Economics

Central bank digital currency (CBDC) is on the horizon, with more than 130 central banks globally considering such projects.

This book explains the behaviour of output and its growth over time.

This book stands as the first comprehensive exploration of the intricate issue of energy poverty in Japan.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2025, which took place in Zaragoza, Spain, during June 2025.

This textbook presents a new way to visualize or imagine the evolutionary architecture of economics, to judge both its practical outcomes and its ultimate value.

This book investigates the relationship between universities, real estate markets, and local economic systems in light of contemporary urban regeneration processes and sustainability challenges.

This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other environmental risks, global health threats, warfare, and mass migration, manifest themselves in European cities.

This book offers a thorough review of studies on climate change and urban adaptation strategies and plans.

This book offers a thorough review of studies on climate change and urban adaptation strategies and plans.

This edited volume explores the implementation of the circular economy (CE) in Southeast Asia, a densely populated region with a significant share of global production.

The latest scientific knowledge on climate change indicates that higher greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere through unchecked emissions will provoke severe climate change and ocean acidification.

Mass customization (MC) has been hailed as a successful operations strategy across manufacturing and service industries for the past three decades.

Innovating in Product/Process Development demonstrates how to achieve true innovation in product development, and how to launch a new product in the quickest and cheapest way.

Around the turn of the millennium, a young woman with outstanding academic achievements in science and mathematics applied to study engineering at a Eu- pean university.

Agent systems are being used to model complex systems like societies, markets and biological systems.

Recent European Commission studies recall the urgency of promoting new and more robust Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), due to the rise of enormous global markets and the emergence of a new industrial system originating from the distinctly different business culture of the Far East.

This book Innovations and the Environment aims to review the state of knowledge and to provide an empirical basis for the development and use of new technologies, products and services to reduce the impact of human activities on environmental quality.

"e;ERP Systems and Organisational Change"e; considers both the social and technical perspectives on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, which are now the backbone of the information systems in public and private sector organisations.

This book provides answers to analysts’ need to know about elasticities of demand, with a unique two-track approach.

This volume discusses the political economy of energy transition in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.

This book explains the psychology theory behind design using plain language.

Non-Gaussian distributions are the key theme of this book which addresses the causes and consequences of non-normality and time dependency in both asset returns and option prices.

This book is an introduction to game theory from a mathematical perspective.

Overview Modelling and simulation is a tool that provides support for the planning, design, and evaluation of systems as well as the evaluation of strategies for system transformation and change.

Based on over 15 years' experience in the design and delivery of successful first-year courses, this book equips undergraduates with the mathematical skills required for degree courses in economics, finance, management and business studies.

Renewable energy technologies have been used on a small scale for many years now.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the inaugural World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) being held at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the Gold Coast from July 11 to 14, 2006.

Few would deny that small entrepreneurial firms play an important economic and social role.

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering.

Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a powerful and cost effective technique.

Stochastic geometry is a relatively new branch of mathematics.

This book analyses several aspects of Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM), a form of hybrid public-private partnership (PPP) for development of roads sector in India.

With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, the EU became a global actor in the field of foreign direct investment.

This volume approaches marcomm (marketing communication) from the phenomenology of markets in the context of the Global South and its postcolonial experiences.

This book clarifies the mechanism of widening income inequality and declining labor share in macroeconomics, growth, technology, and the labor market, and provides policy implications.

This book tells the African FinTech stories and provides a comprehensive overview of the current situations within the five economic zones in Africa - the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the East African Community (EAC), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), North Africa and the GCC countries.

In an era where economic progress and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand, this book offers an essential exploration of how renewable energy can drive both growth and sustainability.

This book analyses the ways in which crises, including COVID-19, can be managed within the tourism and hospitality industries in Asia, in ways that support the future of these industries and help to make them more resilient.

This book provides a tour through a novel theoretical approach to understanding the political economy of authoritarianism and the international market for capital investment.

This book focuses on the high-income Asia that experienced fast economic growth and rapid demographic change in recent decades.

This is the first book that provides a comprehensive inter-regional comparison of Asian and European multinationals from large (China and Russia) and medium-sized (Taiwan) emerging markets.

This book is a pioneering multi-disciplinary analytical study of Caribbean political corruption grounded in Caribbean epistemology, challenging universalist perceptions generated outside the region which take no account of historical and cultural elativity.

This book provides a comprehensive global coverage of energy management as it relates mostly to developing countries.

'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.

Denmark is set to achieve 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030.

Winner of the Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Award at the Business Book Awards 2021 ';Underpinned by scholarship.

How do you predict something that has never happened before?

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A Financial Times Book of the Year and an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year India's explosive rise has driven inequality to new extremes, with millions trapped in slums as billionaires spend lavishly and dodge taxes.