Publisher:
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Call Number:
KIC 330 M716C 2017
Pages:
403 pages.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today's unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture—the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior—was a deciding factor in societal transformations.
Publisher:
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Call Number:
KIC 330 M716C 2017
Pages:
403 pages.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today's unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture—the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior—was a deciding factor in societal transformations.
Publisher:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Call Number:
KIC 332.6 M251R 2016
Pages:
491 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
The best investment guide money can buy, with over 1.5 million copies sold, now fully revised and updated. In today’s daunting investment landscape, the need for Burton G. Malkiel’s reassuring, authoritative, and perennially best-selling guide to investing is stronger than ever. A Random Walk Down Wall Street has long been established as the first book to purchase when starting a portfolio. This new edition features fresh material on exchange-traded funds and investment opportunities in emerging markets; a brand-new chapter on “smart beta” funds, the newest marketing gimmick of the investment management industry; and a new supplement that tackles the increasingly complex world of derivatives.
Publisher:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Call Number:
KIC 332.6 M251R 2016
Pages:
491 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
The best investment guide money can buy, with over 1.5 million copies sold, now fully revised and updated. In today’s daunting investment landscape, the need for Burton G. Malkiel’s reassuring, authoritative, and perennially best-selling guide to investing is stronger than ever. A Random Walk Down Wall Street has long been established as the first book to purchase when starting a portfolio. This new edition features fresh material on exchange-traded funds and investment opportunities in emerging markets; a brand-new chapter on “smart beta” funds, the newest marketing gimmick of the investment management industry; and a new supplement that tackles the increasingly complex world of derivatives.
Publisher:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Call Number:
KIC 330.941081 G851S 2010
Pages:
xiii,196 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
This succinct introduction explains what the Industrial Revolution was, when exactly it occurred and why it happened in Britain first. Providing a clear and compelling synthesis of the latest research on industrialization, and illustrated with newspaper articles, photographs and graphs, the book is aimed at students without any prior knowledge. Griffin assesses the best known explanations for the industrial revolution, and argues that industrialization is to be understood chiefly as the switch to a new source of fuel (coal) coupled with the emergence of new technologies. Situating British industrialisation in a global context, she evaluates what benefits, if any, the world's first industrial revolution brought to the ordinary men and women whose labour made it happen.
Publisher:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Call Number:
KIC 330.941081 G851S 2010
Pages:
xiii,196 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
This succinct introduction explains what the Industrial Revolution was, when exactly it occurred and why it happened in Britain first. Providing a clear and compelling synthesis of the latest research on industrialization, and illustrated with newspaper articles, photographs and graphs, the book is aimed at students without any prior knowledge. Griffin assesses the best known explanations for the industrial revolution, and argues that industrialization is to be understood chiefly as the switch to a new source of fuel (coal) coupled with the emergence of new technologies. Situating British industrialisation in a global context, she evaluates what benefits, if any, the world's first industrial revolution brought to the ordinary men and women whose labour made it happen.
Publisher:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1992.
Call Number:
00 KIC 332.11 C966C 1992
Pages:
xix, 496 pages : illutration ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Alex Cukierman is well known for his work on central bank behavior. This book brings together a large body of Cukierman's research and integrates it with recent developments in the political economy of monetary policy. Filled with applications and carefully worked out technical detail, it provides a valuable comprehensive analysis of central bank decisions, of the various effects of policy on inflation, and of the feedback from inflationary expectations to policy choices.Cukierman uncovers and analyzes the reasons for positive inflation and rates of monetary expansion. He shows that the money supply, and therefore inflation, are not exogenous. They are influenced by interactions involving distributional considerations, private information, personal motives, and the political environment. This point of view makes it possible to identify the institutional, political, and other features of a country that may be conducive to inflationary environments.Cukierman presents new multidimensional evidence on both legal and actual central bank independence for a sample of up to 70 countries and uses it to investigate the interconnections between the distributions of inflation and of central bank independence.
Publisher:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1992.
