Economic systems and structures

Empirical Research in Banking and Corporate Finance is the 21st volume of Advances in Financial Economics and deals with International Corporate Governance.

Emotion is one of the defining forces in our lives.

Marx predicted in Capital (1867) that as capitalism became global, patterns of work would be transformed, and workers would need to develop versatility, flexibility, and mobility.

This volume examines the economic problems of Arab countries following the Arab Spring.

This volume examines the economic problems of Arab countries following the Arab Spring.

This analysis of the United States health care system reviews developments in organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms, and health system performance.

The challenges related to disaster risk management (DRM) in the agricultural sector are now widely linked to sustainable environment.

Rehumanizing Housing is a proceeding of a conference of the same name, which was held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, on 27 February 1987.

Global capital markets are in a state of flux.

The interactions that occur in securities markets are among the fastest, most information intensive, and most highly strategic of all economic phenomena.

Originally published in 1995 and now available as an ebook.

Celebrities are increasingly front and centre in public debates on everything from solving world poverty to halting genocide, confronting obesity, and finding spiritual contentment.

Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of backend IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation.

This book takes stock of the major economic and political challenges advanced capitalist democracies face today.

Mediterranean Coastal Pollution focuses on scientific and technical information on the progress of measures and initiatives relative to the control of pollution in the Mediterranean.

There are three basic institutional systems for governing the exchange of property.

Explanation of the success and failure of the Roman economy is one of the most important problems in economic history.

Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter of 2009.

The Bolsheviks Come to Power is one of the most important histories of the Russian Revolution to challenge the mainstream narratives.

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Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change.

Richard Mattessich's Accounting and Analytical Methods (1964) and Yuji Ijiri's Theory of Accounting Measurement (1975) are two classic works of American accounting literature written by eminent scholars.

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system.

The Capitalists Bible,edited by Gretchen Morgenson, an award-winning journalist with the New York Times, is the essential guide to capitalism and its many languages, customs, and practices.

In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better.

Privatization requires the presence of capable governments setting clear goals, addressing potential hazards of private engagement, and exploring multiple paths of improvement.

Nuclear Energy and the Environment provides an assessment, based on the opinions and findings of international experts in the field of atomic energy, of the environmental impact of the different stages of the nuclear fuel cycle.

Egypt is a country of its people.

A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and intricacy of economic systems in the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods.

Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking place in Chinese cities.

American manufacturing is in obvious crisis: the sector lost three million jobs between 2000 and 2003 as the American trade deficit shot to record highs.

The privatization revolution, profit or revenue sharing, and employee participation in enterprise decision making are some of the major characteristics of modern capitalism.

An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century.

Explains an Austrian economics view of institutions, understanding which institutions matter for growth, and how they emerge and change.

'An inspiring rallying cry for activists everywhere to work together to build a just, ecosocialist future' - Grace BlakeleyTime is up.

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete.

An original and empirically grounded analysis of the Gulf monarchies and their role in shaping the political economy of the Middle East.

Ten Leading private investors share their secrets to maximum profitabilityIn The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, the pioneers of the industry share the investing and management wisdom they have gained by investing in and transforming their portfolio companies.

Following a surge in oil revenues in the 1970s, Nigeria became one of Africa's most rapidly developing nations.

Hazard Assessment of Chemicals: Current Developments, Volume 3 is a collection of expertly written articles that provide relevant and important information on the environmental and health hazard assessment of chemicals.

It explores the formation of India''s rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing industrialisation in rural areas.

This book presents an interpretation of the interaction of national economies through international trade.

As health care concerns grow in the U.

Provides a view of the different types of capitalist economic systems based on an empirical analysis of twenty-one OECD nations.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Leading academics offer a historically informed, interdisciplinary inquiry into markets and their social and political relations.