Pub Date : 2003-08-14DOI: 10.1093/0199247579.001.0001
M. Moran
For the first two thirds of the twentieth century, British government was among the most stable in the advanced industrial world. In the last three decades, the governing arrangements have been in turmoil and the country has been a pioneer in economic reform, and in public sector change. In this book, Michael Moran examines and explains the contrast between these two epochs. What turned Britain into a laboratory of political innovation? Britain became a formal democracy at the start of the twentieth century but the practice of government remained oligarchic. From the 1970s this oligarchy collapsed under the pressure of economic crisis. The British regulatory state is being constructed in its place. Moran challenges the prevailing view that this new state is liberal or decentralizing. Instead he argues that it is a new, threatening kind of interventionist state which is colonizing, dominating, and centralizing hitherto independent domains of civil society. The book is essential reading for all those interested in British political development and in the nature and impact of regulation.
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Pub Date : 2003-03-20DOI: 10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780198506546.001.0001
A. Bellen, M. Zennaro
The main purpose of the book is to introduce the readers to the numerical integration of the Cauchy problem for delay differential equations (DDEs). Peculiarities and differences that DDEs exhibit with respect to ordinary differential equations are preliminarily outlined by numerous examples illustrating some unexpected, and often surprising, behaviours of the analytical and numerical solutions. The effect of various kinds of delays on the regularity of the solution is described and some essential existence and uniqueness results are reported. The book is centered on the use of Runge-Kutta methods continuously extended by polynomial interpolation, includes a brief review of the various approaches existing in the literature, and develops an exhaustive error and well-posedness analysis for the general classes of one-step and multistep methods. The book presents a comprehensive development of continuous extensions of Runge-Kutta methods which are of interest also in the numerical treatment of more general problems such as dense output, discontinuous equations, etc. Some deeper insight into convergence and superconvergence of continuous Runge-Kutta methods is carried out for DDEs with various kinds of delays. The stepsize control mechanism is also developed on a firm mathematical basis relying on the discrete and continuous local error estimates. Classical results and a unconventional analysis of "stability with respect to forcing term" is reviewed for ordinary differential equations in view of the subsequent numerical stability analysis. Moreover, an exhaustive description of stability domains for some test DDEs is carried out and the corresponding stability requirements for the numerical methods are assessed and investigated. Alternative approaches, based on suitable formulation of DDEs as partial differential equations and subsequent semidiscretization are briefly described and compared with the classical approach. A list of available codes is provided, and illustrative examples, pseudo-codes and numerical experiments are included throughout the book. Series Editors: G. H. Golub (Stanford University) C. Schwab (ETH Zurich) W. A. Light (University of Leicester) E. Suli (University of Oxford) Recent developments in the field of numerical analysis have radically changed the nature of the subject. Firstly, the increasing power and availability of computer workstations has allowed the widespread feasibility of complex numerical computations, and the demands of mathematical modelling are expanding at a corresponding rate. In addition to this, the mathematical theory of numerical mathematics itself is growing in sophistication, and numerical analysis now generates research into relatively abstract mathematics. Oxford University Press has had an established series Monographs in Numerical Analysis, including Wilkinson's celebrated treatise The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem. In the face of the developments in the field this has been relaunched as the Numeric
本书的主要目的是向读者介绍延迟微分方程(DDEs)的柯西问题的数值积分。DDEs在常微分方程方面表现出的特点和差异，通过许多例子初步概述了一些意想不到的，通常令人惊讶的，解析和数值解的行为。讨论了各种时滞对解的正则性的影响，并给出了一些重要的存在唯一性结果。这本书是集中在使用龙格-库塔方法连续扩展的多项式插值，包括在文献中存在的各种方法的简要回顾，并开发了详尽的错误和良好的姿态分析一般类的一步和多步骤的方法。这本书提出了龙格-库塔方法的连续扩展的全面发展，这是感兴趣的，也在数值处理更一般的问题，如密集输出，不连续方程等。对具有各种时滞的DDEs的连续龙格-库塔方法的收敛性和超收敛性进行了较深入的研究。步长控制机制也建立在坚实的数学基础上，依赖于离散和连续的局部误差估计。鉴于随后的数值稳定性分析，回顾了常微分方程“关于强迫项的稳定性”的经典结果和非常规分析。此外，对一些试验DDEs的稳定性域进行了详尽的描述，并对相应的数值方法的稳定性要求进行了评估和研究。本文简要地描述了基于DDEs作为偏微分方程的适当形式和随后的半离散化的替代方法，并与经典方法进行了比较。提供了一个可用代码的列表，并说明性的例子，伪代码和数值实验包括在整个书。系列编辑:G. H. Golub(斯坦福大学)C. Schwab(苏黎世联邦理工学院)W. A. Light(莱斯特大学)E. Suli(牛津大学)数值分析领域的最新发展从根本上改变了该学科的性质。首先，计算机工作站的日益强大和可用性使得复杂的数值计算变得广泛可行，数学建模的需求也在以相应的速度增长。除此之外，数值数学本身的数学理论也越来越复杂，数值分析现在产生了对相对抽象的数学的研究。牛津大学出版社已经建立了一系列的专著在数值分析，包括威尔金森的著名论文代数特征值问题。面对该领域的发展，这已经重新启动为数值数学和科学计算系列。正如它的名字所暗示的那样，这个系列现在的目标是涵盖与现代数值数学的理论和计算方面有关的广泛主题领域。可在OSO中获得:http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/maths/9780198506546/toc.html
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Pub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197262795.001.0001
Frederick M. Thompson
Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 16 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001. Contributors to this volume - J. R. Maddicott Paul Binksi Ralph Griffiths Richard Wilson Keith Thomas Quentin Skinner Gertrude Himmelfarb James W. Fernandez Marjorie Perloff Tim Kendall J. W. Harris Richard Blundell Annette Karmiloff-Smith
《英国学术院刊》第117卷收录了2001年在英国学术院刊发表的16篇演讲。本卷的贡献者- J. R.麦迪科特，保罗·宾克斯，拉尔夫·格里菲斯，理查德·威尔逊，基思，托马斯·昆汀·斯金纳，格特鲁德·希默法布，詹姆斯·w·费尔南德斯，马乔里·佩尔洛夫，蒂姆·肯德尔，J. W.哈里斯，理查德·布伦德尔，安妮特·卡米洛夫·史密斯