Call Number:
00 KIC 332.11 C966C 1992
Pages:
xix, 496 pages : illutration ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Alex Cukierman is well known for his work on central bank behavior. This book brings together a large body of Cukierman's research and integrates it with recent developments in the political economy of monetary policy. Filled with applications and carefully worked out technical detail, it provides a valuable comprehensive analysis of central bank decisions, of the various effects of policy on inflation, and of the feedback from inflationary expectations to policy choices.Cukierman uncovers and analyzes the reasons for positive inflation and rates of monetary expansion. He shows that the money supply, and therefore inflation, are not exogenous. They are influenced by interactions involving distributional considerations, private information, personal motives, and the political environment. This point of view makes it possible to identify the institutional, political, and other features of a country that may be conducive to inflationary environments.Cukierman presents new multidimensional evidence on both legal and actual central bank independence for a sample of up to 70 countries and uses it to investigate the interconnections between the distributions of inflation and of central bank independence.
Publisher:
Rugby, Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Pub. ; 2010
Call Number:
KIC 338.91 D296 2010
Pages:
x, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
"Writing from diverse locations, contributors critically examine some of the key terms in current development discourse. Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely, there are more urgent things to do than sit around mulling over semantics? But language does matter. Whether emptied of their original meaning, essentially vacuous, or hotly contested, the language of development not only shapes our imagined worlds, but also justifies interventions in real people's lives. If development buzzwords conceal ideological differences or sloppy thinking, then the process of constructive deconstruction makes it possible to re-examine what have become catch-all terms like civil society and poverty reduction, or bland aid-agency terms such as partnership or empowerment. Such engagement is far more than a matter of playing word games."--
Publisher:
Rugby, Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Pub. ; 2010
Call Number:
KIC 338.91 D296 2010
Pages:
x, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
"Writing from diverse locations, contributors critically examine some of the key terms in current development discourse. Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely, there are more urgent things to do than sit around mulling over semantics? But language does matter. Whether emptied of their original meaning, essentially vacuous, or hotly contested, the language of development not only shapes our imagined worlds, but also justifies interventions in real people's lives. If development buzzwords conceal ideological differences or sloppy thinking, then the process of constructive deconstruction makes it possible to re-examine what have become catch-all terms like civil society and poverty reduction, or bland aid-agency terms such as partnership or empowerment. Such engagement is far more than a matter of playing word games."--
Publisher:
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2014.
Call Number:
KIC 338.9 I612 2014
Pages:
xxviii, 943 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Thinking on development informs and inspires the actions of people, organizations, and states in their continuous effort to invent a better world. This volume examines the ideas behind development: their origins, how they have changed and spread over time, and how they may evolve over the coming decades. It also examines how the real-life experiences of different countries and organizations have been inspired by, and contributed to, thinking on development. The extent to which development 'works' depends in part on particular local, historical, or institutional contexts. General policy prescriptions fail when the necessary conditions that make them work are either absent, ignored, or poorly understood. There is a need to grasp how people understand their own development experience. If the countries of the world are varied in every way, from their initial conditions to the degree of their openness to outside money and influence, and success is not centred in any one group, it stands to reason that there cannot be a single recipe for development.
Publisher:
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2014.
Call Number:
KIC 338.9 I612 2014
Pages:
xxviii, 943 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Thinking on development informs and inspires the actions of people, organizations, and states in their continuous effort to invent a better world. This volume examines the ideas behind development: their origins, how they have changed and spread over time, and how they may evolve over the coming decades. It also examines how the real-life experiences of different countries and organizations have been inspired by, and contributed to, thinking on development. The extent to which development 'works' depends in part on particular local, historical, or institutional contexts. General policy prescriptions fail when the necessary conditions that make them work are either absent, ignored, or poorly understood. There is a need to grasp how people understand their own development experience. If the countries of the world are varied in every way, from their initial conditions to the degree of their openness to outside money and influence, and success is not centred in any one group, it stands to reason that there cannot be a single recipe for development.
Publisher:
London : LexisNexis UK, 2003.
Call Number:
KIC 332.6732241 C575I 2003
Pages:
246 pages.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
As it becomes an increasingly high profile area of interest, this title examines all the issues surrounding inward investment in the UK from a tax planning point of view. Among other issues it covers trading, setting up partnerships and subsidiaries, transfer pricing and double tax conventions.
Publisher:
London : LexisNexis UK, 2003.
Call Number:
KIC 332.6732241 C575I 2003
Pages:
246 pages.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
As it becomes an increasingly high profile area of interest, this title examines all the issues surrounding inward investment in the UK from a tax planning point of view. Among other issues it covers trading, setting up partnerships and subsidiaries, transfer pricing and double tax conventions.
