Economics

Over recent decades national environmental policies have converged.

Economics has often been described as "e;the dismal science,"e; with TV and movies reinforcing this description.

Planning a new or refurbished public library means considering not only facilities for collections, services, staff and users, but examining also the local context, reviewing the library image, and developing relationships with other community facilities and agencies.

Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes.

First published in 2005.

Expanding an organisation internationally presents both opportunities and challenges as marketing departments seek to understand different buying behaviours, power relations, preferences, loyalties and norms.

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought.

This book explores the link between entrepreneurship and innovation, providing an understanding of the latest developments in the field.

The Development of Managerial Culture examines the differences in underlying values and cultural distinctions in managerial cultures in Australia and Canada.

The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of u20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human 'property.

This book compares legally allowed dismissal conditions in employment contracts in Taiwan and Japan and then examines the possibility of introducing the Taiwan-style severance payment system into Japanese employment contracts.

This book provides a practical and intuitive view of how European banks manage asset-liability mismatch risk from both a practitioner and supervisory perspective.

This book aims to explain and explore the distribution mechanism adopted by China, which prioritizes distribution according to performance while taking factors of production into consideration.

This volume has as its focus the role of the Marshall Plan as both a force in the transformation of European Economic practices and a stimulus to political integration in Europe.

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction.

C’est l’histoire d’une coopération étroite et fructueuse entre une grande puissance et un pays émergent.

The original establishment of life assurance upon a sound basis was largely the achievement of The Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships (now known as The Equitable Life Assurance Society and still affectionately called the 'Old Equitable'), and of the men who served her.

How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole?

The implementation of quality management can be seen as a sequence of projects and evolves as a result of how projects are planned, executed and closed.

‘Het duurt te lang’, ‘het kost te veel’, ‘we begrijpen elkaar niet goed’.

Balancing skills and theory, this introductory public speaking textbook encourages the reader to see public speaking as a way to build community in today's diverse world.

While the pitiful images of famine victims generally emanate from the very poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the entire region faces an intense economic crisis.

This book offers a service science perspective on platform orchestration and on collaborative consumption, providing an overview of research topics related to service dominant logic in multi-sided markets.

An innovative study of colonialism in China, examining Shanghai''s International Settlement as the site of key developments in the Republican period.

In recent years, Mediterranean agriculture has experienced important transformations which have led to new forms of labour and production, and in particular to a surge in the recruitment of migrant labour.

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies.

Der "Mankiw" ist nicht nur ein maßgebliches Standardwerk an deutschen Hochschulen.

This book addresses a range of issues relating to the nature and implications of growth of India's services sector, including factors contributing to the rise of services, output measurement and heterogeneity, growth of services exports, and employment in services sectors.

Infrastructure as Business brings new emphasis and clarity to the importance of private investment capital in large-scale infrastructure projects, introducing investors, policymakers, and other stakeholders to a key element that is surprisingly absent from the discourse on public-private partnerships.

Der patentrechtliche Unterlassungsanspruch verleiht dem Inhaber ein weitreichendes Ausschließlichkeitsrecht, dessen Ausübung grundsätzlich unbeschränkt ausgestaltet ist.

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals.

Digital transformation in organisations can improve business agility, operational efficiency, customer service, and contribute to sustainability initiatives.

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

A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid.

"e;Brazil is one of the world's most productive crucibles for new ideas and practices in innovation and collaboration.

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery.

The recent surge in media mergers has set off a wave of stories that all hit very close to home.

This book makes the case for the welfare state.

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in which national actors form their interests and represent them.

The traditional role of evolutionary theory in the social sciences has been to explain the existence of an object in terms of the survival of the fittest.

This collection of out-of-print books brings together research on the key aspects of Korea: its business world; religious world; society; and language.

This book provides detailed empirical analysis of countries in Asia to examine various dynamic models that incorporate the impact of technology and innovations on the industry evolution and overall economic growth.

Germany's public savings banks - Sparkassen - are a remarkable and puzzling phenomena.

The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble.

This book offers a sociological account of the process by which companies instituted and continue to institute outsourcing in their organization.

This books provides an essential study of communicable diseases, by integrating the diagnosis, treatment and cure of communicable diseases in developing countries with the practical aspects of delivery of these services to the public.