Economics, Finance, Business and Management

An interdisciplinary history of the campaign to secure international protection of indications of geographic origin, including ''Made in …'' slogans.

A comprehensive review of Hong Kong''s pharmaceutical patent law that will influence debate and inform public policy.

Investigates how stories are shared in online contexts and provides a method for studying them.

This book examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and the turbulent experience of German modernity for Germans and foreign tourists.

Leading scholars from a range of disciplines come together in an inclusive discussion of the latest techniques and issues examined by the capability approach.

This book gives a detailed account of how two major Austrian banks profited from their service to the Nazi regime.

Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.

Analyzes how combinations of instruments at different levels of government, or smart mixes, can effectively regulate transboundary environmental harm.

A comprehensive empirical study of China''s corporate reorganization law and its implementation.

Offers an innovate approach to ethics and security, combining securitization theory and the just war tradition.

The liberal-democratic world order is confronting the rise of authoritarian state-led corporate interventions.

Mapping Ghana''s struggle to transform its economy after independence, this original interpretation highlights the economic difficulties associated with the political legacies of colonialism.

Provides the answer to the enduring puzzle why India lags behind China in offering public goods to its people.

A compelling and revisionist account of Florence''s economic, literary and social history in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death.

Examines the law and policy of financial regulation using a combination of conceptual analysis and strong empirical research.

The first book-length treatment to describe and explain how legal orders can be interwoven and what to do about it.

A vivid ethnographic study of cattle traders, truckers, public contractors and NGO actors'' everyday encounters with state bureaucracies in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to career studies, bridging the numerous scholarly discourses that share an interest in the field.

This book redesigns environmental governance for a sustainability transition, helping academics and decision-makers truly understand the socio-economic impacts of policy.

This book outlines the legal regime underpinning the European Energy Union, which provides secure, sustainable and affordable energy.

This book sets the record straight on why the Federal Reserve failed to rescue Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis.

A sweeping historical account of the crises of income inequality and crony capitalism from a world-renowned public economist.

This book analyses the most recent processes, laws and best practices for consumer dispute resolution and the law related to consumer redress.

This book reveals the surprising impact of medicine stamp duty (1783–1941) on pharmaceutical practice and the interface of law and government.

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

Describes how institutions and markets can best be structured in order to promote innovation in key economic sectors.

Contains 22 essays by leading luminaries in policy making and research, illustrating the changing role of central banks and the policies they pursue in seeking monetary and financial stabilisation.

Explores the international legal regime covering trade in legal services, considering major barriers and potential benefits to the global economy.

Offers a multidisciplinary edited volume on policy dimensions of climate change for the world''s oceans, for researchers, policymakers and activists.

Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.

This book provides the first systematic account of the relationship between competition law and corporate governance.

Explores the emerging and complex field of environmental product law and brings in new perspectives for research.

An introduction to how the mathematical tools from quantum field theory can be applied to economics and finance.

A theoretical critique of the patent and innovation policy funnelled by intellectual property instruments towards developing countries.

Legal frameworks to ''reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation'' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on protections and benefits for indigenous peoples and forest communities.

Explores how political institutions and economic geography interact to shape governments'' policy decisions, particularly with respect to subsidies.

Looks at the early development of the federal income tax in the United States.

An innovative, bipartisan and comprehensive account of why European economic integration has been in disarray and how to fix it.

Explores what went wrong with global carbon markets and what this means for future climate change policy and capitalism.

Reveals why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society.

Amidst concerns about unethical practice in the business world, this book focuses on moral human agency in ''strategy as practice''.

The first scientific analysis of Indonesian voting behavior from democratization in 1999 to the most recent general election in 2014.

This book combines book history and literary criticism to explore how early modern books were richer things than previously imagined.

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

Explores the meanings of the term ''author'' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.

Evaluates the challenges and changes that the Belt and Road Initiative brings to China in international law and governance.

This book is about microfinance in rural China and how the villagers cultivated their social relationships by moving money.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

This book explains why governance is polycentric and what that means in practice, using examples of complex natural resource management.

Explores the failure of Romantic critiques of political economy, and the diminishing importance of aesthetic consciousness across the nineteenth century.