Covid Wars
A Gripping Chronicle of America's Battle Between Public Health and Personal Freedom In COVID WARS, acclaimed author Ronald Gruner delivers a powerful and fact-driven account of how American society confronted the most divisive crisis in modern history-the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not another opinion piece. It is a meticulously researched history that blends data, statistics, and analysis to uncover how politics, public health, and personal liberty collided in a storm that reshaped the nation. Discover the truth behind the headlines as Gruner examines: The politicization of COVID-19 and its devastating impact on national unity The rise of COVID-19 conspiracy theories explained through real data and credible sources The unprecedented speed and controversy of Operation Warp Speed The lasting social impact of COVID-19 on communities, mental health, and education The struggle between public health and personal freedom in a time of fear and uncertainty A deep pandemic historical perspective, comparing America's response to earlier global crises Drawing from COVID-19 statistics and charts, this book reveals how misinformation, political division, and cultural identity shaped the nation's fate. Gruner's objective lens exposes the hard facts behind COVID-19 truth vs myths, and offers insight into how American society can better prepare for future pandemics. Why Read This Book?Because understanding what happened is the first step to ensuring it never happens again. Whether you're a historian, policymaker, or concerned citizen, COVID WARS provides the clarity, evidence, and context missing from the public debate. Step into the story of a nation at war with an invisible enemy-and itself.
International Trade
Understanding the globalized world economy is more important than ever before. This book provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date look at the economic foundations of international trade. The authors explain the principal concepts in an engaging and accessible manner open to students from any discipline, incorporating contemporary trade data through full-colour diagrams and graphs. Throughout, economic models are discussed in the context of recent and current international trade issues, to ensure students gain a concrete understanding and see how the field impacts the real world. Written for upper undergraduate courses, the book includes feature boxes that marry theory and economics in practice to show models applied, a featured real-world application for every chapter, and over 100 end-of-chapter questions help students fully engage with and consolidate their learning. Online resources for instructors include a solutions manual, lecture slides and the book figures as JPEGs.
International Finance
Understanding the globalized world economy is more important than ever before. This book provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date look at the economic foundations of international finance. The authors explain the principal concepts in an engaging and accessible manner open to students from any discipline, incorporating contemporary finance data through full-colour diagrams and graphs. Throughout, economic models are discussed in the context of recent and current international finance issues, to ensure students gain a concrete understanding and see how the field impacts the real world. Written for upper undergraduate courses, the book includes feature boxes that marry theory and economics in practice to show models applied, a featured real-world application for every chapter, and over 140 end-of-chapter questions help students fully engage with and consolidate their learning. Online resources for instructors include a solutions manual, lecture slides and the book figures as JPEGs.
International Economics
The globalized world economy is more important than ever before. This book provides a clear and up-to-date look at the economic foundations of international economics. Through accessible language and attractive presentation with abundant full-colour diagrams and graphs incorporating contemporary trade data, the authors explain the principal concepts in an engaging manner open to students from any discipline. Throughout, economic models are discussed in the context of recent and current international trade issues to ensure students gain a concrete understanding and see how the field impacts the real world. Written for upper undergraduate courses, the book includes feature boxes that marry theory and economics in practice to show models applied, a featured real-world application for every chapter, and over 240 end of chapter questions help students fully engage with and consolidate their learning. Online resources for instructors include a solutions manual, lecture slides and the book figures as jpgs.
International Trade
Understanding the globalized world economy is more important than ever before. This book provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date look at the economic foundations of international trade. The authors explain the principal concepts in an engaging and accessible manner open to students from any discipline, incorporating contemporary trade data through full-colour diagrams and graphs. Throughout, economic models are discussed in the context of recent and current international trade issues, to ensure students gain a concrete understanding and see how the field impacts the real world. Written for upper undergraduate courses, the book includes feature boxes that marry theory and economics in practice to show models applied, a featured real-world application for every chapter, and over 100 end-of-chapter questions help students fully engage with and consolidate their learning. Online resources for instructors include a solutions manual, lecture slides and the book figures as JPEGs.
