Understanding Asia: Political, Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions - (red.) Joanna Marszałek - Kawa, Michał Dahl

One of the characteristic facts concerning the “catching-up countries” is the exceptionally large variation in their per capita annual rate of growth, from about zero to about 10%. The papers published in this monograph show that this rate is strongly dependent on the rate of investment, the quality of the labour force and the quality of institutions. The rate of investment is, in turn, dependent on the rate of domestic savings. In Poland, domestic savings are shown to have b...

(red.) Joanna Marszałek-Kawa, Tadeusz Dmochowski - Selected Socio - Economic and International Relations Issues in Contemporary Asian States

History is a source of red flags. However, one must learn to read them and distinguish what is barely temporary in its nature from what can lasts for centuries. System reforms that support the efficiency of these systems cannot be carried out without the knowledge that institutions form a structure with a diversified horizon of action, and their modernization is possible, but the operation of new institutions decreed by reforms is conditioned, among others, by attachment of t...

Grzegorz Kinelski - Competitiveness and Efficiency Management Through Cognitive Technologies in the Digital Economy

This volume was published with the financial support of the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Social Movements and Mobilisation Typologies in the Arab Spring project

This work is an attempt to assess to what extent the new economic governance of the EU helped to discipline public finances in the member states. The poor institutional design of the EU, the authors point out, magnified the negative fiscal effects of the last financial crisis. The work attempts to examine the degree of fiscal consolidation of member states. Both, the austerity policies, as a method of consolidating public finances, and the so-called non-Keynesian fiscal polic...

Bezpieczeństwo energetyczne jest ważne zarówno dla osób fizycznych, podmiotów gospodarczych, jak i zrównoważonej gospodarki każdego kraju na świecie. Bieżące problemy związane z ciągłością dostaw i wyższymi cenami energii przynajmniej w pewnym stopniu mogą rozwiązać spółdzielnie energetyczne. Spółdzielnie zajmują się produkcją, dostarczaniem i dystrybucją energii. Mogą skutecznie wykorzystywać lokalnie dostępną zdecentralizowaną energię odnawialną, a także wspierać innowacje ...

Podręcznik zatytułowany„ International economic relations: Selected theoretical issues and policy implications” składa się z pięciu rozdziałów. Książka skierowana jest do studentów kierunków, na których językiem wykładowym jest angielski oraz do wszystkich osób interesujących się szeroko rozumianymi międzynarodowymi stosunkami gospodarczymi. Pozycja nie pretenduje do całościowego ujęcia problematyki MSG, a skupia się na wybranych kwestiach, które z względu na swą aktualność, ...

The monograph presents the results of research conducted in Poland and Greece. The originality of the monograph is also evidenced by its interdisciplinarity - it combines issues related to the enterprise sector and financial institutions, indicating opportunities for and threats to their development. The book consists of three main parts divided into thirteen chapters. The first part of the book is titled The macroeconomic factors of businesses development and analyses the co...

The study attempts to address three research problems: 1. What is the status and significance of the MSE-sector enterprises in selected CEE countries? 2. What reporting obligations do enterprises from the MSE sector have? 3. What is the possible improvement orientation with regard to MSE-sector reporting in the CEE countries in terms of sustainable development? This monograph aims to conduct a cross-country comparative analysis of the financial reporting requirements of mi...

This book is a valuable synthesis of relations between USA and USSR in the 1970s seen through the prism of trade relations which Washington used for two distinctive purposes: as a “reward” mechanism encouraging cooperation, or conversely, as a tool of “punishment” in response to undesired activities. Such an instrumental approach to economic issues in the 1970s was not anything new in American foreign policy. The analysis of American trade policy – based on two case studies: ...

In an introduction to proceedings of the conference 'Images and Myths of Europe', organised in 2002 at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Romano Prodi wrote: "These 'Images and Myths of Europe' remind us that tomorrow's European Union cannot be based exclusively on economics and that, if Europe is become a positive example for the whole world, it is perhaps necessary to place greater emphasis on ethical and aesthetic values. [...] Looking beyond day-to-day c...

Shady Networks offers unique insights into the criminal history of twentieth-century communist Poland. Built around case studies at the intersections of government institutions, business, foreign trade, and the criminal underworld, the book scrutinizes the organization of particular social settings, analyzing the circumstances, contexts, and mechanisms that enabled their growth. Shady networks existed in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) irrespective of Marxist ideology and ...

W uczeniu maszynowym odkrywanie związków przyczynowych daje możliwości, jakich nie można uzyskać tradycyjnymi technikami statystycznymi. Najnowsze trendy w programowaniu pokazują, że przyczynowość staje się kluczowym zagadnieniem dla generatywnej sztucznej inteligencji. Niezbędna okazuje się więc znajomość grafów przyczynowych i zapytań konfrontacyjnych.Dzięki tej książce łatwo przyswoisz teoretyczne podstawy i zaczniesz je płynnie wdrażać w rzeczywistych scenariuszach. Dowie...

This book explores an important but often neglected aspect of a firm's finances: trade credit management (TCM). When firms offering credit to each other so purchases can be made on open account it is a vital source of business-to-business credit flows. Trade credit is the life-blood of competitive economies. Trade credit involves taking calculated credit risks. In return, selling firms boost sales and profitability. Buying firms get access to credit. But trade credit has to b...

Winner of the US - Russia Relations Book Prize from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalise the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep economic connections, built up during Russia's oil, gas and commodities boom: global equity and capital markets, and trans...

Rafał Smoczyński jest autorem cennej monografii z zakresu socjologii ekonomicznej, poświęconej moralnej infrastrukturze działań gospodarczych. Monografia ma wymiar teoretyczny i empiryczny. Ten pierwszy skupia się na klasycznym dorobku socjologii ekonomicznej, zwłaszcza na socjologii Durkheima i współczesnych kontynuatorów jego metodologii (autor odwołuje się przede wszystkim do tekstów Wolfganga Streecka), a także wielokrotnie nawiązuje do Webera, zwłaszcza do rozpowszechnio...