Edited by Giancarlo Pola, George France, Rosella Levaggi
Local communities in all countries are increasingly aware of resource scarcity and are pressing for more say in how funds are used. Developments in Local Government Finance examines key issues for economists interested in local governme...
Labour Relations in Transition provides a unique insight into the realities of Russian industrial enterprises in the transition period as it affects workers on the shop floor.
This major new books offers a comparative survey of management, labour and productivity politics in Twentieth century Europe. The authors offer detailed assessments of industrial and political campaigns to raise productivity growth in Br...
This edition of The Life of Knut Wicksell will be welcomed as an excellent introduction to the life of a major economist whose theories and ideas have shown themselves to be of lasting value.
As well as theoretical evidence advocating the intertemporal view, the authors present four case studies in support of this approach: Germany before and after unification, Spain before joining the EMS, the United States since the early 1...
Security Issues in the Post-Cold War World focuses on the changing international security agenda and the serious political instabilities – many rooted in ethnic nationalisms and long-standing border disputes – which have resurfaced with ...
Edited by John B. Braden, Henk Folmer, Thomas S. Ulen
Which level of government is most appropriate for environmental policy making in a confederal or federal system? How does the level of government at which policy is made and implemented affect the choice of policy instruments? This imp...
Edited by Barbara Einhorn, Mary Kaldor, Zdenek Kavan
In Citizenship and Democratic Control in Contemporary Europe a distinguished group of scholars argues that a democratically reconstructed Europe requires a new approach centred around a concept of citizenship which is neither individuali...
This major new book contains a collection of papers that examine the current state-of-the-art in the valuation of environmental resources. In particular, they assess the meaningfulness of environmental resource values obtained through t...