Economics

This book provides a detailed look at Thomas Aquinas's view and understanding of economic activity.

This book discusses how Africa has been understood and defined across various academic fields.

Why do policymakers allow economies to settle into a "e;new normal"e; after a bad break in the economy rather than try to return the economy to its previous trend?

This book is a comprehensive exploration of decision-making in the realm of international trade and logistics operations.

This edited volume delves into Sierra Leone's complex post-conflict landscape.

Nigeria has become one of the hotbeds of cybercrime since the liberalization of the telecommunication industry began in 1996.

This book is a timely overview of the various aspects of consumer perception related to food.

This textbook presents some basic stochastic processes, mainly Markov processes.

This book presents an analysis of how the economic Korean Miracle spread into the cultural "e;Korean Wave"e; (Hallyu).

This book provides an overview of recent developments of complexity theory within the realm of social sciences.

Compared to other commercial buildings, hospital buildings are one of the most complex buildings/projects to plan, design, build, and operate.

This book is a rarity in that it conducts a comparative study of life satisfaction between Japan and China over a wider area and time period, filling a gap in empirical research on life satisfaction.

This book serves as a valuable resource for Islamic entrepreneurship researchers, Halal scholars, Islamic finance professionals, Halal advocates, and Halal business model consultants in the fast-changing global economy.

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

The book provides a deep and insightful enquiry into a set of persistent questions about investment treaties, including the causal relationship between investment treaties and investment, and their role in emerging economies such as India.

This book offers a deparochial account of global justice and addresses disenchantment stemming from its West-centricity and provincial theoretical formulations.

The overall framework for leaders is now changing and a reassessment of traditional economic and financial models is called for to foster the green and circular transition.

This book develops a comprehensive analysis of contemporary regionalism in the Americas, which the authors characterise as Liquid Regionalism, given its unstable, flexible and loose characteristics.

This book presents a comprehensive framework for understanding Special Economic Zones (SEZs) as a powerful tool for regional development, stimulating investment, creating employment opportunities, and supporting economic growth through tax incentives and other benefits.

In this book the authors take a scientific scalpel to the "e;money problem"e; by applying the Accounting System Dynamics (ASD) method they developed and identifies the root cause of the major problems facing our economy.

This new edition provides a detailed and systemic analysis of the shocks and vulnerabilities seen within Eastern Europe and their impact on medium and long-term economic stability and the sustainable development of the region.

This book delves into the intricacies of transformative processes, focusing particularly on radical and disruptive changes that shape markets, social systems, organizations, cities, and service ecosystems.

This new edition provides a detailed and systemic analysis of the shocks and vulnerabilities seen within Eastern Europe and their impact on medium and long-term economic stability and the sustainable development of the region.

This book provides an overview of the major developments in Kazakhstan over the past decade.

The book focuses on different practices of associated labor in Brazil and Argentina, in the case of the workers' recuperated factories, over the past 40 years.

This comprehensive textbook equips students of economics and business, as well as industry professionals, with essential principles, techniques, and applications of applied statistics, statistical testing, and multivariate data analysis.

This book investigates a different way to gain academic job experience and start an academic career.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the general framework of sustainable development paths in relation to where countries stand at present, by outlining the main challenges they face, and the potential pathways ahead to foster the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

To mark the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth, the 37th Heilbronn Symposium on Economics and the Social Sciences was dedicated to his outstanding oeuvre, but above all to his most famous work,  "e;An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"e; (1776), which is regarded as a keystone of modern economics.

This book collects selected, peer-reviewed research presented at the 8th International Conference on Mathematics: Pure, Applied, and Computation, held in Lombok, Indonesia, on 30 September 2023.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which research and perspectives from the social sciences and humanities can be combined for a more effective understanding of climate change and its impacts.

This book explores the transition into a future economy where human work is largely replaced by automation.

This book explores problems generated by the abandonment of mountain villages, which also represented strategic sites for guarding against environmental hazards, and proposes a process of regeneration and upgrade of the built environment, with a view to a circular economy and social and economic development.

This volume mainly focuses on the relevance and application of Heckscher-Ohlin Model and Specific Factors Model of trade, while also addressing other latest global issues which are connected with two most celebrated structures of trade models developed by the legendary trade theorist Prof.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of microeconomics, featuring teachable and applicable approaches to core concepts.

This textbook introduces graduate and upper undergraduate students to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models.

Compared to other commercial buildings, hospital buildings are one of the most complex buildings/projects to plan, design, build, and operate.

Author of national bestseller Life After Google and generation-defining Wealth and Poverty, venture capitalist, futurist, and pioneering thinker extraordinaire George Gilder pinpoints how the clash of creativity with power at the heart of economic systems leads to global cognitive dissonance and argues that the creation of the novel taps capitalisms infinite promise and is humanitys only path of escape from stagnation and tyranny.

This book examines the use of smart city-associated technologies to enhance sustainable transportation planning in cities of both the global north and south, focusing specifically on sustainable transportation.

Focusing on emerging features of digital transformation, digital economy, digital innovation, and digital entrepreneurship, this edited volume highlights new aspects of digital transformation and research progress in the field.

Forecasting from multi-equation models has very rarely been the focus in econometric literature.

Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life.

This Palgrave Pivot presents the first in-depth study of the pioneering Kansas Blue Sky Act of 1911, the first effort in American financial history to regulate the sale of securities in the US.

Contract manufacturing is growing rapidly worldwide and this is creating a need for innovative manufacturing information systems that can effectively integrate process design and costing data in order to allow 'what if' scenario assessments to be done rapidly.

Warranty Data Collection and Analysis deals with warranty data collection and analysis and the problems associated with these activities.

Recently, the subject of nonlinear control systems analysis has grown rapidly and this book provides a simple and self-contained presentation of their stability and feedback stabilization which enables the reader to learn and understand major techniques used in mathematical control theory.

Engineering Asset Management 2010 represents state-of-the art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fifth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM).

Engineering design concerns us all.

Engineering Asset Management discusses state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fourth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM).