The purpose of this book is to explore the ways that industries, under the pressures of global competition, balance sustained industrial competitiveness and robustness against major disasters. The book focuses mainly on the impact of disasters on supply chains for manufactured (mainly tradable)...

"The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson's Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book...

1. The making of an economic reader : the dissemination of economics through textbooks / Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi -- 2. Economic manuals and textbooks in Great Britain and the British Empire 1797-1938 / Keith Tribe -- 3. Cours, Lecon, Manuels, Precis and Traites : teaching...

We have assessed the determinants of the choice of integration, relational contracting (keiretsu sourcing) and market sourcing by seven Japanese automobile manufacturers (OEMs) with respect to 54 components in light of contract economics. Our major findings are the following. First, the...