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Free to Fail
Hugh van der Mandele, Arjen C. van Witteloostuijn
This challenging book tackles one of the most fundamental questions in economics: Why are commercial organizations more efficient than organizations in the public domain?eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Work Sharing during the Great Recession
Edited by Jon C. Messenger, Naj Ghosheh
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. ‘Work sharing’ is a labour market instrument devised to distribute a reduced volume of work ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economic Crisis in Retrospect
Edited by G. Page West III, Robert M. Whaples
As the United States continues its slow recovery from the global financial crisis of 2008, politicians, policymakers and academics are increasingly turning to the lessons of history to gain insight into how we might address both current ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Intellectual Property Rights and the Financing of Technological Innovation
Carl Benedikt Frey
Following the transition of industrial nations to knowledge economies, the financing of technological innovation has become a central issue in public policy, corporate finance and business management. This detailed book examines the role...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Government Failure
Wilfred Dolfsma
This highly unique book takes a fundamental look at when and how a government can fail at its core responsibility of formulating rules. Government, representing society, relates to the economy by formulating the rules within which (marke...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Electricity Markets
Edited by Pippo Ranci, Guido Cervigni
The Economics of Electricity Markets provides a cutting-edge analysis of the critical issues involved in the design and operation of electricity markets, as well as an assessment of alternative institutional arrangements that have either...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Innovation Union in Europe
Edited by Elias G. Carayannis, George M. Korres
One of the most important economic events in recent decades has been the ongoing process of European integration. This book provides a basic yet rigorous understanding of the current issues and problems of economic integration and innova...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Institutions, Economic Performance and the Visible Hand
Ashok Chakravarti
The book challenges the conventional wisdom on the determinants of economic performance and provides an alternative vision of the functioning of an economic system. The author provides a structured survey which critically evaluates the t...eBook:Find out more$43.16
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Handbook on the Politics of Regulation
Edited by David Levi-Faur
This unique Handbook offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive, state-of-the-art reviews of the politics of regulation. It presents and discusses the core theories and concepts of regulation in response to the rise of the regulatory s...eBook:Find out more$75.96
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Handbook on the Economics of Leisure
Edited by Samuel Cameron
Surprisingly, the field of leisure economics is not, thus far, a particularly integrated or coherent one. In this Handbook a wide ranging body of international scholars get to grips with the core issues, taking in the traditional income/...eBook:Find out more$67.96
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The International Handbook on Non-Market Environmental Valuation
Edited by Jeff Bennett
Non-market environmental valuation (NMEV) is undergoing a period of increased growth in both application and development as a result of increasing recognition of the role of economics in environmental policy issues. Against this backdrop...eBook:Find out more$51.96
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World Economic Performance
Edited by D. S.P. Rao, Bart van Ark
World economic performance over the last 50 years has been spectacular. The postwar period has witnessed impressive growth rates in Western Europe and Japan, and in recent times China and India. This new book discusses these issues and t...eBook:Find out more$40.00