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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (12)
  • 1995-1999  (12)
  • 1930-1934
  • Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing  (12)
  • Wirtschaft  (7)
  • Bibliografie  (6)
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  • 1
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035303939
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 206 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics series
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Lee, Terence Richard Water management in the 21st century
    DDC: 333.91/009172/4
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    Keywords: Wasserversorgung ; Wasserpolitik ; Wasserwirtschaft ; Deregulierung ; Privatisierung ; Industrieländer ; Entwicklungsländer ; Water-supply Economic aspects ; Water utilities Deregulation ; Privatization ; Water-supply Economic aspects ; Water utilities Deregulation ; Privatization ; Twenty-first century Forecasts ; Water-supply Economic aspects ; Water utilities Deregulation ; Privatization ; Water-supply Economic aspects ; Developing countries ; Water utilities Deregulation ; Developing countries ; Privatization Developing countries ; Twenty-first century Forecasts ; Water-supply Management ; Water-supply Forecasting ; Bibliografie ; Wasserwirtschaft ; Ressourcenallokation ; Zukunft ; Wasserversorgung
    Abstract: The challenge to manage the allocation of water efficiently and equably will become a dominant theme of the new millennium. At a time when the cost of obtaining fresh water is rising throughout the globe, Terence Lee analyses the means for establishing and operating effective water markets. He proposes the application of economic instruments and the transfer of water management administration to the private sector as a means to guarantee acceptable water quality in the future in both developed and developing countries. This treatment of water as an economic commodity implies a change in the traditional role of governments in water management. The themes explored in this book will be of interest to environmental and resource economists as well as practitioners and policymakers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Confronting the scarcity of water -- 2. Institutional approaches towards water management -- 3. Allocating water among competing users -- 4. Private participation in water management -- 5. Regulation -- 6. Water management and the challenges of the 21st century -- Index.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781035303670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 263 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Tisdell, Clement A., 1939 - 2022 Biodiversity, conservation and sustainable development
    DDC: 333.95/16
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Artenvielfalt ; Umweltökonomik ; Naturschutz ; Naturschutzgebiet ; Theorie ; China ; Welt ; Asien ; Nature conservation Economic aspects ; Sustainable development ; Biodiversity conservation Economic aspects ; Nature conservation Case studies Economic aspects ; Sustainable development Case studies ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umweltschutz ; Wirtschaft ; Problem ; Biodiversität ; Umweltverträglichkeit ; Artenschutz ; Naturschutz ; Fallstudie ; Asien ; China ; Indien ; Asien ; Naturschutz ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: This important book highlights the conflicts between economic growth and the conservation of nature in the context of sustainable development. It places particular emphasis on biological diversity and examines possible policies for resolving conflicts which arise from the contrasting goals of conserving the natural environment and economic growth. The book opens with an overview of the challenges of economics, nature conservation and sustainable development and goes on to discuss general principles and broad policies. Case studies from China and north-east India help illustrate important economic and social principles involved in nature conservation. General issues examined include: * the value of environmental and resource economics in planning sustainable development * the importance of biodiversity conservation for sustainable development and for the stability and sustainability of ecological systems * the impact of economic globalization and market systems on the conservation of nature * priorities for the financial support of protected areas * the extent to which ecotourism can be harnessed to reconcile economic utilisation of an area with nature conservation * the costs and benefits of conservation * financing the management of nature reserves This book will be essential reading for economists interested in the environment, ecology and development
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: An overview -- 1. Economics, nature conservation and sustainable development: An overview -- Part II: General principles and policies -- 2. Environmental and resource economics -- 3. Conservation of biodiversity -- 4. Biodiversity, stability and sustainability -- 5. Does the commercial use of wildlife favour conservation of biodiversity? -- 6. Conservation, protected areas and the global economic system -- 7. Ranking requests for financial support for protected areas -- 8. Ecotourism, economics and the environment -- Part III: Experiences and cases from Asia -- 9. The environment and Asian economic development -- 10. Economics of in situ biodiversity conservation in China -- 11. Reconciling economic development, nature conservation and local communities -- 12. Tourism development and conservation of nature -- 13. Agricultural pests and protected areas -- 14. Financing nature reserves in China -- 15. Sustainable development and biodiversity conservation in north-east India in context -- Part IV: Concluding observations -- 16. Nature conservation and development in retrospect -- Index.
