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Book SynopsisIn this authoritative collection, Professor Andreff presents the most significant articles published over the last decade or so by leading scholars in the field of sports economics. The volumes cover a wide spectrum of approaches to the subject. Some articles delve more deeply into existing issues such as the economic impact of professional sport, sports events and sports facilities. Some extend sports economics into new areas such as the measurement of the overall US sports economy, the economic underdevelopment of sports in developing countries and the global trade in sports goods. Others offer a synthetic view of important recent developments in the field, including the demand for sport, facility finance, the economics of promotion and relegation in sports leagues and competitive balance. Professor Andreff has written a comprehensive new introduction which gives a thorough overview of this topical subject. Table of ContentsContents: Volume I ] Acknowledgements Introduction Wladimir Andreff PART I THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SPORTS MARKETS 1. Gerd Ahlert (2000), ‘Reasons for Modelling Sports in a Complex Economic Model: Two Examples’ 2. Brad R. Humphreys and Jane E. Ruseski (2009), ‘Estimates of the Dimensions of the Sports Market in the US’ 3. James G. Mulligan and Emmanuel Llinares (2003), ‘Market Segmentation and the Diffusion of Quality-Enhancing Innovations: The Case of Downhill Skiing’ 4. Stefano DellaVigna and Ulrike Malmendier (2006), ‘Paying Not to Go to the Gym’ 5. Lawrence M. Kahn (2007), ‘Markets: Cartel Behavior and Amateurism in College Sports’ 6. Jeffery Borland and Robert Macdonald (2003), ‘Demand for Sport’ 7. Harry Arne Solberg (2006), ‘The Auctioning of TV Sports Rights’ 8. John Gannon, Kevin Evans and John Goddard (2006), ‘The Stock Market Effects of the Sale of Live Broadcasting Rights for English Premiership Football: An Event Study’ 9. Jaume García, Leví Pérez and Plácido Rodríguez (2008), ‘Football Pools Sales: How Important Is a Football Club in the Top Divisions?’ PART II THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SPORTING EVENTS AND SPORT FACILITIES 10. Arne Feddersen, Wolfgang Maennig and Philipp Zimmermann (2008), ‘The Empirics of Key Factors in the Success of Bids for Olympic Games’ 11. Holger Preuss (2005), ‘The Economic Impact of Visitors at Major Multi-sport Events’ 12. Robert A. Baade and Victor Matheson (2000), ‘An Assessment of the Economic Impact of the American Football Championship, the Super Bowl, on Host Communities’ 13. Marc Lavoie and Gabriel Rodríguez (2005), ‘The Economic Impact of Professional Teams on Monthly Hotel Occupancy Rates of Canadian Cities: A Box-Jenkins Approach’ 14. Paul M. Downward and Rita Ralston (2006), ‘The Sports Development Potential of Sports Event Volunteering: Insights from the XVII Manchester Commonwealth Games’ 15. Andrew Zimbalist and Judith Grant Long (2006), ‘Facility Finance: Measurement, Trends, and Analysis’ 16. Eva Marikova Leeds, Michael A. Leeds and Irina Pistolet (2007), ‘A Stadium by Any Other Name: The Value of Naming Rights’ PART III PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: ECONOMIC DESIGN, FINANCE AND EFFICIENCY 17. Stefan Szymanski (2003), ‘The Economic Design of Sporting Contests’ 18. Luca Rebeggiani and Davide Tondani (2008), ‘Organizational Forms in Professional Cycling: An Examination of the Efficiency of the UCI Pro Tour’ 19. Dennis W. Carlton, Alan S. Frankel and Elisabeth M. Landes (2004), ‘The Control of Externalities in Sports Leagues: An Analysis of Restrictions in the National Hockey League’ 20. Roger G. Noll (2002), ‘The Economics of Promotion and Relegation in Sports Leagues: The Case of English Football’ 21. Stefan Kesenne (2007), ‘Does a Win Bonus Help to Increase Profit or Wins in Professional Team Sports?’ 22. Wladimir Andreff and Paul D. Staudohar (2000), ‘The Evolving European Model of Professional Sports Finance’ 23. Guido Ascari and Philippe Gagnepain (2007), ‘Evaluating Rent Dissipation in the Spanish Football Industry’ 24. Peter von Allmen (2001), ‘Is the Reward System in NASCAR Efficient?’ 25. Carlos Pestana Barros, Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio and Stephanie Leach (2009), ‘Analysing the Technical Efficiency of the Spanish Football League First Division with a Random Frontier Model’ 26. Fiona Carmichael and Dennis Thomas (2008), ‘Efficiency in Knock-out Tournaments: Evidence from EURO 2004’ Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction to both volumes by the editor appears in Volume I PART I ECONOMIC EQUILIBRIUM, COMPETITIVE BALANCE AND ATTENDANCE 1. Andrew S. Zimbalist (2002), ‘Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues: An Introduction’ 2. John Vrooman (2009), ‘Theory of the Perfect Game: Competitive Balance in Monopoly Sports Leagues’ 3. Luigi Buzzacchi, Stefan Szymanski and Tommaso M. Valletti (2003), ‘Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance’ 4. Rodney Fort and James Quirk (2004), ‘Owner Objectives and Competitive Balance’ 5. Stefan Szymanski (2004), ‘Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle’ 6. Brad R. Humphreys (2002), ‘Alternative Measures of Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues’ 7. Cind Du Bois and Bruno Heyndels (2007), ‘It’s a Different Game You Go to Watch: Competitive Balance in Men’s and Women’s Tennis’ 8. John L. Solow and Anthony C. Krautmann (2007), ‘Leveling the Playing Field or Just Lowering Salaries? The Effects of Redistribution in Baseball’ 9. David Forrest and Rob Simmons (2006), ‘New Issues in Attendance Demand: The Case of the English Football League’ 10. Daniel A. Rascher and John Paul G. Solmes (2007), ‘Do Fans Want Close Contests? A Test of the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis in the National Basketball Association’ 11. Dennis Coates and Brad R. Humphreys (2007), ‘Ticket Prices, Concessions and Attendance at Professional Sporting Events’ PART II LABOUR MARKET FOR TALENTS, PAY AND PERFORMANCE 12. Lawrence M. Kahn (2000), ‘The Sports Business as a Labor Market Laboratory’ 13. Martin B. Schmidt and David J. Berri (2004), ‘The Impact of Labor Strikes on Consumer Demand: An Application to Professional Sports’ 14. Stephen Hall, Stefan Szymanski and Andrew S. Zimbalist (2002), ‘Testing Causality between Team Performance and Payroll: The Cases of Major League Baseball and English Soccer’ 15. Gerald W. Scully (2002), ‘The Distribution of Performance and Earnings in a Prize Economy’ 16. Bernd Frick and Joachim Prinz (2007), ‘Pay and Performance in Professional Road Running: The Case of City Marathons’ 17. Egon Franck and Stephan Nüesch (2008), ‘Mechanisms of Superstar Formation in German Soccer: Empirical Evidence’ 18. Stefan Kesenne (2003), ‘The Salary Cap Proposal of the G-14 in European Football’ 19. David J. Berri, Michael A. Leeds, Eva Marikova Leeds and Michael Mondello (2009), ‘The Role of Managers in Team Performance’ PART III GAME THEORY APPLIED TO SPORTS 20. Mark Walker and John Wooders (2001), ‘Minimax Play at Wimbledon’ 21. Ignacio Palacios-Huerta (2003), ‘Professionals Play Minimax’ 22. David Romer (2006), ‘Do Firms Maximize? Evidence from Professional Football’ PART IV INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS IN SPORTS ECONOMICS 23. Madeleine Andreff and Wladimir Andreff (2009), ‘Global Trade in Sports Goods: International Specialisation of Major Trading Countries’ 24. Wladimir Andreff (2001), ‘The Correlation between Economic Underdevelopment and Sport’ 25. Andrew B. Bernard and Meghan R. Busse (2004), ‘Who Wins the Olympic Games: Economic Resources and Medal Totals’ 26. Evan Osborne (2006), ‘Baseball’s International Division of Labor’ 27. Bernd Frick (2009), ‘Globalization and Factor Mobility: The Impact of the “Bosman-Ruling” on Player Migration in Professional Soccer’ PART V ECONOMIC DYSFUNCTIONS IN SPORTS 28. David Forrest, Ian McHale and Kevin McAuley (2008), ‘”Say It Ain’t So”: Betting-Related Malpractice in Sport’ 29. Mark Duggan and Steven D. Levitt (2002), ‘Winning Isn’t Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling’ 30. Wolfgang Maennig (2005), ‘Corruption in International Sports and Sport Management: Forms, Tendencies, Extent and Countermeasures’ 31. Nicolas Eber and Jacques Thépot (1999), ‘Doping in Sport and Competition Design’ 32. Aleksander Berentsen (2002), ‘The Economics of Doping’ 33. Brian L. Goff, Robert E. McCormick and Robert D. Tollison (2002), ‘Racial Integration as an Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Sports Leagues’ 34. Neil Longley (2000), ‘The Underrepresentation of French Canadians in English Canadian NHL Teams’ 35. Robert Hoffmann, Lee Chew Ging, Victor Matheson and Bala Ramasamy (2006), ‘International Women’s Football and Gender Inequality’

