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  • 2000-2004  (200)
  • Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing  (200)
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    Corporate governance in Russia (2004)
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    ISBN: 9781781958216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (448 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Corporate governance in Russia
    DDC: 338.6/0947
    Keywords: Corporate governance
    Abstract: Given the past decade of abuse of shareholder rights, corporate governance is essential for Russia's future. In this comprehensive volume, an international group of contributors - academics, corporate executives, government officials, policymakers, specialists from nongovernmental organizations, and legal experts - examine the crucial role of corporate governance as well as the external institutions and forces that affect it. Offering coverage from numerous perspectives, the contributors explore external and institutional influences on corporate governance, its workings within corporations, and the relationships between boards of directors, managers, shareholders, and the government. Case studies of three major companies illustrate the challenges and opportunities involved in creating sound practices. The concluding section provides a summary of the current situation and discusses implications for the future of Russia's corporate governance. A valuable source of information, Corporate Governance in Russia is a must-read for business people, government officials, academic researchers, students, and all those interested in Russia and what the future holds
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I. The political, economic, and cultural context of corporate governance -- 1. The emergence of corporate governance in Russia / Sheila M. Puffer and Daniel J. McCarthy -- 2. Corporate Governance in Russia: A Framework for Analysis / Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer -- 3. View From the Duma: An Interview with Sergey Generalov / Sergey Generalov and Stanislav V. Shekshnia -- 4. Troika Dialog's Ruben Vardanian on Corporate Governance and Attracting Investment / Sheila M. Puffer, Stanislav V. Shekshnia and Daniel J. McCarthy -- 5. Changes and Challenges in Regulating Corporate Governance / Igor V. Kostikov and Igor V. Belikov -- 6. Corporate Governance in a Cultural Context / Anatoly V. Zhuplev and Vladimir Shein -- Part II. Implementing corporate governance in Russian corporations -- 7. Corporate governance and business education / Abel G. Aganbegyan -- 8. A Strategic Approach to Improving Corporate Governance / Ruth C. May -- 9. The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Developing Corporate Governance Practices / James Gillies, Rein Peterson and Alina Pekarsky -- 10. Private Enterprise Owners and Corporate Governance / Andrey Mikhaylenko -- 11. Roles, Responsibilities, and Independence of Boards of Directors / Stanislav V. Shekshnia -- 12. Challenges of Implementing Transparency and International Accounting Standards / Alexey Zheltov -- 13. The Impact of Information Technologies on Corporate Governance / Nikolai Ermochkine -- 14. Privatization: Buy-outs, Corporate Governance Abuses, and Challenges / Mike Wright, Trevor Buck and Igor Filatotchev -- Part III. Company cases -- 15. VimpelCom: From Start-up to the New York Stock Exchange / Stanislav V. Shekshnia and Augie K. Fabela II -- 16. Ilim Pulp Battles a Hostile Takeover / Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer -- 17. Yukos and Mikhail Khodorkovsky: An Unfolding Drama / Bruce W. Bean -- Part IV. The future of corporate governance in Russia -- 18. Russia's Corporate Governance Scorecard in the Enron Era / Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer -- 19. Corporate Governance: Is There a Village Behind the Facade? / Richard N. Dean -- 20. Corporate Governance in Russia: Towards a European, US, or Russian Model? / Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer -- Index.
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    Economic learning, experiments and the limits to information (2004)
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    ISBN: 9781035305162
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 199 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 330/.072/4
    Keywords: Economics Study and teaching
    Abstract: It is only relatively recently that economists have begun to realise the importance of learning and study the impact it can have on social outcomes. This book provides an in-depth experimental analysis of current models and methods of adaptive learning in economics. It focuses on environments in which there is little information available, thus promoting the use of basic psychological concepts to model behaviour. The author describes in detail and compares, via simulations, a large number of behavioural models, ranging from early psychological concepts to recently proposed rules. He also reports on a number of experiments using novel designs and highly sophisticated cutting-edge statistical techniques for data analysis. A separate chapter exhaustively deals with the use of measures of predictive success and shows how to avoid common pitfalls when comparing different learning models. Significantly, the author is able to identify serious flaws in current modelling techniques which will undoubtedly improve existing experimental methodology and inspire the search for new and better models to accurately measure the learning process. This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of how uncertainty is implemented in economic experiments and to behavioural theory in general. It will prove a valuable companion for academics of game theory, experimental economics and economic learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction to learning -- 2. Introduction to little information -- 3. Models of adaptive learning -- 4. Related experimental literature -- 5. A preliminary experiment -- 6. The global-game experiment -- 7. The value of information -- 8. Measurement of predictive success -- 9. Discussion and outlook -- Appendix a. Instructions for the experiment on mutual fate control -- Appendix b. Data of the experiment on mutual fate control -- Appendix c. Accordance with experimentation learning in the mutual fate control game -- Appendix d. Instructions for the global-game experiment -- Appendix e. Definition of the starting round of coordination -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-198) and index
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    Citizenship and management in public administration : integrating behavioral theories and managerial thinking (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781957721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 317 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 351
    Keywords: Citizenship ; Organizational behavior ; Public administration ; Civil service
    Abstract: Citizenship and Management in Public Administration is an exciting journey into the nexus between two separate but close worlds: citizenship orientations and citizenship behavior as reflected in political science theory on one hand, and organizational sciences, work studies, management, and public administration on the other. The authors have combined theoretical thinking with empirical findings to support their theories, and the data presented has been collected over almost a decade of field studies and surveys of public organizations. Dealing with the nature and meaning of citizenship, this book looks at behavior and involvement in modern public worksites. The interdisciplinary studies are all concerned with achieving better integration of the theories and ideas on citizenship and bureaucracies, which are more frequently treated as independent domains in the social sciences. However, the authors suggest that they are closely related and should be analyzed in relation to one another. This unique book will appeal to academics of management and organizational behavior, public administration and those involved in researching the not-for-profit, or third, sector
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Theoretical and conceptual framework of citizenship and work in public administration -- Foreword -- 1. Citizenship behavior and the new managerialism: A theoretical framework and challenge for governance -- 2. From responsiveness to collaboration: Governance, citizens, and the next generation of public administration -- Part II: Citizenship involvement and the workplace -- Foreword -- 3. An empirical assessment of the relationship between general citizenship and work outcomes -- 4. The growth value of good citizenship: An examination of the relationship between civic behavior and orientations and work outcomes -- 5. Politics and the workplace: An empirical examination of the relationship between political behavior and work outcomes -- Part III: Organizational citizenship behaviors in public domains -- Foreword -- 6. Do good citizens make good organizational citizens? An empirical examination of the relationship between good citizenship and organizational citizenship behavior in Israel -- 7. Internal politics in public administration systems: An empirical examination of its relationship with job congruence, organizational citizenship behavior and in-role performance -- 8. Work congruence and excellence in human resource management: Empirical evidence from the Israeli non-profit sector -- Part IV: Dilemmas and new directions in the study of citizenship and modern bureaucracies -- Foreword -- 9. Are you being served? The responsiveness of public administration to citizens' demands: An empirical examination in Israel -- 10. The role of public sector image and personal characteristics in determining tendency to work in the public sector -- 11. Administrative agents of democracy? An empirical examination of the relationship between public sector performance and citizenship involvement -- Conclusions -- Index.
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    Ethics and organisational politics (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 320 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 174.4
    Keywords: Business ethics ; Office politics ; Corporate culture
    Abstract: Organisational politics raises important theoretical and practical questions: what obligations of loyalty do I have to my organisation, or to friends and colleagues? How honest should I be in what I say and in the impressions I give? This path-breaking book confronts these and other such questions. In doing so, it examines dilemmas that many people face daily. The book suggests that there is no routine or automatic way to approach such issues, but that widely accepted ethical principles can often help us deal with them, if we bear in mind some basic points about people's behaviour in organisations. The book avoids undue technicality. Although informed by philosophical discussions of abstract ethics, its argument is based on detailed and systematic analysis of examples in organisational settings. The focus is on addressing ethical issues of practical importance for people who work in organisations. The book will especially interest scholars involved with research and teaching in business ethics, and other areas of applied ethics. Practitioners in management will also find that the book addresses many real concerns. Academics in a number of other areas ranging from general management to moral philosophy and social theory may also find points to consider
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Issues and processes -- 1. Politics, definitions and ethics -- 2. Human nature, behaviour and ethics -- Part II: Dilemmas, loyalties and authority -- 3. Ethics, prudence and politics -- 4. Authority and norms in organisations -- 5. Legitimacy, consent and fairness -- 6. Individuals, groups and loyalties -- Part III: Communication, expectations and obligations -- 7. Ethics and judgement -- 8. Communication, influence and ethics -- 9. Impression management and reality -- 10. Influence, expectations and legitimacy -- 11. Groups and positions -- 12. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index
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    The economics of staging the Olympics : a comparison of the games, 1972-2008 (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781008690
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 332 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Preuß, Holger, 1968 - The economics of staging the Olympics
    DDC: 338.4/379648
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    ZX 6900
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    QR 568
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    ZX 5020
    Keywords: 1972-2008 ; Sportökonomik ; Großveranstaltung ; Vergleich ; USA ; Olympics Economic aspects ; Olympics Finance ; Olympics History ; Olympische Spiele ; Beschäftigung ; Finanzierung ; Tourismus ; Volkswirtschaft ; Investitionsprogramm ; Preisniveau ; Geschichte 1972-2004 ; Olympische Spiele ; Wirtschaftliche Betrachtungsweise ; Geschichte 1972-2008
    Abstract: The Olympic Games is a unique event centering global interest on its host city. The financing of the Games has changed dramatically since Munich (1972) and economic interests and effects are increasingly paramount. It is therefore an anomaly that accurate economic analysis and comparison is not readily available. This is the most detailed study on the economic implications of recent and future Olympic Games over four decades. Holger Preuss analyses the most important issues surrounding the hosting of the Olympics, and its wider economic effects, including: * financial gigantism of the Olympic Games * commercialisation and its control * problems associated with achieving the Olympic requirements and standards * the economic legacy of Olympic Games * the feasibility of developing countries staging future Olympic Games * detailed post Olympic analysis of financial figures * conclusions on the economic related achievements of respective Organising Committees. Academics and researchers of sports economics, international economics, international business and competition will all find this fascinating book of great value. The rigorous and authoritative analysis ensures valuable information will be available for future bid cities, and in a wider context, any city planning to bid for a major sporting event. It will also appeal to those interested in the broader context of the Olympic Games and concerned by their commercialisation and gigantism
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface / by Jacques Rogge -- Foreword / by Holger Preuss -- 1. Introduction: The situation of modern cities and the olympic games -- 2. Methodology: Justifications for use -- 3. Financing of the games: Interests, winners and losers -- 4. Growth and financial gigantism: The scale of the olympic games -- 5. Technique of measuring: The economic impact of olympic games -- 6. Tourism and exports: The sleeping giants -- 7. Investments and the reconstruction of a city: Burdens and opportunities -- 8. The great source of income: Revenues of the ocog -- 9. The flip side of the coin: Expenditures of the organizing committee -- 10. Jobs, jobs, jobs: Great opportunities or flash in the pan? -- 11. The olympic aftermath: Price increases and economic legacy -- 12. Reflections: The olympics today and the challenge for future hosts -- References -- Index.
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    The leadership dilemma in modern democracy (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304554
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 136 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in leadership studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.3/4
    Keywords: Political leadership ; Democracy
    Abstract: In one of the first attempts to link the expanding field of leadership studies with classic works in political theory, Kenneth Ruscio places the study of political leadership squarely within the field of democratic thought and argues that claims about the legitimate duties and responsibilities of leaders depend upon claims about principles of democracy. It is impossible to imagine effective democracies without effective leaders. Yet leaders are often seen as the problem democratic governance is designed to solve, not the solution. Through a careful but lively critique of some of the classic works in modern democratic thought - from Machiavelli to Locke and from The Federalist Papers to Rawls - The Leadership Dilemma in Modern Democracy explains what is meant by effective political leadership in a system and culture of government where the power and discretion of leaders are severely limited. A compelling and provocative study, this volume will be of interest to scholars of leadership studies, political scientists, democratic theorists, and all those interested in concepts of democracy and the challenges faced by leaders
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: The dilemma of leadership and democracy -- 1. Why democratic theory is essential for leadership theory -- 2. The road to public reason -- 3. Locke's prerogative, jay's pirouette: Why trust still matters in contemporary democratic leadership -- 4. On disney, presidents, and the problem of the parts and the whole -- 5. Public and private interest: The development of an idea -- 6. Madison's fears and aspirations -- 7. The 'parts and the whole' in contemporary times -- 8. Conclusion: Is good politics bad leadership? -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Investment strategies in emerging markets (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781956465
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 371 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in international business
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Investment strategies in emerging markets
    DDC: 332.67/3/091724
    Keywords: Investments, Foreign ; Investments, Foreign ; Investments, Foreign ; Investments, Foreign ; Egypt Economic policy ; India Economic policy ; South Africa Economic policy ; Vietnam Economic policy
    Abstract: Foreign investment has surged across emerging markets. This unique comparative study presents the first systematic evidence on the entry mode, business environment and their interrelationships in emerging markets. It integrates strategic management and economic policy analysis, and provides new insights for both business managers and government policymakers. The book investigates foreign direct investment (FDI) strategies in four important emerging economies: Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam. These countries liberalized their economies in the 1990s with the intention of attracting greater FDI inflows. This book assesses whether they have been successful in achieving this goal. The authors adopt a comparative perspective, and use a large enterprise survey plus three individual case studies in each country. They investigate the strategies of foreign direct investors, focusing on the relationship between the investment climate, the mode of entry (acquisition, greenfield or joint venture), company performance, and spillovers to the host economy. The book outlines how the interactions between international businesses and the local policy environment influence the entry strategies of firms. Academics and researchers with an interest in international business, emerging markets, economic development and strategic management will find this book informative and insightful
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Investment strategies in emerging markets: An Introduction to the research project -- 2. Foreign direct investment in Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam: Comparative empirical results -- 3. Foreign direct investment in Egypt -- 4. Egyptian case studies -- 5. Foreign direct investment in India -- 6. Indian case studies -- 7. Foreign direct investment in South Africa -- 8. South African case studies -- 9. Foreign direct investment in Vietnam -- 10. Vietnam case studies -- 11. Conclusions for management research -- 12. Conclusions for economic policy -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-352) and index
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    Agriculture in the new global economy (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781782542285
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 201 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Coleman, William D., 1950 - Agriculture in the new global economy
    DDC: 338.1
    Keywords: Agriculture Economic aspects ; Globalization ; International trade
    Abstract: Agriculture in the New Global Economy examines the extent to which the political economy of agriculture and the food chain is being transformed by globalisation. This book highlights the important changes that have taken place in the agriculture and food system with the spread of globalisation to this traditionally local sector. Structural change and emerging technologies have contributed to this transformation, which has extended to the political environment in which agriculture operates. The authors identify four paradigms that have characterised the governance of agriculture: a traditional dependent-agriculture paradigm; a neo-liberal competitive paradigm; a multifunctional paradigm; and an emergent globalised-production paradigm. The tensions among these paradigms are developed with reference to evidence from the United States and Canada, the EU, Australia, Japan and the Global South. The book analyses the controversy over genetic modification of foodcrops, developments in agricultural trade policy at the multilateral and regional levels, changing national food policy systems, and emerging global governance arrangements for the sector. Illustrating contemporary policy debates using both theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence, this book will appeal to academics, researchers and students specialising in political science, environmental studies, agricultural economics, management and food policy. The book will also be of interest to government practitioners in agriculture and environment departments as well as international organisations such as the EU, FAO and WTO
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic globalisation: Changing patterns of trade, industry structure and farming -- 3. Technology and political resistance -- 4. The globalisation of ideas -- 5. Globalisation, regionalisation and trade rules -- 6. A transnational policy space: The actors -- 7. A transnational policy space: Structure -- References -- Index.