International Finance
Understanding the globalized world economy is more important than ever before. This book provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date look at the economic foundations of international finance. The authors explain the principal concepts in an engaging and accessible manner open to students from any discipline, incorporating contemporary finance data through full-colour diagrams and graphs. Throughout, economic models are discussed in the context of recent and current international finance issues, to ensure students gain a concrete understanding and see how the field impacts the real world. Written for upper undergraduate courses, the book includes feature boxes that marry theory and economics in practice to show models applied, a featured real-world application for every chapter, and over 140 end-of-chapter questions help students fully engage with and consolidate their learning. Online resources for instructors include a solutions manual, lecture slides and the book figures as JPEGs.
The Myth That Made Us
How our false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have been used to condone egregious economic outcomes--and what we can do to fix the system. The Myth That Made Us exposes how false narratives--of a supposedly post-racist nation, of the self-made man, of the primacy of profit- and shareholder value-maximizing for businesses, and of minimal government interference--have been used to excuse gross inequities and to shape and sustain the US economic system that delivers them. Jeff Fuhrer argues that systemic racism continues to produce vastly disparate outcomes and that our brand of capitalism favors doing little to reduce disparities. Evidence from other developed capitalist economies shows it doesn't have to be that way. We broke this (mean-spirited) economy. We can fix it. Rather than merely laying blame at the feet of both conservatives and liberals for aiding and abetting an unjust system, Fuhrer charts a way forward. He supplements evidence from data with insights from community voices and outlines a system that provides more equal opportunity to accumulate both human and financial capital. His key areas of focus include universal access to high-quality early childhood education; more effective use of our community college system as a pathway to stable employment; restructuring key aspects of the low-wage workplace; providing affordable housing and transit links; supporting people of color by serving as mentors, coaches, and allies; and implementing Baby Bonds and Reparations programs to address the accumulated loss of wealth among Black people due to the legacy of enslavement and institutional discrimination. Fuhrer emphasizes embracing humility, research-based approaches, and community involvement as ways to improve economic opportunity.
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Realizing Africa’s Potential
Realizing Africa's Potential: A Journey to Prosperity identifies the trends, opportunities, challenges, and strategies for success in Africa's emerging industries and sectors.
Realizing Africa’s Potential
By 2050, Africa will be home to 25% of the world's population with more than $16 trillion in combined business and consumer spending. This profound demographic shift and economic growth are driving transformative change across African markets, offering unprecedented opportunities for investment. With strategic leadership by business and policymakers alike, these opportunities can be seized to fuel industrialization, create jobs, foster technological innovation, advance green economies, reduce poverty, and raise the standard of living across the continent. Realizing Africa's Potential: A Journey to Prosperity identifies the trends, opportunities, challenges, and strategies for success in Africa's emerging industries including healthcare and pharmaceuticals; mining; insurance; investment; private equity and venture capital; international and intra-regional trade (automotive, agriculture and agro-processing, pharmaceuticals, transportation and logistics); capital markets; and entertainment. The book offers unparallelled insights to scholars, investors and policymakers alike a holistic perspective on how these industries may evolve and actionable strategies on how to maximize the impact of trade and investment on industrialization to unlock Africa's long-term prosperity.
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business--what it is for and how it works "A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism."--Andrew Hill, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2024: Business" Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century. But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers are the means of production; increasingly, they take the plant home. Capital is a service bought from a specialist supplier with little influence over customer businesses. The professional managers who run modern corporations do not exert authority because they are wealthy; they are wealthy because they exert authority. John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation--and describes how we have come to "love the product" as we "hate the producer." This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest economists.
Business and Human Rights
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This book explores the interface of Business and Human Rights with other practice areas, such as antitrust, arbitration, artificial intelligence, investment law, finance, private international law, professional ethics, labor law, sports law, venture capital, among others. It presents contributions from a diverse and international group of academics, researchers, and practitioners in Europe, Asia, and South America. It also includes the International Bar Association's Updated Guidance Note on Business and Human Rights for lawyers, which represents a relevant policy development in the intersection of Business and Human Rights and professional legal ethics.