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  • 3
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035303779
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 202 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Global money, capital restructuring and the changing patterns of labour
    DDC: 331.12
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    Keywords: Arbeitsmarkt ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit ; Investition ; Kapital ; Globalisierung ; Arbeitsteilung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Labor market Congresses ; Saving and investment Congresses ; Money Congresses ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Geld ; Kapitalbewegung ; Bibliografie ; Konferenzschrift 1997 ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Geldmarkt ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: The last two decades have seen a reshaping of the international economy together with a radical weakening in the conditions of the working class. New productive techniques and methods in the organization of labour have been implemented on a world-wide scale partly as a consequence of the financialization of capital. The geographical diffusion of market relations has continued and with it the dominance of capital in all realms of social reproduction. In charting this change, the book offers an alternative view of contemporary capitalism. It has been suggested that we are entering a new phase where the 'globalization' of economic activities is fully achieved, where 'post-Fordist' regulation has overcome the crisis of Keynesian capitalism, and where the dominant tendency is towards the 'end of work'. In contrast to this view, the authors of this book argue that current internationalization is not a structure, but a contradictory process and that new patterns in the division of labour while successful in increasing the pressure over workers have not been able to supersede Fordism entirely. They conclude that the slow growth of the economies, caused by neoliberal economic policies, is a crucial factor in explaining unemployment and the fragmentation of labour
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. After fordism, what? Capitalism at the end of the century -- 2. Structural unemployment in the crisis of the late twentieth century -- 3. Which Europe do we need now? which can we get? -- 4. Britain under 'new labour' -- 5. The euro and Europe's labour -- 6. The accumulation process in Japan and east Asia as compared with the role of Germany in European post-war growth -- 7. Historical notes on the rise and fall of fordism and flexible accumulation in the United States -- 8. Lean production in North America -- 9. Management-by-stress and skilled work -- 10. Is technical change the cause of unemployment? -- 11. Intensive and extensive investment, employment and working time in the European Union -- 12. The transformation of the Italian labour market -- 13. Changing patterns in the division of labour and in the segmentation of the labour force -- Index.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781035303977
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 155 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Beard, Thomas Randolph Economics, entropy and the environment
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas ; Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas ; Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas ; Entropie ; Thermodynamischer Ansatz ; Bioökonomik ; Theorie ; USA ; Economists ; Environmental economics ; Entropy ; Human ecology ; Economists United States ; Environmental economics ; Entropy ; Human ecology ; Bibliografie ; Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas 1906-1994 ; USA ; Wirtschaftswissenschaftler ; Umweltökonomie ; Humanökologie
    Abstract: This extraordinary book provides a critical review of the work of Nicholas Georgesçu-Roegen in conventional economics, environmental economics and methodology. Particular attention is paid to the role of thermodynamics in Georgesçu-Roegen's economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword by herman e. Daly -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nicholas georgesçu-roegen: A scholarly refugee -- 3. Georgesçu-roegen's epistemology and economic methodology -- 4. Georgesçu-roegen and "normal science" -- 5. An economist's primer on thermodynamics -- 6. Thermodynamics and georgesçu-roegen's economics -- 7. Bioeconomics -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- References -- Index.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781781959817
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 417 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Bioeconomics and sustainability
