This second fascinating and cutting-edge text provides insight into the meaning and interpretation of Machiavelli and his works for management, marketing, and political thought and highlights their particular relevance to the manager and policymaker today. By bringing together contributions from authors, both academic and practitioner, this book addresses a number of common themes relating to the influences and arguments of perhaps the first political scientist and advocate of sound manage...

This Element seeks to provide an in-depth survey of the papers written on the optimal taxation of the incomes of the members of family households, as opposed to households with just a single individual, over the period beginning with the early 1980s and ending in the late 2010s.This literature, solidly within the public finance tradition, is not large, and so the Element gives quite a full exposition and discussion of the main contributions. The papers are grouped according to the type of ...

This cutting edge text provides insight into the meaning and interpretation of Machiavelli, and highlights the particular relevance to today‘s manager of his works for management, marketing and political thought. It addresses a number of common themes relating to his influences and arguments, and includes topics such as:* modern management* governa

Ser Magnus Bane no es fácil. Como es un brujo, siempre tiene que solucionar los problemas de otros. Su vida ha sido larga, y ha tenido muchos amores. Y ha sabido estar en el lugar correcto en el momento adecuado (bueno, a veces no tanto): La Revolución francesa, el gran apagón de la ciudad de Nueva York, la primera gran batalla entre Valentine y el Instituto de Nueva York… Pero ayudar a huir a María Antonieta no tiene comparación con amar a una vampira como Camille Belcourt o tener la prim...