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Опубликовано на портале: 21-12-2006
Ред.: Paul Blyton, Betsy Blunsdon, Ali Dastmalchian
New-York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 264 с.
The question of work-life balance and the difficulties of managing multiple roles
is attracting considerable interest. This international collection broadens the focus
of these debates and presents recent research findings that will further stimulate
theoretical development and empirical studies. While much previous research has focused
on the challenges faced by working mothers, the research presented in this collection
introduces perspectives that have not been widely included in previous work in the
field, such as the voice of children, the challenges that students face, the role
of both employers and unions and how different occupational groups experience work-life
balancing strategies.



Опубликовано на портале: 15-01-2008
Ред.: Wolfgang Streeck, Joel Rogers
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 436 с.
As the influence of labor unions declines in many industrialized nations, particularly the United States, the influence of workers has decreased. Because of the need for greater involvement of workers in changing production systems, as well as frustration with existing structures of workplace regulation, the search has begun for new ways of providing a voice for workers outside the traditional collective bargaining relationship.Works councils--institutionalized bodies for representative communication between an employer and employees in a single workplace--are rare in the Anglo-American world, but are well-established in other industrialized countries. The contributors to this volume survey the history, structure, and functions of works councils in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Canada, and the United States. Special attention is paid to the relations between works councils and unions and collective bargaining, works councils and management, and the role and interest of governments in works councils. On the basis of extensive comparative data from other Western countries, the book demonstrates powerfully that well-designed works councils may be more effective than labor unions at solving management-labor problems.



World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-By-Commodity Guide to Impacts
and Practices [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 31-12-2003
Jason Clay
USA: Island Press, 2003, 282 с.
Книга затрагивает проблематику взаимоотношения и влияния сельскохозяйственного производства
на окружающую среду, а также возникающих экологических проблемах. Даются некоторые
советы по повышению эффективности использования природных ресурсов в сельском хозяйстве
и путях снижения степени негативного влияния на природные системы. Автор анализирует
двадцать основных видов сельскохозяйственного сырья, предоставляя информацию об основных
странах производителях и потребителях, видах и способах производства, анализ рыночных
цепочек, влияния данного производства на окружающую среду, стратегий управления и
применения лучших методов.

World Agriculture in Disarray [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 31-12-2003
D.Gale Johnson
USA: Macmillan Press, 1991, 304 с.
Книга «Мировое сельское хозяйство в беспорядке» - об основных тенденциях
развития мирового сельского хозяйства. Автором показывается постепенное развитие
сельского хозяйства с ростом производительности, фондовооруженности, снижением занятости
и доли сектора в экономике в целом. Также, глубокому анализу подвергаются аграрные
политики развитых стран и их отрицательное воздействие на развивающиеся страны.

Опубликовано на портале: 24-12-2003
Catherine Benjamin, Chantal Gueguen, Magalie Houee
Durban, 2003
Previous quantitative assessments of likely impacts of recent reforms of the Common
Agricultural Policy (in
particular the Agenda 2000) differ across empirical studies. Differences
are mainly due to the ways the
policy instruments are taken into account (explicit modeling or implicit
modeling i.e. using ad-valorem
equivalents). The aim of this paper is to assess empirically the impacts
of recent reforms of the Common
Agricultural Policy and the consequences of the Mid-Term proposals on world cereals
markets. We develop
an econometric, dynamic, multi-product, partial equilibrium commodity model that
focuses on arable crops.
Major exporters and major importers are modeled separately, other countries being
included in a rest of the
world category. For the countries or regions explicitly integrated the model estimates
supply, demand and
trade. The model we develop has two important features:
i) the parameters estimated in the behavioral equations (supply and demand) satisfy regularity conditions and
ii) the agricultural policy instruments (in particular CAP instruments) are modeled in an explicit way.
In the empirical section, attention focuses on the world cereals market. We provide a market outlook through the year 2009 for three different scenarios: baseline projections and two scenarios based on different assumptions regarding the evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy (the Mid-Term Review scenario and the decoupling scenario). Estimated effects of the mid-term scenario on EU crop prices depend on the relationship between EU and world market prices.
i) the parameters estimated in the behavioral equations (supply and demand) satisfy regularity conditions and
ii) the agricultural policy instruments (in particular CAP instruments) are modeled in an explicit way.
In the empirical section, attention focuses on the world cereals market. We provide a market outlook through the year 2009 for three different scenarios: baseline projections and two scenarios based on different assumptions regarding the evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy (the Mid-Term Review scenario and the decoupling scenario). Estimated effects of the mid-term scenario on EU crop prices depend on the relationship between EU and world market prices.


