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The Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States

Abstract: Injuries are one of the most serious public health problems facing the United States today. Through premature death, disability, medical cost and lost productivity, injuries impact the health and welfare of all Americans. Deaths only begin to tell the story. Although many injuries are minor, a large proportion result in fractures, amputations, burns, or significant injuries that have far-reaching consequences. Now, for the first time in over 15 years, we have comprehensive estimates of the impact of these injuries in economic terms. This book updates a landmark Report to Congress from 1989. Since that report, no undertaking has addressed the incidence and economic burden of injuries with more timely data, despite major changes in the fields of prevention, reporting and surveillance. Since the mid-eighties, new safety technologies have been developed to prevent injuries or to decrease the severity of injuries, and new policies and laws have been enacted to promote injury prevention. Chapter topics include incidence by detailed categorisations, lifetime medical costs and productivity losses as a result of injuries, and a discussion of recent trends. Lavishly illustrated with tables and graphs, this volume is a valuable reference for public health practitioners, researchers, and students alike. Available in OSO: http://www.oxschol.com/oso/public/content/publichealthepidemiology/9780195179484/toc.html

Fair trade for all : how trade can promote development

Abstract: How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? This book suggests a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. The approach is designed to open up markets in the interests of all and not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimise the costs of adjustments. Beginning with a brief history of the World Trade Organisation and its agreements, the authors explore the issues and events which led to the failure of Cancun and the obstacles that face the successful completion of the Doha Round of negotiations. Finally they spell out the reforms and principles upon which a successful agreement must be based.

The challenge of affluence : self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950

Abstract: Explores the ways in which affluence breeds impatience, and impatience undermines well-being, in the United States and the United Kingdom. Considers how the resources of well-being are conventionally evaluated, focusing on the impact of economic resources on subjective and social well-being. Studies the psychic challenges of reconciling a variety of wants and desires at different time ranges. Investigates reciprocity, the main source of rewards outside the market. Examines how advertising balances its dependence on expectations of honesty with the temptation to deceive. Analyzes eating as a straightforward conflict between the satisfaction of appetite and the consequences for physical appearance and health. Investigates the hedonic dynamics of anticipation and habituation, focusing on household appliances and automobiles. Explores the rewards of status, with the advantages of ranking over other people, and the psychic, economic, and health costs of status complaints, or ranking below other people. Discusses the dilemmas of love under affluence. Traces the costs of these dilemmas. Offer is Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford, Fellow of All Souls College, and Fellow of the British Academy. Bibliography; index.

Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets

Abstract: Throughout the industrialized world, international migrants serve as nannies, construction workers, gardeners and small-business entrepreneurs. Labor Movement suggests that the international migration of workers is necessary for the survival of industrialized economies. The book thus turns the conventional view of international migration on its head: it investigates how migration regulates labor markets, rather than labor markets shaping migration flows. Assuming a critical view of orthodox economic theory, the book illustrates how different legal, social and cultural strategies towards international migrants are deployed and coordinated within the wider neo-liberal project to render migrants and immigrants vulnerable, pushing them into performing distinct economic roles and into subordinate labor market situations. Drawing on social theories associated with Pierre Bourdieu and other prominent thinkers, Labor Movement suggests that migration regulates labor markets through processes of social distinction, cultural judgement and the strategic deployment of citizenship. European and North American case studies illustrate how the labor of international migrants is systematically devalued and how popular discourse legitimates the demotion of migrants to subordinate labor. Engaging with various immigrant groups in different cities, including South Asian immigrants in Vancouver, foreigners and Spataussiedler in Berlin, and Mexican and Caribbean offshore workers in rural Ontario, the studies seek to unravel the complex web of regulatory labor market processes related to international migration. Recognizing and understanding these processes, Bauder argues, is an important step towards building effective activist strategies and for envisioning new roles for migrating workers and people. The book is a valuable resource to researchers and students in economics, ethnic and migration studies, geography, sociology, political science, and to frontline activists in Europe, North America and beyond.

The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice, and Policy

Abstract: The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood. This comprehensively revised new edition of the acclaimed work by an outstanding team of WTO law specialists provides a complete overview of the law and practice of the WTO. The authors begin with the institutional law of the WTO (such as the sources of law and remedies of the dispute settlement system), then tackle the principal substantive obligations of the WTO regime (including tariffs, quotas, and MFN). They then move on to consider unfair trade, regional trading arrangements, and developing countries. In its final section the book deals with the consequences of globalization: firstly, where free trade is seen to be incompatible with environmental protection and, secondly, where WTO law confronts legal regimes governing issues of competition and intellectual property.

