This book collects selected articles addressing several currently debated issues in the field of international macroeconomics. They focus on the role of the central banks in the debate on how to come to terms with the long-term decline in productivity growth, insufficient aggregate demand, high...

1. Introduction -- 2. Profit from Openness: A Critique of a New Business Model -- 3. Profiting from Free and Open Source Software -- 4.Profiting from Open Access Publishing -- 5. Profiting from Open Audiovisual Content -- 6. Profiting from Massive Open Online Courses. - 7. Conclusions and...

This book presents a foresight-based exploratory analysis on the coming post-capitalist society and the transforming role of technology, creativity, and social innovation in the new economy. Topics analyzed include innovation culture, the role of politics, legal protection, the digitalization of...

Care, and its Relevance for Today’s Economy -- Authentic Human Relations and the Economy -- Caring for Being and Caring for Other -- Getting to the Heart of Compassion in Philosophy and Economic Life -- Consciousness Approach to Management and Economics -- New Metrics for a New Economy – The...

1 Introduction: digital transformation, big techs, and public policies -- 2 New economy(ies), new economics and new ‘digital’ rights -- 3 Big Techs, Market Power and Public Policies -- 4 Big techs and on-line information system -- 5 Private power and public policies: between antitrust and...

Chapter 1: The Productivity Puzzle – A critical assessment and an outlook on the COVID-19 crisis -- Chapter 2: Revisiting intangible capital and labour productivity growth, 2000-2015: Accounting for the crisis and economic recovery in the EU -- Chapter 3: The Rule of Law and Labour...

Chapter 1 Taking the New Normal as New Challenges -- Chapter 2 Understanding and Adapting to the New Normal -- Chapter 3 The Upcoming New Normal -- Chapter 4 The Prospect of Global Economy under the New Normal -- Chapter 5 The New Normal of Chinese Economy and Global Competition Reform --...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. New Definitions of Economic Cross-Efficiency -- Chapter 3. Evaluating Efficiency in Non-Homogeneous Environments -- Chapter 4. Testing Positive Endogeneity in Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis -- Chapter 5. Modelling Pollution-Generating Technologies: A...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I Macro-issues in Agriculture -- Chapter 2. Structural Transformation & Growth: Whither Agriculture in Nepal -- Chapter 3. The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction in Nepal -- Chapter 4. Food Consumption Patterns and Dietary Diversity in Nepal: Implications...

Chapter 1: Introduction. - Chapter 2. Technology and China’s Growth Trend. - Chapter 3. Spatial Effects of FDI and Growth in China -- Chapter 4. Interregional Disparity in Productivity Growth -- Chapter 5: Trade Imbalance and Protectionist Policy on Imported Intermediate Inputs -- Chapter 6...