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Privatization and Labor
Edited by Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Linda J. Cook
During the last decade, privatization, understood here as the transfer of state-owned enterprises to the private sector, has become a widespread phenomenon among formerly socialist and mixed economies. It has been touted as a quick route... -
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Public Procurement
Edited by Sue Arrowsmith, Keith Hartley
Public procurement is big business. International organisations and governments at national, regional, state and city levels are major buyers of goods and services. However, public procurement is a relatively under-researched and new dis... -
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Copyright in the Cultural Industries
Edited by Ruth Towse
Several of the authors question the efficacy of copyright, which is increasingly regarded as benefiting multinational organisations rather than individual authors and performers. Others are less critical of copyright per se, but question...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Ethics and the Economics of Minimalist Government
Timothy P. Roth
Because it is technically flawed and morally bankrupt, the author argues, the economist’s consequence-based, procedurally detached theory of the state has contributed to the growth of government. As part of the Kantian–Rawlsian contracta...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Intellectual Property
Edited by Ruth Towse, Rudi Holzhauer
This authoritative four-volume collection presents the most important published articles and papers on the economics of intellectual property – a subject that is of increasing interest to both economists and lawyers. Publication is timel... -
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Entrepreneurs and the Transformation of the Global Economy
Anthony Patrick Ellison
Anthony Ellison cuts through conventional neo-classical interpretations to expose the indispensable contribution of entrepreneurs in driving the market process and, in particular, in accomplishing the deregulation of the transportation, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Utility Regulation and Competition Policy
Edited by Colin Robinson
In this book, the latest volume in the annual series published in association with the London Business School and the Institute of Economic Affairs, some of the main issues in UK and EU utility regulation and competition policy are discu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Maritime Transport
Edited by Mary R. Brooks, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
This important volume brings together an authoritative selection of the leading papers on the subject of maritime transport. With a new introductory essay by the editors, the collection provides a thorough examination of the topics assoc... -
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Creativity, Incentive and Reward
Ruth Towse
Creativity is crucial to the Information Age economy. It is the basis of production in the cultural industries. In this excellent book, Ruth Towse provides an analysis of the interaction between creativity, the law, and markets for cultu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of the Third Way
Edited by Philip Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer
The ‘third way’ is a term often used by politicians and others to indicate a set of new policies adopted by former social democratic parties throughout the world. This book is an attempt to dissect the ideas and economic theory behind th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Anticompetitive Impact of Regulation
Edited by Giuliano Amato, Laraine L. Laudati
This timely book addresses the important issue of the negative effects of anticompetitive regulation on industry and the massive economic harm it causes. The distinguished contributors, including economic and legal scholars, advocate the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Competition
Edited by Jack High
Competition follows the development of the idea, as an analytical tool and also as a policy ideal, from Adam Smith through the marginal revolution to the modern concept of perfect competition. The editor’s original introductory essay sho...
