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This book explores the participatory economy model (parecon) as a democratic alternative to capitalism and central planning. Written from an accounting perspective, it addresses two critical challenges in implementing this theoretical framework: product categorisation and contextualising annual planning.

It outlines a comprehensive product catalogue framework by analysing how consumers and producers influence product categorisation, design, and production processes across nine distinct product types, which collectively shape annual planning proposals, costing, and pricing mechanisms. Further, the book positions the contextualisation of annual planning clearly and concretely within the framework of the ongoing and complex relations existing in an open, fair and democratic modern economy. It identifies the most important coordination tasks and support functions necessary in a participatory economy for the formal annual planning procedure and the implementation of a fair and efficient agreed annual plan. Overall, the author proposes possible and viable ways to bridge the gap between abstract economic theory and the present reality, illuminating complex issues and demonstrating how a participatory economy can function efficiently without markets or private ownership.

The work emphasises democratic decision-making, equitable income distribution, and self-management while providing detailed frameworks for price formation, production coordination, and investment planning in a complex modern economy. As such, it will appeal to researchers, scholars and students of heterodox economics, political economy, and socialist theory, as well as activists and practitioners interested in alternative economic systems.

This book systematically explores China's digitalization and industrial transformation, analyzing the role of digital technology in this giant and ever-developing country. Its analysis covers China's policy frameworks, industrial applications, local practices, and global positioning to show the digital economy path of the world 2nd largest economy.

Across eight chapters, this book provides a comprehensive discussion of the rise and fundamentals of China's digital economy. Topics covered include digital technology clusters (AI, 5G, industrial internet) as driving forces; national top-level policies and supporting measures; digital applications in agriculture, manufacturing, and services; practical cases in Guizhou and smart cities like Beijing; China's global role via the TIMG Index and Belt and Road digital cooperation; global challenges and strategic opportunities; and conclusions on contributions, prospects, and policy suggestions. It integrates data, cases, and international comparisons to present a full picture of China's digital economy.

Scholars, policymakers, practitioners in the industry and people who are interested in digital economy will find this book of considerable value with the offered insights, policy references, and practical models for digital transformation and global digital cooperation. Each of the eight chapters is also sufficiently self-contained and can be read on its own, which potentially enhances the usefulness of the book.

The global advertising market is roughly US$1.1 trillion, before accounting for the wider investments firms make in pricing, promotions, loyalty, and customer acquisition. Yet the evidence used to measure these investments is often fragile. Traditional marketing mix models offer operational convenience, while modern econometric methods promise stronger causal identification. In practice, marketing teams must work with short panels, staggered rollouts, overlapping campaigns, platform interference, and competitive responses that make simple before-and-after comparisons unreliable.

Volume 1 of Causal Inference in Marketing: A Practical Toolkit for Panel Data develops the foundations and core panel designs needed to turn those messy data structures into credible causal evidence. Grounded in potential-outcomes reasoning and design-based thinking, it translates causal inference into the language of marketing measurement: incrementality, attribution, budget allocation, and decision-relevant reporting. The emphasis throughout is on clear estimands, credible identification, practical diagnostics, and recognising when the available data cannot support the causal claim being made.

Key Features:

• Provides a practitioner-first framework for causal panel design in marketing, including estimands, assignment mechanisms, support, diagnostics, and reporting standards.
• Covers the core modern panel toolkit, including difference-in-differences, staggered adoption designs, event studies, synthetic control, augmented synthetic control, synthetic difference-in-differences, interactive fixed effects, and matrix completion.
• Includes dedicated treatment of dynamic effects, heterogeneity, interference, and spillovers in advertising, pricing, loyalty, platforms, and marketing effectiveness settings.

Written for data scientists, marketing analysts, econometricians, and applied researchers, this volume is intended for readers who are comfortable with regression and applied statistics and want a rigorous, practical route from marketing panel data to causal evidence. Volume 2 extends the toolkit into machine learning, high-dimensional adjustment, continuous treatments, inference, diagnostics, applications, data systems, reproducibility, and future practice.

Charles Shaw is a Data Science Director at WPP Media, where he leads econometric measurement and optimisation for global brands. His work focuses on causal inference, econometric measurement, Bayesian modelling, machine learning, and marketing effectiveness. He develops applied frameworks for privacy-constrained attribution, media incrementality, platform effects, dynamic pricing, and scalable causal workflows in commercial settings.

