Working Paper Series

FBSE Working Papers aim to publish internally advanced scholarship that may not be ready for external publication, or which the author may not wish to publish externally.

The objective of this paper is to analyse how the development of a blended learning community can be brought together using the experience of all involved.

The Government’s Health Work and Wellbeing report produced the Fit for Work scheme to reduce state sickness benefits by placing people into work. Flexible employee benefits improve performance at work and reduce sickness absence.

Current international maritime legislation requires professional qualifications to be attained, in order for seafarers to be employed as senior officers on merchant ships. There is no requirement for higher educational qualifications to be held by these staff.

Limited research has been done to date on tourism student’s learning during field trips, despite the value of education in the field being recognised by other academic disciplines such as geography.

We explain how Marx’s theory of the determination of the value of commodities by labour-time leads Marx to predict recurrent crisis, moments of self-defeat, will inevitably occur in capitalism through a tendency for the profit rate to fall in labour-time terms as the economy grows. 

With the questions being asked about the sustainability of banking in the UK and the after effects of exposure to toxic assets in the US the effects of global liquidity and profitability of UK banks is considered. 

Our paper builds on Potts (2009a), which considers how Kliman's and Freeman's valuation methods differ if we include stocks of commodities, despite both being within the Temporal Single System Interpretation (TSSI) of Marx.

This paper explores the question of whether there is an ethical business case for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) employing a more diverse workforce with Regan and Stanley (2003: p.v) arguing that employers should look beyond their legal obligations in respect of disadvantaged groups. 

Previously we have considered how rentiers can be integrated with an aggregate one-commodity model of the productive economy, ignoring the complexity of different goods and different countries. 

The control of financial resources has conferred power to people, ever since the original monetary economies. 

There is concern for the environmental protection of coastal zones throughout the developed and developing world. 

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