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The Impulse Economy: Understanding Mobile Shoppers and What Makes Them Buy
By Gary Schwartz. 2011
We live in a world where our mobile devices have become extensions of ourselves. We depend on them for instant…
connections to entertainment, social media, news, and deals. The phone has become our ticket, loyalty card, and catchall wallet.Networks are faster, phones are smarter, and the mobile shopper is ready to spend money now. What can a business do to maximize the mobile buying power of the new impulse consumer? Gary Schwartz has written a groundbreaking book that outlines the history of the mobile industry and shows just how businesses can build up their mobile platforms to maximize online sales. He'll explain:* How to minimize barriers between the shopper and a sale.* How marketers can connect and, more important, reconnect with loyal shoppers.* The technology available now--and what's coming soon--and how to pick a solution that will deliver results.But like Blink or Freakonomics, this isn't just a book for businesses. It's also an eye-opening look into the ways our economy is changing every second of every day. Gary Schwartz analyzes a phenomenon that's modifying people's actions and challenges our assumptions about our behavior as consumers. Anyone interested in the ways our behavior as shoppers is changing--and what we can do to better harness this opportunity--will find this book to be essential reading.Extreme Inequalities in Contemporary Capitalism
By Maurizio Franzini, Elena Granaglia, Michele Raitano. 2016
This book explores the mechanisms by which top incomes are achieved through work in today's advanced economies and asks to…
what extent current extreme inequalities are compatible with widely held values of social justice. Reflecting on the heterogeneity of the working rich, the authors argue that very high earnings often result not from heightened competition induced by globalization but rather from a lack of competition, or at best deficient competition. It is proposed that such incomes cannot be justified in terms of efficiency or merit and do not generate positive trickle-down effects with benefits for all of society; rather, extreme inequalities in earnings risk jeopardizing equality of opportunity. The book concludes by offering a wide array of innovative policy prescriptions that are not punitive in intent and are not merely directed toward income redistribution. Readers will find the book to be a fascinating source of insights into the subject of the working rich, which remains largely unexplored within both economics and ethics.Economic and Environmental Impact of Free Trade in East and South East Asia
By Kakali Mukhopadhyay, Paul J. Thomassin. 2010
In recent years, the East and South East Asian region has witnessed a rapid expansion of regional economic cooperation through…
bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements. The current book attempts to comprehensively analyze the economic and environmental impacts of regional economic integration in East and South East Asia to the year 2020. This region has some of the fastest growing economies of the world. A global economic model was used to undertake the analysis. A rare feature of the book is the detailed environmental implications of the Regional Trade Agreements focusing on air, water, and waste pollution. Economic integration among the East and South East Asian region has been an important agenda item for the academic and policy communities in recent years. The study provides insight into pursuing a concrete multilateral trade liberalization policy (combining ASEAN and other countries in East Asia) and throws more light on the on-going trade and environment debate. This book will be a good addition to the field of trade and the environment. The academic community - primarily researchers and policy makers, and world bodies, such as the WTO, ADB and the World Bank, will benefit from the book.Wachstumsmarkt Brasilien: Der deutsche Wirtschafts- und Handelsbeitrag in Geschichte und Gegenwart
By Luiz Alberto Moniz-Bandeira. 2013
Als fünftgrößter Staat der Erde zählt Brasilien zu den Top Ten der weltweit größten Volkswirtschaften. Die inländische Wirtschaft weist hohe…
Wachstumsraten auf, und aussichtsreiche Zahlen bei Außenhandel, Investitionen und Beschäftigungszuwachs erhöhen das wirtschaftspolitische Interesse an Brasilien. Auch Deutschland befindet sich in einer vielseitigen Handelsbeziehung mit dem südamerikanischen Land. Basis dieser Verbindung ist die Nachkriegszeit der 1950er Jahre, in denen Brasilien die eigene Verhandlungsposition gegenüber den USA stärken wollte. Zu diesem Zweck forcierte Brasilien den Handel mit der aufstrebenden Industriemacht aus Europa und nutzte zunehmend Kapital und technologisches Know-how aus Deutschland. Entstanden ist eine fruchtbare ökonomische und politische Beziehung, die dieses Buch historisch und analytisch bis zur zeitnahen Gegenwart aufarbeitet. Der Autor Prof. Dr. Luiz Alberto Moniz-Bandeira gibt einen einmaligen und umfassenden Einblick in die gemeinsame Geschichte der beiden Länder.Freedom, Security, and Justice in the European Union: Internal and External Dimensions of Increased Cooperation after the Lisbon Treaty
