Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Drive for Development -- Chapter 2. Enter local control -- Chapter 3. The force unleashed -- Part II. The Growth Mechanism -- Chapter 4. Hardware and software -- Chapter 5. Mechanization, automation and the labor market -- Chapter 6. Scale of operations --...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. China’s Economic Reform Pattern: Fundamentals of “Infinite” Transition -- Chapter 3. Resources, Trends and Goals of Chinese Military Modernization -- Chapter 4. Limits for Continuity and Change in Political Transformations -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

1. Introduction: The New Human Condition -- 2. A Major Stagnation, But Not a Secular One -- 3. The High Tech Eden -- 4. A Shattered Labour Market -- 5. Human Genius at the Controls -- 6. A Disengaged Society? -- 7. Who Governs: Politicians, or Technology Prophets? -- 8. Two Possible Paths: The...

Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

1. Innovation in ASEAN countries -- 2. The Transformation of Embedded Means into Resources During Community-Based Venture Creation -- 3. Entrepreneurial Innovation Strategy in the Midst of Pandemic: A Case of Bersih Solution -- 4. Evolution of Entrepreneurship Development among Different...

This book provides an assessment of the megatrends that are reshaping the emerging markets landscape. With developing countries already accounting for 40% of world GDP, emerging markets consumption growth will be an increasingly important growth engine for the world economy over the next two...

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...

Chapter 1. Development Institutions as a Tool for Implementing Transformation Processes in the Economy -- Chapter 2. Managing for future crisis management under post-industrial modernization -- Chapter 3. High Technologies for Smart Cities Development -- Chapter 4. Digital State: Creation...

This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which economic development influences the prevalence of...