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    Electricity reform in China, India and Russia : the World Bank template and the politics of power (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305063
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 359 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Xu, Yi-Chong, 1951 - Electricity reform in China, India and Russia
    DDC: 333.793/2/095
    Keywords: Electric utilities Government policy ; Electric utilities Government policy ; Electric utilities Government policy
    Abstract: Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self's 'natural rights' against others' moralistic and political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of 'social justice'. Timothy Roth argues that the liberal enterprise ignores Kant's 'two points of view', confuses Kantian autonomy with moral and political license, mistakes utilitarian impersonality for impartiality, and takes no account of the indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs. In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points of view' inform the conservative's constitutive political position and animate the consequence-detached, explicitly normative work of the conservative, constitutional political economist. He shows that, unlike modern liberalism, conservatism is grounded in Kant's 'two points of view', that utilitarian social welfare theory cannot be instrumental to the achievement of social justice, and that constitutional political economy is conservative economics. Economists interested in political economy, methodological issues, social welfare theory, public choice theory, or the moral foundations of economics will find much of interest in this thought-provoking volume. Political scientists interested in the philosophical foundations of modern liberalism and conservatism will also want to add this title to their library
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. The first-person self: The liberal's view -- 2. Derivative political positions -- 3. Equal treatment, natural rights, and social justice -- 4. Liberalism's utilitarian connection -- 5. The first-person self: The conservative's view -- 6. Derivative political positions -- 7. Toward a conservative economics -- 8. A postscript on law -- References -- Index.
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    Agricultural policy reform and the WTO : where are we heading? (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 648 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Agricultural policy reform and the WTO
    DDC: 338.1/81
    Keywords: World Trade Organization Congresses ; Agriculture and state Congresses ; Produce trade Congresses ; Agriculture and state Congresses ; Produce trade Congresses
    Abstract: Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO provides insights into the effects of the Uruguay Round WTO agreement on agricultural policy and global markets, and considers what is at stake in the Doha Development Agenda Round. The contributors to the book deal with a broad range of topics, including the evolution of domestic and trade policies in the last ten years across developed and developing countries and proposals made in the agricultural negotiation regarding market access, export subsidies and domestic support; new issues emergent in agricultural trade negotiations are also explored, including: * interaction between national regulatory systems and the deepening integration of the international trade regime * intellectual property rights protection * food safety * quality regulations * antidumping trade protection. Finally, the future of international trade relations is discussed, in particular the implications of enforcing domestic regulations to comply with international rules. This rich collection of research and analysis will be invaluable to researchers, academics and policymakers with an interest in agricultural policy analysis and international economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Agricultural policy reform: Past present and future -- Part I: Agriculture and agricultural policy changes ten years after the uruguay round -- Part II: The three pillars of the WTO negotiations on agriculture -- Part III: Agricultural trade relations, WTO negotiations on agriculture and the developing world -- Part IV: The WTO and the future of international trade relations -- Index.
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    The economics of standards : theory, evidence, policy (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305155
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 368 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Blind, Knut, 1965 - The economics of standards
    DDC: 330
    Keywords: Standardization Economic aspects
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the important topic of standards, which remains a vastly under-researched field of empirical inquiry. It presents a variety of interesting empirical analyses which reveal the driving forces and the economic impacts of standardization both in the manufacturing and the service sector. The author begins by providing a detailed outline of the various types of standards and their possible economic impacts. Before providing empirical validation of the theoretical arguments, he discusses the influence of standards within the regulatory system. Among the other actors in the standardization process, the author focuses in particular on the role of the firm, which acts as the main impetus for the development and implementation of new standards. He also examines the fundamental link between technical change and standardization, to assess whether this relationship is a virtuous or vicious cycle. In this context, the impact of intellectual property rights within standardization is also highlighted. Another significant aspect is the consequences of standards for trade and their role in fostering or inhibiting international trade flows. Finally, the author investigates the effect on macroeconomic growth where, especially in the new economy, formal standards are a crucial source of codified and publicly available knowledge. The analysis is based on extensive microeconomic, sectoral and macroeconomic data, which allows the author to compare the various economic impacts of standards and derive important policy conclusions. This book is a comprehensive and scholarly treatment of the economics of standards which will undoubtedly inspire further research in the field. It will be required reading for industrial economists, R&D managers and policymakers involved with innovation and trade policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. General Introduction -- Part I: The economic impacts of standards: theory -- 2. Introduction to Part I -- 3. A classification of standards by their economic effects -- 4. Specific economic impacts of standards -- Part II: The supply side of regulation: Definitions, legal implications and institutional framework of standards -- 5. Introduction to Part II -- 6. Definitions -- 7. Legal implications of formal standards -- 8. Institutional framework for the elaboration of formal standards -- Part III: The demand for standardization at standardization development organizations -- 9. Introduction to Part III -- 10. Theoretical hypotheses concerning the driving forces of standardization activities -- 11. Test of the sectoral model -- 12. Special focus: The impact of intellectual property rights on the propensity to standardize at standardization development organizations -- 13. Empirical test at the firm level -- 14. The role of standards in the service sector -- Part IV: The economic impacts of standards: Empirical evidence -- 15. Introduction to Part IV -- 16. The relationship between technical change and standardization: Virtuous or vicious circle? -- 17. The impact of technical standards on foreign trade -- 18. The macroeconomic impacts of innovation and standardization -- 19. Overall summary, future research and policy considerations -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index.
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    Human capital, trade, and public policy in rapidly growing economies : from theory to empirics (2004)
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    ISBN: 9781782542001
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 300 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Human capital, trade, and public policy in rapidly growing economies
    DDC: 330.95
    Keywords: Human capital Congresses ; East Asia Congresses Economic conditions ; East Asia Congresses Commerce ; East Asia Congresses Foreign economic relations ; East Asia Congresses Economic policy
    Abstract: Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today exhibits a predilection for perpetual self-improvement. In particular, the book focuses on the forces underlying long-lasting growth in East Asia's Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs). Drawing from the experiences of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, it questions whether public policy can contribute to removing barriers towards accumulation of wealth, and if so, what development policy should be put in place to remedy the existing distortions or market failure problems. Theoretical and empirical analyses are also used to broach other important issues, such as: * Why do some economies experience growth while others decline? * What are the major determinants of long-term growth and development? * Is human capital the main driving force? * Does international trade play a crucial role? This book will appeal to those with an interest in development and public policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction: A quick reference to growth theory -- Part I: Human capital -- 2. Market structure and innovation revisited: Endogenous productivity, training and market shares -- 3. Human capital formation and patterns of growth with multiple equilibria -- 4. On the relationship between fertility and public education in different stages of development -- 5. Productivity growth and catch-up in less-developed economies -- Part II: Trade -- 6. Total factor productivity and the catching-up process -- 7. Indeterminacy in a dynamic general equilibrium model of international trade -- 8. Evaluating the quantitative effects of import restrictions - an almost neoclassical benchmark -- 9. Innovation in a shrinking world -- Part III: Public policy -- 10. Long-run effects of financial policy in an endogenously growing economy -- 11. Credit rationing, public borrowing and endogenous growth -- 12. Government expenditure and social status in a two-sector model of endogenous growth -- 13. Economic growth and the environmental kuznets curve in Taiwan: A simultaneity model analysis -- Index.
    Note: A collection of original papers, the majority presented at the International Conference on Economic Growth held at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, in December 2000 , Examines the forces underlying economic growth in the East Asian newly industrialized countries of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    China's telecommunications market : entering a new competitive age (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304387
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 pages)
    Series Statement: Advances in Chinese economic studies series
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Lu, Ding, 1957 - China's telecommunications market
    DDC: 384/.041/0951
    Keywords: Telecommunication
    Abstract: Before the 1990s, China's telecommunications sector was a lacklustre monopoly featured by poor-quality service and inadequate capacity. Today the country boasts a dynamic telecommunications industry with the world's largest communications network and user-base with over 460 million telephone subscribers. China's accession to the WTO in 2001 has opened this huge developing telecommunications market to foreign participation and investment. The authors examine the singularity of the Chinese experience in building up its extensive telecommunications network in merely a decade, by reviewing China's national industrial policies and institutional reforms within the industry. The reader will find in this volume a unique and in-depth analysis of the interplay between political and economic forces amidst the industry's structural overhaul and regulatory reforms. The accounts of industrial features and market conditions are enriched with up-to-date data, which are extremely useful for appreciating the development and prospects for this fast-growing market, set against the backdrop of China's accession to the WTO. Scholars of China or Asian studies and researchers of information-communications industry and Asian/China studies will find this work of great interest, as will governmental policymakers, both in China and beyond. For foreign business practitioners eyeing this market, this volume provides a helpful guide to understand China's various interests and public welfare considerations that motivate changes in policies towards foreign investment and participation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Foreword / by Hajime Oniki -- 1. A great leap forward to the information age -- 2. Behind the hyper growth -- 3. Opening of a mega market -- 4. Forming a regulatory framework -- 5. The impact of China's WTO membership -- 6. New developments and prospects -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Macroeconomics in retrospect : the selected essays of David Laidler (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (456 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Laidler, David E. W., 1938 - Macroeconomics in retrospect
    Keywords: Macroeconomics History
    Abstract: David Laidler is one of the leading scholars in the history of economic thought and macroeconomics. This important collection brings together nineteen of his essays on topics in the history of macroeconomics. It begins with a paper on Adam Smith and ends with a discussion of the implications of Newclassical economists' ideas on the role of economic ideas in conditioning agents' activities. Other chapters deal with the major themes developed by monetary economists in the intervening years. Two of the essays appear in their current form for the first time, and several others are reprinted from difficult-to-obtain sources. They should be of interest not just to historians of economic thought, but also to economists more generally
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Adam smith as a monetary economist -- 2. Rules, discretion and financial crises in classical and neoclassical monetary economics -- 3. Two views of the lender of last resort: Thornton and bagehot -- 4. Thomas tooke on monetary reform -- 5. Alfred marshall and the development of monetary economics -- 6. From bimetallism to monetarism: The shifting political affiliation of the quantity theory -- 7. Monetary explanations of the weimar republic's hyperinflation: Some neglected contributions in contemporary German literature -- 8. Variations on a two-interest-rate theme -- 9. The austrians and the stockholm school: Two failures in the development of modern macroeconomics? -- 10. Hawtrey, harvard, and the origins of the chicago tradition -- 11. More on hawtrey, harvard and chicago -- 12. Wage and price stickiness in macroeconomics: An historical perspective -- 13. What was new about liquidity preference theory? -- 14. Radcliffe, the quantity theory, and monetarism -- 15. Hicks's later monetary thought -- 16. The emergence of the phillips curve as a policy menu -- 17. Some aspects of monetarism circa 1970: A view from 1994 -- 18. The legacy of the monetarist controversy -- 19. The role of the history of economic thought in modern macroeconomics -- Index.
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    Innovation in technology alliance networks (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305223
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 139 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Lemmens, Charmianne E. A. V., - 1975- Innovation in technology alliance networks
    DDC: 338.8/7
    Keywords: Strategic alliances (Business) ; Business networks ; High technology industries
    Abstract: This book studies the dynamics of alliance group formation in technology-based networks. The author attempts to develop the concept of alliance blocks from a social network perspective, and explores the relationship between alliance block membership and innovative performance in a changing technological environment. The book demonstrates that as an alliance network grows, the likelihood of alliance block formation also increases. The author presents evidence that pursuing a block membership strategy favourably affects innovative performance. This is true for conditions of both cumulative and disruptive technological change. However, over time the technology profiles of alliance block members tend to become more similar, which can eventually lead to a reduction in innovative activity. She also reveals that, when compared to their non-member counterparts, firms in alliance blocks are likely to apply for more patents, hold more central positions in the network, have larger revenues and undertake more R&D intensive research. In addition, they are also inclined to originate from an Asian background. This is the first book to propose a well-developed theoretical framework, supported by empirical evidence, to explain alliance block formation processes and their effect on innovative performance. As such, it fills a substantial gap in the literature on competitive rivalry among alliances, an increasingly important area of research. It will be essential reading for academics and practitioners in the fields of industrial organization, strategic management, technological alliances, competition and innovation studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction to the study -- 2. Definitions, data and methodology -- 3. The enabling effect of embeddedness -- 4. The constraining effect of embeddedness -- 5. Alliance block members: Who are they? -- 6. The innovative performance of block members -- 7. Technological change and performance of block members -- 8. Discussion and conclusions -- 9. Summary -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-136) and index
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    Financial intermediation in the new Europe : banks, markets, and regulation in EU accession countries (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 377 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Financial intermediation in the new Europe
    DDC: 332.1/78
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Intermediation (Finance) ; Monetary policy ; Europe Economic integration
    Abstract: What role will the current evolution of banking systems play in the newly adopted EU countries during the historic challenges following enlargement? This book, a blend of economics and political economy, offers a systematic analysis of the current trends in financial intermediation in the countries of the newly enlarged Europe, with particular focus on those policies taken by foreign banks on the one hand, and by regulatory and supervisory authorities on the other. The authors argue that their research has led to one conclusion; in order to enter the EU, the accession countries needed to increase the efficiency of their economic systems rapidly through liberalization and privatization. The book assesses whether the presence of foreign banks will contribute to long term economic growth and financial stability, and how the architecture of banking regulations and supervision should be designed. As a multidisciplinary work, though principally economics, the book will appeal to scholars and academics of politics and law. It also has particular relevance for regulators and supervisory institutions, as well as professionals including bankers, financial operators and also legal compliance officers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Intermediation, firms and financial markets -- 1. Banking industry in central and eastern Europe: The unexpected leader in the transition and integration with the EU -- 2. Deepening financial intermediation in the new Europe: The role of banks -- 3. Financial structures and private sector development in the new Europe -- 4. Financial risk in accession countries -- Part II: Foreign banks -- 5. Who needs foreign banks? -- 6. New Europe banking: The role of international players -- 7. Financial intermediation in accession countries: The role of foreign banks -- 8. Foreign banks and financial stability in the new Europe -- 9. Eastern passages for Italy's banks and industrial districts: Are the two related or independent? -- Part III: Regulation, supervision and monetary policy -- 10. Financial regulation in the new Europe -- 11. Single authority in financial markets supervision: Lessons for EU enlargement -- 12. Deposit insurance in the new Europe -- 13. Interest rate pass-through in EU acceding countries: The case of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland -- Index.
