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Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law
Edited by Cynthia L. Estlund, Michael L. Wachter
This Research Handbook assembles the original work of leading legal and economic scholars, working in a variety of traditions and methodologies, on the economic analysis of labor and employment law. In addition to surveying the current ...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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Strategic Public Private Partnerships
David J. Maurrasse
This timely book addresses contemporary and future dynamics of collaboration, combining public, private, and nongovernmental resources at a time when global concerns – ranging from economic insecurity to environmental threats to chronic ...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Environmental Justice and Federalism
Dennis C. Cory, Tauhidur Rahman, Satheesh Aradhyula, Melissa Anne Burns, Miles H. Kiger
The authors discuss two case studies in their investigation of the complex interactions between environmental justice and government. These analyses offer a comprehensive view of both the siting and regulation of polluting activities, as...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Household Sustainability
Chris Gibson, Carol Farbotko, Nicholas Gill, Lesley Head, Gordon Waitt
The authors engage critically, and constructively, with the proposition that households are a key scale of action on climate change. They confront dilemmas of practice and circumstance, and cultural norms of lifestyle and consumerism tha...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility
Edited by Moshe Givoni, David Banister
The transport sector has been singularly unsuccessful in becoming low carbon and less resource intensive. This book takes an innovative and holistic social, cultural and behavioural perspective, as well as covering the more conventional ...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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A World in Emergence
Allen J. Scott
Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Economic Futures of the West
Jan Winiecki
Jan Winiecki explores the various problems that the West must deal with in order to remain an efficient competitor in the world economy. These, he argues, are primarily consequences of the ever-expanding welfare state; consequences that ...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Changing Behaviours
Rhys Jones, Jessica Pykett, Mark Whitehead
Changing Behaviours charts the emergence of the behaviour change agenda in UK based public policy making since the late 1990s. By tracing the influence of the behavioural sciences on Whitehall policy makers, the authors explore a new ps...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Finance in an Age of Austerity
Johnston Birchall
This is a book in search of an alternative to the discredited investor-owned banks that have brought the rich countries into crisis and the world economy into a long period of austerity. It finds customer-owned banks – credit unions, co-...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Economic Growth in an Open Developing Economy
A. P. Thirlwall
This concise yet insightful sequel to the highly acclaimed The Nature of Economic Growth provides a comprehensive critique of both old and new growth theory, highlighting the importance of economic growth for reducing poverty.eBook:Find out more$34.36
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Handbook of Research on Venture Capital: Volume 2
Edited by Hans Landström, Colin Mason
This Handbook charts the development of venture capital research in light of the global financial crisis, starting with an analysis of the current venture capital market and the changing nature of the business angel market. Looking at g...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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The Economics of Services
Jan Owen Jansson
Despite the fact that services have overtaken industry in terms of employment and GDP in developed countries, rigorous economic study of the service sector remains seriously neglected. The first edition of The Economics of Services initi...eBook:Find out more$43.96