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...

Corinna Hilbig analysiert in diesem Buch die Erfolgsfaktoren französischer PPP-Fonds. Sie entwickelt ein für den deutschen Markt anwendbares Beteiligungsmodell unter Berücksichtigung der Anforderungen des Kapitalanlagegesetzbuches. Die Autorin zeigt anhand von Praxisbeispielen, wie ein...

Die systematische Durchleuchtung des im Auftrag des Bauherrn tätigen Projektmanagements von Hochbauten steht im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung. Von den vier unterschiedenen Kernprozessen Initiierung, Konzipierung, Planung und Errichtung des Gebäudes werden die beiden letzten detailliert...

1 About the Development of Urban Memory -- 2 Point: Historic Buildings in Beijing’s Measurement of Urban Memory -- 3 Line: Central Axis of Beijing’s Measurement of Urban Memory -- 4 Line: City Wall of Beijing’s Measurement of Urban Memory -- 5 Place: Historic Sites of Beijing’s...

Tourism and the Built Environment -- Architectural Tourism in the Spatial and Temporal Urban Context -- Contemporary Architecture and the Destination Image -- Architectural Tourism and the Spectaculture.

Investition und Finanzierung -- Public Private Partnership -- Leistungsspektrum von Finanzintermediären bei PPP-Beteiligungen -- Empirische Studie und Interpretation der Ergebnisse -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.

1 Introduction -- 2 The development of the modern business corporation in 19th century India: Building the foundations for the emergence of TISCO in the 20th century -- 3 TISCO during the decade of the 1900s: The Formation period -- 4 Initial failure to produce competitive steel, capitalization...

This book offers a dynamic perspective on regional entrepreneurship, knowledge, innovation and economic growth, with a particular focus on the role that history and culture play. The authors provide comprehensive empirical analyses offering unique insights into the spatial patterns of long-term...

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...