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    Economic integration and multinational investment behavior : European and East Asian experiences (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305117
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 457 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in international business
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Economic integration and multinational investment behaviour
    DDC: 332.67/3/094
    Keywords: Investments, Foreign ; Investments, Foreign ; Europe Economic integration ; East Asia Economic integration
    Abstract: This book presents important and original studies of international trade and investment in relation to regional economic integration, with particular reference to the experiences of Europe and East Asia. The distinguished contributors illustrate and explain how the location decisions of firms, international trade and capital flows can form, stimulate and shape economic regions in the global economy. The authors address several important themes including: * the factors which determine the location choices of multinational firms * location decisions of multinational firms in relation to their global performance * the growing importance of East Asia as a recipient zone for foreign direct investment * the impact of foreign direct investment on Asian host countries * the role of trade and investment in regional economic integration. Economic Integration and Multinational Investment Behaviour will be welcomed by researchers with an interest in economic geography, international economics and business, European and East Asian studies, and globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Location decisions and the global performance of firms -- Part II: Foreign direct investment and economic development of recipient countries -- Part III: International trade and investment in regional economic integration -- Index.
    Note: "Chapters in this volume were originally presented ... at the international conference 'Location of economic activity, regional development and the global economy--European and East Asian experiences' held at ... the University of Le Havre (France) on 26-27 September 2001"--Preface , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    The economic impacts of population ageing in Japan (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304943
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 239 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: ESRI studies series on ageing
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The economic impacts of population ageing in Japan
    DDC: 330.952
    Keywords: Aging Economic aspects ; Mathematical models ; Age distribution (Demography) Economic aspects ; Mathematical models ; Population forecasting ; Economic forecasting ; Japan Population ; Economic aspects
    Abstract: Whilst all of the major industrialized countries are currently experiencing population ageing, Japan is at the forefront of this demographic trend. This important new book explores the serious economic and social challenges that a rapidly ageing Japanese economy will have to overcome in the first half of the 21st century. Following a comprehensive review of the economics of ageing both in general and in Japan, the authors present a range of future scenarios produced using an integrated economic-demographic model. This unique model integrates demography and the macro-economy, paying special attention to pensions, health care, and long-term care. The results reveal that, even if future demographic trends are more favourable than predicted, Japan will still experience a slowdown of economic growth, reduced savings, and rising costs of pensions, health care and long-term care. However, with appropriate policy measures and rapid implementation, the authors believe that a situation in which both young and old continue to experience long-term improvements in well-being remains possible. This book is arguably the best available English language survey on the economic implications of population trends in Japan. It will be widely read by researchers of economics, demography, public policy and public finance, and will also provide useful supplemental reading for graduate or upper undergraduate courses in economics, social policy, and Asian studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The economics of population ageing -- 2. Population ageing in Japan -- 3. An economic-demographic simulation model for Japan -- 4. Economic impacts of alternative demographic scenarios -- afterword -- References -- Index.
    Note: "In association with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)." , Includes bibliographical references , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Location, travel and information technology : selected essays of Peter Nijkamp, volume 3 (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304929
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (448 pages)
    Series Statement: Selected essays of Peter Nijkamp volume 3
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Nijkamp, Peter, 1946 - The selected essays of Peter Nijkamp ; Vol. 3: Location, travel and information technology
    Keywords: Regional planning ; Space in economics ; Emigration and immigration
    Abstract: This important book collects together Peter Nijkamp's work on spatial-economic markets, particularly housing and labour markets, and the increasing impact of information technology on mobility and the location of firms, residents and job seekers. The first part deals with applied modelling and theoretical advances in housing market dynamics and research. The papers address issues such as the implications of household dynamics for relocation decisions, migration movements in Europe, and the driving forces for migration decisions of ethnic groups. The second part focuses on the spatial labour market, dealing with recruitment channel and search channel choices by job seekers and firms, vacancy durations and the opportunities offered by ethnic entrepreneurship for improving the chances of ethnic groups. The third part comprises an analysis of spatial mobility flows and interaction patterns and the final part emphasises the scope and effect of information technology in transport. This includes the effect of real-time information on the behaviour of car drivers, the effect of telematics devices on public transport users, the importance of telematics for the freight transport sector and the adoption mechanisms of ICT users and their related policy implications. This collection will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in the housing and labour markets and the impact on both of developments in IT and transport
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Housing markets and migration -- 1. A household life cycle model for residential relocation behaviour -- 2. Spatial moving behaviour of two-earner households -- 3. Residential search and mobility in a housing market equilibrium model -- 4. International migration in Europe: Overcoming isolation and distance friction -- 5. Ethnic entrepreneurship and migration: A survey from developing countries -- Part II: Labour markets and firms -- 6. Recruitment channel use and applicant arrival: An empirical analysis -- 7. Search channel use and firms' recruitment behaviour -- 8. Vacancy dynamics and labour market efficiency in the dutch labor market -- 9. On the endogeneity of output in dynamic labour-demand models -- 10. In search of ethnic entrepreneurship opportunities in the city: A comparative policy study -- Part III: Mobility and spatial interaction -- 11. Job moving, residential moving, and commuting: A search perspective -- 12. Time pioneers and travel behavior: An investigation into the viability of 'slow motion' -- 13. Analysis of travellers' satisfaction with transport chains -- 14. Estimation of alonso's theory of movements by means of instrumental variables -- 15. A comparative analysis of the performance of evolutionary algorithms and logit models in spatial networks -- Part IV: Transport and information technology -- 16. Variable message signs and radio traffic information: An integrated empirical analysis of drivers' route choice behaviour -- 17. Advanced telematics for travel decisions: A quantitative analysis of the stopwatch project in southampton -- 18. Telematics and freight transport: A dutch case study -- 19. Policy support strategies for the adoption of information and communications technology -- Index.
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    General equilibrium, capital and macroeconomics : a key to recent controversies in equilibrium theory (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781008300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 375 pages) , illustraitons
    Series Statement: New directions in modern economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Petri, Fabio, 1949 - General equilibrium, capital and macroeconomics
    DDC: 339.5
    Keywords: Equilibrium (Economics) ; Capital ; Macroeconomics
    Abstract: This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very-short-period versions, has had very important consequences which are insufficiently appreciated by large parts of the economics profession. This shift has produced new difficulties, and has undermined central tenets of neoclassical macroeconomic theory (such as the negative dependence of aggregate investment on the interest rate, or the existence of a downward-sloping demand curve for labour) which had their basis in the long-period versions where capital was treated as a single factor. According to the author, what makes it difficult to appreciate these consequences is the current imperfect grasp of the long-period method (an approach common to classical and to the first generations of neoclassical economists, but nowadays often confused with steady-growth analysis). The origins of this problem date back to the 1930s, and to this day still obscure the history and the logic of the neoclassical approach. The book explains the analytical differences between long-period, steady-growth, and short-period general equilibrium analyses, and proves that on this basis considerable clarification can be achieved, not only in many aspects of the history of economic theory, but also in fundamental issues in the theories of value, distribution, capital, investment, employment and money. For example, the reasons for the disagreements in the 'Cambridge controversies' over capital theory become very apparent. This stimulating critique on the present state of economic theory will appeal to academics and researchers with an interest in macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, and the theory of value and distribution. It will also enlighten and inform anyone wanting to understand the reasons behind the current dissatisfaction with neoclassical economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The long-period method -- 2. The problematic relationship between neo-walrAsian equilibrium analyses and real economies -- 3. Long-period equilibria -- 4. Must long-period equilibria be stationary? With initial observations on investment -- 5. Walras, the shift to neo-walrAsian equilibria, and some confusions -- 6. Reswitching and reverse capital deepening -- 7. Capital theory and macroeconomics i: The theory of aggregate investment -- 8. Capital theory and macroeconomics ii: The labour demand curve -- 9. Summary of the critical argument, and sketch of an alternative approach -- References -- Index.
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    The new knowledge economy of Taiwan (2004)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 283 pages) , illustrations
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    Keywords: Information technology Economic aspects ; Knowledge economy
    Abstract: Taiwan, once one of the world's leading manufacturing economies, is now transforming into a service economy, with an emphasis on knowledge-based services. This metamorphosis has not been easy. As well as major changes in the industrial sector, human resource and policy development have been required, the experiences and implications of which are addressed in this book. Although Taiwan is only in the initial stage of transition from a material- or capital-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, the process has already provided valuable lessons to be learnt. The ramification of transformations in manufacturing, agriculture, finance, services, and the information technology industry are examined and discussed. Tain-Jy Chen and Joseph S. Lee go on to reveal the problems and difficulties that Taiwan has encountered in creating itself a new knowledge based economy, including its outmoded service sector, the inability of businesses to pursue global production and services, and the lack of capacity to create knowledge and to innovate. Providing a discernible insight into the transformation of one of the most prominent newly industrialized countries into a knowledge-based economy, this book will greatly appeal to academics, researchers, and those with a specific interest in knowledge management or Asian economies, as well as to economic analysts
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The challenges of the knowledge-based economy -- 2. Taiwan's responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century -- 3. The role of the government in a knowledge-based economy -- 4. The transformation of Taiwanese agriculture -- 5. The transformation of traditional manufacturing industries -- 6. The road to financial globalisation -- 7. The globalisation of business in Taiwan -- 8. Taiwan's knowledge-based service industry -- 9. Us semiconductor patents granted to Taiwan, south Korea and Japan -- 10. Knowledge intensification in Taiwan's it industry -- 11. The changing economic matrix between Taiwan and China -- Index.
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    Competition and corporate governance in Korea : reforming and restructuring the Chaebol (2004)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 278 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 338.095195
    Keywords: Corporations Finance ; Corporate governance ; Corporations Government policy ; Competition
    Abstract: The business environment of the chaebol (large corporations in Korea) has changed drastically since the outbreak of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This book discusses the attempts of the Korean government to remedy structural weaknesses in the corporate sector by launching an aggressive chaebol reform package, supported by the IMF and other international agencies. Its main objective was to restore competitiveness in the corporate sector and to upgrade business conditions to that of international practices and standards. Competition and Corporate Governance in Korea critically reviews government policy towards the chaebol and provides a comprehensive investigation of the relationship between corporate governance and economic performance as well as the interaction of economic institutions with the chaebols' incentive structure and management behaviour. Policy implications based on objective and rigorous empirical analyses of data on the chaebol are also discussed. Notwithstanding the fact that the chaebol have already undergone considerable governance, capital, and business portfolio restructuring, this volume suggests a road map for further restructuring, and the creation of a new incentive structure to help strengthen chaebol competitiveness. This richly informative book will appeal to academics and researchers of industrial organization, economics and corporate reform as well as those involved in Asian studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Government and chaebols: Institutional perspectives -- 1. The chaebol, corporate policy and korea's development paradigm -- 2. An alternative perspective on government policy towards the chaebol in korea: Industrial policy, financial regulations and political democracy -- Part II: Corporate governance and chaebol reform -- 3. Corporate governance and chaebol reform in korea -- 4. The monitoring role of financial institutions in the korean corporate sector -- 5. Restructuring and corporate governance of the korean chaebol -- Part III: Chaebol restructuring policy and its evaluation -- 6. Chaebol restructuring revisited: A coasian perspective -- 7. Government-led restructuring of firms' excess capacity and its limits: Korean 'big deal' case -- Part IV: Chaebol business structure and survival strategies -- 8. The evolution and restructuring of diversified business groups in emerging markets: The lessons from chaebols in korea -- 9. Portfolio restructuring based on strategic relatedness between businesses: A suggestion for the chaebol -- Index.
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    Innovation, space and economic development (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035306138
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
    Series Statement: Selected essays of Peter Nijkamp volume 1
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Nijkamp, Peter, 1946 - Selected essays of Peter Nijkamp ; Vol. 1: Innovation, space and economic development
    Keywords: Space in economics ; Regional planning ; Economic development
    Abstract: This collection brings together Peter Nijkamp's work in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, growth and spatial development. The first part comprises work of a theoretical nature and addresses issues such as the micro-economic foundation of spatial development, the relevance of spatial innovation and urban incubation theory, the role of network growth, policy and the importance of novel evolutionary perspectives for understanding regional economic dynamics. The second part focuses attention on empirical macro and meso dimensions of economic development, dealing inter alia with the economic growth impact of public policy, the local factors critical for successful innovation, the importance of networks for regional growth and the implications of the rational expectations paradigm for industrial dynamics. The third part focuses on empirical micro-studies of economic performance and the final part emphasises the scope and effect of public policy for spatial-economic performance, including policies for ICT, regional development, urban sustainability and learning capabilities. This collection will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in regional science, innovation studies, entrepreneurship and economic development
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Theory -- 1. Spatial perspectives on new theories of economic growth -- 2. Endogenous production of r&d and stable economic development -- 3. Spatial dispersion of technological innovation: A review -- 4. Entrepreneurship in a modern network economy -- 5. Resilience: An evolutionary approach to spatial economic systems -- Part II: Macro and regional studies -- 6. Growth effects of governmental policies: A comparative analysis in a multi-country context -- 7. Local opportunities and innovative behaviour: A meta-analytic study of European cities -- 8. Spatial dynamics and government policy: An artificial intelligence approach to comparing complex systems -- 9. Regional variations in production network externalities -- 10. Industrial dynamics and rational expectations in a spatial setting -- Part III: Micro studies -- 11. Information use and company performance: An application to the retail electrical appliances sector -- 12. Entrepreneurship and innovation in the sme sector -- 13. Investment expectations of entrepreneurs: An empirical analysis at the firm level -- 14. A flow approach to industrial sites, firm dynamics and regional employment growth: A case study of amsterdam-north -- Part IV: Policy -- 15. Information-communications technologies (ict) and transport: Does knowledge underpin policy? -- 16. A comparative industrial profile analysis of urban regions in western Europe: An application of rough set classification -- 17. A meta-analytical evaluation of sustainable city initiatives -- 18. Comparative regional policy impact analysis: Ex post evaluation of the performance of the European regional development fund -- 19. The learning capabilities of regions: Conceptual policies and patterns -- Index.
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    Equality, rights, and the autonomous self : toward a conservative economics (2004)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 168 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Roth, Timothy P., 1943 - Equality, rights and the autonomous self
    DDC: 174
    Keywords: Free enterprise Moral and ethical aspects ; Libertarianism Moral and ethical aspects ; Conservatism Moral and ethical aspects ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects
    Abstract: Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self's 'natural rights' against others' moralistic and political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of 'social justice'. Timothy Roth argues that the liberal enterprise ignores Kant's 'two points of view', confuses Kantian autonomy with moral and political license, mistakes utilitarian impersonality for impartiality, and takes no account of the indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs. In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points of view' inform the conservative's constitutive political position and animate the consequence-detached, explicitly normative work of the conservative, constitutional political economist. He shows that, unlike modern liberalism, conservatism is grounded in Kant's 'two points of view', that utilitarian social welfare theory cannot be instrumental to the achievement of social justice, and that constitutional political economy is conservative economics. Economists interested in political economy, methodological issues, social welfare theory, public choice theory, or the moral foundations of economics will find much of interest in this thought-provoking volume. Political scientists interested in the philosophical foundations of modern liberalism and conservatism will also want to add this title to their library
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. The first-person self: The liberal's view -- 2. Derivative political positions -- 3. Equal treatment, natural rights, and social justice -- 4. Liberalism's utilitarian connection -- 5. The first-person self: The conservative's view -- 6. Derivative political positions -- 7. Toward a conservative economics -- 8. A postscript on law -- References -- Index.
