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Globalization and the information revolution have highlighted the catalytic role of local governments for improving economic and social outcomes at the local level as well as growing the national economy by enhancing international competitiveness. This comprehensive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-09-05
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*Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019**Winner of Debut Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020**Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019*'Extreme Economies is a revelation - and a...
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Transworld Digital
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2019-09-05
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In dieser Open-Access-Publikation analysieren die Autoren die öffentliche Debatte um Chancen und Risiken von Big Data und diskutieren die konkreten Implikationen in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen.In einer repräsentativen Befragung vermessen sie das Wissen und die...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2019-08-30
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Ist die Größe des Niedriglohnsektors ein Ergebnis staatlicher Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Arbeitsmarktregulierung? Und welche Bedeutung hat der Wohlfahrtsstaat für die Verbreitung von Niedriglohnjobs? Durch Verbindung politökonomischer und wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Perspektiven...
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Springer VS
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2019-08-23
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Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives. Traditionally, discussions of discretion have drawn on legal notions of the appropriate exercise of legitimate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-21
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Technological dominance is shifting the balance of global economic stability. This is the central premise behind the latest book from Lorenzi and Berrebi who view the rise of artificial intelligence, robotics, use of private data, and genetic transformation, among other...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-14
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This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-13
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The legitimacy of environmental policies is an issue of increasing concern for analysts. Ecological stakes are deemed to be global, but global public decisions are rare and implemented with difficulty. Dissensus prevails on environmental ethics and there is little...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-08-09
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This book examines the role of unauthorized water use in the American West (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) and the coming demand for water accountability. Arguing that status quo responses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-08
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This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put into question the values of free trade and liberal democracy. The book’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-06
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Using the basic economic principle of making decisions using a cost-benefit framework—and how changes in one or the other can result in a different decision—this book uncovers how various groups responded to incentives provided by the Prohibition legislation.Using this...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-08-02
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Simon Dombrowski zeigt, dass das Entstehen und die Dynamik der explosionsartig wachsenden deutschen Märkte für biologische Lebensmittel nicht ohne die Koordinationsleistungen von Wirtschaftsverbänden wie Bioland, Demeter oder Naturland zu erklären ist. Sowohl die ...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-31
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This book focuses on building regional resilience by comprehensively improving regional assets. Regional vulnerability depends on the availability of regional assets for the population, as well as the population’s ability to access those assets. Such assets include the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-26
Collection :
New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
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In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, central banks created trillions of dollars of new money, and poured it into financial markets. ‘Quantitative Easing’ (QE) was supposed to prevent deflation and restore economic growth. But the money didn’t go to ordinary...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-26
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The Case For
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This book investigates Australia’s relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019. Beginning with an overview of Australia’s Eurovision history, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-25
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Dieser Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über die Herausforderungen für Organisationen im Wirtschaftsschutz im Alltag und stellt Ansätze und Szenarien vor, die für Unternehmen und andere Einrichtungen eine hohe Relevanz haben und die Fähigkeit zur Resilienz erhöhen. Der...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-24
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In this book the authors demonstrate how the economics of insurance, risk reduction, and damage control or limitation can be combined with concepts of collective choice and collective behavior to improve analysis of the escalating threats faced by alliances throughout...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-23
Collection :
Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
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Advocated (and attacked) by commentators across the political spectrum, paying every citizen a basic income regardless of their circumstances sounds utopian. However, as our economies are transformed and welfare states feel the strain, it has become a hotly debated...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-07-20
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The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels – but how can we do so in a just and feasible way? In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that the key to solving this conundrum is to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-20
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In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors take as their basic premises that we now live in a risk society and that our collective ability to deal with disasters and their aftermath is more...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-20
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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