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Beyond Rules in Society and Business

Verner C. Petersen

This provocative book challenges traditional tenets about behavioral regulation in society as well as in business. Verner Petersen asserts that attempts to solve ethical problems by creating explicit guidelines, codes and rules discourag...

Paperback (2003)

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Hardback (2002)

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Modeling Rational Agents

Nicola Giocoli

The book explores the evolution, through the first half of the 20th century, of the key neoclassical concept of rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of...

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Natural Resource Accounting and Economic Development

Edited by Charles Perrings, Jeffrey R. Vincent

In this important book some of the world’s leading scholars in environmental economics explore the theoretical and empirical problems to be solved if policymakers are to develop accounts to capture the sustainability of economic developm...

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Innovation and the Growth of Cities

Zoltán J. Ács

This new and original book by Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at the regional level, and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow but others decline. While the analysis draws ...

Paperback (2003)

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Hardback (2002)

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The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2002/2003

Edited by Tom Tietenberg, Henk Folmer

The literature and research on environmental and resource economics has exploded in recent years. This major annual publication provides a cutting-edge survey of current research by the leading experts in the field.

Paperback (2003)

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Hardback (2002)

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Restructuring the Welfare State

Virpi Timonen

What happens to extensive and generous welfare states when they are faced with serious economic crisis and the effects of globalization? This thorough analysis of the processes of social policy restructuring in two Nordic welfare states ...

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Economic Analysis of Regional Trading Arrangements

Edited by Richard Pomfret

A feature of the global economy over the last half-century has been the proliferation of regional trading arrangements (RTAs) and the ongoing debate over the relationship between regionalism and multilateralism. The economic analysis of ...

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Consequences of Creating a Market Economy

Kathryn Anderson, Richard Pomfret

This book uses household survey data from five Central Asian countries to analyse the important consequences of, and elements that constitute, the creation of a market economy. The countries studied – Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Taj...

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The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge

Edited by Hans S. Jensen, Lykke M. Ricard, Morten T. Vendelø

The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge aims to reach a unique understanding of science with the help of economic and sociological theories. They use institutional and evolutionary theories and the sociological theories draw from the type ...

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Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol

Edited by Michael Faure, Joyeeta Gupta, Andries Nentjes

The Kyoto Protocol was a milestone event in the process of getting global climate change on to the political agenda and taking the first tentative steps towards internationally co-ordinated action. This book brings together researchers f...

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The Endogenous Formation of Economic Coalitions

Edited by Carlo Carraro

This important book, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in coalition theory and presents both the latest theoretical developments and novel applications in the field...

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