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Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector
Robert L. Clark, Melinda Sandler Morrill
While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired employees. This book is the first to thoroughly examine public sector health...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Provision of Public Services in Europe
Edited by Hellmut Wollmann, Gérard Marcou
The book is the first of its kind to provide a comparative analysis of the provision of social and public services in France, Italy, Germany, the UK and Norway.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Technological Learning in the Energy Sector
Edited by Martin Junginger, Wilfried van Sark, André Faaij
Technological learning is a key driver behind the improvement of energy technologies and subsequent reduction of production costs. Understanding how and why production costs for energy technologies decline, and whether they will continue...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Abundance
Brendan Sheehan
This book addresses the challenge posed by J.K. Galbraith over 50 years ago to make a constructive contribution to a different style of economic analysis – the economics of abundance. It identifies a system of abundance inhabited by the ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Property Law and Economics
Edited by Boudewijn Bouckaert
This study covers property law and property rights, providing a full summary and comprehensive bibliography of the existing law, together with discussion from an economic perspective on the most important aspects of property law. Leading...eBook:Find out more$192.00
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Corruption and its Manifestation in the Persian Gulf
Hossein Askari, Scheherazade Sabina Rehman, Noora Arfaa
The authors of this timely book investigate various forms and measures of corruption, examine whether corruption is more acute in Persian Gulf countries than elsewhere, and illustrate the unique forms it takes in oil- and natural gas-ric...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond Inflation Targeting
Edited by Gerald A. Epstein, A. Erinc Yeldan
This book, written by an international team of economists, develops concrete, country specific alternatives to inflation targeting, the dominant policy framework of central bank policy that focuses on keeping inflation in the low single ...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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The Law and Economics of Corporate Governance
Edited by Alessio M. Pacces
In this timely book, the law and economics of corporate governance is approached from various angles. Alessio Pacces shows that perspectives are evolving and that they differ between the economic and the legal standpoint, as well as vary...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Competitiveness of the ASEAN Countries
Edited by Philippe Gugler, Julien Chaisse
In an age of increased necessity for competitiveness of nations and at a time when the world economy is facing recession, this book explores the possible trajectory of ASEAN – arguably one of the most dynamic areas in the world – as a re...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Promoting New Telecom Infrastructures
Edited by Morten Falch, Jan Markendahl
Promoting New Telecom Infrastructures examines how current telecom infrastructures are transforming from dedicated networks supporting either voice, data or broadcasting services to converged networks that support a wide variety of commu... -
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The Economic Growth Engine
Robert U. Ayres, Benjamin Warr
The historic link between output (GDP) growth and employment has weakened. Since there is no quantitively verifiable economic theory to explain past growth, this unique book explores the fundamental relationship between thermodynamics (p...eBook:Find out more$66.36
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Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
Edited by Jeremy Moon, Marc Orlitzky, Glen Whelan
This important volume re-integrates corporate governance and business ethics which are too often treated as separate entities. The editors have selected seminal works which refocus on the ethical import of corporate governance foundation...