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Book SynopsisAdverse events in patients caused by medical management are a serious and grossly underreported public health problem. One patient in ten entering hospital will suffer an adverse event of impairment, disability or death. This book is a major comprehensive examination of the incidence and causes of adverse events. Using data obtained from hospitals within the United Kingdom, United States and other developed countries, it examines the risk factors leading to errors, the human and financial costs, and the scope to reduce errors. In particular, it focuses on the need for a critical reappraisal of undergraduate teaching and clinical tuition. All healthcare professionals throughout primary and secondary care, including clinicians, managers and policy makers, and patient and carer groups, can benefit from reading this book. It identifies possible solutions and how adverse events and medication errors can be reduced, resulting in improved patient care.Table of ContentsThe two faces of medicine. The incidence of adverse events, adverse drug reactions and medication errors in hospitals. The incidence of adverse drug-induced events/reactions and medication errors in primary care. The stages at which drug reactions and medication errors occur in hospitals. Types and causes of adverse events and medication errors in hospitals. Risk factors predisposing to adverse events and medication errors. The cost of medical errors. Summary of the problem of injury induced by drugs and medication errors. Errors in healthcare: a major cause for concern. Changes in the UK litigation process as a potent tool to influence errors and complaints. Reducing medical errors. Implications of error reduction for undergraduate teaching. Have the undergraduate course failed to deliver students knowledgeable in pharmacology and therapeutics? Litigation and negligence. Implications for professional and continuing professional aspirations in healthcare. Future directions for professional expertise in healthcare: a conundrum. Conclusions. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisOn September 1st 1996, ISO 14001 was published, worldwide. Written over five years in consultation with international industrial experts, non-governmental organizations and regulators, this environmental management systems standard will help organizations manage their impacts on the environment, no matter what their size, nature or location. The implications for the future are enormous. But what does the standard mean in the real world? What changes do managers have to make to accommodate its principles? What decisions need to be faced and when? Is it really going to make a difference or is it just another case of global greenwash? Will it be another missed opportunity for you, your organisation, or your market? At the start of what promises to be a worldwide explosion of interest in standardised EMSs, ISO 14001 and Beyond looks at their creation, their use, and their limitations, attempting to discover the essential truth about this important management tool and where it will take industry. ISO 14001 and Beyond assembles the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field to record their thoughts and experiences on the new standard, its advantages and disadvantages. The book is designed to provide the reader with enough information with which to form an opinion on the future, and how that will influence subsequent actions. It also provides reassurance that, although the problems are real, so are the solutions. ISO 14001 and Beyond gives you the opportunity to read what some of the best minds have made of the standard so far and what they think lies ahead. There are reports covering a global spectrum of concern: from the US, Russia, Japan, Canada, Germany, the UK, and more; from multinationals, small- and medium-sized enterprises, local government, universities and professional bodies. All this material is gathered together in one book to give you the best, most meaningful information for the crucial decisions that you will need to make in the coming months.Trade ReviewThis lively and wide-ranging book provides the clearest account yet of the difference between a public commitment to a standard ... and a proven commitment to actual environmental improvement. This book is timely indeed. Recommended. -- Martin Wright, 'Tomorrow'Table of ContentsForeword John Elkington Introduction: ISO 14001 and beyond: EMS in the real world Christopher Sheldon Part 1: Laying down the law: How self-regulation came of age 1. Beyond 14001: An introduction to the ISO 14000 series Dick Hortensius and Mark Barthel 2. Neither international nor standard: The Limits of ISO 14001 as an instrument of global corporate environmental management Harris Gleckman and Riva Krut 3. The ISO 14001 environmental management systems standard: One American's view Christopher L. Bell 4. Squaring the circle: Fundamental barriers to effective environmental product labelling Mark Smith 5. Trade, competitiveness and the environment Donal O'Laoire 6. Environmental management standards and certification: Do they add value? Tim J. Sunderland Part 2: Coping strategies: Important trends 7. Environmental management systems: Challenges for Russian manufacturing industry Jim Hutchison, Anatoly Pichugin and Ann Smith 8. Attitudes and experiences of the Japanese business community vis-a-vis EMS standards Tomoko Kurasaka 9. Environmental management systems: ISO 14001 issues for developing countries Aidan Davy 10. Training and environmental management systems Andy Wells 11. Environmental management standards: Who cares? Andrew Blaza and Nicky Chambers 12. Targeting sustainability: The positive application of ISO 14001 Philip Sutton 13. From EMAS to SMAS: Charting the course from environmental management to sustainability Andrea Spencer-Cooke Part 3: Tactical responses: Managers at the greenface 14. Beyond ISO 14001: Ontario Hydro's environmental management system Philip M. Stoesser 15. EMAS implementation at Hipp in Germany Matthias Gelber, Bernhard Hanf and Sven Huther 16. Training: Preparations for maintaining effective environmental management systems Gabriele Crognale 17. Eco-management and audit scheme for UK Local Authorities: Three years on Nigel Riglar 18. Environmental management standards: What do SMEs think? Ruth Hillary 19. Towards innovative, more eco-efficient product design strategies J.M. Cramer 20. Establishing workable environmental objectives Alison Bird 21. Environment risk: Assessment, management and prevention of loss David Shillito