Опубликовано на портале: 02-02-2007
Ред.: Charles F. Sabel, Jonathan Zeitlin
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, cерия "Studies in Modern Capitalism", 524 с.
This book retells the history of Western industrialization, revealing possibilities
unexplored in the nineteenth century, variants of which have come to transform present
day economies. It shows that economic actors have historically been more aware of
the great strategic choices they faced than standard theory credits them with being,
and this surprising acuity allows them to imagine and put into practice solutions
which current theories of industrial organization have scarcely anticipated. The
book is therefore at one and the same time a contribution to a substantive revision
of the history of mechanized production and a propaedeutic in a form of explanation
that approximates the knowledge of the actor to the knowledge of the theorist. The
volume groups essays presented by a multinational team of historians and social scientists
drawing on intensive primary research on a wide range of firms, regions, sectors
and national economies in Western Europe and the United States from the eighteenth
century to the 1990s.



Writings on Cities [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 27-11-2006
Henri Lefebvre, Elizabeth Le Bas
Изд-во: Blackwell Publishing Company, 1995, 264 с.
The work of Henri Lefebvre - the only major French intellectual of the post-war period
to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life - received considerable
attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment following
the publication in English of The Production of Space. This new collection brings
together, for the first time in English, Lefebvre's reflections on the city and urban
life written over a span of some twenty years.The selection of writings is contextualized
by an introduction - itself a significant contribution to the interpretation of Henri
Lefebvre's work - which places the material within the context of Lefebvre's intellectual
and political life and times and raises pertinent issues as to their relevance for
contemporary debates over such questions as the nature of urban reality, the production
of space and modernity.


Опубликовано на портале: 30-11-2003
Anwar F. Chishti, Waqar Malik
2002
A theory-based graphical analysis of WTO’s trade liberalization policies (opening
of
close-economy to international trade and cuts in price-supports, import-tariffs and
exportsubsidies)
suggests that most of such policies would yield net social gains to the society,
as a
whole. The adverse effects and losses in producer surpluses of some of the policies
would be
balanced out by greater gains in consumer surpluses and vice versa. Losses in producer
surpluses
due to cuts in price supports and import tariffs are also expected to be partially
subsided by
reductions in export subsidies mainly granted by the USA and EU; hence, policies
need to be
enforced, not in isolation, but in a simultaneous fashion.
Trade liberalization would help minimize control of individuals on trade, leave less
room
for individual policy makers, tax collectors and interest groups to exploit situations
in their own
interest and lead the economy to be run in accordance with the supply and demand
forces based
on the last lasting general tendency of human nature. This would help to achieve
a sustainable
and stable agricultural growth; however, more durable sustained growth would depend
as how
effectively trade liberalization is pursued and enforced the world over. Opening
of closed
economy for exportables, and withdrawal of export subsidies by foreign exporters
would be proproducers
and would directly contribute to poverty alleviation. Opening of economy for
importables, withdrawal of price supports and tariff-cuts on imports would yield
savings to
consumers and would positively contribute towards poverty reduction.


Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2003
Jean-Christophe Bureau, Luca Salvatici
2002
This paper provides a summary measure of the possible new commitments in the area
of market access undertaken by the European Union and the United States, using the
Trade
Restrictiveness Index (TRI) as the tariff aggregator. Indicators such as the TRI,
based on welfare
theory, integrate economic behavioural assumptions within a balance of trade framework.
We
take the 2000 bound tariffs as the starting point and attempt to assess how much
liberalisation in
agriculture could be achieved in the European Union and the United States as a result
of the
present negotiations. We compute the index for agricultural commodity aggregates
assuming a
specific (Constant Elasticity of Substitution) functional form for import demand.
The present
levels of the TRI under the actual commitments of the Uruguay Round are computed
and
compared with three hypothetical cases: a repetition of the same set of commitments
of the
Uruguay Round, a uniform 36 percent reduction of each tariff, an harmonization formula
based
on the “sliding scale” scheme. This makes it possible to infer how reducing
tariff dispersion
would help improve market access in future trade agreements.

