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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Revealing the power of the New Economic Approach, this volume applies rigorous analysis to complex social issues—from love and family to crime and addiction. An essential critical resource for academics, researchers, and policymakers.
This book analyzes the financial, economic, educational, and technological drivers of environmental sustainability from a global perspective. It presents findings and recommendations useful for researchers and policy-makers to advance sustainable development.
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is revolutionizing water quality monitoring. This book explores its application for detecting pollutants, toxins, and pathogens at minute concentrations, equipping you with knowledge for efficient on-site and laboratory analysis.
This monograph explores the post-war revival of Ukraine’s economy based on world experience and advanced technologies. It offers practical recommendations for participants in reconstruction, while its approaches can be adapted for any country building a new economic model.
Issues and Challenges in Trade
This book is a study of the issues and inter-linkages concerning trade, environment and sustainability. It suggests approaches for understanding their complexities in order to achieve balanced economic development, international cooperation and policy coherence.
Area-Based Management Tools and Marine Fisheries
This guide to Area-Based Management Tools (ABMTs) in fisheries examines their impact on biodiversity and socio-economic issues. It explores their governance, the tensions they face, and pathways to increase their effectiveness, with perspectives illustrated by case studies.
Volatile fuel prices can bankrupt an airline. Hedging offers protection, but which financial instruments should be used? This book explores hedging strategies and the operational levers—airfares, capacity, and fleet size—needed when that protection wears off.
Rethinking Heterodox Economics
Heterodox economics challenges traditional theories by considering historical, social, and political factors. This book helps economists and students understand the complexities of the real world, exploring inequality, sustainability, and financial crises from a new perspective.