Beyond the Instrumentalised Economy
The concept of an economy requires us to characterise what human life and society are fundamentally about, or what is valuable and why. This includes our social relations with each other and to the ecosystems we live in, as well as our happiness, well-being and flourishing. Beyond the Instrumentalised Economy defines what work, consumption and the use of natural resources would look like if they were not instrumentalised. This enables the reader to see how a company would work in a non-instrumentalised economy, and what would constitute a non-instrumentalised market. Based on this, the book provides insight concerning how investment would work in such an economy, and the main features of a non-instrumentalised financial system.
Architectures of Bureaucracy
This monograph examines the interrelationship between politics and modernist architecture in interwar Belgium, focusing on political, architectural, and administrative elites as propagators of new ideas of governance. While Belgium was strongly influenced by neighbouring France and Germany, it also developed its own avant-garde approaches to socio-political problems. In the second half of the 1930s, the country was the scene of a remarkable political and architectural experiment involving an ambitious plan for the large-scale construction of modernist government office buildings. These buildings were seen as essential to the development of a technocratic model of governance, aimed at strengthening the role of the executive and minimising the influence of parliament. More specifically, the "efficient" new office architecture was supposed to create a new type of "perfect" civil servant, whose loyalties would no longer lie with political parties, but with scientists and management experts. Such experts and scientists constituted a rising elite of homines novi with strong (though often veiled) political ambitions. As such, this book contributes to our understanding of political culture in the "age of extremes".
Research in Economic History
In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Shawn Kantor and Carl T. Kitchens bring together a diverse range of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyse historic economics questions. This includes examinations of inequality from North and South America, as well as Europe, in terms of health, land, and wealth. For researchers and students of economic history, this volume pulls together the latest research on a variety of unanswered questions from the 1860s until the present day.
The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2024
The journey of economic inclusion programs has been remarkable, marked by significant strides in creating job opportunities and building resilience for poor and vulnerable populations. The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2024: Pathways to Scale highlights the progress and challenges of scaling up government-led programs, as well as the vital interplay with nongovernment actors and the private sector. The report draws on the 2023 Landscape Survey of Economic Inclusion Programs and on the operational insights garnered through the Partnership for Economic Inclusion's (PEI's) collaboration with its partners, summarizing emerging evidence from government-led programs, highlighting significant knowledge gaps, and offering insights for future programmatic approaches. This report offers a comprehensive overview of the evolving landscape, global footprint, and key design features of economic inclusion programs. Comparisons with The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021 provide valuable insights into shifts and trends over the past 3 years, including those for the economic empowerment of women and youth, for collaborative efforts across different stakeholders, and for resilience to climate change. The current report complements the earlier report by exploring efforts to scale up policy and programming, including progress and challenges around government-led programs and the interplay with nongovernment actors and the private sector. This report analyzes shifts in the global landscape, including the degree to which economic inclusion programs are being customized in vastly different contexts and the growing role of economic inclusion in building resilience and providing job opportunities to the poor population in the context of overlapping crises. Scaling up programs that empower poor and vulnerable populations to access economic opportunities, enhance food security, and build both short- and long-term resilience can contribute to more-inclusive and more-sustainable growth that leaves no one behind. This report provides policy makers with key recommendations for expanding coverage, strengthening outcomes for women and youth, maintaining program quality, continuing to build an evidence base, and designing programs for sustainable impacts. Data from the report are available on the PEI Data Portal, www.peiglobal.org, where users can explore and submit data.
Macroeconomic Modeling
An empirical approach to constructing macroeconomic models. Macroeconomic Modeling presents an empirically based approach to the construction of macroeconomic models--the Cowles Commission approach--as a response to the backlash that has taken place since the late 1970s to this methodology. The emphasis in the literature has been on tightly specified theoretical models, which lack realism. In this book, Ray C. Fair develops models to analyze a variety of issues and events in macroeconomics and the US economy, and he explains the econometric techniques needed to estimate those models. Many of the results are either contrary to results from the theoretical models or cannot be examined by the theoretical models because they omit many important features of the economy. Fair covers a broad range of topics, including inflation and unemployment, the size of wealth effects, the behavior of the Federal Reserve and its effects on the economy, the effects of fiscal policy, Okun's law, and contractions and expansions. Macroeconomic Modeling will appeal equally to graduate students and researchers as well as macroeconomic policy makers.
