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Mutual Insurance 1550-2015 - Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Mutual Insurance 1550-2015 - Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non-Western world and bears re-examination. This book traces the track record of mutual insurance from 1550 to the present, examining provisions for burial, sickness, unemployment, old age, and widowhood. The author seeks to address such topics as the type of risks micro-insurance covered between 1550 and 2015; how it was organized throughout its history; who provided the coverage; and how contributions, benefit levels, and conditions have changed. Importantly, the author explores why this system has worked through, and endured, the test of time. Mutual insurance can, for instance, overcome classic insurance problems such as adverse selection and moral hazards. The author demonstrates that the study of the position micro-insurance historically assumed in mixed economies of welfare presents interesting lessons for today’s insurance market, as well as for today’s mutualism.

DKK 646.00
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Value-Based Consulting - F. Czerniawska - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Value-Based Consulting - F. Czerniawska - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book will complement the author''s book on the future of Management Consultancy. While that book examined the structure and trends in the industry this book tackles the more micro questions about how consultants understand what clients value and create value for clients. The author is a leading expert on management consulting and this book will help management consultants to do their jobs successfully.

DKK 434.00
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Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World - P. Lloyd Sherlock - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World - P. Lloyd Sherlock - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Many countries in the developing world are facing a rapid acceleration in population ageing. To date, this problem has generated little interest either from academics or policy-makers. Studies which focus exclusively on social security are of little relevance for the majority of elderly in these regions, for whom the possibilities of saving or making pension contributions are remote. This book takes a more comprehensive approach, combining analysis of social security issues in all developing countries with micro-level case studies of poor urban elderly survival strategies in Buenos Aires.

DKK 423.00
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Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment - Lise Kjolsrod - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment - Lise Kjolsrod - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book provides a bottom-up contribution to contemporary political and cultural theory, by presenting leisure activities as a democratic arena. Where much of the existing literature on leisure and play views participants as consumers, Kjølsrød presents these people as producers, who conduct micro-processes of social protection, become informed and skilled, and achieve influence via complex leisure. Through an in-depth analysis of a range of leisure practices, this book demonstrates where players belong in the political landscapes of modern democracies. Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment will be of interest to students and scholars of leisure, recreational, and cultural studies, as well as sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists studying identity construction, emerging social worlds, and novel channels of political participation in contemporary society.

DKK 986.00
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Explaining News - C. Archetti - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Explaining News - C. Archetti - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The book challenges the idea that processes of globalization are leading to an increasing homogenization of news on a worldwide scale by focusing on two defining crises of our time - 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan. The empirical analysis combines process-tracing, as well as both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of governmental discourses and news coverage of eight elite newspapers across the US, France, Italy and Pakistan. It develops a new multidisciplinary framework to explain news that brings together previously distinct levels of analysis: the micro level of the individual decisions made by journalists, the organizational environment of the news organization, national social and political contexts, the macro level of international relations. The book is going to be of interest primarily to academics and researchers, postgraduate students across communications, media studies, journalism, politics and international relations, as well as journalists, media practitioners and officials involved in public communication.

DKK 423.00
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Directing for Stage and Screen - J. Stanley - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Directing for Stage and Screen - J. Stanley - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The book challenges the idea that processes of globalization are leading to an increasing homogenization of news on a worldwide scale by focusing on two defining crises of our time-9/11 and the War in Afghanistan. The empirical analysis combines process-tracing, as well as both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of governmental discourses and news coverage of eight elite newspapers across the US, France, Italy and Pakistan. It develops a new multidisciplinary framework to explain news that brings together previously distinct levels of analysis: the micro level of the individual decisions made by journalists, the organizational environment of the news organization, national social and political contexts, the macro level of international relations. The book is going to be of interest primarily to academics and researchers, postgraduate students across communications, media studies, journalism, politics and international relations, as well as journalists, media practitioners and officials involved in public communication.

DKK 328.00
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Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950 - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950 - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people''s everyday lives. The authors tell several stories: of the role played by a host of intermediaries - such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process; of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings; of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines; of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies; and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits of Southeast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images.

DKK 476.00
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Local Content Policies in Resource-rich Countries - Yerengaip Omarov - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Local Content Policies in Resource-rich Countries - Yerengaip Omarov - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book analyses the role of local content (LC) policy in the economic development of five resource-rich countries: Brazil, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia and the UK. The authors situate LC policy within a framework of sustainability in the form of industrial diversification and innovation-led growth, and examine how effective LC policies are in facilitating sectoral and economy-wide catching up. Structured in five chapters, the book begins with an introduction and then presents an overview of LC definitions and situates LC policies within a framework of economic development. The third chapter compares specific examples of LC development and highlights variations in practice as well as learning across case countries. The fourth chapter focuses on macro-economic, micro-economic and institutional challenges conditioning LC development and the ability of LC policies to assist innovation-led growth. The authors conclude by examining what the future holds for LC policies and their role in promoting economic growth and addressing the wider social, political and economic challenges in resource-rich countries.

DKK 646.00
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Debt Reckoning - Jonathan B. Justice - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Debt Reckoning - Jonathan B. Justice - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the interplay of professional norms and political accountability in the process of making decisions about whether, how, and how much debt state and local governments should incur. The careful analysis of accountability in actual decisions, focusing particularly on whether and how individual and collective decision-making behavior responds to general (stipulated) norms and situational (negotiated) expectations in their broader social contexts, is a familiar approach in the study of management and public organizations generally, but has not been extensively applied to this area of public financial decision making. Political economists, especially those identified with the public-choice approach, have done extensive macro-level normative and theoretical analysis of public debt, but not in an empirically rich fashion. This book therefore constitutes a missing link that uses analyses of selected cases to advance conceptual understandings of organizational accountability spaces in general, and decisions to incur public indebtedness and the implications of those decisions specifically, by examining the intersection of the macro, meso, and micro levels of expectations for and practices of public financial decision making.

DKK 869.00
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