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Book SynopsisEvery organization, public and private, no matter what its size, purchases goods and services. Large organizations also have considerable influence over the practices of their suppliers. As greener purchasing practices have become more common in large organisations, the implications for companies in the supply chain have similarly increased. Yet greener purchasing policies remain the exception rather than the norm in large organizations. Why is this? And how can environmental purchasing practices that have produced tangible business benefits for a number of companies worldwide receive wider take-up?Greener Purchasing: Opportunities and Innovations has been published to facilitate the development and dissemination of best practice in environmental supply chain and procurement management worldwide. Divided into four sections, covering "The Public Sector", "The Private Sector", "Innovations" and "Case Studies", this book brings together international expertise from four continents, including contributions from organisations such as the US EPA, Environment Canada, Procter & Gamble, Xerox and The Body Shop, as well as describing burgeoning new initiatives such as the Japanese and European Green Purchasing Networks. It provides a number of checklists and examples on how to establish and maintain successful greener purchasing and supply chain practices in order to bring not only environmental, but business value to organisations of all sizes.The book is essential reading for purchasing officers, environmental managers, CEOs, consultants, academics and students interested in the topic around the world.Trade ReviewA superb coverage of this complex topic, including loads of real-life checklists and company criteria. - 'The Green Business Letter'Table of ContentsForeword Björn Stigson, World Business Council for Sustainable DevelopmentIntroduction Trevor RusselSection 1: Public purchasing1. Implementation of public green procurement programmes Tapio Pento, University of Jyvaskala, Finland2. Towards greener government procurement: An Environment Canada case study Environment Canada, Corporate Services, Administration Directorate3. Environmentally preferable purchasing: The US experience William Sanders, US Environmental Protection Agency4. The greening of public procurement in the Netherlands Nicolien van der Grijp, Vrije University, Netherlands5. Issues for environmental purchasing in australian local government Wayne Wescott, Environs Australia6. Nordic countries' green public procurement of paper Tito Gronow, Conference of European Paper Industries, Belgium Tapio Pento, University of Jyvaeskylae, Finland Alain Rajotte, University of Paris, France7. Greener purchasing and trade rules: Can they be reconciled? Stig Yding Sorensen, Centre for Alternative Social Analysis, Denmark Trevor RusselSection 2: Private purchasing8. Encouraging green procurement practices in business: A Canadian case study in programme development Michael J. Birett, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Canada9. Do-It-Yourself or Do-It-Together? The implementation of sustainable timber purchasing policies by DIY retailers in the UK David F. Murphy, New Academy of Business, UK Jem Bendell, University of Bristol, UK10. Small and medium-sized enterprises: The implications of greener purchasing Robert Baylis, Lianne Connell and Andrew Flynn, Cardiff University, UK11. An exploratory examination of environmentally responsible straight rebuy purchases in large Australian organisations Michael Jay Polonsky, Philip Henry and Craig Schweizer, University of Newcastle, Australia Harry Brooks, University of Western Sydney, Australia12. Integrating environmental criteria into purchasing decisions: Value added? Jim Hutchison, University of Hertfordshire, UK13. Global environmental management: An opportunity for partnerships Julie M. Haines, US-Asia Environmental Partnership, USASection 3: Innovations14. The Green Purchasing Network, Japan Hiroyuki Sato, Japanese Green Purchasing Network15. The European Green Purchasing Network: Addressing purchasers across sectors and boundaries Raymond van Ermen, European Partners for the Environment Arndt Mielisch, ICLEI, Germany16. Putting the green into greener purchasing: Protecting nature consciously Philip Sutton and Kathy Preece, Green Innovations Inc., Australia17. The role of independent eco-labelling in environmental purchasing Michael Jones, UK Eco-labelling Board18. Ethical purchasing: Developing the supply chain beyond the environment Rita Godfrey, The Body Shop, UKSection 4: Case studies19. The practicalities of greener purchasing: A guide with examples from Washington state Sandra Cannon, Battelle, USA20. Enabling environmentally conscious decision-making in supply chains: The Xerox example Kirstie McIntyre, Xerox, UK21. Purchasing operations at Digital's Computer Asset Recovery Facility Joseph Sarkis, Clark University, USA Mark Liffers and Susan Malette, Digital Equipment Corp., USA22. Integrating environmental considerations into purchasing programmes at Procter & Gamble Robert J. Shimp, Procter & Gamble, USA Henri de Henau, Procter & Gamble, Belgium23. Environmental purchasing: Some thoughts and an IBM case study Brian Whitaker24. How effective is B&Q's timber purchasing policy in encouraging sustainable forest management? Liz Humphrey, University of Sussex, UK

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Book SynopsisAdam Smith’s 1776 Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – more often known simply as The Wealth of Nations – is one of the most important books in modern intellectual history.Considered one of the fundamental works of classical economics, it is also a prime example of the enduring power of good reasoning, and the ability of reasoning to drive critical thinking forward. Adam Smith was attempting to answer two complex questions: where does a nation’s wealth come from, and what can governments do to increase it most efficiently? At the time, perhaps the most widely accepted theory, mercantilism, argued that a nation’s wealth was literally the amount of gold and silver it held in reserve. Smith, meanwhile, weighed the evidence and came to a different conclusion: a nation’s wealth, he argued, lay in its ability to encourage economic activity, largely without government interference. Underlying this radical redefinition was the revolutionary concept that powered Smith’s reasoning and which continues to exert a vast influence on economic thought: the idea that markets are self-regulating. Pitting his arguments against those of his predecessors, Smith carefully and persuasively reasoned out a strong case for free markets that reshaped government economic policies in the 19th-century and continues to shape global prosperity today.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was John Collins? What does The Wealth of Nations Say? Why does The Wealth of Nations Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisA critical analysis of Karl Marx’s Capital, which is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of the creative combination of a philosophical method (the dialectic) with historical and economic information to produce a new interpretation of history. Capitalism, thought Marx, works by exploiting the working class. Their wages do not reflect the value of their labor. Marx concluded that capitalism would fail because of this contradiction at the heart of the capitalist system. He wrote Capital to give activists the theories and language they needed to criticize the system. But the work also outlines the new communist society that Marx hoped would rise in its place, and it helped to inspire the rise of states that largely shaped the modern history of our planet. Today, after a century of conflict, Marx’s analysis still offers valuable tools that help us analyze the modern world. Marx's belief that he had arrived at a scientific way of describing the present and predicting the future may not be shared by many of his modern interpreters. But his ability to connect things together in new ways is not in doubt – and nor is the influence of the new hypotheses that he generated as a result of so much careful analysis. Table of ContentsWays In to the Text Who was Karl Marx? What does Capital Say? Why does Capital Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThomas Robert Malthus’ 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, and the natural sciences with its reasoning and problem solving. The central topic of the essay was the idea, extremely prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries, that human society was in some way perfectible. According to many thinkers of the time, mankind was on a course of steady improvement with advances set to continuously improve society and life for all. Malthus was a skeptic on this point, and, in a clear example of the skill of reasoning, set about constructing and marshalling a strong argument for a less optimistic view.Central to his argument were the laws of population growth and their relationship to growth in agricultural production; in his view the former would always outstrip the latter. This provided a strong argument that society was limited by finite resources – a closely reasoned argument that continues to influence economists, politicians and scientists today, as well as environmental movements. While Malthus’ proposed solutions have been less influential, they remain an excellent example of problem solving, offering a range of answers to the problem of population growth and finite resources.Table of ContentsWays In to the Text Who was Thomas Robert Malthus? What does An Essay on the Principle of Population Say? Why does An Essay on the Principle of Population Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisHow was it possible for opponents of slavery to be so vocal in opposing the practice, when they were so accepting of the economic exploitation of workers in western factories – many of which were owned by prominent abolitionists? David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, uses the critical thinking skill of analysis to break down the various arguments that were used to condemn one set of controversial practices, and examine those that were used to defend another. His study allows us to see clear differences in reasoning and to test the assumptions made by each argument in turn. The result is an eye-opening explanation that makes it clear exactly how contemporaries resolved this apparent dichotomy – one that allows us to judge whether the opponents of slavery were clear-eyed idealists, or simply deployers of arguments that pandered to their own base economic interests.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was David Brion Davis? What does The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 Say? Why does The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisRobert Lucas is known among economists as one of the most influential macroeconomists of recent times – a reputation founded in no small part on the critical thinking skills displayed in his seminal 1990 paper ‘Why Doesn’t Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?’ Lucas’s paper tackles a puzzle in economic theory that has since come to be known as the ‘Lucas paradox,’ and it deploys the author’s brilliant problem solving skills to explain why such an apparent paradox in fact makes sense. Classical economic theory makes a simple prediction of how capital flows between countries: it should, it states, flow from rich to poor countries, because of the law of diminishing returns on capital. Since poor countries have so little capital invested in them, the returns on new investment should be proportionally far better than investment in rich countries. This should mean that investors seeking new opportunities will invest in poorer countries, making capital consistently flow from rich nations to poorer ones. But, problematically, this is not in fact the case. Having defined the problem, Lucas did what any good problem solver would: he looked critically at the criteria involved, and offered a series of possible solutions. Indeed, in just six pages, he puts forward four hypotheses to explain the paradox’s existence. The popularity of his paper, and the influence it has had, are also greatly magnified by careful reasoning embodied in Lucas’s marshalling of evidence and his explanations of the judgements he has made.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was Robert E. Lucas Jr.? What does Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? Say? Why does Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisSouth Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang used his 2003 work Kicking Away The Ladder to challenge the central orthodoxies of development economics, using his creative thinking skills to shine new light on an old topic. Creative thinkers are often distinguished by their willingness to challenge received ideas, and this is a central aspect of Chang’s work on development. Before Chang, the received wisdom was that developing countries needed the same kinds of economic policies and institutions as developed countries in order to enjoy the same prosperity. But, as Chang pointed out, the historical evidence showed that First World economic success was, in fact, due to exactly the kinds of state intervention that modern development orthodoxy shuns. Western affluence is the product of precisely the kinds of state control – of protectionism and the setting of price tariffs – that developed countries have since denied the developing world in the name of economic freedom and ‘best practice.’ By insisting that Third World nations should adopt these economic policies themselves, argued Chang, the West is actually stifling Third World economic prospects – kicking away the ladder. His carefully reasoned argument for a novel point of view was closely based on the critical thinking skill of producing novel explanations for existing evidence, and led many to question development orthodoxies – sparking a rethink of modern development strategies for less-developed countries.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who is Ha-Joon Chang? What does Kicking Away the Ladder Say? Why does Kicking Away the Ladder Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThe Ultimate ECAA Collection is your Complete Collection to achieving top scores on the Economics Admissions Assessment. The Ultimate ECAA Collection includes:THREE of our best selling ECAA books in ONE volume Written by ECAA Specialists who regularly perform at the top of their year, providing time-saving tips and strategies.This book includes: The Ultimate ECAA Guide contains comprehensive information about the Economics Admissions Assessment (ECAA), including tips, techniques and strategies to save you time and maximise your scores. Covers each of the two sections in detail and prepares you for all question types that you'll face in the exam, and how to approach them successfully, including sample essays. You''ll also find a breakdown of the latest specification, including topics and types of questions to expect. Tips on how to prepare, essential tips and strategies. This section also includes 300 questions and fully worked solutions so you can practice your skills and understand how to improve. ECAA Practice Papers Unseen full mock papers for the ECAA, unavailable anywhere else - these are also provided with with fully worked solutions to help you improve your scores. ECAA Worked Solutions clear, thorough, and extensive solutions to all the past papers, updated each year, written by expert teachers, providing every step of the working and and sample answers and essay plans to ensure you can put your learning into practice. 3 Books in 1: The Ultimate ECAA Guide, ECAA Practice Papers and ECAA Worked Solutions. Written by ECAA tutors, students and admissions tutors with full of insider knowledge and tips, The Ultimate ECAA Collection is designed to help you make the most of your preparation, approach the ECAA with confidence, and get those top scores.About Us From the publishing division of the UK's leading Oxbridge and Medical Admissions company, UniAdmissions, The Ultimate ECAA Collection gives you the best and most fully comprehensive collection to your Economics Admissions Assessment success. Hungry for more? Visit the Uni Admissions website for more application resources, admissions test strategies, and application support.

