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...

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 -- 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...

Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

‘This is essential reading for anybody interested in global history.’ -Professor Ugo Panizza, The Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland This illuminating book offers a compact survey and new interpretation of trends and policies in the US economy from the end of the nineteenth century to...

The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies. The perceived need for economic planning emerged in Sweden in part due to the increasing...

This book focuses on the competitive situation and policy outlook of China’s provincial economy in the 13th five-year period. It begins with a general evaluation report on the country’s provincial comprehensive Economic Competitiveness, followed by analyses at the international, national and...

The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for...