Chinese Overseas Ports in Africa and the Middle East examines Chinese "involved" seaports overseas, where involvement can take the form of foreign direct investment (FDI), the construction of a terminal or special economic zone (SEZ), and/or terminal operations in countries such as Djibouti, Tanzania, and Oman.

The country-oriented chapters shed light on issues such as the materialization (or not) of Chinese ports; the effects of project realization on, inter alia, port performance, trade, and job creation; and, to a lesser extent, the wider implications of China's presence. The book also addresses why Chinese seaports succeed or fail and why they have the consequences they do.

As an in-depth treatment of China's footprint in African and Middle Eastern seaports that examines China's overseas ports policy and policymaking, this book will be essential reading for students, scholars, and policymakers interested in FDI, geopolitics, infrastructure, maritime issues, and national security.

This core text on economic geography from acclaimed scholar Barney Warf provides students an accessible, balanced, and concise overview of why location matters in business and economics.

Offering numerous U.S. based examples, Economic Geography drives home concepts while being engaging and relevant for students. Warf explores all aspects of the economy, from developmetn and globalization, agriculture and manufacturing, to e-commerce and retail. Each chapter ends with a set of defined glossary terms, study questions, and suggested readings, to encourage further student engagement. The full color art program boasts over 100 figures, illustrating examples for better learning retention. Students will leave with an understanding that capitalism as we understand it today is not inevitable, but rather resulting from historical and contextual factors.

This book showcases how marine reserves, when implemented and protected effectively, could simultaneously achieve conservation and reef fishery goals.

Marine reserves, permanent spatial closures to fishing, are often viewed as detrimental to fisheries, reducing the area available for fishing and concentrating effort into smaller areas. But what if these reserves could supplement reef fisheries? Drawing on over forty years of research and teaching experience, the author explores the concept of net export-where reserves produce such abundant fish biomass that they spill over into fished areas, partly compensating for the loss of fishing grounds. The book delves into recent advancements in larval tagging and tracking, showcasing studies from the Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea, and beyond, to demonstrate how recruitment subsidy, net export of fish larvae from reserves to fished areas, combined with reductions in fishery effort outside reserves when reserves are implemented, can lead to sustainable reef fisheries alongside conservation. The book argues that with the right balance between conservation and catch, marine reserves can achieve a "win-win" scenario, ensuring both healthy fish populations and sustainable reef fisheries. This book calls for conservation and fisheries to co-ordinate, not confront, in order to simultaneously achieve their objectives.

Written in clear and accessible language, this book is essential reading for marine conservation and fisheries professionals and policymakers, as well as students and scholars of marine science and conservation.

Organized around three core objectives, the book explains why gender matters in economics; offers expanded course content featuring diverse authors, topics, and methods; and provides suggestions to strengthen gender-responsive teaching to support critical discussion and ethical engagement. Chapters cover everything from principles of micro and macroeconomics to emerging trends such as methodological plurality and generative AI, taking a forward-thinking approach that moves beyond 'add women and stir' by challenging narrow definitions of production, value, and expertise. The book examines the impact of power and hierarchy on what is taught, whose work is centered, and how students experience the economics classroom. Recommendations include classroom activities, research-backed pedagogical strategies, and larger curricular changes.

Instructors and educators of economics at all levels will benefit from these timely, practical strategies and content modules to make their classrooms more inclusive. This guide is also an invaluable read for educators across the social sciences interested in incorporating gender into their teaching.

Artificial Intelligence Ethics argues that we cannot afford to repeat those failures.

Across nineteen chapters, Georgios Dimitropoulos deploys a rigorous historical-comparative method, drawing on the Industrial Revolution, the nuclear age, civil rights movements, environmental regulation, and the evolution of weapons governance, to expose recurring patterns in which transformative technologies outpace the institutions designed to govern them.

The result is a diagnostic framework: failure patterns that recur across multiple domains where AI operates, and an Ethical Implementation Architecture that translates ethical principles into organisational practice.

This book is a vital resource for scholars and researchers across AI ethics, philosophy of technology, law, public policy, and business analytics, as well as governance practitioners and policy advisors seeking to bridge the gap between ethical principle and institutional implementation.

