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. The Beginnings of the European Union and Overview of the Book -- 2. Car Production and the Four Phases of European Integration, 1958-2017 -- 3. Introduction to Part II: The Early Belgian Car Industry -- 4. Ford Motor in Belgium -- 5. General Motors in Belgium -- 6. A History of Renault...

Organisational Mindset of Entrepreneurship: An Overview -- Entrepreneurial Leadership and Its Impact on the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Ventures -- Too Much of a Good Thing? Employee Human Capital and the Accelerated Internationalization of Belgian Small and Medium-Sized Companies --...

What constitutes a good life? For most people, well-being involves more than a high income or material prosperity alone. Many non-material aspects, such as health, family life, living environment, job quality and the meaningful use of time are at least as important. Together, these factors also...

Consistency and Viability of Capitalist Economic Systems develops an original analytical framework to understand the relationship between the economic, political, and ideological structures, the external environment, and the process of reform that give rise to certain economic systems by...

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...

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Why Neoliberalism Spread in Some Countries, But Not Others -- Chapter 2: The spread of neoliberalism in French public policies: Is there a French exception ? -- Chapter 3: The Value of Public Opinion, Political Party Discourse and the Politics of Liberalisation in...

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Revelation: State Capacity and Economic Development -- Chapter 2 Foundation Laying: From Old China to New China -- Chapter 3 Exploration: From New China’s First 30 Years to Next 40 Years -- Chapter 4 Adjust and Control: From Planning to Programming -- Chapter 5...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Mr Smith Goes to the Movies -- Chapter 2: Scarcity, Conflicts, and Dystopia -- Chapter 3: Evil is the Root of all Money -- Chapter 4: Brokers, Bankers and Boiler Rooms -- Chapter 5: Evil, Inc -- Chapter 6: Disruptors -- Chapter 7: The Path of Workers -- Chapter 8: Women...

Chapter 1. The Land They Found -- Chapter 2. Adapting to a New World -- Chapter 3. Colonial Latin America -- Chapter 4. The First Century of Independence -- Chapter 5. Industrialization -- Chapter 6. Alternatives -- Chapter 7. The Commodity Boom of the 1970s -- Chapter 8. The Lost Decade of the...