By Ronald L Holzhacker, Paul Luif. 2014
As the European Union has evolved, it has also begun to address policy questions which are closer to the very…
heart of the state. From cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs, originally conceived as the third pillar of European cooperation, has emerged the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice (AFSJ). A unique aspect of policy in this area is the desire to integrate the internal and external dimensions of this policy area. One of the tensions in this policy area has been balancing the protection of fundamental rights and increasing security. The first part of this book focuses on the institutional relations of policymaking in AFSJ, both within member states and between member states, in particular the issues of national executive control, national parliamentary scrutiny and peer review across the member states with regard to AFSJ. The second part focuses on specific policy areas which are part of AFSJ. Two chapters highlight the tension found in this policy area between security and human or fundamental rights, the first related to data retention and the second on policing external borders. The final two chapters are concerned with data exchange among European countries and transatlantically with the US, and the interface between AFSJ and the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The chapters contained in the book were presented at the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the Dutch national parliament (Tweede Kamer), making it of interest to scholars and practitioners alike.The Great Race
By Levi Tillemann. 1989
The Great Race recounts the story of a century-long battle between automakers for market share, profit, and technological dominance--and a…
race to build the car of the future.The world's great manufacturing juggernaut--the $2 trillion automotive industry--is in the throes of a revolution. Its future will include cars Henry Ford and Karl Benz could scarcely have imagined. They will drive themselves, won't consume oil, and will come in radical shapes and sizes. But the path to that future is fraught. The top contenders are two traditional manufacturing giants, the United States and Japan, and a newcomer, China. Team America has a powerful and little known weapon in its arsenal: a small group of technology buffs and regulators from California. The story of why and how these men and women could shape the future--how you move, how you work, how you live on earth--is an unexpected tale filled with unforgettable characters: a scorned chemistry professor, a South African visionary who went for broke, an ambitious Chinese expat, a quixotic Japanese nuclear engineer, and a string of billion-dollar wagers by governments and corporations. Tillemann's account is incisive and riveting. It explains how America bounced back in this global contest and what it will take to command the industrial future.Sustainable Banking: Managing the Social and Environmental Impact of Financial Institutions
By Blair Feltmate, Olaf Weber. 2016
Sustainable Banking introduces business leaders and students to the many ways in which financial institutions can manage their environmental and…
social impact and meet the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations. Olaf Weber and Blair Feltmate go beyond the business case for sustainability: how managing environmental, social, and governance risk can contribute to a bank's bottom line - to make the sustainability case for banking: how banks and other financial institutions can make a positive impact on society.In their book, Weber and Feltmate discuss the key aspects involved in making a financial institution sustainable: how to manage the direct and indirect impacts of banking activities on the community and the environment, how to minimize and mitigate the environmental footprint of internal operations, and how to account for various types of environmental and social risk in lending and project finance. They also introduce sustainable banking products and strategies being adopted by industry leaders, such as responsible investing, social finance, and impact lending.International Trade Policies and Climate Change Governance
By P. K. Rao. 2012
This work offers a synthesis of the current approaches toward an integration of international trade and climate change, with a…
view to fostering potential improvements in policies and institutions affecting these. A number of pragmatic measures are proposed with reference to the WTO and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regimes, which are expected to contribute toward enhanced climate change governance, as well as promoting international trade.The Power of Market Fundamentalism
By Fred Block. 2014
What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment,…
widening inequality, and financial crises? The Power of Market Fundamentalism extends economist Karl Polanyi's work to explain why these dangerous utopian ideas have become the dominant economic ideology of our time.Global Change
By Georg Götz. 2011