Equality
In this compelling dialogue, two of the world's most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, history, and current affairs, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel consider how far we have come in achieving greater equality. At the same time, they confront head-on the extreme divides that remain in wealth, income, power, and status nationally and globally. What can be done at a time of deep political instability and environmental crisis? Piketty and Sandel agree on much: more inclusive investment in health and education, higher progressive taxation, curbing the political power of the rich and the overreach of markets. But how far and how fast can we push? Should we prioritize material or social change? What are the prospects for any change at all with nationalist forces resurgent? How should the left relate to values like patriotism and local solidarity where they collide with the challenges of mass migration and global climate change? To see Piketty and Sandel grapple with these and other problems is to glimpse new possibilities for change and justice but also the stubborn truth that progress towards greater equality never comes quickly or without deep social conflict and political struggle.
An Economic History of Mexico
After a turbulent modern history of conquest and colonialism, Mexico has developed as an economy which may be emerging but still displays significant levels of poverty, particularly in relation to its neighbour to the north, the United States.
Economic Development in Modern China Before 1949
As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development between 1912 and 1949 and unravels the overall level during that time.
Lemonade for Sale!
Do you remember the joy of running a lemonade stand as a child? That first spark of creativity, the thrill of turning an idea into action, and the pride of selling something you made? The lemonade stand is more than a childhood memory-it's an enduring symbol of entrepreneurship, representing effort, creativity, and the courage to dream big. But the entrepreneurial journey isn't always sunny. What happens when no one stops to buy? When the rain washes away your plans? When you run out of lemons before your vision takes shape? These challenges often keep dreams bottled up-but they don't have to. In Lemonade for Sale!, you'll find practical advice, inspiring stories, and actionable steps to overcome life's "what-ifs" and turn challenges into opportunities. Whether you're launching a business, mentoring future entrepreneurs, or rediscovering your own creative spark, this book is your guide to nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit within. Get ready to squeeze the most out of your ideas-because the world is ready for what you have to offer!
Africonomics
A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge For centuries, Westerners have tried to "fix" African economies. From the abolition of slavery onward, missionaries, philanthropists, development economists, and NGOs have arrived on the continent, full of good intentions and bad ideas. Their experiments have invariably gone awry, to the great surprise of all involved. Historian Bronwen Everill argues that these interventions fail, and frequently cause harm, because they start from a misguided premise: that African economies just need to be more like the West. Ignoring Africa's own traditions of economic thought, Americans and Europeans assumed a set of universal economic laws that they thought could be applied anywhere. They enforced specifically Western ideas about growth, wealth, debt, unemployment, inflation, women's work and more, and used Western metrics to find African countries wanting. The West does not know better than African nations how an economy should be run. By laying bare the myths and realities of our tangled economic history, Africonomics moves from Western ignorance to African knowledge.
Capital in Banking
Capital in Banking traces the role of capital in US, British, and Swiss banking from the 19th to the 21st century. The book discusses the impact of perceptions and conventions on capital ratios in the 19th century, the effects of the First and Second World Wars, and the interaction of crises and banking regulation during the 1930s and the 1970s. Moreover, it emphasises the origins of the risk-weighted assets approach for measuring capital adequacy and explains how the 2007/2008 crisis led to a renaissance of unweighted capital ratios. The book shows that undisclosed reserves, shareholders' liability, and hybrid forms of capital must be considered when assessing capital adequacy. As the first long-run historical assessment of the topic, this book represents a reference point for publications in economics, finance, financial regulation, and financial history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Stochastic Choice Theory
Models of stochastic choice are studied in decision theory, discrete choice econometrics, behavioral economics and psychology. Numerous experiments show that perception of stimuli is not deterministic, but stochastic (randomly determined). A growing body of evidence indicates that the same is true of economic choices. Whether trials are separated by days or minutes, the fraction of choice reversals is substantial. Stochastic Choice Theory offers a systematic introduction to these models, unifying insights from various fields. It explores mathematical models of stochastic choice, which have a variety of applications in game theory, industrial organization, labor economics, marketing, and experimental economics. Offering a systematic introduction to the field, this book builds up from scratch without any prior knowledge requirements and surveys recent developments, bringing readers to the frontier of research.
