This book gathers selected papers presented at the International Scientific Conference “Economics in the Changing World,” held on June 26-27, 2018 at the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance of Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia). The conference featured contributions by...

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...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Bank of Thompson and Company -- Chapter 3 – Thompson and Company in the wider history of banking -- Chapter 4 – The ‘bank’ of Thompson and Company? -- Chapter 5 – The partners’ family networks -- Chapter 6 – The creditors of Thompson and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Japan’s catching up process -- Chapter 3: South Korea’s catching up process -- Chapter 4: Chapter 4: The Rise of China -- Chapter 5: The development paths and strategies of Japan, South Korea, and China – A Comparison -- Chapter 6: Chapter 6: Current...

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...

Chapter 1. The Land They Found -- Chapter 2. Adapting to a New World -- Chapter 3. Colonial Latin America -- Chapter 4. The First Century of Independence -- Chapter 5. Industrialization -- Chapter 6. Alternatives -- Chapter 7. The Commodity Boom of the 1970s -- Chapter 8. The Lost Decade of the...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Finding a new approach to ancient proxy data -- Part I- Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies -- Chapter 2: Playing by whose rules? Institutional resilience, conflict and change in the Roman economy -- Chapter 3: Networks as Proxies: a relational approach towards...

The Late Middle Ages (c.1300–c.1500) saw the development of many of the key economic institutions of the modern unitary nation-state in Europe. After the ‘commercial revolution’ of the thirteenth century, taxes on trade became increasingly significant contributors to government finances,...

Chapter 1: China’s marketing macro environment: Cultural characteristics and regional heterogeneity -- Chapter 2: The characteristics of the Chinese digital market -- Chapter 3: Chinese digital and mobile platforms -- Chapter 4: Luxury and fashion retailing in China: The case of Florentia...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Zinzendorf with Kaunitz in France, 1750-1752 -- Chapter 3. French Intellectual Influence: Melon and Gournay -- Chapter 4. The German Translation of Law's Money and Trade, 1758 -- Chapter 5. The Development of Zinzendorf’s Thinking on State Credit --...