Economics

Managing Educational Technology examines the ways in which stakeholders from businesses, K-12 schools, and universities can influence the quality and success of technology integration in primary and secondary classrooms.

This textbook offers a rigorous, calculus based presentation of the complexities of urban economics, which is suitable for students who are new to the subject.

This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.

What was Adam Smith's intellectual laboratory?

The fourth generation of leaders of the People's Republic of China, while benefiting from the prestige of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, also needs to contemplate the sobering side-effects of a rapid and internationally-interdependent economy and a troubled and only partly reformed political system.

Inclusion in the American Dream brings together leading scholars and policy experts on the topic of asset building, particularly as this relates to public policy.

This shortform textbook provides a concise overview of the fundamentals of environmental economics.

This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the field.

In the past decade there has been a worldwide evolution in evidence-based medicine that focuses on real-world Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to compare the effects of one medical treatment versus another in real world settings.

Environment and sustainable development challenges are a matter of global concern.

Orthodox economics has played a role in the gradual narrowing of the concept of man from a being involved with the fullness of life to "e;economic man"e; an efficiently functioning mechanism within present-day technological society.

This book explores the seemingly unstoppable turn away from Europe and towards Asian powers, notably China, on the part of the Russian state in the early 21st century.

It has taken platforms only twenty years to become digital economy hubs.

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

Economic Elites, Crises, and Democracy analyzes critical topics of contemporaneous capitalism.

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China has experienced tremendous developmental success since its reform and opening-up policy in 1978.

"e;Property and Prophets"e; is a concise history of the rise and subsequent triumph of capitalism.

Behind the steady stream of new products, technologies, systems and services in our modern societies there is prolonged and complicated battle around the role of users.

Changes in labour relations in Eastern Europe arising from recent political events can only be understood against an explanation of the existing structures and mechanisms of labour relations.

How does a severe economic crisis impact on diaspora-homeland relations?

"Mathematics for Engineers III" gehört zu einer vierbändigen Reihe und gibt eine Einführung in die Mathematik für Undergraduates, die ein Bachelor-Studium im Bereich Ingenieurwissenschaften aufgenommen haben.

Collection with new contributions to the debate from New Politics concerning the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg.

First published in 1998, this author illustrates clearly how, on the threshold of the new millennium, the world is entering a post-economic era.

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world.

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor.

Volume 11 of the EYIEL focuses on rights and obligations of business entities under international economic law.

This book integrates the economics of aging and insight based on political economy and explores generational conflict in the context of governmental spending.

Capital, Accumulation, and Money: An Integration of Capital, Growth, and MonetaryTheory is a book about capital and money.

The practical approached championed in this book have led to increasing the quality on many successful products through providing a better understanding of consumer needs, current product and process performance and a desired future state.

Originally published in 1985, Industrialization and Urbanization in Latin America focuses on the process of industrialisation in Latin America.

This book explores for the first time the punk phenomenon in contemporary China.

This book presents a re-examination of classical issues in the relationship between different forms of democratization, civil, political and social, and examines Chile's transition to democracy during the 1990s as a typical case of the modern sequence.

As countries large and small, rich and poor are drawn inexorably into the global economy, protectionist policies are proving increasingly inefficient and ineffective for driving growth.

The high growth performance of the Indian economy since the launch of economic reforms in the early 1990s has been much lauded.

EBES conferences have been an intellectual hub for academic discussion in economics, finance, and business fields and provide network opportunities for participants to make long-lasting academic cooperation.

Ownership-based economics has led to the rapid development and apparent universal success of the market economy.

This book examines key issues connected with the distribution of personal wealth in the UK.

This book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of "e;experimental"e; methodologies used to study voting.

Pushing the frontiers of the new development paradigm, this book guides debates, clarifies new themes and illustrates how the cultural resources of the developing world can become a new way of integrating into the global economy - helping to raise the voices of developing countries, widening the range of creative choices and promoting cultural diversity and economic and human development.