Title:
Introduction to the mathematics of finance :from risk management to options pricing /Steven Roman.Publisher:
New York : Springer, 2004.
Call Number:
KIC 332.01513 R758I 2004
Pages:
xiv, 354 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
The Mathematics of Finance has become a hot topic in applied mathematics ever since the discovery of the Black-Scholes option pricing formulas in 1973. Unfortunately, there are very few undergraduate textbooks in this area. This book is specifically written for upper division undergraduate or beginning graduate students in mathematics, finance or economics. With the exception of an optional chapter on the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the book concentrates on discrete derivative pricing models, culminating in a careful and complete derivation of the Black-Scholes option pricing formulas as a limiting case of the Cox-Ross-Rubinstein discrete model. The final chapter is devoted to American options.
The mathematics is not watered down but is appropriate for the intended audience. No measure theory is used and only a small amount of linear algebra is required. All necessary probability theory is developed in several chapters throughout the book, on a "need-to-know" basis. No background in finance is required, since the book also contains a chapter on options.
The author is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, having taught at a number of universities, including MIT, UC Santa Barabara, the University of South Florida and the California State University, Fullerton. He has written 27 books in mathematics at various levels and 9 books on computing. His interests lie mostly in the areas of algebra, set theory and logic, probability and finance. When not writing or teaching, he likes to make period furniture, copy Van Gogh paintings and listen to classical music. He also likes tofu.
Title:
Introduction to the mathematics of finance :from risk management to options pricing /Steven Roman.Publisher:
New York : Springer, 2004.
Call Number:
KIC 332.01513 R758I 2004
Pages:
xiv, 354 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
The Mathematics of Finance has become a hot topic in applied mathematics ever since the discovery of the Black-Scholes option pricing formulas in 1973. Unfortunately, there are very few undergraduate textbooks in this area. This book is specifically written for upper division undergraduate or beginning graduate students in mathematics, finance or economics. With the exception of an optional chapter on the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the book concentrates on discrete derivative pricing models, culminating in a careful and complete derivation of the Black-Scholes option pricing formulas as a limiting case of the Cox-Ross-Rubinstein discrete model. The final chapter is devoted to American options.
The mathematics is not watered down but is appropriate for the intended audience. No measure theory is used and only a small amount of linear algebra is required. All necessary probability theory is developed in several chapters throughout the book, on a "need-to-know" basis. No background in finance is required, since the book also contains a chapter on options.
The author is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, having taught at a number of universities, including MIT, UC Santa Barabara, the University of South Florida and the California State University, Fullerton. He has written 27 books in mathematics at various levels and 9 books on computing. His interests lie mostly in the areas of algebra, set theory and logic, probability and finance. When not writing or teaching, he likes to make period furniture, copy Van Gogh paintings and listen to classical music. He also likes tofu.
Publisher:
New Haven : Yale University press, 2013
Call Number:
KIC 330.94107 G851L 2013
Pages:
303 pages.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom.
This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers.
Publisher:
New Haven : Yale University press, 2013
Call Number:
KIC 330.94107 G851L 2013
Pages:
303 pages.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom.
This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers.
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 1994
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 1994
Pages:
68 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Pakistan's recent energy policies for petroleum and power sector have significantly contributed to attracting local and foreign private investment in the development of energy sector in Pakistan. The Pakistan energy yearbook provides the fundamental data base for planning new energy projetcs to augment the national energy supplies and their judicious use.
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 1994
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 1994
Pages:
68 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Pakistan's recent energy policies for petroleum and power sector have significantly contributed to attracting local and foreign private investment in the development of energy sector in Pakistan. The Pakistan energy yearbook provides the fundamental data base for planning new energy projetcs to augment the national energy supplies and their judicious use.
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 1996
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 1995
Pages:
72 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Pakistan's recent energy policies for petroleum and power sector have significantly contributed to attracting local and foreign private investment in the development of energy sector in Pakistan. The Pakistan energy yearbook provides the fundamental data base for planning new energy projetcs to augment the national energy supplies and their judicious use.
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 1996
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 1995
Pages:
72 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Pakistan's recent energy policies for petroleum and power sector have significantly contributed to attracting local and foreign private investment in the development of energy sector in Pakistan. The Pakistan energy yearbook provides the fundamental data base for planning new energy projetcs to augment the national energy supplies and their judicious use.
