<b>With Foreword by Michael Porter</b> Following the success of the First Edition published in 2000, this extended edition of <i>From Adam Smith to Michael Porter: Evolution of Competitiveness Theory</i> provides a thorough explanation of the evolution of international competitiveness theories and their...

Over the last two decades, several textbooks, research papers, and best practice cases have been published on supply chain management. However, globalization has created dispersed supply chains which are vulnerable and dependent on entities and factors that are exogenous to the supply chain....

This book provides an overview of the modern theory and empirics of business cycles. Written by one of the pioneering authors in this field, it examines the notion of a business cycle and discusses alternative approaches to modeling. Arguably, one of the most important debates in this literature...

This is a collection of the Mundell-Huang Da Lectures on Economics held at the Renmin University of China, including lectures by leading authorities in the international economics circle and Nobel Prize winners such as Jean-Jacques Laffont, Michael Spence, Edmund Phelps, Robert Shiller and...

This book is based on a highly successful joint project between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under the auspices of the Cambridge-MIT Institute. The project brings together communities of highly diverse individuals to share and learn how to be...

This book provides a rigorous course to the theory of intermediate microeconomics. It includes not only the basic traditional theory, but also a ¡°From the Literature¡± box in each chapter directing students to applications of the theory. The theory is developed axiomatically, with optional...