This book shows how AI must be governed by learning from what we have already survived.

The author examines how the foundations of the discipline have shifted as climate change, sustainability, global food supply and resource allocation gain increasing prominence on political and economic agendas. Demonstrating the profound influence this will have on the theoretical and empirical basis of food economics, he explores the agri-food value chain and specific examples of food industry transformation. Investigating prices, market structures, demand patterns and globalisation trends, chapters are grounded in statistical evidence and illustrated with data that reflects real-world developments. The book provides an updated and renewed description of food economics in light of ongoing changes.

Understanding Food Economics is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of agricultural, food and applied economics. Practitioners and political officials in food ministries and agencies will also benefit from this guide to the challenges and balances currently affecting the industry.

This handbook brings together scholarship from different disciplines, institutions and locations to contribute critically to how the social sciences think about - with, against, beyond - debt.

By bringing together the best specialists in the field, this handbook both captures and feeds the theoretical and political debates on a subject of burning relevance. Across the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, a common thread to the contributions is a concern with power relations and inequalities. Who owes what to whom? To what extent is debt both shaped by and constitutive of social and power relations while crystallizing or giving rise to individual and collective aspirations, resistances and struggles? How is debt structured by long historical trajectories and broad trends that operate at a global level, while at the same time intertwining with institutions, organizations and interpersonal relations specific to singular contexts and periods of history? The handbook features a combination of theoretical and empirical chapters, but overall their purpose is to make an analytical contribution to some of the most relevant public issues of our time. The volume gives empirical examples from a wide variety of geographical locations, moving away from a narrow Euro-American-centric vision. It also explores the case of countries whose banking and debt systems are relatively unknown.

The handbook is an invaluable resource for readers who-besides debt itself--are interested in money, banking, economy, social obligation, poverty, and inequality.

The global advertising market is roughly US$1.1 trillion, with digital channels accounting for most of that activity. Marketing measurement therefore increasingly depends on complex data environments: high-dimensional covariates, machine-learning systems, continuous treatments, platform reporting constraints, and organisational pressure to turn evidence into decisions. These settings create opportunities for richer causal analysis, but they also raise difficult questions about validity, uncertainty, diagnostics, reproducibility, and whether an estimated effect is useful for the decision at hand.

Volume 2 of Causal Inference in Marketing: A Practical Toolkit for Panel Data carries the framework of Volume 1 into the advanced and operational half of the book. It extends the core panel toolkit into machine learning, high-dimensional adjustment, continuous and nonlinear treatment settings, threats to validity, inference, diagnostics, applied marketing workflows, data and measurement systems, reproducibility, and open problems. The emphasis throughout is on applying causal principles under the constraints of real marketing data and real organisational settings.

Key Features:

• Develops machine-learning and high-dimensional methods for panel data, including orthogonalisation, cross-fitting under panel dependence, heterogeneous treatment effects, policy learning, regularisation, and double selection.
• Provides a diagnostics and inference playbook covering pre-trends, placebos, sensitivity analysis, bootstrap and randomisation inference, multiplicity, weak instruments, and uncertainty communication.
• Connects advanced causal methods to marketing applications, including media mix models, geo-experiments, platform data, pricing, promotions, customer lifetime value, retention, measurement systems, and reproducible evidence production.

Written for data scientists, marketing analysts, econometricians, and applied researchers, this volume is intended for readers who are comfortable with regression and applied statistics and who want to extend causal design into robust implementation, diagnosis, and reporting. Volume 1 develops the foundations, including potential outcomes, design-based thinking, difference-in-differences, event studies, synthetic control, factor and matrix methods, dynamics, heterogeneity, interference, and spillovers.

Charles Shaw is a Data Science Director at WPP Media, where he leads econometric measurement and optimisation for global brands. His work focuses on causal inference, econometric measurement, Bayesian modelling, machine learning, and marketing effectiveness. He develops applied frameworks for privacy-constrained attribution, media incrementality, platform effects, dynamic pricing, and scalable causal workflows in commercial settings.

Advancing a new social science-based approach to the welfare state, this book puts forward a systematic understanding of public procurement that brings together perspectives from legal, public administration, sociological, and policy studies.

