This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and their cultural preferences and constraints (just as rural...

This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the U.S. scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned...

This book presents detailed case studies of the first commercial internet digital currency systems developed between 1996 and 2004. Transactions completed with the new technology circumvented all US financial regulations, an opening that transnational criminals exploited. Mullan explains how an...

1. The Cooperation Imperative -- 2. Environmental, Social and Governance Challenges in China Today -- 3. China and Innovation -- 4. Implications of the Technology Race -- 5. Understanding Chinese History: A Brief Look Back at China from its Origins through the 1700s -- 6. A Century of...

Understanding the Recent Sino-U.S. Trade Conflict -- The Status of China’s Market Economy and Structural Reforms: The Issues behind the U.S.-China Trade War -- The Day After Tomorrow: Evaluating the Burden of Trump’s Trade War -- The Potential Impact of China–US BIT on China’s...

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. Objective and Organization -- 2. Corporate Influence in US Trade Policy -- 3. The Importance of Bananas in the Caribbean -- 4. The EU Banana Regime -- 5. Chiquita and Its Influence on US Trade Policy -- 6. Chiquita Overwhelms the Small Caribbean States -- 7. Impact of US Banana Policy on the...

Chapter 1: Introduction. Women’s work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch colonialism in comparative perspective -- Chapter 3: Industrious women in an imperial economy: The Cultivation System and its consequences -- Chapter 4: Industrialisation,...

1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of Turning Points in Equality and Wealth Gaps -- 3. Wealth Gap Index Construction and Data Analysis -- 4. Multiple Equality Indexes Related to the Wealth Gap -- 5. Analysis of the Turning Point of Wealth Gap Index and Economic Growth -- 6. Wealth Gap and Social...

Part I Perspective on the History of Women and Family in Japanese Economic Development -- 1 The Labour Market and Labour Migration in Small Post Towns in Early Modern Japan: The Relationship between a Town and its Outlying Villages in the Northeastern Domain of Nihonmatsu in the Eighteenth to...