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Recent Advances in Environmental Economics
Edited by John A. List, Aart de Zeeuw
In this book, distinguished scholars from Europe and the US examine a range of topical issues in environmental and resource economics. Employing cutting-edge tools, they take a fresh look at some of the most significant international and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Incentive-Based Budgeting Systems in Public Universities
Edited by Douglas M. Priest, William E. Becker, Don Hossler, Edward P. St. John
Financial incentives play an important role in the behaviour of public institutions of higher education. Incentive-Based Budgeting Systems in Public Universities examines alternative uses of these financial incentives, and reviews the co... -
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Global Environmental Change in Alpine Regions
Edited by Karl W. Steininger, Hannelore Weck-Hannemann
Mountain regions represent about one fourth of the earth’s surface area and provide a significant share of goods and services to humanity. In this book, the authors demonstrate how alpine environments throughout the world are particularl... -
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Strategic Multilateral Exchange
Jean J. Gabszewicz
Jean Gabszewicz’s new book is devoted to the study of strategic multilateral exchange. Contrary to the classical competitive paradigm in which agents are assumed to behave as price takers, here traders are allowed to consciously behave a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Inspiring Economics
Bruno S. Frey
Bruno S. Frey illustrates what he perceives to be the inspirational quality of economics and how this differs from the type of economics studied in many academic institutions. He introduces insights into economics from a psychological p...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Making Ends Meet in Contemporary Russia
Simon Clarke
This book reviews the available data to analyse the forms, scale and incidence of these phenomena. The author finds that so-called ‘survival strategies’ merely represent a continuation of traditional soviet practices. He demonstrates tha... -
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The End of Marriage?
Jane Lewis
The modern day sees fewer marriages than before, and cohabitation is a major driver of family change. Jane Lewis questions whether this is – as many commentators argue and fear – a sign of ever-increasing individualism. Just as the or... -
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Banking Reforms in South-East Europe
Edited by Zeljko Sevic
Banking Reforms in South-East Europe gives a critical and detailed overview of banking system restructuring in the transitional countries of South-Eastern Europe – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania an...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Performance in the Americas
Nanno Mulder
Economic Performance in the Americas compares the economic performances of Brazil, Mexico and the USA over the past half century. As with most other high and middle-income countries their economies are service-sector orientated and have ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Failing to Compete
Sanjaya Lall, Carlo Pietrobelli
This unique study draws on extensive fieldwork assessing technology systems in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe in the context of their export competitiveness. Its emphasis is on the role of technology systems in building indu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Creating Capitalism
Patricia Dillon, Frank C. Wykoff
Employing historical analysis and building on growth theory and modern political economy, Dillon and Wykoff explain Soviet disintegration and analyze efforts to create capitalism in newly independent states. They show how five fundamenta...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Growth and Development in Singapore
Gavin Peebles, Peter Wilson
In this book Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson offer an historical overview of the rapid growth and development of the Singapore economy, detailing the institutions and policies which have made this growth possible. They examine the current...eBook:Find out more$55.16