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Free Download Robert U. Ayres, "The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?"
English | ISBN: 0262027437 | 2014 | 370 pages | EPUB | 1296 KB
Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial "de-carbonization" could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.

Free Download Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, "Firms in the International Economy: Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Business "
English | ISBN: 0262019744 | 2013 | 440 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Essays by leading scholars suggest that insights from international business could enrich firm heterogeneity research in international economics.

Free Download Stephen Gudeman, "Economy’s Tension: The Dialectics of Community and Market"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0857457888, 1845455142 | PDF | pages: 196 | 0.7 mb
Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to global financial markets, the author shows that economy is dialectically made up of two value realms, termed mutuality and impersonal trade. One or the other may be dominant; however, market reason usually cascades into and debases the mutuality on which it depends. Using this cross-cultural model, the author explores mystifications of economic life, and explains how capital and derivatives can control an economy. The book offers a different conception of economic welfare, development, and freedom; it presents an approach for dealing with environmental devastation, and explains the growing inequalities of wealth within and between nations.

Free Download Flocel Sabaté, "Medieval Urban Identity: Health, Economy and Regulation"
English | ISBN: 1443877859 | 2015 | 270 pages | PDF | 1253 KB
The increasing prominence of urban life during the Middle Ages is undoubtedly one of the more transcendental and multi-faceted aspects of this era, having an effect on rules and laws, hygiene, and economic organisation. This book brings together contributions from a wide range of scholars who adopt a new approach to medieval urban life, using health, the economy, and regulations and laws as frames of reference for gaining a greater understanding of this historical period. Through these vectors, interesting insights are provided into medieval housing, cures for diseases, the work of artisans and merchants, and the relationship between the town and the wider region in which it was located.

Free Download The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment, and Production (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy) By Alan Bowman (editor), Andrew Wilson (editor)
2013 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0199665729 | PDF | 8 MB
This volume is a collection of studies which presents new analyses of the nature and scale of Roman agriculture in the Mediterranean world from c. 100 BC to AD 350. It provides a clear understanding of the fundamental features of Roman agricultural production through studying the documentary and archaeological evidence for the modes of land exploitation and the organization, development of, and investment in this sector of the Roman economy. Moving substantially beyond the simple assumption that agriculture was the dominant sector of the ancient economy, the volume explores what was special and distinctive about it, especially with a view of its development and integration during a period of expansion and prosperity across the empire. The papers exemplify a range of possible approaches to studying and, within limits, quantifying aspects of Roman agricultural production, marshalling a large quantity of evidence, chiefly archaeological and papyrological, to address important questions of the organization and performance of this sector in the Roman world.

Free Download Living Well in a Down Economy For Dummies (For Dummies-Business & Personal Finance) by The Experts at For Dummies
English | February 7, 2023 | ISBN: 1394159641 | 464 pages | MOBI | 0.89 Mb
As the economic pendulum swings, it’s time to start living smart

Free Download Circular and Transformative Economy: Advances towards Sustainable Socio-economic Transformation
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032356014 | 303 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
The main aim of the book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex systems and transforming systems towards greater sustainability while achieving multiple social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It provides pathways towards strategic policy decisions on socio-economic transformation supported by case studies.

Free Download Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements by Edward D. Mansfield, Helen V. Milner
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0691135290 | 224 Pages | EPUB | 1.4 MB
Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Free Download Sustainability Reporting Practices and the Circular Economy: Analysis and Integrated Strategies
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031518446 | 333 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
The Circular Economy (CE) and CE-related approaches are increasingly prominent in corporate strategy, with potential environmental, social, and economic benefits to the organization. However, a comprehensive framework that incorporates CE with governance and reporting practices, providing accurate assessments of CE’s success in achieving sustainability targets and other goals, is not yet in place. This book addresses that gap, analyzing the relationship between CE and sustainable development practices, company performance, and to what extent organizations have disclosed this information in annual reporting practices. It proposes different frameworks to evaluate the environmental, social, and economic impact of CE and how CE might be promoted, disclosed, and accurately assessed in reporting practices. It will be of great interest to researchers and students of sustainable development, governance, accounting, and business economics, as well as practitioners seeking a research-based framework for integrating CE into their business reporting.

Free Download The Hipster Economy: Taste and authenticity in late modern capitalism by Alessandro Gerosa
English | January 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1800086083, 1800086075 | 190 pages | True EPUB | 0.71 MB
Today, being authentic has become an aspiration and an imperative. The notion of authenticity shapes the consumption habits of individuals in the most diverse contexts such as food and drinks, clothing, music, tourism and the digital sphere, even leading to the resurgence of apparently obsolescent modes of production such as craft. It also significantly transforms urban areas, their local economies and development. The Hipster Economy analyses this complex set of related phenomena to argue that the quest for authenticity has been a driver of Western societies from the emersion of capitalism and industrial society to today.