Economics

Over the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely wor...

Individuality and collectivity are central concepts in sociological inquiry. Incorporating cultural history, social theory, urban and economic soci...

At the intersection between statistical physics and rigorous econometric analysis, this powerful new framework sheds light on how innovation and co...

The scale of China's innovation ambitions inspires worldwide commentary, much of it poorly informed. Focusing on electricity, telecommunication and...

Cluster analysis finds groups in data automatically. Most methods have been heuristic and leave open such central questions as: how many clusters a...

Most textbooks on regression focus on theory and the simplest of examples. Real statistical problems, however, are complex and subtle. This is not ...

The book develops the capabilities arising from the cooperation between mathematicians and statisticians working in insurance and finance fields. I...

The International Money Game has been fully rewritten to take account of changes in the world economy. It provides a comprehensive overview of inte...

The Price is Right is televisions longest-running game show. Since its inception in 1956, contestants have won cars, tropical vacations, diamond je...

This is an open access book.Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The purpose of this book is to ...

The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in di...

Many risks face the global insurance industry today, including the aging populations of developed countries, competition from other financial insti...

The latest book by journalist and author Paul Blustein to go behind the scenes at the highest levels of global economic policy making, Laid Low chr...

The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in di...

The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in di...

The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in di...

The current global financial and economic crisis has called for the revival of Keynesian theory. This sixth volume in the International Papers in P...

This book shows how the current reform in investment regulation is part of a broader attempt to transform the international economic order. Countri...

How do patents affect innovation in mainland China and Hong Kong? How can two patent systems operate within one country and how is innovation affec...

This landmark handbook collects in a single volume the current state of cutting-edge research on the capability approach. It includes a comprehensi...

'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' Yanis ...

This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Sal...