Oxford University Press

Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political, managerial, and administrative discourse but also the object of much scholarly analysis across a broad range of social and administrative sciences.  This handbook provides a state of the art overview of recent scholarship on public accountability. It...

Hard Times, Hard ChoicesThe book examines trade unions in ten European countries: Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy. It explores their historical evolution, the current challenges which they face, such as membership loss and a weakening of collective bargaining, and their response to...

In financially constrained health systems across the world, increasing emphasis is being placed on the ability to demonstrate that health care interventions are not only effective, but also cost-effective. This book deals with decision modelling techniques that can be used to estimate the value for money of various interventions including medical...

In Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory, Kerry E. Back at last offers what is at once a welcoming introduction to and a comprehensive overview of asset pricing. Useful as a textbook for graduate students in finance, with extensive exercises and a solutions manual available for professors, the book will also serve as an essential reference...

A HistoryThis book explores the work of the Cadbury Committee which in 1992 produced the UK's original corporate governance code. It represents a major contribution to the history of the development of UK corporate governance in the late twentieth century: the why, how, what, and when of governance developments....

F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War IIThis book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approximating absolute zero. After 1939 he switched his research to nuclear physics, and is...