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The Economics of Hydroelectric Power
Brian K. Edwards
Brian Edwards provides an in-depth analysis of how dams are used in water management, flood control and irrigation, as well as the environmental impacts of their construction and operation. He examines the types of restrictions imposed o... -
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Knowledge, Learning and Routines
Edited by Nathalie Lazaric, Edward Lorenz
This comprehensive two-volume collection draws together the key contributions – both theoretical and empirical – from economics and management literature on human and organisational knowledge, learning and routine behaviours. -
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Recent Developments in Institutional Economics
Edited by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
This title is a definitive collection of readings showing both changes in the research agenda and new developments at the cutting edge. It is an ideal reference source for students and researchers in the fields of economics, sociology, b... -
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Return Migration in the Asia Pacific
Edited by Robyn Iredale, Fei Guo, Santi Rozario
Globalisation and social transformation theorists have paid significantly less attention to the movement of people than they have to the movement of capital. This book redresses the balance and provides timely insights into recent deve...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Privatising Old-Age Security
Katharina Müller
In the 1990s many Latin American countries decided upon full or partial pension privatisation, and a similar wave of reforms is currently taking place in Eastern Europe. Privatising Old-Age Security aims to examine what may account for t... -
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Firms’ Investment and Finance Decisions
Edited by Paul Butzen, Catherine Fuss
This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms’ investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using seve...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Recent Developments in Transport Economics
Edited by Kenneth Button
The past decade has seen both some new trends in the economics of transportation and the reinforcement of work from previous periods. Econometrics and innovative programming techniques have developed the work on production efficiency and... -
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Innovation, Competence Building and Social Cohesion in Europe
Edited by Pedro Conceição, Manuel V. Heitor, Bengt-Åke Lundvall
It is almost universally accepted that we are moving increasingly towards an information society, where knowledge and learning are the new currency of power. This book seeks to challenge this axiom by looking in more detail at the subtle... -
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The Economic Institutions of Higher Education
J. P. Raines, Charles G. Leathers
Working within the context of the evolutionary-institutional transformation of higher education, the authors trace the development of an economic model by which the behavioral tendencies of modern universities can be evaluated. That mode...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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State and Local Finances under Pressure
Edited by David L. Sjoquist
State and Local Finances under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the numerous pressures they face from economic, legal, technological, demographic and political forces. It explores how these ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Controlling Public Expenditure
Edited by John Wanna, Lotte Jensen, Jouke de Vries
One of the most important functions of modern government is to marshal and deploy resources to achieve desired objectives and outcomes. This task is overseen by the Central Budget Agencies (such as Ministries of Finance and Treasuries) w... -
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Globalisation, Regionalism and Economic Activity
Edited by Philip Arestis, Michelle Baddeley, John S.L. McCombie
The processes of globalisation and increased economic regionalism have had profound, often destabilising, effects on modern economic and financial systems. In recognition of this fact, the editors of this fine book have collected togethe...