Preface -- Introduction: globalization and the social relevance of small business in Brazil -- Small business in emergent countries : challenges and policies -- Micro and small business in Brazil : recent evolution -- Small business sustainability in Brazil -- Finance and small business in...

The contribution by the Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek to monetary theory stimulates a far-reaching debate on the role of the government in monetary management and the effects of alternative policies in regulating the issuance of money. Since the early 1930s Hayek had been concerned...

Setting the scene : the concept of nudge -- The nudge approach to policy making -- Behavioural economics : methodological issues and philosophical concerns -- Nudging in the context of neoliberalism : their hidden side.