This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development. Family and households are a fundamental feature of societies and economies. They are found throughout history and are...

Part A. Introduction to Young Adults’ Indebtedness -- Chapter 1. Why Study Young Adults’ Indebtedness?; Jeanette Carlsson Hauff, Tommy Gärling, and Ted Lindblom -- Chapter 2. Indebtedness, Over-indebtedness and Wellbeing; Viktor Elliot and Ted Lindblom -- Chapter 3. The Loan Market—the...

1. Introduction -- 2. The What, How, and Why of Bottom-up Rebuilding and Recovery after Natural Disasters -- 3. Nonviolent Action -- 4. The Private Sector's Contribution to Natural Disaster Response -- 5. Formation of Public-Private Partnerships by Local Emergency Managers -- 6. Children Take...

Preface -- Chapter 1. Catastrophes and agent-based models -- Chapter 2. BLUESSS simulation package -- Chapter 3. Behavior patterns of an artificial society -- Chapter 4. Extended prey-predator model -- Chapter 5. Stock market: Uncertainty and catastrophes -- Chapter 6. Epidemics -- Chapter 7....

Chapter 1: The socio-economic impact of cultural heritage: setting the scene -- Part 1: From cultural heritage to local development: the role of tourism -- Chapter 2: Cultural heritage, tourism and economic development in the existing literature and beyond -- Chapter 3: From cultural heritage to...

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...

Part 1: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Human Resources Management -- A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing Employee Ecological Behavior 0f Academics in Higher Education -- Leadership in Various Project Management Methodologies -- Part 2: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Management -- Impact...

1 Introduction: digital transformation, big techs, and public policies -- 2 New economy(ies), new economics and new ‘digital’ rights -- 3 Big Techs, Market Power and Public Policies -- 4 Big techs and on-line information system -- 5 Private power and public policies: between antitrust and...