World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
by Douglas D Evanoff, George G Kaufman, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2010 has had a major impact on large cross-border banks, which are widely blamed for the start and severity of the crisis. As a result, much public policy, both in the United States and elsewhere, has been directed at making these banks safer and less influential...
Economic Growth and Income Disparity in BRIC
Theory and Empirical Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
The recent interest in the development processes of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) has been triggered by their high growth performance, but their political and social backgrounds are entirely different. This book traces the economic history of BRIC countries to understand their economic...
Harry S Truman
The Economics of a Populist President
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Harry S Truman is best remembered as the President who witnessed the swift arrival of the Cold War in the tumultuous years after World War Two. Little however has been written to show that he was also the populist President who set the political economic course for the United States to win it merely...
by E Ray Canterbery
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This book is written as a sequel to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society, and provides a theoretical framework, for the first time, for surpra-surplus capitalism.
Conventional economics has the income and wealth distributions as "givens". This assumption immediately excludes...
50 Years of Environment
Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in August 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability takes the reader through Singapore's environmental journey over the past 50 years, to its present day challenges and solutions, and seeks to explore what...
by Ye Qi
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In the midst of global economic development, the world is rapidly running out of resources. It is imperative that the level of carbon emissions be addressed by countries globally. This is especially so in China, where industrialization, city development and progressive agriculture have developed substantially.
This...
Managing Supply Chain and Logistics
Competitive Strategy for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Managing Supply Chain and Logistics: Competitive Strategy for a Sustainable Future explores practical ways of investing in a sustainable future through real-world cases which demonstrate various supply chain management strategies and tactics. By applying viable value creation strategies, operational...
GMDH-Methodology and Implementation in C
(With CD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) is a typical inductive modeling method built on the principles of self-organization. Since its introduction, inductive modeling has been developed and applied to complex systems in areas like prediction, modeling, clusterization, system identification, as well...
Financing Universal Access to Healthcare
A Comparative Review of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms in the OECD
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The recent expansion of health insurance coverage in the USA under the Affordable Health Care Act, and current threats to reverse the benefits of this reform, have once again focused the world's attention on the difficult challenges faced by other countries trying to provide better access to healthcare...
Sustainable Development
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD2015)
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Since the emergence of climate and global warming onto the international agenda, research in sustainability has been underpinned by the development in energy and environmental science. Highlighted 30 years ago by the Brundtland Commission, "sustainable development" was defined as: meeting...
by Jochen Wirtz
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Designing the service environment is an art that involves a lot of time and effort, and can be expensive to implement. Service environments relate to the style and appearance of the physical surroundings and other experiential elements encountered by customers at service delivery sites. Crafting the...
From Trade Surplus to the Dispute over the Exchange Rate
Quantitative Analysis of RMB Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Since 2005, China has been accused of causing the trade deficit and manipulating the exchange rate. At the same time, there have been arguments against the RMB appreciation. The reason for this conflict is the lack of quantitative research or elaboration on many extremely important indicators.
To...
Multi-Stakeholder Decision Making for Complex Problems
A Systems Thinking Approach with Cases
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
In the complex world of today, important policy and business decisions are still made with a 17th Century reductionist mindset and approach. Yet, complex challenges such as climate change, poverty, public health, security, energy futures, and sustainability transcend any single science, discipline...
Medical Futility
A Cross-National Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application. There are few books on the subject, and those in existence mostly focus on the situation in the United States. This title, however, provides extensive international perspectives on medical futility.
This...