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This book asserts that antitrust laws - on economic, legal, and moral grounds - are bad, and provides evidence supporting arguments for their total abolition. Gary Hull and the contributing authors show that caselaw - as well as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act itself - are premised on bad economics.

This volume sheds light on trends and developments that have been articles presenting empirical evidence of the major features and important changes characterizing work organizations and the regime of work in Israeli society.

Traces the relationship between ideas and methodological perspectives in economics to the fields of philosophy and the physical sciences. It is aimed at students of economics who want to learn about the philosophical underpinnings and scientific foundations of contemporary economic theory.

A survey and critique of the major theories of financial crises. This second edition covers the period from 1985 and the stock market crash of 1987, the collapse of the S&L industry, the severe problems of US commercial banks, and the increasing risks posed by junk bonds.

Albert Barnes is best remembered as one of the great American art collectors. This work is both a biography and a study of the often-conflicted efforts of an emergent liberalism to seek out and showcase African-American contributions to the American Aesthetic tradition.

This work represents the range and depth of developments in the study of social stratification, mobility, and inequality. Although they address a variety of issues, they have in common a focus on the institutional mechanisms that govern the allocation of rewards.

An historiographical examination of the political debates of the 1980s over despotism in Chinese history and over Party history. The extent of popular culture and its reinterpretation of history is also assessed, as governmental control of the media has decreased.

An assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the 1990s, this collection of essays surveys the Gorbachev reform agenda and its successes and failures to date. Topics covered include federalism and the nationality problem and foreign policy towards the West, Eastern Europe and the Third World.

This work is a chronicle of local Jewish resistance, both organizational and private, and it also records the efforts of Newark's other ethnic groups to fight the Nazi presence that shook Newark during World War II.

This introductory text on labour economics covers topics such as: the shift in America from a manufacturing-based economy to a service economy; the changes in the economic conditions in the US; the implications of NAFTA and GATT; and the labour markets.

Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be an important issue in the future. This work predicts that such concerns will create a new political field, namely, knowledge policy, which will entail regulating dissemination of the anticipated results of rapidly increasing knowledge.

With sections on history, poltical economy, culture, military issues and the US-China relationship, this work presents a multifaceted look at a country which is likely to be a major factor in US foreign policy in the 21st century.

This text brings together studies in various aspects of the theory of the capitalist economy. It focuses on major themes of the Marxist tradition that postulate the existence and importance of social relations and structures underlying the esoteric realm of prices, profits, wages, etc.

A historical analysis of theories of rights. The author offers an interpretative phenomenology of the concept of rights by retracing the evolution of the concept from Ancient Greece up to modern times, and discussing the transformation of the problems through which the concept is defined.

Presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences. Here are eyewitness and participant accounts expressed through wall posters, students speeches, movement declarations, handbills, and other documents.

An exploration of development in a world divided by poverty and wealth. The volume offers lessons on improving the effectiveness of aid, country ownership, development results, partnership, and mutual learning.

Evaluation is a central aspect of poverty reduction endeavours. This collection of papers illustrates this, exploring methodological and policy concerns with respect to participatory evaluation, poverty-reducing growth, macro and micro levels of intervention, health programmes, and more.

A re-examination of genocide, viewing the issue as the defining element in political sociology of our time. This fifth edition concludes with chapters reviewing the history of genocide studies from 1945 to 2001, along with a self-appraisal of the author's work in this field over four decades.

An analysis of the Chinese Communist Party from the time of Deng Xiaoping's return to power in 1978 to his resignation from his last major post in the wake of the Tiananmen crisis, tracing the evolution of Deng's programme to modernize China by the year 2000.

A collection of documents, with commentary, which trace the day-to-day pronouncements, utterances, and reflections from all sides of the conflict in China in the spring of 1989. The 65 documents are arranged chronologically, starting in early March and ending in late June.

Despite its relationship to social change, much writing about identity has been concerned with theories of style, performance, and surface. The contributors to this volume take a different approach, examining cultural, institutional, economic, and technological developments.

This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a worker-oriented blueprint for improving productivity, growth, employment and economic justice.

Explores the interplay between the recent broader changes affecting the welfare state (fiscal crisis, cost containment, privatization, etc) and the restructuring of social service work, and the implications for the line practitioner.

This anthology presents translations of 30 songs recorded from a living epic tradition over the past two hundred years. The authors have captured the distinctive poetic language of Russian oral epics. All subgenres of the Russian epic are covered and previously untranslated variants included.

A study of the history of Soviet Central Asia and the demographic, political, economic and cultural weight of the Muslims that reside there. This book examines current trends in this area which is one of Russia's most turbulent and misunderstood minority regions.

Radical political economy is built upon the formal analysis of neoclassical economics and the tradition of Marxian/radical analysis. The essays presented in this book offer a representative sampling of the issues and methodologies involved in the study of radical political economy.