Ascent After Decline

The Great Recession of 2009-2011 has left us short of instruments, bereft of confidence, and generally unprepared for a low-growth world. In this book, more than a dozen noted scholars discuss the prospects for future regrowth within analyses of key policy problems, major markets, and promising avenues for stimulating long-term economic growth.

According to the world-system perspective, each nation belongs to either a core, a periphery, or an intermediate zone depending on its position in the world-economy. As nations ascend and descend within the world economic structure, they shift in and out of these zones. The essays in this volume clarify the principles of national movement within the world system, exploring the possible paths a nation might take into the core; the reasons a nation may decline from the core; and socialism as a means of ascent.

This book examines the performance of the Brazilian economy since the Great Financial Crisis of 2007/2008 with focus on both the productive and financial dimensions, along with distributional and social issues. The book will bring to light the causes of the fast recovery over 2009-2010 as well as of the slowdown after 2011. The chapters use econometric approaches and traditional Keynesian and post-Keynesian theories to empirically analyse the macro scenario. They explore monetary policy, fiscal policy, alongside discussion of investments and the exchange rate market, and an analysis of social policy and its impact on the economy.

The papers of this 4 volumes set on "Progress in Environmental Protection and Processing of Resource" are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Environmental Materials, Chemistry, Biology Technology and Progress; Chapter 2: Environmental Safety and Health; Chapter 3: Environmental Planning and Assessment; Chapter 4: Environmental Analysis, Modelling and Monitoring Chapter 5: Environmental Restoration Engineering, Treatment and Removal Technologies and Processes; Chapter 6: Environmental Pollution; Chapter 7: Waste Disposal and Recycling; Chapter 8: Hydrology and Water Resources, Management Applications; Chapter 9: Sound, Noise and Vibration Control, Seismic Applications; Chapter 10: Soil and Water Conservation and Desertification Control; Chapter 11: Eco-Environmental Protection and Environmental Management; Chapter 12: Plant Protection, Forest Cultivation and Conservation; Chapter 13: Geographic Information and Remote Sensing Science; Chapter 14: Land Resources Environment, Urban Planning and Applications; Chapter 15: Mineral Prospecting and Geological Exploration; Chapter 16: Mining Engineering and Coal Mining; Chapter 17: Mineral Process Engineering; Chapter 18: Oil and Gas Well Development Projects, Methan Fields Applications.

The book discusses sustainability and law in a multifaceted way. Together, sustainability and law are an emerging challenge for research and science. This volume contributes through an interdisciplinary concept to its further exploration. The contributions explore this exciting domain with innovative ideas and replicable approaches. It combines a variety of authors, from both the public and the private sectors, and thereby guarantees a broad view that enshrines the more theoretical arguments from the academic side as well as stronger practical applicable perspectives. The book provides space for thoughtful expansions of established theories as well as the hopeful emergence of innovative ideas. Moreover, the combination of three to five contributions into the eleven parts respectively aims toward a compression of like minded thoughts. This should lead to an intensification of exchange of viewpoints from different angles on a similar theme. Readers therefore also have the opportunity to concentrate on single chapters, but receive comprised knowledge and a variety of thoughts for new ideas on a particular theme.

The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency "[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis." —The Washington Post "Fascinating." —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a trade war, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, with his signature clarity and expert lens. The Ascent of Money reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. We may resent the plutocrats of Wall Street but, as Ferguson argues, the evolution of finance has rivaled the importance of any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. Indeed, to study the ascent and descent of money is to study the rise and fall of Western power itself.