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Environmental Justice and Federalism
Dennis C. Cory, Tauhidur Rahman, Satheesh Aradhyula, Melissa Anne Burns, Miles H. Kiger
The authors discuss two case studies in their investigation of the complex interactions between environmental justice and government. These analyses offer a comprehensive view of both the siting and regulation of polluting activities, as...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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World Statistics on Mining and Utilities 2014
UNIDO
World Statistics on Mining and Utilities provides a unique biennial overview of the role of mining and utility activities in the world economy. This extensive resource from UNIDO provides detailed time series data on the level, structure...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Corruption
Marco Arnone, Leonardo S. Borlini
Corruption presents many legal and regulatory challenges, but these challenges cannot be met by the law in isolation. This book presents economic analysis of crime as an essential tool for shaping an effective legal apparatus. The autho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Entrepreneurial Action, Public Policy, and Economic Outcomes
Edited by Robert F. Salvino Jr., Michael T. Tasto, Gregory M. Randolph
Examining the economics of entrepreneurship from the perspectives of productive versus unproductive entrepreneurial behavior and the role of institutions in economic outcomes, the authors in this book seek to advance the research on inst...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Household Sustainability
Chris Gibson, Carol Farbotko, Nicholas Gill, Lesley Head, Gordon Waitt
The authors engage critically, and constructively, with the proposition that households are a key scale of action on climate change. They confront dilemmas of practice and circumstance, and cultural norms of lifestyle and consumerism tha...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility
Edited by Moshe Givoni, David Banister
The transport sector has been singularly unsuccessful in becoming low carbon and less resource intensive. This book takes an innovative and holistic social, cultural and behavioural perspective, as well as covering the more conventional ...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Climate Change and the World Economy
Edited by David I. Stern, Frank Jotzo, Leo Dobes
World economic activity is a cause of climate change and climate change has an impact on economic activity. Adaptation to climate change can occur locally, but action to reduce the extent of climate change requires global cooperation or ... -
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A World in Emergence
Allen J. Scott
Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Economic Futures of the West
Jan Winiecki
Jan Winiecki explores the various problems that the West must deal with in order to remain an efficient competitor in the world economy. These, he argues, are primarily consequences of the ever-expanding welfare state; consequences that ...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Economists and the State
Timothy P. Roth
Adam Smith is widely regarded as the ‘founder of modern economics’. The author shows, however, that Smith’s procedurally based, consequence-detached political economy, an approach shared by America’s Founders, finds no expression in the ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Standardization under EU Competition Rules and US Antitrust Laws
Björn Lundqvist
Standardization under EU Competition Rules and US Antitrust Laws is a comprehensive and detailed legal analysis of standard-setting procedure and the regulation of standard essential patents. It deals with the competition law aspects of ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Culture and Economic Growth
Edited by Enrico Spolaore
This two-volume set provides fundamental analyses of the relations between cultural variables and economic performance. It encompasses indispensable contributions by economists and other influential social scientists in this growing inte...
