Research on Pandemics
Research on Pandemics

Author: Yezhou Sha

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-11-24

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1000483584

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The lasting turmoil associated with the unprecedented pandemic, triggered by the novel corona virus COVID-19, has dragged the world into a mud of uncertainty. Fiscal stimulation, interest rate cuts, global supply-chain redeployment, "pandemic bond" and circuit breakers kicked in and the world is responding to this great challenge. But how can finance and economic research help the world under such circumstances? This book dwells on this new area of research and tries to understand how pandemics impact the economic and financial ecosystem of both emerging and advanced economies. Lessons learnt from the experience of previous pandemics maybe presented and discussed through drawing on policy lessons to date. By gathering research on political economy, geopolitical issues, behavioral finance, international institutional responses and medical and health issues resulting from pandemics, the chapters in this edited volume help in expanding the knowledge of social and economic consequences of the pandemic as well as set the foundation for future research. This book would benefit scholars, policy makers and entrepreneurs worldwide as a valuable archive of research on pandemics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.

The Invisible Enemy
The Invisible Enemy

Author: Girish Kuber

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2023-05-23

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9356296928

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A translation of Girish Kuber's Yuddha Jivanche, this book explores the history of biological and chemical warfare and weapons development. It takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey from historical times to the present. The Invisible Enemy opens our eyes to how multinational companies and developed nations are working to create some of the most dangerous viruses and biological weapons which can destroy humanity. Chemical and pharma companies have also been the producers of weapons of mass destruction and benefitted from it-be it BASF which produced chemical weapons in World War I, or ICI, the British chemical company which produced a chemical causing blindness. Sandoz, another company, produced LSD, which was part of a chemical warfare project. The British used opium to create drug addicts in the Afghan war. The Invisible Enemy is a timely reminder, and hopefully a wake-up call, to humankind that is fast hurtling towards its own destruction.

Modern Principles: Microeconomics
Modern Principles: Microeconomics

Author: Tyler Cowen

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 1705

ISBN-13: 1319329764

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Available for the first time with Macmillans new online learning platform, Achieve, Modern Principles is a tour-de-force with a unique combination of vivid writing, up-to-date relevant examples, and online resources unlike any other textbook for this market. Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok have long demonstrated their mastery at communicating economic principles in a clear, captivating way through their blog, The Marginal Revolution. And they are pioneers in online education. Their fully updated new edition has more high-quality material designed for online teaching than any other principles of economics textbook. Videos from Marginal Revolution University (MRU), Discovering Data questions, live links to FRED data, an e-book, and assessment all live under Macmillans new learning platform, Achieve and combine to provide an online learning product for all types of learners whether in face to face, hybrid or pure online classes.

Modern Principles: Macroeconomics
Modern Principles: Macroeconomics

Author: Tyler Cowen

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 1611

ISBN-13: 1319329551

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Available for the first time with Macmillans new online learning platform, Achieve, Modern Principles is a tour-de-force with a unique combination of vivid writing, up-to-date relevant examples, and online resources unlike any other textbook for this market. Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok have long demonstrated their mastery at communicating economic principles in a clear, captivating way through their blog, The Marginal Revolution. And they are pioneers in online education. Their fully updated new edition has more high-quality material designed for online teaching than any other principles of economics textbook. Videos from Marginal Revolution University (MRU), Discovering Data questions, live links to FRED data, an e-book, and assessment all live under Macmillans new learning platform, Achieve and combine to provide an online learning product for all types of learners whether in face to face, hybrid or pure online classes.

Beijing Rules
Beijing Rules

Author: Bethany Allen

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0063057433

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A Best in Political Books for 2023 An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy—capitalism—to expand its illiberal influence worldwide. Bethany Allen, the award-winning China reporter for Axios, shows that by tying profits to political acquiescence the Chinese Communist Party is forcing companies and governments around the world to accept its rules. The coronavirus pandemic marked the first time that the Party deployed its tool kit of economic coercion on an issue directly related to the health and well-being of quite literally every person in the world. But Western democracies aren’t helpless victims in Beijing’s game. The West created the conditions for the rise of authoritarian capitalism by divorcing political values from market structures. Written by one of the first American journalists to expose China's covert influence operations in the United States, Beijing Rules includes headline-making stories of Western institutions bowing to Beijing’s pressure—a glimpse of what America’s future may look like should liberal democracy come firmly under the thumb of authoritarian capitalism. Grounded in deep investigative reporting, it sounds the alarm about what we must do to prevent the loss of freedoms we now take for granted.