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Reflections on Character and Leadership: On The Couch With Manfred Kets De Vries
By De Vries, Manfred Kets. 1988
Reflections on Character and Leadership is the first of the three books in the Manfred kets de Vries on the…
Couch series Here Kets de Vries looks at entrepreneurship the pathology of leadership and the personality of the leader The reader will visit the disturbed inner worlds of leaders like Alexander the Great Shaka Zulu and Robert Maxwell discover how to distinguish between a cold fish and a live volcano and identify impostors despots organizational fools and global leaders The book highlights the basic principles of the clinical paradigm-the process of putting organizations and the individuals who lead them on the psychoanalyst s couch It includes studies of personality archetypes and the effects they have on organizational life and culture-and the effects that organizations have on them Referring frequently to key management concepts Kets de Vries looks not only at what happens when things go wrong but also at how to create the psychological and organizational space to make sure that things go right About the series The series offers an overview of Kets de Vries s work spanning four decades a period in which he has established himself as the leading figure in the clinical study of organizational leadership The books in this series contain a representative selection of Kets de Vries writings about leadership from a wide variety of published sources and cover character and leadership in a global context career development and leadership in organizations The original essays were all written or published between 1976 and 2008 Updated where appropriate and revised by the author they present a digest of the work of one of the most influential management thinkers of the present dayBeginning with a detailed discussion of the World Trade Organisation and the Uruguay Round and its achievements, this book delves…
into the causal factors behind the failure to launch the new round of multilateral trade negotiations in Seattle in December 1999. Dilip K. Das tries to determine the precise point reached by the global trading system anThis book provides the grounding for a new approach to monetary economics, based on the book-keeping nature of money. The…
main themes of macroeconomics are examined to show how we may improve our understanding through a thorough analysis of their monetary aspects. Money is the key element and its role is investigated in relation to value, prices, pFinancial Stability and Central Banks: A Global Perspective (Central Bank Governor's Symposium Ser.)
By Charles Goodhart, Richard A. Brealey, Peter Sinclair, Alastair Clark, Juliette Healey, Glenn Hoggarth, David T. Llewellyn, Chang Shu, Farouk Soussa. 2001
An overview of present day thought on the very topical subject of financial stability and central banking. The papers, written…
by leading researchers, provide a highly informed account of contemporary policy issues and explore the legal, regulatory, managerial and economic issues that affect central banks.Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization and Economic Growth
By Carl Mosk. 2001
Services and the Knowledge-Based Economy
By Ian Miles, Mark Boden. 2001
First published in 2000. Over the past two decades, the service sector have increased dramatically and now occupy the largest…
share of the economy of advanced industrial societies. Certain business services are regularly cited as evidence for the emergence of a "knowledge economy". In this pioneering book, leading researchers in the fields of service industries and innovation studies investigate the reasons for the growth of the service sectors and this emergent knowledge economy. Drawing on material as diverse as macroeconomic statistics and firm-level case studies, the contributors demonstrate that services are often important innovators in their own right, as well as contributing to innovation and economic performance in their user industries. The question of how far services are special cases, and what specific processes and trajectories characterize their innovative activity is treated systematically. Additionally, a variety of original analyses and information resources are presented. This book should be of value to the student of the modern industrial society, to those seeking to forge policies appropriate to the new context of economic development, and to researchers who are confronting the challenges of the knowledge economy.Piero Sraffa's Political Economy: A Centenary Estimate (Routledge Studies In The History Of Economics #Vol. 42)
By Roberto Marchionatti, Terenzio Cozzi. 2001
A century after his birth, this volume presents a re-assessment of the life and work of Piero Sraffa, one of…
