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Free Download The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions: The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David by Marcel Herbst
English | PDF (True) | 2014 | 226 Pages | ISBN : 9400774060 | 2.5 MB
The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this volume. The book focuses on three major lines of Ben-David’s research, namely "Center and Periphery" (Part I), "Role and Ethos" (Part II), and "Organization and Growth" (Part III). In addition, comprehensive introductory ("Prologue") and concluding chapters ("Epilogue", Part IV) by Marcel Herbst are provided. The volume addresses the following disciplines: higher education, history and sociology of science, philosophy of science, history of medicine, public administration, policy studies, Jewish studies, and economics. The anthology is one of two new publications on Joseph Ben-David after the special Minerva edition Vol. 25, Numbers 1-2, March 1987, and Gad Freudenthal’s collection of Ben-David’s writings [1991]. The text can be used in graduate studies, it addresses higher education professionals or public officials, and serves as a gateway to researchers in the field of higher education, science studies, or policy sciences.

Free Download Alexandru V. Grigorescu, "Restraining Power through Institutions: A Unifying Theme for Domestic and International Politics"
English | ISBN: 0192863681 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book challenges the traditional view that meaningful analogies cannot be drawn between domestic and international politics. Alexandru V. Grigorescu shows that there are important parallels to be drawn across these two realms, if political interactions among states over the past two centuries are compared to those within states going back about a thousand years. He focuses specifically on the evolution of institutions that restrain concentrated power, such as courts, assemblies, and bureaucracies.

Free Download Alexandru V. Grigorescu, "Restraining Power through Institutions: A Unifying Theme for Domestic and International Politics"
English | ISBN: 0192863681 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book challenges the traditional view that meaningful analogies cannot be drawn between domestic and international politics. Alexandru V. Grigorescu shows that there are important parallels to be drawn across these two realms, if political interactions among states over the past two centuries are compared to those within states going back about a thousand years. He focuses specifically on the evolution of institutions that restrain concentrated power, such as courts, assemblies, and bureaucracies.

Free Download Derrida’s Social Ontology: Institutions in Deconstruction by Ryan A. Gustafson
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 198 Pages | ISBN : 3031414934 | 4.1 MB
Derrida’s Social Ontology: Institutions in Deconstruction presents the first dedicated study of Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of institutions. While previous studies of Derrida’s thought have considered his engagement with individual institutions-from the university to literature, law, and psychoanalysis, among others-Derrida’s Social Ontology offers the first attempt to reconstruct and defend the philosophical theory of institutions that underlies these engagements. In so doing, the book argues that the theme of "the institution" in Derrida’s oeuvre offers the best throughline for understanding the substantively normative significance of deconstruction as a philosophical practice, arguing that Derrida is unique among so-called "postmodern" thinkers in providing an account of the relationship between the historically contingent character of institutions and the normative entitlements that such entities make possible. Specifically, the book shows how Derrida accounts for this relationship in a way that leaves room for a notion of "unconditional responsibility" for the social and political world to the extent that the latter is structured by perfectible institutions. In tracing the development of Derrida’s account of this link between the historicity and normativity of institutional life-from his early writings on the historicity of the institution of philosophy, to his later critiques of practices of institutional cruelty like the death penalty-Derrida’s Social Ontology not only offers readers a new framework for making sense of the normative commitments that defined this philosopher’s writings, but will also establish the terms for putting his works into conversation with contemporary debates in social and political philosophy and critical theory more broadly.

Free Download The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZFSTJ2X | 2023 | 4 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 234 MB
Author: John Coates
Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins
The forces behind an economic crisis in the making. A "problem of twelve" arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation. The Big Three index funds of Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies-a concentration of power that’s unprecedented in America. Then there’s the rise of private equity funds such as the Big Four of Apollo, Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR, which has amassed $2.7 trillion of assets, and are eroding the legitimacy and accountability of American capitalism, not by controlling public companies, but by taking them over entirely, and removing them from the government’s regulation. What can be done to check this level of power? Harvard law professor John Coates argues that only politics can fight the problem of twelve.

Free Download The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Steve Menasche, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B088ZW44HH | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 8:58 h | 250 Mb
Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale.
Sachs takes listeners through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today’s globalization.

Free Download Sebastian Oberthür, Knud Erik Jørgensen, Jamal Shahin, "The Performance of the EU in International Institutions"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138115649 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 1.1 mb
The Performance of the EU in International Institutions marks one of the first attempts to systematically analyse the subject. It focuses on the role of the EU in decision-making within international organizations and regimes as a major locus of global governance. The book unpacks the concept of EU performance into four core elements: effectiveness (goal achievement); efficiency (ratio between outputs accomplished and costs incurred); relevance (of the EU for its priority stakeholders); and financial/resource viability (the ability of the performing organization to raise the funds required). Based on the case studies herein, the findings presented in this book relate to the identified core elements of performance with a particular emphasis on the dimensions of ‘effectiveness’ and ‘relevance’. Most notably, the EU appears, on balance and over the past two decades, to have become much more relevant for its member states when acting within international institutions. The book highlights four particular factors explaining EU performance in international institutions: the status of relevant EU legislation and policies, the legal framework conditions including the relevant changes that the Lisbon Treaty has brought about, domestic EU politics, and the international context.

Free Download Risk Management and Financial Institutions (Wiley Finance) by John C. Hull
English | February 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1119932483 | 832 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Free Download Crowdfunding in Higher Education Institutions: Theory and Best Practices by Regina Lenart-Gansiniec, Karsten Wenzlaff, Sebastian Späth
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 192 Pages | ISBN : 3031300688 | 8 MB
This book offers a comprehensive review of crowdfunding at Higher Education Institutions, both in theory and practice. In addition, it sheds new light on the emerging concept of crowdfunding at Higher Education Institutions and presents an overview of current academic discussions and best practices regarding crowdfunding in education.

Free Download Constanze Dobler, "The Impact of Formal and Informal Institutions on Economic Growth: A Case Study on the MENA Region"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 3631616163 | PDF | pages: 256 | 2.0 mb
Regarding the Arab region, GDP per capita virtually stagnated for more than 20 years from 1980. During the same period, GDP per capita in the world’s highly industrialized states further increased and the gap between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the highly developed countries widened. However, the differences between Arab countries and the Western states exist not only economically. The countries also differ regarding their political, legal, and social systems. This work explains the differences in development on the basis of institutional economics. In addition to a general theoretical part, an empirical analysis demonstrates the effects of institutions on income, and a historical case study explains the divergent development paths of the Arab region and selected advanced economies.