Economics

This analysis of battles in the American Civil War, and in other contemporary wars, demonstrates the importance of superior numbers.

The full effects of decisions made today about many environmental policies -including climate change and nuclear waste- will not be felt for many years.

This book sets out a rationalist theory of how institutions - especially informal institutions - can affect trust without reducing it to fully determine expectations.

For the last 134 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

Adam Smith wrote in a Scotland where Calvinism, Continental natural law theory, Stoic philosophy, and the Newtonian tradition of scientific natural theology were key to the intellectual lives of his contemporaries.

Since the early 1990s, culture, in the sense of norms and values, has entered economic analysis again, whereas it was totally absent from mainstream economics during most of the second half of the twentieth century.

What was the role of economists and economics in the making of the European Union?

Die Fast-Fashion-Industrie hinter sich lassen und zu einer verantwortungsvollen Textilindustrie beitragen.

A discussion of the power relationships between employers, workers and their organizations in capitalist societies.

Why is our health care system so fragmented in the care it gives patients?

Originally published in 1976, this book discusses the management skills needed to evaluate, implement and control computer-based operation.

Researchers in international development have long argued that the high costs of doing business harms prosperity in developing countries, a claim that invites the question of why governments impose these costs and why societies fail to enact reforms reducing them.

Costs of children as consumers is an issue as interesting and intriguing as it is intricate and tricky.

This book focuses on how digital technologies and rapid developments in artificial intelligence are shaping a new generation of cyber-physical systems based on the convergence among robots, sensors, and 3D printing.

The focus of volume 14 of the EYIEL is on "e;(Public) Procurement and Competition Law in European and International Economic Law"e;.

This edited volume provides critical reflections on the interplay between politics and law in an increasingly transnationalized global political economy.

In 1914 the two largest firms in Russia were subsidiaries of American companies.

This volume explains China's foreign policy from the perspective of its historical recovery after 1949 and the country's subsequent rise as a great power, including its transformation into a global power.

Based on primary research into the public lectures of management gurus, this fascinating new volume analyzes how such gurus disseminate their ideas, values and visions on the international management lecture circuit.

Emerging technologies are having a profound impact upon individuals and organisations.

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice?

Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central.

This volume seeks to examine the evolving contours of Asian multilateralism through emerging China and how it is likely to impact on the growth trajectories of Asian countries.

This book provides a summary of the main concepts involved in environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions and a consistent sequence of environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions.

This book analyses the political transition in West Bengal, India, which witnessed longest democratically elected Left regime of the world.

When learning econometrics, what better way than to be taught by one of its masters.

According to the European Commission, Europe is facing a transversal crisis that obliges the rethinking and redefinition of its narrative.

Looking at the years 1870-2016, this book analyses the reasons behind Colombia's chronically slow economic growth.

'I am truly delighted to be recommending this book and suite of resources to you - I trust that you will find them as inspiring and thought provoking as I have done'Prof Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard DBE PhD FRCGP FLSWChair of the Academy of Medical Royal CollegesThis new book of leadership narratives portrays the reality of driving change within primary care, making it a valuable resource for a broad primary care audience.

Discussing economic theory and English economic history from the eighteenth century until the late 1970s this volume discusses among other things fixed capital and problems with the definition of the premodern economy as well as providing a chronology of 18th century business cycles.

This proceedings volume examines accounting and financial issues and trends from both global and local economic perspectives.

The pandemic wave of Covid 19 made many organizations in different sectors rethink their business strategy.

Die Frage nach der Überlebensfähigkeit von Unternehmen in schwierigen Zeiten ist spätestens seit der Finanzkrise in den Jahren nach 2007 hochaktuell, doch trat dieses Problem auch in der Geschichte auf, wenn Zeiten bedeutender wirtschaftlicher, politischer und gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche neuartige Herausforderungen an Unternehmen stellten.

Subjective Well-Being and Social Media shows how, by exploiting the unprecedented amount of information provided by the social networking sites, it is possible to build new composite indicators of subjective well-being.

Land has long been overlooked in economics.

This guidebook for students offers a survey of comparative politics intended for use in Hong Kong.

Energy and environmental security are major problems facing our global economy.

In the midst of turbulence in the international trade, this book titled Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact Estimation of Exchange Rates on Trade in Value-Added of ASEAN Economies provides a comprehensive overview on recent developments and policy initiatives in ASEAN, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses in facing the trade disruption from global events such as the US-China trade dispute, the rise of protectionist sentiments, and the expansion of China's Belt and Road Initiative.

Prepared by Patrick J.

This title combines reviews of two of the most important branches of urban economics: dynamics and externalities.

In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy.

Analyses and compares political blame games in Western democracies to show how democratic political systems manage policy controversies.

The development discourse has long been dominated by best practices prescriptions for reform, but these are not a useful way of responding to the governance ambiguities of the early 21st century.

This book critically examines marketization: a phenomenon by which market processes are institutionalized and marketing increasingly pervades all areas of our everyday life.

This volume presents selected and peer-reviewed contributions from the 14th Workshop on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications, held in Dresden, Germany, on March 6-8, 2019.