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Implementing the Precautionary Principle
Edited by Elizabeth Fisher, Judith Jones, René von Schomberg
This challenging book takes a broad and thought-provoking look at the precautionary principle and its implementation, or potential implementation, in a number of fields. In particular, it explores the challenges faced by public decision-...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Asia’s Innovation Systems in Transition
Edited by Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Jan Vang
The success of Asian economies (first Japan, then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and, more recently, China and India) has made it tempting to look for ‘an Asian model of development’. However, the strength of Asian development...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Growth, Transition and Globalization in China
Edited by Yanrui Wu
This book addresses a number of important topics and issues associated with China’s economic transition, growth and global integration. The chapters, by a distinguished group of scholars, provide a timely assessment of recent development...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Valuing Complex Natural Resource Systems
Edited by Anna Alberini, Paolo Rosato, Margherita Turvani
In complex natural resource systems, modifications or disruptions tend to affect many and diverse components of the ecological system, settlements and groups of people. This book uses the Lagoon of Venice – a unique natural resource, wil...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Theory of International Trade and Unemployment
Paul Oslington
In this book, Paul Oslington underlines the contradiction between the prominence of job losses in political conflict over trade liberalization, and trade economists usually working with full employment models. -
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The Management of Intellectual Property
Edited by Derek Bosworth, Elizabeth Webster
This book brings together innovative contributions on the management of intellectual property (IP) and intellectual property rights by an esteemed and multi-disciplinary group of economists, management scientists, accountants and lawyers.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement
Edited by Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Siew-Ean Khoo
This book examines the role of immigration policy, and of economic and social policies involved in promoting the settlement of immigrants to Australia. It is based on research of two groups of recent immigrants who arrived six years apar...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Intellectual Property Rights
Edited by Birgitte Andersen
Intellectual Property Rights is cutting edge in addressing current debates affecting businesses, industry sectors and society today, and in focusing not only on the enabling welfare effects of IPR systems, but also on some of the possibl...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Institutions, Globalisation and Empowerment
Edited by Kartik Roy, Jörn Sideras
This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policie...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovation Dynamism and Economic Growth
Masaaki Hirooka
This pathbreaking book addresses the economics of technological change as revealed by a unique methodology that uncovers the true nature of technological development. Masaaki Hirooka bases this new approach to the economics of technologi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Growth and Distribution
Edited by Neri Salvadori
Economic Growth and Distribution isolates and compares the logical structures and methodological underpinnings underlying the relationship between economic growth and distribution. It carries out an in-depth analysis of a wide range of i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regional Climate Change and Variability
Edited by Matthias Ruth, Kieran Donaghy, Paul Kirshen
In its development of methodologies and their applications to individual regions, this book presents a rich set of insights and a set of guides for investment and policymaking. Each of the six studies focuses on a finer geographic scale ...eBook:Find out more$40.00