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    Industrial districts : a new approach to industrial change (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781782544005
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 199 pages) , map
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Becattini, Giacomo, 1927 - 2017 Industrial districts
    DDC: 338.6/042
    Keywords: Industrial districts
    Abstract: This remarkable book outlines the historical framework and the main concepts of the literature on industrial districts. It illustrates a new approach to the study of industrial development, based on well-known industrial districts analysis. Giacomo Becattini has written an authoritative volume which, starting with the theory of districts, explores key aspects of contemporary capitalism. The book concludes that industrial districts are not a provisory phenomenon but a variant of the capitalist mode of production, where financial relationships are relatively less important, and inter-human ones play an unusually important role. Such is the basis for their specific competitive advantage. Academics, politicians and students interested in local development and also industrial development will find much to learn in Industrial Districts, as will industrial geographers and historians of industry and of economic thought
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword: An invitation to read by brian loasby -- Introduction -- Part I: From the 'sector' to the 'district' -- 1. From the industrial 'sector' to the industrial 'district': Some remarks on the conceptual foundations of industrial economics -- 2. The marshallian industrial district as a socioeconomic notion -- 3. The industrial district as a creative milieu -- 4. Local systems and global markets (with enzo rullani) -- 5. From marshallian to Italian 'industrial districts': A brief critical reconstruction -- 6. Measuring the 'district effect': Reflections on the literature (with Francesco musotti) -- Part II: Industrial districts and beyond -- 7. Thought and places in the works of carlo cattaneo -- 8. Industrial sectors and industrial districts: Tools for industrial analysis -- 9. The conditions of local development -- 10. Rural identities and globalisation (with luigi omodei zorini) -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    The growth process in East Asian manufacturing industries : a re-examination (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781958186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 222 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Sun, Chia-hung, 1971 - The growth process in East Asian manufacturing industries
    DDC: 338.4/767/095
    Keywords: Manufacturing industries ; Industrial productivity ; Sustainable development ; Technological innovations ; Production management
    Abstract: Although it has been previously accepted that Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan have achieved the 'economic miracle' of maintaining high economic growth for several decades prior to the Asian financial crisis, recent literature has now cast doubt upon this economic supposed success. Attempting to overcome methodological limitations and underlying assumptions of other studies, The Growth Process in East Asian Manufacturing Industries re-examines the role of total factor productivity (TFP) growth and aims to identify the sources of output growth in these East Asian economies. Chia-Hung Sun aims to explain how TFP growth differs from technological progress, and demonstrates why this study favours the use of the varying coefficients frontier model rather than the conventional scholastic frontier approach. He goes on to statistically test whether manufacturing industries in East Asia homogeneously applied the best practice production technology, and investigates the TFP growth slowdown in East Asian manufacturing sectors. Potential links between technological progress (or technological efficiency change) and structural transformation are considered, and the growth in high-tech and low-tech industries are compared. Using sensitivity tests to consolidate the findings of this study and a comparison with earlier TFP studies for each of the five economies analysed, this book will be a valuable point of reference for economists, researchers and policymakers specialising in Asian economies. Advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students in economic development and economic growth will also find the book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review: Total factor productivity studies on east Asian manufacturing industries -- 3. Methodology and data sources -- 4. Characteristics of the five east Asian manufacturing sectors and estimates of varying coefficients -- 5. Sources of output growth -- 6. Sources of tfp growth -- 7. Summary and conclusions -- appendix -- References -- Index.
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    Banking and insurance in the new China : competition and the challenge of accession to the WTO (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305032
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 166 pages)
    Series Statement: Advances in Chinese economic studies series
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Chen, Jianxun, 1933 - Banking and insurance in the new China
    DDC: 332.1/0951
    Keywords: World Trade Organization ; Banks and banking ; Insurance ; Competition
    Abstract: Financial reform has been a major concern for China's transitional economy - especially in the realms of banking and insurance - since accession to the WTO in 2001. This book scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industries during the process of institutional transformation, and demonstrates that they are now facing severe challenges as well as opportunities. The relationships between the market structure, behavior and performance of China's banking and insurance industries are analysed. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat (SWOT) approach is utilized in investigating the impact of WTO accession on Chinese banking and insurance, and strategies for the prevention of future financial crises are prescribed. Exploring the juxtaposition of institutional transformation in China and the financial risk inherent in the old system, the book concludes that with WTO accession and the opening up of financial services to foreign companies, competitiveness will become fiercer, resulting in increased uncertainty, intensifying the level of risk even further. Banking and Insurance in the New China will prove invaluable to multinational enterprise managers, brokers, dealers and investors, business economists, students and academics with a specific interest in the Chinese economy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. China's banking industry during the process of institutional transformation -- 2. The evolution of China's insurance market -- 3. The impact of WTO accession on China's banking and insurance industries -- 4. Empirical analysis of market structure, behavior and performance -- 5. Perspectives -- References -- Index.
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    Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781958605
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 510 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management
    DDC: 658.4/038
    Keywords: Technology transfer Congresses Economic aspects ; Knowledge management Congresses ; Technological innovations Congresses Economic aspects ; Technology transfer Congresses Economic aspects ; Knowledge management Congresses ; Technological innovations Congresses Economic aspects
    Abstract: This book reveals the key importance, in terms of international competitiveness, of firms' capability to adapt to, and develop, new technologies. At the same time, the authors argue that the sheer complexity of emerging technologies is such that the knowledge involved in their creation is likely to be dispersed and distributed between many individuals and over numerous locations. The authors argue that even if one assumes that the internal knowledge base is of strategic importance to many companies, most of the knowledge used by the majority of companies is developed outside the company. Since much knowledge is tacit in nature, the location of companies and their different departments become vital in accessing such knowledge, and there are strong reasons to believe that spillover effects are geographically bounded. Hence, it may often be of strategic importance to companies and their competitiveness to be represented in the 'right' industrial clusters. This book highlights a number of issues at the leading edge of both research and policy making, such as knowledge generation/production, knowledge distribution/transfer, knowledge spillovers, learning, knowledge management, information logistics, industrial clusters, industrial networks and regional innovation systems. This book will appeal to academics and researchers of knowledge management, technology and innovation and industrial organisation. Policy makers and planners in international organisations, national and regional governments - in particular those dealing with R&D policies, industrial policies and regional policies - will also find much to engage them
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management -- Part I: Knowledge spillovers -- Part II: Regional innovation systems -- Part III: Knowledge management -- Index.
    Note: "This book is a result of ... a workshop on Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management, held September 19-21, 2002 at the Centre for Information Logistics in Ljungby, Sweden"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    The Korean economy : post-crisis policies, issues and prospects (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781782543824
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 324 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Korean economy
    DDC: 330.95195
    Keywords: Economic stabilization ; Korea (South) Economic conditions 1960-1988 ; Korea (South) Economic conditions 1988-2002 ; Korea (South) Economic policy 1960-1988 ; Korea (South) Economic policy 1988-2002
    Abstract: Korea has played, and will increasingly play, an important role in the future development of the South East Asian region, including the expansion of regional economic cooperation and interregional trade. Indeed Korea has been a leading proponent of the idea of ASEAN+3. Clearer understanding of this economy, its major contemporary policy and reform issues and its future, are of particular interest from both regional and global perspectives. A remarkable recovery of the post-crisis Korean economy occurred, but questions over its sustainability remain. Korea, therefore, stands at an important economic crossroads. This opportune book draws upon the knowledge of a wide range of experienced Korean economists and specialists to cover in detail many specific sectors and policy areas, ranging from the key reform sectors - financial, corporate, and public and the labour market, to that of monetary and exchange rate policies. The role and contribution of the 'new economy' is also examined along with developments in Korea's trade and foreign direct investment, free trade agreement policy, inter-Korean economic relations, and the core ingredients of a 'new' growth and economic development paradigm. Scholars and researchers of comparative economics as well as more specifically contemporary Korean and Asian economic, development and financial studies will find this book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lessons from the Korean financial crisis -- Part II: Reform and policies -- 3. Financial sector reform -- 4. Corporate restructuring in the wake of the financial crisis -- 5. Reforming the Korean labour market and social safety net: Key pending issues -- 6. Public sector reforms -- 7. Monetary and exchange rate policies -- Part III: Other issues -- 8. A new economy for Korea -- 9. Post-crisis foreign trade and foreign investment in Korea: Korea's recovery and challenges ahead -- 10. Korea's embrace of regionalism and economic effects of its bilateral ftas with Chile and Japan -- 11. A development strategy for the north Korean economy -- Part IV: Prospects -- 12. A new paradigm for the Korean economy: Advanced state development (asd) model approach -- 13. Towards a new economic development model for Korea -- Index.
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    Full employment and price stability : the macroeconomic vision of William S. Vickrey (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 141 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Vickrey, William S., 1914 - 1996 Full employment and price stability
    DDC: 339.5
    Keywords: Employment (Economic theory) ; Full employment policies ; Price regulation ; Macroeconomics
    Abstract: Collecting Nobel Laureate William S. Vickrey's articles on macroeconomic theory and policy written towards the end of his career, this volume demonstrates his enduring commitment to full employment and price stability, and his rejection of conventional macroeconomic theorizing. William Vickrey never lost hope that sensible macroeconomic policy could be understood and implemented, a faith inspired by his humanistic vision of a better world for all and his belief that common sense would ultimately prevail. Advocating sensible economic policies, this collection will offer much of value to heterodox and orthodox economists, graduate economics students and also policymakers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface by David Colander -- Introduction -- 1. Budget-smudget: Why balance what, how and when? -- 2. The need for a direct anti-inflation program -- 3. Design of a market anti-inflation program -- 4. Meaningfully defining deficits and debt -- 5. Chock-full employment without increased inflation: A proposal for marketable markup warrants -- 6. An updated agenda for progressive taxation -- 7. Today's task for economists -- 8. My innovative failures in economics -- 9. The other side of the coin -- 10. Necessary and optimum government debt -- 11. Why not chock-full employment? -- 12. A trans-Keynesian manifesto -- 13. Fifteen fatal fallacies of financial fundamentalism: A disquisition on demand side economics -- 14. We need a bigger 'deficit' -- epilogue by James K. Galbraith -- Index.
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    Central banking in the modern world : alternative perspectives (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781958698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Central banking in the modern world
    DDC: 332.11
    Keywords: Banks and banking, Central ; Monetary policy ; Interest rates
    Abstract: Monetarism is dead! Central bankers are all Wicksellians now! They target low inflation rates, with no regard to monetary aggregates whatsoever, by acting upon short-term real rates of interest. This is the New Consensus in monetary economics, or simply the New Keynesian Synthesis. Yet, this synthesis still hinges on variants of the long-run vertical Phillips curve originally proposed by Milton Friedman, the father of old-line monetarism. Contributors to the volume question this New Consensus. While they agree that the money supply should be conceived as endogenous, they carefully examine the procedures pursued by central banks, the monetary policy transmission mechanisms suggested by central bankers themselves, and the assumptions imbedded in the New Consensus. They propose alternative analyses that clearly demonstrate the limits of modern central banking and point to the possible instability of monetary economies. Heterodox and orthodox monetary macroeconomists alike will find this illuminating book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: The new consensus -- 1. The new consensus on monetary policy seen from a post-Keynesian perspective -- 2. Central banking, stability and macroeconomic outcomes: A comparison of new consensus and post-Keynesian monetary macroeconomics -- 3. Interest rate operating procedures and income distribution -- 4. Monetary policy when money is endogenous: Going beyond the 'new consensus' -- Part II: Transmission mechanisms -- 5. Monetary dialogue and dogma at the bank of Canada: Inside -- 6. Interest rate policy at the bank of Canada: Setting the agenda -- 7. Modern central banks only have real effects -- 8. Central banking in the monetary circuit -- 9. Long-term interest rates, liquidity preference, and the limits of central banking -- 10. The role of monetary policy in post-Keynesian stock-flow consistent macroeconomic growth models -- Part III: Historical perspectives -- 11. The effectiveness of monetary policy in open economy macroeconomics: Dornbusch versus tobin -- 12. Minsky and tobin on the instability of a monetary economy -- 13. Considerations on allan h. Meltzer's history of the federal reserve -- 14. Central banking in early industrialization -- Index.
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    Developing an annuity market in Europe (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 296 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 368.3/7/0094
    Keywords: Annuities ; Pensions
    Abstract: On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities - financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth into a lifelong stream of income. Developing an Annuity Market in Europe provides an analysis of how longevity and return risks are dealt with, besides considering key features from both household and insurance company perspectives. It takes account of the fact that annuity markets are expected to attract much interest in future years given the prospective cuts in public pension expenditure. In order to fill the gap between shrinking pensions and desired retirement consumption, the authors argue, annuities must be well regulated and supplied with financially attractive products. These conditions hardly exist today: thin markets and scant interest prevail, information is incomplete and imperfect, products show significant disparities. The contributors to this book explore the causes of present malfunctioning and examine the changes that may give annuities a new and vital function, which, along with greater competition and greater regulation may significantly alter the present scene of pension finance. Finally, the book offers an overview of regulatory issues including transparency, prudential provisions, appropriate levels of guarantees, and administrative costs. This important and timely book will be invaluable to anyone interested in annuities, from practitioners through to students, researchers and academics concerned in financial or public economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Annuities for an aging world -- 3. Issues in the regulation of annuities markets -- 4. Annuity risk: Volatility and inflation exposure in payments from immediate life annuities -- 5. Pension annuitization and social security claiming -- 6. Longevity risk in living benefits -- 7. Guaranteed annuity conversion options and their valuation -- 8. The behavior of UK annuity prices from 1972 to 2002 -- 9. Private annuities and public pensions in Germany -- 10. Mandated annuities in Switzerland -- 11. The market for annuities in Italy: Reality or chimera? -- Index.
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    Modelling in ecological economics (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
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    Keywords: Environmental economics Methodology ; Environmental economics Econometric models
    Abstract: This book focuses on modelling in ecological economics and offers a comprehensive overview of current and emerging methods of applying mathematical, computational and conceptual methods to environmental issues. Following a detailed introduction, the authors investigate various modelling techniques including: * evolutionary modelling * input-output modelling * neo-Austrian modelling * entropy in ecological economics * thermodynamic models * multi-criteria evaluation * agent-based modelling * the environmental Kuznets curve. In each of the specially commissioned chapters, the expert authors have tried to limit the level of complexity to create a unique and accessible resource. As such, this book should have a wide appeal amongst scholars, researchers and students with an interest in modelling techniques and their use in ecological and environmental economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. An Introduction to modelling in ecological economics -- 2. Evolutionary models -- 3. Input-output models -- 4. Neo-austrian models -- 5. Entropy in ecological economics -- 6. Thermodynamic models -- 7. Multi-criteria evaluation -- 8. Agent-based models -- 9. The environmental kuznets curve -- Index.
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    Environmental policy and fiscal federalism : selected essays of Wallace E. Oates (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305100
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 419 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Oates, Wallace E., 1937 - 2015 Environmental policy and fiscal federalism
    DDC: 333.7/0973
    Keywords: Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Intergovernmental fiscal relations
    Abstract: Wallace Oates is one of the most important scholars in both environmental economics and public finance and this new volume of his essays brings together his recent research in both these areas, covering theory, research and policy. The first half of the book includes papers on the political economy of environmental policy, the analysis of environmental regulation and environmental federalism. The second half deals with fiscal and regulatory competition, state and local government finance and fiscal federalism. This new collection will be essential reading for scholars and students in both environmental economics and public finance
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: The political economy of environmental policy -- Part II: The analysis of environmental regulation -- Part III: Environmental federalism -- Part IV: Fiscal and regulatory competition -- Part V: State and local government finance -- Part VI: Fiscal federalism -- Index.
