Economy & Finance

First published in 1981, Education and Income Distribution in Asia looks in detail at a number of aspects of the relation between education, employment, and income. It contains case studies from Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

First published in 1974, Employment Policies in Developing Countries is an attempt to take stock of experience that has been acquired in a number of developing countries in matters relating to employment promotion.

First published in 1983, State Policies and Internal Migration presents a comprehensive overview of migration influencing policies and programmes in the developing countries. This ILO initiated research contains case studies from Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Nepal, and Poland.

First published in 1980, Inflation, Income Distribution and X-Efficiency Theory presents an exploratory theoretical study of the linkages between income distribution, the degree of X-efficiency, and inflation in the context of developing societies.

First published in 1989, The Technological Behaviour of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries presents essays based on original research work to employ a wide variety of approaches to analyse the technological choices made by public enterprises in Tanzania, India, Argentina, and Brazil.

First published in 1985, Technology and Rural Women synthesizes the fragmented empirical evidence and the wide range of theoretical approaches on the effects of modernisation on women in the developing world.

"The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, balancing economic theory, empirical evidence, and public policy. The ninth edition offers updated material throughout, including two new chapters: Disparities in Health and Health Care (Chapter 7) examines issues of race, ethnicity, income, gender, and geography with respect to health care access, health inputs, and health outcomes; Pandemic Economics (Chapter 9) introduces a new and simplified economic treatment of epidemics and pandemics within the context of COVID-19. The book further highlights the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and updates the path-breaking comparative analyses across countries to focus on the differences in access and costs. The book continues to provide a clear, step-by-step understanding of health economics, making economic principles accessible to students, supported by boxed examples, figures and tables. Each chapter contains concise summaries, discussion questions and quantitative exercises to promote student learning. There is also a glossary of key terms and an extensive reference list. Instructors are supported by a range of digital supplements. It is the perfect textbook for students and practitioners taking undergraduate and postgraduate courses in health economics, health policy and public health"--

The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of six Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations

Economic concepts and techniques presented through a series of "big questions," models that show how to pose a questions rigorously and work toward an answer. This book helps readers master economic concepts and techniques by tackling fundamental economic and political questions through a series of models. It is organized around a sequence of "big questions," among them: When do markets help translate individuals' uncoordinated, selfish actions into outcomes that are best for all? Do markets change people, and, if so, for worse or better? Translated into the language of modern economics, do Marx's ideas have merit? Why is there so much income inequality? Or is there too little? The arguments are in the theorem-proof format, distinguishing results derived in the context of fully specified models from educated speculation. Readers will learn how to pose a question rigorously and how to work toward an answer, and to appreciate that even (especially!) the broadest and most ambitious questions call for a model. The goal of the book is not to indoctrinate but to show readers how to reason toward their own conclusions. The first chapter, on the Walrasian model of general equilibrium, serves as the prerequisite for the rest of the book. The remaining chapters cover less conventional topics, including the morality of markets; matching theory; Marxism, socialism, and the resilience of markets; a formalization of Kant's categorical imperative; unintended consequences of policy design; and theories of justice. The book can be used as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate students or as a resource for researchers in disciplines that draw on normative economics.

For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are societies, despite the mounting threat to ourselves and our children, so reluctant to take action?In this important new book, Jens Beckert provides an answer to these questions. Our apparent inability to implement basic measures to combat climate change is due to the nature of power and incentive structures affecting companies, politicians, voters, and consumers. Drawing on social science research, he argues that climate change is an inevitable product of the structures of capitalist modernity which have been developing for the past 500 years. Our institutional and cultural arrangements are operating at the cost of destroying the natural environment and attempts to address global warming are almost inevitably bound to fail. Temperatures will continue to rise and social and political conflicts will intensify. The tragic truth is: we are selling our future for the next quarterly figures, the upcoming election results, and today's pleasure. Any realistic climate policy needs to focus on preparing societies for the consequences of escalating climate change and aim at strengthening social resilience to cope with the increasingly unstable natural world. Civil society is the only source of pressure that could build the necessary strength and support for climate protection.How We Sold Our Future is a crucial intervention into the most pressing issue of our time.

