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Working Time
François Contensou, Radu Vranceanu
The contemporary context of unemployment and its political ramifications have made working time a highly topical and sensitive issue, not merely in the EU, but also in other areas of the global labor market. -
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Industrial Development and Policy in Africa
Edited by Hossein Jalilian, Michael Tribe, John Weiss
This book surveys the current state of industry in sub-Saharan Africa and examines claims that Africa is de-industrialising. It focuses on the challenge for economic policy to find ways to reverse this trend. -
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Sustainable Development and Integrated Appraisal in a Developing World
Edited by Norman Lee, Colin Kirkpatrick
This book will be warmly welcomed by development policymakers and consultants in government and non-government organizations as well as academics and postgraduates working in the fields of economics, development and environmental studies. -
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Knowledge Spillovers and Economic Growth
Marjolein C.J. Caniëls
The author examines the way in which regions grow by receiving knowledge from surrounding regions. Using evolutionary theory, she advances the argument that knowledge spillovers operate locally. Computer-simulations analyse the impact ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Growth, Unemployment and Deindustrialization
Henri L.F de Groot
The sectoral composition of economies is fundamental to the understanding of growth, unemployment and the relative performance of nations. Henri de Groot models the relationship between these four factors from a single theoretical persp... -
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Institutions, Transaction Costs and Environmental Policy
Ray Challen
Ray Challen introduces and develops a model for the analysis of the problems involved in institutional choice that takes into account constraints in institutional change imposed by history and the value of maintaining options in an uncer...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regional Development in Russia
Hans Westlund, Alexander Granberg, Folke Snickars
This is the first book to provide an overview of Russia’s regional development during the entire Soviet period as well as presenting a penetrating analysis of the array of regional problems facing Russia as we move into the twenty-first ... -
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Sustainable Transportation Networks
Anna Nagurney
Transportation networks are essential to the functioning of societies and economies and provide the infrastructure for the movement of people and goods over space and time. The existence and utilization of transportation networks are fu... -
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Economists and the Stock Market
J. P. Raines, Charles G. Leathers
The role of the stock market in the recent global financial crisis has led many to question the way in which the modern international financial system operates. This highly topical book offers important insights into the stock market, c... -
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The Meltdown of the Russian State
Piroska M. Nagy
The economic power of the Russian state has declined to a point where it is no longer able to perform its basic function – maintaining law and order and providing social services. This innovative book proposes that the inherent weakness...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economic Development of Latin America in the Twentieth Century
André A. Hofman
This book provides an assessment of Latin American 20th century economic performance from a comparative and historical perspective. The author uses growth accounting methods and previously unavailable long-term series data to present a ... -
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Valuing Nature with Travel Cost Models
Frank A. Ward, Diana Beal
The book presents a self-contained treatment of TCM along with a wide range of applications to natural resource and environmental policy questions.eBook:Find out more$40.00