Economic systems and structures

Despite the severity of the global economic crisis and the widespread aversion towards austerity policies, neoliberalism remains the dominant mode of economic governance in the world.

An intense debate has played out in recent years regarding how to implement a so-called "e;flexicurity system"e;-a labor market reform that combines flexibility, particularly in the hiring and firing process of firms, with security in the employment and income of the workforce.

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.

Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds a revolution in the teaching of economics.

This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization.

Biotechnology Risk Assessment: Issues and Methods for Environmental Introductions tackles the environmental concerns associated with utilizing contemporary biotechnology.

The answer to remaining competitive and keeping steady growth for your business is not ground-breaking, business-altering innovations, but by simply making one tweak at a time.

As globalisation transforms the organisation of society, so too is its impact felt in the classroom.

Metropolitan areas with a high concentration of headquarters from diverse industries stand out as influential, dynamic economies.

The thirteenth of a well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure, Commercial Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is intended to help law enforcement, security specialists, managers, and anyone involved in protecting commercial facilities, handle the security threats that they deal with on a daily basis.

The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalist economies, and that it is only strong and dynamically-changing financial regulations that can keep the damage caused by these crises within bounds.

Volume 2 of a definitive two-volume reference exploring the spread and impact of capitalism across the world.

Almost 15 years ago, in The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman popularized the latest wave of globalization as a world of giant corporate supply chains that tripled world trade between 1990 and 2010.

Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit.

Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion-dubbed "e;banking the unbanked"e;-which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement.

Ohne dass wir es wirklich gemerkt haben, wurde der Kapitalismus ersetzt.

The first book of the next crisis.

Financial crises have been pervasive for many years.

The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries.

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

Freemium Economics presents a practical, instructive approach to successfully implementing the freemium model into your software products by building analytics into product design from the earliest stages of development.

Globalization has changed business the world over.

Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination.

How the booming Islamic finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of religion and marketsIn just fifty years, Islamic finance has grown from a tiny experiment operated from a Volkswagen van to a thriving global industry worth more than the entire financial sector of India, South America, or Eastern Europe.

As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society.

The thirteenth of a well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure, Commercial Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is intended to help law enforcement, security specialists, managers, and anyone involved in protecting commercial facilities, handle the security threats that they deal with on a daily basis.

Are you ready for the IoT revolution?

We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread.

China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens.

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.

How has capitalism created or enhanced racism?

In The Future of the Euro, a group of the world's top political economists analyze the fundamental causes of the euro crisis, determine how it can be fixed, and consider what likely futures lie ahead for the currency.

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

From the three perspectives of geography, economic policy, and ideology, this work examines corporate capitalism under the tsarist and late Soviet regimes.

Entrepreneurs, business owners, investors: here is the rare, no-nonsense advice you haven't heardstraight from Paychex founder and billionaire philanthropist Tom Golisanoto overcome the most common (and some not so common) obstacles to live a successful life.

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.

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

False profits of ethical capital is a thought-provoking approach to understanding stakeholder capitalism.

The 2008 global crisis, unemployment, lack of retirement funds, bank bailouts.

'Kennard reports with devastating precision.

Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.

This volume explores how Chinese institutions have adapted to the new challenges of ''state capitalism''.