Economics Books

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisSome key data about the future of the fashion industry highlight the need for immediate action. The increase of clothing consumption will generate an increase in the use of resources and generation of waste. On the other hand, the demand of LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health & Sustainability) consumers is increasing, also in luxury. The book will be investigating the key drivers that are reshaping the fashion industry towards the 4th Industrial Revolution, including traceability and transparency, circularity, collaborative consumption, new technologies, fair trade, B-corporations.The Author supports the thesis that the most innovative business models in the fashion sector will be based on a value proposition that integrates ethics, aesthetics and innovation, offering product customization, planning the activities for consumer's participation in the company's operations, digitalization, and use of technology in order to optimize the processes along the value chain.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis fifth English volume of The China Economy Yearbook is based on a symposium held in autumn 2009 titled Analysis and Forecast of China’s Economic Situation, organised by the Analysis and Forecast Project Group for China’s Economic Situation of the Institute of Economics, China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The contributing authors are experts and scholars from various government sectors, scientific research organisations, and institutes of higher learning. The chapters included provide in-depth analyses of China’s economic situation in 2009 and forecasts for 2010, focusing in particular on issues arising from current economic performance, while economic trend forecasts and solutions are proposed based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Effectively Maintaining Economic Growth and Restructuring Industries Chen Jiagui Financial Situation and Monetary Policy: Assessment and Suggestions Li Yang, China Academy of Social Sciences Analysis and Forecast of China’s Economic Situation - Autumn Report of 2009 “Analysis and Forecast of China’s Economic Situation” Project Group Retrospective of 60 Years of Economic Growth Curve in New China and Prospects for the Future Liu Shucheng Analysis of and Projections for China’s Economic Situation, 2009-2010 Zhang Liqun Analysis of China’s Economic Development Trend and Recommendations for Macro Control Policies In 2010 Fan Jianping Analysis and Forecast of China’s Economic Situation, 2009-2010 Chen Lei, Li Ying Current Economic Trends and Macro Control Policy Orientation for 2010 Zheng Xinli China’s Economy: Advancing Stably Against the Wind – A Review of 2009 and Outlook for 2010 Zheng Jingping China’s Macro-Economic Situation and Policies, 2009-2010 School of Economics of Renmin University of China Analysis of Uncertainties Involved in China’s Economic Recovery in 2010 Qin Wanshun, Qian Shichun Analysis and Forecast of China’s Capital Market in 2009-2010 Wang Guogang, Zhang Yuewen, Institute of Finance and Banking, CASS Review of Financial and Economic Situation in 2009 and Outlook for 2010 Ma Shuanyou Financial Operations under the Moderately Loose Monetary Policy Wang Yi, Yan Xiandong, Li Guanglei Shanghai Stock Exchange Review of 2009 and Outlook for 2010 Wu Qian, Zhu Pingfang Analysis and Forecast of China’s Foreign Trade Situation in 2009 Pei Changhong Major Impact in 2009 and Structural Shortages in 2010 - Interpretation of the Complexity of China’s Employment Situation Cai Fang China’s Agricultural Economy in 2009 and Outlook for 2010 Li Guoxiang Analysis of the Real Estate Market in 2009 and Outlook for 2010 Liang Shuang The Environment Situation in 2009 and the Outlook for Environmental Protection in 2010 Shu Qing Analysis and Forecast of Taiwan’s Economic Situation Zhang Guanhua Analysis and Forecast of Hong Kong’s Economic Situation Helen Chan Analysis and Forecast of Macao’s Economic Situation “Macao Economy Analysis and Forecast” Research Group, Huaqiao University Analysis of Global Economic Situation in 2009 and Outlook for 2010 Zhang Yuyan, Tian Feng