Seven interviews with leading climate scientists cover both fundamental research (climate modeling, global warming, sea level change, melting of the…
ice caps, natural hazards) and impact assessment (adaption, mitigation, economic impacts and costs of climate change). Experts on different aspects of the topic explain their own field and give their opinion on general questions concerning climate change. The goal is to provide the reader with first-hand information on the current state of climate research.Die Euro-Krise
By Falk Illing. 2012
Was waren und sind die strukturellen Ursachen, die sich hinter der Euro-Krise verbergen? Wie kann es sein, dass das bisherige…
Krisenmanagement und die Hilfspakete kaum Erfolge erzielten? Vor dem Hintergrund der ökonomischen Verwerfungen konzentriert sich die vorliegende Analyse auf die Politik in der Euro-Krise. In den Mittelpunkt rücken Macht und Souveränität, Kritik der vorherrschenden wirtschaftspolitischen Strategien, politische Einflussnahmen sowie die Konsequenzen, die sich für den Staat und die Regierungen durch die Entscheidungen des Krisenmanagements ergeben. Detailreich und zugleich prägnant werden die Ursachen der europäischen Strukturkrise beleuchtet, ein chronologischer Überblick über die bisherige Entwicklung gegeben und schließlich der Wandel und die zukünftigen Probleme der Europäischen Union aufgrund der Euro-Krise diskutiert.Democracy in Transition: Political Participation in the European Union
By Kyriakos N Demetriou. 2013
,The papers in this collection, written by a cross-regional group of experts, provide insights into the causes of declining levels…
of citizen participation and other distinct forms of civic activism in Europe and explore a range of factors contributing to apathy and eventually disengagement from vital political processes and institutions. At the same time, this volume examines informal or unconventional types of civic engagement and political participation corresponding to the rapid advances in culture, technology and social networking. The volume is divided into three interrelated parts: Part I consists of critical essays in the form of theoretical approaches to analysing weakening political participation and citizen estrangement; Part II is dedicated to an exploration of the role and deployment of technologically advanced media, such as the internet, as determinants of changing patterns of political participationist behaviour. Finally, Part III presents findings of empirical research on the issue of political participation. Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, the book contributes towards a better understanding of the disquieting trend of voter apathy and disenchantment with politics in the context of the ongoing process of European integration, and offers a variety of analytical tools for decoding both the emergence of alternative conceptualizations of citizenship and other forms of meaningful civic and political engagement.The European Stability Mechanism Before the Court of Justice of the European Union
By Etienne Lhoneux, Christos A. Vassilopoulos. 2014
This book provides an analysis of the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Pringle…
case. It focuses on the three main aspects of the ruling. First, it examines the part of the judgment concerning the validity of the European Council Decision 2011/199 - adopted under the simplified revision procedure (Article 48(6) TEU) - which provides for the possibility to establish a financial stability mechanism. Second, it evaluates the new rules developed by the Court in order to interpret agreements concluded exclusively by the member states, such as the ESM Treaty. Third, it assesses the Court's interpretation of the main provisions of the so-called economic pillar of the Economic and Monetary Union and the fundamental rules provided for by the Treaties (nature of competence, financial assistance, institutional balance, judicial review charter of fundamental rights etc. ) with regard to the ESM treaty provisions.Green Information Systems in the Residential Sector
By Philipp Wunderlich. 2012
Given rising electricity consumption, coupled with finite resources, and a growing awareness surrounding sustainable energy, ICT-enabled electrical networks such as…
smart grids are increasingly being deployed by energy companies. One aspect of smart grids is smart meter technology (SMT), which are sophisticated digital electrical meters, having the potential to increase energy efficiency in both residential and industrial sectors. However, a challenge to SMT-implementation in residential settings has been its successful adoption by consumers. As many cases in the US, and other parts of the world highlight, such implementation projects have run into resistance from the consumers. Despite these challenges, little research has been conducted on this topic. This study is one of the first that attempts to fill that void by empirically examining the antecedents of SMT adoption amongst potential customers and a group of SMT users. Specifically, this study developed a model surrounding consumers' intention to adopt and use SMT, by drawing on theories of adoption and motivational psychology and also by including a set of context-specific variables.Reframing Economic Ethics
