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...

Chapter 1. Accounting for the Growth of Government -- Chapter 2. The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Multi-Party Systems -- Chapter 3. High Tax Compliance Results in Smaller Government -- Chapter 4. Does Technology Drive The Growth of Government -- Chapter 5. A Congressional...

Chapter1 Literature Review of Technological Improvement and Transformation of Economic Development Model -- Chapter2 Theoretical Research: Endogenous Growth Model Embedded with Innovation Heterogeneity -- Chapter3 Mechanical Analysis: Technological Improvement and the Transformation of Industry...

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 describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia. For the future, the focus should be on Japan, which can provide "common knowledge" as a public good. The book collects the results of researchers in Japan, China, South Korea, and Indonesia on declining...

Part I - Market Picture and Development Challenges -- European Life Insurance Market – Analysis of Current Situation and Development Prospects -- Social Determinants of Life Insurance in the European Union -- The Challenges Faced by Life Insurance Companies in the Baltic States -- The Turkish...

Spatial Analysis of Cultural Resources and their Contribution to the Sustainable Tourism Development of Greece -- Exploring Stakeholders' Perspectives on Hotel Design -- Tourists’ Willingness to pay for Environmental and Sociocultural Sustainability in Destinations: Underlying Factors and the...

Chapter 1: Introduction Civilization and Lived Experience -- Part 1: The Quests that Created a New Western Civilization (and Destroyed Others): Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 2: The 3-Cs: Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 3: Crops and the Shaping of Civilizations -- Chapter 4: Climate:...

Chapter 1: Innovation: engine of economic growth (and employment) -- Chapter 2: The technological revolution: The rise of machines -- Chapter 3: The technological revolution: professions at risk and new jobs -- Chapter 4: Constraints to economic growth: Sustainability, happiness and other issues...