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 1997
Call Number:
R 333.791505 P152 1997
Pages:
79 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 1997
Call Number:
R 333.791505 P152 1997
Pages:
79 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 2002
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 2002
Pages:
83 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 2002
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 2002
Pages:
83 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 2005
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 2005
Pages:
107 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 2005
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 2005
Pages:
107 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 2019
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 1997
Pages:
122 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 2019
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 1997
Pages:
122 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 2013
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 2013
Pages:
125 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
Islamabad : Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, 2013
Call Number:
KIC 333.791505 P152 2013
Pages:
125 pages. : illustration., maps ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Publisher:
London : Macmillan and ST Martin's Press, 1958
Call Number:
KIC 332.4150941 H323P 1958
Pages:
xiii, 257 press ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Not available.
Publisher:
London : Macmillan and ST Martin's Press, 1958
Call Number:
KIC 332.4150941 H323P 1958
Pages:
xiii, 257 press ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
Not available.
Publisher:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2015
Call Number:
KIC 338.9410609044 T454R 2015
Pages:
xi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
During World War II, the Allied military forces faced severe problems integrating equipment, tactics, and logistics into successful combat operations. To help confront these problems, scientists and engineers developed new means of studying which equipment designs would best meet the military’s requirements and how the military could best use the equipment it had on hand. By 1941 they had also begun to gather and analyze data from combat operations to improve military leaders’ ordinary planning activities. In Rational Action, William Thomas details these developments, and how they gave rise during the 1950s to a constellation of influential new fields—which he terms the “sciences of policy”—that included operations research, management science, systems analysis, and decision theory. Proponents of these new sciences embraced a variety of agendas. Some aimed to improve policymaking directly, while others theorized about how one decision could be considered more rational than another. Their work spanned systems engineering, applied mathematics, nuclear strategy, and the philosophy of science, and it found new niches in universities, in businesses, and at think tanks such as the RAND Corporation. The sciences of policy also took a prominent place in epic narratives told about the relationships among science, state, and society in an intellectual culture preoccupied with how technology and reason would shape the future. Thomas follows all these threads to illuminate and make new sense of the intricate relationships among scientific analysis, policymaking procedure, and institutional legitimacy at a crucial moment in British and American history.
Publisher:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2015
Call Number:
KIC 338.9410609044 T454R 2015
Pages:
xi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
During World War II, the Allied military forces faced severe problems integrating equipment, tactics, and logistics into successful combat operations. To help confront these problems, scientists and engineers developed new means of studying which equipment designs would best meet the military’s requirements and how the military could best use the equipment it had on hand. By 1941 they had also begun to gather and analyze data from combat operations to improve military leaders’ ordinary planning activities. In Rational Action, William Thomas details these developments, and how they gave rise during the 1950s to a constellation of influential new fields—which he terms the “sciences of policy”—that included operations research, management science, systems analysis, and decision theory. Proponents of these new sciences embraced a variety of agendas. Some aimed to improve policymaking directly, while others theorized about how one decision could be considered more rational than another. Their work spanned systems engineering, applied mathematics, nuclear strategy, and the philosophy of science, and it found new niches in universities, in businesses, and at think tanks such as the RAND Corporation. The sciences of policy also took a prominent place in epic narratives told about the relationships among science, state, and society in an intellectual culture preoccupied with how technology and reason would shape the future. Thomas follows all these threads to illuminate and make new sense of the intricate relationships among scientific analysis, policymaking procedure, and institutional legitimacy at a crucial moment in British and American history.
Publisher:
Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge, 2016.
Call Number:
KIC 330 S678 2016
Pages:
xx, 370 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
In the last decade or so, China and India have emerged on the global stage as two powerful free market economies. The tremendous economic growth in China and India has meant that they have been able to lift millions of people out of the poverty trap. This growth has not, however, been without problems. Apart from worrying levels of environmental pollution, a significant number of people are still struggling to live a decent life as they do not have adequate access to basic needs such as food, health services, education, water, and housing. The traditional old age support mechanism is collapsing amidst push for urbanisation and the practice of nuclear families, while the alternative social security system has not been put in place. Both China and India stress the importance of socio-economic rights, have ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and have in place a strong legal framework for the realisation of such rights. The constitutions of China and India accord significant importance to socio-economic rights and the both countries have numerous laws, regulations and policies that seek to implement various socio-economic rights.
