Economy & Finance

This book addresses introduces and analyzes a distinctive group of Japanese statesmen: Seikai-Tensin which means one's transformation into politicians in Japanese. It will interest those researching on governance, comparative politics, government bureaucracy and public policy.

This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It describes, discusses and analyzes the period from China's opening up to foreign investment in the 1980s until the New Silk Road project, from 2013 onwards.

This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death. It will be of interest to anthropology, sociology, history, medical and development studies of South Asia, and cultural and social theory.

This book aims to focus on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Mining for Modern Engineering and Healthcare Applications. It also focuses on recent technological advancements in Microwave Engineering, Communication and applicability of newly developed solid-state technologies in bio-medical engineering and healthcare.

This book explores a variety of themes central to contemporary Marxist thought and its development as a critical social theory, advancing a focus on social rather than economic categories and identifying the unrest of life and class struggle as characteristic of capitalist society, to be resolved in the communist society of human purposes.

The question of how to properly enforce against RPM has been a contentious debate for decades on both sides of the Atlantic.

The economic process of financialization is defined by many as the development of the dependence and subordination of the productive sector to the financial sector.

This work considers the relationship between religion, state, and market, illustrating that the market is a powerful site for the cultural work of secularizing religious conflict. Scholars from a variety of disciplines explore more intentionally the extent to which markets are implicated in and illuminate the place of religion in public life.

This book focuses on the fundamentals of computer intelligence and contains state-of-the-art methods of CI and other allied techniques used in the healthcare system, as well as advances in different CI methods that will confront the problem of effective data analysis and storage faced by healthcare institutions.

This book offers an ethnographic analysis of how corporate culture has been transformed in the age of globalization and promotes the importance of a national ideology's role in corporate culture studies. It examines the formation, dissemination, and interpretation of corporate ideology at a global Japanese fashion retailer in Hong Kong.

Economic Biology and Behavioral Economics: The Prophesy of Alfred Marsh all explores the prophesy of Alfred Marshall, the grand synthesizer of neoclassical economics, that the "Mecca of the economist lies in economic biology".

This book focuses on the intelligent technologies that are transforming creative practices and industries.

This book examines conservation agriculture in India, discussing the current situation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation agriculture, sustainable agriculture, crop and soil management, and environmental and natural resource management more broadly.

Building on insights from ecological economics and philosophy of technology, this book offers a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understand the contradictory nature of Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology.

This book concentrates on understanding the relationship of religiosity with various aspects of consumption and consumer behaviour to improve policy and build on an under represented topic.

Chambers, Nuangjamnong and their contributors look at how the development of the beer industry in East Asia presents a unique opportunity for understanding the region's political economy.

This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and professionals from across Middle East studies, refugee studies, informal labor economics, and development studies.

Advances in Graph based Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) tasks have shown the importance of processing Graph of Words.