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Book SynopsisWALL STREET JOURNAL AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER Discover the Remarkable way to supercharge and accelerate your career.Become the most valuable team player in your company, climb the ladder as a top performer, and gain the utmost recognition and respect from your peers and superiors. A comprehensive guide to what really counts and isn’t taught in business school, Remarkable is the first and last professional playbook you’ll ever need. Step-by-step advice takes you from the early stages of a business career to the top-level executive position. Follow the journey, lessons, and remarkable insights of an executive who has seen it all, and now offers pragmatic and infallible wisdom that you can use immediately. David Kronfeld has mentored professionals and executives who now lead successful careers. He’s been a management consultant with Booz Allen, a corporate executive, and the founder and chairman of JK&B Capital, a leading venture capital firm. His extensive top management experience and sitting on boards of directors means he’s been actively involved with the highest priority challenges facing dozens of companies. He’s championed strategies that flourished, helmed businesses that thrived, and knows what makes leaders prosper or fail. Be it hiring or firing, he’s decided the fates of employees and managers at all levels, including CEOs. Within Remarkable, David Kronfeld offers his incomparable life lessons, experience, and proven insight for your entire career, from entry level skills—writing a great resume, performing well on interviews, how to get promoted—to the management-level expertise that covers becoming a better negotiator, employer, and company leader. With his extensive guidance, you’ll learn how to accelerate your career and powerfully impact your effectiveness and career trajectory.

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at a number of topics in economic education, presenting multiple perspectives from those in the field to anyone interested in teaching economics. Using anecdotes, classroom experiments and surveys, the contributing authors show that, with some different or new techniques, teaching economics can be more engaging for students and help them better retain what they learned. Chapters cover a wide range of approaches to teaching economics, from interactive approaches such as utilizing video games and Econ Beats, to more rigorous examinations of government policies, market outcomes and exploring case studies from specific courses. Many of the chapters incorporate game theory and provide worked out examples of games designed to help students with intuitive retention of the material, and these games can be replicated in any economics classroom. While the exercises are geared towards college-level economics students, instructors can draw inspiration for course lectures from the various approaches taken here and utilize them at any level of teaching. This book will be very useful to instructors in economics interested in bringing innovative teaching methods into the classroom.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Development of Interactive Classroom Activities to Teach Economic Freedom to Students of Various Learning Styles.- Chapter 2: Video Games in Teaching Economics.- Chapter 3: One-Shot Game: A Free-Market Approach to the Principles of Microeconomics Class.- Chapter 4: A Highly-Simplified Pollution Abatement Game.- Chapter 5: Assignments to Engage Students in Economics Study Abroad Programs.- Chapter 6: The Economic Principles of my Cancer Treatment: How to Use Medical Experiences to Teach Economics.- Chapter 7: Textbook Confessions: Government Policies and Market Outcomes.- Chapter 8: University and High School Economics Educators Partnership: A Model from LaCrosse, Wisconsin.- Chapter 9: A Classroom Experiment: The Redistribution of Quiz Scores.- Chapter 10: Making Economics Stick with Econ Beats.- Chapter 11: Navigating the Economics Major: The Effect of Gender on Students' Degree Pathways.- Chapter 12: Taking a Path Less Traveled: Mastering Metrics Without a Textbook.- Chapter 13: Structured Writing Assignments in an American Economic History Course.- Chapter 14: Integrating the Economic Way of Thinking into US History Courses.

