Economics

Second edition, now explains the history leading up to the biggest economic disaster of the 21st century.

Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories is the first publication to consider the 'creative' side of enterprise in small island states and territories.

This collection offers pathbreaking framing of the material culture of financialisation.

The truth about the 2008 economic crisis from a Washington insider The 1980s opened with the prime interest rate at an astonishing 21.

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Adopts an interdisciplinary approach to study ''expert ignorance'', or the power of experts who continually admit the limits of their knowledge.

The Concise Encyclopedia of The Great Recession 2007-2010 provides the necessary resources for understanding the recession begun in 2007.

This book explores - through extensive fieldwork - the link between development and security, critical to India's Northeast, within the context of the cross-border space it shares with China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal.

Does economics actually help us to understand and solve real world problems?

The aftermath of the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 saw its influence spread around the world, including Europe.

The humanitarian crises caused by civil conflicts and wars in Africa are too great in scope for an adequate and effective continental response.

Since the appearance of macroeconomics in the 1940s, economists have created many theoretical frameworks to explain the origin and mechanism of economic fluctuations.

The rise of suicide and burnout among physicians has brought a new disease to the healthcare provider, which we previously thought only affected the soldier: moral distress syndrome, second only to moral injury.

This book is a major stocktaking of law and economics in the context of developing and emerging economies, and in the light of the dramatic changes in the global economy that we have witnessed in recent years.

Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land.

An invaluable resource for those considering and starting degree courses in Economics.

RMB: Towards Internationalization takes an in-depth look at the exchange rate regime of China's currency, the RMB, including the arrangements, related policies and management, and corresponding policy recommendations.

In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal.

In the midst of several large cyberattacks in 2017, the European Commission adopted its multi-sector cybersecurity package in September of that same year.

Qatar, a nation surrounded by the sea and only a sliver of land, has made it to the forefront of leading the world by example.

Between 1909-17, Gustavo Del Vecchio developed a 'theory of circulation'.

The Covid-19 pandemic is a repeating biophysical shock yet one for which our current socio-economic structure was not prepared.

Health systems worldwide are grappling with the challenge of coordinating difference in an increasingly complex care environment.

Das vorliegende Buch präsentiert eine leicht verständliche und moderne Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre.

This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of research outcomes on the equity home bias puzzle - that people overinvest in domestic stocks relative to the theoretically optimal investment portfolio.

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices.

This book offers a thorough introduction to the highly promising complex agent-based approach to economics, in which agent-based models (ABMs) are used to represent economic systems as complex and evolving systems composed of heterogeneous agents of limited rationality who interact with each other, generating the system's emergent properties in the process.

An incisive analysis of the state of the global economy and what the future holds.

First published in 1930, John Hobson's study deals with the economic dilemmas generated in the early twentieth century by the advent of mass production.

Offering a unique level of coverage, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the political and economic development of the countries of the former Soviet Union from the mid-1990s onwards.

A collection of eight volumes of books which contain all the known published writings and variant readings of Thomas Malthus.

Find the right innovation modelInnovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the markplans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context.

Exploring the rise and fall of global power from the mid-nineteenth century, this book tracks the long and interrelated trajectories of the most serious challenges facing the world today.

The former Fannie Mae CFO's inside look at the war between the financial giants and government regulatorsA provocative true-life thriller about the all-out fight for dominance of the mortgage industry and how it nearly destroyed the global financial systemMany books have been written about the 2008 financial crisis, but they miss the biggest story of the meltdown: the battle between giant financial companies to dominate the $11 trillion mortgage market that almost destroyed the global financial system.

Uses the framework of ''market in state'', to argue that the Chinese economy is state-centered, dominated by political principles over economic principles.

This timely reference analyzes the rationale, impact, and feasibility of taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) as a public health measure to contribute curbing obesity and diabetes rates, specifically in Canada.

Fabian Colonial Essays (1945) brings together a host of leading thinkers to discuss different aspects of colonialism.

This book bridges the gap between economic and ecological theory and practice.

This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child interaction, partnership quality and divorce or partnership dissolution.

The process of development in recent times has been characteristically marked by the expanding reach of multinational enterprises, flows of foreign direct investment, unprecedented growth of information and communication technologies (ICT) and knowledge-based industries, and infusion of ICT across the entire spectrum of industries and activities.

What are the effects of decreasing social mobility?

Highlights how West Germany leveraged its economic power to become a key pillar of the global order in the 1960s and 1970s.

Born in 1897, Milly Bennett lived an extraordinary life that led from her native San Francisco, to Honolulu, to China for the revolution, to the Soviet Union on the eve of World War II, to the Spanish Civil War, and home again, a journey punctuated with many love affairs, triumphs, and disappointments.

Originally published in 1940, this book traces the development of theories concerning currency and credit from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.

This volume brings together noteworthy articles in accounting.

This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated.

First Published in 2005.