Økonomi og finans

This book is for everyone who is concerned about the successful future of a very special institution - the National Health Service (NHS).

A collection of one-on-one discussions with 40 of the world's greatest thought and action leaders and prominent philanthropic figures.

This research volume asserts that understanding the importance of utilising robust financial management approaches and financial information in making business decisions and assessing business performance is key. This is especially relevant for SMBs, as they can have a significant influence on country economies.

Russia is rarely out of the news, yet Russian politics can be difficult to understand. This Very Short Introduction provides a guide to understanding Russian politics that goes beyond the headlines and offers a vivid account of the key forces driving them. Brian Taylor provides a concise and accessible overview that places Russia in a global context while explaining its internal political development. The discussion balances the role of enduring forces such as history, geography, and global status, with the dramatic influence of powerful individual leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin.

The first in-depth account of the economic reform program of Myanmar's ill-fated Aung San Suu Kyi government, by one of her key advisors. Best Laid Plans is a unique first-hand account of the radical economic reforms implemented in Myanmar under the ill-fated civilian government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. These reforms, designed both to turn around Myanmar's dire economy and lay the economic foundations for democracy, were brought to a dramatic end following the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021. Written by one of Suu Kyi's key economic advisors who was imprisoned alongside her in the wake of the coup, Best Laid Plans explores the nature of the reforms, the resistance they inspired, and the events that brought this all-too brief era of change to its catastrophic conclusion.

The Arab World edition of N. Gregory Mankiw?s Principles of Economics is essential reading for economics students in the Middle East and those with an interest in Islamic finance. Using Mankiw?s classic ten principles approach to economics, the book provides students with a framework for understanding the economy of the world they live in. Written in an engaging and accessible style and designed to encourage students to think like an economist, the text equips them to engage confidently and critically with theories and principles of economics. Following on from the successful fourth edition, this text contains updated case studies, news articles and features that focus on the Arab world and current global challenges. This fifth edition is also available as a MindTap, a fully interactive learning platform with an interactive eReader, assessment questions, revision aids and engaging multimedia to explain key concepts and further case studies. It also provides analytics to help you keep track of students? progress.

The Investment Trusts Handbook 2025 is the eighth edition of the highly regarded annual handbook for anyone interested in investment trusts - often referred to as the City's best-kept secret, or the connoisseur's choice among investment funds.

Three Decades of Investment and Business Insights from the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder

Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era, but the backbone of globalisation is still low-cost labour and rapacious corporate control. Extractive capitalism is what made - and is still making - our unequal world. In this landmark collection, Professor Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives record-breaking profits. Piercing, witty and constantly revealing, Extractive Capitalism is a definitive account of the dark truths behind the world's most crucial industries.

Many philosophers today take the empiricist or rationalist stance that mainstream economics is narrow, simplistic, and over determinate. For their part too, most economists don't know much formal philosophy. The purpose of the present book is to help bridge this great divide between philosopher and economist.

This book dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia from leading African philosophers. The book challenges students and researchers to think beyond decolonization to alternative forms of African identities and futures.

This book dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia from leading African philosophers. The book challenges students and researchers to think beyond decolonization to alternative forms of African identities and futures.

This book examines the challenges of sustainably managing and conserving cordyceps, a rare species of fungi largely grown in Tibet, on the brink of extinction. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource management, environmental conservation, environmental policy and sustainable supply chain management.

This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different 'parts' (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving 'whole'.

In the new edition of this bestselling text and scholarly reference, new and revised chapters reflect shifts in the gendered, classed, racialized and sexualized nature of ongoing global restructurings.

In the new edition of this bestselling text and scholarly reference, new and revised chapters reflect shifts in the gendered, classed, racialized and sexualized nature of ongoing global restructurings.

Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire

An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the world

A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of global microfinance, told through the eyes of those who work in small-scale lending and of women borrowers in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stoolmaker who needed money to expand her business. In an act known as the beginning of microfinance, Yunus lent $27 to 42 women, hoping small credit would help them to pull themselves out of poverty. Soon, Yunus's Grameen Bank was born, and, very small but often high-interest loans for poor people took off. In 2006, Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on anti-poverty lending. But there's a problem with this story. There are mounting concerns that these small loans are as likely to bury poor people in debt as they are to pull them from poverty, with borrowers facing consequences such as jail time and forced land sales. Hundreds have even reportedly committed suicide. What happened? Did microfinance take a wrong turn, or was microfinance flawed from the beginning?We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky is a story about unintended consequences, blind optimism, and the decades-long ramifications of seemingly small policy choices, rooted in the stories of women borrowers in Sierra Leone. Kardas-Nelson asks: What happens when a single, financially focused solution to global inequity ignores the real drivers of poverty? Who stands to benefit and, more importantly, who gets left behind?

This book assesses canals as a major technological system re-shaping Britons' relationship with their landscape and environment between 1760 and 1968, and argues this 200-year arc of historical experience is essential to understanding canals as sites of recreation, leisure, heritage, and experience of the natural environment.