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Competitiveness, FDI and Technological Activity in East Asia
Edited by Sanjaya Lall, Shujiro Urata
This book addresses this imbalance with new country studies on the interaction between foreign direct investment (FDI) and technological activity in building export competitiveness. The book covers China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysi... -
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Who’s Who in Economics, Fourth Edition
Edited by Mark Blaug, Howard R. Vane
This major reference work, now in its fourth edition, is an extensive and authoritative guide to the most frequently cited academic economists throughout the world. As with the previous editions, each of the entries is written by the en... -
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The Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries
Edited by Phoebe Koundouri, Panos Pashardes, Timothy M. Swanson, Anastasios Xepapadeas
The increasing scarcity of water resources (in terms of quantity and quality) is one of the most pervasive natural resource allocation issues facing development planners throughout the world. This problem is especially prevalent in less ... -
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The Principal Agent Model
Edited by Jean-Jacques Laffont
Incentive theory is the most important development in economics in the last forty years. The principal-agent model is the core of this theory. This authoritative collection brings together the essential literature concerning the principa... -
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The Economics of Business Strategy
Edited by John Kay
The Economics of Business Strategy is an authoritative collection of the most important published articles on the economic basis of business strategy. John Kay – who himself has made seminal contributions to the field – has selected arti... -
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The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen
Edited by Rick Tilman
Veblen was an original thinker, responsible for introducing and popularising a host of important concepts and insights. He ignited controversy not only in economics, but also in sociology, history and political science. The number and qu... -
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Modeling Rational Agents
Nicola Giocoli
The book explores the evolution, through the first half of the 20th century, of the key neoclassical concept of rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Natural Resource Accounting and Economic Development
Edited by Charles Perrings, Jeffrey R. Vincent
In this important book some of the world’s leading scholars in environmental economics explore the theoretical and empirical problems to be solved if policymakers are to develop accounts to capture the sustainability of economic developm... -
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Innovation and the Growth of Cities
Zoltán J. Ács
This new and original book by Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at the regional level, and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow but others decline. While the analysis draws ...eBook:Find out more$58.36
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The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2002/2003
Edited by Tom Tietenberg, Henk Folmer
The literature and research on environmental and resource economics has exploded in recent years. This major annual publication provides a cutting-edge survey of current research by the leading experts in the field. -
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Restructuring the Welfare State
Virpi Timonen
What happens to extensive and generous welfare states when they are faced with serious economic crisis and the effects of globalization? This thorough analysis of the processes of social policy restructuring in two Nordic welfare states ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Analysis of Regional Trading Arrangements
Edited by Richard Pomfret
A feature of the global economy over the last half-century has been the proliferation of regional trading arrangements (RTAs) and the ongoing debate over the relationship between regionalism and multilateralism. The economic analysis of ...