5 Economics and Business eBooks (6)

Hayek: A Collaborative Biography Part IX: The Divine Right of the 'Free' Market By Robert Leeson
Economic Policies since the Global Financial Crisis (International Papers in Political Economy) by Philip Arestis
Social Dynamics in a Systems Perspective By Sergio Barile, Marco Pellicano, Francesco Polese
Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification by Allen Chun
Kostas Metaxiotis, Kostas Metaxiotis, Francisco Javier Carrillo, Tan Yigitcanlar, "Knowledge-Based Development for Cities and Societies: Integrated Multi-Level Approaches"

Hayek: A Collaborative Biography Part IX: The Divine Right of the 'Free' Market By Robert Leeson

English | PDF | 2017 | 422 Pages | ISBN : 3319607073 | 4.05 MB
F. A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. This multi-volume biography examines the evolution of his life and influence.
In this ninth volume of Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek, a variety of well-known contributors discuss Hayek's views on the divine right of the market taking democratic and free-market principles into account.

Economic Policies since the Global Financial Crisis (International Papers in Political Economy) by Philip Arestis

English | 2 Nov. 2017 | ISBN: 3319604589 | 364 Pages | EPUB | 1.61 MB
This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9. Well-respected, international scholars come together to discuss the level of economic growth following the crisis, concerns over inequality in industrialised countries, and labour market policies.

Social Dynamics in a Systems Perspective By Sergio Barile, Marco Pellicano, Francesco Polese

English | PDF | 2017 (2018 Edition) | 263 Pages | ISBN : 3319619667 | 5.14 MB
This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations. The aim is to increase readers’ understanding of complexity and of socio-economic interactions through the application of systems thinking perspectives. Among the various areas and topics addressed are complexity and sustainable management, markets as complex adaptive systems, the impacts of psychological and emotional factors upon value co-creation exchanges, and ICT enablers of service network performance and service exchange fulfillment.
Thanks to the chosen perspectives, all of which are based on different systems research streams, the book will support more consistent and robust decisions, leading to sustainable, wise, and viable systems dynamics. It will aid managers, practitioners, and consultants in their decision-making processes and will also be of interest for academics and scholars in management, systems, computer science, engineering, and marketing.

Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification by Allen Chun

English | March 27th, 2017 | ASIN: B06XWTHCSS, ISBN: 1438464711 | 288 pages | EPUB | 0.71 MB
Critiques the idea of a Chinese cultural identity and argues that such identities are instead determined by geopolitical and economic forces.
Forget Chineseness provides a critical interpretation of not only discourses of Chinese identity—Chineseness—but also of how they have reflected differences between “Chinese” societies, such as in Hong Kong, Taiwan, People’s Republic of China, Singapore, and communities overseas. Allen Chun asserts that while identity does have meaning in cultural, representational terms, it is more importantly a product of its embeddedness in specific entanglements of modernity, colonialism, nation-state formation, and globalization. By articulating these processes underlying institutional practices in relation to public mindsets, it is possible to explain various epistemic moments that form the basis for their sociopolitical transformation.
From a broader perspective, this should have salient ramifications for prevailing discussions of identity politics. The concept of identity has not only been predicated on flawed notions of ethnicity and culture in the social sciences but it has also been acutely exacerbated by polarizing assumptions that drive our understanding of identity politics.
Allen Chun is Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is the author of Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of “Land” in the New Territories of Hong Kong.

Kostas Metaxiotis, Kostas Metaxiotis, Francisco Javier Carrillo, Tan Yigitcanlar, "Knowledge-Based Development for Cities and Societies: Integrated Multi-Level Approaches"
English | ISBN: 161520721X | 2010 | 423 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Over the past twenty years, the conventional knowledge management approach has evolved into a strategic management approach that has found applications and opportunities outside of business, in society at large, through education, urban development, governance, and healthcare, among others. Knowledge-Based Development for Cities and Societies: Integrated Multi-Level Approaches enlightens the concepts and challenges of knowledge management for both urban environments and entire regions, enhancing the expertise and knowledge of scholars, researchers, practitioners, managers and urban developers in the development of successful knowledge-based development policies, creation of knowledge cities and prosperous knowledge societies. This reference creates large knowledge base for scholars, managers and urban developers and increases the awareness of the role of knowledge cities and knowledge societies in the knowledge era, as well as of the challenges and opportunities for future research.