The economies of the Arab states of the Gulf have gone through considerable changes in the last decade, spurred by high oil prices and ambitious diversification plans. Large-scale immigration provided the labour force while capital inflows and financial development leveraged oil…
The energy industry's accelerated evolution requires visionary change The Final Frontier parses the evolution of the oil and gas sector to map out a plan for going forward. The global energy industry is huge, and it is in disarray; between low oil and gas prices, climate change,…
This book explores the reception, generation, and use of economic ideas in the British Liberal Party between its electoral decline in the 1920s and 1930s, and its post-war revival under Jo Grimond. Drawing on archival sources, party publications, and the press, this volume analy…
Erfrischender Querdenker - oder Totengräber des Euro? Yanis Varoufakis, Finanzminister von Griechenland, vertritt für sein Land Thesen, die so kontrovers diskutiert werden wie sein Outfit. In lässigen Auftritten erklärt er die Welt, redet Klartext, wo andere Politiker nur Worthü…
Angesichts der Tatsache, dass die vorherrschenden politischen Debatten über den Stellenwert von Freiheit und Wohlfahrt geradezu polarisiert sind, verteidigt dieses Buch beide als wesentlich für Menschenwürde und Wohlbefinden. Amartya Sen entwickelt seinen Capability Approach aus…
This book offers new perspectives on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa region. Offering both theoretical studies and empirical country studies, it examines micro- and macroeconomic issues and provides deep insights into the development challenges and p…
"Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective wellbeing. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative con…
