When things don't fall apart
Ilene Grabel
An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis.--
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Risk management in post-trust societies
by Ragnar E. Löfstedt (2005)
About this book
"Most policy-makers still use outdated methods - developed at a time before health scares like BSE, genetically modified organisms and dioxin in Belgian chicken feed eroded public confidence in industry and government - to communicate policies and achieve their objectives. Good risk communication is still possible, however. In this book, through the use of a host of case studies from four countries, the author identifies a series of methods that should work in a post-trust society."--Jacket.
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Story EraModern Era
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