Economic Systems & Structures

The eleventh volume of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Information Technology P...

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book ...

This book puts forward a new perspective on the planned economies of communist Eastern Europe, demonstrating in detail how economic practice in suc...

Achieve rapid acceleration and transformation with the Value Flywheel Effect.Today, every business is a technology business; every leader is a tech...

Since the beginning of China’s economic reform in 1978, private manufacturing firms have played an indispensable role in, and have made a remarkabl...

This book brings together some of the finest minds of social science to answer the great questions about the future of the liberal order.With contr...

As businesses, consumers, and investors make key financial decisions amid Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU), there is the danger that many might fr...

Bernie Sanders’ socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China’s economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse abou...

From the mid 1950s to the late 1980s, Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon, as general director and editorial director respectively of the IEA, battled a...

Economic indicators provide invaluable insights into how different economies and financial markets are performing, enabling practitioners to adjust...

In feudal society, it was the few at the top who laid the ground for what was produced, how it was produced and how it was distributed. Freedom was...

From the author of Globalization and its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz's The Roaring Nineties: Why We're Paying the Price for the Greediest Decade i...

Research on Economic Inequality is a well-established publication of quality research. Volume 31 provides original research on intergenerational ea...

Platform Economics tackles head on the rhetoric surrounding the so-called “sharing economy”, which has muddied public debate and has contributed to...

Ever since Marx, the future of capitalism has been fiercely debated. Marx and his followers predicted capitalism will end by violent overthrow, whi...

Corporate reputation is important in gaining long-term competitive advantage and building company value. Thus, the author points out the need to ma...

Russia is one of the world's largest growing economies. With this exciting new growth and development, there is a wealth of knowledge to be discove...

A Circular Economy seeks to rebuild capital, whether this is financial, manufactured, human, social or natural, and offers opportunities and soluti...

The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affectin...

This practical introduction explains the field of Blockchain Economics, the economic models emerging with the implementation of distributed ledger ...

In the last 40 years of China's economic reforms, the country has made unprecedented progress in its economic development and its position in the g...

Economics is widely regarded as a social science. But the division of social vs. natural science limits the study of economics -- and, in fact, all...

Transitioning organizations to the new normal following environmental shocks, economic upheavals, and technological innovations is a challenge to c...

This book assesses the magnitude of the effects of trade liberalisation on welfare and the environment in the context of a small open economy, and ...

Pribble investigates the barter economies that developed in many of the labor camps established under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. When the Khmer R...

Nowhere is the tension attending simultaneous political democratization and economic liberalization more sharply felt than in the realm of labour r...

America between the Revolution and the Civil War was a society in full adolescence. Vibrant, cocky, feeling its own strength, and ready to take on ...

With socialism in eclipse and market economies gaining acceptance worldwide, a new kind of ethics is needed to address social injustice and inequit...

China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign enterprises in China. Since...

As corporations search for new production sites, governments compete furiously using location subsidies and tax incentives to lure them. Yet underw...

This book tells the story of what might have been considered an unlikely source of dynamic change in Russia - formerly state-owned manufacturing en...

In recent years, in both the specialist press and the tabloids, the idea of privatization of social security has become a shimmering catch phrase. ...

Now expanded to cover the consequences of Russia's 1998 financial collapse, this book focuses on the social consequences of a modern-day great depr...

Efforts to combine the outstanding economic performance in the decades following the Second World War with social security appear to be endangered ...

In 1978, faced with the pressure to modernize and a declining budget, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) reluctantly agreed to join China's...

A collection of 13 essays based on two national surveys of household income in China - in 1985 and 1995 - and prepared and carried out by the resea...