Public Procurement and the Welfare State offers fresh insight into an important, complex, and interconnected activity of the welfare state and proposes a framework for exploring, understanding, and analysing this important area of state activity. Detailing the multi-faceted nature of public procurement processes that are essential for safeguarding vital services, constructing and maintaining infrastructure, and supplying the public sector, E.K. Sarter examines public procurement as a technical tool for safeguarding the availability of goods, works, and services, a social and political act, a policy tool, and a space for negotiation. This volume showcases the multi-faceted nature of public procurement and highlights the importance of decision-making processes and power relations that underly and for shape public spending decisions and processes, and thereby outcomes.

Offering a timely and holistic framework for understanding public spending that can be put in the service of equality, this is essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, political science, welfare state studies, public and social policy, public administration, economic justice, social innovation, and feminist economics.

Exploring both large-scale and artisanal and small-scale mining and refining, Mol outlines how extraction network constellations are fundamentally changing and increasingly controlled by state-capital hegemonic powers. Chapters evaluate in-depth existing extraction practices and new extraction frontiers across Antarctica, Asia, Europe, South America and the deep sea, including mineral recycling performance and potential, to illustrate the mutual strengthening and trade-off between sustainability and mineral security in distinct geographies. The book ultimately highlights how extraction is both a cause and consequence of contemporary global volatility.

Extraction and Global Transformation provides valuable insights for scholars and students in environmental studies, geography and political and social sciences, especially those with an interest in geopolitics and resource sovereignty. The book is also beneficial for policymakers and industry practitioners seeking a comprehensive understanding of the topic.

This book offers a reappraisal of the central themes and problems animating the work of Vilfredo Pareto, reconsidering their place within contemporary social and political inquiry.

Emphasising the breadth and complexity of his thought, the book adopts a cross-cutting approach that brings its different dimensions into dialogue. Rather than offering a conventional introduction, it revisits Pareto through a critical engagement with established interpretations and contemporary debates. Moving beyond both celebratory and dismissive readings, it shows how Pareto's reflections continue to illuminate central tensions and contradictions of modern political life, demonstrating their continuing relevance to contemporary social and political sciences.

By reopening exegetical questions, sketching possible directions for future research, and moving across disciplinary boundaries, Reintroducing Vilfredo Pareto will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, political sociology, political theory, and the history of political thought.

This edited volume examines the challenges and innovations in collecting, measuring, and analysing data on sexual and gender minorities. As interest in sexual and gender minority research grows across academia and policy, the need for high-quality, inclusive, and comparable data has become increasingly urgent. However, existing data sources remain fragmented and methodologically complex.

The book provides a critical overview of major data sources, including general population surveys and dedicated LGBTIQ+ studies, assessing their strengths and limitations in terms of representativeness, comparability, and data quality. Drawing on the Total Survey Error framework, the book evaluates different approaches to measuring sexual orientation and gender identity. It offers practical guidance on questionnaire design and survey implementation to improve validity and inclusivity of survey measures. It also presents sampling approaches and post-survey adjustments for LGBTIQ+ studies.

Key Features:

• Provides a Total Survey Error framework for survey research focussing on sexual and gender minorities
• Provides an overview of data sources for LGBTIQ+ research, including international surveys and targeted studies
• Offers practical guidance on measuring sexual orientation and gender identity using state-of-the-art frameworks
• Discusses methodological challenges such as non-probability sampling, disclosure, and sampling hard-to-reach populations
• Highlights innovative approaches, including boost samples, online data collection, and census developments
• Includes cross-national perspectives and real-world case studies

The book aims to position survey research focussing on sexual and gender minorities as a rapidly evolving field and provides guidance for researchers, statisticians, data producers, and policy makers working on equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Manufacturing Digitalisation in Italy: The Future Behind examines how digitalisation is transforming manufacturing in Italy, with particular attention to the interplay between new technologies and territorially embedded manufacturing systems.

Drawing on extensive empirical research, the book introduces the concept of the regional digitalisation system to explain how policies, firms, and decentralised institutional capacities jointly shape patterns of digital transformation. Challenging linear models of technological adoption, it advances the idea of "the future behind" to show how pre-existing regional socio-institutional configurations both enable and constrain emerging development trajectories. As Europe's second-largest manufacturing economy, yet a relative digital laggard, Italy has recently experienced a significant acceleration in firms' digitalisation, rapidly converging towards the EU average despite structurally adverse conditions. Characterised by regionalised capitalism, small and medium-sized enterprises, territorial inequalities, limited high-technology sectors, and weak, decentralised innovation systems, Italy provides a crucial case for understanding how subnational socio-institutional contexts shape manufacturing transformation and produce distinct regional digitalisation paths.