Publisher:
Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge, 2016.
Call Number:
KIC 330 S678 2016
Pages:
xx, 370 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
In the last decade or so, China and India have emerged on the global stage as two powerful free market economies. The tremendous economic growth in China and India has meant that they have been able to lift millions of people out of the poverty trap. This growth has not, however, been without problems. Apart from worrying levels of environmental pollution, a significant number of people are still struggling to live a decent life as they do not have adequate access to basic needs such as food, health services, education, water, and housing. The traditional old age support mechanism is collapsing amidst push for urbanisation and the practice of nuclear families, while the alternative social security system has not been put in place. Both China and India stress the importance of socio-economic rights, have ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and have in place a strong legal framework for the realisation of such rights. The constitutions of China and India accord significant importance to socio-economic rights and the both countries have numerous laws, regulations and policies that seek to implement various socio-economic rights.
Publisher:
London ; Routledge, 2014.
Call Number:
KIC 338.9 C737 2014
Pages:
xxii, 603 pages ; 25 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
"The Companion to Development Studies contains over 109 chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the editors. The sections cover: the nature of development, theories and strategies of development, globalization and development, rural development, urbanization and development, environment and development, gender, health and education, the political economy of violence and insecurity, and governance and development. This third edition has been extensively updated and contains 45 new contributions from leading authorities, dealing with pressing contemporary issues such as race and development, ethics and development, BRICs and development, global financial crisis, the knowledge based economy and digital divide, food security, GM crops, comparative urbanism, cities and crime, energy, water hydropolitics, climate change, disability, fragile states, global war on terror, ethnic conflict, legal rights to development, ecosystems services for development, just to name a few. Existing chapters have been thoroughly revised to include cutting-edge developments, and to present updated further reading and websites"--
Publisher:
London ; Routledge, 2014.
Call Number:
KIC 338.9 C737 2014
Pages:
xxii, 603 pages ; 25 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
"The Companion to Development Studies contains over 109 chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the editors. The sections cover: the nature of development, theories and strategies of development, globalization and development, rural development, urbanization and development, environment and development, gender, health and education, the political economy of violence and insecurity, and governance and development. This third edition has been extensively updated and contains 45 new contributions from leading authorities, dealing with pressing contemporary issues such as race and development, ethics and development, BRICs and development, global financial crisis, the knowledge based economy and digital divide, food security, GM crops, comparative urbanism, cities and crime, energy, water hydropolitics, climate change, disability, fragile states, global war on terror, ethnic conflict, legal rights to development, ecosystems services for development, just to name a few. Existing chapters have been thoroughly revised to include cutting-edge developments, and to present updated further reading and websites"--
Title:
The first knowledge economy :human capital and the European economy, 1750-1850 /Margaret C. Jacob.Publisher:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014
Call Number:
KIC 330.940253 J151F 2014
Pages:
ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
"Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in breaking the Malthusian trap during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which minds, books, lectures and education become central. She shows how, armed with knowledge and know-how and inspired by the desire to get rich, entrepreneurs emerged within an industrial culture wedded to scientific knowledge and technology. She charts how, across a series of industries and nations, innovative engineers and entrepreneurs sought to make sense and a profit out of the world around them. Skilled hands matched minds steeped in the knowledge systems new to the eighteenth century to transform the economic destiny of western Europe"--
Title:
The first knowledge economy :human capital and the European economy, 1750-1850 /Margaret C. Jacob.Publisher:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014
Call Number:
KIC 330.940253 J151F 2014
Pages:
ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
"Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in breaking the Malthusian trap during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which minds, books, lectures and education become central. She shows how, armed with knowledge and know-how and inspired by the desire to get rich, entrepreneurs emerged within an industrial culture wedded to scientific knowledge and technology. She charts how, across a series of industries and nations, innovative engineers and entrepreneurs sought to make sense and a profit out of the world around them. Skilled hands matched minds steeped in the knowledge systems new to the eighteenth century to transform the economic destiny of western Europe"--
Publisher:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Call Number:
KIC 332.042 S252G 2001
Pages:
xxvi, 447 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.
Publisher:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Call Number:
KIC 332.042 S252G 2001
Pages:
xxvi, 447 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Economics
Summary:
This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.