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The Silicon Dragon

Terence Tsai, Bor-Shiuan Cheng

The Silicon Dragon is a systematic study of the growth of high-tech giants in the Greater China Region, depicting the success story of the microelectronics industry in Taiwan. The book examines the government policies that acted as cat...

Hardback (November 2006)

List price ~~$141.00~~

Member price $126.90

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$40.00

The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises

Edited by Peter J. Boettke, Peter T. Leeson

This pathbreaking book seeks to be the definitive collection documenting the intellectual legacy of Ludwig von Mises in modern political economy. Its intended readership is scholars in the history of political economy and in particular ...

List price ~~$758.00~~

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The Young, the Old and the State

Edited by Anneli Anttonen, John Baldock, Jorma Sipilä

This is a comparative account of social care services for children and older people in five key industrial nations (Finland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The authors break new ground by moving beyond institu...

Paperback (2006)

List price ~~$57.95~~

Member price $46.36

Hardback (2003)

List price ~~$142.00~~

Member price $127.80

eBook:

$46.36

Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics

Stefan Baumgärtner, Malte Faber, Johannes Schiller

This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at how environmental problems emerge from economic activity and how they may be addressed in a responsible and sustainable manner. At its centre is the concept of joint production. This capture...

List price ~~$194.00~~

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Global Governance of Food and Agriculture Industries

Edited by Reba A. Carruth

In the absence of a global government, the regulation of markets and industries depends on extensive regional and multilateral policy cooperation and regulatory harmonization to protect citizens, farmers and the collective good of nation...

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Knowledge, Beliefs and Economics

Edited by Richard Arena, Agnès Festré

This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as general equilibrium theory, decision theory, game theory, experimental economics, evolutionary theory of the firm, financi...

List price ~~$153.00~~

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Women Entrepreneurs Across Racial Lines

Andrea E. Smith-Hunter

Women entrepreneurs command an increasingly large presence at the international and national levels. A significant part of this impact is due to growing numbers of minority women becoming entrepreneurs. This volume provides some of the m...

Hardback (October 2006)

List price ~~$153.00~~

Member price $137.70

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$40.00

Patents and the Measurement of International Competitiveness

William Kingston, Kevin Scally

This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries’ technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year perio...

List price ~~$137.00~~

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The Growth of Cities

Edited by Zoltán J. Ács

To understand why some regions grow and others stagnate, we need to understand the interactions between economic growth, economic geography and the economics of innovation. Each of these individual approaches has strengths and weaknesses...

List price ~~$412.00~~

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Clusters and Globalisation

Edited by Christos Pitelis, Roger Sugden, James R. Wilson

Clusters and Globalisation brings together scholars with different perspectives and theoretical groundings, and from different disciplines, to consider conceptual arguments and case study material. In doing so the volume identifies key c...

List price ~~$168.00~~

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Ageing and Pension Reform Around the World

Edited by Giuliano Bonoli, Toshimitsu Shinkawa

This book comprehensively documents developments in pension policy in eleven advanced industrial countries in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. In order to explore what population ageing means for the sustainability of pensi...

Paperback (2006)

List price ~~$68.95~~

Member price $55.16

Hardback (2005)

List price ~~$171.00~~

Member price $153.90

eBook:

$55.16