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Themes, Contexts, and CritiquesDespite its recognized significance in social life, leadership is a notoriously elusive subject that generates a host of different points of explanatory focus. This is particularly so in the field of political leadership, which has been afflicted by an enduring split between the biographical idiosyncrasies of...

Causes and Consequences of the Global Financial CrisisAfter an original analysis of the causes and key events of the global financial crash, this book examines in detail how the crash and its consequences were managed: the bank rescue, policies to stimulate economic recovery, austerity, the eurozone crisis, emerging economy instabilities, the...

Economic Democracy for the 21st CenturyThese days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the process, and the difficulties of mass participation in complex systems...

Pharmaceutical Medicine provides an accessible, user-friendly and up-to-date guide for those involved in clinical trials or marketing of new medicines in the pharmaceutical industry....

Neoclassical Legal Thought, 1870-1970Two Victorian Era intellectual movements changed the course of American legal thought: Darwinian natural selection and marginalist economics. The two movements rested on fundamentally inconsistent premises. Darwinism emphasized instinct, random selection, and determinism. Marginalism emphasized...

Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth CenturyIt is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "e;big government"e; first took root in America...