Economics

The regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation and maritime transport has proved to be a difficult task for international climate negotiations such as the Paris Agreement in 2015.

With increasing pressure on resources, the looming spectre of climate change and growing anxiety among eaters, ecology and food are at the heart of the political debates surrounding agriculture and diet.

For many decades economists have disputed with economic anthropologists over the origins of money.

There is something visceral about ownership.

Ageing populations are a major consideration for socio-economic development in the early twenty-first century.

The plebeians of Buenos Aires were crucial to the success of the revolutionary junta of May 1810, widely considered the start of the Argentine war of independence.

Although there have been considerable technological advances over the past decade, particularly in terms of mobile applications, much remains unknown about their effect on societal progress.

It is a societal given, borne out by the facts: the higher one's social status, the better health, and the longer life expectancy.

This book provides an analysis of various sources and forms of systemic financial risk.

This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work.

Constructing roads in Madagascar; forestry along Canada's Pacific Coast; water and sanitation projects in South Africa; community banking in the United States; constructing a new global system for corporate reporting.

This collection of work by leading scholars investigates the impact of the globalization process on some selected Asian economies and societies.

Business Statistics of the United States is a comprehensive and practical collection of data from as early as 1913 that reflects the nation's economic performance.

In the late 1980s, Japan's strong economic performance put it on a the verge of becoming a major player in regional and global affairs.

This book presents a distinctive version of a contractarian approach to law and justice.

A selection of 50 Slovak folk tales assembled from the collections of folklorist Pavol Dobsinsky.

Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000.

This Brief proposes a new theory of public economics which deemphasizes reliance on the free market and affirms the importance of public goods and services within the context of the democratic process and constitutional governance.

Das Buch hat die Aufgabe, Studierende der Volkswirtschafts- und der Betriebswirtschaftslehre in das Gebiet der Finanzwissenschaft einzuführen.

This book presents a collection of research papers focusing on issues emerging from the interaction of information technologies and organizational systems.

Private Banking und Family Office sind wichtige Geschäftsfelder in Banken und Steuerkanzleien.

This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise of efficiency measurement in health and health care.

This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of the Multilateral Non-Proliferation Export Control system and the national and international context within which it functions.

This book addresses challenges that new technologies and the big data revolution pose to existing regulatory and legal frameworks.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science.

Caribbean countries have had to navigate multiple crises, which have tested their collective resolve through time.

The book interprets the Cuban revolutionary movement from 1868 to 1959 as a continuous process that sought political independence and social and economic transformation of colonial and neocolonial structures.

This monograph is devoted to a modern theory of capital cost and capital structure created by this book's authors, called the Brusov-Filatova-Orekhova (BFO) theory, and its application to the real economy.

Business Statistics narrows the gap between theory and practice by focusing on relevant statistical methods, thus empowering business students to make good, data-driven decisions.

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 - 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a subject that has long been on the historical agenda.

The book traces India's Saudi Policy and locates the current state of bilateral relations and the challenges it faces.

Eager to make government work better, cost less, and be more accountable, reformers are embracing a common prescription: consolidate and downsize government agencies to eliminate duplication and overlap.

Until now, the resolution of international commercial and investment disputes has been dominated almost exclusively by international arbitration.

Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'.

This title, originally published in 1984, is based on a study of the work of general and production managers in companies in Britain and Germany, and gives a life-like account of the realities of management, including the problems, crises and unresolved tensions.

Modern Monetary Theory and Distributive Justice shows how the macroeconomic framework called modern money theory (MMT) is relevant to the field of political philosophy called distributive justice.

This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world's largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development.

This book is the outcome of a South-South conference jointly organized by the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, May 2012.

Sweeping changes have taken place in the financial sector during the twentieth century.