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Geographical Labor Market Imbalances
“The papers analyse the issue of geographical labour market imbalances from a very broad perspective … . the reader will find several empirical facts, new references, research questions, and empirical strategies that will be useful to understand and explore the origins and the consequences of labor market disparities for economies and regions. All regional economists interested in labour ma…
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- 978-3-642-55202-1
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- XII, 370
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- -
- Call Number
- 330 GEO
Access to Justice in Transnational B2C E-Commerce A Multidimensional Analysi…
This book identifies institutional mechanisms that can be used to promote consumer confidence in direct online sales with businesses (B2C e-commerce). It argues that enhancing the access to justice in a multidimensional sense can potentially offer an effective means of boosting consumer confidence. It introduces a conceptual framework for a multidimensional approach to access to justice in the …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-11131-5
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- XV, 316
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- -
- Call Number
- 341.7 YUT a
Accelerating Academia: The Changing Structure of Academic Time
Filip Vostal examines the changing nature of academic time, and analyzes the 'will to accelerate' that has emerged as a significant cultural and structural force in knowledge production.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-47360-8
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- XI, 242
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- Call Number
- 372.8 VOS a
Realizing a New Global Cyberspace Framework: Normative Foundations and Guidin…
In many respects cyberspace has created a new world. The online phenomena encompass social, cultural, economic, and legal facets. Exceeding the present Internet Governance concept the book analyses the normative foundations and guiding principles of a global cyberspace regime that includes the exchange of people, businesses, governments, and other entities. Based on this assessment and philosop…
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- 978-3-662-44677-5
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- -
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- 343.099
Realistic Simulation of Financial Markets: Realistic Simulation of Financial …
This book takes up unique agent-based approaches to solving problems related to stock and their derivative markets. Toward this end, the authors have worked for more than 15 years on the development of an artificial market simulator called U-Mart for use as a research and educational tool. A noteworthy feature of the U-Mart simulator compared to other artificial market simulators is that U-Mart…
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- 978-4-431-55057-0
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- 332
Accelerated Economic Growth in West Africa
The book provides a detailed analysis of the causes of West Africa’s current economic high-growth episode and proposes ways to extend it sustainably. It examines the potential role of regional integration through the establishment of a common currency union and of other policy options that can enhance economic growth. The authors suggest appropriate methods of coordination between macroeconom…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-16826-5
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- XIV, 211
- Series Title
- Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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- 339 ACC a
Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academicsâ€â€¦
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-10720-2
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- VI, 214
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- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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- 378 ACA a
Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education: Neoliberal Policie…
This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and research work, and re-orientations…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-49324-8
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- XVI, 252
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Call Number
- 378 ACA a
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-51479-0
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- VI, 217
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Call Number
- 378 WIL a
Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-54761-3
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- X, 175
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Call Number
- 378 OSU a
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