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The Economics of Technology Diffusion and Energy Efficiency
Peter Mulder
Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a ... -
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Econometrics Informing Natural Resources Management
Edited by Phoebe Koundouri
This fascinating book outlines the fundamental principles and difficulties that characterise the challenging task of using econometrics to inform natural resource management policies, and illustrates them through a number of case studies...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Environment, Information and Consumer Behaviour
Edited by Signe Krarup, Clifford S. Russell
Over the past decade there has been growing interest in the role of information in the promotion of environmentally friendly behaviour. This book examines how and why the provision of such information can affect individual decisions conc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Modelling the Costs of Environmental Policy
Rob B. Dellink
This important new book enhances our understanding of the dynamic interactions between economic activity, economic growth, pollution abatement and environmental policy. It addresses one main policy problem: how can the direct and indirec...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Induced Investment and Business Cycles
Hyman P. Minsky, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
This unique volume presents, for the first time in publication, the original Ph.D. thesis of Hyman P. Minsky, one of the most innovative thinkers on financial markets. Dimitri B. Papadimitriou’s introduction places the thesis in a modern...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government
William A. Niskanen
This book presents simple models of the major alternative types of political regimes, estimates of the parameters of these models, and quantitative estimates of the fiscal choices and economic outcomes of these regimes. William Niskanen... -
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Reforming Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and the Rebuilding of Indonesia
Edited by James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Indonesia is currently facing some severe challenges, both in political affairs and in economic management. One of these challenges is the recently enacted decentralization program, now well underway, which promises to have some wide-ran...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Foreign Direct Investment
Edited by Yingqi A. Wei, V. N. Balasubramanyam
This book consists of detailed case studies of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico and Sub-Saharan Africa, providing a critical review of the determinants and impact of FDI on growth and development...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Policy under Uncertainty
Edited by Peter Mooslechner, Helene Schuberth, Martin Schürz
Economic Policy under Uncertainty maintains that the question of truth and accountability has not received particular attention in the literature on economic methodology. It goes on to argue that pragmatic theories relate concepts of tru... -
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Central Banking in the Modern World
Edited by Marc Lavoie, Mario Seccareccia
According to the New Consensus in monetary economics, monetarism is dead and central bankers target low inflation rates by acting upon short-term real rates of interest. Yet, this synthesis hinges on variants of the long-run vertical Phi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Multinationals and Industrial Competitiveness
John H. Dunning, Rajneesh Narula
This book offers an important contribution to the contemporary debate on the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in economic development in an increasingly globalizing, knowledge-intensive and alliance-based world economy.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Growth Process in East Asian Manufacturing Industries
Chia-Hung Sun
Although it has been previously accepted that Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan have achieved the ‘economic miracle’ of maintaining high economic growth for several decades prior to the Asian financial crisis, recent literat...eBook:Find out more$40.00