Utility and democracy : the political thought of Jeremy Bentham

Abstract: 1. Real and Fictitious Entities 2. The Principle of Utility 3. Natural Law and Natural Rights 4. The French Revolution 5. The Emergence of Sinister Interest 6. Parliamentary Reform 7. The Church 8. Colonies and Constitutional Law 9. Codification, Constitutional Law, and Republicanism 10. Publicity, Responsibility, and the Architecture of Government 11. The Antidote to Sinister Interest: Official Aptitude 12. The Politics of Law Reform 13. Last Things Bibliography Index

The global securities market : a history

Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Origins, Trends, and Reversals: 1100-1720 3. Advances and Setbacks: 1720 - 1815 4. New Beginnings and New Developments: 1815 - 1850 5. Exchanges and Networks: 1850-1900 6. The Triumph of the Market: 1900 - 1914 7. Crisis, Crash, and Control: 1914 - 1939 8. Suppression, Regulation, and Evasion: 1939 - 1970 9. A Transatlantic Revolution: 1970 - 1990 10. A Worldwide Revolution: Securities Markets from 1990 11. Conclusion

Geography and economy : three lectures

Abstract: Preface 1. Geography and the Division of Labour 2. Geography, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation 3. Geography and Development Appendix References

Drowned and Damned: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India

Abstract: The volume explores the idea and practice of flood control and argues that this is a part of a political agenda, deeply implicated in the social, economic, and political calculations of capitalism in general and colonialism in particular. It argues for a comprehensive reconsideration of the debate on the colonial environmental watershed, its hydraulic legacy amd questions contemporary enthusiasm for flood control in post-independent India.

Political Economy of Federalism in India

Abstract: The book deals with the systems, insitutions, and outcomes from the interplay of political and economic forces in Indian federalism. It attempts to broaden the conceptual framework for analysing Indian Federalism by exploring political elements and institutions and their strategic interaction with fiscal variables. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780195686937/toc.html

The making of modern management : British management in historical perspective

Abstract: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. An Introduction to Management History 2. A Theoretical and Thematic Framework PART II: MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS 3. British Management and Organization up to the 1940s 4. Comparative Management Systems up to the 1940s 5. British Management since the 1940s PART III: MANAGERS IN CONTEXT 6. Managers - The Social and Cultural Environment 7. The Development of Managers 8. Managerial Thought and Institutions PART IV: MANAGERIAL FUNCTIONS 9. The Practice of Management - Labour 10. The Practice of Management - Marketing 11. The Practice of Management - Accounting and Finance PART V: CONCLUSIONS AND REFLECTIONS 12. Conclusions Bibliography

John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace

Abstract: Sixty years after his death, the life and thought of the economist, John Maynard Keynes, continues to be a subject of the greatest interest to scholars. Yet one of the most significant areas of Keynes' thinking has been strangely overlooked - international relations, a subject that was always of central importance to him. The purpose of this book is to explore comprehensively, for the first time, the evolution of Keynes' thinking on international relations , and to show how this is linked to the changing of his opinions on economic matters, in a way which deepens our understanding of both.

Principles of Finance with Excel

Abstract: Principles of Finance with Excel is the first finance text that comprehensively integrates Excel into the teaching and practice of finance. Finance is inherently a topic requiring lots of computation and in today's business world this computation is almost wholly carried out in Excel. Despite this, many books rely heavily on hand calculators, and business school students often find that when they leave the academic environment they have to relearn both finance and Excel. The Excel-based approach of Principles of Finance with Excel gives better tools to the instructor and the student and integrates the educational message with the most useful financial tool available. There are no financial calculator examples in Principles of Finance with Excel, just Excel. The resulting message is clear: The Practice of Finance goes hand-in-hand with Excel. As every Excel user knows, a spreadsheet is not just a "computational tool", a slightly more sophisticated twist on the calculator. Using a spreadsheet gives new and deeper insights into financial decision making. The ability to combine graphics with computation, the powerful functions incorporated into the spreadsheet, and the ease with which sensitivity analysis can be done-all these give potent insights into financial problems.

The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Commentary

Abstract: Reaching past the secrecy so often met in arbitration, this study explains clearly and fully the workings of the UNCITRAL Rules of Arbitral Procedure recommended for use in 1976 by the United Nations. Pulling together difficult to obtain sources from the Iran -United States Claims Tribunal, arbitrations under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and ad hoc arbitrations the Authors illuminate the shape the bare bones UNCITRAL Rules take in practice. The authors cogently critique that practice in the light of the negotiating history of the rules and solutions adopted by the other major private rules of arbitral procedure. To aid the specialist in the field, the practice of these various tribunals is also faithfully extracted and reproduced so that it may be argued in yet unforeseen procedural contexts. Rich both in its analysis and sources, this text is indispensable for the international arbitration field. The Authors have all served with the staff of the Iran -United States Claims Tribunal and served as arbitrators, counsel and judges with institutions ranging from the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, to the European Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations.

