Economics and Finance

The Economics of Competitive Sports

Edited by Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Késenne, Ruud Koning

The essence of any sports contest is competition. The very unpredictability of a sporting outcome distinguishes it from, say, an opera performance. This volume presents a state of the art overview of the economics of competitive sport al...

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Temporary Knowledge Ecologies

Edited by Harald Bathelt, Gang Zeng

Temporary Knowledge Ecologies investigates and theorizes the nature, rise and evolution of trade fair knowledge ecologies in the Asia-Pacific region. It provides a comprehensive overview of trade fairs in this key world region applying a...

Hardback (July 2015)

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Islamic Finance

Hans Visser

This thoroughly updated and revised second edition analyses the ideas behind Islamic finance, the forms Islamic finance has taken in practice and the tension between the two that may occasionally arise. Along with an expanded section on ...

Paperback (2015)

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Hardback (2014)

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Social Policies in an Age of Austerity

Edited by John Karl Scholz, Hyungypo Moon, Sang-Hyup Lee

Social Policies in an Age of Austerity is the first major publication on the topic, with a particular interest in the United States and the Republic of Korea. The authors of the ten chapters in this book review recent developments in soc...

Hardback (July 2015)

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The New Economics of Income Distribution

Friedrich L. Sell

With the increased interest in the role of inequality in modern economies, this timely and original book explores income distribution as an equilibrium phenomenon. Though globalization tends to destroy earlier equilibria within industria...

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy

Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Urban Gråsjö, Sofia Wixe

Innovation and entrepreneurship are the prime drivers in the global economy. This scholarly book identifies some of the key forces behind innovation and entrepreneurship at the same time as it closes the gap between science and technolog...

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The Economic Characteristics of Developing Jurisdictions

Edited by Michal S. Gal, Mor Bakhoum, Josef Drexl, Eleanor M. Fox, David J. Gerber

There is ongoing debate as to what competition law and policy is most suitable for developing jurisdictions. This book argues that the unique characteristics of developing jurisdictions matter when crafting and enforcing competition law ...

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Culture and Economic Action

Edited by Laura E. Grube, Virgil Henry Storr

This edited volume, a collection of both theoretical essays and empirical studies, presents an Austrian economics perspective on the role of culture in economic action. The authors illustrate that culture cannot be separated from economi...

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The Aggregate Production Function and the Measurement of Technical Change

Jesus Felipe, John S.L. McCombie

This authoritative and stimulating book represents a fundamental critique of the aggregate production function, a concept widely used in macroeconomics.

Paperback (June 2015)

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Hardback (2013)

List price ~~$186.00~~

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Joint Research and Development under US Antitrust and EU Competition Law

Björn Lundqvist

This fascinating new book dissects, from a Competition law perspective, how Research and Development collaborations operate under both US and EU antitrust law. Analyzing the evolution of this innovation landscape from the 1970s to the pr...

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Neither Free Trade Nor Protection

Bill Dunn

This book challenges both sides of the debate around international trade. Most mainstream economists advocate free trade as a mainstay of national and global prosperity. Meanwhile, many critics see trade causing inequality and poverty. U...

Hardback (June 2015)

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