This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The...

Dieses Buch bietet neue Impulse und Orientierungen für den Weg der Digitalisierung der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Wie nie zuvor verändert die Digitalisierung Verwaltungen und ihre Dienstleistungen. So verändert sich die Verwaltungs-Realität auf allen Ebenen von Bund, Ländern und Kommunen –...

Digitalisierung ist für Bürgerinnen und Bürger, Politik und Verwaltung auf vielfältige Weise höchst relevant. Aus strategischer Perspektive sind für gesellschaftliche Akteure mehr Transparenz sowie Analyse- und Steuerungsmöglichkeiten verfügbar. Es ist wichtig, sich individuell mit...

1. Work and Labour: Meanings and Concepts -- 2. Population, Urbanization and Working People -- 3. Technology, Markets, Specializations and Organization of Production -- 4. Labour Relations -- 5. Labour Conditions -- 5. Work and the Little Divergence

Chapter 1. Development Institutions as a Tool for Implementing Transformation Processes in the Economy -- Chapter 2. Managing for future crisis management under post-industrial modernization -- Chapter 3. High Technologies for Smart Cities Development -- Chapter 4. Digital State: Creation...

This book compares the experiences of the Philippines and Vietnam to gain insight into how openness to trade and financing can increase prosperity. In contrast, theoretical and empirical work in the 20th and early 21st centuries have returned mixed results regarding this assertion. The book also...

This book presents for the first time a detailed and comprehensive interpretation of Zhongguancun, China’s first national self-dependent innovation demonstration zone. Explored in the book are examples of world-class, leading enterprises in fields, such as the Internet, big data, artificial...

The book constructs the Synergy Theory, a new theory of economic growth and calculation methodology. The book involves empirical comparative study on economic growth between China and the 14 developed countries, and on the basis of the synergy theory, divides GDP into labor compensation, capital...

This book offers important new insights into recent advances and perspectives in the field of political economy of development in Southeastern European countries. In addition, it provides theoretical and empirical contributions to political economy of development in an international context....

‘This is the second book of a two-volume set that continues Adam Smith's work, using the tools mathematical, experimental, and behavioural economists have developed since 1776. As in the first volume, markets are not the central organising principle. Instead, attention centres on social...