Stochastic Choice Theory
Models of stochastic choice are studied in decision theory, discrete choice econometrics, behavioral economics and psychology. Numerous experiments show that perception of stimuli is not deterministic, but stochastic (randomly determined). A growing body of evidence indicates that the same is true of economic choices. Whether trials are separated by days or minutes, the fraction of choice reversals is substantial. Stochastic Choice Theory offers a systematic introduction to these models, unifying insights from various fields. It explores mathematical models of stochastic choice, which have a variety of applications in game theory, industrial organization, labor economics, marketing, and experimental economics. Offering a systematic introduction to the field, this book builds up from scratch without any prior knowledge requirements and surveys recent developments, bringing readers to the frontier of research.
Before Banks
This innovative work delves into the world of ordinary early modern women and men and their relationship with credit and debt. Elise Dermineur focuses on the rural seigneuries of Delle and Florimont in the south of Alsace, where rich archival documents allow for a fine cross-analysis of credit transactions and the reconstruction of credit networks from c.1650 to 1790. She examines the various credit instruments at ordinary people's disposal, the role of women in credit markets, and the social, legal, and economic experiences of indebtedness. The book's distinctive focus on peer-to-peer lending sheds light on how and why pre-industrial interpersonal exchanges featured flexibility, diversity, fairness, solidarity and reciprocity, and room for negotiation and renegotiation. Before Banks also offers insight into factors informing our present financial system and suggests that we can learn from the past to create a fairer society and economy.
The Real Economy
A provocative new theory of "the economy," its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics What is the economy, really? Is it a "market sector," a "general equilibrium," or the "gross domestic product"? Economics today has become so preoccupied with methods that economists risk losing sight of the economy itself. Meanwhile, other disciplines, although often intent on criticizing the methods of economics, have failed to articulate an alternative vision of the economy. Before the ascent of postwar neoclassical economics, fierce debates raged, as many different visions of the economy circulated and competed with one another. In The Real Economy, Jonathan Levy returns to the spirit of this earlier era, which, in all its contentiousness, gave birth to the discipline of economics. Drawing inspiration particularly from Thorstein Veblen and John Maynard Keynes, Levy proposes a theory of the economy that is open to rich empirical and historical scrutiny, covering topics that include the emergence of capitalism, the notion of radical uncertainty, the meaning of demand, the primal desire for money, the history of corporations, and contemporary globalization. Writing for anyone interested in the study of the economy, Levy provides an invaluable provocation for a broader debate in the social sciences and humanities concerning what "the economy" is.
Revue d'Histoire de la Pensee Economique
Contributeurs: Thierry Aimar, Francois Allisson, Michael Assous, Patrice Baubeau, Alain Beraud, Francisco Borja, Jean-Daniel Boyer, Clement Coste, Daniel Diatkine, Judith Favereau, Alexandra Hyard, Jean-Luc Mastin, Jose Manuel Menudo, Marlyse Pouchol, Joel Thomas Ravix, Alain Raybaut, Carlos Alberto Rivera Carreno et Claire Silvant.
Integrated Peasant Economy in Central and Eastern Europe
Income integration based on the peasants' engagement in non-agrarian sectors is a prominent and widespread feature in the history of the European countryside. While listing a multitude of activities outside the narrow scope of farm management aimed at self-consumption, prevailing interpretations emphasize how survival was the goal of peasant economies and societies. The "integrated peasant economy" is a new paradigm that considers the peasant economy as a comprehensive system of agrarian and non-agrarian activities, disclosing how peasants demonstrate agency, aspirations and the ability to proactively change and improve their economic and social condition. After having been successfully applied to the Alpine and Scandinavian areas, the book tests this innovative concept through a wide range of case studies on central and eastern European regions comprising Finland, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia. By enhancing our knowledge on central and eastern Europe and questioning the assumption that these regions were "different", it helps overcome interpretive simplifications and common places, as well as the underrepresentation of the "eastern half" of Europe in scholarly literature on rural history. That's why the book represents a refreshing methodological contribution and a new insight into European rural history which might help reconsider current narratives on development history.
