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by Katie Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' transnationally.
by Henk Overbeek, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The authors interrogate the condition of the neoliberal project in the wake of the global crisis and neoliberalism's predicted death in 2007, both in terms of the regulatory structures of finance-led capitalism in Europe and North America, and the impact of new centres of capitalist power on global order.
The Politics of Tourism Development
Booms and Busts in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.
Crowdfunding for SMEs
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Crowdfunding for SMEs: A European Perspective provides a valuable insight into this new source of capital. In particular, the authors focus on financial return crowdfunding, which repays the crowd either through debt or equity. This source of capital might play a significant role in the future becoming...
The Economics of the Financial Crisis
Lessons and New Threats
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Through the tools of economics, Annunziata's vivid and gripping book shows how the global financial crisis was caused by a failure of leadership and common sense in which we all played a role. The insights of this clear and compelling analysis are essential for learning the right lessons from the crisis, and seeing new threats around the corner.
Disorganized Crimes
Why Corporate Governance and Government Intervention Failed, and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Corporate misgovernance and the failure of government regulation have led to major financial fiascos. 'Disorganized crimes' are disruptive and costly. Munk links the two major eras of corporate misgovernance during the last decade to explain how these events occur and what can be done to prevent them from re-occurring.
Black Swan Start-ups
Understanding the Rise of Successful Technology Business in Unlikely Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
This book explores startups that have thrived against the odds in places where startup success was deemed to be unlikely. Discussing a number of technology startups from around the world that have succeeded without state backing nor local venture and seed capital, Black Swan Start Ups provides unique...
Modern Multi-Factor Analysis of Bond Portfolios
Critical Implications for Hedging and Investing
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Where institutions and individuals averagely invest the majority of their assets in money-market and fixed-income instruments, interest rate risk management could be seen as the single most important global financial issue. However, the majority of the key techniques used by most investors were developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This topical volume analyzes the impact of the 2008 financial crisis. It considers the origins and explanations of the current crisis, examines the regulatory implications and, with specific focus on developing countries, it provides a strategy for economic growth that can guarantee financial stability in the future.
The Global Gold Market and the International Monetary System from the late 19th Century to the Present
Actors, Networks, Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Using an inter-disciplinary and global approach this book examines the different roles gold played in the international economy from the late 19th century until today. It gives a complete and comprehensive overview of the many facets of the global gold market's organization from the extraction of this precious metal to its consumption.
Exchange-Traded Funds
Investment Practices and Tactical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
With Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) sponsors constantly making new types of ETFs available, there is now a variety of ETFs that provide investors with an opportunity to develop diversified investment portfolios. Their sophistication has also grown to include a breed of ETFs that do not passively track...
Valuing Banks
A New Corporate Finance Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This book aims to overcome the limitations the variations in bank-specifics impose by providing a bank-specific valuation theoretical framework and a new asset-side model. The book includes also a constructive comparison of equity and asset side methods. The authors present a novel framework entitled,...
The Handbook of Global Agricultural Markets
The Business and Finance of Land, Water, and Soft Commodities
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This book is a one-stop reference for practitioners and academics in finance, business and economics, providing a holistic reference to the international agriculture business. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, looking at the issues, opportunities and investable themes in the global agricultural space, combining research and practical tools.
Social Justice and the University
Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Can universities continue to play a major role in advancing social justice today? This volume illuminates key aspects of social justice as a theoretical project and as a set of practical challenges. Authors address related issues from the perspectives of active practitioners in the context of or from close proximity to universities.