“…The OECD is studying these new trends in a multi-annual, cross-country project called “Value for Money in Government”. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vol. 1: Projects featured: Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (Adjaye Associates) - Active Nature, Saclay, France (Agence Babylone) - Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan (Tadao Ando) - Toku Tokoyo Line Shibuya Station, Tokyo (Tadao Ando) - Papertainer Museum, Seoul Olympic Park, South Korea (Shigeru Ban) - Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway (Barlindhaug Consult AS) - King Abdullah International Gardens, Riyadh (Barton Willmore) - CaixaForum Vertical Garden, Madrid (Patrick Blanc) - Anti-Smog, Paris (Vincent Callebaut Architectures) - Perfumed Jungle, Hong Kong (Vincent Callebaut Architectures) - Westraven office complex, Utrecht, Netherlands (Cepezed) - Phantom House, Southwestern USA (Diller Scofidio + Renfro) - Samir Kassir Square, Beirut (Vladimir Djurovic) - Tree Tower, Los Angeles (Dennis Dollens) - Ecoboulevard of Vallecas, Madrid (Ecosistemo Urbano) - Jinji Lake, Suzhou, China (Edaw) - Shark Alley Retreat, Great Barrier Island, Auckland, New Zealand (Fearon Hay) - Petronas University of Technology, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia (Foster + Partners) - Little Ajax affordable housing, Aspen, Colorado (Peter Gluck) - Schweiger House, Sistrans, Austria (Monika Gogl) - E.ON Energy Research Department, RWTH Aachen, Germany (Zaha Hadid) - Linsdale Beach House, Great Barrier Island, Auckland, New Zealand (Herbst Architects) - Handmade School, Rudrapur, Bangladesh (Anna Heringer and Eike Roswang) - 474 Wing House, Santa Monica Mountains, Malibu, California (David Hertz) - Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos, British Columbia (Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden) - Vertical Farm, Harlem, New York (Chris Jacobs) - Hedge Building, Rostock, Germany (Kempe Thill) - Sidwell Middle Friends School, Washington DC (KieranTimberlake) - Telefonica District C, Las Tablas, Madrid (Rafael De La-Hoz) - Water+Life Museums Campus, Hemet, California (Michael B Lehrer) - Environmental education centre, Hoorn, Netherlands (MIII Architects) - Wood house, Ville-d'Avray, France (Marchi Architectes) – San Francisco Federal Building (Morphosis) - BIP Computer Office & Shop, Providencia, Santiago de Chile (Alberto Moro) - Putrajaya Precinct 4 waterfront development, Kuala Lumpur (Manfredi Nicoletti) - Helios House, Los Angeles (Office DA) - Macallen Building, Boston, Massachusetts (Office DA) - Zhong-Xiao Boulevard Urban Ecological Corridor, Taipei (Sergio Palleroni) - Renovation and expansion of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (Renzo Piano) - Heifer International World Headquarters, Little Rock, Arkansas (Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter) - Digestible Gulf Stream, 11th Venice Architecture Biennale (Philippe Rahm) - World Wide Fund for Nature, Zeist, Netherlands (RAU) - Hybrid Earthship, Tao, New Mexico (Michael Reynolds) - Westend Grun, Berlin (Roswag & Jankowski) - Christine's House, Mason's Bend, Alabama (Rural Studio) - Inujima Art Project Seirensho, Inujima, Japan (Hiroshi Sambuichi) - Fondazione Pierto Rossini Pavilion, Briosco, Italy (Site) - Streetscape in a new world, Beijing (Site) - Masdar Headquarters, Abu Dhabi (Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture) - Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California (Ken Smith Landscape Architect) - H16, Tieringen, Germany (Werner Sobek) - Hotel Remota, Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile (German del Sol) - Salam Center for Cardia Surgery, Soba, Sudan (Studio Tamassociati) - Forest House, Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand (Chris Tate) - Vigilius Mountain Resort, Lana, Italy (Matteo Thun) - Mosaic House, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan (TNA) - IBG and Tax Offices, Groningen, Netherlands (UNStudio) - Post Rotterdam, Netherlands (UNStudio) - ASLA Green Roof, Washington DC (Michael van Valkenburgh) - Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle (Weiss/Manfredi) - Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan (Why Architecture) - Mewah Oils Headquarters, Pulau Indah Park, Port Klang, Salangor, Malaysia (Ken Yeang) - The New National Library Board Building, Singapore (Ken Yeang) - Rafflesia Zero Energy House, Kuala Lumpur (Zoka Zola) - Solar Tower, Chicago (Zoka Zola)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Readers' Guide -- Conventions -- Executive summary -- References -- 1 New perspectives on global inequality throughout history -- Introduction -- Aim of this report -- Practical issues -- Introduction to individual chapters -- References -- Notes -- 2 The long view on economic growth: New estimates of GDP -- Introduction -- Description of the concepts used -- Gross Domestic Product per capita -- The Income approach to measuring GDP -- The Expenditure approach to measuring GDP -- The Production approach to measuring GDP -- Relative prices -- Historical GDP Benchmarks -- Historical sources and data quality -- Long-run global developments in per capita GDP: Comparing the three approaches -- The first test: Subsistence income -- Analysing the accuracy of backward projections through comparisons with historical GDP benchmarks -- Incorporating important historical benchmarks of GDP per capita -- The world in 1820 -- Developments since 1820 -- Priorities for future research -- References -- Notes -- 3 The working week in manufacturing since 1820 -- Introduction -- Description of the concepts used -- Historical sources -- Data quality -- Main highlights of historical trends in working hours -- Holidays and annual working time -- Correlation with GDP per capita -- Priorities for future research -- References -- Notes -- 4 Social spending and the welfare state -- Introduction -- Description of the concepts used -- Historical sources and data quality -- Main highlights of social spending trends -- Social spending under, and since, communism -- Correlation with GDP per capita and related social indicators -- Priorities for future research -- References -- Annex 4.A. …”

“…By bringing together case studies from Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, France and Estonia and addressing the specific reform challenges for EU standard setting, EU coordination and the relation to tax law, the book provides new insights on what a “Social Law 4.0” should look like. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Accountability -- Preventing Illness and Detecting Diseases Early -- Bridging Personal Health Care, Family, and Community -- Primary Care and the School -- Primary Care and the Elderly -- Primary Care and Public Health -- Comment -- PRIMARY CARE AND COSTS, ACCESS, AND QUALITY -- Costs of Care -- Access to Care -- Quality of Care -- General Observations -- Outcomes -- Attributes of Primary Care -- Management of Referrals -- Preventive Care -- THE LIMITS OF PRIMARY CARE IN IMPROVING POPULATION HEALTH -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 4 The Nature of Primary Care -- CONTENT OF PRIMARY CARE -- The Large Majority of Health Care Needs -- Episodes of Primary Care -- CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMARY CARE -- Biomedical and Social Sciences -- Biomedical Sciences -- Social Sciences and the Humanities in Primary Care -- Evidence-Based Medicine -- Clinical Decisionmaking -- General Observations -- Influence of Different Clinical Roles -- Personal Aspects of Primary Care -- Mental Health and Physical Health -- Health Promotion And Disease Prevention -- The Power of Information -- SUMMARY -- APPENDIX: DATA ON THE MAJORITY OF PERSONAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS -- Description of Data -- The Netherlands Transition Project -- The U.S. Data -- Results -- The Netherlands Transition Project -- The U.S. …”