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Merchants to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. While theories of the firm predict the demise over time of merchant firms, this book identifies the continued resilience of British trading companies despite the changing political and business environments of the twentieth century. Like Japanese trading companies, they 're-invented' themselves in successive generations. The competences of the trading companies resided in their information-gathering, relationship-building, human resource, and corporate governance systems. This book provides a new dimension to the literature on international business through the focus on multinational service firms and its evolutionary approach based on confidential business records.
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This book opens up three new topics in modern Chinese literary history: the intimate lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping as a couple; real and imagined love-letters in modern Chinese literature; and concepts of privacy in China. The scandalous affair between modern China's greatest writer and his former student is revealed in their letters to each other between 1925 and 1929. Publication of the letters in a heavily edited version in 1933 was intended partly to profit from a current trend for literary couples to publish their private letters, but another reason was to assert control over their love story, taking it away from the gossip-mongers. The biographies in Part I, based on the unedited letters, reveal such hitherto neglected information as Xu Guangping's early tendencies towards lesbianism; her gender reversal games and Lu Xun's willing participation in them; Xu Guangping's two early attempts at suicide; and Lu Xun's attempts to play down Xu Guangping's political activism and to impress readers with his own militancy. Part II shows how Lu Xun chose to publish their edited letters in the context of current Chinese epistolary fiction and love-letters published by their authors. Part III provides unique evidence on the nature of privacy in modern China through a comparison between the unedited and edited correspondence. Textual evidence shows their intimate secrets about their affairs, their bodies, and their domestic lives; their fear of gossip; their longing for a secluded life together; and their ambivalent attitudes towards the traditional conflict between public service and private or selfish interests. Although it has sometimes been claimed that Chinese culture lacks a sense of privacy, this study reveals the contents, functions, and values of privacy in the early twentieth century.
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The growth of pension funds has been nothing short of astronomical. Pension funds now dominate the world's financial markets, affecting nations' wealth, community development, and industrial well being. Yet little is known about their structure and organization. Pension funds and their agents in the investment industry control enormous sums of money, profoundly affecting the structure and performance of nation-states and the global economy. At the same time, it is also apparent that many western governments are retreating from the provision of 'public good' once thought essential to the fabric of urban life. Clark agues that if we are to understand the long-term future of the western economies (in general) and our communities (in particular), we need also to understand how institutional investors allocate assets, mobilize funds, and make investment decisions. There are few studies of the relationship between pension funds and the financial services industry. Pension Fund Capitalism fills an important gap in the literature as well as the intersection between pension funds and public policy.
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Pub Date : 2001-06-28DOI: 10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780198298533.001.0001
B. Geva
This is a study of the law governing the bank-customer relationship pertaining to the disposition of funds by cheques and credit transfers, covering both paper-based and electronic payments. The work addresses, with various degrees of detail, common law, civilian, and `mixed' jurisdictions, particularly, Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States. In addition to the description of the law in these jurisdictions, the book contains an in-depth analysis of the common issues and the responses to them, in light of desired policies. Accordingly, an evaluation of the various rules and proposals for reform are integral parts of the study. The book is divided into four parts. Part I is an overview of the various legal systems and fundamentals in banking and payment law, in an overall historical context. Part II deals with the banking relationship, within which collections and payments occur. It highlights the customer contract, the deposit transaction, the mandate authorizing bank collections and payments, and the debt resulting from entries to the current account. Part III covers the performance of the mandate. It discusses extensively laws governing the payment and collection of cheques and credit transfers, in the context of actual clearing and settlement mechanisms, particularly large-value transfer systems in developed countries. Part IV is on payment systems misuse through fraud, either in the initiation payments or in misdirecting them. It discusses cheque forgery, unauthorized electronic funds transfers, forged cheques indorsements, and misdirected funds transfers. A unique feature of the work is the integration of a cohesive analytic perspective, both doctrinal and policy-oriented, into a comparative descriptive framework. The book searches for a universal `law merchant' transcending the boundaries of the various legal systems. It is aimed at the banking and payment law specialist and student as well as to the general comparative lawyer. Its focus on both present law and reform makes it useful to both the academic and practising lawyer.
