Economy & Finance

The incisive guide of how to effectively invest in real estate and REITs In Real Estate Rules: The Investor's Guide to Picking Winners, Avoiding Losers in Listed Property, celebrated real estate investor Harm Meijer delivers a startlingly insightful and eye-opening roadmap to successful property investment. This book explains the golden rules of investing in European real estate companies, including Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). It's full of real-world examples and anecdotes drawn from the author's long and storied career in the industry. Real Estate Rules contains: Robust tools for making informed investment decisions and staying clear of the "vicious downward spiral of doom" Understanding market cycles and mastering the art of acting contrarian during downturns to maximize your investment How macro drivers, central bank moves and government stimuli can be game changers for real estate markets Techniques for assessing the management's value creation and its alignment with shareholders Insights to ensure a solid capital structure and avoid leverage traps in downturns Advice on how to navigate the European stock markets with its unique challenges for Real Estate Investment Trusts Real-world case studies illustrating these principles in action, highlighting key lessons for investors You'll also learn why acting on conviction, thorough research, strong relationships, and most importantly, trust are key to achieving lasting success. Perfect for Real Estate Investment Trust investors, people interested in investing directly in individual properties, and other market participants, Real Estate Rules is also a must-read for anyone involved in the real estate industry looking for an insightful investor perspective on the sector.

In a rapidly dynamic global economy, creative industries are at the forefront of innovation, shaping the cultural and economic landscapes of nations. Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries offers a fresh, insightful exploration into the unique entrepreneurial dynamics within the Arabian Gulf and Asia.

Drawing back on the ever-evolving stakeholder management theory, this book responds to calls for more empirical research into the managerial sense making of the stakeholder concept. The book explores how managers make sense of stakeholder management, especially in complex and challenging business contexts.

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin.

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization.

The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these situations and the problems they have generated in the world economy. This book investigates these cycles throughout the 20th and the early 21st century.

The primary objective of this book is to highlight the main issues and challenges the Islamic finance industry faces and to offer practical solutions. It classifies the main components of Islamic finance and provides readers with a unique and holistic overview of the subject. The chapters are written by well-renowned experts in the field.

6G-enabled IoT and AI for Smart Healthcare: Challenges, Impact, and Analysis offers the fundamentals, history, reality, and challenges faced in the smart healthcare industry today. It discusses the concepts, tools, and techniques of smart healthcare as well as the analysis used.

This book presents different tools and techniques used for Decision Support Systems (DSS) including decision tree and table, and their modifications, multi-criteria decision analysis techniques, network tools of decision support and various case-based reasoning methods supported by examples and case studies.

The central question of this book is whether and how such state formation did in fact contribute to economic development.

London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity.

This book focuses on different algorithms and models related to AI, big data, and IoT used for various domains. It enables the reader to have a broader and deep understanding of several perspectives, about the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities regarding sustainable development using artificial intelligence, big data, and IoT.

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries.

This book explores young Cambodians' perceptions of their place in today's society and how they interact with the country's arts and culture scene.

This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa.

This book is about how to manage innovation, sustainability, and business necessary to make BRI works, and how to handle the issues, problems and crisis that may arise thereof. Participants of BRI projects can take many different roles but ultimately it is team effort and leadership for each project.

An original history of the European financial crisis of 1931 and the breakdown of the gold-standard written from the actors' point of view. This book focuses on central and private bankers as they struggled to overcome uncertainty as the crisis spread from Austria to Germany and Great Britain.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "e;Four Horsemen"e; of leveling-mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues-have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future.An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent-and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.

A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation stateIn the early eighteenth century, France turned to its New World colonies to help rescue the monarchy from the wartime debts of Louis XIV. This short-lived scheme ended in the first global stock market crash, known as the Mississippi Bubble. Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was indelibly marked by the crisis, given its centrality in the slave-trading monopoly controlled by the French East Indies Company. Rising prices for enslaved people and devaluation of the Spanish silver supply triggered a diffuse rebellion that broke the company's monopoly and paved the way for what planters conceived as "free trade." In The Colony and the Company, Malick Ghachem describes how the crisis that began in financial centers abroad reverberated throughout Haiti. Beginning on the margins of white society before spreading to wealthy planters, the revolt also created political openings for Jesuit missionaries and people of color. The resulting sugar revolution, Ghachem argues, gave rise to an increasingly violent, militarized planter state from which the colony, and later Haiti, would never recover. Ghachem shows that the wealthy planters who co-opted the rebellion were simultaneously locked in a showdown with maroon resistance. The conflict between the planters' militant defense of their prerogatives and maroon rebellion laid the foundations for a brutal history of marginalization and immiseration. Haiti became a full-fledged plantation colony held together by a ruthless form of white supremacy and enslavement, triggering a cycle of escalating violence that led to the Haitian Revolution. Tragically, Haiti's postrevolutionary future remained captive to the imperial sway of money and debt.