Essential investment guide to perform sophisticated practical analysis on long-term business quality An unparalleled practical training tool for investment analysis, On the Hunt for Great Companies: An Investor's Guide to Evaluating Business Quality and Durability helps readers move beyond using rules of thumb for companies or investment hypotheses based on broad-level pattern recognition and instead start using a more thorough approach through sophisticated empirical analysis. Readers will learn how to assess all the essential traits of a good business, including passionate management, staying power, abnormal reinvestment options, low dependency risk, and to identify emerging quality. This book is supported by a wealth of real-world examples, both contemporary and historical, detailed original illustrations, and true business stories and anecdotes from investor and former comedian Simon Kold. In this book, readers will learn about: Elements of intense and durable competitive advantage such as scale economies, switching costs, network effects, brands, proprietary resources, and modest value extraction Methods to formulate falsifiable test statements and empirically test those predictions, rather than relying on heuristics or box-checking Incorporates memorable investment advice through Kold's trademark humorous style Detailed, sophisticated, and highly actionable, On the Hunt for Great Companies is an essential for professional investors of all sizes, in all industries, in both public and private markets.

In November 2022, OpenAI released GPT-4 in a chatbot form to the public. In just two months, it claimed 100 million users, the fastest app to ever reach this benchmark. Since then, AI has become an all-consuming topic - but as AI becomes more ubiquitous and grows at an ever-increasing pace, what does it mean for the financial markets, and how should investors prepare?In MoneyGPT, James Rickards shares his signature predictions of the danger AI poses to the global financial order, and the insidious ways in which AI will threaten national security. Rickards shows how, while AI is touted to increase efficiency and lower costs, its global implementation in the financial world will actually cause chaos, as selling begets selling and bank runs happen at lightning speed. AI further benefits malicious actors, Rickards argues, because without human empathy or instinct to intervene, threats like total nuclear war that once felt extreme are now within reach. And throughout all this, we must remain vigilant on the question of whose values will be promoted in the age of AI. As Rickards predicts, these systems will fail just when they are needed the most.MoneyGPT shows that the danger is not that AI will malfunction, but that it will function exactly as intended. The peril is not in the algorithms, but in ourselves. And it's up to us to intervene with old-fashioned human logic before it's too late. Rickards' take is essential reading for anyone looking to navigate this tumultuous new AI climate.

Political economy of Turkey's integration to Europe: Uneven development and hegemony analyses trajectory of Turkey's integration with Europe from a critical political economy perspective. It embarks on historical materialism and considers position of social forces in Turkey with the help of two analytical categories, uneven development and hegemony. Critical approaches have been so long sidelined within European Studies. Turkish enlargement is not an exemption. Turkey's EU membership perspective has not yet been analysed as a book in English from a critical political economy perspective. The data is generated through 109 interviews conducted at two historical junctures with five categories of actors: representatives of capital and labour, political parties, state officials, and struggles around ecology, patriarchy and migration. Was the pro-membership hegemonic in the 2000s? Was there any alternative project opposing membership? How do pro-membership social forces sustain membership perspective in the 2010s in a conjuncture of crises of liberalism? How do critical social forces re-consider their position? The book argues that pro-membership was indeed hegemonic in the 2000s, which was contested by two rival class-strategies, Ha-vet (No to Capital's Europe, but yes to Social Europe) and neo-mercantilism. In the 2010s, pro-membership is no longer hegemonic with its social forces encountering difficulties to provide moral and intellectual leadership while critical tone of opposing social forces increase.The future trajectory is uncertain. Yet, pre-eminence of transactional cooperation provides hints that unevenness will be further consolidated through market integration and management of migration for the labour market between Turkey and the EU.

