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Charting Corporate Corruption
Peter Fleming, Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos
In the post-Enron era, corporate corruption is increasingly on the research agenda. This informative book provides a novel approach by charting the causes of corruption. It demonstrates how agency (decisions and choices of individuals) a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Education and Inequality Across Europe
Edited by Peter Dolton, Rita Asplund, Erling Barth
The relationship between education and income inequality is of fundamental importance. In this book, an international group of renowned contributors focus on patterns of inequality and their relationship to education using recent data fr... -
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Taxing the Working Poor
Achim Kemmerling
In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Markets Versus Hierarchies
Ekaterina Brancato
This unique book uses a transaction cost perspective to illustrate how hierarchies influenced the structure of markets and behaviour of individual businesses and cartels in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and present-day Russia.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Microfoundations of Economic Success
Edited by David G. Mayes
This book uses detailed data on individual firms and households to explore the basis behind Estonia’s record as the most successful of all the EU countries over the last decade. We find that much of the reason is the greater flexibility ... -
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The Political Economy of Trade Reform in Emerging Markets
Edited by Peter Draper, Philip Alves, Razeen Sally
This timely book brings fresh analysis to the important issue of trade policy reform in emerging markets.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
Edited by Claude Gnos, Louis-Philippe Rochon
This book provides an enlightening glimpse into the deep theoretical traditions of post-Keynesian theory whilst also illuminating the richness and uniqueness of post-Keynesian economic policy. -
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Social Policy in an Ageing Society
David Reisman
Around half the world’s population live in countries where the fertility rate is far below the replacement rate and where life expectancy is increasing dramatically. Using Singapore as a case study, Social Policy in an Ageing Society exp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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When Marriage Ends
Edited by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Dina Hummelsheim
In recent decades the probability of divorce and separation among married and cohabiting couples has increased significantly in most European countries. Focusing on both economic and social aspects, this comprehensive volume explores the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Towards Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia
Edited by Koichi Hamada, Beate Reszat, Ulrich Volz
This indispensable book provides a comprehensive analysis of monetary and financial integration in East Asia. It assesses the steps already taken toward financial integration and brings forward different proposals for future exchange rat...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World
Ludger Woessmann, Elke Luedemann, Gabriela Schuetz, Martin R. West
Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents new evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test on whether students perform better in... -
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Taxation and the Promotion of Human Happiness
G. W. Norman, D. P. O’Brien, John Creedy
This edition of a hitherto unknown work demonstrates the importance of utilitarianism to liberal thinking on taxation. As such, this unique book will appeal to specialists in the history of economic thought and to historians, especially ...