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Discusses how forecasting is conducted, evaluated, reported and applied by academic, private, and governmental bodies, as well as how forecasting might be taught and what costs are induced by forecast errors.

"What drives people to create something from nothing? Is it ambition, the need for self-fulfilment? Is it to do with money, power, or even genes? Is there a mood of the time that encourages people? Can anyone do it?" "Charles Handy has talked to a range of extraordinary characters - from Trevor Baylis and Richard Branson to Jane Tewson and Terence Conran. And Elizabeth Handy has used her new style of composite portraits to highlight aspects of all...

Describes and analyses the operation of current minimum wage policies and politics in the United Kingdom and the USA. Traces the origins, history and development of minimum wages in the two countries. Argues that what most influences the minimum wage in both countries is the degree to which it is integrated in the political vision of how the state should assist the poor.

Draws on the findings of a project that examined employment in the service industries of France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA during the period 1970-2000. Finds more service workers in the USA due to more demand for health care and education, and generally higher consumption by American households, such as outsourcing of domestic work.

"The welfare system in the United States underwent profound changes as a result of the groundbreaking welfare legislation passed in 1996 entitled The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States examines in detail the legislative process that gave rise to PRWORA and presents two alternative theories to explain this process: the traditional public interests model...

As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed.

Argues that the U.S. retirement income system faces an enormous challenge as the baby boom generation nears retirement age. Explores the use of equities as a means of solving social security's financing problems. By reviewing the experience of the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, examines the three main approaches for introducing equities into the U.S. social security programme.

In the aftermath of the Cold War era, a new world order is being created at an extraordinary pace. Europe is becoming a more unified power, Germany is assuming a central role within that power, NATO is looking for a new mission, the former Soviet Union has ceased to be a superpower threat, and the United States is going through its own superpower adjustments. As these dramatic shifts occur, a crucial question for world stability is the future relationship...

"The domain of the welfare state has greatly expanded to encompass a large number of developing countries. Social policy in the nascent welfare states has remained little explored and even less understood. This volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature on comparative social policy, with a number of country case-studies on Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America, and five contextual chapters. The contributions reveal that...