Economics and Finance
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Risk and Regulation of Islamic Banking
Edited by Mervyn K. Lewis, Mohamed Ariff, Shamsher Mohamad
From a single product offering in 1963, the Islamic financial services industry has grown to an estimated $1.6 trillion in assets. Products must comply with profit and risk-sharing criteria and regulations preventing banks from venturing...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Environmental Taxation and Green Fiscal Reform
Edited by Larry Kreiser, Soocheol Lee, Kazuhiro Ueta, Janet E. Milne, Hope Ashiabor
Against a backdrop of intense political interest it is more important than ever to explore the role of fiscal policy in achieving environmental sustainability. Environmental Taxation and Green Fiscal Reform skilfully explores the various...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Human Values and Biodiversity Conservation
Clement A. Tisdell
This pioneering book explores the influence of human values on the willingness of individuals to pay for the conservation of individual wildlife species (and classes of these), to be for or against their survival, and to favour or oppose...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Financial Crime and Gambling in a Virtual World
Clare Chambers-Jones, Henry Hillman
In this unique book, the authors examine the relationship between real world legislation and new advancements in technology, showing how this can lead to loopholes in legislative protection. They draw on empirical research to highlight t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Knowledge, Innovation and Space
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Roger R. Stough
The contributions in this volume extend our understanding about the different ways distance impacts the knowledge conversion process. Knowledge itself is a raw input into the innovation process which can then transform it into an economi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Dynamics of Global Economic Governance
Richard Eccleston
This book focuses on international taxation and examines how the financial crisis prompted renewed attempts to enhance international tax transparency and confront tax havens. It highlights the complexity of international regime change an...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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The Political Economy of Iraq
Frank R. Gunter
This groundbreaking volume offers a comprehensive look at the current state of Iraq’s political economy in the aftermath of the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Frank R. Gunter describes the unique difficulties facing the mode...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Law and Policy of the European Gas Market
Monica Waloszyk
Law and Policy of the European Gas Market explores the law and politics of the EU gas market and in particular, the regulatory and competitive choices of institutions and bodies operating on the market, with a view to achieving a higher ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Mapping National Innovation Ecosystems
Amnon Frenkel, Shlomo Maital
Increasingly, researchers and policymakers alike recognize that innovations are generated by complex and dynamic national ecosystems that include government, industry, universities and schools. Because these systems differ by country and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Money, Banking and the Foreign Exchange Market in Emerging Economies
Tarron Khemraj
Despite the financial liberalization agenda of the mid-1980s, a system of bank oligopolies has developed in both large and small, open developing economies. Mainstream monetary theory tends to assume a capital markets structure and is th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Development of Human Resource Management Across Nations
Edited by Bruce E. Kaufman
This volume contains country studies of the historical development of human resource management (HRM) in seventeen different nations. The nations span all regions of the world and each chapter is written by a national expert. Primary att...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Climate Change Mitigation, Technological Innovation and Adaptation
Edited by Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Emanuele Massetti, Massimo Tavoni
This book presents a rigorous yet accessible treatment of the main topics in climate change policy using a large body of research generated using WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid), an innovative and path-breaking integrated a...eBook:Find out more$40.00