Economy & Finance

This volume investigates dynamics of Europeanisation in Southern European political economies by tracing the domestic constellations of ideas, interests and institutions over the course of the 2000s which came to a close with the current sovereign debt crisis.This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Pol

Focusing on the challenges, directions, and future predictions and the role 5G plays in smart healthcare monitoring, this book offers the fundamental concepts and analysis on methods to apply IoT in monitoring devices for diagnosing and transferring data. It also discusses self-managing to help providers improve their experience of care.

This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism.

This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical frameworks and highlights the challenges and solutions with using Big Data for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability in the field of digital transformation and tourism.

FinTech transformations have brought changes to the global financial markets and merit the attention of financial regulators across jurisdictions.This book is one of the first ones of its kind to look at open banking ('OB').

A comprehensive account of different univariate and multivariate discrete and continuous distributions, the work comprises applications in economics and different financial problems and other scenarios in which these recently developed statistical models have been applied.

This book identifies and explains the major economic contributions of John Kenneth Galbraith, and places his work in the context of Post Keynesian and Institutionalist Economics. This book was published as a special issue of the Review of Political Economy.

This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of the commercialisation of space and the changing outlook of the space sector.

This book provides insight for researchers and decision-makers on the application of data in the entrepreneurship and sustainable development sector. This book covers how Big Data for Industry 4.0 and Entrepreneurship are effective in resolving business, social, and economic problems.

This book presents nine up-to-date chapters on key aspects of terrorist groups by leading contributors in the study of terrorism. The chapters focus on the study of terrorist groups, their interface with targeted governments as well as ways to counter politically motivated terrorist attacks.

Against a background of calls to prioritize the improvement of financial inclusion in Africa, this book provides an analysis of current financial inclusion measures in Southern Africa.

This book provides a detailed overview of Central European urban heritage. It examines the key aspects of urban heritage - tangible/monumental, natural/landscape, world heritage/urban quarter and heritage experience/dark heritage.

This book tells the story of accounting in the 1990s in the words of three ASB Board members: Sir David Tweedie, Allan Cook, and Professor Geoffrey Whittington. It covers the problems the standard-setters faced, both technical and political, the resistance they met, the solutions they developed, and the durability of their work.

This edited volume addresses the transatlantic response to the major challenges posed by recent changes in the global energy system. It seeks to address whether and how the transatlantic community finds itself drawn together in terms of formulating common goals and strategies or, conversely, whether and how Europe and North America are on termin

The book presents a critical and radical analysis of factors that have kept Nepal in a state of underdevelopment and poverty, with huge section of the society in underprivileged and deprived socio-economic conditions, despite planning, foreign aid, and numerous political changes, from the Rana regime through to the republic regime.

This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Political Ecology and South Asian Environmental Studies.

The Adam Smith Review is a rigorously refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith's works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings to the modern world.

Single mothers face unique economic challenges, which have persisted despite women's gains in higher education and the workplace. Drawing on forty years of data from two national surveys, Nicholas H. Wolfinger and Matthew McKeever explore the contradictions that lie at the heart of single motherhood. They find that some single mothers are doing better even as others have fallen through the cracks. Providing an in-depth look into the economics of single motherhood, Thanks for Nothing offers the most detailed statistical portrait of single mothers to date and, importantly, provides concrete suggestions for how policymakers should respond to persisting inequalities among mothers.

In Seeing China's Belt and Road, editors Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey assemble the ground-level fieldwork of leading scholars to examine the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from different "downstream" contexts, ranging from Central and Southeast Asia to Europe and Africa. Crucially, this book uncovers views of the BRI from Chinese authorities, local businesses, state bureaucrats, expatriated migrants, ordinary citizens, and environmental activists. Through these case studies, the book offers a timely analysis of the dynamic complexity of changes in the world order.