Traditional climate policy is based on the market-liberal paradigm that relies on carbon pricing, a belief in self-regulating markets, and transfer payments for the so-called "losers" of the transfor- mation process. The market-liberal approach to climate policy is certain to fail because it is...

1. Introduction -- FRIENDS OF OUR FRIENDS -- Part I: The mafia attitude The nature of Godfather Marketing -- 2. Mafia marketing -- 3. What is meant by mafia -- 4. A matter of values -- Part II: Because you’re mine The scope of Godfather Marketing -- 5. An offer you can’t refuse -- 6. The...

Although ethical custom has long recognized man’s responsibility to the environment, the contribution of traditional economic entrepreneurship to the sustainability challenge has been limited. Indeed, it can be shown to have had a negative impact at times and although new business models have...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. New pragmatism for new times -- Chapter 3. Political system and socio-economic development -- Chapter 4. People’s planet -- Chapter 5. Leadership: economics and politics of great change -- Chapter 6. One-third of the century of transformation -- Chapter 7....

Through the analyses of several typical paradigms of informatization in the countryside, the status of informatization in the countryside and some unresolved issues were studied. A new way was proposed to develop rural information with embedded mobile phone terminal, and to explore an...