Economics

This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy.

The Bretton Woods system ensured a quarter of a century of relative stability on the world's financial markets.

International Development is a comprehensive inquiry into the field of socio-economic development founded on an understanding that economic advancement involves transformation of society.

Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific brings together key studies from across several disciplines to examine the history of trans-Pacific rural and agricultural connections and to show an agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s.

An innovative textbook that provides a concise explanation of the foundations of modern macroeconomic theory and its methods.

A fascinating account of the problems and possible solutions involved in managing megaprojects.

The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period.

The book constructs the Synergy Theory, a new theory of economic growth and calculation methodology.

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.

Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democracy on the other.

Contemporary capitalism is characterized by periods of vigorous economic growth and periods of slow or even negative growth.

The relationship between project managers representing project owners and those on the contractor side is often threatened by communication risk.

Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged.

This book uses cutting-edge methods, such as big data mining methods on social media, generalized difference in difference, inoperational input-output models, improved data envelopment analysis, improved computable general equilibrium and others to calculate the economic impacts of climate and environmental disasters on China.

To elucidate the theoretical underpinnings and practical nuances of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) in Indonesia spanning 1990-2022, this book intricately integrates its evolutionary trajectory within the framework of both traditional and emerging investment theories.

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Gujarat state is one of the developed states in India with its fourth rank in per capita income among the major states.

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die empirische Überprüfung mehrdimensionaler kausaler Erklärungen, ihre Abbildung als Kausalmodelle und die notwendigen Schritte zu ihrer Formalisierung.

This book reviews the lessons from the Swedish 1991 tax reform, the most far-reaching tax reform in any Western industrialized country in the post-war period.

The State of the Adivasis in Odisha 2014: A Human Development Analysis endeavours to identify and highlight the development concerns of the tribals of the state, explore their causes and provide an opportunity to the state planners in prioritising the human development issues specific to this community.

Cybernetics is about having a goal and taking action to achieve that goal.

A Wall Street Journal BestsellerIn a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring.

This book explores the development of economic thought in Sweden through some of the people who shaped it.

Even up to the eve of the civil war, some observers saw the Lebanese system as essentially stable, and exhibiting some of the virtues of liberty and pluralism which had been commended by the French traveller de Volney a century before.

Mathematica is a computer program (software) for doing symbolic, numeric and graphical analysis of mathematical problems.

Directors are key decision-makers in any organisation, whether it is in the public sector, a family business or a transnational company.

In collaboration with colleagues in physics and metallurgy, Cecile Morrison has helped transform our knowledge of the techniques of late Roman and Byzantine coin production.

Originally published between 1981 and 1990 the volumes in this set: Examine the relationship between bilateral foreign aid and multilateral foreign aid.

A bold new interpretation of ''consumer revolution'' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.

In the face of globalization, multinational companies have become the norm, rather than the exception.

This edited volume analyses the channels through which EU membership contributed to the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

Thisbook provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in theurbanization process.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Product design is becoming increasingly challenging as product complexity increases dramatically with the advent of autonomous control and the need to achieve zero emissions.

Established in 1935 in the midst of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the most ambitious federal jobs programs ever created in the U.

This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of Marx's critique of the capitalist system, in which value is simply equated with market price.

This book examines the role of intangible assets (IA) in companies and countries for achieving sustainable economic growth.

In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate economic activity and avert a depression.

Originally published in 1988.

Analysis of the impact of global environmental change on human health for researchers and graduate students.

Since the early 1980s, the U.