Power and politics

Mintzberg (1983), in a comprehensive review of power and politics in organizations, has identified thirteen political games , listed in Box 6.1. 

Rivoli, P. (2005). The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. Hoboken, NJ John Wiley. 

I am looking forward to this course because I feel power and politics are central issues to social interaction and the way society functions. Whilst studying for the kinship course, it seemed to me essential that you have to... 

All of this underscore a fundamental problem The drug discovery industry increasingly seems to be caught between the hammer of private enterprise with its requirement for return on investment and the anvil of public health, which demands unrestricted access to necessary medicines. Society posits for the industry inconsistent standards of behavior, observes one commentator. On some occasions, lawmakers and the general public seem to expect pharmaceutical firms to behave as if they were community-owned, nonprofit entities. At the same time, the firms owners... always expect the firms to use their market power and political muscle to maximize their owners wealth. Caught between these inconsistent standards of behavior is an industry that naturally will never get it quite right.And as long as that remains the case, debates about R D costs are unlikely to end. 

Istvm Bibo, The Paralysis of International Institutions and the Remedies A Study of Self determination, Concord Among the Major Powers, and Political Arbitration (Hassocks Harvester Press Ltd., 1976). 

Heterogeneity, Power, and Political Economy Some Current Research Issues in the Archaeology of Old World Complex Societies. Journal of Archaeolofrcal Research 6/1 1-44. 

Detailed information on the history of spices is available (4—6). Until the eighteenth century, the country or area that controlled the spice traffic was economically and politically the most powerful nation of the era. 

Reduction of overall energy use is one solution to the above problems. It requires money, technical advances, political power, and courage some reduction has been achieved, but much more is needed to reduce emissions of gases. One solution being advanced is use of processes to produce energy that do not emit gases. Hydropower has been exploited about as fully as possible, and supplies only a small fraction of total energy needs. Other sources such as wind and solar power are still much too expensive. 

A Strong fast-paced tale of war and politics in a fantasy world where magic based on the four elements of alchemy not only works but powerfully affects the lives of those it touches an unusual, exciting read. The ruler of Shaftal is dead, leaving no heir. Destruction happens when they are invaded by Sainnities. The fate of Shaftal is left in the hands of three people. 

Traweek explores the many ways in which borderlands such as Tsukuba Science City allow a strategic manipulation of the conventions and structures of scientific work. KEK is a highly sophisticated science laboratory located in a province that is seen by many Japanese to be a hick province, not the real Japan, and it falls outside the usual structures of university and national politics in Japan (456). Yet the institution s position outside the normal circuits of power and scientific culture allows it to appeal to international science communities and to reshape scientific culture in Japan. It is largely free from the control of the established universities and their models of resource allocation (in which powerful professors control access to resources [456]). 

If public opinion shapes EU policy, then a certain amount of uncertainty surrounds the future of agri-food biotechnology. The lack of equilibrium between the EU and the US adds to the global uncertainty over the issue since both are powerful political and trade powers and have yet to find common ground. This section will interpret the consequences of this uncertainty as the national and industrial responses to changes in their economic interests. 

For Marx, the task of establishing how a capitalist economy can reproduce itself is not limited to a particular period of production. The reproduction examples that he carves out in the final part of Capital, volume 2, show how balanced reproduction can take place over an extended number of years. Despite the limitations he faced, with a lack of formal modelling tools, computing power and waning personal health - the reproduction schemes were one of his last contributions to political economy - Marx was able to devise complex numerical examples, in which somehow a 10 per cent rate of growth is sustained in each period of production. It is not for nothing that he has been described as the father of modem growth theory. 

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