In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one. Hart's book shows how nationalism and regionalism produced incompatible standards in the US, Japan and Europe, and led to missed opportunities...

This book focuses on the interrelationship of social forces, industrial expansion, and conflict in Europe between 1789 and 1945, in part through a critique of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944). It challenges a variety of influential perspectives on nationalism, development,...

This ebook contains four prize winning papers presented at the Milan conference. The winner of annual Gerald Brown Memorial Prize, sponsored by Emerald, for the best paper presented in the area of commercial Real Estate Investment and Finance, 'The Impact of the New Basel Capital Accord on Real...

A compelling new study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, examining health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy

Human Capital and Institutions brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of instit

Examines the main dimensions of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship, the factors affecting its emergence, evolution and performance and the importance of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship for European growth and competitiveness

Developed countries, especially in Europe, face a number of issue related to migration: social and economic disruptions caused by the declining demand for unskilled labour and resulting unemployment, a shortage of skilled labour in many professions, increasing international competition for...

Developed from a study commissioned by the European Capital Markets Institute, this book examines the impact of private equity and capital markets on the development of small and medium sized enterprises in the USA and European Union

What's left of the new economy? This book examines the remains of this well-hyped concept and finds that despite all the mistaken ideas and sexing-up, the technological changes of the 1990s still have important effects today

Combining institutional textual and audience analysis, this book introduces students to the factors which have shaped television's development in contemporary Europe, and invites them to assess the issues that are at stake in its future. Divided into three parts, the book moves from the European...