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Bioökonomik ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Thermodynamischer Ansatz ; Entropie ; Ressourcenökonomik ; Theorie ; Environmental economics ; Sustainable development ; Economics ; Human ecology ; Entropy ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas 1906-1994 ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Umweltökonomie ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas 1906-1994 ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas 1906-1994 ; Umweltökonomie ; Biologische Umweltlehre ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was described by Paul Samuelson as 'an economist's economist'. This book honors him by discussing his theories on a wide range of issues but particularly on environmental and energy economics. It is a dynamic tribute which extends his work to address the problems the human race will face in the 21st century. The book shows how Georgescu-Roegen constructed nothing less than an almost complete theoretical alternative to neoclassical economics. Although best-known for his later work as an environmentalist and his work on energy and material transformation, Georgescu-Roegen also made seminal contributions to the economic theory of utility and production and is considered to be one of the founders of modern mathematical economics. In this book an internationally acclaimed group of contributors including Joan Martinez-Alier, William H. Miernyk, Herman Daly and Cutler Cleveland present discussions on environmental and energy economics as well as mathematical economics, economic development and peasant economies, and bioeconomics. This book serves as an excellent all-inclusive introduction to the work of one of the great economists of the 20th century. This celebration of the contributions made by Georgescu-Roegen will be of interest to environmental and natural resource economists, as well as social and economic theorists. With a dedication by Wassily Leontief and a foreword by Paul Samuelson
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword by Paul Samuelson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How long can neoclassical economists ignore the contributions of Georgescu-Roegen? -- 3. From political economy to political ecology -- 4. Georgescu-Roegen's evolutionary economics -- 5. Economic growth theory and the georgescu-roegen paradigm -- 6. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's approach to economic value -- 7. Georgescu-Roegen on consumer theory -- 8. Biophysical economics -- 9. From agrarianism to entropy -- 10. Embodied energy analysis, Sraffa's analysis, Georgescu-Roegen's flow-fund model and viability of solar technology -- 11. Production and time -- 12. A theory of resilient flow-fund linkages -- 13. The passage from entropy to thermodynamic indeterminacy -- 14. Biophysical roots of 'enjoyment of life' according to Georgescu-Roegen's bioeconomic paradigm -- 15. The role of entropy and energy in natural resource economics -- 16. Five conditions for sustainable living systems -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781035303502
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 354 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Global environmental change and agriculture
    DDC: 338.1/4
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    Keywords: Klimawandel ; Umweltbelastung ; Welt ; Landwirtschaft ; Global environmental change ; Climatic changes ; Agriculture Environmental aspects ; Environmental auditing ; Bibliografie ; Landwirtschaftsentwicklung ; Klimaänderung
    Abstract: Global Environmental Change and Agriculture offers a comprehensive perspective on the causes, consequences and possible policy solutions for climatic change as we move into the twenty-first century. It assesses the impact of potential future global climate change on agriculture and the need to sustain agricultural growth for economic development. The book begins by examining the role of international research institutions in overcoming environmental constraints on sustainable agricultural growth and economic development. The authors then discuss how agricultural research systems may be restructured to respond to global environmental problems such as climate change and loss of genetic diversity. The discussion then extends to consider environmental accounting and indexing, to illustrate how environmental quality can be included formally in measures of national income, social welfare and sustainability. The third part of the book focuses on the effects of and policy responses to climate change. Chapters examine the effect of climate change on production, trade, land use patterns and livelihoods. They consider impacts on the distribution of income between developed and developing countries and between different social classes within the developing world, where agriculture remains a major economic activity. Authors take on an economy-wide perspective to draw lessons for agricultural, trade, land use and tax policy. This book will be of special interest to agricultural, development and environmental economists as well as policy analysts in government and at international agencies confronting practical problems of environmental and economic assessment
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Global environmental change: Implications for agricultural research systems -- 2. Research systems for sustainable agricultural development -- 3. Agricultural diversity: Do we have the resources to meet future needs? -- Part II: Environmental accounting and Indexing -- 4. Environmental distortions and welfare consequences in a social accounting matrix framework -- 5. Environmental accounting and agriculture -- 6. Vulnerability of crops to climate change: A practical method of Indexing -- Part III: Climate change: Adaptation and mitigation -- 7. Assessing research on the impacts of climate change on agriculture -- 8. Climate change and agriculture: Effects on developing countries -- 9. Climate change, world agriculture and land use -- 10. Carbon abatement: Lessons from second-best economics.
