"Industrial Economics and Organization: A European Perspective" is a ground-breaking text which provides a rigours and comprehensive analysis of Industrial Economics in theory and practice. Distinctive features of this text include: coverage of traditional as well as alternative approaches to Industrial Economics; detailed explanation of th relationship between Industrial and International Economics, and also the relationship between industrial and Regional Economics; examples and explanations of such groups of firms as clusters and industrial districts; extensive use of European Union for illustration of legal, economic and industrial issues; ample provision of algebraic, diagrammatic and discursive examples of New Industrial Economics; explanations of both theories of the firm and theories of industries; and equal weight given to the treatment of theory and practice. "Industrial Economics and Organization: A European Perspective" introduces the Industrial Economics discipline, and applies it to the European Union. The text is up to date, covering the latest theories, yet clarifying the origins and historical development of the discipline. The coverage is comprehensive, with explanations of many different theories from different ideological perspective. The use of mathematics is limited to the section on oligopolies, and is not essential for the reader's understanding of the key issues. In addition to clear explanations of theory, there are many examples drawn from firms and industries in Europe. Unlike most standard texts, the book conveys the excitement that pervades recent developments (for example, in the success of industrial districts based on networks of small firms). Yet the authors show an awareness of the limitations of these new developments. "Industrial Economics and Organization: A European Perspective" is essential reading for all students of Industrial Economics and European industry at intermediate and advanced levels, and should have particular interest for anyone who wants to understand what is going on within and among industries in Europe, and how economists are trying to make sense of this ever changing world of competition and cooperation.

Industrial Economics and Organization: A European Perspective

Business & Money

Jacobson, David

Andreosso-O’Callaghan, Bernadette

Economics

McGraw-Hill Book Co Ltd

The emergence of citizenship, some 4,000 years ago, was a hinge moment in human history. Instead of the reign of blood descent, questions regarding who rules and who belongs were opened up. Yet purportedly primordial categories, such as sex and race, have constrained the emergence of a truly civic polity ever since. Untying this paradox is essential to overcoming the crisis afflicting contemporary democracies. Why does citizenship emerge, historically, and why does it maintain traction, even if in compromised forms? How can citizenship and democracy be revived? Learning from history and building on emerging social and political developments, David Jacobson and Manlio Cinalli provide the foundations for citizenship's third revolution.\nCitizenship: The Third Revolution considers three revolutionary periods for citizenship, from the ancient and classical worlds; to the flourishing of guilds and city republics from 1,000 CE; and to the unfinished revolution of human rights from the post-World War II period. Through historical enquiry, this book reveals the underlying principles of citizenship-and its radical promise. Jacobson and Cinalli demonstrate how the effective functioning of citizenship depends on human connections that are relational and non-contractual, not transactional. They illustrate how rights, paradoxically, can undermine as well as reinforce civic society. Looking forward, the book documents the emerging foundations of a "21st century guild" as a basis for repairing our democracies. The outcome of this scholarship is an innovative re-conceptualization of core ideas to engender more authentic civic collectivities.

Citizenship: The Third Revolution (Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship)

Politics & Social Sciences

Cinalli, Manlio

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

The long ignored philosophical content of Emerson's writings has recently emerged as a central topic in Emerson studies. In Emerson's Pragmatic Vision, David Jacobson enters the discussion, placing Emerson in a line of philosophers from Kant and Hegel to Heidegger and Derrida, and adding to our understanding of his philosophical appropriations and anticipations. In the process Jacobson shows how Emerson grappled not only with basic issues of philosophy but eventually with the value of philosophical discourse itself. Conceiving Emerson's writings as reflective of a continuous inquiry into the fundamental question that motivates philosophy and guides reason—the question of Being—Jacobson traces his movement through philosophical humanism and anti-humanism to his identification of a philosophy founded on a reconceptualization of individual practice.
Emerson's Pragmatic Vision depicts not two Emersons but three. Between the early humanist confidence in self-reliance and the late embrace of fate, Jacobson identifies a transitional period, enunciated in the stark lecture, "The Method of Nature" (1841), and typified by the pessimism and humanist nostalgia of "Experience." The doctrine of fate, Emerson's mature pragmatic philosophy, is presented as a response to this period in which is found Emerson's retrieval of a philosophical posture rooted in obedience to the eloquence of the practice of life.

Emerson's Pragmatic Vision: The Dance of the Eye (Literature and Philosophy)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Penn State University Press

The long ignored philosophical content of Emerson's writings has recently emerged as a central topic in Emerson studies. In Emerson's Pragmatic Vision, David Jacobson enters the discussion, placing Emerson in a line of philosophers from Kant and Hegel to Heidegger and Derrida, and adding to our understanding of his philosophical appropriations and anticipations. In the process Jacobson shows how Emerson grappled not only with basic issues of philosophy but eventually with the value of philosophical discourse itself. Conceiving Emerson's writings as reflective of a continuous inquiry into the fundamental question that motivates philosophy and guides reason—the question of Being—Jacobson traces his movement through philosophical humanism and anti-humanism to his identification of a philosophy founded on a reconceptualization of individual practice.Emerson's Pragmatic Vision depicts not two Emersons but three. Between the early humanist confidence in self-reliance and the late embrace of fate, Jacobson identifies a transitional period, enunciated in the stark lecture, "The Method of Nature" (1841), and typified by the pessimism and humanist nostalgia of "Experience." The doctrine of fate, Emerson's mature pragmatic philosophy, is presented as a response to this period in which is found Emerson's retrieval of a philosophical posture rooted in obedience to the eloquence of the practice of life.

This is the first description of the formation of America's nulcear surveillance system. Drawing on interviews with participants and the little documentation available under the Freedom of Information Act, Ziegler and Jacobson tell a story not told before. They shed new light on questions raised in earlier interpretations of the early Cold War years and reveal the origins of a surveillance activity that is implied, but not explained, in today's headlines.
This book provides the first documented description of the genesis and institutionalization of America's nuclear surveillance system. It traces the development of covert technical methods for assessing the nuclear capability of foreign powers from the introduction of these techniques in World War II to 1949, when they were successfully employed to detect the test of Russia's first atomic bomb. Ziegler and Jacobson examine the planning for the system as well as the technical and organizational obstacles that had to be overcome before it could be implemented. They describe the government decision-making processes and the ways individuals and groups with different beliefs and interests were mobilized in support of the program. They also explore the relationships between the intelligence and scientific communities that were forged in this process.

Spying Without Spies: Origins of America's Secret Nuclear Surveillance System (16)

History

Ziegler, Charles A.

Military

Praeger

The Social Background Of The Old Testament

Franklin Classics

Old Nations, New World: Conceptions Of World Order

World

Routledge

DIfferential Dynamic Programming

Science & Math

Mathematics

Rand-McNally

The Immigration Reader: America in a Multidisciplinary Perspective

A superb collection of readings by the most important scholars in the social sciences working on immigration studies.

Wiley/Blackwell

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