Introduction (Paul Dobrescu) -- Part I. Envisaging Development in the Contemporary Society: Theory and Public Debates -- Why Do Some Countries Develop and Others Not? (Ian Goldin) -- Measuring the Hard-to-Measure in Development: Dimensions, Measurement Challenges, and Responses (Anne L....

Introduction -- A Market Approach -- Global Development and Climate Change: A Game Theory Approach -- On the Edge of Climate Change: In a Search of an Adequate Agent-Based Methodology to Model Environmental Dynamics -- Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth: Empirical...

PART I. FACTORS AND CONDITIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS -- Challenges of Corporate Risk Management after the Global Financial Crisis (K. Benetti) -- “Hexagon” of Property (S. V. Domnina, S. Y. Salynina) -- Have the Lessons about Crisis Processes in the...

1. Post-Crisis Growth: Prospects in the European Union -- 2. Convergence Is Alive and Well in Europe -- 3. Unconventional Monetary Policy in the United States and Europe -- 4. Time to Tidy up EU Competition on Information Exchange Object Restriction Concerted Practices? -- 5. European Union...

Financial Crisis and Brain Drain: An Investigation of the Emigration Intentions of Greek Scientists -- Complexity in a Bertrand Duopoly Game with Heterogeneous Players and Differentiated Goods -- A Performance Measurement System for Staff of the Logistics Section - A Case Study for an Oil & Gas...

PartI: Theory -- Chapter1: Agent-based Computational Economics and Industrial Organization Theory -- Chapter2: Towards a big-data based economy -- Chapter3: Real worlds: simulating non-standard rationality in microeconomics -- Chapter4: The many faces of crowdfunding: a brief classification of...

Chapter1 An Analysis of the Factors affecting New-Generation Peasant Workers’ Decision-making of Vocational Training Participation —A Micro Perspective -- Chapter2 A Theoretical and Empirical Study on over-leaping the Middle Income Trap -- Chapter3 Middle Income Trap and the Innovation of...

1. Introduction -- Part 1: Income inequality and GDP Growth and inflation regime -- 2. Income inequality and GDP growth nexus in South Africa: Does the 4.5 percent consumer price inflation threshold and other channels play a role? -- 3. Does the inflation rate below 4.5 percent matter for the...

Chapter 1. Scenes from a Marriage -- Chapter 2. I Will Always Be Proud to Call Him My Father -- Chapter 3. My Dad, the Athlete, Entertainer, Phrase Philosopher, Conformist and Analogist -- Chapter 4. Perhaps David Audretsch Is Not a Good Man -- Chapter 5. Henry David Bruce Audretsch: A...

Part I Human Capital in the Form of Education, Demographic Change, and Their Economic Implications -- Chapter 1: The Non-linearity in the Relationship Between Human Capital and Growth; Alessandra Pelloni, Thanasis Stengos, and Fabrizio Valenti -- Chapter 2: Optimal Life-Cycle Education Decisions...