Economics

The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible ...

Yesterday's battles over internet turf were fought on the net itself: today's battles are fought in government committees, in Congress, on the stoc...

This book proposes that infusing mainline economics with more expansive and realistic conceptions of information/communication transforms static ne...

Social trends over the past 25 years strongly indicate the significance of occupational pursuits in the plans and lives of women. In the future, mo...

This special issue contains four articles that focus on a number of important Multichannel Video Program Distribution (MVPD) market issues and conc...

How has the U.S. government made the nation's foreign economic policy over the last hundred years? Social scientists have traditionally presented t...

This is the first serious comparative study of two dynamic Asian city-states that are emerging as key regional?indeed global?cities. Providing both...

Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the Unit...

Within a few months of assuming the position of curator of medieval coins at the American Numismatic Society in 1980, Alan M. Stahl was presented w...

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Historian Mic...

Updated version featuring all new material. If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "Pe...

The effective governance of global money and finance is under enormous stress. Deep changes over the last decade in capital markets, exchange rate ...

Current economic difficulties and the challenge of competing in the world market have necessitated a rethinking of American approaches to the utili...

What is income inequality? How is it measured? Is the middle class really declining? How does it relate to poverty? How long has inequality been ri...

At the start of his career Innis set out to explain the significance of price rigidities in the cultural, social, and political institutions of new...

Exploring Polanyi's lesser-known works as well as The Great Transformation, Baum provides a more complete and nuanced understanding of Polanyi's th...

Land use controls can affect the quality of the environment, the provision of public services, the distribution of income and wealth, the developme...

The rise of corporate capitalism during the late 19th and early 20th centuries has long been a source of lively debate among historians. In Origins...

Nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue of hope and action for communities that have come up short...

Join the latest debate on the issues surrounding employment compensation. In Compensation and Organizations, a number of leading I/O psychologists ...

Drawing on the most prominent research in the field, this timely book offers bold new fiscal policies that can complement current automatic stabili...