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Gabor Zovanyi

Previous books on growth management in the United States favor balanced growth, which suggests that growth and environmental protection represent equally legitimate objectives. Taking issue with the balanced growth position, this book argues that furthergrowth is unsustainable, and that growth management must focus on ensuring ecological sustainability. The book illustrates how the growth management movement represents an institutionalized form of ongoing growth accommodation which is incongruous with sustainable behavior, argues that legal protections afforded property rights do not present insurmountable obstacles to stopping growth, and provides operational measures of ecological sustainability to guide future growth management programs.

Kathryn Gordon

The Yearbook of the United Nations, comprehensive and reliable, is the primary reference work on the United Nations. This fifty-fifth volume of the Yearbook details the many activities of the Organization and its organs, programmes and bodies in 2001. Itprovides an overview of the major challenges the Organization has addressed in a variety of areas, including peacekeeping and peacemaking; disarmament; human rights; refugees and displaced persons; international crime and corruption; natural resources and energy; and System-wide Special Initiative on Africa. This 1,500 pages volume is fully indexed and reproduces all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions issued during the year. It will be a valuable resourcefor diplomats, government officials, scholars, journalists and others with a serious interest in international and United Nations affairs.

Robert A. Solo

M. Granger Morgan, Baruch Fischhoff, Ann Bostrom, Cynthia Atman

This book explains how to develop more effective risk communications using the Carnegie Mellon mental-model approach. Such communications are designed to contain, in readily usable form, the information that people need to make informed decisions about risks to health, safety, and the environment. The approach draws together methods from the natural and social sciences, providing a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration. It is demostrated with varied examples including electromagnetic fields, climate change, radon, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Robert A. G. Monks, Robert A.G. Monks

" As in his previous work, Bob Monks? s unique analytical insight and eloquence address the turbulent relationship between corporate ownership and social responsibility. What makes The New Global Investors exceptional is the degree to which Monks? two sides come together: on every page, the sophisticated, detail-minded investor meets the erudite institutional thinker. This book is a must for anyone with an interest in the governance of corporations and its policy impact." Stilpon Nestor, Head of Corporate Affairs Division, OECD " This will become the first business classic of the twenty-first century. It describes a new model of wealth creation in which the successful investor is no longer a rentier but a shrewd judge of and contributor tocorporate and societal value." ED Mayo, Executive Director, New Economics Foundation " Bob Monks'? leadership over the years on issues of corporate governance, and now his challenge to global investors to take responsibility...

Frances Fox Piven

The political landscape created by industrialization in the first half of the twentieth century has become increasingly unstable as the industrial labor force contracts, eroding support for labor parties on a global scale. This volume examines challenges faced by labor in the West over the last decade, through a comparative study of labor-based political parties in the United States, England, France, West Germany, Sweden, Israel and Canada. The contributors, internationally-recognized sociologists and political scientists, examine factors contributing to the growth, maintenance or decline of these parties, while Piven offers a comprehensive overview of labor politics and shows how the history of labor parties in other countries helps make sense of the postwar history of the Democratic party in the U.S.

Andy Jones, Gerald L. Kovacich, Perry G. Luzwick

Like no other book before it, "Global Information Warfare" illustrates the relationships and interdependencies of business and national objectives, of companies and countries, and of their dependence on advances in technology. This book sheds light on the "Achilles heel" that these dependencies on advanced computing and information technologies create. It underscores how hostile countries, business competitors, terrorists, hacktivists and others are waging Information Warfare (IW) against their adversaries. This may sound like science fiction, but it has been happening for years and continues to this day-anyone and everyone can be a target and a casualty.

Hella Engerer

Hella Engerer analyzes the emergence, evolution, and theory of property rights and establishes the limits for privatization of state-owned enterprises in the transitional economies of Eastern Europe. She counters the assumption that reduction of thestate sector helps to create the basis for a private property system, showing that privatization presupposes a stable framework for property. This is a major contribution to the understanding of the emerging economic order of Central and Eastern Europe.

Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world’s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today’s most corrupt developing nations, as municipal governments and robber barons alike found new ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. In Corruption and Reform, contributors explore this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption worldwide today.A Contributors to this volume address the measurement and consequences of fraud and corruption and the forces that ultimately led to their decline within the United States. They show that various approaches to reducing corruption have met with success, such as deregulation, particularly “free banking,” in the 1830s. In the 1930s, corruption was kept in check when new federal bureaucracies replaced local administrations in doling out relief.A Another deterrent to...

Chris Milner, Robert Read, International Economics Study Group

The prospective WTO Millennium Round of negotiations will highlight critical economic issues regarding the application and implementation of the WTO rules to international trade in goods and services. In this book, a distinguished group of academic experts considers the agenda and areas of interest for the next Round in light of Seattle, the functions of the WTO and competition policy issues arising from trade liberalization. This is followed by a focus on a wide range of WTO-specific economic issues anddebates, including: ? state trading and state aids ? regional integration ? agriculture, including the EU-US banana dispute ? international investment ? patents ? financial services. Trade Liberalization, Competition and the WTO will be of interest to academics and policymakers as well as students of international economics and global trade reform.