The Equity Risk Premium: Essays and Explorations

Abstract: This book aims to create a strong understanding of the empirical basis for the equity risk premium. Through the research and anaylsis of two scholars who are experts in this field, this volume presents the key issues that are paramount to investors, including whether or not to use historical data as a method of equity investing, and can the equity premium reflect changes in fundamental values and cash flows of the market.

Econometrics: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Perspectives

Abstract: The book covers both the theory and the applications aspects of econometric theory with reference to India/developing countries. It is comprehensive in its coverage of topics, contains exercises and solved examples and uses applications, detailed illustrative examples from the Indian economy, and data, both from India and the West. Twenty-three chapters spread over eight parts take students from methodology to the statistical foundations and then lead into general models, advanced econometrics, and the newer areas of study.

International Economics: Theory, application, and policy

Abstract: Written from a European perspective, this text offers coverage of all the key elements of international economics: trade, money and finance A firm emphasis is placed on ensuring that students understand how the theory relates to real world examples, providing undergraduate students with everything they need to understand this course Empirical and Political detail is given close attention International Economics contains 32 chapters split into 2 parts with Part One covering International Trade and Part Two covering International Money This text is supported by an Online Resource Centre that includes a comprehensive study guide to assist students in reinforcing what they have learnt and preparing for exams

The Economic History of India 1857-1947

Abstract: This comprehensive and updated textbook on the economic history of colonial India presents a lucid account of the factors that shaped economic change in colonial India in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and Technology Development

Abstract: New radical general purpose technologies have been the drivers of economic growth in the United States economy in recent economic history. In this paper I review the role of military and defense related research, technology development, and procurement in the development of the aircraft, nuclear power, computer, semiconductor, internet and the space communication and earth observing industries. The development of each of these industries would have been substantially delayed in the absence of support for research, technology development and procurement by the military and defense related agencies. Rates of productivity and output growth would have been substantially slower. By the early 1990's it was becoming clear that changes in the United States economy, of the defense industrial base, and in United States military and defense strategy meant that the defense and defense related industries would no longer play a prominent role in the development of new general purpose technologies. There has been a relative decline in investment in basic research and in early stage technology development in the private sector. The United States has yet to develop a coherent strategy for the public support of commercial technology development. My own sense is that when the history of United States technology development for the next half century is eventually written it will be characterized by incremental rather than revolutionary changes in both military and commercial technology. It will also be written in the context of slower productivity and output growth than the rates that prevailed in the United States during the first several post war decades or since the beginning of the information technology bubble that began in the early 1990s.

Gas prices in the UK : Markets and insecurity of supply (I)

Abstract: In this article Professor Philip Wright argues that the high and volatile gas prices experienced by UK consumers over the last 3 years are the result of the extent of liberalisation in the UK- which has made UK prices much more sensitive to insecurities of supply. Businesses pay the cost of this, straightaway, while the strategies which gas companies have used to respond to heightened price risks means domestic consumers also bear the cost of higher supply-markups. The prospect of high levels of demand in bad winters then just adds to price risk and its associated costs. The implication of this analysis is that it is illogical for the UK's regulator and government to blame the UK's high prices on the slow progress of liberalisation in the rest of Europe-greater liberalisation in Europe might simply replicate the UK's price difficulties throughout Europe.

Globalization and Labor Conditions

Abstract: This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization - international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies - have altered working conditions and labor rights around the world during the 20th century. Drawing on analyses of a database on international labor conditions assembled for this project and a growing research literature on globalization and labor conditions, the book finds that trade, migration, and multinational companies are associated with improvements in world labor conditions. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/0195306007/toc.html

Does Education Really Help?: Skill, Work, and Inequality

Abstract: This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay. Indeed, the econometric results provide no evidence that the growth of skills or educational attainment has any statistically significant relation to earnings growth or that greater equality in schooling has led to a decline in income inequality. Results also indicate that computer investment is negatively related to earnings gains and positively associated with changes in both income inequality and the dispersion of worker skills. The findings reports here have direct relevance to ongoing policy debates on educational reform in the U.S. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780195189964/toc.html

From Marx and Mao to the market : the economics and politics of agricultural transition

Abstract: Preface 1 Introduction THE ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION 2 Patterns of transition 3 A model of agricultural transition 4 Policy reforms 5 The effects of the reforms THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION 6 Basic determinants of reform strategies 7 Why did the Communist party reform in China, but not in the Soviet Union? 8 Determining the pace of market liberalization 9 The political economy of property rights reform and farm restructuring CONCLUSIONS, LESSONS AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS 10 Conclusions 11 Lessons of agricultural transition 12 The second decade of transition

