Part 1 Big Tree with Thick Trunk and its Fruits -- 1 Research Aim and Framework -- 2 Theoretical Background: General Purpose Technology, Pattern of Innovation, and Spin-out -- 3 Data -- 4 Technological Characteristics of Laser and Laser Diode -- Part 2 R&D and Market Competition of Laser Diodes...

Chapter 1: Background: Women and Work -- Chapter 2: Gender Inequality in Employment -- Chapter 3: Women’s Work in Modern Service Sector -- Chapter 4: Women in Modern Industrial Sector -- Chapter 5: Women in Domestic Work -- Chapter 6: Measurement Problem of Women’s Work -- Chapter 5: Way...

1. Introduction -- Part I. The Political Economy and the Public Policy Perspectives of Huawei’s Globalization -- 2. The International Political Economy of Huawei’s Global and Domestic Environment -- 3. Weaponizing Globalization: Chinese High-Tech in the Crosshairs of Geopolitics -- 4....

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Are Current Policies on Track to Eliminate Poverty? -- Chapter 3. How Mainstream Economics Works -- Chapter 4. Basic Principles to Understand Macroeconomics -- Chapter 5. Markets Alone Make No Development -- Chapter 6. Developing Countries in Global...

Introduction -- 1 What is money? -- A History of Money and Banking -- 2 Money from the very beginning -- 3 Banks enter the scene -- 4 The dawn of modern banking -- 5 The creation of a paper currency -- 6 Modern banking comes of age -- 7 The role of banks in a modern economy -- II An Analysis of...

Chapter 1. Development: Individual, Organizational and Social -- Chapter 2. Public Value: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic, Private vs. Public -- Chapter 3. Individual Development: Richer, Healthier, or Happier -- Chapter 4. Organization Development: Love, Profit, and Responsibility -- Chapter 5. Social...

The gambling industry’s corporate structure in a partially liberalised market -- State-owned gambling operation in global competitive environment -- The establishment and strategies of gambling providers in French-speaking Africa: the case of Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) -- Where does the gambling...

Part 1. Background to the Climate Problem -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Climate Challenge and its Consequences -- 3. Climate Protection Problems and Options for Action -- 4. Global Warming Perspectives -- 5. Perspectives on the Climate Debate and International Economic Aspects -- 6. The Wrong...

Chapter 1. Competition in the Postal and Delivery Markets in Europe -- Chapter 2. The Game Theory of Cartels in the Postal Industry -- Chapter 3. When a price cost test is unnecessary for assessing pricing abuses - the Royal Mail case -- Chapter 4. Data and the regulation of e-commerce: data...