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Book SynopsisThe “Blue Economy” is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability. Traditional activities such as fisheries, but also undersea mining, tourism, and scientific research are included, as well as the phenomenal growth of aquaculture during the past decade. All of these activities, and the irresistible prospect of another new frontier, has led to enthusiastic and, most likely, overenthusiastic assessments of the possibilities to exploit the sea to feed the world, provide low-cost energy, become a new source of minerals, and other future miracles. This book makes sense of these trends and of the future of the blue economy by following our remote ancestors who gradually discovered the sea and its resources, describing the so-called fisherman’s curse – or why fishermen have always been poor, explaining why humans tend to destroy the resources on which we depend, and assessing the realistic expectations for extracting resources from the sea. Although the sea is not so badly overexploited as the land, our demands on ecosystem services are already above the oceans’ sustainability limits. Some new ideas, including “fishing down” for untapped resources such as plankton, could lead to the collapse of the entire marine ecosystem. How Neanderthals crossed the sea in canoes, how it was possible for five men on a small boat to kill a giant whale, what kind of oil the virgins of the Gospel put into their lamps, how a professor of mathematics, Vito Volterra, discovered the “equations of fishing,” why it has become so easy to be stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the sea, and how to play “Moby Dick,” a simple board game that simulates the overexploitation of natural resources are just some of the questions that you will be able to answer after reading this engaging and insightful book about the rapidly expanding relationship between humanity and the sea. Table of ContentsChapter1: Introduction: If a jellyfish stings you, there is a reason.- Chapter2: Man and the sea.- Chapter3: The war against the sea.- Chapter4: Understanding overshoot.- Chapter5: The blue economy.- Chapter6: Conclusion: The horror that came to Sarnath.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book offers a multidisciplinary dialogue on relational anthropology in contemporary economics. A particular view of the human being is often assumed in economic models, but seldom acknowledged let alone explicated. Addressing this neglected area of research in economic studies, altogether the contributors touch upon the importance and potential of virtues, the notions of freedom and self-love, the potential of simulation models, the dialectics of love, and questions of methodology in constructing a relational anthropology for contemporary economics. The overall result is a highly informative and constructive dialogue, establishing inter alia a research agenda for future collaborative and multidisciplinary study.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis open access book considers the development of the sharing and collaborative economy with a European focus, mapping across economic sectors, and country-specific case studies. It looks at the roles the sharing economy plays in sharing and redistribution of goods and services across the population in order to maximise their functionality, monetary exchange, and other aspects important to societies. It also looks at the place of the sharing economy among various policies and how the contexts of public policies, legislation, digital platforms, and other infrastructure interrelate with the development and function of the sharing economy. The book will help in understanding the future (sharing) economy models as well as to contribute in solving questions of better access to resources and sustainable innovation in the context of degrowth and growing inequalities within and between societies. It will also provide a useful source for solutions to the big challenges of our times such as climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and recently the coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19). This book will be of interest to academics and students in economics and business, organisational studies, sociology, media and communication and computer science.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: The Sharing Economy in Europe from Idea to Reality; Andrzej Klimczuk, Vida Česnuitytė, Cristina Miguel, Gabriela Avram, Bori Simonovits,Mijalche Santa, & Bálint Balázs.- 2. Conceptualisation of the Sharing Economy; Cristina Miguel, Esther Martos-Carrión, Andrzej Klimczuk, & Mijalche Santa.- 3. 3. The Context of Public Policy on the Sharing Economy; Andrzej Klimczuk.- 4. 4. The Regulatory Context and Legal Evolution: The Cases of Airbnb and Uber; Kosjenka Dumančić, & Natalia-Rozalia Avlona.- 5. Infrastructure for the Sharing Economy Spreading; by Vida Česnuitytė, Leta Dromantienė,& Julijana Angelovska.- 6. 6. Mobility and Transportation Sharing; Agnieszka Łukasiewicz, Anikó Bernát, & Vera Lúcia Alves Pereira Diogo.- 7. Peer-to-peer Accommodation in Europe: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities; Anna Farmaki, & Cristina Miguel.- 8. From Uberisation to Commoning: Experiences, Challenges, and Potential Pathways of the Sharing Economy in Food Supply Chains in Europe; Bálint Balázs, & Bori Simonovits.- 9. Unpacking the Financial Services Evolution in the Sharing Economy; Mijalche Santa, & Agnieszka Łukasiewicz.- 10. Education, Information, and Data in the Era of Sharing; Gabriela Avram, & Eglantina Hysa.- 11. Sharing of Material Goods and Household Services; Vida Česnuitytė, Leta Dromantienė, & Anita Čeh Časni.- 12. Solidarity and Care Economy During Times of Crises: A Comparative View Between Hungary and Greece in 2015 and 2020; Penny Travlou, & Anikó Bernát.- 13. Sharing Economy in the Netherlands: Grounding Public Values in Shared Mobility and Gig Work Platforms; Martijn de Waal, & Martijn Arets.- 14. The Sharing Economy in France: From Cooperative Business to Platform Cooperatives; Myriam Lewkowicz, & Jean-Pierre Cahier.- 15. A Critical Perspective on the Sharing Economy in Tourism and the Hospitality Sector in Austria; Malte Höfner, & Rainer Rosegger; 16. Recent Developments in the Collaborative and Sharing Economy in Italy: Old and New Issues After the COVID-19 Crisis; Chiara Bassetti, Cary Yungmee Hendrickson, Monica Postiglione, Giulia Priora, Venere Sanna, & Stefano Valerio.- 17. Albania: Advances in Agriculture and Relation to Food Delivery and Health Sector; Eglantina Hysa, Alba Kruja, & Vera Shikp.- 18. An Examination of the Evolution of Timebanks in the United Kingdom Rodrigo Perez Vega, & Cristina Miguel.- 19. Facing COVID-19 and the Sharing Economy Business Models: Case Study of Poland; Agnieszka Łukasiewicz, & Aleksandra Nadolska.- 20. 20. Conclusion: The State and Future Prospects of the Sharing Economy in Europe; Vida Česnuitytė, Andrzej Klimczuk, Cristina Miguel, Gabriela Avram, Bori Simonovits,Mijalche Santa, & Bálint Balázs.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers representations of wealth and the wealthy in videogames. The introduction explores the estrangement of wealth from everyday life in the contemporary west, and argues that videogames have contributed to modern life by dramatizing the economic anxieties of our age — in particular, those anxieties that relate to the Global Great Recession. A review of historical titles reveals that such and related efforts draw in significant ways from the literary tradition of sentimental romance, where wealth and the wealthy have long been associated with notions of the underworld or hell. The relevance of this tradition to contemporary titles is explored through a careful analysis of romantic themes and concerns with significance to acts of exchange. The Wealth of Virtual Nations will appeal to students with an interest in narrative theory, game design, literature, economics, and the humanities. It will also be of interest to the videogame industry.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Analyzing Wealth in Videogames Chapter 2: Literary Theory for Gamers Chapter 3: The Symbolic Order of Action and Possibility Bearing on Time Chapter 4: Capital and Class Determinations in Videogames Chapter 5: Night World Identify Affirmations Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Wealth of Virtual Nations

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Book SynopsisThis exciting resource examines pioneering, successful business models in healthcare services, emphasizing bold and innovative entrepreneurship in creating care delivery that is accessible, affordable, and effective. Expert contributors supply fascinating case studies of visionary principles at work in hospitals, specialist care, eHealth providers, and insurers along with practical guidance on building and sustaining a vision, a brand, an organization, and a loyal base of clients, employees, and investors. Featured companies demonstrate how moving beyond conventional patient/provider, service/cost, and other relationships can translate into improvements that benefit clients’ health and stakeholders’ bottom line as well as the larger community and potentially the world. Coverage analyzes key attributes of these successful entities, detailing key challenges, funding issues, and especially breakthrough goals, including: Strengthening mutual caring and sharing. Letting prevention and self-management work. Patient-centered organization of information and everyday care. Deploying services and instruments to help customers take control. Implementing differentiation in specialized healthcare. The result is crucial takeaways for creating transformational business models in health fields. Approachably written and brimming with infographics, Brilliant Business Models in Healthcare provides inspiring role models for entrepreneurs, managers, consultants, and professionals in the healthcare sector, including providers, insurers, technology suppliers, and pharmacists. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why, what? Guide for your reading enjoyment Part 1: The framework for brilliant business models in healthcare Chapter 1 What are the cornerstones of a brilliant business model? 1.1 Vision 1.2 Brand positioning Chapter 2 What is a business model? 2.1 Market segments 2.2 Customer value 2.3 Delivery 2.4 Operation Chapter 3 Value creation and overall framework 3.1 Value creation for all stakeholders 3.2 Conceptual framework and phasing 3.3 Permanent brilliance? Chapter 4 Challenges for brilliant business models in healthcare 4.1 Good, affordable and widely accessible healthcare is unique 4.2 Cost increases put accessibility, quality and healthcare systems at risk 4.3 Desired breakthroughs in healthcare Part 2: Brilliant cases involving brilliant business models in healthcare Chapter 5 Breakthrough: Strengthening mutual caring and sharing 5.1 General Healthcare fund Amsterdam – Wim Niesing & Jeroen Kemperman 5.2 DHAN – Tom Buijtendorp & Jeroen Kemperman 5.3 Courtyard houses – Jeroen Kemperman, Ida Kemperman & Wilke Schouten 5.4 Stiftung Liebenau – Rick Kasper, Tim Widdershoven, Sanne Boevé & Jeroen Geelhoed Chapter 6 Breakthrough: Letting prevention and self-management work 6.1 Discovery – Thomas Bachet, Raheel Raisi & Jeroen Kemperman 6.2 Healthways – Jeroen Kemperman, Sytze de With & Mirthe van de Belt 6.3 Kaiser Permanente – Koen Harms & Jennifer op ’t Hoog 6.4 PatientsLikeMe – Annemijn Kuenen, Heleen Borleffs, Tim Widdershoven & Jeroen Geelhoed Chapter 7 Breakthrough: Patient-centered organization of information and everyday care 7.1 UCLA’s Value Quotient – Heleen Borleffs, Daniel Hommes & Jeroen Kemperman 7.2 ParkinsonNet – Rosanne Preyde, Kerwin Hartman & Jennifer op ’t Hoog 7.3 Laastari Lähiklinikka – Monique Heeren & Jennifer op ’t Hoog 7.4 Patrick Lund Dental Happiness – Tim Widdershoven, Rick Kasper & Jeroen Geelhoed Chapter 8 Breakthrough: Deploying services and instruments to help customers take control 8.1 Ryhov – Bonny van Rest & Jennifer op ’t Hoog 8.2 BerylHealth – Jeroen Geelhoed & Tim Widdershoven 8.3 M-PESA – Wouter Houtman & Jennifer op ’t Hoog <8.4 Jaipur Foot – Kristin Fransz, Ilse Hoogervorst & Jeroen Kemperman Chapter 9Breakthrough: Implementing differentiation in specialized healthcare Introduction: Case in Phase 4 “The brilliant business model of Shouldice” 9.1 Narayana Hrudayalaya – Raymond Fafié & Jeroen Kemperman 9.2 ThedaCare – Karen Willemsen, Maarten Akkerman & Jennifer op ’t Hoog 9.3 Princess Margaret Cancer Centre – Denise Altena, Esmée Grobbee & Jennifer op ’t Hoog 9.4 Mayo Clinic – Bas Schepman, Jennifer op ’t Hoog & Jeroen Kemperman Chapter 10 Lessons for creating brilliant business models in healthcare 10.1 Phase 1: Start from a vision and bring the brand positioning in line with it 10.2 Phase 2: Persevere consistently in the conversion of the vision into the business model 10.3 Phase 3: Use pioneering value creation for all stakeholders to realize the business model 10.4 Phase 4: Retain the core and stimulate progress in the business model Key terms and definitions Notes Sources The editorial team Case authors Acknowledgement