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    Entrepreneurship and regional economic development : a spatial perspective (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 352 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Entrepreneurship and regional economic development
    DDC: 338/.04
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Regional planning
    Abstract: In a shrinking and increasingly globalised world, it is vital for any entrepreneur to carefully select the location at which production or other economic activities will occur. This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of entrepreneurial behaviour in a spatial context, and links it to important new fields in economics such as endogenous growth theory, the new economic geography and evolutionary theory. Although most of the literature to date has failed to study the geographic element of entrepreneurship, this book redresses the balance by examining the spatial variation in entrepreneurial activity and the implications of this for regional policy. The authors provide an in-depth analysis of the role of the entrepreneur in fostering economic development, document the most important recent theoretical and empirical developments, and explain the reasons why some regions grow whereas others stagnate. They also present a number of empirical analyses including case studies from the manufacturing and ICT sectors, as well as an examination of the role of university-based knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial behaviour. Throughout the book, the role of knowledge, knowledge transmission and knowledge spillovers are considered as they relate to entrepreneurial activity and location decisions. This book presents many important new findings on the relationship between entrepreneurship, agglomeration and economic growth. It will make a substantial addition to the literature and will be essential reading for regional economists, geographers, business and management analysts, and development practitioners and policymakers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Entrepreneurship and economic development -- 2. Firm behaviour and organisation from an evolutionary perspective -- 3. The roles of entrepreneurship in economic growth: Toward a theory of total factor productivity -- 4. Technocapitalism and the new ecology of entrepreneurship -- Part II: Spatial variation in drivers of economic development -- 5. Spatial variation in social capital among uk small and medium-sized enterprises -- 6. The institutionalization and endogenization of venture capital: A regional analysis of northern virginia in the 1990s -- 7. Human capital and regional socio-economic performance: Differential patterns across australia's cities and towns -- Part III: Empirical case studies -- 8. A knowledge-based view on innovation in regional networks: The case of the kic project -- 9. The role of collective learning in ict adoption and use -- 10. Industrial clusters and regional development: A transactions-costs perspective on the semiconductor industry -- 11. Academic knowledge and fostering entrepreneurship: An evolutionary perspective -- Part IV: Theoretical approaches -- 12. Location of engineering and designer services in the information economy -- 13. Firm dynamics and self-organised criticality -- 14. Knowledge, capital formation and innovation behaviour in a spatial context -- Index.
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    Innovation management in the ICT sector : how frontrunners stay ahead (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 179 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Huizenga, Edward Innovation management in the ICT sector
    DDC: 004/.068/4
    Keywords: Information technology Management ; Technological innovations Management
    Abstract: Edward Huizenga explores how knowledge and service intensive companies can thrive on innovation and entrepreneurship in the ICT sector. He applies new theoretical insights from strategy and organisation theory, and includes case studies of 30 European service companies. These case studies address the key innovation issues and present answers as to why a constant search for innovation improves firms' competitive position. The key success factors are identified together with those differences that define the frontrunners who are able to turn new ideas into profit. With its mix of academic insights, managerial practices and implementations, this book benchmarks company performance in innovation and develops new theoretical strategy insights including; resource-based ideas; firm's innovation styles; strategic timing; the customer's involvement and the management implications. Innovation Management in the ICT Sector is aimed at, and will be of value to, a readership of academics in the area of strategic management, organisation and innovation, policymakers involved in innovation and economic growth at all levels of government as well as managers in the ICT sector
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- Part I: Innovation management -- 1. Exploring innovation in the ict sector -- 2. Key success factors in innovation management: Recent contributions -- 3. The nature of strategy -- 4. The organisation of innovation -- Part II: Research design and methodology -- 5. The case survey research method -- Part III: The management practice -- 6. Strategy and innovation performance -- 7. Organisation, process and innovation performance -- 8. What differentiates the frontrunners? -- References -- Index.
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    The IPO decision : why and how companies go public (2004)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 385 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Draho, Jason The IPO decision
    DDC: 658.15/224
    Keywords: Going public (Securities)
    Abstract: The IPO Decision is an exciting new book that clarifies how the initial public offering (IPO) process actually works. It separates fact from fiction and imposes a logical structure on the most up-to-date IPO-related research. All major topics pertaining to the going-public process are included: IPO timing, the financial, strategic, and corporate governance benefits and costs of public ownership, corporate restructuring, valuation, the role of the investment bank in the primary and secondary markets, the optimality of IPO mechanisms (book-building vs. auctions), analyst coverage, and the long-run performance of IPOs. IPOs garnered unprecedented positive attention in the 1990s for their spectacular returns and central role in entrepreneurial activity. Subsequent revelations of unscrupulous IPO allocation and promotion practices cast a less favorable shadow. The latest significant event in the IPO market is Google's unconventional use of an auction for its offering. Public discussion and debate about these developments has often taken place in an information vacuum, leading to misunderstandings and false conclusions. Unparalleled in its scope, The IPO Decision presents the findings from theoretical and empirical research in a rigorous yet accessible manner. In doing so, it develops the intellectual foundation necessary for a constructive dialogue about reforming the IPO process. Scholars, students and industry professionals interested in the economics of IPOs will find this volume a comprehensive and engaging addition to their library
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ipo timing and information -- 3. Financing options and costs -- 4. Strategic behavior -- 5. Control, monitoring and governance -- 6. The external market: An international comparison -- 7. Corporate restructuring -- 8. Valuation -- 9. Preparing for the ipo -- 10. Ipo mechanisms: Allocations and pricing -- 11. The ipo aftermarket -- 12. Post-ifo financing -- 13. Long-run performance -- 14. Final thoughts -- References -- Index.
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    Cooperation, networks, and institutions in regional innovation systems (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 362 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 338.8/7
    Keywords: Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Regional planning ; Regional economics ; Technology and state ; Research, Industrial ; Industrial promotion
    Abstract: This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of clusters which have reached different stages of maturity. The authors address the topic from an empirical, theoretical and political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They offer a comprehensive overview of different approaches in the field and present numerous case studies which stress the influence of networks and local institutions. Significantly, they also introduce several new approaches to regional innovation systems, including contributions which explicitly discuss the design and potential of policy measures to promote regional development. The policy recommendations are based on sound theorising which, in turn, is based on extensive empirical research. This book is a valuable addition to a complex and growing literature which offers new perspectives and insights on cooperation, networks and institutions, and their role in the development of local systems of innovation. The combination of empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented approaches will ensure this book is essential reading for academics and policymakers in the fields of regional economics, innovation research and economic geography
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Towards a political perspective and unifying concept -- Part I. Theoretical approaches -- 2. Local culture and regional innovation networks: Some propositions -- 3. Entrepreneurial activities in a regional context -- 4. The role of trust and power in the institutional regulation of territorial business systems -- 5. Cognitive coordination, institutions and clusters: An exploratory discussion -- 6. Problems and solutions in knowledge transfer -- 7. learning pathologies in losing areas: towards a definition of the cognitive obstacles to local development -- 8. On the unit of analysis in the study of networks -- Part ii. Case studies -- 9. Is Nanjing's concentration of it companies an innovative cluster? -- 10. TV content production in media regions: the necessities and difficulties of public policy support for a project-based industry -- 11. How many networks in a local cluster? Textile machine production and innovation in Brescia -- 12. 'Lock-in' of regional clusters: the case of offshore engineering -- Part III. Policy implications -- 13. Entrepreneurship stimulation in regional innovation systems - public promotion of university-based start-ups in Germany -- 14. Cooperation and knowledge-pooling in clusters: Designing territorial competitiveness policies -- 15. policy measures to support the emergence of localised industrial clusters -- Index.
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    The industrial dynamics of the new digital economy (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The industrial dynamics of the new digital economy
    DDC: 381/.1
    Keywords: Electronic commerce Management ; Business Data processing
    Abstract: This book investigates the implications of digital technologies on the industrial and business dynamics of modern economies. In-depth studies analyse how deep-rooted work practices of the Old Economy have been dramatically challenged when confronted with the entrepreneurial wave of the New Economy. Initially the digitization of existing processes was motivated by ideas of rationalization and cost-cutting. The book convincingly shows how reaping the full benefits necessitates fundamental changes in procedures and organizational design. The effects transcend the boundaries of the firm, as established channels of interaction with old partners must be reconfigured and familiar divisions of labour rethought. The Industrial Dynamics of the New Digital Economy presents novel and detailed data showing how vast and still dominant industries of the Old Economy have responded to the new challenges and exploited the emerging opportunities of digitization in very different ways. The book offers the first theoretical framework for analysing and evaluating the different strategies chosen by industries when struggling to rebuild competitive positions in the new digitized business environment and will be of great value to academics, industrial economists and all those interested in technology, innovation and the new economy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / by Christopher Freeman -- Introduction -- Part I: 1. The new economy: What is new and what is not? -- 2. What goes up must come down: The political economy of the us internet industry -- 3. 'Changing gear': Productivity, ict and service industries in Europe and the United States -- Part II: 4. What are advances in knowledge doing to the large industrial firm in the 'new economy'? -- 5. News out of the old: The evolving technological incoherence of the world's largest companies -- 6. Digital information systems and global flagship networks: How mobile is knowledge in the global network economy? -- Part III: 7. Digital dynamics and types of industry convergence: The evolution of the handheld computers market -- 8. Innovation, entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics in internet services -- 9. Assessing European developments in electronic customer relations management in the wake of the dot.com bust -- Index.
    Note: "Most of the chapters are based on papers presented in an earlier version at the DRUID Summer Conference 2002 in Copenhagen on 'Industrial Dynamics of the New Nad Old Economy. Since its formation in 1995 DRUID - the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics - has organized biannual thematic conferences ..."--P. xvi , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Intelligent management in the knowledge economy (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 295 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Intelligent management in the knowledge economy
    DDC: 658.4/038
    Keywords: Knowledge management Congresses
    Abstract: The knowledge economy is a notion that has been used, since the end of the last decade, to describe a new economic order perceived by scholars and practitioners. The authors argue that this order, triggered by new information and communication technologies, has resulted in a different set of challenges for effective management of the contemporary firm. Knowledge will play an important role in managing these challenges, with the onus being on new hardware and software as much as how businesses can be organised with regard to relationships with customers and suppliers. This book shows how 'intelligent management will be key to how internal operations can be organised in order to take advantage of opportunities brought about by new technologies. This change in management is discussed throughout the book from a wide array of perspectives ranging from contextual and philosophical aspects, through tools and methods to case studies concerning the organization of business, its management and application in the knowledge economy. Intelligent Management in the Knowledge Economy will be of great interest to academics and researchers of management - knowledge management in particular - ICT and organisational studies. Business practitioners will also find much to engage them within this book
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface / by Christian Tangkjær -- Intelligent management and knowledge: An Introduction -- Part I: Context and philosophy -- 1. Leaders for the knowledge economy -- 2. Presence and absence: An epistemological essay on knowledge management and technology -- 3. Elements of the dynamics of future organizations: A discourse on the imaginative and integrative deployment of information systems -- 4. Organizing the extended organization -- Part II: Tools and methods -- 5. Communities and activity systems in knowledge-intensive firms -- 6. The process warehouse: A data warehouse approach for business process management -- 7. Learning through online conversations: The case of online support systems -- 8. Knowledge reactivation mediated through knowledge carriers -- Part III: Management and applications -- 9. What is the business value of electronic commerce? How can it be optimized? -- 10. Global thinking or local commitment in multinational knowledge management and organizational learning -- 11. Management of artificial sellars: A metaphor for the automation of e-commerce -- 12. The bazaar model of organizing -- 13. Ict and the geography of innovative firms -- References -- Index.
    Note: Updated papers from an international conference held in 1999 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-283) and index
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    The dynamics of innovation clusters : a study of the food industry (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in the economics of innovation
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    DDC: 664/.0068/4
    Keywords: Food industry and trade Technological innovations ; Food industry and trade Research ; Processed foods Marketing ; Food preferences ; Big business ; Nutrition policy ; Competition
    Abstract: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the processes of innovation found in industrial clusters. The authors focus particularly on the characteristics of innovation clusters and their operation in the food industry. This is revealed through novel case studies, detailed research on the dynamic cluster relationship between academia and industry, and the role of competencies, resources, interactions and leadership. The results reveal that innovation processes are significantly different from product development processes and that many failures of innovation can be explained by a lack of distinction between the two. The authors also offer informative insights on the interactions between different technologies, the convergence between technologies and consumers, and the manner in which these two elements are handled in the innovation process. They move on to identify three different phases of the innovation process and illustrate how the importance of cluster partners, competencies and management can vary at each stage. In addition, they highlight the importance of allowing innovations to grow and develop, and emphasise the fact that successful innovations cannot simply be 'assembled' from the necessary components. Entrepreneurs, R&D managers and academics working in the fields of innovation, technology management and industrial strategy will all value the in depth case-studies and rigorous analysis which adds a new and significant dimension to the many arguments surrounding cluster management
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Innovation and new product development in the food sector -- 2. Product development and innovation -- 3. Strategic theory and innovation -- 4. Consumers and food innovation -- 5. The öresund food cluster -- 6. Innovation cases - proviva, oatly, mona carota -- 7. The nature of innovation processes - results -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    European economists of the early 20th century : studies of neglected continental thinkers of Germany and Italy : Volume 2 (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035306053
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von European economists of the early 20th century ; Vol. 2: Studies of neglected continental thinkers of Germany and Italy
    DDC: 332.494
    Keywords: Economists History 20th century ; Economics History 20th century
    Abstract: Warren Samuels's second and concluding selection of essays focuses on early 20th century economists who, while relatively well-known in their times, have tended to be obscured by the more prominent stars of the discipline. It illustrates that economics is more diverse and complex than conventional histories of economic thought tend to identify. In particular it includes contributions on those economists who were not in the mainstream, or, if in the mainstream, practised economics in a somewhat alternative manner. Warren Samuels has assembled a collection of essays on thirteen economists - six German and seven Italian - who remain noteworthy of study to this day. The economists featured in the volume represent a variety of ways of practising economics - theoretical, methodological and policy-orientated - who all contributed to the understanding of economic processes and institutions at the deepest levels. European Economists of the Early 20th Century will appeal to all those with an interest in the philosophy and evolution of economics and to historians of economic thought
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Editors and contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Constantino bresciani turroni: The eulogy of monetary stability -- 2. Gustavo del vecchio: Critical conscience of the Italian neoclassical school -- 3. Giovanni demaria: An appraisal of his methodological and theoretical writings -- 4. Carl dietzel (1829-1884): A pioneering and unorthodox thinker on public debt and fiscal policy -- 5. Between marx and marshall: Antonio graziadei (1873-1953) -- 6. Rudolf hilferding -- 7. Alfred kähler: A pioneer of input-output analysis -- 8. G.f. Knapp: An economist with institutional complexion -- 9. Emil lederer: Obstacles to economic expansion -- 10. Achille loria: His vision and economic analysis -- 11. Angelo messedaglia -- 12. Umberto ricci: Profile of a militant economist -- 13. Günter schmölders and the economics of prohibition -- Index.