the great economists of the twentieth century. From his anti-Marshallian articles of 1925 and 1926 to his classic work on the theory of capital, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, Sraffa's contribution to the study of economiEvaluation and Poverty Reduction: Proceedings From A World Bank Conference (Commodity Working Papers #Vol. 3)
By Osvaldo N. Feinstein. 2001
In his foreword, the president of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn, states plainly and precisely the rationale for this…
volume. "Evaluation is a central aspect of any poverty reduction endeavor. Evaluation implies that we have adopted a methodology that allows us to look in an effective way at the results of what we are doing so that we can, in turn, adapt our future actions toward the effective achievement of our goals. Evaluation adds value if we can learn something useful from it. It is not just a scorecard. It is something that helps us change our behavior or influence the behavior of others."This high powered collection of papers illustrates this statement. The network of world class scholars and development practitioners covers the gamut from methodological issues to policy concerns with respect to participatory evaluation, poverty reducing growth, macro and micro levels of intervention, health, nutrition and population programs, social inclusion and the changing role of the civil society. The participants include major figures, including a Nobel Laureate as well as cutting edge policy makers. Poverty reduction is examined in innovative ways-utilizing state of the art techniques of the social and economic sciences.The editors and contributors emphasize "what works" in poverty reduction programs. They point to making interventions context specific with a holistic vision of the problem. Contributors emphasize social funds and safety nets, social services, crisis prevention, informal social security and insurance systems, anti-corruption programs, mobilization of the poor, and ultimately, the creation, where none existed in the past, of a workable civil society. In short, this volume lies at the intersection of development economics and political economy. It seeks to promote development effectiveness through social learning and problem solving.The volume is unabashedly focussed on pro-poor growth. It has its roots in a conference sponsored by the Operations Evaluation Department, an independent unit within the World Bank. The goals of evaluation are to learn from experience, to provide an objective basis for assessing the results of the Bank's work, and to provide accountability in the achievement of its objectives.Osvaldo N. Feinstein is a manager, and Robert Picciotto, director general of the Operations Evaluation Department. The World Bank is located in Washington, D.C. with offices throughout the developing world.Anthropology and Art Practice: Contemporary Ethnographic Practice (Contemporary Ethnographic Practice Ser.)
By Christopher Wright, Arnd Schneider. 2013
Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts…
and anthropology. This practice-based and visual work can be characterised as 'art-ethnography'. In engaging with the concerns of both fields, this cutting-edge study tackles current issues such as the role of the artist in collaborative work, and the political uses of documentary. The book focuses on key works from artists and anthropologists that engage with 'art-ethnography' and investigates the processes and strategies behind their creation and exhibition.The book highlights the work of a new generation of practitioners in this hybrid field, such as Anthony Luvera, Kathryn Ramey, Brad Butler and Karen Mizra, Kate Hennessy and Jennifer Deger, who work in a diverse range of media - including film, photography, sound and performance. Anthropology and Art Practice suggests a series of radical challenges to assumptions made on both sides of the art/anthropology divide and is intended to inspire further dialogue and provide essential reading for a wide range of students and practitioners.Post-Modernism, Economics and Knowledge
By Stephen Cullenberg, David F. Ruccio, Jack Amariglio. 2001
Only in the past twenty years have debates surrounding modernism and postmodernism begun to have an impact on economics. This…
new way of thinking rejects claims that science and mathematics provide the only models for the structure of economic knowledge.This ground-breaking volume brings together the essays of top theorists including Arjo Klamer, DThis volume brings together articles on three primary elements of globalization: multilateralism, regionalism and unilateralism. Expert contributors investigate the substantive…
issues of commodity and factor trade, capital movements and monetary and fiscal policies, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.Supermarket
By Kathleen Krull. 2001
Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain: Reconstructing Home (Home Ser.)
