Economics

Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned econ...

This title was first published in 2002: Analyzing labour market trends in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970, this volume employs data collected from th...

The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages are further reduced. Mainstream economics...

Facilities Management sets out a new framework for the discipline of facilities management which challenges many of the norms and which sets out ne...

This title was first published in 2003. In this volume of essays - based on papers delivered to 2001 conference, International Banking and Financia...

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncer...

Following drastic shifts in the spatial organization of goods production, increasingly fierce competition now forces firms also to look critically ...

In the new economy where value drivers are shifting from tangible to intangibles resources, brands are the most familiar asset. They are well known...

Global diversity and inclusion management practice is in a state of arrested development. Leaders and practitioners are caught in grooves which are...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of central banks, and aims to demystify them for the general public, which is the only way to have a rati...

This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on h...

Adam Smiths contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his ...

Regional associations have become major players in international politics and economics. The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), composed of Russia, Kaz...

The four worlds as we know them today, the North, West, South and East, are out of balance. The West and the North generally dominate on a global s...

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explo...

The demise of communism in 1989 in eastern Europe, followed by the break-up of the Soviet Union and the spectacular rise of China and India in the ...

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labours relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 as the e...

The study of the political economy of development in India is significant as India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing countries during the l...

It has been over a century since Cooperative System of Education, a work-study programme for higher education, was initiated by Herman Schneider at...

A stable and sound financial system plays a critical role in mediating funds from surplus units to investors, making it a prerequisite for economic...

The Great Recession, including the preceding events and the subsequent recovery period, has been the dominant feature of US capitalism in the 21st ...

Political risk was first introduced as a component for assessing risk not directly linked to economic factors following the flow of capital from th...

Originally published in this format with this foreword in 1992, this volume contains Accountics: The Office Magazine from April 1898 to December 1899.

Chinas food security has never failed to attract the publics attention. Feeding Chinas large population has always been a huge challenge. The lates...

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to di...

This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the relevance of a section of the economy, which is often referred to as the social and ...

This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-d...

Managing building services contractors can prove to be a minefield. The most successful jobs will always be those where building site managers have...

The service sector accounts for a huge proportion of global employment, and is the biggest driver of gross domestic product in developing nations. ...

In recent years, there has been increasing implementation of group and team decision-making within organizations, much of it managed electronically...

This book provides the basic knowledge of Japanese contributions in political economy and the ongoing research agenda, such as the pursuit of theor...

The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthrop...

Who would disagree that money matters? Economists have yet to sufficiently explore issues related to monetary inflation in relation to the Cantillo...

The United Dutch East India Company was the first public company, preceding the formation of the English East-India Company by over 40 years. Its f...

The debt problems of poor countries are receiving unprecedented attention. Both federal and non-governmental organizations alike have been campaign...

This book explores the linkages between age-related pension expenditures and the fiscal space needed to fund them, as well as to organize the mix o...