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From Industrial Districts to Local Development
Giacomo Becattini, Marco Bellandi, Gabi Dei Ottati, Fabio Sforzi
From Industrial Districts to Local Development introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the ‘Florence school’ to the recent literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalisation of the... -
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Environmental Research and Development
John T. Scott
John Scott develops, describes, and uses new primary data about US industrial firms’ research and development (R&D) investments to create innovative products and processes that provide goods and services without the by-product of polluti...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Climate Change
Edited by James M. Griffin
This volume is written for policymakers and informed citizenry who want to understand at a general level the complexities of global climate change without becoming enmeshed in technical minutia. The introduction emphasizes the core fact ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Principles for Education
Clive R. Belfield
Education has become an increasingly important activity within all economies; from pre-school years groups through to continuing education and retraining, the accumulation of skills spans a lifetime. Economic Principles for Education loo... -
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National Competitiveness and Economic Growth
Timo J. Hämäläinen
The current paradigm shift in the world economy is challenging the traditional competitiveness and growth theories with their few explanatory variables. This book offers a more holistic framework to synthesise the key findings of the var... -
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The Open Economy and the Environment
Ian Coxhead, Sisira Jayasuriya
The Open Economy and the Environment asks what globalization means for environmental quality and the use of natural resources in developing economies. The authors develop theoretical models that trace the effects of trade and trade liber... -
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The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
Christopher M. Dent
Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan – East Asia’s newly industrialised economies (the NIE-3) – experienced a profound development transformation over recent decades. Christopher Dent makes a comparative study of their foreign economic poli... -
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Corporate Governance, Market Structure and Innovation
Edited by Mario Calderini, Paola Garrone, Maurizio Sobrero
This book investigates the relationship between corporate governance, market structure and innovation. The editors observe that a number of radical mutations are occurring in industries that have played a crucial role in sustaining and f...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of the European Union
Gert T. Svendsen
This book offers a generic explanation of the political economy of the EU, demonstrating in a clear and comprehensive way how the present institutional set-up makes it vulnerable to lobbyism, corruption and the destruction of social capi... -
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Evolutionary Economics and Human Nature
Edited by John Laurent
The authors address the question of human nature in economics, examining not only some of the recent writing on this subject in evolutionary psychology and related disciplines, but also the ideas of important thinkers in the Western inte... -
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Financial Supervision in Europe
Edited by Jeroen J.M. Kremers, Dirk Schoenmaker, Peter J. Wierts
Financial Supervision in Europe discusses the implications of financial market integration for the structure of financial supervision in the European Union. It argues that, at present, negotiations on a European system of supervisors mig... -
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Development Economics and Structuralist Macroeconomics
Edited by Amitava Krishna Dutt, Jaime Ros
Lance Taylor is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent development economists in the world and is known for his work on development planning, macroeconomics of development, stabilization policy, and the global economy. He has als...