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The World Trade Organization and Human Rights
Edited by Sarah Joseph, David Kinley, Jeff Waincymer
This collection of essays from leading academics examines the connection between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and human rights issues, a topic which has provoked significant debate, particularly in the decade since the collapsed WT... -
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Antitrust and Regulation in the EU and US
Edited by François Lévêque, Howard Shelanski
The diverse and excellent set of authors assembled in this book sheds light on the continuing and conflicting calls for deregulation and re-regulation of important industries and informs the ongoing, increasingly global, policy debate ov...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Intellectual Property and the Limits of Antitrust
Katarzyna Czapracka
This book examines the growing divergences between the EU and the US in their approach to antitrust law enforcement, particularly where it relates to intellectual property (IP) rights.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Health Care Systems in Developing and Transition Countries
Edited by Diana Pinto Masís, Peter C. Smith
Health policy is a central preoccupation of many, if not all, developing countries. This book presents a selection of ten studies that illustrate the powerful tool that carefully conducted research can offer policy-makers seeking to addr... -
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Transport, Welfare and Externalities
Dieter Schmidtchen, Christian Koboldt, Jenny Helstroffer, Birgit Will, Georg Haas, Stefan Witte
This book discusses a paradigm shift for dealing with the internalization of external costs in transport. Crucial to the analysis is the insight that the polluters are not the only cost drivers; both pollutees and the state can also cont...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Diversity in Economic Growth
Edited by Gary McMahon, Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Lyn Squire
Economists have long relied on cross-country regression analysis to identify the determinants of continued growth, but with only limited success. This book demonstrates the value of a different approach.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Labour Market Triangle
Edited by Paul de Beer, Trudie Schils
Currently, European governments are being challenged to find an optimal social policy strategy that fosters ''flexicurity’, whereby a flexible, well-functioning labour market is achieved, whilst protection for workers is maintained. This...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Chinese Economic Development and the Environment
Shunsuke Managi, Shinji Kaneko
Over the past two decades, China has become an economic powerhouse. However, as the world’s largest producer of CO2 emissions, the scale and seriousness of China’s environmental problems are clearly evident. This pioneering book provides...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Managing International Financial Instability
Fabrizio Saccomanni
Recurrent instability has characterized the global financial system since the 1980s, eventually leading to the current global financial crisis. This instability and the resultant disruptions – sovereign debt defaults, exchange rate misal...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Innovation, Agglomeration and Regional Competition
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Roger R. Stough
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on regional competition and co-operation. Developing our current understanding of the new role of regions and their behaviour, this book addresses questions such as: Ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economics, Culture and Social Theory
William A. Jackson
Economics, Culture and Social Theory examines how culture has been neglected in economic theorising and considers how economics could benefit by incorporating ideas from social and cultural theory.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Roger R. Stough, Borje Johansson
In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy in which functional regions increasingly play a role as independent and dynamic market places. These are integrated with other functional regions by m...