Read more less

Book SynopsisHow does China reconstruct its participation in the global order? What is the theoretical framework of global governance? What are the new challenges for China? What is China’s diplomatic strategy in the transformation of the international structure? How will China and the US evolve under ‘Two Orders’? How does China deal with the South China Sea and North Korea nuclear issues? What is the reform of RMB exchange rate regime? Will the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank be a watershed of power transition between China and the United States in the Asia Pacific? This volume gathers a collection of translations of influential essays, speeches, and papers on Chinese foreign policy, national security, and foreign economic relations written by Chinese scholars. Many papers have also served as propositions for policy prescriptions to China's leaders, the vast majority of which have, to date, only been available in Chinese.Table of ContentsSeries Advisor Foreword List of Contributors Journal Information Part 1: International Relations/Foreign Policy 1 Global Governance: A Theoretical Framework  Zhang Yuyan and Ren Lin 2 Disorder or the Reconstruction of Order?  Fu Ying 3 New Challenges for China: Thoughts on the Current Domestic and International Situation and Historical Experiences  Zhang Baijia 4 Transformation of the International Structure and China’s Diplomatic Strategy  Su Ge 5 How China and the US Will Co-evolve under “Two Orders”  Wang Jisi 6 On China’s Asia and Western Pacific Strategy and the South China Sea Issue  Shi Yinhong 7 North Korea Nuclear Issue: The Lasting Stalemate and Its Implications  Fan Jishe Part 2: International Political Economy 8 How to Eliminate the Persistent Expectation of RMB Depreciation? The Further Reform of RMB Exchange Rate Regime  Yu Yongding, Bin Zhang and Ming Zhang 9 Seventy Years After Bretton Woods, How China Can Play Its Role in the New Global Competitive Landscape  Jin Liqun 10 The Third Round of Searching for a New Anchor for the International Monetary System  Huang Haizhou 11 The Legacy of Bretton Woods and Reconstruction of the International Financial System  Gao Haihong 12 China Facing the Challenge of Reforming the Rules of Global Trade and Investment  Jin Zhongxia 13 Monetary Cooperation or Monetary War?—China and the United States’ Interests US in International Monetary System Reform and the Prospects for Cooperation  Zou Jiayi and Qin Yuexing 14 The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A Watershed of Power Transition between China and the United States in the Asia Pacific?  Chen Shaofeng Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisScholars have long debated the use of law to settle international trade disputes in the early modern period. In this book, Tijl Vanneste uses the case study of commercial litigation before the Dutch consular court of Izmir to argue that merchants relied on a particular blend of mercantile customs, which he calls ‘the merchants’ style’, and specific legal forms and procedures, laid down in written regulations, and dependent on local and international circumstances. The book challenges the idea of a universal ‘law merchant’, to replace it with a more nuanced analysis that centralizes the interplay between informal merchant custom, as advocated by traders and judges alike, and formal procedural legislation, drawn mostly from Roman law, in the resolution of mercantile disputes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations  Introduction 1 The Dutch in the Levant  1 The Early Development of Dutch Levant Trade  1.1 Straatvaart: Dutch Navigation into the Mediterranean  1.2 The Directorate of Levant Trade and European Competition  2 The Dutch Levantine Institutional Context  2.1 A Short History of the European Capitulations  2.2 The Dutch Consular System in the Levant  3 The Dutch Consulate of Izmir  3.1 The Evolution towards Stability  3.2 The Consular Protection of Jews  3.3 Purchasing Protection: The Beratlıs or Honorary Dragomans  4 The Dutch Trading Community of Izmir in the