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The future of management
The Monograph stands out positively from the items related to change management in the context of entrepreneurial opportunities and flexibility of the organization. The authors attempt to integrate retrospective and prognostic approaches, so they not only assess the current status, but also point...
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The gains and pains of financial integration and trade liberalization
Geared towards policy makers, researchers, academics, and business and management professionals, The Gains and Pains of Financial Integration and Trade Liberalization helps readers develop new theories and models for analysing the future trends in finance and trade-related issues.
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The globalization of inequality
Why national and international equality matter and what we can do to ensure a fairer worldIn The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard...
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The impact of environmental emissions and aggregate economic activity on industry
By introducing emissions as an input in an aggregate production function, The Impact of Environmental Emissions and Aggregate Economic Activity on Industry: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives enhances an awareness of the trade-off between emissions and growth where the intersection between ec...
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The impacts of monetary policy in the 21st century
The Impacts of Monetary Policy in the 21st Century illustrates the effect of financial policies upon global economic indicators, with special reference made to issues effecting East Asian nations generally and with a particular focus on Indian economic development since 2000.
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The infinite desire for growth
Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth—and the hope of better things to come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the populati...
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The institutional foundation of economic development
A systemic account of how institutions shape economic developmentInstitutions matter for economic development. Yet despite this accepted wisdom, new institutional economics (NIE) has yet to provide a comprehensive look at what constitutes the institutional foundation of economic development (IFED...
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The israeli economy
An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest countries in the world. The Israeli Economy te...
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The mexican heartland
A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrat...
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The new frontiers of sovereign investment
The New Frontiers of Sovereign Investment combines the insights and experience of academic economists and practitioners from several funds to survey a diverse financial landscape and the challenging questions facing a broad range of SWFs today. This book provides a sorely needed practical look at...
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The origin of wealth
Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how can wealth be increased for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and society? In T...
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The politics of public debt
This ground-breaking study analyzes the underlying economic realities in Brazil that led to the 2016 coup ousting the Worker 's Party
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The postwar economic order
Years before he became renowned as one of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman played an active role in the rebuilding of postwar Europe. This book presents a collection of his reports about economic policy, early efforts at intra-European cooperation,...
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The resource curse
The resource curse, or paradox of plenty, refers to the long-established notion central in development economics that countries rich in natural resources, particularly minerals and fuels, perform less well economically than countries with fewer natural resources. In other words, resources are an ...
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The rise and fall of american growth
How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television...
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The rise and fall of the privatized pension system in chile
‘The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile’ analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets, savings redistribut...
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The wto after seattle
The failure of the Seattle trade ministerial in December 1999 to launch a new round of multilateral trade negotiations dealt a major blow to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Seattle meetings exposed significant policy differences among the WTO member countries as well as shortcomings in th...
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Tourism economics and policy
This revised edition incorporates new material on the sharing economy, AI, surface and marine transport, resident quality of life issues, the price mechanism, the economic contribution of tourism, and tourism and economic growth. It remains an accessible text for students, researchers and practit...
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Toward a just society
This collection of essays reflects on how modern economics has been shaped by Joseph Stiglitz. High-profile authors spanning microeconomics, macroeconomics, inequality, development, law and economics, and public policy take up the central debates and discoveries of the field and provide insights ...
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Toward a vision of land in 2015
A conference co-hosted by the Lincoln Institute and the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan in October 2006 explored land-related topics that would be important between the present time and the year 2015, the target date to which United Nations member stat...
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Towards a new russian work culture
This innovative book offers a fresh perspective on the national work culture of Russia and the substantial role foreign institutional and cultural impact has had in shaping it. Russia's contemporary work culture is understood as a national system supplemented by new values and attitudes that have...
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Towards third generation learning and teaching
This book gives up-to-date descriptions of the forces that drive change in learning and teaching, offering a perspective of learning in the near future.
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Trade dynamics in the 21st century
Trade Dynamics in the 21st Century: The African Perspective explores how international trade impacts development, society, and the environment in Africa. Focusing on sustainable practices, it examines trade’s role in poverty reduction, industrialisation, and regional integration across Southern A...
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Trade policy and global poverty
The stakes of the poor in trade policy are large: Free trade can help 500 million people escape poverty and inject $200 billion annually into the economies of developing countries, according to author William R. Cline. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the potential for trade liberal...
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Transformation of strategic alliances in emerging markets
Transformations of Strategic Alliances in Emerging Markets: Volume I, deals with changes in strategic alliances in the complex settings of European emerging markets. It includes 40 years’ worth of data in its in-depth study of the changes in education, networks, work performance, and environmenta...
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Transformation of strategic alliances in emerging markets
Transformations of Strategic Alliances in Emerging Markets Volume II deals with changes in strategic alliances in the complex settings of European emerging markets. It includes 40 years’ worth of data as it makes an in depth study of the changes in education, networks, work performance and enviro...
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Transforming africa
Transforming Africa: How Savings Groups Foster Financial Inclusion, Resilience and Economic Development presents in-depth empirical research into current day savings group activities across Africa, exploring savings groups through the lens of financial inclusion and reflecting on formal finance,...
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Two paths to prosperity
How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millenniumIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and t...
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Value management implementation in construction
Value Management Implementation in Construction addresses various factors that can enhance the application of the discipline as well as its adoption among concerned stakeholders and discusses the practice of value management in various developed and developing countries.
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When the bombs stopped
How undetonated bombs from a war that ended more than fifty years ago still affect Cambodian farmers and their land Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, and child in the country. What b...
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Whither rural india?
The doctoral students of the economist and teacher Venkatesh B. Athreya organized a seminar in his honor in January 2016. This book is a collection of the papers presented at that seminar and a few invited contributions on the theme of agriculture and rural India with special emphasis on the expe...
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