As the first comprehensive sociological book on manufacturing digitalisation, this book will appeal to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in economic sociology, the sociology of work and industry, comparative political economy, industrial policy, regional studies, innovation studies, and the sociology of technology.

In an age of climate disruption, economic insecurity, technological acceleration, political fracture, and intensifying great-power rivalry, crises no longer arrive one at a time. Global Polycrisis offers a clear and compelling guide to the defining condition of our century: the convergence of multiple large-scale disruptions that interact, amplify one another, and defy conventional solutions.

Organized around eight interlocking domains-energy, economy, technology, Earth systems, food, ideology, mental health, and geopolitics-the book shows how ecological overshoot, precarity, social fragmentation, and militarized competition are not separate problems but expressions of a deeper systemic disorder. Each chapter pairs rigorous analysis with an experiential project that moves learning beyond abstraction, inviting readers to connect planetary-scale forces to everyday institutions, and personal lifestyle choices.

Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in global studies, leadership, environmental studies, political economy, and related fields, this book also speaks to educators, practitioners, and serious readers seeking an accessible, ethically grounded framework for understanding a turbulent world.

Presenting a robust alternative to mainstream economics, this book outlines a coherent Classical-Keynesian approach to economics - one grounded in the Classical theory of value, the Keynesian principle of effective demand, and the post-Keynesian perspective on money and finance.

The chapters from an international cast list of leading authors are arranged around five key topics: the Classical theory of production, prices and income distribution; the Keynesian principle of effective demand and the supermultiplier, the Keynesian approach to monetary macroeconomics; Classical and Keynesian approaches to the history of economic thought; and Input-output analysis of structural change and environmental issues. The essays explore the dynamics of an advanced market economy, understood as a process organised according to the sequence: finance-production-distribution-spending and accumulation. It is demonstrated that in that process the economy does not gravitate around a full-employment position, that the level of activity, the composition of output, and employment are driven by growth engines located in the autonomous demand connected to output through the supermultiplier, and that money is not neutral and the growth engines require sustainable funding.

This book will be essential reading for researchers in political economy, history of economic thought, economic theory, heterodox economics and alternatives to the mainstream.

This book explores energy poverty through a social science lens, drawing on the author's research experience at the Universities of Trieste and Milan and his work as an energy poverty project manager for the City of Milan.

Energy poverty is no longer a localized issue related to warmth and energy affordability. It has turned into a global concern shaped by multifaceted economic, environmental, socio-demographic, spatial, and geographical factors. This groundbreaking book provides an updated perspective from the social sciences, exploring how evolving forms of energy deprivation challenge traditional understandings of the phenomenon and demand new analytical frameworks that consider the full complexities of energy vulnerabilities. It considers the drivers of energy vulnerability globally and explores how decision-makers can be equipped to craft targeted local actions for vulnerable households amid urban energy transition agendas. These insights integrate lived experiences into measurements and form the basis for policy recommendations designed to foster energy justice and security for vulnerable households.

Bridging academic theory and empirical research, this volume equips the reader to address one of today's most pressing global challenges. It is a deal for researchers, policymakers, and social scientists with a focus on energy transitions, energy policy, and energy inequality.

This book explores the complex relationship between climate change and human behaviour, which is often shaped by cognitive biases, established norms, past experiences, and a tendency toward maintaining the status quo-making meaningful change challenging. It brings together a diverse range of contributions that examine international and industry contexts through the lens of behavioural economics, addressing persistent intention-action gap.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I introduces the theoretical foundations and traces the evolution of scientific thought from classical rationality to bounded rationality and ethicality in the context of climate change. It includes a systematic bibliometric mapping of global research trends and examines the crucial role of information flows, media literacy, and disinformation in shaping climate attitudes. Part II focuses on climate change mitigation, presenting empirical studies on energy transitions, fossil fuel "addiction," and circular economy interventions specifically targeting the consumption patterns of adolescents and young adults. Part III addresses spatial and community adaptation, exploring mobility patterns, nature-based solutions in European cities, and the management of private green spaces. It concludes with global perspectives on climate migration narratives and the collective resilience of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

By offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary look at human behaviour in the face of climate change, the book integrates advanced methods such as discrete choice experiments, social network analysis, and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) which inspires further research and action in this ever-evolving field. It is essential reading for academics, researchers, students, as well as economists, environmentalists and policymakers concerned with the economic and psychological dimensions of climate-related decision-making.

