Economics of specific sectors

This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust.

This book adopts a long-term perspective to consider political self-determination, peacekeeping and the creation of political meaning.

This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how.

This book explores a platform for insightful discussions and scientific discourse on various aspects of landslides and their risk management, with insights focused on the Himalayan states at a sub-regional level.

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity.

This book covers the complexity of diabetes and related complications and presents the socio-economic burden of the disease, taking into account the rising prevalence reaching pandemic proportions and the associated costs.

This book examines the implications of The General Theory of Second Best for analyzing the economic efficiency of non-government conduct or government policies in an economically efficient way.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th international Global Sourcing Workshop 2018, held in La Thuile, Italy, in February 2018.

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "e;buying power"e; and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States.

This volume synthesizes research from a five year program supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development to assess how coastal communities in Tanzania can adapt to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, and better assert their rights to implement decisions regarding coastal resource management in the context of global climate change.

This book is the fourth in the series on leadership, interprofessional education and practice, following on from Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2014), Leadership and Collaboration: Further Developments for IPE and Collaborative Practice (2015) and Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2016).

This book critically examines how the narrative of global economic competition was used to rationalize college preparatory curriculum for all high school students and promote charter schools in Detroit.

This book explores the incentives and effects of modern welfare policy, contrasted with outcomes of global basic income pilots in the past seventy years.

This edited volume addresses a critical aspect of development in Africa: the intersection between education and governance.

Alternative medicine (AM) is hugely popular; about 40% of the US general population have used at least one type of alternative treatment in the past year, and in Germany this figure is around 70%.

This book explores the politics behind "e;de-liberalization"e;, defined as policy reforms that constrain markets and their underlying mechanisms.

This book examines the drivers of inbound medical tourism in Germany.

The recent rise of "e;Medicare for All"e; in American political discourse was many years in the making.

This book presents a hands on approach to the digital health innovation and entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are dissatisfied with the existing literature on or are contemplating getting involved in digital health entrepreneurship.

This book investigates cluster-life-cycle (CLC) analysis to inform the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), in order to support the effectiveness of the smart specialization strategy (S3).

This Palgrave Pivot employs the concept of open source agriculture as a new social movement, which not only advocates a specific agenda but also creates technological products under a unique technology development model.

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia.

This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education.

This edited volume is focused on Hilferding's major work, Finance Capital.

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

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

This book examines the major economic challenges associated with the sustainability of public pensions, specifically demographic change, labor-market relations, and risk sharing.

The Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in the United States.

This book provides a study of the forces underlying the development of economic thought at Cambridge University during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

This volume presents novel concepts to help physicians and health care providers better understand the thought processes and approaches used in clinical decision-making and how we develop those skills  as we transition from being a medical student to post-graduate trainee to independent practitioner.

There is a lot written on climate change from various points of view, but this is the first work that demonstrates the connection between the hunger of the poor, the deprivation of safe and healthy food on the part of those who can afford it in the wealthy countries, but still face starvation in the sense of lack of nourishment, and climate change itself.

How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice?

At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya.

Things will always go wrong in organisations.

This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21st century.

This edited collection is a novel book with contributions from eleven expert researchers on the history of tourism in Europe.

The book provides a holistic and practical approach to lean management throughout the business value chain.

Building on co-author Sharon Williams' previous title Improving Healthcare Operations, this book examines the role of co-design and coproduction in health and social care.

This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence.

This book offers significant managerial and economic knowledge on hospitals, and will serve as a valuable tool for explaining complicated managerial and economical problems, and for facilitating decision-making processes.

This book explores the ongoing transition of China's economy by examining how its healthcare industry is growing and changing.

This book addresses the challenges that healthcare organizations experience when attempting to manage the emergence of troublesome events or crises.

This book deals with the quest for a divided welfare state in Sweden.

This proceedings volume provides a multifaceted perspective on the unprecedented crises generated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, and its ramifications for individuals, businesses, organizations, governments and systems in developing countries.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book, a second edition, includes new data from the 2010 Census of India and NSS reports on consumer expenditure (2011-12), health and education (2014) to examine poverty in China and India, and how it connects with minorities.

This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles - environmental, societal, and economic - that have curtailed such visions.

This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods.

Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes and terrorism.