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Book SynopsisThis timely reference analyzes the rationale, impact, and feasibility of taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) as a public health measure to contribute curbing obesity and diabetes rates, specifically in Canada. It presents the pros and cons of taxing soda, with the latest data on adverse health effects of its consumption, plus the various business and political issues surrounding the contentious proposition. Reviewed research is multidisciplinary, spanning health and medicine to ethics, economics, and law. Conclusions and caveats are clear and presented at a comfort level for the general reader. The result is a blueprint for analyzing the relevancy of taxes on sweetened soft drinks or other low-nutrition food products, plus a trove of valuable insights into aspects of government decision-making and consumer food behavior. Included in the coverage: · Reasons for specifically targeting SSBs · SSB taxation as a public health policy instrument · Effects of SSB taxation on energy intakes and population health · Potential undesirable effects relating to SSB taxation · Social and political acceptability of SSB taxation · Evaluability of SSB taxation Taxing Soda for Public Health will interest policymakers, public health professionals, advocacy groups, and researchers at the Canadian and international levels (e.g., in areas such as public health, nutrition, food and health policies, health economics, and evaluation), as well as students and all other parties interested in nutrition policies.Table of ContentsSummary1. Introduction2. Methods2.1 Theoretical basis2.2 A 'realist' review of evidence2.3 Data collection2.4 Data analysis3. Why - Rationale3.1 Reasons for targeting specifically SSB (sugar sweetened beverages) 3.1.1 SSB and health risks 3.1.2 SSB consumption and marketing trends 3.1.3 Considerations on some other non-alcoholic beverages 3.1.4 Concluding comments3.2 Merits of SSB taxation as a public health policy instrument 3.2.1 Price, a key determinant of food habits 3.2.2 Taxing SSB as part of a comprehensive strategy 3.2.3 Learning from tobacco taxation 3.2.4 Taxation, a highly cost-effective option 3.2.5 Concluding comments3.3 Economic rationale for taxation and ethical concerns 3.3.1 Economic debates about the normative justification of SSB taxation 3.3.2 Ethical concerns surrounding freedom of choice and autonomy 3.3.3 Concluding comments3.4 Clarifying SSB taxation logics4. What - Impact4.1 Tax effects on SSB prices 4.1.1 Factors that may impair SSB tax shift onto prices 4.1.2 Empirical evidence 4.1.3 Additional proposals to secure the pass-through 4.1.4 Concluding comments4.2 Tax effects on SSB demand 4.2.1 Findings from experimental studies 4.2.2 Factors that may impair tax effects on demand in the 'real world' 4.2.3 'Real-world' price-elasticity of SSB demand 4.2.4 Preliminary evidence from taxes implemented across the world 4.2.5 May we miss our core target? 4.2.6 Concluding comments4.3 Tax effects on energy intakes and population health 4.3.1 Overview of substitution concerns 4.3.2 Results from public health modeling studies 4.3.3 Results from economics modeling studies 4.3.4 Preliminary evidence from taxes implemented across the world 4.3.5 Concluding comments4.4 Potential inequities related to SSB taxation 4.4.1 Distribution of changes in SSB intakes 4.4.2 Distribution of the financial contribution to tax revenues  4.4.3 Distribution of effects according to SSB consumption levels 4.4.4 Equity concerns and acceptability of SSB taxation 4.4.5 Concluding comments4.5 Potential undesirable effects related to SSB taxation 4.5.1 Tax-related administration costs for industries 4.5.2 Tax impact on profitability 4.5.3 Tax impact on employment 4.5.4 Tax impact on investments 4.5.5 Tax impact on competitiveness 4.5.6 Tax impact on cross-border trade 4.5.7 Concluding comments4.6 Raising fiscal revenues from SSB taxation 4.6.1 Confidence and estimations 4.6.2 Justification for targeting SSB specifically 4.6.3 Pursuing both fiscal and behavioural logics may be paradoxical 4.6.4 The importance of earmarking tax revenues to health promotion 4.6.5 Concluding comments4.7 Potential 'signal' effects from SSB taxation 4.7.1 An 'alarm-signal' to the population 4.7.2 A 'coercive signal' to manufacturers 4.7.3 Arguments for a comprehensive 'de-normalization' strategy 4.7.4 The complex evaluation of signal effects 4.7.5 Concluding comments5. How - Applicability5.1 Legal and administrative feasibility 5.1.1 The complexity of sweetener inputs' taxation 5.1.2 Excise taxes commonly preferred to sales taxes 5.1.3 How feasible is it to rely on sales and/or excise SSB taxes in Canada? 5.1.4 Concerns on the scope of the tax and its rate 5.1.5 Concluding comments5.2 Social and political acceptability 5.2.1 International perspective 5.2.2 Canadian experts 5.2.3 Canadian civil society 5.2.4 Canadian elected representatives 5.2.5 Canadian public opinion 5.2.6 Importance of a constructive dialogue 5.2.7 Concluding comments5.3 Evaluability 5.3.1 Importance of SSB taxation evaluation 5.3.2 Evaluation of a price-induced behavioural logic 5.3.3 Evaluation of a fiscal logic 5.3.4 Evaluation of a signal-induced de-normalization logic  5.3.5 The challenge of robust economic evaluations 5.3.6 Concluding comments6. Discussion6.1 Proposal of a multi-dimensional evidence-based framework6.2 Conclusion7. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the increased necessity of organizations to encourage human talent in the globalized economy, with particular emphasis on the impact in Eastern Europe. Featuring contributions presented at the 7th Annual Griffiths School of Management International Conference on Business and Ethics (GSMAC) organized by Emanuel University of Oradea, this book presents in-depth analysis of the economic, social and religious implications of the transition from low cost of labor to increased human talent in Eastern Europe and offers multiple theoretical and practical solutions. In 2004, Klaus Schwab, president and founder of the World Economic Forum, stated that the old era of capitalism and socialism is being replaced by a new era of “talentalism”. The true competitive advantage of organizations and nations is increasingly becoming human talent, defined as the ability to “have new ideas that have value”. Nations and organizations are exploring ways to reform their education systems and organizational structures in order to train, foster and encourage human talent. In Eastern Europe since the fall of communism in 1989, the competitive advantage of the region has been low cost of labor. However, since the integration within the European Union, millions of Eastern Europeans have left their home countries rendering the “low-wage competitive advantage” almost obsolete. In addition, the migration of able-working individuals has left behind mainly children and pensioners, placing a disproportionately heavy burden upon public and government services. It is within this context that the contents of this book explore the impact of the increased need of high human talent on Eastern European countries. Featuring contributions around topics such as poverty, healthcare management, cross-border cooperation, education systems, and religious influence on economic development, this book will be of interest of scholars, researchers, students and policy-makers interested in the business development and economic growth of Eastern Europe. Table of ContentsPreface.- Chapter 1 Improving Socio-Economic Opportunities for the Poor.- Chapter 2 An Empirical Analysis of Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory of Work Motivation on Hospital Employees in Jordan.- Chapter 3 Assessment of Employment: An Essential Process in Increasing the Efficiency of use of Human Capital within the Romanian Health Care Facilities.- Chapter 4 The Impact of Cross-Border Cooperation on Human Resources Employed in Local Administration.- Chapter 5 Am I to be an Entrepreneur?.- Chapter 6 Scientific Selling: Improving Sales Performance through Applied Psychology.- Chapter 7 The Need for Mentoring in the Preuniversity Educational System.- Chapter 8 Recruitment and Selection of Human Resources in the Romanian Organizations.- Chapter 9 Identifying the Main Factors of Workplace Flexibility.- Chapter 10 Compounding in Romania.- Chapter 11 How Religion Influences Economic Development.- Chapter 12 The Compatibility between the Music Expectations of Church Leaders and the Training of Church Musicians in Romania.