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) represent a collaboration between the private and public sectors, not only for the purpose of filling gaps related to economic infrastructure but also to improve the quality and diversity of public services. Its strengths have led several governments to launch broad programs for the promotion of PPP in several sectors, particularly in emerging economies. Understanding its main principles, its rationale and characteristics and the current debate on practical implementation complexities is critical for readers interested in public policy and development.

This book presents an analytically grounded treatment of public-private partnerships, with particular emphasis on developing economies. Its main contribution lies in offering a lifecycle-based framework that integrates economic theory, regulatory analysis, institutional design, and empirical evidence to guide both understanding and implementation of PPPs. It presents and examines the current debates around PPP and its strengths and weaknesses compared to other methods of public project implementation. Additionally, it highlights best practices and lessons learned across several areas, such as project planning, design and formulation, risk allocation, financial structuring, awarding processes and ex post assessment, among others. The book concludes by offering an overview of the evolving research trends in the design and implementation of PPPs and their implications, as well as the future research agenda.

This book is particularly useful for researchers, scholars and students of economics, public policy and development specialists as well as practitioners and officials interested in understanding the main concepts, principles and best practices in PPP implementation in emerging economies.

If you've ever wondered why some regions flourish while others are left behind - this book offers a new way to understand the answers.

This book is about how economic processes unfold through space - and why it matters. It explores how the geography of economic activity shapes people's lives and contributes to the inequalities we see around us. From farmland to digital space, from rural-urban flows of people and resources to enclave-like spaces such as Special Economic Zones, Rethinking Economic Geography: Global Theories, Southern Pathways, and Indian Experience examines what globalisation means for the Global South, and for India in particular.

The book introduces key ideas and theories from across the world - on relative location, flows of capital and labour, and what this means for development - but views them through India's own historical and everyday realities. How is India different? How do global theories fall short in explaining Indian realities? Bringing together spatial analysis, grounded evidence, and critical perspectives, it helps readers make sense of India's complex and uneven economic landscape.

This textbook will be foundational reading for postgraduate students and an essential reference for undergraduate courses in geography, especially economic geography, development studies, economics, and Global South studies. It will also appeal to policy practitioners, planners, and engaged readers working on questions of regional inequality and development.

International trade is undergoing profound transformation. The liberalization paradigm that characterized much of the twentieth century has given way to renewed tariff conflicts, systemic disruptions caused by war and geopolitical rivalry, and mounting pressures to align trade with sustainability objectives. These shifts underscore the urgent need to re-examine the intellectual and policy foundations of global commerce in light of twenty-first century realities. This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of these emerging dynamics.

Drawing on contributions from legal scholars, economists, and political scientists across Europe, Asia, and North America, it traces the historical evolution of tariffs, evaluates the far-reaching consequences of the conflicts in MENA, Ukraine, and Russia, and examines the challenges posed by central bank digital currencies to established trade mechanisms. It further investigates the U.S.-China trade confrontation as a case of enduring techno-economic rivalry, the paradoxes of sustainability in mineral-based global value chains, and the regulatory tensions between market liberalisation and national sovereignty. The book examines critical mineral supply chains through a geoeconomic lens, focusing on how states and corporations leverage control over extraction, processing, and manufacturing stages to secure strategic advantage. It offers novel insights into European vulnerabilities in rare earth supply, insolvency harmonisation, and investment regulation. Together, these chapters provide an integrated perspective on the forces redefining trade law, policy, and practice. It explores the impact of digital currency regulation on international trade, with particular regard to the legal status of central banks.

This book will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, and graduate students in international economics, law, and political science, as well as to policymakers and institutional actors concerned with the future of global trade governance.