Capital Accumulation and Economic Crisis
In Capital Accumulation and Economic Crisis, Eddie Tan presents the results of his decade-long investigation into one basic question: why has global debt been ballooning over the last 40 plus years? Just as solving the mystery of why apples fall from trees revolutionized physics, unpicking this seemingly simple puzzle led to the discovery of a lifetime in the field of economics.Specifically speaking, does Capitalism, as an economic system, face a natural limit? To this ultimate question in economics, Karl Marx gave an affirmative answer. However, neither he nor his comrades and students were able to present a convincing explanation on when and why capitalism would reach this limit. This imperfection became the biggest thorn in the Marxian theoretical system.By establishing a new theory of capital accumulation in simple and straightforward language, Capital Accumulation and Economic Crisis has removed this thorn. Hence, for the first time in the history of economics, the ultimate demise of Capitalism is explicitly and credibly defined. The impact of this discovery on economics, in the author's opinion, will be no smaller than that of the theory of relativity on physics.This breakthrough will also revolutionize our understanding of the economic crisis and therefore, as the root cause of the crisis is now clear, predicting upcoming crises will no longer be a leap in the dark. The book's author in fact anticipated the ongoing economic crisis in China as early as 2019. The relevant article which contained this prediction can be found within the appendices of this book.
Business Ready 2024
Business Ready (B-READY) is a new World Bank Group corporate flagship report that evaluates the business and investment climate worldwide. It replaces and improves upon the Doing Business project. B-READY provides a comprehensive data set and description of the factors that strengthen the private sector, not only by advancing the interests of individual firms but also by elevating the interests of workers, consumers, potential new enterprises, and the natural environment. This 2024 report introduces a new analytical framework that benchmarks economies based on three pillars: Regulatory Framework, Public Services, and Operational Efficiency. The analysis centers on 10 topics essential for private sector development that correspond to various stages of the life cycle of a firm. The report also offers insights into three cross-cutting themes that are relevant for modern economies: digital adoption, environmental sustainability, and gender. B-READY draws on a robust data collection process that includes specially tailored expert questionnaires and firm-level surveys. The 2024 report, which covers 50 economies, serves as the first in a series that will expand in geographical coverage and refine its methodology over time, supporting reform advocacy, policy guidance, and further analysis and research.
Policy Challenges of Globalisation
This book provides a fresh look at the key challenges of policy formulation for a small country like Sri Lanka in a rapidly globalising world. It goes beyond economics to include history, politics, and ideology of different governments of the country overtime and extends its analysis to other countries facing similar challenges. The extent and speed of globalisation have been assessed through variables such as foreign direct investment, migration, trade openness, and the macroeconomic policies to take an even keel.
The Middle East Economy A Rising Star
Disclaimer: "Previously Published As: "The Middle East In the Eyes of the IMF" by Dr. Bahaa ArnoukThe Middle East Economy A Rising Star: Unveiling the Region's Economic & Investment LandscapeThis book offers a unique and authoritative perspective on the economic realities of key Middle Eastern countries. It provides a nuanced and comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing each nation.Journey through Diverse Economic Models: From the oil-rich Gulf states to the emerging economies of the Levant, the book explores a diverse range of economic models. Discover: Diversification efforts: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Oman's journey beyond oil dependence.Fiscal consolidation strategies: Kuwait, Iraq and Egypt's balancing act between debt reduction and social spending.Structural reforms: Turkey and Jordan's pursuit of enhanced competitiveness and job creation.Resilience and transformation: Cyprus leveraging its EU membership and strategic location for economic diversification.More Than Just Data and Prescriptions: This book is a narrative of transformation, resilience, and opportunity. Gain a deeper understanding of: The forces shaping the economic destinies of these nations.The challenges they face and the choices they make.The potential they hold as they navigate global change.An Invitation to Explore: "The Middle East Economy A Rising Star" is an invitation to explore the region's complex economic & investment landscape, understand its intricacies, and appreciate the remarkable journeys these countries are undertaking.Disclaimer: This book excludes economies where recent tensions have escalated or where source information were not available
Take Your Company Global
If you're on the internet, you're global-HubSpot executive Nataly Kelly offers an innovative data-driven model for profitably expanding the international presence you already have.Companies looking to expand used to think about entering international markets, but today you're global from the moment you create a website. Nataly Kelly, VP of Localization at Hubspot (which operates in more than 120 countries) says now the goal should be market intensification-building on the presence you already have.Kelly's MARACA model enables companies to distill the mass amounts of data available to determine if, how, and where they should expand by looking at three key areas of measurement: MA: market availability-the size of the market opportunity within a given country RA: real-time analytics-data indicating how your company is currently performing in that market CA: customer addressability-the measure of your company's ability to address the market, no matter its sizeThe book is based on Kelly's experiences with building a global business both at HubSpot and as a consultant, but also contains numerous examples from successful global companies of various sizes, such as Airbnb, Canva, Dashlane, GoStudent, Facebook, LinkedIn, Lottie Dolls, Netflix, Revolut, Teamwork, and Zoom. Including information on building a globally minded corporate culture, this is a complete strategic guide to discovering international growth opportunities.