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Book SynopsisSilicon Valley is the most salient example of high-tech industrial clusters. Public policymakersthroughouttheworldwouldliketolearnthesecretsofSiliconValley in order to build their own high-tech economies. The existing literature on ind- trial clusters, which traces back to Marshall (1920), focuses on the way in which ?rms bene?t from locating in a cluster; it suggests that once a cluster comes into existence, it tends to reinforce itself by attracting more ?rms. However, a more important question is how to reach this critical mass in the ?rst place. In contrast to the literature, evidence suggests that entrepreneurs rarely move when they est- lish high-tech start-ups (Cooper and Folta, 2000). This contradicts the notion that location choice analyses lead entrepreneurs to a high-tech cluster. A high-tech industrial cluster such as Silicon Valley is characterized by c- centratedentrepreneurship. FollowingSchumpeter,weemphasizethefactthat“the appearance of one or a few entrepreneurs facilitates the appearance of others” (Schumpeter,1934). Weproposeanagent-basedcomputationalmodeltoshowhow high-tech industrial clusters could emerge in a landscape in which no ?rms existed originally. The model is essentially a spatial version of the Nelson-Winter model: Boundedly rational agents are scattered over an explicitly de?ned landscape. Each agent is endowed with some technology, which determines his ?rm’s productivity (if he has one). During each period of time, an agent with no ?rm would make a decision as to whether he wants to start one. This decision is mostly affected by the behavior of his social contacts, who are all his neighbors.Table of ContentsEditorial.- Reflections on the Schumpeter I knew well.- Schumpeter, product innovation and public policy: the case of cigarettes.- Risk, variety and volatility: growth, innovation and stock prices in early industry evolution.- Social networks and industrial geography.- Growing Silicon Valley on a landscape: an agent-based approach to high-tech industrial clusters.- The theory of the firm and the markets for strategic acquisitions.- The growth of commercialization — facilitating organizations and practices: A Schumpeterian perspective.- On the macroeconomic effects of establishing tradability in weak property rights.- Capital in the new economy: A Schumpeterian perspective.- A comparative perspective on innovation and productivity in manufacturing and services.- Tracing empirical trails of Schumpeterian development.- Towards an evolutionary interpretation of aggregate labor market regularities.- An evolutionary model of international competition and growth.- Innovation and growth in Germany over the past 150 years.- Nonlinear dynamism of innovation and business cycles.- The dynamic effects of general purpose technologies on Schumpeterian growth.

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Book Synopsis"Mood Matters" makes the radical assertion that all social events ranging from fashions in music and art to the rise and fall of civilizations are biased by the attitudes a society holds toward the future. When the "social mood" is positive and people look forward to the future, events of an entirely different character tend to occur than when society is pessimistic. The book presents many examples from every walk of life in support of this argument. In addition, methods are given to actually measure the social mood and to project it into the future in order to forecast what’s likely or not over varying periods of time. Casti's writing is a pleasure to read and its contents an eye-opener."They [the chapters] tell an engrossing story, and the mystery heightens as it goes. . . . it's chatty and knowing." Greg Benford, Physicist and science-fiction writer, author of "Timescape" and "Deep Time""I am struck by how thought-provoking it all is. I am sure that your book will draw a lot of attention" Tor Norretranders, Science writer, author of "The Generous Man" and "The User Illusion". Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:"They [the chapters] tell an engrossing story, and the mystery heightens as it goes. . . . it's chatty and knowing." Greg Benford, Physicist and science-fiction writer, author of "Timescape" and "Deep Time""I am struck by how thought-provoking it all is. I am sure that your book will draw a lot of attention" Tor Norretranders, Science writer, author of "The Generous Man" and "The User Illusion".“This is John Casti’s bold hypothesis in Mood Matters, which challenges both traditional financial theory and human gut reaction about how the world works. … The wealth of facts he presents should serve as valuable fuel for future scientific researchers arguing both for and against socionomics. In these times of financial turmoil, many people will pick up Mood Matters with the hope of predicting financial markets. … The book emphasizes the importance of sociometers in signaling that fate.” (Richard Taylor, Science, Vol. 329, September, 2010)“Readable, exhaustively researched, and completely iconoclastic, this book was a pleasure for me on many levels. I am always eager to hear about new ways to view this old world, and Casti has a very new way to view world events. His thesis is that the mood of the people isn’t MADE by events, but … MAKES events. … The exhaustive research I mentioned is all documented in his appendices.” (Richard Derus, LibraryThings, October, 2010)“In Mood Matters (2010) John Casti says a lot of things … about how ones attitude (mood) shapes events, and how we cycle back and forth between pessimism and optimism (mood). … a thought provoking book.” (LibraryThing, August, 2010)“Mood Matters is great fun to read as Casti’s writing throughout is smooth, intelligent and humorous. … Casti explores the correlation between the ‘mood of the crowd’ and a range of other trends … and events, including the fall of nations and the outbreak of war. It is a hugely interesting and wide-ranging study. … For those involved in assessing trends and in predicting future events, whether social, political or economic, this book … change the whole way they ply their trade.” (Goodreads, August, 2010)“John Casti … offers a truly unique and different perspective of why things happen – in our lives, in our world, and in our political systems. … I find John’s views of external events to be fresh and interesting … . he gives a very interesting view of how social influences indirectly – yet directly – impact the economic well-being of our society … . John has done a really nice job … . Mood Matters is a very well-written book, very detailed, and very thorough.” (Abraham Aizenman, TodayNewsline, February, 2011)Table of ContentsIntroducing Unconventional Wisdom.- Why 'Stuff Happens.-Why Hits Happen (short timescale events).-Why Wars, Elections, and Economic Crises Happen(medium timescale events).- Why Great Powers Come and Go (long timescale events).- How to Forecast Coming Events.-

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Book SynopsisInstitutions are rules that are supported by various enforcement mechanisms. Cognition refers to the process of how men perceive and process information, whereas rationality refers to how these processes are modelled. Within institutional economics there is a growing scepticism towards extending the conventional economic frame of analysis to institutions. In particular, the notion of perfect rationality is increasingly questioned. At the same time human cognition has become a major field of research in psychology. This book explores what institutional economics can learn from cognitive psychology regarding the proper modelling of rationality in order to explain institutional change.Table of ContentsPreface.- D. Kiwit, U. Mummert, M. Streit: Introduction and Overview.- Institutions and Cognition: J. Knight: Suboptimal and Social Institutions: The Relationship Between Cognition and Context.- P. de Vries: Comment.- D. Kiwit: Comment.- E. Schlicht: Patterned Variation. The Role of Psychological Dispositions in Social and Institutional Evolution.- B. Loasby: Comment.- U. Mummert: Comment.- S. Huck: Legal Design and the Evolution of Remorse.- T. Brenner: Comment.- Cognition and Rationality: B. Frey, I. Bohnet: Rent Leaving.- H. Geue: Comment.- A. Ortmann: Comment.- A. Ortmann, G. Gigerenzer: Reasoning in Economics and Psychology: Why Social Context Matters.- M. Pasche: Comment.- B. Priddat: Comment.- G. Handlbauer: Decision Making and Institutionalized Cognition.- R. Mayntz: Comment.- Rationality and Institutions: B. Chapman: Rationally Transparent Social Interactions.- T. Ulen: Comment.- J. Finch: Verstehen, Ideal Types and Situational Analysis for Institutional Economics.- L. Csontos: Comment.- H. Siegenthaler: Learning and its Rationality in a Context of Fundamental Uncertainty.- H. Hegmann: Comment.- T. Eggertsson: Comment.

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Book SynopsisOliver Sauter analyzes three aspects of monetary policy under uncertainty. First he shows that the terms risk and uncertainty are often wrongly used as synonyms despite their different meanings. The second aspect is the proper examination and incorporation of uncertainty into a monetary policy framework. The author undertakes systematization with a closer look at each identified form of uncertainty. Thirdly, he focuses on the quantification of uncertainty from two different perspectives, either from a market perspective or from a central bank perspective.Table of ContentsHistorical Origins of Uncertainty in Economic Theory.- Theoretical Foundations of Monetary Policy under Uncertainty.- Empirical Investigations of Market Uncertainty.- Communicated Uncertainty of the European Central Bank.

