Political Economy of Financial Systems
Why did identical financial systems lead to contrasting outcomes in South Korea and India? This book argues that the efficiency of finance depends not just on its structure, but on the wider political-economic context and its relations with the market.
Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
This guide to age-oriented transmission schemes integrates space, air, ground, and sea networks into a single architecture. A comprehensive resource for professionals and newcomers, it provides a current understanding of efficient, flexible network design.
Driver distraction results in 340,000 roadway deaths annually. While most research covers personal vehicles, this book focuses specifically on transit bus driver distractions. It is an essential guide for transit agencies and professionals involved in transportation safety.
While favorable to the New Deal’s motives, this book is critical of its implementation. It argues the Great Depression was caused by a technological shock that gapped productivity and income. The New Deal sought to close this gap, but its policies were doomed from the start.
This book presents the financial performance of the shipping industry since 1896, tracking how fortunes were made and lost through market cycles. It examines the underlying causes that moved the market and evaluates when players got their speculative act right or badly wrong.
Sports Journalism in the Age of Paterno
For decades, sports journalists made Joe Paterno an American hero. When a devastating scandal revealed the villain beneath, they had to confront their profession. This book examines an industry that built a monster and asks: Is sports journalism journalism at all?
This book offers a unique financial evaluation of all forest ecosystem services and their contribution to economic sectors. The reader will find answers and results in this book to help them account for all the benefits that a forest offers.
Using primary sources, this book reconstructs the international disputes sparked when early 20th-century Italy created a state monopoly on life insurance. It is an interesting debate on the relationship between public and private and the rise of the “entrepreneurial state.”
This book is a call for transformational change to increase employment for people with disabilities. It argues that we must work together to reimagine supports, using innovative practices. The Death of Rehabilitation is not an end to services. It is a rebirth.
Rural Industry Development
This book explores the “whole of chain approach” to improve farmers’ livelihoods in developing countries. It provides a methodology to evaluate this approach and offers lessons for practitioners, policymakers, and businesses on linking farmers to the market.
What is rational choice? Can a society make rational decisions? This book is a primer in rational and social choice theory for students and teachers. An up-to-date textbook full of examples and exercises, it combines formal results with the latest research.
This book details China’s strategy for blockchain payment systems, providing a theoretical framework for its developing role. Analyzing the efficiency, cost, and risk of blockchain in cross-border payments, it offers policy suggestions and vital insights for countries worldwide.
Media and COVID-19
This book dives into media dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring how traditional and social media coped with uncertainty and the surge of misinformation. Through a case study of Israel, it reveals key lessons for journalists, policymakers, and media consumers alike.
This book examines the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies and the ongoing debate surrounding it. Uniquely, it studies the issue from the perspective of developing countries, with a special focus on India. It acts as an essential primer for students and researchers.
This book equips students and practitioners with the analytical skills to represent a client in a civil federal tax dispute. Using the Code, Regulations, and case law, you will learn to identify and analyse procedural issues from a tax controversy’s inception through litigation.
Principles of Sustainability Economics
Is economic development reachable on an exhausted planet? Greener technologies may help, but we are far off track due to inappropriate institutions and adverse incentives. This book explains why, using core economic principles to identify the Gordian knots of sustainability.
Disability Pension
This much-needed treaty on long-term sick leave and disability benefits is a unique book on insurance medicine. It tackles the difficult aspects of patient evaluation, ethics, medical criteria, and rehabilitation from an international perspective. Essential for all stakeholders.
Publishers, Profits and Poverty
In 19th-century Bohemian Fleet Street, radical publishers campaigned for political reform while a market for sensational literature boomed. This book charts the lives of around 100 of these figures, highlighting new information about the forgotten pioneers of popular literature.
Liquidity and Asset Pricing
Explore the role of liquidity in asset pricing models, from risk premiums to market crises. This book empirically tests how augmented liquidity factors improve models and explains policy implications relevant to researchers, regulators, traders, and portfolio managers.
A Techno-Economic History of the Conquest of Space
Uncover the dynamics shaping the space economy. This work explores the forces driving humanity’s ventures into space, from the Space Race to private aerospace giants, analyzing how innovation, policy, and public-private collaboration are redefining humanity’s reach beyond Earth.