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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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The Political Economy of the Environment
James K. Boyce
In a provocative and original analysis, James K. Boyce examines the dynamics of environmental degradation in terms of the balances of power between the winners and the losers. He provides evidence that inequalities of power and wealth af...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Economic Growth, Inequality and Migration
Edited by Amnon Levy, João R. Faria
During the growth process inequality may rise or decline, and the change in the level of inequality may, in turn, affect growth. An increase in inequality in one place and better prospects of growth and earnings elsewhere can trigger mig... -
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Reconstructing Economic Theory
Allen Oakley
This book applies a critical focus on the extent to which methodological practices in mainstream economic theory impede our understanding of substantive economic phenomena as the products of human action. Economists, in general, work wit... -
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Handbook of Environmental and Resource Economics
Edited by Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
This major reference book comprises specially commissioned surveys in environmental and resource economics written by an international team of experts. Authoritative yet accessible, each entry provides a state-of-the-art summary of key a...eBook:Find out more$80.76
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Models of Capitalism: Debating Strengths and Weaknesses
Edited by David Coates
This authoritative collection provides the reader with easy access to the full range of arguments now being developed to explain why some forms of economic organisation prospered best in the immediate past, and why some models now seem m... -
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Transport Infrastructure
Edited by Roger R. Stough, Roger Vickerman, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
The editors have brought together in Transport Infrastructure a set of classic readings in the literature which show the development of analysis in this field. -
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Entrepreneurship and the Firm
Edited by Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein
While characteristically ‘Austrian’ themes such as entrepreneurship, economic calculation, tacit knowledge and the temporal structure of capital are clearly relevant to the business firm, Austrian economists have said relatively little a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Waste in Ecological Economics
Edited by Katy Bisson, John Proops
Waste is a quintessentially ecological economic issue. The generation of waste is rooted in the very laws of nature, but waste is also a social construct, and what we understand to be waste has evolved with human societies. Therefore, a ... -
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Social Capital and Economic Development
Edited by Jonathan Isham, Thomas Kelly, Sunder Ramaswamy
The chapters in this volume explore the challenges and opportunities raised by this concept for researchers, practitioners and teachers. Social Capital and Economic Development is based upon a consistent, policy-based vision of how socia...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Landmark Papers in Macroeconomics Selected by James Tobin
Edited by James Tobin
James Tobin was America’s most distinguished Keynesian economist, whose path-breaking theoretical work has demonstrated that Keynes’s original theories can be adapted to deal with modern macroeconomic problems. This significant volume pr... -
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Global Control
Peter McMahon
Global Control aims to achieve a clearer understanding of the long process of globalization by focusing on the crucial role of information and control technologies. Information systems and control technologies are key to globalization ...eBook:Find out more$40.00