Part I Human Capital in the Form of Education, Demographic Change, and Their Economic Implications -- Chapter 1: The Non-linearity in the Relationship Between Human Capital and Growth; Alessandra Pelloni, Thanasis Stengos, and Fabrizio Valenti -- Chapter 2: Optimal Life-Cycle Education Decisions...

Peak-Konsum -- Die Auswirkungen von Bevölkerungsschrumpfung und -alterung auf das Rentenversicherungssystem in Deutschland -- Was taugen die Vorhersagen? Regionale Unterschiede in der demografischen Entwicklung, Ursachen und Zukunftsprognosen -- Die Generationenökonomie -- Auswirkungen des...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability -- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia -- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The concept of the platform-based ecosystem: The digital platform economy -- Chapter 3. From concept to measurement: The 12 pillars and their measurement -- Chapter 4. The Digital Platform Economy Index: Country rankings and clustering -- Chapter 5....

Chapter 1: The Productivity Puzzle – A critical assessment and an outlook on the COVID-19 crisis -- Chapter 2: Revisiting intangible capital and labour productivity growth, 2000-2015: Accounting for the crisis and economic recovery in the EU -- Chapter 3: The Rule of Law and Labour...

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Revelation: State Capacity and Economic Development -- Chapter 2 Foundation Laying: From Old China to New China -- Chapter 3 Exploration: From New China’s First 30 Years to Next 40 Years -- Chapter 4 Adjust and Control: From Planning to Programming -- Chapter 5...

Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries: Applying Financial Technology as a Panacea -- Revisiting the East Asian financial crises: Lessons from ethics and development pathways -- Financial Development and Natural Resources Rents-Human Capital Nexus: A New Approach -- Financial Inclusion...

Population Aging and Political Economy -- Expenditure on Public Investment -- Expenditure on Education -- Expenditure on welfare -- Interregional Tax Competition -- Comparison of Japan and the US -- Concluding Remarks.

FM -- Introduction -- Part I: Mathematical background -- Dynamical systems -- An example of nonlinear dynamical system: The Logistic Map -- Bifurcations -- From local bifurcations to global dynamics: Hopf systems from the applied perspective -- Chaos -- Embedding and mutual information -- Part...

Introduction -- Section I. Understanding the Emerging 4IR World -- Chapter 1. The Road to 4IR (4th Industrial Revolution) -- Chapter 2. Managing in the 4IR world -- Chapter 3: Business Concepts in Globalization -- Section II: 4IR Strategy and Analytics -- Chapter 4. Strategizing using Technology...