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Controlling Public Expenditure
Edited by John Wanna, Lotte Jensen, Jouke de Vries
One of the most important functions of modern government is to marshal and deploy resources to achieve desired objectives and outcomes. This task is overseen by the Central Budget Agencies (such as Ministries of Finance and Treasuries) w... -
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Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age
Edited by Willem Koot, Peter Leisink, Paul Verweel
Globalization, the information technology revolution, individualization and other processes in contemporary society all impact on organizations. Organizational actors are recognizing the need to make sense of these permutations, reconstr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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New Dimensions in Ecological Economics
Edited by Stephen Dovers, David I. Stern, Michael D. Young
Drawing on the biophysical sciences, public policy, geography, economics, exploratory research and the behavioural sciences, this book offers reviews and prescriptions for the future of ecological economics, placing particular emphasis o... -
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Globalisation, Regionalism and Economic Activity
Edited by Philip Arestis, Michelle Baddeley, John S.L. McCombie
The processes of globalisation and increased economic regionalism have had profound, often destabilising, effects on modern economic and financial systems. In recognition of this fact, the editors of this fine book have collected togethe... -
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Competitiveness, FDI and Technological Activity in East Asia
Edited by Sanjaya Lall, Shujiro Urata
This book addresses this imbalance with new country studies on the interaction between foreign direct investment (FDI) and technological activity in building export competitiveness. The book covers China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysi... -
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The Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries
Edited by Phoebe Koundouri, Panos Pashardes, Timothy M. Swanson, Anastasios Xepapadeas
The increasing scarcity of water resources (in terms of quantity and quality) is one of the most pervasive natural resource allocation issues facing development planners throughout the world. This problem is especially prevalent in less ... -
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The New Competition for Inward Investment
Edited by Nicholas Phelps, Philip Raines
The competition for inward investment among regions and within and between nations is intense, and the promotional agencies concerned are increasingly innovative in their competitive strategies. This book examines the new competition for...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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... -
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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 ...eBook:Find out more$58.36
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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 ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
