Yet the world needs a broader metric to assess the sustainability of economic development. The World Bank’s The Changing Wealth of Nations (CWON) program provides the most comprehensive wealth ...

And from at least the time of Adam Smith's 1776 "Wealth of Nations" to 1998's Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs, and Steel," people have speculated why some areas of the globe ...

I found it in abundance in the latest book by interdisciplinary scholar Riane Eisler. The Real Wealth of Nations tackles the dismal science of economics and proves conclusively that it deserves that ...

The annotated volume, which was part of the globally renowned philosopher and economist’s library is being displayed in his ...

W HEN CHINA entered the Korean war in 1950, America was keen to take the measure of its new adversary. The government asked ...

Sylla, Richard and Wright, Robert E. 2013. Corporation formation in the antebellum United States in comparative context. Business History, Vol. 55, Issue. 4, p. 653.

Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776, adding a second revolutionary event to that fateful year. A political democracy was born on one side ...

If the world makes a permanent move away from using fossil fuels, the likely result will be a huge reduction in the value of their national and natural wealth. These nations face three special ...

MARJIT, SUGATA and DAS, GOURANGA G. 2024. CONTACT-INTENSITY, DISRUPTIONS IN THE CULTURAL SECTOR AND WAGE INEQUALITY: A MODEL OF COVID-19 CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT. The Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 69, ...

Africa has some of the largest sources of natural capital in the world, including over 40 percent of the world’s clean energy ...

The Changing Wealth of Nations – a follow-up publication to the 2006 book, Where is the Wealth of Nations? – extends the principles of wealth accounting to include dimensions that go beyond the ...