1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of Turning Points in Equality and Wealth Gaps -- 3. Wealth Gap Index Construction and Data Analysis -- 4. Multiple Equality Indexes Related to the Wealth Gap -- 5. Analysis of the Turning Point of Wealth Gap Index and Economic Growth -- 6. Wealth Gap and Social...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy -- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s -- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- 6. Regime...

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...

Wenn es in London regnet: Ein Vorwort -- "Non, merci beaucoup" – Immer Ärger mit Europa -- „Sie sind ja immer noch da!“ - Der Streit um die Fremden -- Nigel Farage – Volkstribun und paradox -- Sieger und Besiegte – Brexit und kein Ende -- Konstruierte Erinnerung – Wie britisch ist...

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Institutional Routines and the Victorian Publishing Industry -- Chapter 3: Authorship: Legitimation of a Literary Profession -- Chapter 4: Literary Agents: Middlemen of the Industry -- Chapter 5: Publishing Power Houses -- Chapter 6: The Macmillans: A...

1. Labor Resists -- 2. Early Nineteenth-Century Changes -- 3. Examples of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Business Ethics in America -- 4. Rise of Industrialization -- 5. Ethics of the Firm and Strategic Behavior -- 6. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil -- 7. Rise of the Big Retail Merchants -- 8....

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Early History of Inflation Measurement -- Chapter 3: The Launch of the Index of Retail Prices -- Chapter 4: Improving the Index -- Chapter 5: The RPI in the Political Sphere -- Chapter 6: Reviews of the RPI and the Loss of National Statistics Status --...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. From War Financier to Bankers’ Bank -- Chapter 3. Central Banks under the Gold Standard -- Chapter 4. The Federal Reserve: A Unique Institution -- Chapter 5. From War to War: 1914-1939 -- Chapter 6. Post-war Progress: 1946-1960 -- Chapter 7. The 1960s:...

Part I Introduction -- 1 Historical and Political Background -- Part II The Economy of Colonial America -- 2 Labour -- 2.1 Slave Labour -- 3 The Slave Trade and Britain’s Industrial Revolution -- 4 Economic Impact of Slavery -- 5 Industry -- 6 Land Values, Tenancy, and Private Ownership --...