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This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies. Pettis combines the insights of economic history, economic theory, and finance theory into a comprehensive model for understanding sovereign liability management and the causes of financial crises. He examines recent financial crises in emerging market countries along with the history of international lending since the 1820s to argue that the process of international lending is driven primarily by external events and not by local politics and/or economic policies. He draws out the corporate finance implications of this approach to argue that most of the current analyses of the recent financial crises suffered by Latin America, Asia, and Russia have largely missed the point. He then develops a sovereign finance model, analogous to corporate finance, to understand the capital structure needs of emerging market countries. Using this model, he finally puts into perspective the recent crises, a new sovereign liability management theory, the implications of the model for sovereign debt restructurings, and the new financial architecture. Bridging the gap between finance specialists and traders, on the one hand, and economists and policy-makers on the other, The Volatility Machine is critical reading for anyone interested in where the international economy is going over the next several years.
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Existing copies of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) were surveyed and counted a hundred years ago, in Sidney Lee's Census of 1902. Since then, some seventy copies have come to light, some of which are only now identified as First Folios. This new Census lists 229 copies, giving concise descriptions of each. The entries cover condition (including the number of original leaves), items of special interest, provenance, and binding. A concordance of Lee and West numbers is also provided. To set the stage, the volume tells the story of the search for copies and the detective work involved in dealing with doubtful identifications. Because Folios survive in such a wide variety of condition, the tests for defining what to count as a copy are described, then demonstrated with three unnumbered, unrecognized copies at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Finally, details of missing copies are given, to increase the likelihood of their rediscovery.
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Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1093/0199248052.001.0001
V. Wright
This book is the second of two volumes that examine how EU member states co-ordinate their European policies. In this second volume, the focus is on the European level. The book investigates the strategies deployed by eleven member states -- Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom - and examines the role played by the permanent representation, and the structures and processes that link national officials in Brussels and at home. From a comparative perspective, the book identifies and assesses the organisation, functions and effectiveness of the permanent representation, and the part that it plays in the national system of co-ordination. It considers the influences that have shaped systems of national co-ordination -- the demands exerted by Union membership, the institutional structure of the national polity, the pre-existing balance between domestic institutions, administrative norms and values, and attitudes, both popular and elite, to European integration. It assesses the extent to which there has been a convergent response to the administrative challenges posed by membership on the part of the member states or whether a pattern of divergence endures. The question of effectiveness is also addressed. The companion volume explores co-ordination institutions, structures and procedures at the domestic level. Looking at ten member states, it offers a comprehensive comparative analysis of the way in national governments organise European policy making. Contributors to this volume - Hussien Kassim Hussien Kassim Anand Menon Andreas Maurer and Wolfgang Wessels Giacinto della Cananea Calliope Spanou Jose M.Magone Bart Kerremans and Jan Beyers Rudy B.Andeweg and Ben Soetendorp Wolfgang C. Muller Sonia Mazey Brigid Laffan Hussein Kassim and B. Guy Peters
本书是研究欧盟成员国如何协调其欧洲政策的两卷书中的第二卷。在第二卷中，重点是欧洲层面。本书调查了11个成员国(奥地利、比利时、法国、德国、希腊、爱尔兰、意大利、荷兰、葡萄牙、瑞典和英国)所采取的战略，并考察了常驻代表所发挥的作用，以及将布鲁塞尔和国内的国家官员联系起来的结构和流程。从比较的角度，本书确定并评估了常驻代表的组织、职能和有效性，以及它在国家协调系统中所起的作用。它考虑了形成国家协调体系的影响——欧盟成员国提出的要求、国家政体的制度结构、国内机构、行政规范和价值观之间已有的平衡，以及大众和精英对欧洲一体化的态度。它评估的是，对于成员国加入欧盟所带来的行政挑战，在何种程度上采取了趋同的应对措施，或者是否存在一种分歧模式。还讨论了效力问题。配套卷探讨协调机构，结构和程序在国内一级。通过对10个成员国的考察，它对各国政府组织欧洲政策制定的方式进行了全面的比较分析。本卷的贡献者- Hussien Kassim Hussien Kassim Anand Menon Andreas Maurer和Wolfgang Wessels Giacinto della Cananea Calliope Spanou Jose M.Magone Bart Kerremans和Jan Beyers Rudy B. andweg和Ben Soetendorp Wolfgang C. Muller Sonia Mazey Brigid Laffan Hussein Kassim和B. Guy Peters
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