A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research
A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research

Author: Beverley A. Searle

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-06-25

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1789900166

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This insightful Modern Guide explores heterodox approaches to modern wellbeing research, with a specific focus on how wellbeing is understood and practised, exploring policies and actions which are taken to shape wellbeing. It evaluates contemporary trends in wellbeing research, including the sometimes competing definitions, methods and approaches offered by different disciplinary perspectives.

A Modern Guide to Food Economics
A Modern Guide to Food Economics

Author: Roosen, Jutta

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1800372051

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This Modern Guide provides detailed theoretical and empirical insights into key areas of research in food economics. It takes a forward-looking perspective on how different actors in the food system shape the sustainability of food production, distribution, and consumption, as well as on major challenges to efficient and inclusive food systems.

A Modern Guide to Sports Economics
A Modern Guide to Sports Economics

Author: Koning, Ruud H.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1789906539

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This timely Modern Guide offers critical insights into developments in both professional and recreational sports through the lens of the economic forces that determine them. It explores the benefits of the relationship between sports and economics, highlighting ways that economic research can help to understand sports better and the ways that sport provides opportunities to test economic theories.

A Modern Guide to Financial Shocks and Crises
A Modern Guide to Financial Shocks and Crises

Author: Ferri, Giovanni

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1789904528

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Offering a comprehensive guide to financial shocks and crises, this book explores their increasing occurrence in current market economies, as well as their power to wrench the macroeconomy. The book discusses three critical questions: what causes financial shocks; which channels may exacerbate their impact; and what policies could help avoid them or limit their negative effect on the economy and society at large.

A Modern Guide to the Digitalization of Infrastructure
A Modern Guide to the Digitalization of Infrastructure

Author: Montero, Juan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-09-23

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1839106050

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Providing a coherent and multidisciplinary approach to digitalization, this Modern Guide aims to systematize how the digitalization process affects infrastructure-based industries, including telecommunications, transport, energy, water and postal services.

A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy
A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy

Author: Drahokoupil, Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1788975103

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Providing an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts.

A Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics
A Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics

Author: Kincaid, Harold

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-08-27

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1788974468

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This insightful Modern Guide offers a broad coverage of questions and controversies encountered by contemporary economists. A refreshing approach to philosophy of economics, chapters comprise a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives, from lab and field experiments to macroeconomics and applied policy work, written using a familiar, accessible language for economists.

A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy
A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy

Author: Sigler, Thomas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-08-27

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1789909562

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Providing a comprehensive overview of the urban sharing economy, this Modern Guide takes a forward-looking perspective on how sharing goods and services may facilitate future sustainability of consumption and production. It highlights recent developments and issues, with cutting-edge discussions from leading international scholars in business, engineering, environmental management, geography, law, planning, sociology and transport studies.

A Modern Guide to Local and Regional Politics
A Modern Guide to Local and Regional Politics

Author: Copus, Colin

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-02-04

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1839103450

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Utilising international material to explore the roles, functions, tasks, responsibilities, powers and actions of intra-state politicians and the institutions to which they are elected, this insightful book examines how local and regional authorities are pivotal in the democratic and governing arrangements of different countries.

A Modern Guide to the Economics of Happiness
A Modern Guide to the Economics of Happiness

Author: Luigino Bruni

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1788978765

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Exploring the modern approach to the economics of happiness, which came about with the Easterlin Paradox, this book analyses and assesses the idea that as a country gets richer the happiness of its citizens remains the same. The book moves through three distinct pillars of study in the field: first analysing the historical and philosophical foundations of the debate; then the methodological and measurements issues and their political implications; and finally empirical applications and discussion about what determines a happy life.