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  • 7
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035303724
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 284 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: International studies in environmental policy making
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von International competitiveness and environmental policies
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Competition, International ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaft ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Umweltpolitik
    Abstract: Government policies to reduce environmental pollution and global warming are often criticized as damaging to the economy, particularly by reducing international competitiveness. This book addresses the issue by examining many of the policies concerned, and their effects on competitiveness. It demonstrates that well-designed, market-oriented environmental policies may be expected to improve both domestic and international competitiveness. The authors dismiss the fear that environmental policies will damage competitiveness by approaching the issue from four different perspectives: the economic analysis of competitiveness; a geo-economic approach to trade and foreign investment between Europe, NAFTA and Southeast Asia; studies of the effects of environmental policies on competitiveness; and the formal modelling of carbon taxation, international competitiveness and carbon leakage. The book also includes results from a global econometric model on the potential for carbon leakage, a detailed case study of German national policies, an examination of life cycle analysis and competitiveness, and an empirical study of green product development. This book will be of great interest to academics working in the field of environmental economics and researchers involved in environmental policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction / (T. Barker and J. Köhler) -- Part I: Reviews of the literature -- Part II: Macroeconomic simulations -- Part III: Economic analyses of countries and firms -- Index.
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  • 8
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035303649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 521 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in the economics of innovation
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Grupp, Hariolf, 1950 - 2009 Foundations of the economics of innovation
    DDC: 338/.064
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Messung ; Wirtschaftsindikator ; Schätztheorie ; Wirtschaftsforschung ; Theorie ; Technological innovations ; Wirtschaft ; Theorie ; Technologie ; Innovation ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Mikroökonomie ; Makroökonomie ; Wirtschaft Theorie ; Technologie ; Innovation ; Technologische Entwicklung ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung ; Mikroökonomie ; Makroökonomie ; Technological innovations ; Technische Innovation ; Wirtschaftstheorie
    Abstract: This important new book presents the theoretical, econometric and applied foundations of the economics of innovation as well as offering a new approach to the measurement of technical change. The author, a leading expert in innovation economics and management, critically reviews current schools of thought and presents his own contribution to measurement techniques. Measurements of technical change have focused on the characteristics of price and quantity whilst useful theories and reliable indicators of the quality of innovation in new products have been sorely lacking. The author examines the theoretical foundations of the measurement of technical change and extends the analysis to consider the econometric and empirical perspective in the process of innovation. He outlines the key contributions to innovation research by reviewing the English-language literature and providing a very useful guide to the most important contributions in other languages. In the measurement of the quality of innovation, the techniques used in the author's contribution to new 'technometrics' are presented and explained in detail and are applied to the most important topical problems in innovation and management. This significant addition to the literature will be invaluable to graduates, scholars and managers working in the area of technical change, technology and innovation management
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Innovation theory: Status and problems -- Partii: Measurement of innovation -- Part III: Practice: Exemplary problems in innovation analysis -- Part IV: Outlines and outlook -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-504) and index
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9781035303434
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 187 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Economics for environmental policy in transition economies
    DDC: 333.7/09438
