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Transportation Networks and the Optimal Location of Human Activities
Isabelle Thomas
The relationship between the shape of transportation networks and the optimal locations and allocations of human activities is examined in this unique volume. -
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Greening the Budget
Edited by J. Peter Clinch, Kai Schlegelmilch, Rolf-Ulrich Sprenger, Ursula Triebswetter
Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the ele...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Islamic Banking and Finance
Edited by Munawar Iqbal, David T. Llewellyn
Islamic Banking and Finance discusses Islamic financial theory and practice, and focuses on the opportunities offered by Islamic finance as an alternative method of financial intermediation. Key features of profit-sharing (as opposed to ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union
Edited by Bruno De Borger, Stef Proost
This timely book deals with the problem of pricing passenger and freight transportation within Europe. The contributors argue that current legislation affecting pricing and regulation is increasingly less successful in dealing with marke...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Dynamics of Industrial Collaboration
Edited by Anne Plunket, Colette Voisin, Bertrand Bellon
The Dynamics of Industrial Collaboration revisits and reformulates issues previously raised by inter-firm collaboration. The latest research in collaboration, processes and evaluation of cooperation, and industrial and research networks,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Implementing European Environmental Policy
Edited by Matthieu Glachant
This significant book investigates the political economy of environmental policy in Europe with a careful analysis of how EU directives are realised in the member states.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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How to Promote Economic Growth in the Euro Area
Edited by Jan Smets, Michel Dombrecht
This volume provides a coherent analysis of the economic, monetary and political aspects of growth dynamics in the Euro area. The different relevant aspects in this debate, presented and discussed by leading scholars and representatives ... -
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Consumption and Growth
Davide Gualerzi
The theme of this extensive book is the relationship between consumption and growth in the context of the long run theory of effective demand. Taking Schumpeter’s views on economic development as a starting point, the author proposes an ... -
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The Economics of Scientific Knowledge
Yanfei Shi
The Economics of Scientific Knowledge demonstrates how contemporary economic theories, such as rational choice theory, public choice theory, game theory, and neo-institutionalist economics can be successfully applied to resolve the issue... -
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Investment, Capital Market Imperfections, and Uncertainty
Robert Lensink, Hong Bo, Elmer Sterken
This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment, financial imperfections and uncertainty. After reviewing the capital market imperfections literature and the empi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The State, Regulation and the Economy
Edited by Lars Magnusson, Jan Ottosson
Regulatory regimes appear wherever market economies exist and whenever there is competition for limited resources. However, the rationale of public regulation of markets, as well as the mechanisms that characterise regulatory regimes, is... -
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Money and Inflation
Sergio Rossi
It is a popular notion that money and output are separate and autonomous entities. Money and Inflation argues that this idea can neither explain the purchasing power of money nor its variations over time, and a new theory is therefore pr...