Author: Kenneth A. Loparo

War and Social Welfare: Reconstruction after Conflict addresses the issues of rebuilding social assistance and pension programs in the wake of war....

This book examines EU discourses on Turkey in the European Commission, European Parliament and three EU member states (France, Germany and Britain)...

What effect have innovations in digital technology had on the way we communicate and work, and what can we expect from the future? Following on fro...

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary a...

Take control of your investment decisionsThe investment industry is in a state of inertia. Recent events highlight an overreliance on mathematical ...

Analysing the relationship between EU unity and effectiveness in multilateral negotiations on food standards, climate change and health, this book ...

Russia remains among the top-5 greenhouse gas emitters in the world and thus an important player in the field of international climate politics. To...

Russia remains among the top-5 greenhouse gas emitters in the world and thus an important player in the field of international climate politics. To...

Throughout history, both military and commercial entities around the world have utilized these methods, and even since the formalization of psychol...

This book provides a critical reading of Foucault's writings on the archaeology of political economy, analyzing some of Foucault's contributions to...

Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the...

The concentrations camps that existed in the colonised world at the turn of the 20th Century are a vivid reminder of the atrocities committed by im...

What are the principal drivers of recent higher education reforms? This study investigates whether the soft governance mechanism of transnational c...

This book analyzes the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China - suggesting it is much more subtle and complex than common conven...

This is an intellectual biography of G.L.S. Shackle, economic theorist, philosopher, and historian of economic theory. It explores how Shackle chal...

In recent years the continuity of many firms has been achieved by restructuring, a task which takes up a great deal of senior management's time. Wr...

Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policie...

Through a unique collection of essays drawn from rich case studies, Authoritarianism in the Middle East provides important insights into the ongoin...

Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourse...

Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourse...

What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the ...

Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanote...

This book is about both the symbolic and the real struggles for the control of the EU's agenda on participatory democracy in the last fifteen years...

In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about...

Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context explores the efforts of human service practitioners to support communities facing the impacts o...

Knowing what deep participation is, and how it works, can make a critical difference in solving 21st century economic, political, and social proble...

Are young people today politically 'apathetic'? Or are they democratically 'mature' citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to re...

Sociology in Portugal provides the first English-language account of the history of sociology in Portugal from 1945 to the present day. Banned by t...

Project sponsors in Europe are facing more and more difficulty when acquiring conventional long-term bank loans for infrastructure projects. The re...

Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from ...

This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of Fra...

Diseases do not recognize national borders, and as we are gradually learning, failure to govern health effectively at a global level profoundly aff...

This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about...

How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffre...

This book presents a thorough evaluation of Michal Kalecki's theory of the capitalist economy. It provides readers with a complete view of Kalecki'...

Exploring the interlinkages of political parties, religiosity, and women's leadership and nominations to public office, this book argues that as pa...