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The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter. Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher, jurist, social reformer and the founder of modern utilitarianism. He is in the row with the greatest thinkers Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, John Keynes, John Locke, and Alfred...

In a world where there is increasing demand for the performance of health providers to be measured, there is a need for a more strategic vision of the role that performance measurement can play in securing health system improvement. This volume meets this need by presenting the opportunities and challenges...

This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of the 'consumer revolution' in Europe and North America, contributing to the analysis of the ways in which consumption and everyday life change in the course of economic development.

​​This book takes readers on a unique journey across some of the most debated implications of the rise of the Chinese economy on the global scene. From the analysis, suggestions emerge on how to improve statistical tools to measure performance and to obtain more precise macroeconomic forecasts....

In the recent years, microfinance has increased attentions of people around the world for fighting the problems of poverty and unemployment. Two different approaches have been identified for the evolution of the microfinance industry such as the Latin American model and the South-Asian model. The...

Without doubt, Cuba is facing its most serious economic challenge in nearly thirty-five years of revolutionary rule. There is consensus that as the official, centrally planned economy has faltered, ordinary citizens eke out a living only by engaging in under-the-table, unrecorded, and mostly illegal...

oil is the lifeblood of the World's economy. It was a critical element in two World Wars and in the Cold War, and, as recent events in the Middle East confirm, people are willing to fight for it. The cheap energy it provides, especially for transport and agriculture, was one of the main factors that...

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.S. telecommunications industry with removal of barriers to entry in local telecommunications markets and the lifting of the artificial restrictions that kept the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) out of the interLATA...

Under the assumption of a basic knowledge of algebra and analysis, micro and macro economics, this self-contained and self-sufficient textbook is targeted towards upper undergraduate audiences in economics and related fields such as business, management and the applied social sciences. The basic economics...

Un economista di fama internazionale, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi. Uno scrittore disperso negli universi letterari, Paolo Gambi. Mettili insieme ed otterrai un dialogo semiserio e a tratti surreale. Gambi vuole comprarsi la Ferrari e chiede a Gotti Tedeschi come fare i soldi per comprarla. Gotti Tedeschi...

This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013. It discusses historical differences and similarities in the teams’ markets and performances...

Banquier et mutualiste ? D’évidence les deux termes s’entre choquent, comme le monde du mutualisme et le monde de la banque semblent en apparence s’exclure l’un l’autre du point de vue de leurs valeurs... L’ouvrage de Pascale Moulévrier montre comment a pu pourtant émerger cette figure...

La crise multiplie l’interdépendance économique des nations et limite leur action autonome. L’inséparabilité de leur sort appelle une concertation accrue dans tous les domaines. En 1975 la France lança un nouveau dialogue des chefs d’État et de gouvernement des grandes démocraties industrielles....

Polytechnicien, ingénieur au corps des mines, Bernard Esambert a complété sa formation par des études de droit et d'économie. Haut fonctionnaire dans un premier temps, il s'est principalement préoccupé de problèmes énergétiques et, singulièrement, pétroliers. Après un séjour de deux...