Explores Africa's rapid urbanization and its crucial implications for health, prosperity, and sustainability.Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing cities. In this book, editors Elaine O. Nsoesie and Blessing U. Mberu bring together a diverse group of scholars to explore the critical impacts of rapid urbanization on the health and prosperity of Africans. Through compelling case studies, contributors highlight the unique challenges and innovative solutions in Africa's urban health. Essays cover a diverse range of topics-from housing to climate change-in various cities across Africa. Considerations for urban health are vital to the continent's potential to prosper as it grows in population, and this book addresses critical issues related to infrastructure, transportation, natural disasters, and conflict. Covering a broad selection of topics, and focusing on specific cities throughout Africa, this book examines everything from education and economic development to climate change, pollution, and the role of data in urban health and development. From the resilience and creativity of slum communities to groundbreaking policies addressing air pollution and mental health, each chapter provides valuable insights into the continent's urban health landscape. Learn about the intersection of infrastructure, youth, and technology in shaping a healthier future for Africa's cities. Urban Health in Africa is an essential read for policymakers, researchers, and anyone interested in shaping a healthier future for Africa's cities and understanding the vibrant and complex realities of its urban life.

This compelling exploration delves into President Xi Jinping's ambitious efforts to restore China to its historical role as a global leader through innovative economic means. Xi's approach is a unique synthesis of Marxist-Developmentalist ideas, aiming to convert China's accumulated national wealth into great power status.

The contemporary global economy is characterized by complex and nonlinear dynamics of interregional and international economic interactions. The complexity is associated with endogenous changes in wealth, human capital, technology, population, economic structures and gender relations. It is obviously necessary to construct a theory to connect all these changes in a single analytical framework with minimum assumptions. Nevertheless mainstream economic theory on spatial economics is mostly static and partial. This book expands on spatial economics by integrating various theories of spatial economics into a comprehensive and analytical framework through mathematical modelling and computing.This book is part of the author's general economic theory with endogenous population, capital, knowledge, preferences, sexual division of labor and consumption, institutions, economic structures, and exchange values over time and space. It focuses on further developing the theory of interregional and international economies and encompasses dynamic relations between population growth, human capital and wealth accumulation, environmental change, gender, institutions, market structures, the division of labor and consumption, and the determination of price structure among regions and nations in a single analytical framework.

"This book conveys a simple idea: that the economic framework established by Smith and Coase is very useful in describing and explaining many facts in the real world. Smith's logic in the Wealth of Nations is simply the following: the extent of market transaction, division of stock, division of labor, economic growth. The logic of Coase in the Coase Theorem is that "the delimitation of rights is an essential prelude to market transactions." The logic of these two great economists can therefore be combined in a comprehensive way: delimitation of rights,the extent of market transactions, division of stock, division of labor, economic growth to the author calls this comprehensive version the Smith-Coase framework in economics. This framework will be repeatedly used in this book to explain various economic problems such as the law of demand, growth and development, monetary theory and policy, among others. According to Lucas, the approach of this book is classical because it "makes no use of utility theory," and because "a household is truly a 'small factory'" áa la Becker; household production function approach will be used to study the behavior of consumers"

Living with Lodgers takes the reader behind the closed doors of Victorian England's domestic dwelling lodgings. For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else's home was commonplace. Indeed, at no other time has the lodger occupied such a central place in the home. Yet, despite this, lodgers and the households that accommodated them have remained significantly under-researched. This is the first book-length study to tell their story. Drawing on almost 900 coroners' inquests reported in the Victorian press, alongside census enumerators' books and other court records, this captivating book delves into the day-to-day business of lodging in someone else's home. Challenging many current perceptions and myths surrounding living with lodgers in Victorian England, this book reveals a much more complicated picture behind the who and why of domestic dwelling lodgings, examines the close networks and monetary arrangements that shaped the lodging exchange, and explores the daily interactions between lodgers and householders. Moreover, in exploring both the lines drawn and crossed in the householder-lodger relationship, this book reshapes our understanding of household dynamics in the Victorian working-class home. Living with Lodgers not only brings the domestic dwelling lodger out of the shadows but casts a new light upon Victorian England's working-class homes, making the book a vital resource for academics and students across a range of disciplines seeking to cross the threshold to these spaces.

In a world where the pace of technological advancement continues to accelerate, the imperative to ensure sustainable development has never been more pressing to address the same.

This unique book offers a new approach to the modeling of rational decision making under conditions of uncertainty and strategic and competition interactions among agents.