Economics

This book sheds new light on metrics like Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID) or Minimal Important Difference (MID) by discussing their application beyond traditional medical fields into non-clinical domains such as education, environmental studies, business analytics, finance, linguistics, economics, and biology.

This book covers new trends in the global economy as a result of geopolitical shifts.

This textbook provides a short introduction to auction theory through exercises with detailed answer keys.

Building Sites addresses the urgent need to advance the critical understanding of relations between architectural design and the labour of building.

This pioneering volume presents a comprehensive assessment of generative artificial intelligence's impact on African journalism, bringing together insights from academics, technologists, and practicing journalists across the continent.

The first interdisciplinary empirically-grounded pluri-jurisdictional assessment of the origins, operation and main causes of the growing global investment migration trend.

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics.

This pioneering volume presents a comprehensive assessment of generative artificial intelligence's impact on African journalism, bringing together insights from academics, technologists, and practicing journalists across the continent.

The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived.

Explains the extent, necessity and importance of black-market activity in France during the Second World War.

By analyzing migration-food security linkages, this book engages with the larger process of uneven development in India.

Thriving Amid the Juggle: Mastering Lifes Demanding WorkloadLife on multiple jobs isnt just a financial necessity for manyits a complex balancing act demanding strategy, resilience, and heart.

The book demonstrates the underappreciated extent and political importance of both positive and negative mass partisan attitudes in Brazil.

Provides the first scholarly and comprehensive book on the national renewable energy laws of every country that has them (113 countries).

Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.

This book traces the formation of the Sudanese state following the Second World War through a developmentalist ideology.

Excessive household debt has allowed for economic growth, but this model has become increasingly unstable.

The reforms introduced in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 have had the desired effect in that banks are better capitalised, banks have higher liquidity buffers, and the share of non-performing loans is low.

The WTO provides tools to address China''s state capitalism and should be the preferred forum for negotiations on SOE''s and industrial subsidies.

In examining the key merchant group in late imperial China this book provides a framework for understanding China''s path to modernity.

Why can''t politicians seem to make policies that will reduce social inequality, even when they acknowledge that inequality is harmful?

This exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany''s post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.

Explores how the Virginia School developed an economics for natural equals in which consent is critical for policy.

Shows how thinking in evolutionary terms enhances our understanding of the economic and social change taking place at all levels.

Highlights what national governments should know to properly conduct their industrial policies under the multilateral trading system.

Rethinks the tea plantation economy of colonial east India by highlighting its human and non-human networks and practices.

The book describes how intellectual property law is framed by theories about incentives, trade, health, development, and human rights.

A fresh perspective on socialist law as practiced in China and Vietnam, two major socialist states.

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

Explains how managers can successfully build multinationals in emerging markets from the analysis of forty-one comparative cases of Mexican multinationals.

Paying for Hitler''s War is a comparative economic study of twelve Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.

A cutting-edge description of subnational democracy combined with a ground breaking explanation for why some regions are much less democratic than others.

This book offers a specialized and revealing study of the Bank of England''s gilt-edged market operations during the mid-twentieth century.

Shows how the digital revolution, sponsored by government and funded by speculation, now challenges the authority and legitimacy of the state.

An interdisciplinary history of the campaign to secure international protection of indications of geographic origin, including ''Made in …'' slogans.

A comprehensive review of Hong Kong''s pharmaceutical patent law that will influence debate and inform public policy.

Leading scholars from a range of disciplines come together in an inclusive discussion of the latest techniques and issues examined by the capability approach.

This book gives a detailed account of how two major Austrian banks profited from their service to the Nazi regime.

Analyzes how combinations of instruments at different levels of government, or smart mixes, can effectively regulate transboundary environmental harm.

The liberal-democratic world order is confronting the rise of authoritarian state-led corporate interventions.

Mapping Ghana''s struggle to transform its economy after independence, this original interpretation highlights the economic difficulties associated with the political legacies of colonialism.

Provides the answer to the enduring puzzle why India lags behind China in offering public goods to its people.

A compelling and revisionist account of Florence''s economic, literary and social history in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death.