This book aims to highlight the gendered nature of housing processes and systems in an international context. The intention is to explore the dynamics of contemporary economic and social change and consider the implications for the relationship between women and the housing system in developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia. Whilst there has been a growing interest in c…
This book is the result of research and conversation over a number of years, and it gives us great pleasure to have a chance to thank the many people who have generously provided criticism, support, and inspiration to us over that time. There is no way to cite everyone who helped as we tested our ideas at university seminars, academic conferences, before the U.S. International Trade Commission,…
My premise is that the destiny of man is to emerge or evolve toward an advancing potential and that individual liberty is essential to such progress. Unless a reader shares my premise, he will not respond to my reasoning; nor will it be possible for him to arrive at my conclusions. He may have his eye set on a star I do not see or, if seeing, care nothing whatsoever about. I side with Th…
When I studied at Novosibirsk State University (Russian) I was lucky to have such brilliant teachers in mathematics as M.A. Lavrentyev, S.L. Sobolev, A.I. Mal’tsev, Yu.G. Reshetnyak and others. But it were L.V. Ovsyannikov’s lectures in Ordinary differential equations, Partial differential equations, Gas dynamics and Group properties of differential equations that were of the most benefit f…
We decided to get this book published to help the larger audience make sense of the discussion on climate change and its implications for economic growth in In- dia. Issues linking climate change and economic growth are now at the centre of discussions regarding climate friendly development strategies which are increas- ingly becoming a necessity rather than an option for late-industrialising c…
Peninsular Malaysia, then known as the Federation of Malaya, gained independence from Britain in 1957. An expanded federation of Malaysia was formed in September 1963 by federating the Federation of Malaya with the former Straits Settlements island colony of Singapore to the south of Malaya, Sabah (previously run by the British North Borneo Company, set up by royal charter) and the former Bro…
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Having originated in the advanced economies, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008–09 spread rapidly to the rest of the world. The impact on the emerging markets, especially those in Asia, though not as severe as that in the advanced countries, was still quite signifi- cant. India withstood the crisis initially but could not remain entirely unaffected for long (especially after the collap…
Econometrics by Example (EBE) is written primarily for undergraduate students in economics, accounting, finance, marketing, and related disciplines. It is also intended for students in MBA programs and for researchers in business, government, and re- search organizations. There are several excellent textbooks in econometrics, written from very elementary to very advanced levels. The writers of…
Yujiro Hayami and Vernon Ruttan worked well together; they did so because they had a profound respect for each other. That respect was the bridge to listening and thinking together in ways that allowed them to build an important theoretical perspective referred to as the “most widely accepted model used today both for understanding agricultural growth processes and as the basis for agricultur…
Why, indeed? A good short answer is that you can’t get away from it. Almost everything you do involves economics. Why do people have to earn a living? Why do some people—heavyweight boxers, rock stars, and movie producers, for example—earn vastly more than bus drivers or policemen? What determines the price of a Big Mac, or, for that matter, a Mack truck? Whenever you have to deal with mo…
In 1849, at a time when classical liberalism was still the dominant ideological force and “economist” and “socialist” were generally considered antonyms, Gustave de Molinari, a renowned Belgian economist, wrote, If there is one well-established truth in political economy, it is this: That in all cases, of all commodities that serve to provide for the tangible or intangible need of the c…
It is customary to open with a remark about how long this study has taken, but the present work may approach an all- time record. My interest in the American South, and in the connection between the race issue and economics, goes back to the summer of 1963, when I traveled to Warren County, North Carolina— a black- majority, tobacco belt county in the northeastern part of the state— to joi…
The use of psychoactive drugs—licit and illicit—is associated with a range of adverse effects on both physical and mental health. Such health consequences range from short-term effects such as insomnia and abdominal pain to longterm effects such as seizures, strokes, paranoia, liver cirrhosis and heart disease (IHME 2013). Other than health effects, drug use is also associated with an …
Since 1986, Viet Nam has been involved in a renovation process (doi moi) in order to promote socioeconomic development and closer integration with the rest of the world. A wide range of theoretical and practical problems have cropped up relating to various aspects of national social life, as well as relationships with foreign countries. These have become urgent topics for research and have …
It is unlikely that there will be much difference of opinion about the fact that along with class, gender continues to be a basic criterion that structures most societies around the globe. In South Asia, the region which provides the main context of the research presented in this book, caste divisions combine with class and gender to generate what must be among the most complex and highly struc…
Initially, the notion of a business case for cloud computing seemed almost redun- dant. It seemed to me that the cost savings associated with cloud computing were self-evident and therefore no further explanation was needed. Based on my conver- sations with people in the industry—consumers, providers, and manufacturers of IT goods and services—cloud adoption appeared to be a foregone conclu…