Online Arbitration in Theory and in Practice
A Comparative Study of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions in Common Law and Civil Law Countries
This book presents an overview of online arbitration and electronic contracting worldwide, examining their national and international contexts, and assessing their ongoing relevance. It offers solutions to the salient challenges facing both online arbitration and electronic contracting, dealing first–hand with online arbitration as an online dispute resolution technique for solving both traditional and electronic commerce disputes that may arise out of the breach of contractual obligations in international commercial contracts, while also comparing between common law and civil law countries. In the…
Amro presents an overview of online arbitration and electronic contracting worldwide, examining their national and international contexts and assessing their ongoing relevance. As such, he offers solutions to the challenges facing online arbitration and electronic contracting.
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How do we prepare for and manage the challenges and the transformations that are increasingly confronting cities? Solutions are necessary for the impacts expected from the global population movement toward urban centres; the evolution of technologies and its influence on the economy; the evolving socio-cultural fabric of our cities and what it means for citizen engagement and happiness; and for the increasing need to protect and better manage the environment. The series of essays presented here will help governments, organizations, and concerned citizens think differently about ways we can improve…
How do we manage the challenges confronting cities? This volume brings together international experts to provide stimulating new ideas and successful examples of tools being used worldwide to make the places we call home more liveable and sustainable.
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This book provides an insightful analysis of Korea's remarkable economic growth and the role of international trade in this process. The book traces the economic development of Korea, from being one of the poorest countries in the 1960s to becoming a global leader in high-tech industries. The authors analyze the changes in Korea's industrial structure and how they have shifted the economy from an agricultural-based to a manufacturing and high-tech industry. The book also provides a critical review of different theories and perspectives that explain Korea's rapid growth, including the…
This book provides an insightful analysis of Korea’s remarkable economic growth, tracing its development from one of the poorest countries in the 1960s to a global high-tech leader. It explores the role of trade, R&D, and technology, with implications for developing countries.
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Publishing is currently going through dramatic changes, from globalisation to the digital revolution. A whole culture of events, practices and processes has emerged centred around books and writing, which means that scholars of publishing need to understand it as a social and cultural practice as much as it is a business. This book explores the culture, practice and business of book production, distribution, publication and reception. It discusses topics as diverse as emerging publishing models, book making, writers’ festivals, fan communities, celebrity authors, new publishing technologies, self-publishing, book design and…
Exploring the culture, practice and business of book production, distribution, publication and reception, this anthology demonstrates that publishing needs to be understood as a social and cultural practice, and not just as a business.
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Peace and Conflict Resolution in Africa
Lessons and Opportunities
This publication is the product of the 25th Annual Africa and Diaspora Conference in 2016, organized by the Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution at California State University, Sacramento, on the theme of “Peace and Conflict Resolution in Africa 25 Years Later: Lessons, Best Practices and Opportunities”. It brings together reflections on both historical and contemporary or recurring conflicts in Africa, especially on issues of ethno-religious conflicts, corruption, land, and leadership. The chapters include case studies and some theoretical perspectives on the persistent search for the right size and…
This conference proceedings compiles reflections on both historical and contemporary conflicts in Africa, focusing on issues of ethno-religious conflicts, corruption, and land. It also documents areas of progress in legitimizing democracy and conceptualizing social justice.
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Alfred Marshall’s Last Challenge
His Book on Economic Progress
This text presents Alfred Marshall’s final, unfinished, and unpublished book. His main volume, Principles of Economics, was first published in 1890, and was, for a long period of time, the textbook par excellence on which generations of economists were trained. Despite its success and its importance, the book, in its eight editions, testifies to some extent to the failure of Marshall’s original editorial project which should have consisted of multiple volumes and culminated with the publication of a final work on economic progress. Marshall’s death in 1924 made it impossible…
This text presents Alfred Marshall’s final, unfinished, and unpublished book. His grand editorial project, intended to culminate in a final work on economic progress, was cut short by his death. These surviving notes reveal the great economist’s wisdom and modernity.
