Narrow your search

Library

National Bank of Belgium (5)

KU Leuven (3)

ULB (3)

Vlerick Business School (3)

KBR (2)

LUCA School of Arts (2)

Odisee (2)

Thomas More Kempen (2)

Thomas More Mechelen (2)

UAntwerpen (2)

More...

Resource type

book (5)


Language

English (5)


Year
From To Submit

2019 (1)

2015 (1)

2010 (1)

2009 (1)

1986 (1)

Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by

Book
Reforming isssteson's public procurement for sustainability
Author:
ISBN: 9264657630 9264346309 9264911022 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris, France : OECD,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"This review analyses public procurement policies and practices of ISSSTESON, the institution providing health and pension services to the workers of the State Government of Sonora, Mexico. It benchmarks ISSSTESON practices against the 2015 Recommendation of the Council on Public Procurement to help the institute upgrade its procurement operations and increase efficiency, in a difficult financial environment. It also examines the revenue structure of the Institute and suggests reforms for the pension scheme, which is too generous compared to national and international experience."--Page 4 of cover.


Book
Irrational exuberance in the U.S. housing market : were evangelicals left behind?
Author:
ISBN: 1451916396 1462340644 9786612842788 1282842781 1451872046 1452720819 Year: 2009 Publisher: [Washington, DC] : International Monetary Fund Research Dept.,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The recent housing bust has reignited interest in psychological theories of speculative excess (Shiller, 2007). I investigate this issue by identifying a segment of the U.S. population-evangelical protestants-that may be less prone to speculative motives, and uncover a significant negative relationship between their population share and house price volatility. Evangelicals' focus on Biblical prophecy could account for this difference, since it may enable them to interpret otherwise negative events as containing positive news, dampening the response of house prices to shocks. I provide evidence for this channel using a popular internet measure of "prophetic activity" and a 9/11 event study. I also analyze survey data covering religious beliefs and asset holding, and find that 'end times' beliefs are associated with a one-third decline in net worth, consistent with these beliefs providing a form of psychic insurance (Scheve and Stasavage, 2006a and 2006b) that reduces asset demand.


Book
Redeeming time : Protestantism and Chicago's eight-hour movement, 1866-1912
Author:
ISBN: 0252038835 0252096797 9780252096792 9780252038839 Year: 2015 Publisher: Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"Exploring the intersection between Chicago's eight-hour movement and Protestant religious culture over a fifty-year span, this project considers how workers and clergy contested the religious meaning of the eight-hour system and the legitimacy of legislating limitations on overwork. Showing that behind every religious appeal was a contest over whose religious meanings would define industrial conditions and conflicts in Chicago, William Mirola examines how both workers and Protestant clergy wove and rewove working-class religious cultures and ideologies into strategic and rhetorical frames around the issue of an eight-hour workday. Mirola traces the successive framing of eight-hour reform from pre-1880's, when most Protestant clergy supported long hours to keep workers from idleness, intemperance, and secular leisure activities, through the 1890's, when eight-hour support among Protestant clergy gained ground as the result of a new social consciousness spurred by intensified worker protest and ongoing employer resistance to limiting working hours, into the early decades of the twentieth century, as religious framing of the eight-hour movement declined in favor of political and economic arguments. Mirola argues that the ongoing conflicts between Chicago workers and employers transformed both how clergy spoke about the eight-hour movement and what they were willing to do, through alliances with the labor movement, to see the eight-hour day enacted as industrial policy. By examining religious framing within the eight-hour movement, the author illustrates the potential and the limitations of religious culture and religious leaders as forces in industrial reform"-- "During the struggle for the eight-hour workday and a shorter workweek, Chicago emerged as an important battleground for workers in "the entire civilized world" to redeem time from the workplace in order to devote it to education, civic duty, health, family, and leisure. William A. Mirola explores how the city's eight-hour movement intersected with a Protestant religious culture that supported long hours to keep workers from idleness, intemperance, and secular leisure activities. Analyzing how both workers and clergy rewove working-class religious cultures and ideologies into strategic and rhetorical frames, Mirola shows how every faith-based appeal contested whose religious meanings would define labor conditions and conflicts. As he notes, the ongoing worker-employer tension transformed both how clergy spoke about the eight-hour movement and what they were willing to do, until intensified worker protest and employer intransigence spurred Protestant clergy to support the eight-hour movement even as political and economic arguments eclipsed religious framing. A revealing study of an era and a movement, Redeeming Time illustrates the potential--and the limitations--of religious culture and religious leaders as forces in industrial reform"--

