Best Selling Books by Robert Mitchell

Liberal psychoanalytic approach. Includes account of Southeast Asian gay organization, the Han Temple Association.--Jim Kepner.

This practical book offers a guide to finding, choosing, and applying theoretical frameworks to social sciences research, and provides researchers with the scaffolding needed to reflect on their philosophical orientations and better situate their work in the existing landscape of empirical and theoretical knowledge. Using a multifaceted approach, the book provides clear definitions, primary tenets, historical context, highlights of the challenges and contemporary discussion and, perhaps more importantly, concrete and successful examples of studies that have drawn on and incorporated each theoretical framework. The authors define and explain the connections among such concepts as ontology, epistemology, paradigm, theory, theoretical frameworks, conceptual frameworks, and research methodology; describe the process of finding and effectively using theoretical and conceptual frameworks in research; and offer brief overviews of particular theories within the following disciplines: sociology, psychology, education, leadership, public policy, political science, economics, organizational studies, and business. The book also has a dedicated chapter on critical theories, and for each theory, provides a definition, explores how the theory is useful for researchers, discusses the background and foundations, outlines key terms and concepts, presents examples of theoretical applications, and gives an overview of strengths and limitations. This book offers a useful starting point for any researcher interested in better situating their work in existing conceptual and theoretical knowledge, but it will be especially useful for graduate students and early career researchers who are looking for clear definitions of complex terms and concepts, and for an introduction to useful theories across disciplines.

Fed up of anaemic books about mountains, about being poor and happy and mystical fulfilment? Then this is the book for you, tearing the veil from the culture clashes and conflicts on the hills. What happens if you go in search of the American Dream in Colorado, or Celtic Twilight in the Cuillins? And how do the mountains alter the pattern of male/female sexual behaviour? This book presents a different approach, but one that aims to answer just why the mountains exert such fascination over so many people.

Because tariffs had been reduced significantly in previous GATT negotiations, the Tokyo Round reductions, as we shall see, were bound to have a comparatively small impact. This is all the more the case when the effects induced by the US macroeconomic imbalances of the 1980s are taken into consideration. To illustrate this, we have used the Michign model to calculate the sectoral trade and employment effects of two different types of macro scenarios. The first scenario involves an assumed autonomous change in US capital inflows equal to 1 percent of US gross domestic product (GDP). This is designed to mimic the effects of a US policy of monetary contraction, which by increasing the US rate of interest relative to foreign rates, would lead to a capital inflow, a matching trade deficit, and an appreciation of the dollar. The second scenario involves an assumed exogenous increase in US aggregate expenditure equal to 1 percent of GDP, accompanied by an equal capital inflow. This is intended to reflect a US fiscal expansion, which by increasing demand for all tradable and nontradable goods, requires a shift towards foreign tradable goods in order to equilibrate markets especially for nontradable goods. The resulting increase in US imports and the trade deficit will necessitate an appreciation of the dollar.

The purpose of our paper is to discuss and document the usefulness and limitations of existing data on international trade and investment in services. We concentrate especially on the conceptual and measurement issues involved in interpreting and trying to use the available data on international services transactions, and, in the process, identiry gaps in the data that need attention.

This chapter explores a number of conceptual and modeling issues that are germane to the analysis of conflict in international economic relations. Section II immediately following is devoted to a number of issues involving conflict that have been treated in the theory of international trade. The discussion focuses on departures from the free trade optimum that is the center piece of the theory of comparative advantage and the gains from trade. Also considered are conflict situations stemming from departures from full employment and external balance that figure importantly in internation macroeconomic theory. In Section III I draw on one of my research specialties, which is the use of computational models to analye international economic relations and policies. In particular, I disucss the design and implementation of the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade, which is a multi-country and multi-sector general equilibrium model of the international trading system that my Michigan colleague, Alan V. Deardorff, and I have been working with since the mid-1970s. Four applications of the Michigan Model are discussed in order to illustrate how the model has been used to provide quantitative analysis of potentially conflictual and cooperative international economic actions and policies.

As the world proceeds with the eighth GATT (Uruguay) round of multilateral trade negotiations, it is important to consider the potential economic effects of different negotiation options that are available to the United States and other major trading countries. In this paper, we report on a series of computational experiments involving alternative scenarios for trade liberalization, using the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade. The Michigan Model is well suited for this kind of analysis since it is a multi-country, multi-sectoral computational model covering the eighteen major developed and sixteen major developing countries and allowing for a variety of complex general equilibrium interactions, both globally and within individual countries.

Gary R Saxonhouse was one of the leading world scholars on Japanese economy. Born in New York City in 1943, he attended Yale University, where he received his PhD in Economics in 1971. He joined the Faculty of Economics at the University of Michigan beginning in 1970, where he taught throughout his career. The selection of his published papers that comprises this two-volume publication is a testimony and tribute to his remarkable accomplishments and influence that were cut short by his untimely death in November 2006, following a battle with leukemia. Volume I contains a selection of his published papers that have been instrumental in enhancing the understanding of Japan''s modern economic history, focusing in particular on the Japanese cotton-spinning industry. Volume II features a selection of his published papers that look at how Japan''s technology and innovation were key in promoting Japan''s economic success; how its economy was shaped by its comparative advantage and related policies; and how its macro-financial policies were implemented in the course of its economic growth after World War II

Study of the role of foreign trade in the economic growth of Italy since 1945 - covers industrial development of the manufacturing industry, and includes models of economic growth, methodology for the analysis of trade changes, and statistical tables. Bibliography pp. 211 to 216.