Economics

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

Explores how China has reached a threshold where continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics.

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.

This work contains papers presented at a conference held in March 1988.

The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household persp- tive.

While a positive correlation between capitalism and democracy has existed in Western Europe and North America, the example of late-industrializing nations such as Turkey has demonstrated that the two need not always go hand in hand, and sometimes the interests of business coincide more firmly with anti-democratic forces.

Capitalist Economics introduces and explains the basic economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of capitalist societies today.

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

This book presents a collective attempt to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed WWII.

This book provides a detailed look at the birth, growth and expansion of African Multinational Enterprises (AMNEs).

A deep look into the agency that implements the president's marching orders to the rest of the executive branchThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is one of the federal government's most important and powerful agencies-but it's also one of the least-known among the general public.

The current economic theory of innovation mainly analyses the technology factor and its impact on economic growth.

This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.

The development of market socialism in China has contributed to a remarkable spatial economic transformation in particular areas of the Chinese countryside.

The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world's biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

Leading economists, including three Nobel prize winners, evaluate ten serious global challenges.

Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective.

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A collection of ten classic texts of 20th-century British political economy.

The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "e;wealth of nations.

This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords.

This volume is dedicated to the memory and the achievements of Professor Sir Clive Granger, economics Nobel laureate and one of the great econometricians and applied economists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning?

Brand management to sustain corporate reputation and customer loyalty isessential for both multinationals and indigenous fi rms in Africa.

Peacekeeping is a security concept that is very representative of the current interventionism, multilateralism, human rights, and humanitarian ideas.

The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years' rotations in forestry.

An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angouleme in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened.

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is completing a decade.

This book examines labor market policy and institutional reforms and their impact on outcomes in the Chinese labor market, utilizing both institutional and empirical study perspectives.

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women.

This book consists of 20 short essays on different dimensions of international economic policy with specific (though not exclusive) focus on Asia.

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance.

This book provides readers with an analysis of econometric methods using statistical information to examine actual aspects of Japan's regional economy.

Modernization has been a profound change of human civilizations - a worldwide phenomenon and trend since the 18th century.

Originally published in 1984.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of March, grouped according to the topic: National Defense.

This is the first book that analyzes tobacco control policies in China from the perspectives of economics and health.

This is the first book dedicated to the scrutinization of Myanmar's unofficial foreign exchange market, its roots in restrictive administrative controls on foreign exchange and international trade, and its effects on the country's economic performance.

In recent years the development of spatial referencing techniques in com- puter-based information systems has enormously increased the opportuni- ties that exist for the treatment and presentation of both point and interaction data.

This highly original book aims to broaden the discussion about risk, the management of risk and regulation, especially in the financial industry.

In Rethinking Information Systems in Organizations John Paul Kawalek challenges the current orthodoxy of information systems and proposes new alternatives.

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek.

This book examines religious, political, and economic conflicts in the Middle East.

From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy.