Economy & Finance

How do fashions in drinks work, and how are drinks fashions related to changing trends in clothes and apparel? These twin questions are posed and answered by the book Drinks in Vogue.

Comprehensive, clear, and approachable, with clever real-world examples that motivate students

This book features interviews with industry thought leaders and experts, providing exclusive insights into the changing role of women in driving sustainable development through innovation. It offers a range of resources designed to foster a supportive environment and offer practical strategies for aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators.

This book features interviews with industry thought leaders and experts, providing exclusive insights into the changing role of women in driving sustainable development through innovation. It offers a range of resources designed to foster a supportive environment and offer practical strategies for aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators.

This book provides a thorough comparative examination of the trade dispute settlement system of the WTO, Regional Trade Agreements, and of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). It will serve as a fundamental reference for students and researchers in international investment and trade law.

Over the last 30 years the practice and use of game theory has changed dramatically, yet textbooks continue to present game theory with algebraic formalism and toy models. This book, on the other hand, illustrates game theory concepts using real-world data and analyses problems with real policy implications.

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which for centuries determined which persons could enter into marriage with each other and how validly contracted marriages could be ended.

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused on the social and economic lives of people.

Xie and Chao present a collection of research on mobile communication in various Asian communities and countries. With chapters written by scholars from diverse cultural and institutional backgrounds, this book provides both localized and comparative perspectives on mobile communication research.

This book throws light on application of AI/ML techniques in the financial capital markets. It discusses the challenges posed by these techniques as these are prone to "black box" syndrome. The complexity of understanding the underlying dynamics of these methods is one of the major concerns which is highlighted in this book.

This book provides a critical overview of the key aspects pertaining to Shariah governance within Islamic financial institutions and presents a detailed analysis of its conceptual background.

The monograph presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on European banking, both at a macro and a micro level. It analyses the impact of the pandemic on bank stability, performance and credit policies, as well as their strategic adjustments to the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Examining the harmonisation of Intellectual Property policy, law and administration in Africa, this book evaluates the effectiveness of efforts to establish continental Intellectual Property institutions and frameworks.

This book explores how Lean - a global management doctrine - operates and is adopted in real, corporeal, collective and affective environments of health and social care services.

This book aims to shed light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from the 14th to the 19th centuries, combining various geographical scales (local, regional and national) and different timespans (short-term and long-term studies).

This edited collection discusses various methods by which a firm can create a competitive advantage in a dynamic situation.

For many countries, primarily in the Global South, extractivism - the exploiting and exporting of natural resources - is big business. For those exporting countries, natural resource rents create hope and promise for development which can be a seductive force. This book explores extractivism in economies around the world.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview on a European scale and suggests new paths of inquiry. It examines the fiscal systems and practices of medieval Europe, including essential themes such as medieval fiscal theory and the power to tax; royal, seigneurial and urban taxation; and Church taxation.

This book argues that the pandemic represents a wake-up call for financial systems to be better prepared for the climate crisis and social risk and has provided a stimulus to scale down the reliance of the global economy on fossil fuels.

This book explores the various issues characterizing the African mining sector, it draws examples from different African countries and regional organisations.

This collection brings together social semiotic, ethnographic, and conversation analytic approaches to multimodality in global studies of shopping, drawing on the rich diversity of the latest multimodal methods to critically reflect on shopping as a cornerstone of contemporary social life.