Chapter 1. Creating an Epistemic Community: The Experience of the Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar -- Chapter 2. Will the EU Grow Faster Than in the Past Decade After Covid-19? -- Chapter 3. Covid-19 and the Golden Rule of Social Distancing -- Chapter 4. The New European...

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates. This is due to their profound implications for rural development, local sustainability, and bio-economics. This edited collection discusses what the main determinants...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rural marginality and its development -- Chapter 2: Food festivals and the Italian foodscape -- Chapter 3: Food festivals as identity devices -- Chapter 4: Food festivals as political devices -- Chapter 5: Food festivals as economic devices -- Chapter 6: Conclusions:...

1. Introduction; Mohyedine Hajjar -- Introductory Part 1: Legal Framework of Islamic Finance in EU Legislation -- 2. Financial Undertakings, Sharīᶜa Rules and the Internal Market Framework Challenges and Opportunities; Gabriella Gimigliano -- 3. Islamic Insurance and European Union Legal...

1. Terroir, institutions and improvements in European wine history: an Introduction; Silvia A. Conca Messina, Stéphane Le Bras, Paolo Tedeschi, Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro -- 2. The “Grapes Country”. Portoguese viticulture from the early 19th century until the new millennium; Conceição...

1. Terroir, Institutions and Improvements in European Wine History: an Introduction; Silvia A. Conca Messina, Stéphane Le Bras, Paolo Tedeschi, Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro -- 2. Bordeaux wine challenging cycles and competition (from the 1820s to present times); Hubert Bonin -- 3. Quantity is not...

Part I -- 1 Introduction -- Aim and Contribution -- Case Study Approach -- References -- 2 The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development -- Agriculture for Development -- Agricultural Development -- References -- 3 The Role of the State in Agricultural Development -- Agricultural Policies --...

Chapter1 An Analysis of the Factors affecting New-Generation Peasant Workers’ Decision-making of Vocational Training Participation —A Micro Perspective -- Chapter2 A Theoretical and Empirical Study on over-leaping the Middle Income Trap -- Chapter3 Middle Income Trap and the Innovation of...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Regional human capital inequality in Europe -- Chapter 3. Spatial clustering of numeracy and literacy -- Chapter 4. Human capital and market access in the European regions -- Chapter 5. The long-run impact of human capital on innovation and economic growth...