Lie Groups: An Introduction Through Linear Groups

Abstract: Lie Groups is intended as an introduction to the theory of Lie groups and their representations at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. It covers the essentials of the subject starting from basic undergraduate mathematics. The correspondence between linear Lie groups and Lie algebras is developed in its local and global aspects. The classical groups are analysed in detail, first with elementary matrix methods, then with the help of the structural tools typical of the theory of semisimple groups, such as Cartan subgroups, roots, weights, and reflections. The fundamental groups of the classical groups are worked out as an application of these methods. Manifolds are introduced when needed, in connection with homogeneous spaces, and the elements of differential and integral calculus on manifolds are presented, with special emphasis on integration on groups and homogeneous spaces. Representation theory starts from first principles, such as Schur's lemma and its consequences, and proceeds from there to the Peter-Weyl theorem, Weyl's character formula, and the Borel-Weil theorem, all in the context of linear groups.

India's Political Economy: The Gradual Revolution (1947-2004)

Abstract: This book addresses the fundamental paradox of India's political economy: how do we achieve the goals of increased economic growth and reduced economic and social disparities without causing social turmoil and dissent and carries forward the analyses to the second-generation reforms in the 21st century

The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang: Institutional Change in Finance and Public Policymaking

Abstract: In 1996, the Japanese government introduced a policy package initiating massive deregulation and liberalization in the nation's financial sector, referred to as Japan's financial 'Big Bang.' This book argues that the emergence of the Big Bang Initiative poses numerous challenges to conventional interpretations of Japanese politics and represents a clear case of institutional change in Japanese finance. Whereas many observers stress continuity in Japanese politics, this book argues that the emergence in the 1990s of performance failures and scandals attributed to the bureaucracy, as well as the increase in the likelihood of a change in government in this period, led policymaking patterns surrounding the Big Bang to differ radically from those dominating public policymaking in the past. These developments led to change in the nature of the alliance between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Ministry of Finance (MOF), to a shift in priorities within the MOF, and to a heightened role for the public in policymaking. The result was that the MOF, long perceived as 'entrenched' and seeking to maximize tangible tokens of organizational power, became more than willing to launch the Big Bang, despite the fact that these reforms would strip the ministry of many of its regulatory tools and sever the ministry's close ties with the financial sector. The book also argues that these new developments prevented financial industry actors from forestalling these reforms, as they had done in the past with other reforms similarly threatening the viability of weaker firms. The findings reveal that not only politicians, but also bureaucrats and interest groups, have reasons to pursue public support to enhance their respective political influence. Consequently, well-organized groups do not always prevail over the unorganized public.

The Industrialization of Rural China

Abstract: The growth of rural industry in China since 1978 has been explosive Much of the existing literature explains its growth in terms of changes in economic policy By means of a combination of privatization, liberalization and fiscal decentralization, it is argued, rural industrialization has taken off This book takes issue with such claims Using a newly constructed dataset covering all of China's 2000 plus counties and complemented by a detailed econometric study of county-level industrialization in the provinces of Sichuan, Guangdong and Jiangsu, the author demonstrates that history mattered More precisely, it is argued that the development of rural industry in the Maoist period set in motion a process of learning-by-doing whereby China's rural workforce gradually acquired an array of skills and competencies As a result, rural industrialization was accelerating well before the 1978 climacteric The growth of the 1980s and 1990s is therefore likely to be a continuation of this process Without prior Maoist development of skills, the growth of the post-1978 era would have been much slower, and perhaps would not have occurred at all - as has been the case in countries such as India and Vietnam This is not to say that the Maoist legacy was without flaw Many of the rural industries created under Mao were geared towards meeting defence-related objectives resulting in inefficiencies, and there can be no question that post-1978 policy changes facilitated the growth process But without the Maoist inheritance, rural industrialization across China would have been unsuccessful

The Life and Times of G. D. Birla

Abstract: This book is the first definitive biographical account of G. D. Birla, one of India's greatest business icons, philanthropists, a builder of temples and a benefactor of and host to Mahatma Gandhi.

Textiles and Weavers in Medieval South India OIP

Abstract: Updated with a new Preface and Introduction, this second edition explores the vicissitudes of handloom industry, status and role of weavers in South India, along with various other aspects like loom technology, production organization, and domestic and foreign trade in textiles.

Auctions Law and Practice

Abstract: This is the new edition of the leading work on the law and practice of auctions. The book looks at every aspect of auction practice from the economics of auction sales and restrictions on trading to criminal and other liabilities of the auctioneer. There is also a chapter on VAT. There have been important recent developments in the field of consumer protection and the book has been substantially revised to reflect these. In addition to general updating the new edition considers the practice of online auctions for the first time. There is also a section on looted art . The book continues to draw on case law from other common law jurisdictions.