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Latin America's recent development performance calls for a multidisciplinary        analytical tool kit. This handbook accordingly adopts a political-economy        perspective to understand Latin American economies. This perspective is not new to        the region; indeed, this volume consciously follows the approach pioneered by        political...

The Global Competition to Attract High-Skilled MigrantsThis volume considers the global competition to attract talents and the brain gain        and brain drain associated with high-skilled migration. Part I provides an overview        of immigration policies specifically aimed at selecting and attracting skilled        workers. Part II looks at...

This book explains why the U.S. welfare state does less than other Western welfare states to help people in need. Combining a state-of-the-art account of recent research on how political institutions, class politics, and racial divisions shape public policy with a close analysis of four periods of welfare state expansion and contraction, Noble...

The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time. In    Enlightenment Orpheus, Vanessa Agnew examines this apparent...

The Meaning of the First Person TermI is perhaps the most important and the least understood of our everyday expressions. This is a constant source of philosophical confusion. Max de Gaynesford offers a remedy: he explains what this expression means. He thereby shows the way to an understanding of how we express first-personal thinking. The book...

This second edition of The Oxford Handbook of International Business synthesises        all the relevant literature of the last 40 years in 28 original chapters by        distinguished scholars. Reflecting changes and developments in the field, this book        has a changed structure, fully updated chapters taking account of the...