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Umweltökonomik ; Systemtransformation ; Osteuropa ; Ungarn ; Environmental economics ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Environmental economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Ungarn ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirtschaft ; Osteuropa ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirtschaftliche Betrachtungsweise ; Ungarn ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: This book offers original economic analyses on the economy-environment relationship in Eastern and Central Europe. Drawing on the Hungarian experience, it provides empirical evidence on the reform of environmental policy which can be applicable to similar problems in other transition economies. The macroeconomic shocks of the transition process in Central and Eastern Europe have been exceptional in both their intensity and speed. The implications of this adjustment process are examined in relation to their effects on environmental policy, with special emphasis on the rethinking of standard environmental policy recommendations for transition economies. The authors focus on a variety of issues including the environmental concerns raised by the privatization process and to what extent the less rigorous environmental regulations in Hungary attract foreign direct investment. There is also a critical overview of the existing literature and an examination of the costs of reducing air pollution and the use of the contingent valuation method to measure the economic benefits of improving air quality in Hungary. In addition the authors assess the effects of industrial restructuring on emissions and analyse incentive-based policy measures including prospects for emission trading. Their conclusions challenge the common perception that energy pricing policy is the most important policy measure to induce structural changes in transition economies that are beneficial to the environment. Economics for Environmental Policy in Transition Economies will be of interest to policymakers, academics and postgraduates working in the fields of transition economics, environmental economics and environmental valuation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Environmental and economic reforms in the central and eastern European transitional economies / (M.A. Toman) -- 2. Direct impacts of industrial restructuring on air pollutant and hazardous waste emissions in Hungary / (P. Kaderják and Á. Csermely) -- 3. Environmental impacts of industrialization in Hungary / (E. Páczi and P. Kaderják) -- 4. Cheap environmental services in Hungary: How attractive are they for foreign investors? / (P. Kaderják) -- 5. Practical experience, international agreements and the prospects for emission trading in cee / (G. Klaasen) -- 6. The cost of alternative policies to reduce so2 emission in Hungary: A case for the power sector / (P. Kaderják and Z. Lehoczki) -- 7. Empirical benefit estimates for improving air quality in Hungary / (J. Powell, P. Kaderják and F. Verkoijen) -- 8. Economics for environmental policy in the central eastern European transformation: How are the context and textbook prescriptions related? / (P. Kaderják) -- Index.
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  • 10
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781800886483
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 215 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Skousen, Mark, 1947 - Puzzles and paradoxes in economics
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftstheorie ; Theorie ; Economics ; Microeconomics ; Macroeconomics ; Finance ; Marketing ; Paradox ; Puzzles ; Beispielsammlung ; Volkswirtschaftslehre ; Puzzle ; Paradoxon ; Wirtschaft ; Paradoxon
    Abstract: Economics is full of puzzles and paradoxes that often frustrate and challenge everyone, including economists. This engaging book includes fifty puzzles and focuses on three types of paradox. First, everyday observations that appear to belie common sense (such as, why do some supermarket items sell for more per ounce in larger sizes?). Secondly, those paradoxes which have perplexed economists in the past but have since been fairly resolved (such as, the diamond-water paradox). Finally, empirical or conceptual anomalies that remain unresolved and present a challenge to today's economists (such as the voting paradox). Fifty puzzles and paradoxes are analysed in a clear framework. Examples include: the fairness of market wages, the alleged gold absurdity, Giffin goods and the Irish potato famine, the paradox of thrift, the supposed perversity of Wall Street, the leisure paradox, why the best Washington apples are shipped out of state (the Alchian-Allen theorem), the question of whether teachers are underpaid, whether studying economics makes people immoral and whether war is good for the economy. This original and unusual book will have a wide appeal, ranging from the lay person with an interest in everyday economic puzzles, to the student and teacher wishing to develop their understanding of some of the paradoxes that have existed and continue to exist in economics. It will serve as an ideal source for teachers who want to challenge their students with unusual economic problems
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Cases and concepts -- 1. The adam smith paradox -- 2. The diamond-water paradox -- 3. The water problem -- 4. The case of the fourth egg -- 5.profiting from pants -- 6. The price of quality -- 7. The rationality and risk puzzle -- 8. Gold's backward wupply curve -- 9. The positive sloping demand curve? -- 10. The leisure paradox -- 11. The price discrimination dilemma -- 12. A hot vacation spot -- 13. The rare case of a giffen good? -- 14. The case of the costly catsup -- 15. The mail order question -- 16. The businessman's query -- 17. Are teachers underpaid? -- 18. The pollution puzzle -- 19. Are market wages fair? -- 20. The highly valued occupation nobody wants -- 21. The stock market puzzler -- 22. Apples and the alchian-allen theorem -- 23. The perfect-market puzzle -- 24. The starvation of buridan's ass -- 25. Does studying economics make one immoral? -- 26. The savers' dilemma -- 27. Keynes's banana plantation -- 28. Producing cars that don't sell -- 29. The feckless forecast and policy purveyor puzzle -- 30. The growing but declining gap puzzle -- 31. The perpetual poverty puzzle -- 32. The paradox of thrift -- 33. The gold absurdity -- 34. The wager over wages -- 35. The voting behaviour puzzle -- 36. The voting paradox -- 37. A taxing debate -- 38.the blessings of destruction -- 39. The interest rate dilemma -- 40. The population puzzler -- 41. The efficiency versus equality puzzle -- 42. The national debt: Asset or liability? -- 43. The leontief paradox -- 44. The perversity of wall street -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035306008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 402 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Blaug, Mark, 1927 - 2011 Not only an economist
