Economics

This book explores the importance of entrepreneurs in driving economic growth as the world economy grows and becomes more integrated and more challenging.

The Federal Reserve System, created in the early 20th century, is now more than a hundred years old.

Beginning this year, federal payment recipients will receive their government benefits through electronic funds transfer (EFT)-- what most of us call direct deposit.

Discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance for welfare professionals over the last two decades in the face of an intensification of management culture across the public sector.

This book seeks to show the role of sustainability and innovation in the business and productive sector as good strategy to improve performance and contribute to growth and sustainable development through innovative strategies applied to the management process.

This classic text in Italian history of political philosophy, translated into English for the first time, investigates the philosophical and ideological conceptions hidden beneath the modern image of the isolated individual.

Volume 27 of "e;Advances in Econometrics"e;, entitled "e;Missing Data Methods"e;, contains 16 chapters authored by specialists in the field, covering topics such as: Missing-Data Imputation in Nonstationary Panel Data Models; Markov Switching Models in Empirical Finance; Bayesian Analysis of Multivariate Sample Selection Models Using Gaussian Copulas; Consistent Estimation and Orthogonality; and Likelihood-Based Estimators for Endogenous or Truncated Samples in Standard Stratified Sampling.

The Political Economy of the World Trading System is a comprehensive textbook account of the economics, institutional mechanics and politics of the world trading system.

Emerging multinational enterprises (or EMNEs) have made a huge impact on the international business stage by internationalising at a rapid rate.

In today's business world, people negotiate every day,everywhere, using techniques learned from variousbooks, experience, and education.

As the publishing, film and music industries are dominated by Big Media conglomerates, there is often recourse to simplistic ideological and conspiratorial readings of industry dynamics.

„Lobby Work“ ist Interessenvertretung unter veränderten Bedingungen einer medien- und marktaffinen Gesellschaft.

The 2008 international crisis has revived the interest in Keynes's theories and, in particular, on Minsky's models of financial fragility.

This book presents effective strategies for developing countries to leverage their public sector demand for manufactured imports to promote industrialization, trade, and technology transfer.

China faces many modernization challenges, but perhaps none is more pressing than that posed by climate change.

This book responds to the need for a retrieval and renewal of the work of Karl Marx through close philosophical analysis of his publications, manuscripts, and letters - especially those relevant to politics, morality, and the future.

Innovations in financial markets and in financial management, together with dramatic innovations in the substance and technique of monetary theory, have made it necessary to restate the theory of money and the theory of monetary policy.

Over the past decade, international economic liberalization has been pursued through both multilateral and regional arrangements.

New Europe is a rhetorical term used by some analysts to describe European post-communist transition success stories.

An internationally renowned scholar of law and economics, Michael J.

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

The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland - socially, politically, demographically and culturally.

Managerial economics, meaning the application of economic methods in the managerial decision-making process, is a fundamental part of any business or management course.

Using a range of case-studies, this book analyzes corporate governance relationships between several African countries and the international community, providing an ethical assessment of issues surrounding globalization and adherence to external governance mechanisms.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2017.

The primary purpose of a patent law system should be to enhance economic efficiency, in particular by providing incentives for making inventions.

Designed specifically with revision in mind, the CIM Revision Cards provide concise, yet fundamental information to assist students in passing the CIM exams as easily as possible.

Tapping experts in an industry experiencing major disruptions, The Movie Business Book is the authoritative, comprehensive sourcebook, covering online micro-budget movies to theatrical tentpoles.

This book provides a fresh, multidisciplinary, and exciting look at the making and remaking of pharmaceutical patents at the GATT/WTO, by utilising a Coxian political economy of continuity and change in the global political economy (GPE).

A concise analysis of the evolution of monetary policy and banking institutions over the past sixty years that stresses the dynamic interactions between the Federal Reserve and banking institutions that resulted from financial market innovations.

The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place.

Seaport Container Terminals (SCT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks, and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels, as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways.

This book re-visits the phenomenon of Japanese secular stagnation in light of the fate of the North Atlantic and developing economies and places it in a longer historical political and geopolitical economy of capitalism from a variety of political and disciplinary perspectives.

This ground-breaking book provides the first English-language survey of economic thought in modern Japan.

This 2016 OECD Economic Survey of Costa Rica examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects.

Demand for water in agricultural, municipal, industrial, and environmental uses is growing.

In this fascinating study, Neri Karra examines entrepreneurial family businesses in emerging markets by integrating three schools of thought: agency theory, an institutional framework, and the altruism perspective.

Models in Statistical Social Research provides a comprehensive insight of models used in statistical social research based on statistical data and methods.

The contemporary period has witnessed the rapid evolution in a wide range of mobile technology.

This book critically engages with how formal and informal mechanisms of governance are used across the world.

This volume presents a unique collection of original research contributions by leading experts in several modern fields of econometrics and statistics, including high-dimensional, nonparametric and robust statistics, time series analysis and factor models.

The growth of manufacturing industries can be a key factor in helping to mitigate global recession.

Intergenerational income mobility is of great societal importance due to its relevance to equal socio-economic opportunity and future economic efficiency.

Cross-cultural marketing is an important element of the contemporary business environment.

Since the Great Depression, researchers and statisticians have recognized the need for more extensive methods for measuring economic growth and sustainability.

This paper examines the practice of peer review and the related effect of peer pressure in the context of international organisations, particularly the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

First published in 1985, this book examines the major components of working time from an international perspective, considering the individual aspects of working time, with particular emphasis on the argument that work should be shared to alleviate unemployment and the case for further increasing the flexibility and choice in working arrangements.