Economy & Finance

This useful handbook elucidates the theory and techniques of cryptography and illustrates how to establish and maintain security under the framework of financial cryptography. It applies various cryptographic techniques to auctions, electronic voting, micropayment systems, digital rights, financial portfolios, routing networks, and more. The boo

This book describes the fundamental concepts, methods, and applications of risk analysis and management. Containing contemporary case studies, such as protecting hurricane-prone regions and critical infrastructure, the second edition covers risk finance, predictive risk management, and performance segregation and aggregation within a risk framew

This book introduces the complexity and importance of supply chain management within businesses handling agricultural products. Topics include major drivers, facility, inventory, and transportation management, sourcing decisions such as processed or farm fresh, input and output challenges, processors, challenges of managing perishables, infrastr

Drawing on the expertise of multi-degreed doctors and multi-certified financial advisors, this book will shape the industry landscape for the next generation as the current ecosystem strives to keep pace. Using an engaging style, the book is filled with authoritative guidance and healthcare-centered discussions. Championing health care providers

This book explains the background, theory, and practicalities of medical risk management, asset protection methods, and insurance planning. It discusses the medical records revolution and addresses concerns regarding cloud computing, data security, and technological threats. The book covers modern health law and policy, including fraud and abuse

With contributions from well-known, international academics and professionals, this book sheds new light on the current state of pension fund risk management and provides new technical tools for addressing pension risk from an integrated point of view. Some of the useful tools presented include VaR, Monte Carlo simulation, notional DC accounts,

Beyond researching and teaching responsible management, business schools should aspire to walk the talk. Focussing on the original UK and Ireland institutions who committed to this initiative formally by becoming signatories, this book considers how this role-modelling behaviour has been applied.

Encompassing local, regional, and international perspectives, this publication delves into critical global issues such as food security, environmental preservation, energy sustainability, economic resilience, and the role of digital technologies in fostering sustainable development.

The book offers an analysis of the contradictions between theory and practice in the trading system. It contextualises the colonial legal structure and its impact on the peripheral countries and their participation and gain in the multilateral trading system. It will be useful to scholars, government officials and policymakers.

A circular bioeconomy provides a framework for using renewable natural capital to manage land, biodiversity, food, and other industries, with the aim of improving social well-being and environmental safety.

This book explores two forms of economic populism in particular (wage populism and exchange rate populism) and demonstrates that these types of policies result in high inflation, unstable exchange rates, and chronic macroeconomic problems.

Contemporary Issues in Social Media Marketing provides the most cutting-edge findings in social media marketing, through original chapters from a range of the world's leading specialists. This text is perfect recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Digital and Social Media Marketing.

Contemporary Issues in Social Media Marketing provides the most cutting-edge findings in social media marketing, through original chapters from a range of the world's leading specialists. This text is perfect recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Digital and Social Media Marketing.

This book explores the enactment of technologically mediated Human Resource Management (HRM) in the gig economy from various perspectives. It will be a beneficial read for advanced students and researchers of Management, Economics, Business and Marketing.

This compelling book explores the dimensions of social equity by asking the leading equity scholars to reflect on the responsibility for social equity and how equity can be achieved. Each of the chapters in this volume pay particular attention to how social equity can be effectively incorporated into the classroom.

This book presents an investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s resulted in Russia plunging into the poverty trap. The goal of this book is to determine whether and how Russia manages to overcome the poverty trap and initiate and sustain economic growth.

This book is an in-depth analysis of the educational development of tribals in India. Education as Development: Deprivation, Poverty, Dispossession is a significant new addition for understanding educational and economic setbacks experienced by the marginalized in India.

This book takes a new approach by turning the problem of control upside down as it focuses on control of executives who find white-collar crime convenient. The bottom-up approach to executive compliance focuses on organizational measures to make white-collar crime less convenient for potential offenders.

This book re-visits the phenomenon of Japanese capitalism in light of the fate of the North Atlantic and developing economies and place it in a longer historical political and geopolitical economy of capitalism from a variety of political and disciplinary perspectives.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of contemporary issues in international trade and economic development. Emphasizing the significance of economic development within policymaking, the book covers important issues like provisioning of public goods, its implication in a liberalized regime, crime and corruption etc.

This book reconsiders the role of nobility as influential economic players and provides new insights into the business activities of noblemen in Europe and Asia during the nineteenth century thus offering up opportunities for comparison in an age of economic expansion and globalisation.

Taking the view that 'skills' are socially constructed categories and highly malleable concepts in practice, this volume centres the discussion on following questions: Who are the arbitrators of skill? What constitutes skill? And how is skill constructed in the migration process and in turn, how does skill affect the mobility?

This book examines the interplay between rural places and the competing narratives of globalization and nationalism. The chapters in this book seek to elucidate the nuanced ties between people and industries that are at once intensely local and simultaneously tied to regional and global processes.

This book expands upon a range of economic insights within the overall context of critical theory, particularly with respect to the question of socioeconomic inequalities, and presents an explanation of how critical theory provides a number of interesting perspectives for economists.

Originally published in 1986, this book compares and evaluates the effects of converting rental housing into owner occupancy in the USA, the UK and Germany.