By Claus Dierksmeier. 2016
This book reconstructs major paradigms in the history of economic ethics up to, and including, the present day. Asserting that…
ethics should be integral rather than marginal to economics and management education, Reframing Economic Ethics highlights the need for a paradigm change from mechanistic to humanistic management, and argues that the failures of markets and managers in recent years were paved by a misguided management education. The author shows how the reader can and must learn from the history of economic thinking in order to overcome the theoretical shortcomings and the practical failings of the present system.European Ship Recycling Regulation
By Urs Daniel Engels. 2012
This study provides an in-depth analysis of the Hong Kong Ship Recycling Convention as adopted in May 2009 and a…
thorough analysis of the overall status quo of ship recycling regulations. It investigates the lack of sufficient ratifications of the Convention from both a legal and an economic perspective. The first part of the study focuses on the history of the Convention's entry-into-force provision and the rationale behind it. Due to the fact that this provision provides a considerable additional obstacle to the Convention's becoming legally binding, in the second part the focus of the work shifts to unilateral action in this field. An overview of the legal environment of European ship recycling legislation is followed by an analysis and evaluation of a number of proposals by the European Commission attempting to tackle the problems of current ship recycling procedures. With a particular emphasis on (planned) European measures in this regard, the analysis' overall message is one of cautious optimism.Understanding Policy Decisions
By Bruno Dente. 2014
This book proposes a model for understanding how innovative policy decisions are taken in complex political and organizational systems as…
well as the possible strategies that the promoter of the innovation can employ in order to maximize the probability of successful adoption and implementation. It presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of decisional situations in order to design the most appropriate strategies for overcoming conflict (e. g. of the NIMBY variety) and/or increasing the engagement of potentially interested actors. The book includes a template for decisional case studies, a protocol for the definition of a decisional strategy, and an exercise in decisional analysis.Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall
By Margaret Walton-Roberts, Jenna Hennebry. 2014
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars around an important question: how has migration changed in Europe as…
the European Union has enlarged, and what are the consequences for countries (and for migrants themselves) inside and outside of these redrawn jurisdictional and territorial borders? By addressing this question the book contributes to three current debates with respect to EU migration management: 1) that recent developments in EU migration management represent a profound spatial and organizational reconfiguration of the regional governance of migration, 2) the trend towards the externalization or subcontracting of migration control and, 3) how the implications of Europe's changing immigration policy are increasingly felt across the European neighborhood and beyond. Based on new empirical research, the authors in this collection explore these three processes and their consequences for both member and non-member EU states, for migrants themselves, and for migration systems in the region. The collection indicates that despite the rhetoric of social and spatial integration across the EU region, as one wall has come down, new walls have gone up as novel migration and security policy frameworks have been erected - making European immigration more complex, and potentially more influential beyond the EU zone, than ever.Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas
By Caroline Shenaz Hossein. 2016
When Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microfinance was lauded as an important contributor to the…
economic development of the Global South. However, political scandals, mission-drift, and excessive commercialization have tarnished this example of responsible or inclusive financial development. Politicized Microfinance insightfully discusses exclusion while providing a path towards redemption. In this work, Caroline Shenaz Hossein explores the politics, histories and social prejudices that have shaped the legacy of microbanking in Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad. Writing from a feminist perspective, Hossein's analysis is rooted in original qualitative data and offers multiple solutions that prioritize the needs of marginalized and historically oppressed people of African descent. A must read for scholars of political economy, diaspora studies, social economy, women's studies, as well as development practitioners, Politicized Microfinance convincingly deftly argues for microfinance to return to its origins as a political tool, fighting for those living in the margins.