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    Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 194 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Fai, Felicia M., 1971 - Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification
    Keywords: Diversification in industry ; Technological innovations ; Technological innovations Management ; Organizational change
    Abstract: Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this diversification with respect to firm size, technological relatedness and technological complexity in 32 firms distributed across four broadly defined industrial sectors. The findings suggest that industry and corporate technological profiles remain strong but are becoming blurred by the pervasiveness of general-purpose technologies. Although historically, diversification is associated with an increase in firm size, the author argues that in recent times it results from technological relatedness and complexity. This book will appeal to industrial and business economists, historians of business and technology, and students and scholars of technology management
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The data -- 3. Industry-specific competencies and industrial convergence -- 4. Technological persistence in the evolution of corporate technological competence -- 5. Technological diversification -- 6. Scale and scope in technology: Influences on diversification -- 7. Technological inter-relatedness and complex diversification -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    The Internet and mobile telecommunications system of innovation : developments in equipment, access, and content (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 260 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 004.67/8
    Keywords: Wireless Internet ; Wireless communication systems
    Abstract: This book examines the 'new' areas of telecommunications technology, focusing particularly on fixed data communications (including the internet) and mobile telecommunications (including the mobile internet). A sectoral systems of innovation approach is used as a conceptual framework for the analysis of the telecommunications sector, in terms of equipment, access and content. The authors consider the emergence and expansion of new technologies and explore how the sectoral system of innovation is evolving and how previously independent systems are now converging. In particular, they address the question of equipment production and the provision of intangible service products such as internet access and content. By addressing the production of both goods and services, they highlight the critical interdependence of service innovations and manufacturing innovations. Some of the specific topics discussed within the book include: * the challenges for Europe of fixed data communications * second and third generation mobile telecommunications systems * data communication via satellite and television subsystems * the dynamics and trends of the internet services industry * policy implications for the future of the telecommunications sectoral system of innovation. The book is a comprehensive theoretical, empirical and policy oriented account of the emergence and evolution of the sectoral system of innovation of the internet and mobile telecommunications. It will be an invaluable source of reference for academic researchers and policymakers in the fields of macroeconomics, industrial economics and innovation, as well as consultants and firms operating in the communications industry
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface 1. The fixed internet and mobile telecommunications sectoral system of innovation: Equipment, access and content -- 2. Fixed data communications: Challenges for Europe -- 3. The global system for mobile telecommunications (GSM): Second generation -- 4. The universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS): Third generation -- 5. Data communication: Satellite and tv subsystems -- 6. The internet services industry: Sectoral dynamics of innovation and production -- 7. The internet services industry: Country-specific trends in the UK, Italy and Sweden -- 8. Policy implications for the future of the sectoral system -- Abbreviations -- Index.
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    Global warming and the Asian Pacific (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 307 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Academia studies in Asian economies
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    DDC: 363.738/74/095
    Keywords: Global warming ; Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric ; Carbon monoxide Environmental aspects ; Climatic changes Economic aspects
    Abstract: This unique book examines the problem of global warming from the perspective of Asian Pacific countries. The unprecedented economic and demographic growth over the past two decades has increased the importance of the Asian Pacific region. It has become both a very large source of greenhouse gases as well as an important site to measure climate change impacts. Complex economic tools including computable general equilibrium models, international input-output models and engineering-economic models are used to assess the baseline emission levels and abatement costs for the economies examined. All outcomes suggest that abatement is possible, but will be expensive. The studies also suggest that the more energy efficient the economy, the higher the costs of further abatement. The book reveals how Asian countries in the tropics are more likely to be harmed than those in the temperate zone. Alternative strategies to mitigate carbon emissions such as energy conservation, emission permit trading, carbon tax, and carbon sequestration are examined to tackle the difficult problem of establishing effective policy tools to control warming in the Asian Pacific and the globe. While no single author provides a complete answer to this complex problem, all authors provide vital information and new ideas with which to fashion workable international and regional policies. Global Warming and the Asian Pacific is likely to be read by scholars and researchers of Asian studies, environmental and resource economics, as well as policymakers and those specifically involved in global warming research and policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Global warming and the Asian Pacific -- Part I: Baseline emissions -- 2. Forecasting carbon dioxide emissions in Vietnam -- 3. Baseline forecasting for greenhouse gas reductions in Taiwan: A dynamic cge analysis -- 4. Forecasting baseline co2 emissions in Japan -- 5. Analysis of economic and environmental interdependency in east Asian countries Part II: Abatement costs -- 6. Effect of energy tax on co2 emissions and economic development in Taiwan, 1999-2020 -- 7. Impact of carbon tax and reduced co2 emissions on Chinese economy: A static cge analysis -- 8. Cost of reducing co2 emissions in Japan -- 9. Greenhouse gas mitigation through energy crops in the us with implications for Asian Pacific countries -- Part III: Warming impacts -- 10. Climate change and crop yield distribution in Taiwan -- 11. Will global warming cause heat stress? -- 12. The impact of climate change on Asian Pacific countries -- Part IV: Policy instruments -- 13. Reducing cost uncertainty and encouraging ratification of the kyoto protocol -- 14. A better alternative to the kyoto protocol -- 15. Joint implementation, the clean development mechanism and the baseline: An economic analysis -- 16. Economic issues related to design of a domestic permit trading system -- Index.
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    Does environmental policy work? : the theory and practice of outcomes assessment (2003)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
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    Keywords: Environmental policy Evaluation ; Environmental policy Social aspects ; Evaluation
    Abstract: At the beginning of the twenty-first century, a growing struggle has arisen between those who would like to repeal existing environmental policy and those who would like to see greater environmental protection. On both sides, however, many of the arguments remain grounded in ideology. This book attempts to moderate the conflict by exploring methods to accurately measure and assess the effectiveness of environmental policies. Does Environmental Policy Work? examines our ability to assess the impact of environmental policies on the environment in particular, and on social welfare in general. The distinguished authors explore the theory of assessment, concentrating primarily on a conceptual examination of the evaluation process. They extend existing tools and identify alternative indicators and methods of appraisal. The focus then shifts to the use of these tools in real-world policy situations by applying them to a series of case studies from Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Although the authors base their assessment predominantly on economic efficiency, they also pay due regard to other interdisciplinary approaches and decision-making criteria. This comprehensive exploration of the theory and practice of environmental assessment will be of great interest to scholars of environmental economics, ecological economics and environmental science. The book will also provide guidance and direction for practitioners in the fields of environmental policy and management on how to effectively measure the outcomes of environmental policies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Part II: Theory -- 2. Improving environmental impact assessment through outcomes valuation: Experience from Asia -- 3. Trade-off based indicators of environmental quality: An environmental analog to GDP -- 4. Environmental project evaluation in developing countries: Valuing the environment as input -- Part III: Applications -- 5. Environmental outcomes assessment: Using sustainability indicators for central Europe to measure the effects of transition on the environment -- 6. Environmental impact assessment in Brazil -- 7. Setting goals, making decisions, and assessing outcomes in conservation programs administered by the us department of agriculture -- 8. Alternative criteria for judging the success of agro-environmental policy in the UK -- 9. The danish pesticide programme: Success or failure depending on indicator choice -- 10. Conclusion -- Index.
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    Economic instruments of pollution control in an imperfect world : theory and implications for carbon dioxide emissions control in China (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305094
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 271 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 363.738/746/0951
    Keywords: Air Pollution ; Economic aspects ; Air Pollution ; Government policy ; Carbon dioxide mitigation ; Carbon dioxide Economic aspects
    Abstract: In this book, Tingsong Jiang extensively discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon dioxide emissions in China. The book begins with a general analysis of economic instruments of pollution control, and is followed by the application of these in CO2 emission control. The former presents the discussion of pollution control policies in general equilibrium settings, focusing on the comparison of pollution taxes and tradable permits in certain kinds of circumstances with imperfections such as uncertainty and pre-existing distortions. An empirical evaluation of China's environmental policies is also included. The latter brings the discussion into the area of global warming policies with the focus on the implications to China. A dynamic general equilibrium model, G-Cubed-T, is developed to produce CO2 emissions projections from China, the US and the rest of the world, and to simulate various policy targets and instruments China may adopt to control its CO2 emissions. With its systematic evaluation of China's environmental policy, this thorough and rigorous assessment will be invaluable reading for academics in environmental economics and environmental management, policy analysts in environmental protection and global warming fields, policymakers and government officials around the world, as well as China specialists
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface by Warwick J. McKibbin -- 1. Economic instruments of pollution control: An Introduction -- Part I: Economics of pollution control policy -- 2. Earmarking of pollution charges and the sub-optimality of the pigouvian tax -- 3. Stochastic general equilibrium and environmental policy choice -- 4. Effectiveness and efficiency: An assessment of China's environmental protection policy -- Part II: Economic instruments of carbon dioxide emissions control -- 5. Policy choices of international carbon dioxide emissions control -- 6. A dynamic general equilibrium model of the Chinese economy -- 7. Projection of China's carbon dioxide emissions -- 8. Policy options of carbon dioxide emissions control in China -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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    The evolution of scientific knowledge (2003)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 225 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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    DDC: 501
    Keywords: Science Philosophy ; Science History ; Science Social aspects
    Abstract: The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge aims to reach a unique understanding of science with the help of economic and sociological theories. The economic theories used are institutionalist and evolutionary. The sociological theories draw from the type of work on social studies of science that have, in recent decades, transformed our picture of science and technology. Science - and more broadly research - is a field where economics and sociology meet in an attempt to understand how complex organizations emerge and work. While the authors argue that science is neither an institution nor an order that emerged as the result of conscious and willful design, nor is it like a 'normal' market, they also acknowledge that science has aspects of market orders and aspects of orders created by design. Furthermore, science develops in specific ways that are to some extent like the development of economic systems, and at the same time are very different. This fascinating book will be of great interest to economists, philosophers, historians and sociologists by focussing on a multidisciplinary understanding of science
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The essential tension in the social sciences: Between the 'unification' and 'fragmentation' traps -- 3. Residual categories and the evolution of economic knowledge -- 4. Evolutionary, constructivist and reflexive models of science -- 5. A neo-darwinian model of science -- 6. Science and spontaneously formed institutions: An austr ian school approach -- 7. An evolutionary approach to the constitutional theory of the firm -- 8. Science as a spontaneous order: An essay in the economics of science -- 9. Must spontaneous order be unintended? Exploring the possibilities for consciously enhancing creative discovery and imaginative problem-solving -- 10. The laboratory and the market - on the production and interpretation of knowledge -- Index.
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    Environmental research and development : US industrial research, the Clean Air Act, and environmental damage (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781957332
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 163 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 363.739/2/0973
    Keywords: Air quality ; Research, Industrial
    Abstract: John Scott develops, describes, and uses new primary data about US industrial firms' research and development (R&D) investments to create innovative products and processes that provide goods and services without the by-product of pollution. New knowledge about environmental R&D is provided by original surveys of industry from 1993 and 2001. The R&D and other firm data are juxtaposed with US Census industry data and with US Environmental Protection Agency data about industrial toxic releases. This book presents hypothesis tests that provide evidence supporting the use of public policies - described in the book - to stimulate industry to use its creative powers to improve environmental performance. Economists and policy makers in the areas of industrial organization, technological change, the economics of R&D and the environment including policy toward R&D and technology; as well as corporate officers of R&D and environmental affairs will find this volume indispensable
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. A lesson from history -- 2. Hazardous industrial chemicals -- 3. A survey of industry -- 4. The industrial r&d response -- 5. A theoretical model -- 6. The hypothesis tests -- 7. Cooperative r&d -- 8. Environmental r&d, emissions, and policy -- glossary for variables -- References -- Appendices -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-133) and index
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    Evolutionary economics and human nature (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 220 pages)
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    DDC: 330.1
    Keywords: Evolutionary economics ; Psychology
    Abstract: For much of the twentieth century, mainstream economists have treated human agents in their models as if they were rational beings of unbounded computational capacity - the notorious 'Homo Economicus' of much economic theory. However, the patent inadequacies of this understanding of human nature have become increasingly apparent, and economists have begun looking for more realistic models, incorporating the insights of evolutionary theory. The authors address the question of human nature in economics, examining not only some of the recent writing on this subject in evolutionary psychology and related disciplines, but also the ideas of important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition. Beginning with the ancient Greeks and progressing to the modern day, the contributors explore the works of such thinkers as Augustine, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Alfred Marshall and Kenneth Boulding. Many of these works are placed in a Darwinian, evolutionary perspective, with the imperative that the study of human nature must be consistent with our understanding of human evolution, and should consider how human beings are moulded by cultural and institutional influences. Naturally, Darwin's own view of human nature is also explored, undermining the mistaken notion that Darwinism promotes human nature as greedy, uncooperative and self-seeking. This enlightening, original and highly readable work will be of great interest to professional economists and students, researchers and teachers of evolutionary economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface by geoffrey m. Hodgson -- Introduction -- 1. Evolution and the nature of man in greek thought -- 2. Augustine on economic man -- 3. Adam smith's theory of human nature -- 4. Malthus on indolence -- 5. Charles darwin on human nature -- 6. Alfred marshall on homo oeconomicus: Evolution versus utilitarianism? -- 7. Kropotkin and reclus: Geographers, evolution, and 'mutual aid' -- 8. Sounding the trumpet: T.a. Jackson on darwin, marx and human existence -- 9. Kenneth boulding: Man of images -- 10. Fritz machlup: 'how one thing led to another' -- 11. Toward an evolutionary theory of homo oeconomicus: The concept of universal nomadism -- Index.
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    Japan's economic recovery : commercial policy, monetary policy, and corporate governance (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 456 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 330.952
    Keywords: Monetary policy Congresses ; Japan Congresses Commercial policy ; Japan Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Japan Economic policy 1989-
    Abstract: The contributors to this book, from the US and Japan, explore the main issues involved in the international trade, foreign direct investment, and macro/financial relations of the United States and Japan and provide guidance to policymakers for measures to help overcome Japan's economic stagnation since the early 1990s. The book is divided into three parts. Part I contains an empirical analysis of trade diversion under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a theoretical analysis of time in determining the structure and effects of trade with an application to Japan, and an empirical analysis of Japan's changing import behavior. Part II is focused on foreign direct investment (FDI), trade, and the behavior and structure of Japanese firms. Part III deals with macro/financial issues of current interest and importance in Japan. The analytical focus of the chapters is intended to enhance the understanding of the issues addressed and to provide some guidance to policymakers in the design of measures that will improve economic efficiency and welfare and help to overcome the economic stagnation that Japan has experienced in the past decade or more. Economists, political scientists and policymakers will find the analysis provided in this volume invaluable in understanding the Japanese economy and economic relations between Japan and the United States
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction and overview -- Part I: Trade and related issues -- 2. Trade diversion under nafta -- 3. Time and trade: The role of time in determining the structure and effects of international trade, with an application to Japan -- 4. An analysis of Japan's changing import behavior -- Part II: Foreign direct investment, trade, and the behavior and structure of Japanese firms -- 5. Sources of variation in the productivity of Japanese manufacturers -- 6. Foreign direct investment in Japan: Empirical analysis based on the establishment and enterprise census -- 7. Exports and foreign direct investment accelerate corporate reforms: Evidence from Japanese micro data -- Part III: Macro/financial issues -- 8. Prospective Japanese economic recovery: Perspectives from European economic recovery in the 1930s -- 9. Japan's lost decade and weaknesses in its corporate governance structure -- 10. Zero-interest-rate policy, the forward-rate curve, and policy-duration effect -- 11. Demographic changes and their implications for Japanese household savings -- 12. Restoring full employment in Japan: Domestic and international policy considerations -- Index.
