Introduction (Paul Dobrescu) -- Part I. Envisaging Development in the Contemporary Society: Theory and Public Debates -- Why Do Some Countries Develop and Others Not? (Ian Goldin) -- Measuring the Hard-to-Measure in Development: Dimensions, Measurement Challenges, and Responses (Anne L....

1. Post-Crisis Growth: Prospects in the European Union -- 2. Convergence Is Alive and Well in Europe -- 3. Unconventional Monetary Policy in the United States and Europe -- 4. Time to Tidy up EU Competition on Information Exchange Object Restriction Concerted Practices? -- 5. European Union...

Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management -- Healthcare Operations Management -- Sustainable Operations -- Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Operations -- Product Innovation and Technology in Operations Management -- Marketing and Operations Management -- Service Operations and...

1. Introduction -- 2. Economics Policies, Paradigm Shifts and their Implications -- 3. Economic Development and the Belt and Road Initiative -- 4. Regional Integration, Trade and the Belt and Road Initiative -- 5. The Development of Infrastructure and Economic Growth -- 6. Projects of the Belt...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Changing International Financial System -- 3. International Economic Growth -- 4. The Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on China's Domestic Economy -- 5. Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on the Domestic Economies of Participating Countries -- 6. Effects of...

Chapter 1. Scenes from a Marriage -- Chapter 2. I Will Always Be Proud to Call Him My Father -- Chapter 3. My Dad, the Athlete, Entertainer, Phrase Philosopher, Conformist and Analogist -- Chapter 4. Perhaps David Audretsch Is Not a Good Man -- Chapter 5. Henry David Bruce Audretsch: A...

Solving the problem in Italy and much of Western Europe -- Trump's challenge to the world's liberal economic and trade system -- Populism and European integration: diagnosis and policy response -- East versus West on the European populism scale -- Artificial Intelligence, labor market structure,...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. China’s four decades of reforms and development -- Chapter 3. China’s new style of globalization as a route to a more sustainable growth path -- Chapter 4. The Rationale for the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative -- Chapter 5. China’s financial deepening...

1.Introduction: The Political Economy of the Spanish Crisis -- Part I: Foundations of the Theory of Crisis in the Economic Thought -- 2.The Materialist Conception of the Crisis -- 3.Advancing in the Theory of Crisis: Social, Temporal and Geographical Dynamics -- 4.Conventional Economics and the...

Part I Human Capital in the Form of Education, Demographic Change, and Their Economic Implications -- Chapter 1: The Non-linearity in the Relationship Between Human Capital and Growth; Alessandra Pelloni, Thanasis Stengos, and Fabrizio Valenti -- Chapter 2: Optimal Life-Cycle Education Decisions...