Social Sciences News & Updates

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   New Title: International Banking for a New Century - June 24, 2015

   This new textbook provides an up-to-date overview of international banking as the second decade of the twenty-first century unfolds. Integrating geo-economic, operational, institutional and regulatory changes in the financial sector, the volume’s methodology incorporates specific case studies and research, combining theory with practical examples to illustrate the impact and consequences of past and present financial crises. 

2. Keep an eye out for special discounts at the EAERE conference in Helsinki this week!

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   New Title: Emerging Knowledge Economies in Asia - June 28, 2015

   The book aims to identify key issues and developments in ASEAN-5 that illustrate the transition of this region towards a knowledge-based economy. The book contributes to understanding the opportunities and challenges faced by emerging economies. It explains the transition process from a knowledge based perspective, showing how knowledge creation and innovation contribute to the competitiveness of companies and sectors in this region. The book takes a distinctly ASEAN perspective by discussing examples of the transition process from all ASEAN 5 nations that show how this region is attempting to link up to the global knowledge economy of the 21st Century. 

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   New Title: Gender and Climate Change Financing - June 25, 2015

   This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication. 

5. Editors Gemma Carey, Kathy Landvogt & Jo Barraket discuss ‘Creating and Implementing Public Policy’

   Whether working in the community sector, research, advocacy or perhaps even government, individuals want to know how to get heard and how to have an impact on policy. The construction of public policy and its effects differs according to one’s position in the process. In their edited collection, Creating and Implementing Public Policy, they explore policy design and implementation as an interplay between politics, values, ideas and evidence: presenting a ‘toolbox’ of ideas, perspectives and strategies related to policy approaches and their translation for action. The book is also designed to function as a conversation between those from ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the policymaking tent. Below, the editors explore some of the key themes of the book from their different perspectives.
   

   Creating and Implementing Public Policy: Cross-Sectoral Debates is available for pre-order and scheduled for publication in December 2015.
     

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   New Title: Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire - June 23, 2015

   The text examines how the interplay between Western European economic theories and the traditional Muslim economic cultural setting paved the way for a new synthesis of a Muslim-capitalist value system; shedding light on the emergence of capitalism—as a cultural and an economic system—and the social transformation it created in a non-Western, and more specifically, in the Muslim Middle Eastern institutional setting. This book will be of great interest to scholars of modern Middle Eastern history, economic history, and the history of economic thought. 

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   New Title: Economics Made Fun - June 18, 2015

   This book explores the confusion created by this contradictory picture of economics. Could a science that cannot answer its own core questions really be used to explain the logic of everyday life? This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology. 

8. 

   Press Release: Sponsorship Expert Ardi Kolah Explores Ethics in New Book

   Improving the Performance of Sponsorship, written by British sponsorship award winning author and consultant Ardi Kolah, is published globaly on 29 June by Routledge.

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   New Title: The Political Economy of Mercantilism, June 9th, 2015

   Since the days of Adam Smith, Mercantilism has been a hotly debated issue. Condemned at the end of the 18th century as a "false" system of economic thinking and political practice, it has returned paradoxically to the forefront in regard to issues such as the creation of economic growth in developing countries. This concept is oftentimes used in order to depict economic thinking and economic policy in early modern Europe; its meaning and content has been highly debated for over two hundred years. 

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    Author of the Month: Francesca Klug

    It is the 800th year anniversary of the Magna Carta! 

    Francesca Klug, author of A Magna Carta for all humanity, tells us a little about her title.