Enough is Enough
Perpetual economic growth has ''worked'' for human civilization for centuries, but we've finally hit the wall, economically, socially, and environmentally. Advocates for growth can't deny one thing - - the resources of the planet are finite, and running out fast, causing poverty, financial meltdowns, and wealth inequality. The authors show that cultivating a culture of ''enough'' can turn things around, and actually make us richer and happier.
Poor Economics
In this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a "rich and humane" (Financial Times) examination of how poor people actually live Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free lifesaving immunizations but pay for unnecessary drugs? Why do children from poor families attend school but fail to learn anything? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two Nobel Prize-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Together, they investigate what the lives and choices of the poor tell us about how to fight global poverty, from why microfinance is useful without being the miracle some hoped it would be to why the poor don't want health insurance. Throughout, they reveal that even as many magic bullets of yesterday have ended up as today's failed ideas, there is a path forward through this challenge. Updated with significant new material based on insights from the last decade of research, Poor Economics is a radical and hopeful rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of the life of the poor around the world.
Total Cost of Ownership in Manufacturing Industry
Have You ever wondered the same as I have: When there's an economic downturn, many employers are quick to lay off some of their personnel, reduce or stop their investments and to look for other short-term cost reductions. What if it didn't have to be this way? The concept of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) has a huge potential to help companies make money and retain a increase their profitability more sustainably and in more long-lasting way. In manufacturing industry TCO has traditionally been applied on purchasing, supply chain and ICT topics, but there is so much more to it. TCO can be applied e.g. in topics of quality, office work, strategy and stakeholder management. And let's not forget about the most important aspect: Us humans who run the companies and work in them. Let's hoist the sails and embark on this fascinating journey through the ocean that is TCO.
Microeconometrics with R
This book is about doing microeconometrics which has become increasingly popular in the last decades, thanks to the availability of many individual data sets and to the development of computer performance.
Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services
Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to environmental economics, using ecosystem services as the underlying framework. Assuming no prior knowledge, the focus is on exploring society's linkages with the environment and how economics can help solve key environmental problems.
Economics for Business Environment
Economics for Business Environment explores the fundamental economic principles and their impact on the business landscape. This book examines key economic concepts such as market dynamics, demand and supply, inflation, fiscal policies, and globalization, providing insights into how these factors shape business strategies. It emphasizes the significance of understanding economic indicators for making informed business decisions. With case studies and real-world examples, the book illustrates the interplay between economics and corporate success. Tailored for students and professionals, it bridges theoretical concepts with practical applications, making it a comprehensive resource for understanding the economic forces influencing today's business environment.
Advances in Efficient Design of Experiments in Economics
Amidst concerns about replicability but also thanks to the professionalisation of labs, the rise of pre-registration, the switch to online experiments, and enhanced computational power, experimental economics is undergoing rapid changes. They all call for efficient designs and data analysis, that is, they require that, given the constraints on participants' time, experiments provide as rich information as possible. In this Element the authors explore some ways in which this goal may be reached.
Advances in Efficient Design of Experiments in Economics
Amidst concerns about replicability but also thanks to the professionalisation of labs, the rise of pre-registration, the switch to online experiments, and enhanced computational power, experimental economics is undergoing rapid changes. They all call for efficient designs and data analysis, that is, they require that, given the constraints on participants' time, experiments provide as rich information as possible. In this Element the authors explore some ways in which this goal may be reached.
