Economics of specific sectors

To a backdrop of ageing societies, pension crises and labour market reforms, this book investigates how the policy shift from early retirement to active ageing has affected individual retirement behaviour.

This book describes the changing landscape of European forest ownership and explores the impact a new, often urban, generation of forest owners may have on the future of one of our most basic resources - forests.

This book examines the concept of dignity from a variety of global perspectives.

Paul Auerbach's Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century.

With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically.

This book examines healthcare innovation processes, shedding light on the controversies endemic to innovation, which make such processes notoriously challenging.

The authors suggest that China's renewable energy system, the largest in the world, will quickly supersede the black energy system that has powered the country's rapid rise as workshop of the world and for reasons that have more to do with fixing environmental pollution and enhancing energy security than with curbing carbon emissions.

It was a part of the wisdom of mainstream economics that in the early stages of development inequality would rise but as growth persisted, it would, eventually, decline.

Sustainable wine businesses are being crafted around the world, leaving the land in better shape for the next generation.

Advanced Cultural Districts explores the organisational design issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular focus on the advanced forms of cultural districts for local socio-economic development.

The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD.

It was part of common wisdom that in the early stages of development inequality would rise, but it would, eventually, decline.

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Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty.

Executive education is a billion dollar industry that has the potential to transform individual and organizational performance, but in too many cases the decision whether or not to lavish it upon any given manager comes down to whether the fear that they will leave if you don't spend money on them is greater than the fear that they will leave if you do.

This book develops and illustrates a new promising workshop methodology utilized for the first time in a comparative study between Italy and Australia.

The last financial crisis revealed a gap between business practice and ethics.

With China replacing the United States as the world's leading energy user and net oil importer, its relations with the Middle East is becoming a major issue with global implications.

We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work.

Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives.

This book is the first full-length treatment of the desirability and feasibility of implementing a citizen's income (also known as a basic income).

This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic.

This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes.

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care.

Why is it that government debt in the developed world has risen to world war proportions in a time of peace?

This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities.

In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers.

This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die.

Green Marketing examines the concept of 'Green Marketing' using examples from Turkey and the rest of the world.

Expanding upon Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and Leadership and Collaboration, the third installment to this original and innovative collection of books considers a variety of research models and theories.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

Bringing together contributions from an international group of social scientists, this collection examines diverse crises, both historical and contemporary, which implicate market forces, widening inequalities, social exclusion, forms of resistance, and ideological polarisation.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

Over the last few years the Arctic has become a region of growing interest to the international community.

Sarnikar cites evidence of frequent misconceptions of economics amongst students, graduates, and even some economists, and argues that behavioral economists are uniquely qualified to investigate causes of poor learning in economics.

Higher Education Consumer Choice provides a comprehensive and highly focused critical analysis of research on HE consumer choice behaviour in the UK and around the world.

This book examines the unexpected convergence between the higher education systems of India and France.

Explores challenges for developing and emerging economies for enhancing green financing for sustainable, low-carbon investment, looking at Indonesia.

This book explains  the politics of thirty years of 'market reform' in the English NHS, with the rest of the UK a counter-factual.

Given the reality of China's economic development and urbanization, this book studies the development of the private sector and the process of regional urbanization in the Yangtze River Delta region to provide a path for new urbanization throughout China.

The author aims to develop conceptual refining and theoretical reframing of the productivist welfare capitalism thesis in order to address a set of questions concerning whether and how productivist welfarism has experienced both continuity and change in East Asia.

This book uses an economic framework to examine the consequences of U.

This book describes the evolution of the community development sector over the past 50 years, and it presents a framework and road map for how community development organizations can advance their mission through strategic partnerships that utilize their core competencies.

The global demographic transition presents marked asymmetries as poor, emerging, and advanced countries are undergoing different stages of transition.

The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new.

Free Money for All makes the case for a basic income guarantee of $10,000 per adult US citizen.

Climate Change and Social Movements is a riveting and thorough exploration of three important campaigns to influence climate change policy in the United Kingdom.

This fourth volume examines his time in Vienna and Chicago (1931-1950), when Hayek held the prestigious University of London Tooke Professorship of Economic Science and Statistics.

Countries that have suffered ethnic or religious conflict and become segregated societies reflect these divisions in education provision for their children.

This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi.