Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links...

The revised edition of this highly acclaimed work presents crucial lessons from Japan's recession that could aid the US and other economies as they struggle to recover from the current financial crisis. This book is about Japan's 15-year long recession and how it affected current theoretical...

The annual Global Employment Trends reports provide the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty. They also analyse country-level issues and project trends in the labour market up to 2019

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Contradictory Moment -- Part I: Digital Capitalism's Ascent to Crisis -- 1. Network Connectivity and Labor Systems -- 2. Networked Production and Reconstructed Commodity Chains -- 3. Networked Financialization -- 4. Networked...

Key Features:The book has a strong focus on economic/financial crises and the Singapore approach to crisis management, which is different from the standard policy toolsWe have authoritative authors writing several key chapters. Mr Lam Chuan Leong (Chairman of the Competition Commission of...

Using the United Kingdom as a case study, this well-researched account shows how, for more than 200 years, a remarkably regular 18-year cycle of boom and bust can be traced to the peaks and troughs in land prices. This exploration reveals how governments, during the upswing of the cycle, are...

This pioneering work presents the first comprehensive economic history of medieval Denmark. It puts data produced by more than a century of historical research into a new context and includes a multitude of information based on primary research.

Explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport. This title examines the cultural development of cycling in countries with high use and the differences in use between different...

In Corporate Dreams, James Hoopes combines a historian's careful eye with an insider's perspective on the business world. This provocative volume tracks changes in government economic policy, changes in public attitudes toward big business, and changes in how corporate executives view...

This book provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market and policy in the UK, with focus on the 2008 financial crisis, the ensuing recession, and its aftermath.