This volume analyzes the economies of Russia and other post-Soviet states. It offers a comparison of their economic progress, highlighting the differences and similarities between them. This book is useful for students, professors, and businessmen.
This book bridges economics and divinity, exploring how economic principles can be tools for spiritual growth. By examining material goods and free will, it reveals pathways to align with God’s will, transforming economics from a “dismal science” into a lens for the spiritual.
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.
Based on recently declassified World Bank documents, this study examines the post-war intervention in Southern Italy. This international effort created the only period of convergence between Italy’s North and South, providing crucial insights into today’s “Southern Question.”
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is an ambitious global infrastructure program. Using a unique project database, this book provides a complete picture of the BRI’s benefits, risks, and implications, exploring its debt problems and future redesign.
Ethnic Issues in the Press of Karachi
This book analyzes the press coverage of Karachi’s ethnic affairs in English and Urdu newspapers. An essential read for historians, researchers, and journalists interested in the ethnic dynamics of Pakistan and the role of the press in covering multi-ethnic societies.
Digital Business Ecosystems in the Service Industry
This guide explores the transformative potential of Digital Business Ecosystems (DBEs) for the service industry. Combining theory with case studies from leaders like Amazon and Netflix, it offers actionable insights to reshape business models and achieve sustainable growth.
Efficiency and Volatility Dynamics of Bangladesh’s Stock Market
This essential guide uses modern econometrics to analyze the efficiency and volatility of emerging stock markets, offering a crucial perspective for investors, academics, and policymakers in developing economies.
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.
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.
This book covers retail space design and its effect on customer experience and consumer behavior. It proposes models and actionable recommendations, blending theory with reality. For students and professionals aiming to elevate their understanding of retail marketing and design.
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.
Why have global financial crises become so complicated? This book identifies the root causes, the products that exacerbate financial contagion, and gives recommendations for measures which could limit the magnitude and severity of future crises.
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.
Therapeutic Journalism
This book shows how emotional literacy and clinical psychology can create a therapeutic form of journalism. It presents a new model to analyze information through an emotional lens, empowering students to inform with empathy and see a shattered world with a fresh pair of eyes.
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.
Dealing with Econometrics
A practical guide to the fundamentals of econometrics. Learn the statistical tools to analyse cross-sectional data and evaluate socio-economic relationships. It features theoretical summaries, practical exercises with real-world data, and solutions using Excel or Gretl.
A Treatise on the Capitalist Society
This book explains the formation of capitalist society from the perspective of language and media. It argues that language is the basis for private property, market exchange, and the wage labor system. Arguing against Marx, it asserts this system is cooperative.
This book examines important issues in tort and free speech, including asset freezing orders, contributory negligence, robotic speech, disinformation, and social media platform censorship.
Active sports tourism is a rapidly developing sector. Less expensive, with greater economic impact and more respect for the environment, it includes everything from extreme sports to ‘slow adventure’. This book provides a complete international picture of the phenomenon.