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Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics
Robin Mansell, W. E. Steinmueller
Artificial intelligence-enabled digital platforms collect and process data from and about users. These companies are largely self-regulating in Western countries. How do economic theories explain the rise of a very few dominant platforms...eBook:Find out more£15.96
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Rethinking Wealth and Taxes
Geoffrey Poitras
Taxes on the wealthy are a topic sure to incite venomous rants from both right-wing and left-wing ideologues. The topic attracts conflicting interpretations and policy recommendations, and generates proposals for tax reform that consume ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Rule of Law, Economic Development, and Corporate Governance
Nadia E. Nedzel
Grounded in history and written by a law professor, this book is a scholarly yet jargon-free explanation of the differences between the common and civil law concepts of the rule of law, and details how they developed out of two different...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Tax Expenditures and Environmental Policy
Hope Ashiabor
This timely book provides a critical examination of the ways in which tax expenditures can be best used in order to enhance their efficacy as instruments for the implementation of environmental policy.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Effective Global Carbon Markets
Justin D. Macinante
As numerous jurisdictions implement emissions mitigation mechanisms that put a price on carbon, this incisive book explores the emerging emissions markets and their diverse and fragmented nature. It proposes an innovative model for conne...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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World Statistics on Mining and Utilities 2020
UNIDO
World Statistics on Mining and Utilities 2020 provides a unique biennial overview of the role of mining and utility activities in the world economy. This extensive resource from UNIDO provides detailed time series data on the level, stru...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Understanding the Blockchain Economy
Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, Jason Potts
Blockchains are the distributed ledger technology that powers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But blockchains can be used for more than the transfer of tokens – they are a significant new economic infrastructure. This book offers the...eBook:Find out more£23.96
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Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, John Tomaney
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the so...eBook:Find out more£27.16
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Governing Finance in Europe
Edited by Adrienne Héritier, Magnus G. Schoeller
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. How do regulatory structures evolve in EU financial governance? Incorporating insights from ... -
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New Directions in the Economics of Higher Education
Edited by Ludger Woessmann, Eric Bettinger
The 63 seminal papers presented in this two-volume collection provide an overview of the vibrant and growing field of the economics of higher education. Covering the full breadth of the topic, the sections of the collection cover the ret... -
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Economic Instruments for a Low-carbon Future
Edited by Theodoros Zachariadis, Janet E. Milne, Mikael Skou Andersen, Hope Ashiabor
Critically assessing recent developments in environmental and tax legislation, and in particular low-carbon strategies, this timely book analyses the implementation of market-based instruments for achieving climate stabilisation objectiv...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Quantitative Methods for Place-Based Innovation Policy
Edited by Roberta Capello, Alexander Kleibrink, Monika Matusiak
Place-based innovation policy design requires an in-depth understanding of territories and their complexity. Traditional statistics, with a lack of publicly available data at the disaggregated (sub-sectoral and regional) level, often do ...eBook:Find out more£25.00