This Research Agenda examines the dynamic interdisciplinary topic of water policy research, exploring how the field is continually adapting to challenges and innovations which foster integration, cooperation and innovation. It provides a critical analysis of the evolution of water policy research since the mid-20th century, framing it through three interlinked dimensions - process, sectoral interaction and learning - that bridge theory, practice and policy across scales.

Engaging with the entire policy process from agenda setting to evaluation, chapters identify themes of integrated water management, public participation and transboundary water governance. They highlight emerging research frontiers, including those relating to climate adaptation, urban water resilience and gender equity, shedding light on the interconnected nature of water challenges. The Research Agenda adopts a forward-looking and reflective tone, emphasising how ideas, institutions and governance models are transferred and enforced globally, and shaping learning-based and collaborative approaches to management.

This book will be valuable to students and scholars of public policy and politics, environmental governance and law. Policymakers and practitioners managing natural resources and conservation will benefit from the practical governance insights proposed.

The Economic Report of the President provides valuable information about the present state of the U.S. economy and its future course. The Economic Report is issued by the Executive Office of the President and the Council of Economic Advisers and transmitted to Congress no later than 10 days after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government. It includes:

?Current and foreseeable trends and annual numerical goals concerning topics such as employment, production, real income and federal budget outlays.
?Employment objectives for significant groups of the labor force.
?Annual numeric goals.
?A program for carrying out program objectives.

For more than 70 years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how administrations have interpreted economic developments, the motivation for policy actions, and the results of those interventions.

Included in the Economic Report of the President is the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers. Each year, the Council of Economic Advisers submits this report on its activities during the previous calendar year in accordance with the requirements of the Congress as set forth in section 10(d) of the Employment Act of 1946 as amended by the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978.

Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the users and providers of port services. A port works as an "engine" for economic development. This book provides a detailed discussion of port freight service users, such as freight water and land carriers, that have their ships and vehicles serviced and their cargoes unloaded by ports, as well as passenger services such as ferry carriers which are serviced by ferry passenger ports.

The text continues to enhance our understanding of port economics by exploring the economic theories, supply and demand curves, and the actual and opportunity costs relating to the carriers, shippers and passengers who use ports. This edition includes three new chapters focusing on:

• Cargo port choice behaviour from the perspective of port freight service providers;
• The state-of-the-art theory of cargo port choice equilibrium between shippers and cargo port service providers;
• The state-of-the-art theory of cargo port choice equilibrium between shipping lines and cargo port service providers.

This updated and comprehensive introduction to port economics will be of benefit to students and researchers in their study of port economics and management. It is also of great importance to professionals who manage and operate ports as well as freight and passenger carriers.

This full-color text offers a comprehensive introduction to population geography, grounding students in the tools and techniques that are used to describe and understand population concepts. Arguing that an understanding of population is essential to prepare for the future, Newbold provides undergraduates with a thorough grasp of the field.

Key Features:
End-of-chapter Focus boxes weave in substantive discussions of interesting current issues, and Methods, Measures, and Tools boxes illustrate how population geography questions are tackled
Learning objectives at the start of each chapter establish key concepts for learning and end of chapter study questions ensure concepts are retained
End of book Glossary of Terms and Population Website Resources offer additional avenues for student learning


New to this Edition:
Impacts of COVID-19 on mortality, fertility, and mobility patterns
Expansion of non-US examples to highlight key concepts
Recent trends and policy updates

Arguing that the economy is the whole as well as the part, the book advocates a broader understanding of economics. From the sovereign individual to the social organism, Reisman demonstrates that economic activities are governed by norms, values, rights and duties, as well as being dependent on habits, heuristics and bounded rationality. He emphasises that without our memories and ideologies there would be no economic processes to meet our needs and wants. He supports his contention with reference to areas such as work and creativity, shared institutions, social capital and the economics of envy.

Interdisciplinary in scope, The Social Economy is an essential resource for scholars and students of economic theory, economic sociology, institutional economics and the history of economic thought. Practitioners and social policymakers will also find value in its comprehensive coverage of current debates.

This book, dedicated to Professor Giulio Codognato, presents a collection of essays exploring a range of issues in general equilibrium theory under perfect and imperfect competition, game theory, and social choice theory. It offers an up-to-date overview of advanced research in these fields and will appeal to scholars and students working on these topics, as well as to readers with an interest in the foundations of economic analysis.