Economics and Finance

The Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis

Charles A.E. Goodhart

There are already many papers and books on the causes and course of the current financial crisis, but this is the first and, for the moment, only such book to focus on the regulatory response to it. There are two main attributes that a b...

Paperback (May 2010)

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Hardback (2009)

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Employment Protection Legislation

Per Skedinger

Employment protection legislation is one of the most controversial issues in the labour market. In this insightful book, Per Skedinger provides an overview of the design, evolution and research on the effects of employment protection leg...

Hardback (May 2010)

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Limits to Free Trade

David Hanson

This book explores the growing list of non-tariff trade barriers raised by the US, EU and Japan and assesses the prospects for significant trade liberalization. The author examines the liability of global free trade through a review of t...

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Global Exchange and Poverty

Edited by Robert E.B. Lucas, Lyn Squire, T. N. Srinivasan

This book examines how policies implemented by members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) affect development and poverty in developing and transition economies.

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Knowledge Diffusion and Innovation

Piergiuseppe Morone, Richard Taylor

Modern economies are described as ‘knowledge based’. This book investigates the meaning of such a statement, assessing the relevance of knowledge and the channels through which knowledge is exchanged, both from a theoretical and an empir...

Hardback (2010)

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Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy

Samuel Gregg

Wilhelm Röpke is best known for his decisive intellectual contributions to the economic reforms that took post-war West Germany from ruin to riches within a decade. In this informative book, Samuel Gregg presents Röpke as a sophisticated...

Hardback (2010)

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The Political Economy of Inter-Regional Fiscal Flows

Edited by Núria Bosch, Marta Espasa , Albert Solé Ollé

Struggles over what a region receives, or should receive, from the budget of the central government are common to many countries. Discussions often focus on the measures of ‘net fiscal flows’ or ‘fiscal balances’ provided by the governme...

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State and Local Fiscal Policy

Edited by Sally Wallace

In this broad and illuminating work, experts on public finance discuss innovations in state and local tax policy that have been implemented or considered over the course of the last three decades. The authors provide original work that a...

Hardback (2010)

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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Lluís Barbé

Lluís Barbé has recreated the background and life of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth through a fascinating exercise of reconstruction that succeeds in shaping the first detailed biography ever published of this major economist and statistician....

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Food Security in Africa

Edited by Alexander Sarris, Jamie Morrison

Drawing on insights from theoretical applications, empirically based approaches and case study experience, this book contributes to the improved design and use of trade and related policy interventions in staple food markets.

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The Minimum Wage Revisited in the Enlarged EU

Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This book provides in-depth and innovative analysis of the minimum wage in Europe. The autho...

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