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Obesity, Business and Public Policy
Edited by Zoltán J. Ács, Alan Lyles
The effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical commun...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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![Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance]()
Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance
Svetozar Pejovich, Enrico Colombatto
Capitalism has outperformed all other systems and maintained a positive growth rate since it began. Svetozar Pejovich makes the case within this book that a major reason for the success of capitalism lies in the efficiency-friendly incen...eBook:Find out more$41.56
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Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts
Edward Christie
The book has been written to meet the requirements of any environmental professional – lawyer, scientist, engineer, planner – who directly, or indirectly, may be involved in development or planning conflicts when the environment is an is...eBook:Find out more$66.36
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The Militarization of the Persian Gulf
Hossein Askari, Amin Mohseni, Shahrzad Daneshvar
The Persian Gulf is arguably the most militarized region in the world. The authors of this insightful book examine military expenditures, arms imports and military deployment to analyze how and why this came to be. Muslim teachings have ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The World Trade Organization and Human Rights
Edited by Sarah Joseph, David Kinley, Jeff Waincymer
This collection of essays from leading academics examines the connection between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and human rights issues, a topic which has provoked significant debate, particularly in the decade since the collapsed WT... -
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Antitrust and Regulation in the EU and US
Edited by François Lévêque, Howard Shelanski
The diverse and excellent set of authors assembled in this book sheds light on the continuing and conflicting calls for deregulation and re-regulation of important industries and informs the ongoing, increasingly global, policy debate ov...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Intellectual Property and the Limits of Antitrust
Katarzyna Czapracka
This book examines the growing divergences between the EU and the US in their approach to antitrust law enforcement, particularly where it relates to intellectual property (IP) rights.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Health Care Systems in Developing and Transition Countries
Edited by Diana Pinto Masís, Peter C. Smith
Health policy is a central preoccupation of many, if not all, developing countries. This book presents a selection of ten studies that illustrate the powerful tool that carefully conducted research can offer policy-makers seeking to addr... -
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Transport, Welfare and Externalities
Dieter Schmidtchen, Christian Koboldt, Jenny Helstroffer, Birgit Will, Georg Haas, Stefan Witte
This book discusses a paradigm shift for dealing with the internalization of external costs in transport. Crucial to the analysis is the insight that the polluters are not the only cost drivers; both pollutees and the state can also cont...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Diversity in Economic Growth
Edited by Gary McMahon, Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Lyn Squire
Economists have long relied on cross-country regression analysis to identify the determinants of continued growth, but with only limited success. This book demonstrates the value of a different approach.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Labour Market Triangle
Edited by Paul de Beer, Trudie Schils
Currently, European governments are being challenged to find an optimal social policy strategy that fosters ''flexicurity’, whereby a flexible, well-functioning labour market is achieved, whilst protection for workers is maintained. This...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Chinese Economic Development and the Environment
Shunsuke Managi, Shinji Kaneko
Over the past two decades, China has become an economic powerhouse. However, as the world’s largest producer of CO2 emissions, the scale and seriousness of China’s environmental problems are clearly evident. This pioneering book provides...eBook:Find out more$40.00
