Economic systems and structures Books

This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge...

Banks take very large risks by consistently herding in the same perilous directions while believing they are safe and unique. This book presents a risk management framework to understand conformity and deviance within investment banks and other large...

This is a comprehensive book on infrastructure development and construction management. It is written keeping in mind the curricula of construction management programmes in India and abroad. It covers infrastructure development, the construction industry...

Embark on a Journey Through the Digital Transformation FrontierDelve into the groundbreaking realm where technology and strategy converge in "Seeding the Cloud: The Genesis of Infrastructure as Code" (IaC). This trailblazing narrative is not just a...

Der Band untersucht das komplexe Wechselspiel von Geschlecht und Ökonomie in der neueren und neuesten deutschsprachigen Literatur. Als Kunstform schreibt sich Literatur in die per se ‚vergeschlechtete' Wissensordnung des Ökonomischen ein, indem sie deren...

Découvrez l'œuvre révolutionnaire qui a transformé le monde du travail et de la gestion : Les Principes de l'organisation scientifique du travail de Frederick Winslow Taylor. Ce livre pionnier, publié pour la première fois en 1911, propose une approche...

ASIS Book of The Year Winner as selected by ASIS International, the world's largest community of security practitioners.Critical Infrastructure Risk Assessment wins 2021 ASIS Security Book of the Year Award - SecurityInfoWatch... and Threat Reduction...

First published in 1992, this volume brings together contemporary studies and reviews the research which established the study of networks as an area in its own right. By looking at the foundations of industrial networks and analysing network methodology...

This book views change as an ongoing process that should not be solidified or treated as a series of linear events. In drawing on data collected from over 40 years of research, it highlights the theoretical and practical value of using a processual...

Navigating the turbulent waters of emerging markets can often feel like a thrilling yet treacherous adventure. The lure of high returns is tempered by the risks associated with political instability, economic volatility, and regulatory unpredictability...

This guide outlines issues facing Pacific countries as they struggle to build resilient infrastructure and shows how proactive steps to mitigate risk including early engagement with insurers could drive the investment they need.Designed as a roadmap to...

Aufbauend auf bestehender Forschung sowie neu erarbeiteten Erweiterungen wird die Akzeptanz von Elektromobilität untersucht. Dabei werden eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Einflussfaktoren identifiziert und auf ihren Einfluss auf das Akzeptanzverhalten hin...

In the second installment of his "Death of the Ideology of Marx and Lenin" series, Communism Can't Be the Final Stage, author, Syed Ali re-criticizes the ideologies within Marxism and Lenism, introducing readers to new critical points. Also, he further...

A volume in Contemporary Trends in Organization Development and ChangeSeries Editors Therese F. Yaeger, Benedictine Universityand Peter F. Sorensen, Jr. Benedictine UniversityOrganization Development (OD) is a young social science. Little has been...

A volume in Contemporary Trends in Organization Development and ChangeSeries Editors Therese F. Yaeger, Benedictine Universityand Peter F. Sorensen, Jr. Benedictine UniversityOrganization Development (OD) is a young social science. Little has been...

2014 Reprint of 1910 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Even those who may question the eminence of Frederic Bastiat as an economic theorist will grant that he was a publicist of genius. ...

First published in 1988, this book analyses the changes that took place in the economic organisation of the British construction industry throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular considering its social and economic structure and examining the...

Terrorism remains one of the major threats facing the world community. While literature on the subject is dominated by discussion of the factors leading individuals and groups to join violent extremist, terrorist groups, the question of what can lead...

Henry Ford implemented the lean concept in the early 1900s, Toyota started TPS in the 1970’s, Motorola first initiated the Six Sigma journey, followed by GE and many others just years later.Still today, Lean Six Sigma remains the strongest...

A practical and proven approach to successdul change management.The key to successful change is to get the support and commitment of staff throughout the process. This book shows managers how to achieve this - and what will happen if they don't. The...

Common wisdom says that success breeds success, and indeed this is how most VCs pick startups, businesses select talent, and singles search for dates. In contrast, the evidence from science to startups shows that only repeated failure breeds success.In...

In 1790, George Washington was elected the first U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson became the country's first secretary of state, and flour imported to Boston from England marked the beginning of the King Arthur Flour Company. The King Arthur Flour...

Equal Time, Equal Value is the first systematic investigation of Time Banking in the United States. Drawing upon detailed case studies and making use of a mix of qualitative and quantitative data this book explores the most popular type of what has been...

Satan a Socialist-Really?Conspiracy Theory or Fundamental Truth of the AgesSatan Is a Socialist stirs up a lot of social, political, and spiritual questions such as:What are the real differences between free enterprise and socialism?Just how...

Marking the halfway point to the Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030, this report reflects on how ADB has contributed to progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific. With a focus on four thematic clusters-people,...

Creative destruction is a long-recognized and accepted feature of a dynamic market economy. But can this destruction go too far? Should there be no limit to the number of jobs, families, and even entire communities that are sacrificed for the sake of...

Vernor's Ginger Ale has sparkling fizz, a unique taste, and a history that goes back before Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Hires, or Moxie. Upon returning from the Civil War in 1866, James Vernor opened a pharmacy in Detroit. He also opened a barrel of ginger ale...

China has achieved rapid economic growth since the market-oriented reform in 1978 and became the second largest economy in the world in 2010. However, the growth model in China is still extensive in nature and may be...

A surprising new explanation for the radical growth of income inequality—and a new strategy for stopping it.Income inequality has risen dramatically since the 1970s. But why, exactly? In Rents, Gerrit De Geest argues that the main cause is advances...

Our Founding Fathers had a revolutionary idea that the government should serve the people and not the other way around. But how does a group of men without blueprints build something from nothing? The answers laid in their Judeo-Christian faith, the...

It is well known that the Anglo American Group of companies is a major force in the economic, political, and social life of South Africa, and that its influence extends deep into the rest of Africa, as well, as Europe, North and South America, Australia,...

This book is the most comprehensive book on America's Rise and Fall written by one of the most conservative authors of American  religious and political law and history.  Nancy Reagan and Rush Limbaugh have read one of  the...

All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the...

In revisiting the forty year history of reforms to China's state-owned enterprises (SOE), the book assesses the experiences of this process of reform and scrutinizes how this has helped advance the country's economy overall.The author finds that China's...

In Land of Milk and Money, Alan I Marcus examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Looking specifically at the internal history of the Borden Company--the world's largest dairy firm--as well as...

""Le Costituzioni del Pecuniario Palermitano Banco: Con Buon Ordine Disposte"" ����� un libro scritto da Antonino Crescimanno nel 1761. Il testo descrive le regole e le leggi che regolavano il funzionamento del Pecuniario Palermitano Banco, una banca...

Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth’s climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or...