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Much of what has been heard, read, or taught about the 2008 financial crisis is incorrect. It was not caused by free market capitalism run amok. The crisis was not created by deregulatory zeal. It wasn’t primarily due to greed on Wall Street. The crisis was not simply created by people’s “irrational exuberance” or “animal spirits.” Perhaps most importantly, it did not require bailouts and thousands of pages of new regulations to fix. Instead, it came about because of significant market distortions created by government subsidies, misregulation, and perverse…
Much of what you’ve been taught about the 2008 financial crisis is incorrect. It wasn’t caused by free market capitalism, but by market distortions from government subsidies and misregulation. The new regulations haven’t solved the problem—in fact, they may have made it worse.
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This book derives from a symposium held at Cornell University in April 2014. The symposium explored development financing, which has become an important area of policy discussion in Africa and other developing areas in recent years. Using multifaceted and multidisciplinary analytical approaches, it considers the role of the banking system, the stock market, credit access, external aid, and sovereign wealth funds in the evolving development finance architecture. Further, the volume looks at China’s role as an aid donor, the impact of BRICs partnerships in South Africa, the role of NEPAD…
Deriving from a symposium held at Cornell University in April 2014, the papers here consider the role of the banking system, the stock market, credit access, external aid, and sovereign wealth funds with regards to the sustainable development of the economy throughout Africa.
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This book begins with the belief that, if a moral principle cannot be identified in the language of the law, if law is not underpinned by a moral understanding of the norm, if the moral accusation is not attached to the violations of certain indispensable norms of the law, then we are violating the peremptory character of the universality of the moral law. The book vicariously objects to any dispute for the advantage of the impunity of those who have cruelly contravened the corpus juris of international peremptory criminal law.…
This book argues that if law is not underpinned by a moral understanding, the moral law itself is violated. It objects to impunity for those who contravene international peremptory criminal law, reaffirming universal principles of truth, equality, and the essential value of man.
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Using Poetry for Economic Analysis
Economics Meets Literature
This book is innovative in methodology, novel in ideas and rich in contents. The book is the first attempt to amalgamate economics with poetry, mythologies, novels, paintings, and movies that pertain to economic subjects. It presents the principles of economics in a systematic manner, but in plain and lyrical English. Through analysing real-world issues using solid economic theory, and literary prose, the topics discussed in the book allow for a straight to the point analysis which can be used by all. The book serves as a guide to college undergraduate…
This book is the first to amalgamate economics with poetry, novels, paintings, and movies. It presents the principles of economics in plain and lyrical English, analysing real-world issues for students, financial practitioners, and lay readers alike.
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Orthodox financial theory often ignores the role played by managers’ personal characteristics in their decision-making processes. However, as anyone with experience in the business world knows, managers’ personalities are crucial in the choices they make. Indeed, it should be noted that firms do not make decisions, rather it is the managers who decide – either as a group or individually. This book explores the impact of managers’ psychological profiles and life experiences on their financial decisions, taking the following key questions as starting points: Why do they commit mistakes? Why…
This monograph explores the impact of managers’ psychological profiles and life experiences on their financial decisions; as it highlights, having insights into managers’ psychology is essential to understanding their choices and predicting decisions made by competing firms.
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This research, carried out in original documents by the World Bank, which were intended exclusively for internal use and were made available to scholars only a few years ago, tackles the theme of the extraordinary intervention in Southern Italy from an international perspective. The book provides an updated view of the issues concerning the regions of Southern Italy, as well as the solutions proposed for the “Southern Question” during the years of the post-war reconstruction of Italy, creating the only period of convergence – considering the whole of the…
Based on recently declassified World Bank documents, this study examines the post-war intervention in Southern Italy. This international effort created the only period of convergence between Italy’s North and South, providing crucial insights into today’s “Southern Question.”
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The Economics of Keynes and Uncertainty in Theory
Rediscovering Common Sense
Modern academic and political establishments generally accept Keynesian economics as the primary theoretical work regarding The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes. However, the discipline of economics has been unable to fully understand Keynes’s ideas, even after almost a century of intense scrutiny since its publication in 1936. This book argues that this is due to the field’s failure to recognize the central theme of Keynes’s ideas, uncertainty. When people do not have all the relevant information on which to base their decisions, they can…
For nearly a century, economics has failed to fully understand Keynes’s ideas. This book argues that this is due to a failure to recognize his central theme: uncertainty. It builds upon Keynes’s ideas on uncertainty and conventions to offer an alternative view of his work.
