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Asia Rising
Edited by Hal Hill, Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista
The centre of global economic activity is shifting rapidly towards Asia, driven by a combination of the economic dynamism of China, India and other middle-income Asian countries, and sluggish growth in the OECD economies. The rapid growt...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness
Edited by Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer
What makes people happy in life? This crucial question has the potential to shake up economics. In recent years, dissatisfaction with the understanding of welfare in economics and new opportunities for empirical study of people’s subject... -
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Growing the Productivity of Government Services
Patrick Dunleavy, Leandro Carrera
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. Productivity is essentially the ratio of an organization’s outputs divided by its inputs. Fo...eBook:Find out more$43.16
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Private Property and Takings Compensation
Yun-chien Chang
This innovative volume offers a thorough breakdown of the issues surrounding takings compensation – payments made as reimbursement for government takeover of private property. Using examples from New York City and Taiwan, Yun-chien Chang...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Reforming the Postal Sector in the Face of Electronic Competition
Edited by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
In our increasingly technology-focused world, demand for traditional postal services is steadily shrinking. This timely volume examines the many challenges that the worldwide postal sector is facing as a result of growing electronic comp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Forest Governance
Rowena Maguire
This book identifies the fundamental legal principles and the governance requirements of sustainable forest management. An analytical model for assessing forest regulation is created which identifies the doctrinal concepts that underpin ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economics of Climate Change and Environmental Policy
Robert N. Stavins
Robert N. Stavins has been one of the most influential voices in environmental economics and policy over the past two decades. The 26 essays in this book, written by Professor Stavins and his co-authors over the period 2000–2011, origina... -
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Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait
Edited by Peter C.Y. Chow
Despite their controversial political relationship, Taiwan and China remain very much entwined economically. This timely volume explores the complicated state of economic and trade relations between the two countries, meticulously unrave...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Constructing European Intellectual Property
Edited by Christophe Geiger
This detailed study presents various perspectives on what further actions are necessary to provide the circumstances and tools for the construction of a truly balanced European intellectual property system. The book takes as its starting...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Business
Edited by Geoffrey Wells
Recent surveys of international CEOs confirm that companies increasingly see sustainability as critical to their business strategy. The rigorous academic framework for the field of sustainable business required to respond to this need is...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Shifting Empire
Edited by Uma Suthersanen, Ysolde Gendreau
The 1911 Copyright Act, often termed the ‘Imperial Copyright Act’, changed the jurisprudential landscape in respect of copyright law, not only in the United Kingdom but also within the then Empire. This book offers a bird’s eye perspecti...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Challenges for European Innovation Policy
Edited by Slavo Radosevic, Anna Kaderabkova
This book uniquely applies the Schumpeterian innovation policy perspective to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A broadly defined framework of the science, technology, innovation and growth system underpins the empirical and c...eBook:Find out more$44.76