One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand....

There is an ever increasing challenge of integrating heterogeneous networking technologies to provide homogeneous and ubiquitous multimedia services on pervasive computing devices. The book begins with an analysis of the current IP and ATM based QoS models....

Thought-provoking and informed, Business Standard India 2012 brings together some of the best known names from the world of finance and economics and social and political economy in its fifth annual collection of essays....

Book DescriptionKunal Basu\'s panoramic first novel follows the life of a young man as he encounters the flow of the opium trade, from Calcutta to Canton. He gets a job in an \'auction house\', only to discover that the \'merchandise\' being traded is opium....

Book DescriptionVirtually all industrialized nations have annual per capita incomes greater than $15,000; meanwhile, over three billion people, more than half the worlds population, live in countries with per capita incomes of less than $700....

It is essential to view economics as embedded in politics and society. Prelude to Political Economy is a study of this embeddedness; it argues for an inclusive approach to institutions and the state....

Book DescriptionThe field of development economics has witnessed major changes over the last tow or three decades. From being a largely descriptive discipline, it has now become much more rigorous and theoretically well-founded....

Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has been a distinguished and influential scholar in development economics for over twenty years, and this edited volume seeks to reflect his interests and the inspiration he has provided for others. The editors have succeeded in creating a coherent and stimulating set of papers from well-known contributors....