Economy & Finance

Agility, sustainability, and business value have become crucial in the ever-changing world of modern business. This book investigates how these can work harmoniously and create value for businesses.

This reference work showcases the power of a multidisciplinary approach in providing a comprehensive view of the complex subject of philanthropy. It identifies areas for improvement and discusses the relationships between governance in philanthropic organizations and important issues such as trust, equality, and democracy.

Volumes have been written on the need for high-quality data to support organizational decision-making. Navigating the Data Minefields: Management's Guide to Better Decision-Making provides executives and SMEs with a 'reasonable' set of (useful) tools they can adapt to their specific organization and operating environment.

First published in 1981, Capitalism in the UK clearly states the Marxist position arguing that capitalism dominates the world economy, and that the world's trade and multinational enterprises favour the capitalist system.

First published in 1941, The Reconstruction of World Trade analyses the collapse of the international trading model after the First World War.

First published in 1983, Problems in Class Analysis presents a coherent theory of labour's domination by capital, based upon the notion of the capitalist nature of both the product relations and of the productive forces themselves.

Zongyuan Zoe Liu provides the first in-depth examination of sovereign funds in China. Under President Xi, the state has become an aggressive financier, using sovereign funds at home and abroad to secure allies and influence, boost strategic industries like semiconductors and fintech, and pick winners among domestic businesses and multinationals.

The Democratic Marketplace argues that democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. Seeking a path to self-governance, Lisa Herzog theorizes a market compatible with democracy, showing how inequality disables citizenship, why employees need a say in corporate decisions, and how to balance growth with sustainability and ideals of the common good.

"The economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and hardships into the lives of poor and working people despite its alleged achievements. In villages, farming families confront an agrarian crisis, with rising costs of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, low prices for crops in the face of grave indebtedness, and ecological damage to the soil, water, and forests. Due to the scarcity of jobs, many migrate to cities for work. Once in the city, migrants take on and must contend with low-paid, insecure, and hazardous work. And in urban neighborhoods, they deal with congested living conditions, poor qualities of air, water, and sanitation, and separation from their families in the village. Souls in the Kalyug introduces readers to migrant workers who are confronting myriad hardships, and asks how it is that these workers create lives that can become less injurious than their circumstances might suggest. Anthropologist Shankar Ramaswami proposes a three part answer. In a metal factory in Delhi, migrant workers engage in resistance and collective struggle against perceived oppression and injustice. In the city and village, they weave tight connections to one another, building friendships in empathetic closeness and fellowship. In the metaphysical realm, they attempt to resist soul-distorting processes in our present, decivilizing times, or the Kalyug. Through these activities, migrant workers strive towards, and at times realize, elements of a good life. Souls in the Kalyug ultimately presents a nuanced and intimate portrait of migrant workers through a complex study of entanglement and noncooperation in workers' worlds, and in its analysis of workers' politics, within and outside of hierarchical labor unions, interpersonal relationships, and foundational religious and cosmological worldviews"--Publisher's description.

In this book, the authors provide a framework for evaluating reproducibility, replicability and generalizability of empirical research in the social sciences. They define different types of reproducibility and replicability and show how they can be measured to evaluate the credibility of published findings.

This book explores how multinational enterprises from Brazil, India, China, and Poland establish legitimacy in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book analyses how banks implement counter-terrorist financing measures and experiment with technologies to assess risks and make security decisions.

First Published in 1979 Economic Growth and Development in Jordan is a comprehensive analysis of the economies of pre-1967 Jordan and the post-1967 east bank. divided into three parts it covers prewar development performance; the postwar economy and development polices and prospects.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport and development priorities by connecting with local aspirations and demands.

This book delves into scalable Bayesian statistical methods designed to tackle the challenges posed by big data. It explores a variety of divide-and-conquer and subsampling techniques. The book is an essential resource for graduate students, early-career statisticians, data analysts, and statistical software users and developers.

Covering Neoclassical, Institutionalist, Post-Keynesian, Marxist, and Feminist perspectives, Heterodox Economics of Military Spending provides a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy.

This book covers the intellectual and political life of Tadeusz Kowalik within the context of modern Polish history. Kowalik was part of a group of left-wing intellectuals, the Polish School; he participated in events such as the shipyard strikes in 1980 before becoming a vehement opponent of Poland's neoliberal transformation to capitalism. -- .

"Historical, political, and economic contexts of the Syrian civil war and other wars in the region"--

Decision-Making Optimization Models for Business Partnerships extends non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and parametric econometrics approaches to better understand how economic efficiency and market competitiveness is achieved for different types of partnerships and strategic alliances.

This book discusses the issue of limited stakeholder recognition and protection of stakeholder interests within the Anglo-Saxon corporate governance model practised in many Sub-Saharan African countries. It will interest regulators, bankers, auditors, policymakers and researchers in comparative corporate governance and financial regulation.