Economy & Finance

The central theme in the work of F.A. Hayek was the problem of order in society, and his focus was epistemological. But while his work has greatly improved our understanding of market processes, application to more complex social arrangements was not an unambiguous success.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the financial resources and performance of the largest national unions. It discusses the theoretical and practical relevance of the topic, which goes directly to the formation, maintenance, and potential advancement of labor organizations.

Environmental finance and green banking are central drivers of the transition to a sustainable economy and essential components in solutions to climate change. This book presents the latest research on theory and practices in these interdisciplinary fields, incorporating both public and corporate finance.

This book takes a deep dive into the innovation aspect of the circular economy (CE), with a specific focus on India as a geography. It lays foundations on mainstreaming and challenges of RE / CE pertaining to global supply chain including innovation within businesses and need for collaborations, partnerships, and frameworks.

Technological Horizons: Technological Skills and Knowledge for Practitioners within Business Environment delves into the heart of the transformation of emerging technologies and offers interdisciplinary insights that can inform and guide the adaptation of accounting and auditing practices in a tech-driven era.

Suitable for bankers, development analysts, policymakers, NGOs and students, this book offers crucial insights into the evolving landscape of global development finance.

The Future of HRM in a World of Persistent Virtual Reality delves into how the integration of VR technologies is revolutionizing HRM practices, challenging traditional norms, and creating new paradigms for work, employee engagement, training, and recruitment.

This book is a collection of essays investigating the reconfiguration of FDI flows to the Emerging Asian economies of ASEAN, China and India following the pandemic and recent FDI policy reforms.

This book examines the challenges and opportunities in the oil and gas industry, in the context of emerging markets and developing economies. It provides comprehensive coverage of the management and sustainability practices of the sector and the environmental impact and sustainability of resources.

The book analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the security environment and modern societies. Using a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to security issues, it draws attention to political, military, cultural, information, legal, psychological and social aspects.

This book provides a detailed account of the political economy around investment deal negotiations between African governments and private Chinese investors. It will be of interest to researchers working on Chinese and African investment, politics, institutions, business, economics, and international relations.

During the final stages of Prohibition, the US government allowed the consumption and sale of ¿non-intoxicating¿ beer, which was at or below 3.2% alcohol-by-weight. Beer¿s return¿permitted with an eye toward job creation during the Great Depression¿was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt¿s earliest New Deal policies. In this book, economic historian Jason E. Taylor takes readers through the rapid resurgence of American breweries and shows how beer helped spark a sharp recovery in the spring of 1933.Taylor begins with stories of how the nation¿s 1,400 breweries were decimated by the onset of Prohibition in 1920. He then turns to the frothy debates that led Congress to declare 3.2 beer ¿non-intoxicating,¿ and hence allowable under Prohibition. While April 7th is now celebrated as ¿National Beer Day,¿ the original April 7th¿when legal beer returned after more than 13 years away¿brought raucous scenes that make today¿s Mardi Gras festivities seem tame by comparison.The Brew Deal shares stories of breweries, people, politics, perseverance, and the various roles that 3.2 beer has played in the evolving American beer scene.

When hard work and good fortune intersect, wealth is often produced and in abundance.For the wealthy, questions of "will I have enough?" are often supplanted by "how much is too much?"Concerns about how to deploy such wealth to enrich their children's and grandchildren's lives while not depriving them of their individual purpose and fulfillment that comes in meeting life's challenges on their own, are common. And methods to most effectively secure a legacy through philanthropy are of keen interest. These are the issues that, for the wealthy, often matter most.The second edition of Wealth: Strategies to Grow and Protect What Matters helps answer these questions and more. Newly revised, Wealth covers such topics as: How much wealth is enough?; defining a legacy; family governance, estate, gift and income tax strategies; charitable planning; family business; succession planning, and more. Wealth is comprehensive yet written in an approachable, entertaining style.In this second edition, case studies - based upon real life examples of high net worth individuals - have been incorporated into each chapter to further illustrate the concepts presented. Perhaps you will identify with some of them.Throughout, questions are presented to help you think about how the principles apply to your own situation. And in the concluding chapter, Tying It All Together, a comprehensive checklist helps you to determine how you "score" in arranging and managing your affairs to grow and protect what matters most to you.Rich Rojeck specializes in helping business owners, farmers, senior executives and other high net worth individuals grow and protect what matters. Rich holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professional and Accredited Investment Fiduciary professional certifications. He has more than 40 years of experience in developing and helping implement comprehensive financial plans that integrate financial independence analysis, estate planning strategies, business succession planning, investment and risk management, and more. His goal is for his clients to enjoy clarity and confidence regarding the attainment of their financial and life goals.Rich holds a Bachelor's Degree in business administration from Oregon State University and an MBA in finance from San Diego State University. Prior to beginning his financial planning practice, Rich served six years as a commissioned Naval officer, including two Western Pacific deployments and assignment as an instructor at the Surface Warfare Officers School in San Diego. Rich ultimately attained the rank of Lt. Commander.Rich served on the national board of the International Association for Financial Planning from 1992-1999 and was its chairman in 1999. In 2010, Rich was elected to the board of the CFP Board of Standards, the standards setting and certifying body for CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professionals. He served as its chairman in 2015. From 2004-2016, he was a Managing Director with Lincoln Financial Advisors, an investment firm.Rich stays fit running, swimming, and cycling. He enjoys reading, wine collecting, travel, and is a budding jazz pianist. Rich and his wife Joji have three children and reside in San Diego, California.

The book focuses on the main security threats, defence industry, arms trade, defence policies and military capabilities related issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Defense & Security Analysis.

With a range of case studies from every continent, the contributors to this book analyse the challenges that arise for states living with much larger neighbors, and the policies they develop to account for this asymmetry.

The Routledge Handbook of Public Sector Accounting explores new developments and transformations in auditing, management control, performance measurement, risk management and sustainability work in the contemporary world of the public sector and the functioning of accounting and management in that realm.

Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century and great wealth contrasts with abject poverty.

An analysis both of contemporary Tokyo and the contemporary Olympic games, emphasising the role of late-stage capitalism and political economy in shaping both. A valuable resource for scholars both of contemporary Japan and of the Olympics and other mega-events.

Brownian motion is an important topic in various applied fields where the analysis of random events is necessary. Introducing Brownian motion from a statistical viewpoint, this detailed text examines the distribution of quadratic functionals of Brownian motion and demonstrates the utility of this approach for time series analysis. It also offers the first comprehensive guide on deriving the Fredholm determinant and the resolvent associated with such statistics. Presuming only a familiarity with standard statistical theory and the basics of stochastic processes, this book brings together a set of important statistical tools in one accessible resource for researchers and graduate students. Readers also benefit from online appendices, which provide probability density graphs and solutions to the chapter problems.