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The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry
Carlos Rufín
The author shows that ideological considerations and bargaining over the distribution of economic rents accruing from certain institutional arrangements are powerful shapers of institutional change. At the same time, the legacy of the pa...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Knowledge, Inequality and Growth in the New Economy
Richard Nahuis
During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today... -
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Private Property in the 21st Century
Edited by Harvey M. Jacobs
Private property is central to American character, culture and democracy. The founding fathers understood it as key to the liberties America was designed to foster. However, over the last 200 years what one owns has evolved; ownership is...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovation Strategies and Performance in Small Firms
John R. Baldwin, Guy Gellatly
John Baldwin and Guy Gellatly find that the strategic decisions young firms make play a critical role in determining their odds for survival and growth. New small firms survive by developing a core set of business skills – skills related...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Rural Poverty, Risk and Development
Marcel Fafchamps
This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author’s work in the area, it summarises the contributions of recent theoretical and empirical work to our understanding of how risk...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Money Markets and Politics
Jens Forssbæck, Lars Oxelheim
The dramatic evolution of financial markets in the 1980s and 1990s, accompanied by increasing institutional integration between nations (most notably in the EU), have fostered a widespread belief that governments – particularly those of ... -
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Structural Challenges for Europe
Edited by Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Peter Mooslechner
The main thrust of the book is that the sharing of mutual experiences is important for generating an acceptable policy mix, both at EU and national levels. The contributors highlight key financial issues, including the role of FDI and of... -
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Multinational Enterprises, Innovative Strategies and Systems of Innovation
Edited by John Cantwell, José Molero
Multinational Enterprises, Innovative Strategies and Systems of Innovation explores the extent to which multinational enterprises (MNEs) are decentralising the creation of new technological capabilities to various different countries. Th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond Profit and Self-Interest
Robert S. Gassler
This book attempts to reformulate existing orthodox economic theory in order to improve its conversation with disciplines that have traditionally been seen as the domain of political scientists, sociologists, psychologists and even biolo... -
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The Social Institutions of Capitalism
Edited by Pursey Heugens, Hans van Oosterhout, Jack Vromen
Offering a diverse set of contributions to current social contracting research, The Social Institutions of Capitalism illustrates how social contracts necessarily underlie and facilitate all forms of capitalist production and exchange.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Institutions, Innovation and Growth
Edited by Jean-Philippe Touffut
The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions, Innovation and Growth assembles a stellar cast of international contributors. Leading economists join the debate on i...eBook:Find out more$76.76
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Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Edited by Justus Wesseler, Hans-Peter Weikard, Robert D. Weaver
This book explores some of the complexities of decision-making under risk and uncertainty in environmental and natural resource economics. Risk and uncertainty are inherent problems for economists, and the authors in this volume offer nu...