Economy & Finance

The book creates an augmented knowledge about human security beyond the warfare concept in the Arctic It analyses international political analysis on security issues and their spillovers to the Arctic societies.

In this book, faculty and researchers from ESSEC Business School, a recognised leader among European schools of business and management, provide a multi-faceted perspective on the obstacles that come in the way of the transformation of dominant business models, and how to overcome them in order to move away from "business as usual."

This book underscores the post-COVID global uncertainties that are still occurring on the world stage and presents the recent challenges such as geo-political tensions, war, economic disturbances, climate change, the energy crisis in Europe, recessions in developed economies and their effect on developing and least developed economies.

The Routledge Companion to Disability and Work explores the realities faced by disabled individuals in the workplace and beyond. This comprehensive guide is essential for students, teachers, and researchers looking to intersect disability and business, paving the way for a more inclusive and equitable future.

This book explores the challenges of implementing ERM from technical, cognitive and social perspectives to enhance the organisations capacity to generate and integrate information and knowledge about risk and uncertainty.

Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa continue to face major economic and political challenges. These economics and political challenges are interdependent, and reform is needed in both spheres if structural, long-lasting change is going to be achieved.

Suitable as an advanced development economics or development microeconomics textbook, the book lays out the theory as it now stands and examines the available evidence within an integrated framework.

Learn how businesses can leverage their success to drive positive social impact. Kurt Avery delves into a range of proven business and marketing techniques, including some developed through his own professional experiences as the founder, owner, and president of Sawyer Products.Sawyer Products has achieved remarkable success with its innovative water filtration and insect repellent products, but it hasn’t stopped there. Sawyer Thinks reveals how the company has harnessed its profitability to make a significant charitable impact worldwide and provides a clear roadmap that other businesses can follow.Sawyer Thinks aims to inspire and empower business leaders to think beyond the bottom line and use their resources to create meaningful change. It includes a step-by-step guide on increasing charitable giving and philanthropic efforts while also enhancing overall profitability and sustainability.

How deep does corporate dominance go in Canada? The second book in Nora Loreto's landmark series, Canada in Decline, dives into the corporate web spun around Canada's economy, society, and politics.The joke goes that Canada is three mining companies in a trench coat. Or three oil companies in a trench coat. Or three telecom companies in a trench coat. It's funny because it's almost true: there are only a few corporations that exert a disproportionate amount of power over Canadian democracy.Corporate profits are at a record high, and the divide between the rich and the poor has never been wider. Canadians are struggling with inflation, the affordability crisis, a housing crisis and wages that don't cover basic needs. The combination of these forces is a pressure cooker that politicians have promised to tackle, except they can't: they are too restricted by corporate power to confront the roots of the problems that face Canadians. The first book in the Canada in Decline series examined the rise and fall of Canada's social safety net. In this next volume, Corporate Control, activist, author, and journalist Nora Loreto goes further, identifying why Canadian politicians seem so impotent in the face of corporate Canada.

The conference on 'Substantial Materials Processing and Manufacturing (SMPM)' aims to bring together scientists, researchers, and companies to attend and share their vision, ideas, recent developments as well as advanced scientific and technical knowledge in the field of materials processing and manufacturing.

This book investigates the relationship between our present and future selves. It focuses specifically on diachronic self-regarding decisions: choices involving our earlier and later selves, in which the earlier self makes a decision for the later self.

This book analyses contemporary dispossessions in Brazil, drawing on the Marxian concept of primitive accumulation to show how processes of proletarianization, capitalization, and commodification each relate in distinct ways to capitalist accumulation.

Many roads can lead to success but which comination of "ideas and strategy" will actually help you in achieving your dreams?In The Impatient Libertarian, Australian mining legend Ron Manners presents compelling accounts of how individuals with vastly different personalities, circumstances and strategies have successfully addressed threats to Australian liberty - apathy and complacency. In his markedly entertaining and informative fashion, Ron reveals the life-changing benefits of the libertarian philosophy of self-responsibility and the other proven approach to successful economic leadership.

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish migrant community in their midst alert to looming futures in crisis. It offers insights into timely crisis-ridden impacts and imaginings, migration processes and social understandings and practices. Through its attention to how people engage with crisis temporally and affectively, the book presents the crisis not simply as an isolated and distressing event but as a spectre embodied in time through ongoing anticipation.

Tracking Bengaluru's dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals Over the past two decades, Bengaluru's exploding real estate sector and massive infrastructure investments have led to land speculation targeting working-class neighborhoods and agricultural land for development. Chronicles of a Global City turns Bengaluru inside out to examine its "world-city" transformation that stimulated rapid urbanization and unbounded growth. Moving the spotlight away from the urban elites and "new middle class," this book explores how people caught up in the whirlwinds of change in Bengaluru-from construction laborers, street vendors, domestic workers, and platform delivery workers to small-time property brokers, petty landlords, and local politicians-experience, struggle, aspire, invent, strive, and speculate to make a livable city for themselves. Grounded in long-term ethnographic research and activist experiences, Chronicles of a Global City vividly illuminates the multifaceted entanglements of finance capital, real estate markets, livelihood struggles, and fraying ecologies in urban and peri-urban Bengaluru. Its anchoring concept, "speculative urbanism," provides a powerful, innovative lens for understanding the risk-laden practices of leveraging land, labor, and resources for the promise of future profit. Contributors: Hemangini Gupta, Pierre Hauser, Priyanka Krishna, Eesha Kunduri, Kaveri Medappa, Usha Rao, Shaheen Shasa, Swathi Shivanand, Vinay K. Sreenivasa.

This book analyses how tools of statecraft are being deployed by a range of key partners and Pacific Island states with contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region. A vital resource for scholars and practitioners in International Relations and diplomacy.

It is widely known that - at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given to the contrary fact: money also depends on culture. This interdisciplinary anthology scrutinizes this two-way connection between culture and money, and its implications for economic theory.

This book examines smart cities through the lens of the ICT-driven transformation of the economy and economic systems and the resulting changes influencing organizations (public, private, voluntary) and citizens in the smart city.

Decolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. This book is an essential read for Post- and Decolonial scholars and students of Critical Race Studies, Africana Studies, International Relations, Global Development, and Political Science.

Decolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. This book is an essential read for Post- and Decolonial scholars and students of Critical Race Studies, Africana Studies, International Relations, Global Development, and Political Science.