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The Economics of Productivity in Asia and Australia
Renuka Mahadevan
Productivity growth has long been recognised by both economists and non-economists as being necessary for all economies aspiring to raise their standard of living. Thus, Renuka Mahadevan aims to highlight the conceptual differences, adva...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Globalization and Institutions
Edited by Marie-Laure Djelic, Sigrid Quack
This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions, or global governance, challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each o... -
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Complexity in Economics
Edited by J. Barkley Rosser Jr.
Complex dynamics in economics arise from nonlinear systems that do not converge to a fixed point, a limit cycle, or explode or implode exponentially due to endogenous factors. They arise from cybernetics, catastrophe theory, chaos theory... -
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Science and Innovation
Edited by Aldo Geuna, Ammon J. Salter, W. Edward Steinmueller
This book re-examines the rationale for public policy, concluding that the prevailing ‘public knowledge’ model is evolving towards a networked or distributed model of knowledge production and use in which public and private institutions ... -
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Emerging Markets
Edited by Geert Bekaert, Campbell R. Harvey
Emerging markets have long posed a challenge for finance. Standard models are often ill suited to deal with the specific circumstances arising in these markets. However, the interest in emerging markets has provided impetus for the adapt... -
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Developments in the International Harmonization of Accounting
Edited by Christopher W. Nobes
The measurement of harmonization became a well-established area of academic research from the late 1980s, and the discerning selection of papers in this volume reveal a continuing interest in the topic by a large number of researchers. ... -
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Developments in Financial Reporting by Multinationals
Edited by Clare B. Roberts
This volume is concerned with financial reporting issues resulting from the growth and spread of multinational corporations. The book consists of up-to-date readings from a broad range of international journals which look at, and evalua... -
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Embracing the Knowledge Economy
Edited by Gerd Schienstock
In an astonishingly short period of time, Finland has developed into one of the world’s leading knowledge societies whilst retaining a comprehensive welfare state. The book traces this rapid transformation from a resource-based to a know...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Third Sector in Europe
Edited by Adalbert Evers, Jean-Louis Laville
This book explores Europe’s third sector – the non-profit organisations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organisations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Information Technology Policy and the Digital Divide
Edited by Mitsuhiro Kagami, Masatsugu Tsuji, Emanuele Giovannetti
The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages an...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Regional Security in the Asia Pacific
Edited by Marika Vicziany, David Wright-Neville, Pete Lentini
The September 2001 terrorist attacks shocked the world. But what did they change? In this book Asia specialists from academe and policy think tanks assess the impact of 9/11 on the Asia Pacific. Drawing on unique fieldwork, access to a w...eBook:Find out more£44.76
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Equality, Rights and the Autonomous Self
Timothy P. Roth
Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self’s ‘natural rights’ against others’ moralistic and political preferences, and regards the economist’s utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of ‘s...