This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history. The author interrogates the relationship between innovation and civilisation --...

Dieses Handbuch bietet sowohl einen Einstieg als auch einen Überblick zu Leben, Werk und Wirkung bedeutender Ökonomen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart – von antiken Vordenkern der Ökonomie bis hin zu Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträgern. Dabei werden auch Ökonomen abseits der...

Chapter 1. Introduction: The New Role of the Arctic Region -- Chapter 2. Russian Arctic Policy and Key Barriers for the Development in the Northern Latitudes -- Chapter 3. Development of the Northern Sea Route as a Eurasian Transport Corridor -- Chapter 4. Chinese Arctic Strategy: a Threat or...

1. Kautilya’s Arthashashtra and a mixed economy within Monarchy -- 2. Socialism in the Soviet Union -- 3. Socialism within a Democracy, Fabian Socialism in Yugoslavia, Scandinavia, India -- 4. Socialist theory of Feldman and Mahalanobis -- 5. Socialist Calculation -- 6. Contemporary capitalism...

This book explores how corruption is now widely recognized as a major “disease” which threatens not only economic development but also the foundations of societies. As well as examining the causes and consequences of corruption, this book also offers a deep analysis of possible cures. It...

1. Emerging Risks: An Overview; Thomas Walker, Dieter Gramlich, Kalima Vico, and Adele Dumont-Bergeron -- Part I. Ecological Risks -- 2. Climate Change: Macroeconomic Impact and Implications for Monetary Policy; Sandra Batten, Rhiannon Sowerbutts, and Misa Tanaka -- 3. Global Warming and Extreme...

The Dawn of a New Common -- Covidspiracy: Old Wine in New Barrels? -- Do Not Pass Up the Opportunity! -- Internet Access as an Essential Social Good -- In-Work Poverty in Times of COVID-19 -- Being a Collective Jeremiah -- COVID-19 and the Secular Theodicy -- Online Proctoring Put to the Test --...

Part I The modern experience of fighting climate change based on the opportunities of Industry 4.0 -- Chapter 1 Industry 4.0 as the basis of fighting climate change in developed countries -- Chapter 2 Developing countries on the path to sustainable development: technological provision of...

Modeling of Wage Payment System Choosing Task -- Problems of labor incentives of high-tech enterprises in conditions of digitalization -- DEA-Analysis of Enterprises Activity -- Technique of Optimal Distribution of Investments in Industrial Cluster Blocks -- Game Models of Competition in the...

Institutional Theory and Oil Prices: Ceci est ne pas un Marché -- The Oil Price and Resource-Society Interaction -- Oil, between monopolies and free market -- Is OPEC dead? Oil Exporters, the Paris Agreement and the Transition to a Post-Carbon World -- Petroleum Conspiracies: How Russian...