Oxford University Press

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A billion people, roughly half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for more than half a century and continue to outpace the rest of the city in growth. Janice Perlman's award-winning    The Myth of Marginality was the...

The early twenty-first century is witnessing both an increasing        internationalization of many markets, firms, and regulatory institutions, and a        reinforcement of the key role of nation states in managing economic development,        financial crises, and market upheavals in many OECD and developing economies.          Drawing on a...

This unique book tells the fascinating story of four thousand years of rubber as seen through the lives of the adventurers and scientists who promoted it, lusted after it and eventually tamed it into the ubiquitous, yet crucial material of our lives today....

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