students. New federal legislation in the US, changing views about intelligence, and growing concern over quality of education, make this section timely and important. Section two concerns students with severe disabilities with topics ranging from how they can be served in regular school and community settings to the transition to work and living in the community. In section three the theme is children and youth at risk from poverty, limited linguistic competence, limited cognitive mastery, and family problems. The chapters highlight what action can be taken to solve the educational problems associated with these risks. Special attention is paid to the problems of education in the inner-city.

Addressing prominent trends in learning disabilities, this book presents information on forces outside of the school that impact the field of learning disabilities such as, advances in evaluation and testing, diagnostic imaging of the functioning brain, evolving ways of conceptualizing learning disabilities.

Contains two groups of archival materials. The first group includes Edwin Cannan's unsuccessful Cobden Essay; an early critique of economics by Eli Ginzberg; introductory notes on the study of the history of economic thought by Warren Samuels; and a memoir by Jacob Warshaw on Thorstein Veblen. The second group contains lecture notes taken by F. Taylor Ostrander in courses given by David Taggart Clark (Williams College), Redvers Opie (Oxford), and Frank H. Knight (Chicago) on the history of economics.

Contains two groups of archival materials. One group includes lecture notes from courses given at the University of Wisconsin by Edwin E. Witte and Robert Lampman on the economic role of government. The second group includes papers from a conference on the history of 20th century heterodox economics.

Provides articles advancing the theoretical understanding of modern capitalism, including comparing post-Keynesian and Marxian conceptions of the endogenity of money, periodizing stages of capitalism, and understanding what "growth" means precisely beyond its common representations around gross domestic product.

Contains four sets of refereed essays.

Devoted to the thorny topic of the economic dimensions of peace in the Middle East. This book hopes to clarify some of the main issues confronting different Middle Eastern actors in a post-Oslo world and provide a basis for further inquiry and exploration.

Contains papers presented at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association in Lake Tahoe, Nevada in 1998. Focusing on the banking and financial crises, this volume describes, discusses and evaluates alternative procedures for resolving bank insolvencies and recapitalizing the banking system, and suggests ways of maintaining bank solvency.

This volume of Contributions to Economic Analysis addresses a number of important questions in the field of business cycles including: How should business cycles be dated and measured? What is the response of output and employment to oil-price and monetary shocks? And, is the business cycle asymmetric, and does it matter?

The "Contributions to Economic Analysis" series consists of a number of previously unpublished studies. The term economic analysis is used because it covers the activities of the theoretical economist and the research worker.

This book explores the welfare effects of environmental taxes in a second-best framework. It starts from a benchmark model which reveals that environmental taxes typically exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, and extends it by introducing capital, terms of trade effects, transfers, involuntary unemployment, or environmental feedbacks.