    Note: "This volume contains the papers and comments that were prepared in connection with a conference, 'Analytical issues in the trade, foreign direct investment, and macro/financial relations of the United States and Japan,' which was held at Keio University in Tokyo on May 18-19, 2001"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Modern theories of money : the nature and role of money in capitalist economies (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (lvi, 588 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 332.4/01
    Keywords: Money ; Capitalism ; Keynesian economics
    Abstract: This book unites diverse heterodox traditions in the study of endogenous money - which until now have been confined to their own academic quarters - and explores their similarities and differences from both sides of the Atlantic. Bringing together perspectives from post-Keynesians, Circuitists and the Dijon School, the book continues the tradition of Keynes's and Kalecki's analysis of a monetary production economy, emphasising the similarities between the various approaches, and expanding the analytical breadth of the theory of endogenous money. The authors open new avenues for monetary research in order to fuel a renewed interest in the nature and role of money in capitalist economies, which is, the authors argue, one of the most controversial, and therefore fascinating, areas of economics. Providing new theoretical and empirical grounds for the construction of a general, policy oriented theory of money, this thought-provoking collection will appeal to academics, researchers and students interested in monetary economics. It will also be welcomed by monetary policymakers and central bank officials
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: The post Keynesian monetary approach -- Part II: The theory of the monetary circuit -- Part III: The theory of money emissions -- Part IV: Further contributions to monetary analysis -- Index.
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    Competition and regulation in utility markets (2003)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 246 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 363.6/0941
    Keywords: Electric utilities Congresses Deregulation ; Gas industry Congresses Deregulation ; Telecommunication Congresses Deregulation ; Competition Congresses
    Abstract: This volume is the latest in an annual series, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which provides an up-to-date review of the state of utility regulation in Britain, with some relevant overseas comparisons. The book, edited and with an introduction by Colin Robinson, covers many of the major issues and significant developments in the field of regulation and competition policy. In each case, essays by expert contributors are followed by the views of the sector regulator. This volume will prove invaluable to practitioners, policymakers and lawyers involved in monopoly regulation, regulatory reform and deregulation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction by colin robinson -- 1. Uk transport policy, 1997-2001 - stephen glaister, chairman's comments - tom winsor -- 2. Electricity: Regulatory developments around the world - stephen littlechild, chairman's comments - eileen marshall, cbe -- 3. Prospects for gas supply and demand and their implications with special reference to the UK - alexander g. Kemp and linda stephen, chairman's comments - callum mccarthy -- 4. The ingredients of effective competition policy - irwin m. Stelzer, chairman's comments - derek morris -- 5. Regulatory incentives and deregulation in telecommunications - leonard waverman, chairman's comments - david edmonds -- 6. An end to economic regulation? - robert w. Crandall, chairman's comments - penelope rowlatt -- 7. Mutualization and debt-only vehicles: Which way for rpi-x regulation? - david currie, chairman's comments - philip fletcher -- 8. International mergers: The view from a national authority - john vickers -- 9. Liberalizing postal services - john dodgson, chairman's comments - graham corbett -- Index.
    Note: Revised versions of papers and chairmens' comments from the eleventh annual series of Beesley Lectures on Regulation, held in the autumn of 2001 and jointly organized by the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School , "In association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School." , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Ecological and environmental economics : selected issues and policy responses (2003)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 361 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Tisdell, Clement A., 1939 - 2022 Ecological and environmental economics
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: Environmental economics ; Sustainable development
    Abstract: This unique collection of Clem Tisdell's articles is an eminently readable and comprehensive economic analysis of important contemporary issues involving ecological and environmental economics. Coverage includes the role of ecological economics in the modern world, welfare and ethical considerations in environmental economics, sustainability concerns, the potential role of local communities in conservation, environmental aspects of population growth, and the relevance of carrying capacity concepts. The value for environmental management of different types of governance and of alternative economic policy instruments (such as environmental taxation compared to tradable permits) is also assessed. Ecological, environmental, natural resource, geographical and development economists will all find this book of great interest and value, as will policymakers in this area
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Overview -- Part II: General issues in ecological and environmental economics -- Part III: Governance and policy instruments for environmental control -- Part IV: Environmental issues in australia, Asia and transitional economies -- Part V: Environmental health -- Index.
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    Globalisation, regionalism, and economic activity (2003)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 285 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Globalisation, regionalism and economic activity
    DDC: 337
    Keywords: World Trade Organization Congresses ; Foreign exchange Congresses ; Regionalism Congresses ; Globalization Congresses
    Abstract: The processes of globalisation and increased economic regionalism have had profound, often destabilising, effects on modern economic and financial systems. In recognition of this fact, the editors of this fine book have collected together a diverse range of heterodox ideas surrounding the complex relationships and interactions between globalisation, regionalism and economic activity. The book promotes real-world economic issues and explores them without adopting any particular methodological, ideological or theoretical agenda. A number of influential economists explore the inter-relationships between globalisation, regionalism, finance, economic growth and development from a global perspective. Amongst other topics, the book includes comprehensive discussions on fixed versus flexible exchange rates; international liquidity; the WTO dispute settlement system; the eastward expansion of the European Union; crowding-out in export led growth; demand and supply in the New Economy; the national origin of financial liberalisation in the US; and the relationship between savings and investment. The range and depth of analysis makes this book a timely and useful contribution to current policy debates. Academics, students and scholars with an interest in globalisation, international economics and macroeconomics will do well to read this eclectic and stimulating volume
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Capital account liberalisation, free long-term capital flows, financial crises and economic development -- 2. Fixed vs. flexible exchange rates, economic growth and international liquidity -- 3. Globalization, distributional conflict and inflation: The case of the us economy during the 1990s -- 4. How well is the WTO dispute settlement system working? -- 5. A fully coherent post Keynesian model of the euro zone -- 6. Finance-industry relationships in Europe and the prospects for growth and convergence -- 7. Eastward expansion of the European Union - nominal and real convergence examined -- 8. Export-led growth: Evidence of developing country crowding out -- 9. Demand and supply in the new economy -- 10. The national origin of financial liberalization: The case of the United States -- 11. Saving is the accounting record of investment -- 12. Globalization, regionalism and state capacity in developing countries: A note -- Index.
    Note: "The chapters in this book were presented as papers at the conference on 'Globalisation, Regionalism and Economic Activity' which was held in Downing College, Cambridge, in April 2002"--P. 1 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    From industrial districts to local development : an itinerary of research (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 241 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    DDC: 338.945/5
    Keywords: Industrial districts ; Industrial policy ; Industrial organization ; Economic development
    Abstract: From Industrial Districts to Local Development introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the 'Florence school' to the recent literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalisation of the concept of industrial districts, returning to Alfred Marshall's nineteenth-century writings, is rooted in an unconventional interpretation of the economic development of Tuscany after the Second World War. Models of industrial organisation and empirical investigation of industrial tendencies are featured, and Alfred Marshall's concepts of the advantages of the geographical agglomeration of specialised small firms in industrial districts are reintroduced. The authors extend the analysis of purely economic effects of agglomeration, including social, cultural and institutional foundations of local development, and current case studies are presented. This book will appeal to scholars, lecturers and researchers focusing on industrial economics, development economics and economic geography. Its references to Italian political experiences will also be of interest to policymakers in both developed and developing countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / by Werner Sengenberger -- Introduction: An itinerary -- Part I: The development of tuscany: Industrial districts -- 1. Industrial districts in the development of tuscany -- 2. The 'tuscan model' and recent trends -- 3. The past in the present: Prato's people -- Part II: Inside the district: Clues for theoreticians -- 4. The governance of transactions in the industrial district: The 'commodity market' -- 5. The incentives to decentralised creativity in local systems of small firms -- 6. Trust, interlinking transactions and credit in the industrial district -- 7. On entrepreneurship, region and the constitution of scale and scope economies -- Part III: Towards local development -- 8. Local development in the experience of Italian industrial districts -- 9. Local governance and industrial districts' competitive advantage -- 10. The multiple paths of local development -- 11. Towards a geographical redefinition of the form of the state -- Index.
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    Economic reform and the liberalisation of the Indian economy : essays in honour of Richard T. Shand (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 397 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 338.954
    Keywords: Agriculture and state Congresses ; Fiscal policy Congresses ; India Congresses Economic policy 1991-2016
    Abstract: A decade after the implementation of the initial wave of economic reforms in India, the process of transforming the country into a fully developed market economy continues. A hallmark of the globalised economy is its ability to sustain competitive efficiency which, in turn, can lead to enhanced growth. This important new book gauges how far India has been successful in achieving this goal by implementing the correct economic reform measures. There is a severe lack of solid analytical evidence or rigorous scientific studies on the success of India's economic reforms. The expert authors attempt to redress this imbalance with a thorough analysis of key aspects of the state of the Indian economy since 1991. Keeping poverty reduction as the major objective, they comprehensively discuss and identify further reform measures which are vital in the monetary, fiscal and agriculture sectors in order to maintain and improve the momentum of growth. When compared with East Asian countries including China, India's lacklustre growth performance indicates that the task of reform is far from over. The authors argue that India needs to pursue its reform process much more vigorously at both the central and state levels in order to achieve its full growth potential. Providing a comprehensive assessment of the impact of economic reforms in India, this book will appeal to policymakers, researchers and students with an interest in developing economies. Political scientists as well as economists in the fields of liberalisation and international development will also find this an engaging and enlightening volume
    Description / Table of Contents: Full Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Indian economic reforms in the east Asian context -- 1. India's economic reform programme: Lessons from classical economics -- 2. The east Asian experience and its relevance to India -- Part II: What type of agricultural reform is needed? -- 3. Sequencing in India's reform process: The agriculture-manufacturing linkages -- 4. Agricultural trade liberalisation in south Asia: From the uruguay round to the millennium round -- 5. Impact of sector-specific and macro-level reforms on agriculture: Simulations of a macroeconometric model -- Part III: What is the impact of agricultural reform on poverty? -- 6. The non-farm economic activities for the alleviation of rural poverty and inequality -- 7. Income inequality and convergence of income across Indian states -- 8. Poverty and economic growth in India -- 9. Making pris and ulbs more autonomous and effective -- Part IV: What type of monetary and fiscal reforms is needed? -- 10. Issues in the choice of a monetary regime for India -- 11. An empirical analysis of monetary transmission in India -- 12. Tax policy in India -- 13. How to think about local government reform in India -- Index.
    Note: Papers presented at a major conference on Second Generation Reforms in Chennai from 8-10 December 1999 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Developments in organizational politics : how political dynamics affect employee performance in modern worksites (2003)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
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    DDC: 302.3/5
    Keywords: Office politics ; Organizational behavior ; Bureaucracy ; Interpersonal relations ; Work environment ; Job satisfaction ; Work Psychological aspects ; Employee morale ; Labor productivity ; Performance
    Abstract: Developments in Organizational Politics presents a comprehensive analysis of organizational politics and its meaning and application for employees and managers in modern worksites. Eran Vigoda suggests an integrative model that tries to explain how politics, and especially perceptions of politics, emerges, transforms and affects employees' performance and other work related outcomes in organizations. The analysis is based on empirical data collected over almost a decade of field studies. This data uses a variety of scientific methods to demonstrate how internal politics may be related to job attitudes, behavioral intentions as well as actual behaviors of employees. Special attention is given to non-profit organizations but analysis of businesses and private firms is also included. The book will be essential reading for academics and researchers from the fields of organizational behavior, human resource management and is also useful for practitioners who struggle through the barriers of power, influence and politics in the workplace
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction to the study of organizational politics -- 1. Political behavior in organizations: Between perceptions and implementations -- 2. Organizational politics, job attitudes, and work outcomes -- 3. Organizational politics, in-role performance, and organizational citizenship behavior -- 4. Organizational politics and job distress -- 5. Cross-cultural perspectives of organizational politics -- 6. Organizational politics in virtual work sites and in a global world -- 7. Summary and implications: Interdisciplinary reflections and new directions -- Appendix 1: Measures used in the studies -- Appendix 2: Measuring organizational politics by the perceptions of organizational politics scale (POPS) -- Appendix 3: Measuring organizational politics by influence tactics -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Globalisation? : internationalisation and monopoly capitalism : historical processes and capitalist dynamism (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 198 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Milward, Bob, 1956 - Globalisation?
    DDC: 337
    Keywords: Capitalism ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Marxian economics ; Monopolistic competition ; Regional economics ; Economic history 21st century
    Abstract: This book acts as a welcome foil to current thinking on the concept of globalisation, which tends to be divided into two distinct camps: one which suggests that the neo-liberal model has triumphed and has no realistic alternative, and another which argues that globalisation, in its most extreme form, does not really exist, rather having evolved gradually from the very beginnings of industrialisation. Bob Milward presents an alternative view of globalisation and argues that indeed there has been a continuum in capitalist development, but that this has been forged by historical processes and the dynamism of the competitive forces of capitalism. He identifies the emergence of monopoly capitalism as an important shaping factor, and in so doing sheds light on issues of underdevelopment, multinational imperialism and crises in advanced capitalist economies. This radical, multidisciplinary account of the condition of the global economy, encompassing a critique of the neo-liberal foundations of orthodox global analysis, will appeal to an extensive audience. Students, researchers and academics in the fields of economics, heterodox economics, economic geography, politics, sociology, development studies, international relations and public policy will find Globalisation? Internationalisation and Monopoly Capitalism to be an engaging read
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Globalisation? -- 3. Internationalisation -- 4. Monopoly capitalism -- 5. Global finance -- 6. Industry -- 7. Culture -- 8. Labour -- 9. Welfare states -- 10. Trade -- 11. Development and underdevelopment -- 12. Regulation -- 13. Regionalisation -- 14. Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Knowledge, inequality, and growth in the new economy (2003)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
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    DDC: 331.2/2
    Keywords: Income distribution ; Wages Effect of education on ; Wages Effect of technological innovations on ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Economic development
    Abstract: During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today - information and communication technology (ICT) - does not seem to drive growth as effectively and has coincided with an apparent increase in wage inequality. This book provides explanations of these two characteristics of modern economies and analyses them from both an individual and integrated perspective. Richard Nahuis explores and combines the seemingly separate phenomena of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced by most countries. The author provides a number of alternative theories for the increase in wage inequality as a result of new technologies, combined with an extensive review of the associated literature. He goes on to detail the technological revolution, describe why this does not necessarily result in high productivity growth and outline the best methods to measure productivity in the new economy. This exhaustive exploration of productivity growth and wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers in the knowledge economy will be welcomed by economists and policymakers interested in the complex relationships between labour markets, innovation and technical change
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Knowledge and economic growth: General Introduction and outline -- 2. On technology, trade and wage inequality: A survey -- Part II: Theory -- 3. A gpt in a research and assimilation model: Exploring wage dynamics (i) -- 4. We don't see what we learn: The solow residual, a gpt and inequality -- 5. Vested interests and resistance: Adopting a general purpose technology -- 6. The skill premium and appropriability: Exploring wage dynamics (ii) -- 7. Specific technology, variety, spillovers and welfare -- Part III: Empirical applications -- 8. Economic development and trade in the world economy: Introducing worldscan -- 9. Openness, growth and r&d spillovers: An r&d-amended version of worldscan -- References -- Index.