Foreign protestant communities in sixteenth-century London.
Author:
ISBN: 0198229380 Year: 1986 Volume: *44 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Christian church history --- anno 1500-1599 --- London --- Protestant churches --- Protestants --- Immigrants --- Eglises protestantes --- History --- Histoire --- London (England) --- Londres (Angleterre) --- Church history. --- Histoire religieuse --- 094:284 --- 284.1 <41> --- 094.1 <41 LONDON> --- -Protestant churches --- -Protestants --- -Christians --- Protestant sects --- Christian sects --- Protestantism --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Protestantisme. Protestantse sekten --- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--LONDON --- -History --- -London (England) --- -Church history --- -Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Protestantisme. Protestantse sekten --- 094.1 <41 LONDON> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--LONDON --- 284.1 <41> Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 094:284 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Protestantisme. Protestantse sekten --- -Protestant sects --- -Londen (England) --- Londinium (England) --- Londres (England) --- Londýn (England) --- Church history --- Christians --- Londen (England) --- Londres. Protestants. 16e s. --- Londen. Protestanten. 16e eeuw. --- Lunnainn (England)


Book
Heavenly merchandize
Author:
ISBN: 9780691143590 0691143595 1282569201 9786612569203 1400834996 0691162174 9781400834990 9780691162171 6612569204 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Heavenly Merchandize offers a critical reexamination of religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America. Focusing on the economic culture of New England, it views commerce through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing upon their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes to reveal how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of profound transitions in the puritan understanding of discipline, providence, and the meaning of New England. Mark Valeri traces the careers of men like Robert Keayne, a London immigrant punished by his church for aggressive business practices; John Hull, a silversmith-turned-trader who helped to establish commercial networks in the West Indies; and Hugh Hall, one of New England's first slave traders. He explores how Boston ministers reconstituted their moral languages over the course of a century, from a scriptural discourse against many market practices to a providential worldview that justified England's commercial hegemony and legitimated the market as a divine construct. Valeri moves beyond simplistic readings that reduce commercial activity to secular mind-sets, and refutes the popular notion of an inherent affinity between puritanism and capitalism. He shows how changing ideas about what it meant to be pious and puritan informed the business practices of Boston's merchants, who filled their private notebooks with meditations on scripture and the natural order, founded and led churches, and inscribed spiritual reflections in their letters and diaries. Unprecedented in scope and rich with insights, Heavenly Merchandize illuminates the history behind the continuing American dilemma over morality and the marketplace.

Keywords

Economic order --- United States --- Precisians --- Business --- Puritans --- Church polity --- Congregationalism --- Puritan movements --- Calvinism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Influence. --- Doctrines --- History --- Religion --- Influence --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- E-books --- 17th century --- 18th century --- To 1800 --- History of doctrines --- Trade --- Economics --- Management --- Commerce --- Industrial management --- Truth --- Sermons, American --- Congregational churches --- Bible. --- Christian sects --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- A Model of Christian Charity. --- American Antiquarian Society. --- American Enlightenment. --- Anne Hutchinson. --- Antinomian Controversy. --- Antinomianism. --- Apologetics. --- Atlantic World. --- Bill of credit. --- Boyle Lectures. --- Brattle Street (Cambridge, Massachusetts). --- Calvinism. --- Censure. --- Charles Chauncy. --- Christian Identity. --- Christian fundamentalism. --- Christian socialism. --- Commodity. --- Cotton Mather. --- Creditor. --- Currency Act. --- Currency. --- Customer. --- Daniel Defoe. --- Debtor. --- Deism. --- Divine right of kings. --- Economics. --- Economy and Society. --- Edward Hutchinson (captain). --- England. --- Excommunication. --- Fraud. --- Geneva Bible. --- God. --- Heinrich Bullinger. --- Heresy. --- Increase Mather. --- Jeremiad. --- John Calvin. --- John Coggeshall. --- John Colet. --- John Wheelwright. --- John Winthrop. --- Joseph Addison. --- Joseph Dudley. --- Joshua Scottow. --- King Philip's War. --- Lecture. --- Loyalty. --- Massachusetts Historical Society. --- Max Weber. --- Mercantilism. --- Merchant. --- Moral economy. --- Nathaniel Ward. --- Navigation Acts. --- New England. --- Nicholas Barbon. --- Old South Church. --- Old South. --- On Religion. --- Peter Bulkley. --- Peter Pelham. --- Piety. --- Political economy. --- Poor relief. --- Popular sovereignty. --- Protestant work ethic. --- Protestantism. --- Public expenditure. --- Puritans. --- Religion. --- Robert Cushman. --- Samuel Sewall. --- Samuel Willard. --- Secularism. --- Secularization. --- Sensibility. --- Simon Bradstreet. --- Slavery. --- Society of Jesus. --- South Sea Company. --- Tax. --- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. --- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. --- Theology. --- Thomas Hooker. --- Thomas Mun. --- Thomas Sprat. --- Treatise. --- Usury. --- Warfare. --- Wealth. --- William Ames. --- William Petty. --- William Phips. --- William Pynchon. --- William Whiston. --- Workhouse. --- United States of America

Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by