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Natural Disaster Analysis after Hurricane Katrina
Edited by Harry W, Richardson, Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II
This influential book explores the key policy implications arising from Hurricane Katrina. Leading scholars from fields as diverse as decision analysis, risk management, economics, engineering, transportation, urban planning and sociolog... -
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Innovation in Environmental Policy?
Edited by Andrew J. Jordan, Andrea Lenschow
Environmental Policy Integration (EPI) is an innovative policy principle designed to deliver sustainable development. This book offers an unrivalled exploration of its conceptualization and implementation, drawing upon a set of interlink...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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The Making of a European Economist
David Colander
David Colander’s highly original and thought provoking book considers ongoing changes in graduate European economics education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the ‘economist prod...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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The Evolution of Path Dependence
Edited by Lars Magnusson, Jan Ottosson
The notion and interpretation of path dependence have been discussed and utilized in various social sciences during the last two decades. This innovative book provides significant new insights onto how the different applications of path ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Law and Economics of Globalisation
Edited by Linda Yueh
This inter-disciplinary volume focuses on the economic and legal challenges confronting globalisation and the evolution of the global system. The Law and Economics of Globalisation discusses the hotly debated topic of globalisation from ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Agriculture and the WTO
Fiona Smith
International agricultural trade regulation remains problematic despite the creation of the WTO and a specific Agreement on Agriculture in 1995. Fiona Smith challenges this orthodoxy and presents a new conceptual method by which the prob...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Defense of Intellectual Property Rights
Richard A. Spinello, Maria Bottis
Richard A. Spinello and Maria Bottis defend the thesis that intellectual property rights are justified on non-economic grounds. The rationale for this moral justification is primarily inspired by the theory of John Locke. In the process ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Media, Development, and Institutional Change
Christopher J. Coyne, Peter T. Leeson
Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media’s profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media’s role in enabling and inhibi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries
Ernst ten Heuvelhof, Martin de Jong, Mirjam Kars, Helen Stout
This in-depth book explains how institutional changes such as the privatization and liberalization of network industries, for example transport, energy or telecommunications, can frequently be disappointing. The expected benefits such as...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Recent Advances in Neo-Schumpeterian Economics
Edited by Andreas Pyka, Uwe Cantner, Alfred Greiner, Thomas Kuhn
This judicious selection of recent essays demonstrates the applicability of the fundamental principles of neo-Schumpeterian economics, namely, innovation and uncertainty. The authors demonstrate how neo-Schumpeterian economics is develop...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Labor and Employment Law and Economics
Edited by Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Seth D. Harris, Orly Lobel
The economic analysis of labor and employment law is a bold effort to apply economic theory to explain important empirical facts about the regulation of the employment relationship and to provide positive predictions and normative analys... -
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Modelling Sustainable Development
Edited by Valentina Bosetti, Reyer Gerlagh, Stefan P. Schleicher
This insightful book explores the issue of sustainable development in its more operative and applied sense. Although a great deal of research has addressed potential interpretations and definitions of sustainable development, much of thi...eBook:Find out more$40.00