Eighteenth Century  4.1 A Community of Competing Traders  4.2 Levantine Commission Trade 2 The Dutch Consular Court of Izmir  1 Consular Jurisdiction  1.1 Adjudication in the Capitulations  1.2 The Establishment of Consular Jurisdiction  1.3 A Proposal to Codify Adjudication in the Levant  2 The Dutch Legal Context  2.1 Sources of Roman-Dutch law  2.2 The Diversity of Jurisdictions and the Similarity of Courts  3 Procedures in Commercial Litigation  3.1 Dutch Regulations on Procedure  3.2 Summary Procedure and the Merchants’ Style  3.3 Summary Procedure at the Dutch Consular Court of Izmir 3 The Adjudication of Commercial Disputes within the Dutch Community  1 Adjudication amongst Peers: The Use of Arbitration  1.1 The Friendly Settlement of Local Troubles  1.2 A Failed Attempt at Arbitration  2 The Mother of Levantine Trade Quarrels: Disputing Commission Trade  2.1 The Principal-agent Problem  2.2 Commission Trade Gone Wrong  2.3 Whose Responsibility Is It?  3 Friendship on Trial  3.1 The Bond between Merchants  3.2 The Mutual Pursuit of Profit  3.3 International Support for the Merchants’ Style 4 Intra-European Litigation  1 Belonging to a European Trade Nation Abroad  1.1 Forum Rei and a Clash of Laws  1.2 Competition from within: The Prussian Company  1.3 A Local European Dispute without Any Dutch Involvement  1.4 The Possibility of Appeal  2 Unravelling the Web of Commission Trade in Court  2.1 Crossing Physical Distance by Power of Attorney  2.2 The Trial  2.3 A Complicated Web of Entanglement  2.4 Invoking ‘National’ Law versus the Merchants’ Style  3 Litigants at Sea and Maritime Jurisdiction 5 Ottomans at the Dutch Consular Court  1 Levantine Confrontations with the Law  1.1 Sequesters in 1686  1.2 Central Courts in the United Provinces  1.3 The States General and Ottoman Justice  2 Legal Issues of Dutch Protection and Subject Status  2.1 Beratlı Problems  2.2 Ottoman-Dutch Intercultural Partnerships  3 The Most Cosmopolitan Form of Quarrelling  3.1 Gerrit van Brakel’s Bill of Exchange  3.2 Ottoman justice and European Protection  4 An Islamic Merchants’ Style?  4.1 European Fear of Ottoman Abuses  4.2 Greek Community Resolutions  4.3 The Merchants’ Style through Muslim Eyes Conclusion Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Factual Overview (as of 31 December 2019) List of Authors Sub-Saharan Africa  Albert Kanlisi Awedoba, Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler, and David Sebudubudu African–European Relations in 2019  Benedikt Erforth and Niels Keijzer West Africa  Albert Kanlisi Awedoba Benin  Pauline Jarroux and Clarisse Tama-Imourou Burkina Faso  Daniel Eizenga Cabo Verde  Gerhard Seibert Côte d’Ivoire  Jesper Bjarnesen The Gambia  Alice Bellagamba Ghana  Jennifer Boylan Guinea  Anita Schroven Guinea-Bissau  Christoph Kohl Liberia  Ibrahim Al-Bakri Nyei Mali  Bruce Whitehouse Mauritania  Helena Olsson and Claes Olsson Niger  Klaas van Walraven Nigeria  Heinrich Bergstresser Senegal  Mamadou Bodian Sierra Leone  Krijn Peters Togo  Dirk Kohnert Central Africa  Andreas Mehler Cameroon  Fanny Pigeaud Central African Republic  Andreas Mehler Chad  Ketil Fred Hansen Congo  Brett L. Carter Democratic Republic of the Congo  Janosch Kullenberg Equatorial Guinea  Joseph N. Mangarella Gabon  Douglas Yates São Tomé and Príncipe  Gerhard Seibert Eastern Africa  Benedikt Kamski Burundi  Andrea Filipi and Katrin Wittig Comoros  Simon Massey Djibouti  Nicole Hirt Eritrea  Nicole Hirt Ethiopia  Jon Abbink Kenya  Nanjala Nyabola Rwanda  Erik Plänitz Seychelles  Anthoni van Nieuwkerk Somalia  Jon Abbink South Sudan  Daniel Large Sudan  Jean-Nicolas Bach and Clément Deshayes Tanzania  Kurt Hirschler and Rolf Hofmeier Uganda  Angelo Izama Southern Africa  David Sebudubudu Angola  Jon Schubert Botswana  David Sebudubudu Eswatini  Marisha Ramdeen Lesotho  Roger Southall Madagascar  Richard R. Marcus Malawi  George Dzimbiri and Lewis Dzimbiri Mauritius  Roukaya Kasenally Mozambique  Joseph Hanlon Namibia  Henning Melber South Africa  Sanusha Naidu Zambia  Edalina Rodrigues Sanches Zimbabwe  Amin Y. Kamete

