The Italian university system is adopting efficiency and effectiveness as criteria for process programming and result managing. Starting from the experience of some Italian universities, this book aims to infer upon the quality of the education achieved by graduates by surveying their transition...

Using a public choice perspective, this book explains the evolution and political and economic impact of recent changes to the Italian institutional framework. Because these changes are so numerous and broad, their implementation serves as a case study for other Western governments. Particular...

Empirical laws are rare in economics. This book describes efforts to anchor economic knowledge to invariant empirical laws. It links 17th and 18th century Galilean monetary economists to econophysics, a field that emerged in the mid-1990s. This virtual journey from past to present is charted by...

Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes that Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail, and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the influence of this work represents a...

This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive...

This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public intervention that it suggests. The starting point for the analysis is that economic development in...

Wirtschaftswunderland Südkorea Jährlich besuchen über 50.000 deutsche Reisende Südkorea, die meisten als Geschäftsleute, Manager oder Verbandsangehörige. Dieser erste Business-Reiseführer soll insbesondere den Geschäftsreisenden als Einführung in die Historie, die Kultur und die...

Dieser Ratgeber vermittelt die entscheidenden Faktoren für ein erfolgreiches Marketing in China. Praxisorientiert und verständlich bringt er auf den Punkt, wie Unternehmen in diesem ebenso spannenden wie herausfordernden Marktumfeld bestehen können. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele erhält der...