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Book Synopsis“Criticism of capitalism“ – is it really politically fair and theoretically sound to address important politico-economic issues of our time by use of a terminology that still stems from the times of the Cold War? Money is the other topic. “Toward gold throng all, To gold cling all, Yes, all!” In times of money, which is intrinsically worthless and may therefore be provided in arbitrary amounts by a society, is it really adequate that we still (like Goethe did for gold) regard these petty paper slips as the scarcest resource of them all? In this book, Kaiser provides the reader with surprisingly new insights into the fascinating phenomena of capital and money.Table of ContentsPart I: Exchange Contracts and the Walrasian Paradigm.- 1. The Paradigm in the Philosophy of Science.- 2. The Walrasian Paradigm in Contemporary Economics.- 3. Basic Elements of an Exchange-Systematized Walrasian Paradigm.- 4. First Potential Applications of an Exchange-Systematized Walrasian Paradigm .- Part II: An Exchange-Contractual Analysis of Private and Public Wealth.- 5. Origins and Significance of a Famous Debate.- 6. Inner Exchange Contracts.- 7. Outer Financial Contracts.- 8. Multiple Exchange Equilibrium and the Balance Sheet.- 9. Degeneration of Money.- 10. Appendix to Part II.- Part III: An External Monetary Calculus for the Homo Oeconomicus.- 11. On the External Arrangement of the Monetary Calculus.- 12. The Desired Amount of Money Holding as a Reflex of Benefits and Costs.- 13. Analysis of an Expansionary Monetary Impulse.- Part IV: Summary and Outlook.- 14. Summary.- 15. Outlook.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a practical guide to using artificial intelligence with motivated employees in companies and organizations. You will learn what the prerequisites are for people to look forward to productive collaboration with "intelligent machines". Because this is the only way to leverage the full potential of AI. To this end, you will receive an overview of how and where AI can be used in companies and how to identify the right areas of application for AI in your company. The main issue here is the following: which tasks will be taken over by AI in the future and which should continue to be performed by employees. These decisions change processes and tasks and require practical change management and motivation. In this book, you will learn how to motivate and inspire people for these new tasks, so that the steps towards using AI in the work environment can succeed in the best possible way. About the Author: Prof. Dr. Andreas Moring is Professor of Digital Business, Innovation & AI at the International School of Management. He is founder and director of the JuS.TECH Institute for AI and Sustainability, co-founder of the WeGoFive initiative for productive human-AI cooperation and topic sponsor for human-AI cooperation at the Artificial Intelligence Center ARIC in Hamburg. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition KI im Job by Andreas Moring, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2021. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors. Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisItalian industrial districts (IDs) recently attracted international attention because their performance during the last few decades contradicted the alleged weakness of industrial structures based on SMEs in "traditional" sectors. The book analyses some developments taking place in Italian IDs and local systems of production that can represent a new stage of evolution for the backbone of the Italian economy. Based on the extensive use of original databases three main trajectories of change in IDs are presented. The first trajectory is the increasing role of "groups" of manufacturing SMEs arising from mergers and acquisitions as well as spin-off growth processes at the "family firms" level. The second one is the consolidation of innovation capabilities in IDs. And the third one is the internationalisation process of Italian IDs through both trade and foreign direct investment. The essays suggest that Italian IDs are again evolving by coherent adaptations which will have, however, uncertain outcomes.Table of ContentsThe structural evolution of industrial districts and adaptive competitive advantages.- I. Theoretical Perspectives.- Regional governance and economic development: A European perspective.- Italian industrial districts: Facts and theories.- Modelling the structure and evolution of industrial districts.- II. Firm Ownership and District Organisation.- Institutional innovations in industrial districts.- Groups of small and medium-sized firms in industrial districts in Italy.- Ownership linkages and business groups in industrial districts. The case of Emilia Romagna.- The role of medium-sized and large firms in the evolution of industrial districts. The case of Marche.- Entrepreneurship, labour organisation and labour mobility in industrial districts.- Integration and convergence in the internal dynamics of industrial districts. A case study.- III. Innovation.- Can a Marshallian industrial district be innovative? The case of Italy.- Are industrial districts more conducive to innovative production? The case of Emilia Romagna.- Environmental impact and innovation in industrial districts.- IV. Internationalisation.- Local engines of global trade: the case of Italian industrial districts.- Small multinational groups in the Italian industrial districts: interpretations and empirical evidence from the mechanical engineering industry.

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Book SynopsisSie suchen nach einem zündenden Wort, nach einer treffenden Formulierung, nach einem passenden Zitat? Sie wollen Ihrer Rede Schliff verleihen und Ihre Ansprache eindrucksvoll mit einem Dichter- oder Denkerwort einleiten?Dieses Buch ist Ihre Quelle für Inspirationen und neue Denkansätze.Auch bei Workshops, Seminaren können die ausgewählten Zitate für Reflektion, Anschauung und Kreativität sorgen. Oder Sie lassen sich von den Kurzbiografien und den darin enthaltenen Impulsen und Tipps inspirieren.Table of ContentsLiteratur aus dem Altertum.- Literatur aus der Neuzeit.- Literatur aus der Moderne.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the risks that climate change poses for the health sector. It discusses the current vulnerabilities to climate-sensitive diseases, the resultant mortality and morbidity in human populations, the projected risks in connection with increasing global warming, and the options for tackling the adverse impacts of climate change. Adapting to climate change so as to effectively address the risks for and adverse impacts on the health sector requires an in-depth understanding of current deficits in health sector preparedness for climate-sensitive illnesses, as well as future plans and programs for increasing adaptive capacity and building resilience.The book situates climate and health adaptation concerns in the broader context of developing countries, providing insights that can be useful for other countries as well, helping them further their health adaptation efforts. In India, poverty and inadequate access to basic water, health and sanitation services combine with climate-related events to adversely impact health outcomes. Three case studies on the occurrence of heat stress, flooding, and extreme cyclonic events in India are presented along with a critical assessment of the level of preparedness and capacity of healthcare facilities to respond to the threats posed by climate change. The book presents the key challenges faced in reducing the risks posed to the health sector by climatic factors, and highlights the most important opportunities for promoting resilience and adaptation to achieve sustainable development.Dr. Dasgupta’s excellent book reviews the health risks of climate change, outlines an operational framework for health adaptation, and describes the socioeconomic context for adaptation in India. - Kristie L. EbiProfessor, Departments of Global Health, and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, USAThis pioneering work contributes to an the understanding of the preparedness in India to manage health risks from such (climate) change on the basis of detailed data analysis, both from large national surveys and contextualized field based surveys.- Kanchan ChopraFormer Director and Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, IndiaTrade ReviewClimate change is already causing morbidity and mortality, with risks projected to increase significantly in coming decades if no additional public health preventions are implemented. The impacts disproportionally affect populations in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Dasgupta’s excellent book Climate Sensitive Adaptation in Health: Imperatives for India in a Developing Economy Context reviews the health risks of climate change, outlines an operational framework for health adaptation, and describes the socioeconomic context for adaptation in India. Managing the current burden of climate-sensitive health outcomes, such as undernutrition, malaria, and diarrheal disease, means ensuring universal access to safe water, improved sanitation, vaccination, and child health services, and enhancing disaster risk management as extreme weather and climate events increase in frequency and intensity. Developing effective and efficient longer-term adaptation policies and programs requires capacity building at local to national levels, enhanced and sustained surveillance, early warning systems, and research and development. The book provides much needed critical and practical insights for facilitating the transition to climate-resilient health systems. - Kristie L. Ebi Professor, Departments of Global Health and Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, University of Washington, USAThis is a forward looking volume focusing on the interface between health policy and climate change, a subject little researched in India. Climate change is expected to result in an increase in extreme events such as cyclones, floods and heat waves. This pioneering work contributes to an the understanding of the preparedness in India to manage health risks from such change on the basis of detailed data analysis, both from large national surveys and contextualized field based surveys.The in-depth analysis provides insights into interventions required in health policy in the short run and directions for an innovative design of adaptation measures in the longer run. The study, a first of its kind will be of interest to experts in health policy and researchers working on climate change, adaptation measures and sustainable development. - Kanchan ChopraFormer Director and Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India Table of ContentsIntroduction: Climate Risks in the Health Sector.- Climate Change Adaptation: The International Experience in Health.- Developing Economy Context for Adaptation Decision-Making.- Understanding Associations: Health, Socio-economic Wellbeing & Climate.- Analysing the Interface in Indian Plans and Policies.- Criticality of the Field: Three Case Studies.- Conclusion: Integrating Sustainable Development and Health Adaptation.

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