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Financial Literacy and the Limits of Financial Decision-Making
This book presents selected papers on the factors that serve to influence an individual’s capacity in financial decision-making. Initial chapters provide an overview of the cognitive factors affecting financial decisions and suggest a link between limited cognitive capacity and the need for financial education. The book then expands on these cognitive limitations to explore the tendency for o…
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- 978-3-319-30886-9
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- XVIII, 343
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Financial Liberalisation
This book is the thirteenth volume in the International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy. A collection of eight papers, the book concentrates on the deregulation of domestic financial markets and discusses financial liberalisation in terms of its past performance, current progress and future developments. The chapters have bee…
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- 978-3-319-41219-1
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- XVI, 374
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- International Papers in Political Economy
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Public Involvement in Knowledge Generation : Citizen Science Opportunities in…
Public Involvement in Knowledge Generation is an Open Access co-publication with KWR.
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- 9781789060492
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- 320 BRO p
Citizen Science : Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy
Citizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation. It provides an integrated model of public knowledge production and engagement with science. As a growing worldwide phenomenon, it is invigorated by evolving new technologies that connect people easily and effectively with the scientific commu…
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- 9781787352339
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- 320 HEC c
Al-Haq : A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologie…
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- 0520976908
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- 320 WEL a
New Frontiers : Law and Society in the Roman World
Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are increasingly being asked to conduct research in an interdisciplinary manner whereby Roman law is not merely seen as a set of abstract concepts devoid of any background, but as a body of law which operated in a specific social, economic and cultural conte…
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- 9780748668182
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- 340 NEW
Poetry and Psychiatry : Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist C…
In this volume, Professor Ljunggren introduces the Symbolists and their feverish expectations in detail. Theirs was a time when for a brief moment everything seemed possible. Then came the rude awakening, best described in Bely’s powerful prose masterpiece Petersburg, which serves as the connective thread and recurrent point of reference throughout this collection. Written in the early 1910s,…
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- 9781618113610
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- 800 ROU p
The Making of an African Working Class : Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest …
It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal, ideological and experiential dimensions o…
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- 9780745334967
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- 340 WER m
A Christian Education in the Virtues : Character Formation and Human Flourishing
A Christian Education in the Virtues examines the connection between human nature and human flourishing. It draws on ancient and medieval sources to explore the formation of the person based on a Christian anthropology, emphasising the communal nature of the virtuous life and provides a richer approach to the question of contemporary character education. The book argues that the only way to und…
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- 9781000417111
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- 370 ART c
Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa : Selected Studies
Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender and judging in African judiciaries.Employing different theoretical approaches, the book investigate…
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- 1000473309
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- 340 GEN
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