Kathrin Natterer widmet sich bislang ungeklärten Wirkungszusammenhängen zwischen persönlicher und historischer Nostalgie im Kontext von Medienprodukten unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener Einflussvariablen, wie z.B. Stimmung, Nostalgieempfänglichkeit, Alter und Geschlecht. Hierzu führt...

Introduction -- Part I: FDI Flows and Institutional Dynamics in Europe and Asia -- Part II: Redesigning of Public Policies to Meet Competitiveness and Attractiveness Challenges, while Dealing with Business Lobbying -- Part III: Multinational Companies across Home and Host Countries: Transfer,...

Is 'development' passe? Is it merely a by-product or a 'trickle down' effect of economic growth, spurred by globalisation? Will poverty simply diminish with increased global markets? This state-of-the-art critical 'development' reader deals with these and other related questions. "Globalisation,...

One of the most striking macroeconomic developments during the last three decades is the rise and persistence of large fiscal deficits in a number of countries. Despite recent major fiscal reforms around the world, many countries suffer from recurrent large fiscal imbalances that often reflect...

The Normative Impact of Empirical Justice Research -- Advances in Justice Conflict Conceptualization: A New Integrative Framework -- Absence and Presence: Interpreting Moral Exclusion in the Jewish Museum Berlin -- On the Differentiation of an Implicit and a Self-Attributed Justice Motive --...

This controversial book shows that there is more to economics than dry models and esoteric equations. By investigating the rise and fall of postwar Keynesianism and focusing on the experience of the United States, the author adopts an interdisciplinary approach to show that economics is rooted...

Economic Development, Inequality and War shows how economic decline, income inequality, pervasive rent seeking by ruling elites, political authoritarianism, military centrality and competition for mineral exports contribute to war and humanitarian emergencies. Economic regress and political...

'This original book addresses the important issue of cultural distance and provides insights for the sustainable development of both the green technology industry and international collaboration. It does so with a multidisciplinary perspective and uses the cases of two highly relevant regions....

This book presents an unorthodox identity economics that approaches social identity through a non-classical psychology. Garai applies the modern physics concept of wave-particle duality to economic psychology, finding a corresponding duality in object-oriented activity and historically generated...

Welchen grundlegenden markensoziologischen Erkenntnissen unterliegt durchsetzungsstarke Werbung? Welche Mechanismen können eingesetzt werden, um bestimmte Vorstellungen bei Gruppen zu aktivieren und dadurch Wirtschaftskörper zu stärken? Oliver Carlo Errichiello präsentiert eine...