"This volume narrates the financial history of the United States during a period of great upheaval in the early part of the twenty-first century. It is divided into three chronological sections: the first section describes the recovery of financial markets after the Great Recession. It begins...

What Is law and development? -- Evolution of law and development -- General theory of law and development -- Law and development in South Korea -- Law and development in South Africa -- Application of the law and development approach in the United States -- Law reform projects and analytical law...

We call it weed -- Legal vs. illegal : a market battle -- Prices get high -- We ask our data : where's the cheapest legal weed? -- California dreamin' -- Sabrina's story -- Legal weed in 2025 -- How to survive legalization -- Conclusion : five pipe dreams about legal weed.

Introduction: Defining and defying common (mis)understandings of the working class / Jennifer Beech and Matthew Wayne Guy -- Social class and sociolects / Irvin Peckham -- Becoming "gente educada" : navigating academia as a working-class, multiply-marginalized student / Christina V. Cedillo --...

"Sanctions as War: Anti-imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy offers the first comprehensive account of economic sanctions as a tool for exercising American power on the global stage. Since the 1980s, the US has steadily increased its reliance on economic sanctions, or the...

Introduction / Kazunari Sakai and Noemi Lanna -- Part 1. Migration Governance in Historical Perspective -- Part 2. Migration Governance at Local, National and Regional Levels -- Part 3. Toward Global Migration Governance.

A merger or acquisition is one of the most significant events in the life of a firm and the consequences thereof are multi-faceted: Directors’ fiduciary duties, shareholders’ rights, valuation methods, structuring, and financing of the deal, to cite a few. Moreover, it requires an army of...

This book integrates the economics of aging and insight based on political economy and explores generational conflict in the context of governmental spending. This problem is general, as the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted: lockdowns protect the elderly, but hurt the young. Policies to address...

The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the book transversally cuts...