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Incentives to Improve Education
Robert McMeekin
Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers), competition (educational choice, often in the form of payment for education by voucher) and threats (introduction of ex... -
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Global Climate Change
Edited by James M. Griffin
This volume is written for policymakers and informed citizenry who want to understand at a general level the complexities of global climate change without becoming enmeshed in technical minutia. The introduction emphasizes the core fact ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Moral Leadership in Action
Edited by Heidi von Weltzein Hoivik
The contributions collected in this volume mirror the plurality of approaches we find in the theoretical writings of academics in different European countries. The additional business cases from six different nations show how leaders act...eBook:Find out more$58.36
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![The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan]()
The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
Christopher M. Dent
Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan – East Asia’s newly industrialised economies (the NIE-3) – experienced a profound development transformation over recent decades. Christopher Dent makes a comparative study of their foreign economic poli... -
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The Distribution of Tax Burdens
Edited by Don Fullerton, Gilbert E. Metcalf
The Distribution of Tax Burdens brings together for the first time the most important published papers on tax incidence written in the past 50 years. The editors, two leading scholars in public finance, have written an authoritative intr... -
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The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics
Edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus
This authoritative and comprehensive reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of law and economics. The Companion features accessible, informative and provocative entries on all th... -
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The Economic Valuation of the Environment and Public Policy
Noboru Hidano
The importance of the hedonic valuation approach in public policy evaluation and environmental value estimation is now widely accepted. This book is especially designed to illustrate the basic assumptions of the hedonic approach and high...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Budget Deficits
Edited by Charles K. Rowley, William F. Shughart II, Robert D. Tollison
The Economics of Budget Deficits provides a comprehensive overview of the scholarly literature exploring the causes and consequences of deficit spending and the public debt. Incorporating classical, Keynesian and public choice analyses o... -
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Measurement and Meaning in Economics
Deirdre N. McCloskey, Stephen T. Ziliak
This essential book collects together, for the first time, the writings of Deirdre McCloskey on economic history and the rhetoric of economics. The essays have been presented to show McCloskey’s evolution over time: from economist to cr... -
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International Environmental Policy
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Aynsley Kellow
The Kyoto Protocol has singularly failed to shape international environmental policy-making in the way that the earlier Montreal protocol did. Whereas Montreal placed reliance on the force of science and moralistic injunctions to save th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Cost–Benefit Analysis
Edited by Arnold C. Harberger, Glenn P. Jenkins
Cost–Benefit Analysis presents an authoritative collection of the most important published articles in the field together with an extensive new introduction by the editors. Whilst focusing on the practical side, looking at applications s... -
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Governing Telecommunications and the New Information Society in Europe
Edited by Jacint Jordana
European countries have recently been involved in an extremely broad set of regulatory changes to introduce competitive markets into the area of telecommunications. New policies to develop the information society in Europe are also emerg...eBook:Find out more$40.00