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    Innovations in financial and economic networks (2003)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 322 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New dimensions in networks
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    DDC: 330/.01/5195
    Keywords: Finance Mathematical models ; Economics, Mathematical ; Equilibrium (Economics)
    Abstract: Networks provide the foundation for the functioning of our societies and economies. Their study has had a long tradition in such fields as engineering, operations research, management science and computer science. More recently, the disciplines of finance and economics have come to be rich and fascinating sources of network-based problems and applications. This focused and refereed volume of contributions from leading international scholars provides a wealth of innovations in the study of financial and economic networks. The volume presents entirely new results: the conceptualization of the stock market as a graph, the evolution of financial systems as networks, the incorporation of electronic transactions in international finance (from a network perspective), new formalisms for the study of supply chains (as fluid models and in an network economic framework) and new applications of agent-based computational economics trade networks with intermediaries and worker-employer networks. Finally, trade networks in web-based caching are introduced. Financial applications covered include: portfolio optimization with transaction costs, integrated pension and corporate planning, evolutionary financial networks, international finance and electronic transactions as well as hedging instruments for transportation networks. Innovative approaches to economic networks are developed in the context of supply chain and distribution networks, a variety of trade (including web-based caching) networks and even worker-employer networks. A major addition to this exciting and important subject, Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks will be an invaluable resource for economists and the networks community, as well as researchers and students in computational economics and finance, operations research, management science, applied mathematics and computer science
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Financial and economic networks: An overview -- Part I: Financial networks -- 2. On structural properties of the market graph -- 3. Multistage stochastic mean-variance portfolio analysis with transaction costs -- 4. A stochastic network approach for integrating pension and corporate financial planning -- 5. Variational inequalities for evolutionary financial equilibrium -- 6. The growing importance of networks in finance and its effects on competition -- 7. International financial networks with electronic transactions -- 8. Using financial options to hedge transportation capacity in a deregulated rail industry -- Part II: Economic networks -- 9. A supply chain network economy: Modeling and qualitative analysis -- 10. Applications of fluid modeling in distribution systems -- 11. An agent-based evolutionary trade network simulation -- 12. Evolution of worker-employer networks and behaviors under alternative non-employment benefits: An agent-based computational study -- 13. Capacity provision networks: A technology framework and economic analysis of web cache trading hubs -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Competition policy and global competitiveness in major Asian economies (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781957271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 242 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Competition policy and global competitiveness in major Asian economies
    DDC: 337.5
    Keywords: Competition Case studies Government policy ; Competition Government policy ; Globalization Case studies Economic aspects ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Competition, International ; East Asia Case studies Commercial policy ; Australia Commercial policy ; East Asia Case studies Foreign economic relations ; Australia Foreign economic relations
    Abstract: In this book, Tran Van Hoa reveals how competition policy and competitiveness are essential for contemporary economic, financial and trade management as well as national and international governance. Containing new in-depth studies of these issues and their development, the book focuses on major Asian economies encountering increasing globalisation and the prevailing influence of the WTO. In major Asian economies, competition policy, while being important for trade, development and growth, is nascent. Competition Policy and Global Competitiveness in Major Asian Economies surveys the fundamentals of competition policy and investigates how, in practice, it has been developed in major economies in the Asian region. It also contains previous lessons and experiences in the formulation and implementation of competition policy and the pitfalls that may be avoided in similar future developments. Suggesting solutions in economic development and policy reform for Asian economies in the face of increasing globalisation and WTO membership requirements, this important book will be of enormous interest to economic policymakers and advisers, academics, government officials, business executives and tertiary students
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Competition policy and global competitiveness in major Asian economies: An overview -- 2. Competition policy and global competitiveness: Theory and practice -- 3. Competition policy in apec, asean and the WTO -- 4. Competition law in apec economies and in Vietnam -- 5. Competition policy and smes in Asian transition economies: The experience of China -- 6. Korea's competition policy and its applications to other Asian economies -- 7. Thailand's global competitiveness: Some indicators -- 8. Anti-trust law and competition policy in Vietnam: Macroeconomic perspective -- 9. Competition and smes in Vietnam -- 10. Australian competition law: Experience and lessons for drafting competition law -- 11. Competition policy, global competitiveness and trade and business development in Asian economies: The future and prospects -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Economic analysis for EU accession negotiations : agri-food issues in the EU's eastward expansion (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781957578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 218 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Gaisford, James D., 1955 - Economic analysis for EU accession negotiations
    DDC: 338.1/094
    Keywords: European Union ; Agriculture and state ; Produce trade Government policy ; Food industry and trade Government policy ; Europe Economic integration
    Abstract: The expanding membership of the EU means significant changes for accession countries' international trade relations, affecting imports, exports, tax revenues, government expenditures and domestic regulatory regimes. There are also significant ramifications for the EU budget. This book is a valuable comprehensive tool kit for analysing the economic effect of EU accession, using examples from the most complex sector for both candidate countries and the EU itself - agriculture. The authors provide a complete set of market configurations with which to analyse harmonisation with the Common Agriculture Policy in both the long and short run. It also provides insights into the questions of regulatory harmonisation in areas of food safety, animal and plant health, the environment, animal welfare, technical standards and the protection of intellectual property. Background is provided on the EU and its policies, economic developments in transition economies and the accession process. The book also provides a unique insight into how negotiating positions can be developed. A wide audience will find this book of great value and interest including policymakers and analysts in governments and related think tanks, businesses and consultancy firms trading in the EU. Scholars and researchers of European studies, international trade and agriculture will also find the book invaluable
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic assessment of the common agriculture policy -- 3. Harmonizing with the common agriculture policy -- 4. Technical capacity - problems with meeting EU standards -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Growth, industrial organization and economic generalities (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304950
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Baumol, William J., 1922 - 2017 Growth, industrial organization and economic generalities
    Keywords: Economic development ; Industrial organization (Economic theory) ; Economic history
    Abstract: This compendium of essays brings together some of William Baumol's most distinguished and acclaimed papers with some that are more rare, including a discussion of the growth and innovation mechanism that accounts for the unprecedented growth performance of the market economies. Amongst many other papers of note are a discussion of appropriate regulatory principles for privatized and deregulated firms, and a survey of the accomplishments of economists in the past century and the past millennium. This collection includes the following essays: * Productivity Growth, Convergence and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Show * On the Possibility of Continuing Expansion of Finite Resources * Social Wants and Dismal Science: The Curious Case of the Climbing Costs of Health and Teaching * Towards Microeconomics of Innovation: Growth Engine Hallmark of Market Economics * Use of Antitrust to Subvert Competition * Predation and the Logic of the Average Variable Cost Test. The papers engage with an eclectic range of issues and represent a vignette of the author's varied contributions to the economic literature
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: On productivity, growth, the cost disease and scale economies -- Part II: Industrial organization, regulation and privatization -- Part III: Generalities on the economic literature -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    The economics of knowledge sharing : a new institutional approach (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 195 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The economics of knowledge sharing
    DDC: 338.9/001
    Keywords: Institutional economics ; Knowledge management
    Abstract: The Economics of Knowledge Sharing claims that useful economic knowledge is the most important foundation for the development of a sufficiently strong process of innovation. Within the framework of new institutional economics, the book looks at the institutional conditions required for the interactive sharing and dissemination of knowledge in the development of economies. It outlines in four distinct parts the complex societal process of human interaction by which knowledge is effectively generated and used. The book first considers knowledge sharing institutions, differentiating between types of interaction and types of actors. Secondly, it examines the economic role of knowledge and cognition, asking how and why human actors gather knowledge. It goes on to revisit historical questions of knowledge and embeds them within the contemporary debate, before finally reflecting on the significant relationship between technology and knowledge sharing in the digital age. Opening up a new area of research encompassing the institutional framework of the innovation process, this pathbreaking volume will be of enormous interest to a wide-ranging audience including economists in the fields of theory, innovation research, new institutional economics, evolutionary economics, history of economic thought, and education policy. As knowledge sharing interactions are akin to other kinds of competition aside from economic, this book will also be warmly welcomed by social and political scientists specialising in a variety of related topics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Knowledge sharing institutions -- 2. The institutional economics of knowledge sharing: Basic issues -- 3. New institutional economics and knowledge sharing -- Part II: Knowledge and cognition -- 4. Motivation, learning, knowledge sharing and division of labour -- 5. Processes of knowledge sharing: From cognitive psychology to economics -- 6. The cognitive basis of institutions: An evolutionary aspect -- Part III: The knowledge issue in economics -- 7. Human capital, knowledge and knowledge sharing: A view from the history of economic thoughts -- 8. Knowledge, knowledge sharing and convention in keynes' thinking -- Part IV: The regulations for digital technology -- 9. The internet: Universal information infrastructure for the emerging knowledge society -- 10. Digitalization and regulation: The German case -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    The economics of hydroelectric power (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 178 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Edwards, Brian K., 1954 - The economics of hydroelectric power
    DDC: 333.91/4
    Keywords: Electric utilities ; Hydroelectric power plants Economic aspects ; Dams Economic aspects
    Abstract: Despite the extensive body of literature on energy economics, very little economics research has been conducted that focuses specifically on dams and hydroelectric power. Brian Edwards addresses this deficiency by examining the multiple roles that dams play, as well as the role of hydroelectric power within the context of the energy industry. Brian Edwards provides an in-depth analysis of how dams are used in water management, flood control and irrigation, as well as the environmental impacts of their construction and operation. He examines the types of restrictions imposed on operators to mitigate impacts, and the resulting tradeoffs between achieving hydroelectric generation and environmental management objectives. Also covered is the role of hydroelectric power in both a regulatory framework and within the context of the energy industry deregulation that has occurred in the US and other countries. A simple dynamic model of a hydroelectric generating facility forms the basis for other models discussed. Case studies of dams operated by the United States Department of Energy are also included. Environmental economists, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and those interested in natural resources and the energy industry will find this a unique and valuable study
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The uses of dams and hydroelectric power -- 3. An overview of natural resource economics -- 4. How they work -- 5. An economic model of hydroelectric power provision -- 6. An economic model of hydroelectric power provision with environmental constraints -- 7. Hydroelectric power provision by a United States power marketing administration -- 8. Hydraulically-coupled dams: When one dam is not enough -- 9. Hydraulically-coupled dams: A case study of the aspinall unit -- 10. Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-170) and index
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    Economic institutions and complexity : structures, interactions, and emergent properties (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 186 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Schenk, Karl-Ernst, 1929 - Economic institutions and complexity
    DDC: 330
    Keywords: Institutional economics ; Evolutionary economics ; Economics Political aspects ; Economics Sociological aspects
    Abstract: This book presents a concept of interactive economic institutions and systems, considered by the author to be a bottleneck to scientific progress. In the author's evaluation of contemporary institutional economics, the focus is on the interaction of complex economic structures in terms of their coordination routines, emergent behavioural characteristics and also their economic performance. Differences of behaviour characteristics and economic performances are explained as consequences of differently structured coordination routines. The book demonstrates that complexity, rather than being part of the problem of institutional analysis, can be made part of the solution. Economic Institutions and Complexity will appeal to academics and researchers of New Institutional Economics, microeconomics, evolutionary economics, political science, organization sociology and behavioural science
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Paradigms and reasoning -- 1. Paradigms: Property rights and transaction cost analysis -- 2. How to represent economic institutions and systems -- Part II: Towards complex morphology -- 3. Systems, components and links -- 4. Coordination routines: Economic policy regimes -- 5. Coordination routines: Governance -- 6. Behaviour and multi-level morphology -- Part III: Analysis of complex morphology -- 7. System patterns: Dominant governmental direction -- 8. System patterns: Dominant regulatory regimes -- 9. System patterns: Dominant commercial regimes -- 10. Conclusion: Complexity, emergence and specification -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Rev. ed. of: New institutional dimensions of economics. c1988 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    The economic institutions of higher education : economic theories of university behavior (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781008621
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 251 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Raines, J. Patrick, 1951 - The economic institutions of higher education
    DDC: 338.4/3378
    Keywords: Education, Higher Economic aspects ; Universities and colleges Administration ; Universities and colleges Sociological aspects
    Abstract: Working within the context of the evolutionary-institutional transformation of higher education, the authors trace the development of an economic model by which the behavioral tendencies of modern universities can be evaluated. That model is expanded to provide insights to the following questions: Why do universities compete and how do they develop and implement their competitive strategies? How do universities make critical institutional decisions about operational missions, academic policies, and internal resource allocation? Do universities efficiently and effectively pursue the special social functions assigned to them? Patrick Raines and Charles Leathers present an integrated, coherent theory to explain the behavior of universities and provide a realistic economic model that predicts how universities allocate their scarce educational resources. This alternative view is contrasted with the mainstream explanations of university behavior based on the maximization of student welfare or faculty influences. The authors extend the existing literature on the operation of universities by presenting a history of the evolution of the modern entrepreneurial universities as well as an explanation of academic capitalism. This absorbing volume will appeal to anyone interested in the history of economic thought or the history of education. Scholars of Veblen, Smith, and Malthus will be fascinated by their individual and comparative theories of the purpose and failures of higher education
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical development of universities -- 3. Adam smith on failures of English universities -- 4. John stuart mill on universities -- 5. Veblen on failures of American universities -- 6. Veblen's economic 'model' of university behavior -- 7. Riesman on veblen and modern universities -- 8. The buchanan-devletoglou economic model of universities -- 9. Recent economic models of higher education -- 10. Meeting the challenge: Explaining the emergence of 'entrepreneurial universities' and 'academic capitalism' -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index
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    Modeling rational agents : from interwar economics to early modern game theory (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781956472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 464 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Giocoli, Nicola, 1967 - Modeling rational agents
    DDC: 330.15/09/04
    Keywords: Economics History 20th century ; Economists History 20th century ; Neoclassical school of economics ; Rational choice theory ; Game theory
    Abstract: 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 perfect foresight and analyses the first game-theoretic solution concepts of von Neumann and Nash. The author's proposition is that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consistency. Such a transformation paralleled that of neoclassical economics as a whole from a discipline dealing with real economic processes to one investigating issues of logical consistency between mathematical relationships. Modeling Rational Agents will be of great interest to scholars of the history of economic thought and method, as well as all those working in the field of game and decision theory
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Two images of economics -- 2. The escape from psychology -- 3. The escape from perfect foresight -- 4. Von neumann and morgenstern's game theory -- 5. Nash's game theory -- 6. Conclusion: The fall and rise of modern game theory -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    The evolutionary analysis of economic policy (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 269 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The evolutionary analysis of economic policy
    DDC: 338.9
    Keywords: Evolutionary economics ; Economic policy
    Abstract: This important book analyses evolutionary approaches to economic policy. Its main purpose is to explore the policy implications of evolutionary economics, in particular of approaches inspired on the one hand by Schumpeter and revived by Nelson and Winter which deal with industrial evolution under constant institutions and, on the other hand, of approaches inspired by Hayek and North, which analyse the ways in which institutions themselves evolve. Hitherto evolutionary economists have paid little attention to policy issues, and the relatively few policy implications that they have produced are divergent. Whereas the Neo-Schumpeterian approach has often been used to support political interventions, the Hayekian viewpoint holds that economic policy detracts from economic performance. More systematic evolutionary analysis of economic policy is required if these one-sided findings are to be transcended. Furthermore, such analysis can be expected to develop a coherent theory of economic policy which will plug the gaps and rectify the errors (such as approval of socialist planning and Japanese industrial policies) of both neoclassical and alternative approaches to policy. