This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and the coming energy crisis. In alternating chapters, it lays out the nature of the two interrelated problems, and specifies the various economic considerations. Thus, it describes the coming shortfall of fossil fuel energy ...
This book addresses some of the many social challenges created by migration flows over the past decades. The volume brings together research from three different fields: economics, sociology and political science.
This contextual update shows that central banks continue to be relevant and essential for sound functioning of economies. Central banks require to pursue traditional functions relating to currency and payment systems and to being banker to the government and to banks as vigorously as before the crisis.