    DDC: 330
    Keywords: Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Bildungsökonomik ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Kulturökonomik ; Theorie ; Economics History ; Competition History ; Economics Methodology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Blaug, Mark 1927-2011 ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Methodologie ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftstheorie
    Abstract: Mark Blaug has with good reason been described as the most widely read economist of his generation. He has made important contributions to economic history, cultural economics, the history of economic thought, the methodology of economics and the economics of education. Not Only an Economist reflects the wide range of Professor Blaug's interests and includes new and recent work on Adam Smith, Hayek and Keynes and studies in methodology, as well as new contributions to the economics of education. These are supplemented by essays arguing the economic case for subsidies to the arts. The book concludes with a selection from the one hundred book reviews that he has written over the years
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: History of economic thought -- Part II: Methodology of economics -- Part III: Economics of education -- Part IV: Cultural economics -- Part V: Book reviews -- A. History of economic thought -- B. Methodology of economics -- C. The economics of education -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303045
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 488 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Environmental policy with political and economic integration
    DDC: 363.7/0094
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Umweltpolitik ; Föderalismus ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Environmental policy ; Environmental policy ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Umweltpolitik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Umweltschutz ; Wirtschaft ; Problem ; Recht ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Außenhandel ; Internationales Umweltrecht ; Internationaler Umweltschutz ; European Union countries Economic policy ; United States Economic policy 1993-2001 ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; USA ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Europäische Union ; USA ; Integration ; USA ; Europäische Union ; Umweltpolitik ; Integration ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: Which level of government is most appropriate for environmental policy making in a confederal or federal system? How does the level of government at which policy is made and implemented affect the choice of policy instruments? This important new volume addresses these problems by comparing environmental policies and practices in the European Union and the United States. In Environmental Policy with Political and Economic Integration, a distinguished group of authors discusses how environmental policy in a federal or confederal system may differ both in theory and practice from that found in a unitary government system. After examining the framework for environmental policy in the EU and US, the authors present papers on their federal institutions, the economic forces affecting environmental governance, the choice of policy instruments, linkages between trade and environmental policy and environmental regulations within international trade negotiations. The final part brings together a series of case studies which sheds new light on the research questions formulated earlier in the book. Issues discussed include the regulation of agricultural pollution, global warming, ozone pollution and environmental security. In addition to its detailed discussion of environmental policy in the EU and the US, Environmental Policy with Political and Economic Integration will be essential reading for both scholars and policymakers concerned with designing and implementing regulations to protect the environment
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction / (J.B. Braden, H. Folmer, T.S. Ulen) -- Part I: the economic and philosophical foundations of environmental policy / (C.W. Howe, E.T. Freyfogle) -- Part II: the law and economics of authority in a federal system / (J.E. Pfander, P. Shapiro) -- Part III: the political economy of instrument choice / (K. Segerson, R. Pethig) -- Part IV: international trade and environmental policy / (C. Ford Runge, A. Ulph) -- Part V: Case studies of comparative environmental policies -- Section a: Agricultural pollution / (W. Brussard, M.R. Grossman, J.S. Shortle) -- Section b: Global warming / (L. Bergman, C.D. Kolstad) -- Section c: Tropospheric ozone pollution / (J.B. Braden, S. Proost) -- Section d: Environmental dimensions of national and international security / (K.H. Butts, S. Dalby) -- Index.
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