Part I: Russia Today: Economy -- 1. Russia: A Giant in Figures -- 2. Political System and Administrative Structure -- 3. Economic Structure -- 4. Economic Clusters and Regional Policy -- 5. Transport Infrastructure -- 6. Competitiveness -- 7. Trading in Times of Sanctions and Protectionism -- 8....

The distinctive contribution of this book is the formulation of an integrated social, environmental, and economic framework for public policy. This contribution is realised through investigations and conclusions in the following four domains: a formal stylised model that provides a platform for...

Chapter 1: Challenges and Opportunities of Sri Lanka’s Post Conflict Economic Development – Overview -- Part I: Policies, regulations, and governance for smart growth -- Chapter 2: Incentives, efficiency and competitiveness for balanced growth -- Chapter 3: Governance, institutions, and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What kind of Polity? -- Chapter 3: Economic and Institutional Foundations of Turkish Cypriot Governance and the ‘ITEM’ Law -- Chapter 4: From Separation to Convergence: The Economic Development of the Republic of Cyprus and Turkification of Northern...

1. The EU Food Sector -- 2. EU Food Law: A Very Short Introduction -- 3. EU Food Quality Policy: Geographical Indications -- 4. Public and Private Food Standards -- 5. Health and Nutrition: Policy, Consumer and Industry Perspectives -- 6. Future Developments in the EU Food Sector -- 7. A Public...

1. Introduction -- 2. Bioeconomy Economics and Policy -- 3. European Integration: A Historical Overview -- 4. European Agriculture and the Bioeconomy: A Historical Overview -- 5. EU Institutions and Decision Making Processes -- 6. EU Budgetary Politics and Its Implications for the Bioeconomy --...

1. Introduction: Global Political Activism and Campaigns on Universal Basic Income -- 2. Disagree to Agree: Forming Consensus around Basic Income in Times of Political Divisiveness -- 3. Is Democracy Fit for Basic Income? Towards a Hybrid Income Guarantee for Future Generations -- 4. Basic...

From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US. However, once the US entered World War II, the entire apparatus of the US government was mobilized to “market” the war to Americans who were incredulous...

1. The Concept of Power -- 2. Political Power -- 3. Economic Power -- 4. The Separation of Economic from Political Power -- 5. Power in Pre-Agricultural Societies -- 6. Power in Agrarian and Feudal Societies -- 7. Institutions That Support Commerce and Industry -- 8. Power in Commercial and...