Economy & Finance

For researchers and students of economic history, this volume pulls together the latest research on a variety of unanswered questions from the 1860s until the present day.

Poverty is something we all want to see less of. So why does it prove so difficult to tackle? Can empathy help fix it?

Generative AI and Finance: Unleashing Potential of Large Language Models, Frameworks, Interfaces, and Industry Cases to Transform Accounting and Finance Processes provides a comprehensive guide to ethically harnessing generative AI systems to reshape financial management. Generative AI is a key theme across the accounting and finance sectors to drive significant optimizations leading to sustainability. Across 22 chapters, leading researchers supply innovative applications of large language models across the economic realm. Through detailed frameworks, real-world case studies, and governance recommendations, this book highlights applied research for generative AI in finance functions. Several chapters demonstrate how data-driven insights from AI systems can optimize complex financial processes to reduce resource usage, lower costs, and drive positive environmental impact over the long term. In addition, chapters on AI-enabled risk assessment, fraud analytics, and regulatory technology highlight applied research for generative AI in finance. The book also explores emerging applications like leveraging blockchain and metaverse interfaces to create generative AI models that can revolutionize areas from carbon credit trading to virtual audits. Overall, with in-depth applied research at the nexus of sustainability and optimization enabled by data science and generative AI, the book offers a compilation of best practices in leveraging AI for optimal, ethical, and future-oriented financial management.

Strategic City Branding: Insights from Asian Cities brings together concepts, case studies, and strategic management tools for effective city branding. This volume is an essential resource for city branding and marketing practitioners, postgraduate students beginning their research, and undergraduate students new to the topic.

Building on post-Keynesian economic theory and classical theories of imperialism, the book discusses anticipations that neoliberalism will push the world into a new era of insecurity, confrontations, armaments, and wars. The chapters in this book, except for chapters 3 and 6, were originally published in Globalizations.

This book explores the causes of the current economic crisis, evaluates the foundational principles of capitalism that contribute to crises, and investigates how an Islamic economic and banking system could play a role in fostering global stability.

The book primarily takes a simulation and experimental approach. It takes a comprehensive look at sustainable financial systems as opposed to sustainable finance in general. It will appeal to academics, students and researchers in the fields of economics, finance and banking, business, management and political and social sciences.

This book considers these micro-level instances of entrepreneurship, as well as cases of more established high-status entrepreneurs, to build a picture of women entrepreneurs in West African societies, and their wider role in socio-economic development.

Project finance has a critical role in infrastructure development. This book examines the project finance ecosystem, methods, analysis, and key related risks. Its unique contribution to the literature is its focus on Africa, where there is a huge infrastructure investment deficit and the lack of the technical-know-how to bridge this gap.

This book gives insights on how to remedy gendered challenges that pose problems not only for individuals but also for the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The book is interdisciplinary and will appeal to scholars, upper-level students and policy makers interested in entrepreneurship and gender inclusivity.

This book comprises articles of different aspects of outliers and related topics written by experts.