Property rights and sustainable development / by Terry L. Anderson -- The skeptical environmentalist / by Bjørn Lomborg -- Economic growth, technological change and human well-being / by Indur M. Goklany -- Income and the race to the top / by Bruce Yandle, Maya Vijayaraghavan, and Madhusudan...

With the life story of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), one of the most important financiers and industrialists in modern Japanese history, as its narrative focal point, this book explores the challenges of importing modern business enterprises to Japan, where the pursuit of profit was considered...

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...

1. ‘Where the Sandalwood Is Born’: East Timor until the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 2. The Two Last Centuries of Portuguese Domination -- 3. The Indonesian Occupation -- 4. The Economy under Occupation -- 5. Launching a New State -- 6. Conclusions

1. Global Production Networks: Participation and Structural Break (Agus Miftahul Ilmi and Fithra Faisal Hastiadi) -- 2. Does Democracy Cause Regional Disintegration? The Effect of Democracy on ASEAN Intra-Regional and Extra-Regional Trade (Faris Maulana and Fithra Faisal Hastiadi) -- 3....

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The 1891-92 Crisis and Beyond -- Chapter 3: World War I and the 1920s Financial Crisis -- Chapter 4: The Estado Novo period: The 1930s and World War II -- Chapter 5: The Estado Novo period after World War II: The golden age of economic growth (1946-1973) --...

1. The Particular Colombian Case in Latin America: A Singular Path with the Same Results -- 2. The Price of the Regeneration, 1870-1914: How Colombia Missed the Belle Époque -- 3. The Take-Off, 1914-1929: Coffee, Railways and Regional Divergence -- 4. The Liberal Republic, 1930-1945: Overcoming...