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In recent years, the world has been changing considerably. Within
the many obstacles, barriers, and opportunities, three significant
challenges should be considered for the future planning of our
territories and cities: seeking to achieve Sustainable Development
Goals (SDG), facing climate change, and performing a shift towards
digitalization. Considering these three challenges, we can work
toward a more sustainable future for the environment. Sustainable
Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization Challenges in
Planning elaborates on sustainability issues in the planning and
development field regarding the environment. This text promotes
understanding about the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities for
the new decade regarding our common future planning. Covering
topics such as circular economy, economic-ecological principles,
and sustainable resilience, this book is essential for
academicians, researchers, policymakers, environmentalists,
scientists, technicians, decision makers, practitioners, and
students.
Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science,
free from value judgements. This book demonstrates this to be a
myth - one which serves to make such textbooks not only
off-puttingly bland, but also dangerously misleading in their
justification of the status quo and neglect of alternatives. In
this much-needed companion volume to the popular Microeconomics
Anti-Textbook, Tony Myatt reveals how the blind spots and
methodological problems present in microeconomics continue to exert
their influence in mainstream macroeconomics. From a flawed
conception of the labour market, to a Pollyana view of the
financial sector, macroeconomic principles as they are set out in
conventional undergraduate textbooks consistently fail to set out a
realistic, useful, or equitable framework for understanding the
world. By summarising and then critically evaluating the major
topics found in a typical macroeconomics textbook, the
Anti-Textbook lays bare their sins of omission and commission,
showing where hidden value judgements are made and when contrary
evidence and alternative theories are ignored. The Macroeconomics
Anti-Textbook is the student's essential guide to decoding
mainstream macroeconomic textbooks, and demonstrating how
real-world economics are much more interesting than most economists
are willing to let on.
Market Behavior During Crisis explores the causes, impacts and
linkages of contemporary geopolitics, markets and conflict, along
with their economic impacts on all stakeholders. The book compiles
the most current research and insights about market behaviors
during conflicts of different types and severity, detailing how
markets actually respond and what readers can do to implement a
proactive early-response strategy. Whenever a global or regional
conflict occurs, markets of every sort react based on fears which
are largely unfounded. The book illustrates that preconceived
notions can be self-fulfilling prophecies when they occur.
The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and
researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully
up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics
applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad
readership. As new sources and applications of data in every
economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new
fundamental questions, this book presents an up-to-date reference
on the topics at hand.
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