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn Russia in the Context of Global Transformations (Capitalism and Communism, Culture and Revolution), the authors focus on the dramatic changes in Russia’s socio-economic system over the past hundred years. The contradictions of Russia’s triumphs and tragedies are studied in connection with the shifts in the world economic system. Basing themselves on the views of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism, the authors show the causes and consequences of the main shifts in Russia’s development during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics addressed include the October Revolution, the contradictions of post-revolutionary development, the disintegration of the USSR, the collapse and stagnation during the post-USSR period and the prospects for overcoming contemporary problems.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Diagrams, Figures and Tables Introduction How Should the Global Transition Be Understood? Toward a Methodology of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism  1 Marxism in Post-Soviet Russia: From Orthodoxy to the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism  1.1 Russia Since 2000: The Spectre of Marxist Studies  1.2 The Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism: An Introduction  2 Obsolete Postmodernism: The Dialectics of Non-linear, Multi-scenario Social Transformations  2.1 On Some of the Reasons for “Forgetting” Dialectics  2.2 New Answers to the Challenges of new Problems: The Dialectics of the Decline and Genesis of Social Systems  3 Beyond the “Pyatichlenka” and “The Collapse of Civilisations”: The Social Creativity of Free Association vs. Activism  3.1 Beyond the Realm of Economic Necessity: The Dialectics of Progress/Regression  3.2 The Individual in History: The Activism of Agents of Progress and Regression Part 1 Context: Culture and Revolution 1 Revolution From October 1917 Towards Communism  1 Toward a Theory of Communist Revolution: Some Additions to the Traditional Positions of Marx and Lenin  2 Revolution as the Practice of Social Creativity: The Masses and the Intelligentsia, the Social Creator and the Boor  3 The October Revolution: Practice as the Impulse for the Development of Theory 2 Culture Bakhtin and Dialectics  1 Why Bakhtin?  2 The World of Bakhtin: Prologue  3 Dialectics as the Basis of Bakhtin’s World  4 Dialogue: A Window into the World of Collaborative Creativity  5 Vivat Carnival!  6 Why do they Need Bakhtin?  7 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: Integrity and Responsible Activity  8 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: “Oneness” and the “Philosophy of the Deed”  9 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: Humanism  10 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: Epistemology  11 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: Historicism 3 Revolution and Culture Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin  1 Revealing the Concept (in Place of a Foreword)  2 Culture as Revolution: Creation vs. Alienation. Bakhtin and Lenin  3 Revolution as Culture: The Proletkult and/or Soviet Culture. Lenin and Mayakovsky  4 P.S. Revolution, that Gives Birth to Culture: The Renaissance, the ussr and the End of the “End of History” (in Place of a Conclusion) Part 2 ussr: Birth, Death and Future 4 The Birth Lenin  1 Creating the Impossible: Lessons of Lenin’s Legacy (to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin)  2 But at the Same Time as the Revolution was Inevitable, it Lacked Sufficient Preconditions 5 Death The Contradictions of the System and the Lessons of its Collapse  1 Why and How the ussr Departed from the Scene: Toward a Systematisation of the Main Approaches  2 The Path to the “Realm of Freedom”, or the Red Line of History: A Theoretical-Methodological Interpretation  3 The ussr: The Hypothesis of Mutant Socialism  4 The Social Forces of Development and the Downfall of the ussr: The Creators of the Future, the “Red” Bureaucracy and Philistinism  5 The Immediate Reason for the Demise of the ussr: The Strengthening and Subsequent Degeneration of the “Red” Bureaucracy as the Social Creativity of the Masses Expired  6 The Underlying Causes of the Downfall of the ussr  7 The Degradation of the “Red Line”, and the Reasons for the Disintegration of the ussr  8 The Tragedy of Socialism 6 The Future Soviet Culture and its Renaissance  1 The Question of Subjecthood  2 The Renaissance and Soviet Culture: Fundamental Traits  3 The Renaissance and Soviet Culture: Contradictions in Common Part 3 Russia-xxi: Why Stagnation? 7 Political Economy The Jurassic Park of Russian Capitalism  1 The Russian Market: Those Who Win Are Not the Best Runners, but the Best Sack-Racers  2 The Owners of Russia: the Anatomy of the “Dinosaurs” Property Relations and Rights: The Peculiarities of Russia  3 Clan-Corporate Groups: Their Structure and Channels of Power  4 The Process of Reproduction in Russia: How Capital Prefers to Parasitise Social and Natural Resources, and Acts as a Brake on Social Development  5 The Parasitising of Natural Rent and the Ageing of Fixed Capital  6 Social Obstacles to the Transition to an Intensive Type of Reproduction 8 Culture The Destruction of Individuality in a World of Simulacra  1 Introduction  2 Negation as a Simulacrum of Transition  3 Culture as Market  4 The Present-Day Basis of Our Existence Has Already Exhausted Itself  5 Cultures and the Market: What Relations between Them Are Possible?  6 Simulative Consumption  7 Culture as an Industry of Alienation  8 Breaking the Tie with the Ancestral Human  9 The Abstract Nature of the Being of the Individual  10 The Negation of Subjecthood – the Rejection of the Idea of the Individual  11 Culture as Market  12 The Media Industry – the Production of the Private Person  13 Conclusion Part 4 The History of the Future 9 The End of the “End of the History”  1 The Red and the Black: The Conflict Has Never Ended  2 The Measure of the Socialisation of Capitalism: Growth ‒ Contraction ‒ Renewed Growth?  3 Why Has the Liberal Project, Whose Triumph Was Celebrated Thirty Years Ago, Been Unable to Clinch its Final Victory?  4 The “End of History” Had Come to an End  5 In Search of Alternatives to Conservative Liberalism  6 An era of Growing Economic, Social, Political and Ideological Conflicts Is Approaching  7 Toward a Criticism of Our Critics 10 The Contradictions of Globalization and the Future of Alterglobalism  1 From Neoliberal Globalization to a New Empire  2 The Phenomenology of Alterglobalism  3 The Technological, Economic and Social Preconditions for Alterglobalism  4 Principles and Contradictions of the Alterglobalist Movement  5 The Positive Program of Alterglobalism. 11 Communism as It Is Today  1 Žižek from a Different Angle: Communism as a Question for Our Times (in Place of an Introduction)  2 Towards a Practical Strategy for Abolishing Intellectual Private Property and the Exploitation of Creative Activity  3 Associated Social Creativity: Communism as the Practice of Consciously Changing the World  4 Beyond the State: Free, Voluntary Working Association as an Abstraction of the Practical and Timely Forms for Doing Away with the State  5 Doing Away with Social Alienation: The Struggle for Nature, Society, Humanity and Culture as Communism  6 Communism as Theory Postscript 12 The Coronavirus is Stirring the Impulse to Communism  1 Self-isolation as the Road to … Solidarity  2 The Virus Is “Democratic” – Consequently, Social Justice Is to Everyone’s Advantage  3 Closed Borders as a Prologue to … Internationalism  Conclusion Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisEconomy and Modern Christian Thought, by Devin Singh, presents key features of the engagement of Christian theology, ethics, and related disciplines with the market and economic concerns. It surveys ways in which the dialogue has been approached and invites new models and frameworks for the conversation. It contends that economy and Christian thought have long been interconnected, and recounts aspects of this relationship and why it matters for how one might engage the economy ethically and theologically. Finally, it highlights a number of sites of emerging research that are in need of development in light of pressing social, political, economic, and conceptual issues raised by modern life, including money, debt, racial capital, social reproduction, corporations, and cryptocurrency.Table of ContentsContents Economy and Modern Christian Thought  Devin Singh Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Approaches  2 Approaching the Economy  3 Trajectories  Conclusion  Bibliography

