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Economic Globalisation
Edited by Clem Tisdell, Raj K. Sen
In this book a distinguished group of international contributors, from both developing and higher income countries, identify and discuss major social conflicts, labour and distributional concerns, environmental issues and impacts arising...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Banking and Insurance in the New China
Chien-Hsun Chen, Hui-Tzu Shih
Financial reform has been a major concern for China’s transitional economy – especially in the realms of banking and insurance – since accession to the WTO in 2001. This book scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industrie... -
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Institutional Change for Sustainable Development
Robin Connor, Stephen Dovers
Institutional Change for Sustainable Development presents a flexible, accessible, yet robust conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of institutional systems, and high...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Loss in Thailand
Edited by Edward B. Barbier, Suthawan Sathirathai
Through in-depth case studies of local communities in four distinct coastal areas in Southern Thailand, the authors are able to assess objectively the underlying economic causes, and consequences, of mangrove deforestation due to the exp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Comparative Law and Economics
Edited by Gerrit De Geest, Roger J. Van den Bergh
This is an authoritative collection on comparative law and economics, a new research field in which differences among legal systems are analysed using an economic methodology. Comparative law and economics brings comparative law to a hig... -
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Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries
Edited by John Halligan
Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries presents a comprehensive overview of the important issues in modern bureaucracies, combined with a comparative analysis of the civil service systems and administrative traditions of five ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Cognitive Economics
Edited by Massimo Egidi, Salvatore Rizzello
This important collection examines the subject of cognitive economics – an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human problem solving, choice, decision making and change which explains economic transactions and the nature and evolu... -
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Globalisation? Internationalisation and Monopoly Capitalism
Bob Milward
This book acts as a welcome foil to current thinking on the concept of globalisation, which tends to be divided into two distinct camps: one which suggests that the neo-liberal model has triumphed and has no realistic alternative, and an... -
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Conversations on Growth, Stability and Trade
Brian Snowdon
This unique volume provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world. It includes discussions of the latest research findings in macroeconomics and scrutinises some of the most important...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry
Carlos Rufín
The author shows that ideological considerations and bargaining over the distribution of economic rents accruing from certain institutional arrangements are powerful shapers of institutional change. At the same time, the legacy of the pa...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Modernizing Civil Services
Edited by Tony Butcher, Andrew Massey
Civil services in Western liberal democracies have undergone significant changes since the early 1980s, so much so that many of the traditional assumptions underpinning their role and operating practices have been fundamentally questione...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Knowledge, Inequality and Growth in the New Economy
Richard Nahuis
During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today...