Economics

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.

Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel?

This book focuses on the participation and interaction of the three great powers-i.

What will Asia look like ten years from now?

First Published in 2005.

Los Llanos-the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia-are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told.

Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism.

For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo - anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high value-added biotechnology.

This book examines the role of competence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking economic, management and historical perspectives.

This text challenges the traditional view of the history of econometrics and provides a more complete story.

Quantal Response Equilibrium presents a stochastic theory of games that unites probabilistic choice models developed in psychology and statistics with the Nash equilibrium approach of classical game theory.

In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared.

Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s.

Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the "e;world's oldest profession"e; and one of the least understood occupations.

In the 1990s, 'protection', 'import substitution' and 'intervention' have become dirty words, part of the 'leyenda negra' of Latin America development in the postwar period.

Originally published in 1984 this book focuses principally on the use of foreign aid by the members of OPEC in the 1970s and demonstrates how the divisive elements both within OPEC and between OPEC and the rest of the developing world prevented OPEC from using aid to advance developing world objectives.

From the dramatic find in the caves of Qumran, the world's most ancient version of the Bible allows us to read the scriptures as they were in the time of Jesus.

The ten years since the financial crash have been lean years for progressive politics of all kinds.

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

A readable, exciting chronicle of the men and ships that ran federal naval blockades during the Civil War Within four weeks of the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln had declared a blockade of over four thousand miles of Confederate coastline, from Cape Henry in Virginia to the Mexican border.

To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources.

Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment.

Unlock the transformative potential of deep learning in your professional and academic endeavors with Deep Learning in Engineering, Energy and Finance: Principals and Applications.

This collection of essays from eminent scholars discusses different phases and measures of economic development, evaluating the success of national economic transitions and providing valuable policy lessons for developing economies.

​PPP haben sich in Deutschland und international als wünschenswerte Beschaffungsalternative der Öffentlichen Hand etabliert.

Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.

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.

Ist Nachhaltigkeit überhaupt noch notwendig?

This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional reality is constructed.

This book uses a critical political economy approach to develop an historically and politically grounded set of strategies for states to move toward a post-growth, decarbonised global economy.

This title was first published in 2002: The interrelationship between international trade and the environment has become the subject of much heated debate.

The tools of American statecraft-defense, diplomacy, foreign and security assistance, homeland security and intelligence-are rarely examined together.

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700.

This book explores the key economic issues facing Southeastern Europe and Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the context of the serious challenges that the global economy has faced in recent years.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Ökonomische Strategie der 80er Jahre und Effektivität des Wirtschaftsrechts" verfügbar.

​Die Branche der Gesundheitsdienstleistungen ist in einem fühlbaren und stetigen Wandel.

This book brings together scholars from the fields of politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and economics, to explore pathways towards implementing a Basic Income in Australia.

With its closely aligned content and structure, this textbook will equip your students for the refreshed OCR A-level and AS Economics specifications.

This book examines the economic, cultural and structural factors affecting China's economic growth, and expounds why China's economy has been so successful in the past, and the challenges that lie ahead for the country amidst the changing world, new challenges and uncertainties.

This book is based on a number of systems concepts, of which the following are emphasized here: oThe interacting systems of society and the environment are dynamic and evolution- ary oEvolution of these systems carries them through stages of differential stability and instability, continuity and discontinuity oAssociated with evolution and instability is structural change that is essentially irre- versible oThe present is a stage of world transformation that may not have been equaled for decades or even centuries oPolicies and decisions must match the times, in the present case the stage of world transformation The time 11:59:59 PM, approximately, on December 31, 2000 has an impor- tant symbolic meaning.

Mount Laurel II is a historic state supreme court decision which mandates that all new residential development include housing for low- and moderate-income families.