Read more less

Book SynopsisFollowing a wave of oil discoveries in Africa, Oil-Age Africa offers new perspectives and critical reflections on the prevalent academic discourses on oil in Africa. This collection brings together researchers from the social sciences to challenge simplified readings of the complex realities of oil politics, economies and societies through theoretical critique and ‘on the ground’ ethnographic methods. Climate change highlights the need to understand the intricate ways societies are built on and for oil energy. Oil-Age Africa analyses the effects of oil production and the global energy structure, offering relevant insights and avenues for future research on oil. Contributors Helmut Asche, Joseph N. Mangarella, Immo Eulenberger, Harouna Abdoutan, Monica Skaten, Yorbana Seign-Goura, Laura Smith, James Van Alstine, Geertrui Vannoppen, Mahamidou Aboubacar Attahirou, Salissou Oubandoma, Jannik Schritt.

Read more less

Book SynopsisMultilateral investment treaties (MITs) are international legal instruments whose purpose is to facilitate social and economic cooperation on a global scale. While there is abundant literature and precedent on MITs generally, authors Kabir Duggal and Mohamed Wahab provide some of the first analysis focusing on the execution of MITs in the Arab and Muslim-majority worlds in this volume of Brill Research Perspectives in Investment Arbitration. This book focuses on two MITs: the Unified Agreement for the Investment of Arab Capital in the Arab States (UAA) and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Agreement for Promotion, Protection and Guarantee of Investments Among Member States (OIC). The UAA and OIC are among the oldest MITs in the world, enacted in 1980 and 1988, respectively. But only recently have these two long-dormant treaties acquired special significance. This book provides a comprehensive, critical review of these two treaties.Table of ContentsContents The Resurgence of the Unified Arab Investment Agreement and the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation Investment Agreement A Dawn of a New Chapter on Investment Protection?  Kabir Duggal and Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 The Unified Arab Agreement  3 The OIC Agreement  4 Jurisdictional Requirements  5 Substantive Protections  6 Dispute Resolution  7 Conclusion  Bibliography

Read more less

Book Synopsis"This book contains ideas to develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary views on economy and society. It aims to disseminate heterodox ideas on various subjects related to economics and global society. The book is organised in six parts. Part 1 contains the key lectures of Backhaus on the concept of state sciences and of Klamer on the importance of culture for economics. Parts 2- 6 contain successively contributions in the areas of economic paradigms and theories, population and society, corporate issues, environment, and international relations. Examples of the content are: - the changes of family life cycles due to the rise of non-traditional households; - subjective and objective inflation rates after the introduction of the Euro; - the economics of genetic engineering; - the contribution of foreign direct investment to the economic development of host countries; - the inaccuracy of economic models applied in places characterized by extreme income disparities; - the improvement of political and corporate governance; - evolutionary thinking and emission trading; - freedom and order in the European Union; - the reform of social policy in Europe. The book provides interesting creative multi-disciplinary ideas with respect to various topical issues concerning the contemporary global society. It is highly recommended for economists and social scientists in search of broad views on social science and society."

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less