Economics of industrial organization

This book provides an overview of the historical financial reforms and regulatory changes in China, highlighting the background to and causes of changes in the income structure of China's banks.

This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism.

This book offers a unique guide to the three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals.

This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such as production and manufacturing plants, process facilities, civil structures, equipment, machinery, and infrastructure.

Viewed through a politico-economic lens, Nordic countries share what is often referred to as the 'Nordic model', characterised by a comprehensive welfare state; higher spending on childcare; more equitable income distribution; and lifelong-learning policies.

Global cities today are facing fundamental challenges in relation to unaffordable housing and growing economic inequality.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

This proceedings volume aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of applied economic research.

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Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

Unpredictable and unforeseen, or black swan, events are occurring increasingly often, one such recent example is the coronavirus crisis of 2020.

This book investigates how extractive capitalism has developed over the past three decades, what dynamics of resistance have been deployed to combat it, and whether extractivism can ever be transformed into being a part of a progressive development path.

This book illustrates two approaches for firms to shape successful circular strategies, namely, the Circular Economy and Circular Districts.

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Brings economic regulation to life by tracing theoretical insights through to real-world applications in eight essential regulated sectors.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the technological, economic, and political aspects of Internet development in the post-Soviet countries.

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools.

Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and platforms are closely related.

Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion.

This book develops new theoretical perspectives on the economics and politics of innovation and knowledge in order to capture new trends in modern capitalism.

In feudal society, it was the few at the top who laid the ground for what was produced, how it was produced and how it was distributed.

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event.

This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries.

The financial system is currently confronted with tremendous challenges from the global economy, trade, politics, demographics, and most recently from enormous technological advancements.

The financial system is currently confronted with tremendous challenges from the global economy, trade, politics, demographics, and most recently from enormous technological advancements.

Regional technology-based economic development and the recruitment and retention of talent is a top priority of city-regions in the United States and in countries around the world.

The book provides a picture of the increasing significance of Central Europe and especially Poland in global production networks, discussing the underlying economic, social, and political factors.

This interdisciplinary book analyses the regional economic integration and its institutionalisation that has been pursued in East Asia since the late 1990s and its far-reaching impact for the entire region and beyond.

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level.

Making Sense of Construction Improvement provides a critical evaluation of the construction improvement debate from the end of the Second World War through to the modern era.

History and Heritage (1985) offers the first comprehensive exploration and assessment of the historical developments that form Britain's industrial relations system - its institutions, texture and place in wider society.

Many communities and regions are being left behind in the new economic order.

Many communities and regions are being left behind in the new economic order.

From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders that were brutally unprepared for a global pandemic.

Industrial Relations in a Changing World (1975) shows how industrial relations embrace very deep-rooted attitudes and institutions, and that change, if it is to be radical, is slow.

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The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector is certain to boost levels of automation and productivity but, paradoxically, it will also increase the availability of "e;first line competence.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of infrastructure financing from a global perspective.

The concept of self-sufficiency involves the notion of sustainable, circular, and carbon-neutral cities.

The concept of self-sufficiency involves the notion of sustainable, circular, and carbon-neutral cities.

Enterprises in rural regions must now act in a globalized world and face global challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcities and social inequalities or the sustainability preferences of consumers.