By Gregory Salter. 2019
In this book, Gregory Salter traces how artists represented home and masculinities in the period of social and personal reconstruction…
after the Second World War in Britain. Salter considers home as an unstable entity at this historical moment, imbued with the optimism and hopes of post-war recovery while continuing to resonate with the memories and traumas of wartime. Artists examined in the book include John Bratby, Francis Bacon, Keith Vaughan, Francis Newton Souza and Victor Pasmore. Case studies featured range from the nuclear family and the body, to the nation. Combined, they present an argument that art enables an understanding of post-war reconstruction as a temporally unstable, long-term phenomenon which placed conceptions of home and masculinity at the heart of its aims. Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain sheds new light on how the fluid concepts of society, nation, masculinity and home interacted and influenced each other at this critical period in history and will be of interest to anyone studying art history, anthropology, sociology, history and cultural and heritage studies.Organization and Economic Behaviour
By Anna Grandori. 2001
Organization and Economic Behaviour presents all the basic elements of organizational theory and behaviour. Different approaches are analysed, with a…
strong focus on reintegrating sociological, psychological and economic contributions to the subject.This unique volume is clearly written and is designed to address a wide audience, including studentsBaroque & Rococo
By Gauvin Alexander Bailey. 2012
This new title in the highly regarded Art & Ideas series presents a thorough introduction to the Baroque and Rococo…
styles. Encompassing architecture, interior design, furniture, ceramics, garden landscaping and theatrical spectaculars, as well as the masterpieces of this prolific period in the Fine Arts, these styles were global and had enormous impact on the history of art. Gauvin Bailey clarifies the essence of the styles and examines their complexities and contradictions, and their applications against the backdrop of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, Latin America and Asia. With 250 illustrations, well-known sculptures by Bernini, paintings by Caravaggio and Rembrandt, and some of the most famous buildings in the world are set in their creative milieu with succinct analysis and broad clarity. Lesser known examples from across the world demonstrate how the aesthetic trends of the styles were concurrent throughout continents, and enlightens and refreshes the implications of the terms.Mexico Beyond NAFTA
By Lionello F. Punzo, Martín Puchet Anyul. 2001
With European Monetary Union well underway, Europe is starting to look at nearby countries and culturally closer continents to define…
its strategies for the future. In this book, chapters by leading Mexican economists are matched with reactions from European colleagues. They offer a novel viewpoint on the critical assessment of the North American FBlindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought
By Moshe Barasch. 2001
This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting.…
Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the eighteenth century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing ofEssay on the Nature of Commerce in General
By Richard Cantillon. 2001
Richard Cantillon is one of the key figures in the early history of economics. He was certainly not the first…
to think about economic problems, but he was the first to have clear insight into the way the economy functions as a system. He was arguably the first to structure a theory of how the economy works. In this sense he could be called the first real economist. Today, his ideas on population, determination of prices, wages and interest, the role of the entrepreneur, banking, and the influence of money supply on the economy are increasingly quoted and appreciated.This is a translation of the Éssai sur la nature du commerce en general his only surviving work. It was circulated in manuscript form for many years after his death and was extremely influential, albeit not well known, at least throughout the eighteenth century. Essays on the Nature of Commerce in General shaped the development of economics through its formative influence on Franþois Quesnay and Adam Smith. It is a cornerstone upon which all subsequent economic theory has been built.Transaction is proud to breathe new life into this classic work as part of its distinguished series in economic theory and history. In his new introduction, Anthony Brewer showcases Cantillon, the prophetic thinker, for a new generation of readers. This volume's broad-based appeal and great cultural import can no longer afford to be overlooked. Students of economic theory, intellectual historians, and sociologists will find this volume indispensable.A Journey into Accounting Thought
By Louis Goldberg. 2001
This book explores the role of accountants in business and society. The final work of Louis Goldberg, Professor Emeritus at…
the University of Melbourne, it aims to raise awareness of the existence and importance of fundamental issues that are often ignored or by-passed in contemporary discussion of accounting. The sixteen chapters assess exactly whManaging suppliers is a complex process that is often underestimated. This book presents research carried out by a practising manager…
in the automotive industry, coupled with over six hundred interviews with representatives from the automotive, aircraft and white goods industries, in order to describe the tools and techniques needed to better manag