Economy & Finance

Empire building in British India was inseparably tied to the processes of frontier-making and the creation of boundaries. This book examines how the dynamics of frontier and boundary creation were shaped by a variety of agents.

This book delineates the role and evolution of the European Union (EU) as an instrument of soft power in relation to South Asian countries. It explains the EU's development policy towards South Asia and examines its cooperation, while attempting to assess the extent to which EU's development policy can be an instrument of soft power.

This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state, addressing the literature gap on continued social improvement within a postgrowth economic and cultural paradigm.A useful read for scholars of degrowth economics, sustainable development, and urban planning.

Empire building in British India was inseparably tied to the processes of frontier-making and the creation of boundaries. This book examines how the dynamics of frontier and boundary creation were shaped by a variety of agents.

To broaden understanding about international economic law and sustainable development, the book examines how the law of international financial institutions (IFIs) treats 'non-economic' issues. It dissects IFIs' environmental and social policies, the independent accountability mechanisms, and the participation therein of project-affected people.

A new way to teach macroeconomics based on problem-solving and hands-on learning.Offering an important paradigm-shift in the way macroeconomics is taught, this innovative textbook invites students to learn by doing. Organized as a series of word problems motivated by specific macroeconomic questions—Can an economy grow indefinitely by accumulating capital?  Why is nominal GDP a poor gauge of changes in economic activity?  What constrains the firm?—the text equips readers to think like macroeconomists rather than simply receive expository information. This novel approach develops intuition, analytical skills, and background knowledge simultaneously. Interrelated themes, techniques, and results emerge as students work through the problems, resulting in a dynamic but cohesive treatment of macroeconomics in which agents making choices subject to constraints are the central characters. Classroom-tested, learn-by-doing, problem-solving approach Comprehensively covers the material of a single-semester undergraduate macroeconomics course, including optimizing agents and general equilibrium, rational expectations, and modern monetary policyVersatile structure suits both large lecture formats and smaller classesRobust instructor resources support transition to new pedagogical method

A groundbreaking approach to currency and community that may allow us to seize carbon from the atmosphere—and offer a new tool in the fight against climate change.Through the ages, currencies have been based on all manner of objects—from tobacco leaves to salt to gold to collateralized debt obligations. The only thing that this odd assortment of objects shares is the communal belief that these objects could harness and direct economic growth—that they were, in a sense, fertile. In The First and Last Bank, Gustav Peebles and Benjamin Luzzatto propose that atmospheric carbon could be seen anew as fertile in this same sense. In other words, carbon, rather than loom as waste in our skies, could instead be “drawn down” to the earth by millions of currency users and the communally owned banks they rely on, where it could serve as a foundation of new biological life.Seeing currency as a powerful tool for collective action, the authors argue that dovetailing developments in digital currencies and the biosequestration of carbon have, together, made a new and radical intervention in the climate battle possible: a nonproprietary currency backed by sequestered carbon. This new currency would be managed via Wikipedia-style open-source policies that privilege sustainability and equity over endless growth and pollution. Because it is backed by sequestered carbon, the use of the currency would draw gaseous carbon out of the atmosphere and push it back into the ground, following the exact same trajectory as gold during the era of the international gold standard. While it is no silver bullet, such a currency would act as a necessary complement to wide-scale mitigation efforts, at the same time engaging ordinary citizens in the fight to reduce the dangerous levels of carbon in our atmosphere.

This book comprehensively discusses the cooperation of corporations with start-ups in the context of accelerator programs. It will appeal to scholars and researchers in the fields of innovation studies, entrepreneurship and organizational studies.

The increasing prominence of Generative AI presents healthcare integration opportunities. From generating valuable patient insights to automating operations, streamlining patient care, and implementing preventive technologies, Generative AI has the potential to usher in a new era of productivity and profitability for healthcare stakeholders.

Beginning with a study of a suburb of Athens, this book charts the occurrence of a range of radical social changes as the locality adapts itself to processes of globalization, broadening its analysis to as to offer a theoretical account of the dynamic interaction of the local with the global wherever it occurs in (sub)urban space.

This book explores multifarious policy dimensions relevant to climate change and its associated vulnerabilities in the Indo-Pacific region.

A wide variety of new forms of money have been developed in recent decades as a challenge or complement to the official, dominant currencies. LETS, Local Currencies, Carbon Currencies and Bitcoins are all examples of this new trend.

This book confronts and analyses how competition law in its present form is unable to deal with the new advances in digital technology that have made tech giants not subject to national jurisdictions as they straddle the world, with a particular focus on Japan, China, UK, EU and USA.

This book provides a detailed, comparative analysis of the relative tax burdens on the farm and non-farm sectors in India in the 1960s. It addresses the key question of mobilising the resources for transforming agriculture-dependent, backward economies into industrial economies.