Focusing on Malaysia's shifting economic profile and position, this book offers new insights and perspectives to scholars and researchers on a range of new developments impacting on growth, such as the effects of the digital economy on job creation and the threats of environmental degradation...

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- The importance, role and function of the state: The cases of Great Britain and China -- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION: TRADITIONAL VIEWS AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- The persistence of the traditional view: Britain as an...

Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- PREFACE -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ROAR THAT BECAME A WHISPER -- OBSTACLES TO GROWTH: THE ABDUCTED CAPITAL MARKET -- THE CAPITAL MARKET: THE ORIGINS -- OBSTACLES TO GROWTH: THE ECONOMIC...

Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? Should I give that homeless guy a buck? What's a "living wage"? How much can presidents really affect economic...

War and Economy in the Third Reich examines the nature of the German economy in the 1930s and the Second World War. Richard Overy's essays, collected here for the first time with a substantial new introduction, explore the tension between Hitler's vision of an armed economy and the reality of...

Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword to the English Edition -- Toward An African Energy Doctrine -- Bases For African-Arab Cooperation -- Introduction -- Part I: Historical Unity: The Restoration of African Historical Consciousness -- Chapter 1 Origins and History of the Black...

Intro -- SMALL ECONOMIES AND GLOBAL ECONOMICS -- NOTICE TO THE READER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- SMALL ECONOMIES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD:ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,HUMAN WELL-BEING AND SUSTAINABILITY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SMALL ECONOMIES AND THEIR VULNERABILITIES -- 2.1....

The Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Economy contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on icritical sectors of the economy including automobiles, banking and finance, national currency, economic...

Intro -- Preface -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introducing the French Economy -- Historiographical overview -- Not backward but different -- The eve of the First World War -- The interwar period -- The changing French economic model -- The legacy of occupation and resistance, 1940-44...