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Building a Cashless Society: The Swedish Route to the Future of Cash Payments (SpringerBriefs in Economics)
Building a Cashless Society: The Swedish Route to the Future of Cash Payments (SpringerBriefs in Economics)

This open access book tells the story of how Sweden is becoming a virtually cashless society. Its goal is to improve readers’ understanding of what is driving this transition, and of the factors that are fostering and hampering it. In doing so, the book covers the role of central banks, political factors, needs for innovation,...

Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International Monetary Fund economists show that this...
REWAS 2019: Manufacturing the Circular Materials Economy (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series)
REWAS 2019: Manufacturing the Circular Materials Economy (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series)

Every sector faces unique challenges in the transition to sustainability. Across each, materials will play a key role. That will depend on novel materials and processes, but these will only be effective with a solid understanding of the trends in the market. For each respective sector, the papers in this collection will explore the...

Ecosystem Services: Economics and Policy (Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management)
Ecosystem Services: Economics and Policy (Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management)

This book bridges the gap between economic and ecological theory and practice. Its main focus is on how the principles of the Austrian School of economics could improve the validity of Ecosystem Services.

The concept of ‘Ecosystem Services’ is a relatively recent innovation in environmental thought. The...

Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture (Film and Culture Series)
Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture (Film and Culture Series)
The New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the backdrop of counterculture sensibilities and the prominence of auteur theory, New Hollywood directors such as Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola seemed to embody creative individualism. In Post-Fordist...
Formative Assessment in United States Classrooms: Changing the Landscape of Teaching and Learning
Formative Assessment in United States Classrooms: Changing the Landscape of Teaching and Learning

This book examines the history of formative assessment in the US and explores its potential for changing the landscape of teaching and learning to meet the needs of twenty-first century learners. The author uses case studies to illuminate the complexity of teaching and the externally imposed and internally constructed contextual...

Human Rights Practices during Financial Crises
Human Rights Practices during Financial Crises
From the Great Depression in the twentieth century to the Great Recession in the twenty-first, systemic banking crises have been a recurring problem for both developing and developed countries. This book offers a human rights perspective on financial crises vis-à-vis low-income and least developed countries.  It systematically...
Cloud Computing Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction
Cloud Computing Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction

Ever since my childhood I had a fascination with clouds. Real clouds up in the sky, white and fluffy or gray and gloomy, afforded an ever-present drama unfolding above for the curious spectator looking toward the heavens, as inquisitive children are wont to do. Maybe it was because of ample exposure to the perennial cloudiness of my native...

Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability: Fifth International Conference IACuDiT, Athens 2018 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability: Fifth International Conference IACuDiT, Athens 2018 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
This book explores the latest developments in the field of smart tourism, focusing in particular on the important cultural and sustainability synergies that have emerged during the digital era. The aim is to elucidate how ICTs can promote innovation and creativity in the tourism and leisure sector in ways that take into account cultural and...
When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable? (The Political Economy of the Middle East)
When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable? (The Political Economy of the Middle East)
This open access book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively stable future.

Volatile international oil markets and the acceleration
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The Knowledge Growth Regime: A Schumpeterian Approach
The Knowledge Growth Regime: A Schumpeterian Approach

‘This important new book provides a penetrating, novel analysis of the key role played by knowledge when viewed through the lens of Schumpeterian economics. It is loaded with important insights that highlight the primacy of knowledge and innovation to unleash economic growth.’

?David B. Audretsch,...

The Strategic Bond Investor, Third Edition: Strategic Tools to Unlock the Power of the Bond Market
The Strategic Bond Investor, Third Edition: Strategic Tools to Unlock the Power of the Bond Market
The bestselling bond investing classic?updated to help you profit today and position yourself for the post-COVID era and decade ahead

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the investing world has changed radically. Credit is more difficult to access, populations across the world are aging, and economic growth has
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