Economics

The global food crises of 2008 and 2010 and the increased price volatility revolve around biofuels policies and their interaction with each other, ...

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face si...

Modes of Explanation is the first book in decades to attempt to bring these conflicting approaches together and to offer a compelling narrative to ...

A convergence of lean management and quality management thinking has taken place in organizations across many industries, including construction. P...

Payday Lending looks at the growth of the high cost credit industry from the early payday lending industry in the early 1990s to its development in...

Big Data is a growing business trend, but there little advice available on how to use it practically. Written by a data mining expert with over 30 ...

We live in an age of serial asset bubbles and spectacular busts. Economists, policymakers, central bankers and most people in the financial world h...

Drawing on the author's four decades of experience as a practitioner and academician working with private equity investors, entrepreneurs, and poli...

While much is known about the situation in the labour market in the form of gender pay and earnings gaps, rather little is understood about their s...

This volume of essays contains 16 papers the author has written over the last 40 years on various aspects of the life and work of John Maynard Keyn...

Socially Responsible Outsourcing is an edited collection that focus on the topic of socially responsible outsourcing (SRO) including research frame...

The already vibrant charitable sector in the US is in the midst of a transformation that is altering both the manner in which donations occur and ...

At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succ...

This book summarizes the life and work of economist Kenneth E. Boulding. Boulding was a prolific writer, teacher and Quaker. Starting his career as...

The West is currently in the grip of a perfect storm: a lingering economic recession, a global refugee crisis, declining faith in multiculturalism,...

Health Econometrics Using Stata by Partha Deb, Edward C. Norton, and Willard G. Manning provides an excellent overview of the methods used to analy...

Winner of best smart thinking book 2022 (Business Book Awards)Guardian best books of 2021'Original, thought-provoking and a joy to read' Tim Harfor...

Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Ca...

Bobby Hundreds has spent twenty years building his streetwear company, The Hundreds, to be as much a community as a brand. So when Bobby discovered...

In 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced a campaign for national rejuvenation. The One Belt One Road initiative, or OBOR, has become the larges...

The essays in this open access volume identify the key ingredients for success in capitalizing on public investments in scientific projects and the...

Für eine Leistungsgesellschaft der Sport als letztes Heldenepos dient, ist Doping hochproblematisch. Beobachter fordern höhere Strafen für Dopingsü...