Public Sector Economics
-
Add to Wish List
Recent Developments in Public Finance
Edited by Vito Tanzi, Howell H. Zee
This authoritative collection presents seminal papers from leading academics charting recent developments in public finance. The two-volume set encompasses numerous sections including the public sector in a market economy, market imperfe... -
Add to Wish List
Effective Federalism and Local Finance
Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad, Giorgio Brosio
Fiscal federalism has been the subject of much scholarly debate over the years. These volumes successfully bring together seminal articles from the past fifty years to demonstrate how the focus has evolved from ‘first generation’ to ‘sec... -
Add to Wish List
State and Local Retirement Plans in the United States
Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig, John Sabelhaus
State and Local Retirement Plans in the United States explains how economic and political events have shaped the development of pension plans in the last century, and it argues that changes in the structure and generosity of these plans ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
-
Add to Wish List
Private Utilities and Poverty Alleviation
Edited by Patricia Márquez, Carlos Rufín
Drawing on cases from electricity distribution and other infrastructure industries, and from experiences spanning Asia, Africa and Latin America, this book examines new business models to bring basic utility services to the four billion ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
-
Add to Wish List
Leadership and Institutions in Regional Endogenous Development
Robert Stimson, Roger R. Stough, Maria Salazar
The authors of this comprehensive book provide a detailed rationale and original theory for the study of leadership and institutional factors, including entrepreneurship, in the growth and development of cities and regions. They demonstr...eBook:Find out more£23.16
-
Add to Wish List
Smart Leadership for Higher Education in Difficult Times
Edited by David W. Breneman, Paul J. Yakoboski
As the US economy emerges from the severest recession in a generation, large questions regarding its long-term ramifications for higher education remain unanswered. In fact, the harshest effects of the economic downturn are likely ahead ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
-
Add to Wish List
Reinventing the Postal Sector in an Electronic Age
Edited by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
This compilation of original essays by an international cast of economists, regulators and industry practitioners analyzes some of the major issues now facing postal and delivery services throughout the world as competition from informat...eBook:Find out more£25.00
-
Add to Wish List
The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound
Edited by Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Henry Storr
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina posed an unprecedented set of challenges to formal and informal systems of disaster response and recovery. Informed by the Virginia School of Political Economy, the contributors to this study critically examine ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
-
Add to Wish List
Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector
Robert L. Clark, Melinda Sandler Morrill
While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired employees. This book is the first to thoroughly examine public sector health...eBook:Find out more£25.00
-
Add to Wish List
Fiscal Reforms in the Middle East
Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad, Abdulrazak Al Faris
Although oil windfalls have opened a window of opportunity for the Gulf States, at the same time they have created numerous problems. In particular, the uncertainty associated with periods of boom and bust in the oil market has made the ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
-
Add to Wish List
Towards Effective Place Brand Management
Edited by Gregory Ashworth, Mihalis Kavaratzis
Many facets of place branding, such as identities, image, promotion or sense of place, have been around for a long time. However, the need to analyse their nature in the context of branding and to examine their relationships in detail ha...eBook:Find out more£25.00
-
Add to Wish List
The Elgar Companion to Social Economics
Edited by John B. Davis, Wilfred Dolfsma
As this comprehensive Companion demonstrates, social economics is a dynamic and growing field that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being e...eBook:Find out more£51.16