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The United Nations System
A Synopsis
This volume introduces the United Nations by considering its purposes, as stated in Article 1 of its Charter. It provides a concise history of this institution, and describes its structure, concentrating on its Funds and Programmes, Specialized Agencies, and Regional Commissions. It then splits the work into two different major sections, on the basis of topic and geographical region. The former includes the following: development, education, environment, food and agriculture, and peace and security, while the latter comprises Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. These are followed by reflective…
This introduction to the United Nations covers its purposes, history, and structure. The volume examines the UN’s work through two major sections: by topic, including development, peace, and security; and by geographical region, from Africa and the Americas to Asia and Europe.
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Integrated Marketing Communication
Putting the Human Person at the Core
This volume represents a valuable resource for students, academics (teachers and researchers), and practitioners in the field of integrated marketing communication (IMC). It provides a foundation detailing the principles, tenets and practices of IMC, before presenting a step-by-step process of preparing and executing the process for any given brand.
A valuable resource for students, academics, and practitioners of integrated marketing communication (IMC). It details the principles and practices of IMC before presenting a step-by-step process for preparing and executing a plan for any given brand.
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Democracy and Economy
An Inseparable Relationship from Ancient Times to Today
This text presents a detailed history of democracy, while also considering the modern methodological tools of economic history, institutional economics, and political, social and behavioural sciences, to explain why and how democracy was created, how it evolved and how it progresses. The book provides answers to a number of questions, such as what form of government democracy is, why it was first developed in ancient Greece, why it is that democracy—in order to flourish—requires strong and stable economic structures, and what role political and military organizations play in the shape…
This history of democracy uses modern economics and political sciences to explain why the system was created and how it evolves. It analyses why democracy requires strong economic structures, with case studies from Ancient Greece to the EU.
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COVID-19, Racism and Politicization
Media in the Midst of a Pandemic
This book explores the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role of national and international media and governments in the initial coverage of the developing crisis. With specific chapters written mostly by scholars based in these countries, it examines how the media in India, China, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Taiwan, Bangladesh, New Zealand and the USA responded to this pandemic. The volume particularly addresses their role in both countering and spreading misinformation and in the politicization of the health crisis. The chapters highlight various issues specific to individual countries,…
This book explores the global media and government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining countries from the USA to Asia, it addresses the media’s role in both countering and spreading misinformation, politicizing the crisis, and fueling racism and conspiracy theories.
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Dealing with Econometrics
Real World Cases with Cross-Sectional Data
The book covers the basic statistical tools needed to analyse cross-sectional data in order to identify, quantify and evaluate possible socio-economic relationships. It contains both theoretical summaries and practical examples and exercises, some of which are solved using Excel or the Gretl software package. The exercises are mostly based on real-world data from Europe and Spain. The book also discusses basic methods, principles and practices of cross-sectional econometrics, considering simple and multiple regression analysis, statistical inference, the use of qualitative information in regression analysis and discrete choice models. In essence,…
A practical guide to the fundamentals of econometrics. Learn the statistical tools to analyse cross-sectional data and evaluate socio-economic relationships. It features theoretical summaries, practical exercises with real-world data, and solutions using Excel or Gretl.
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This book offers various insights on current hot topics in development economics. The authors address the questions of gender effects, leapfrogging, the factors determining the production frontiers of countries, and the respective roles of financial, monetary and fiscal policies in fostering the development of countries. They also question one of the strategies utilized by policy makers in poor countries: development through trade and financial globalization. They ask whether education has really been a factor in development, and look at the role of those who return to the country after studying…
This book offers insights on current topics in development economics. The authors question common strategies like financial globalization and ask whether education has really been a factor in development. They address gender effects, leapfrogging, and the role of fiscal policy.
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The Disclosure and Assurance of Corporate Social Responsibility
A Growing Market
The essays collected here specifically examine the new trends of sustainability performance and reporting. They provide theoretical argumentation and evidence about sustainability performance, and determinants of its voluntary disclosure and external assurance. The book will interest companies, managers, shareholders, stakeholders and public bodies directly related to sustainability performance, the voluntary disclosure of sustainability information, and the adoption of an external assurance process.
These essays examine new trends in sustainability performance and reporting. They provide theory and evidence on voluntary disclosure and external assurance, making this book a key resource for companies, managers, shareholders, and all related stakeholders.
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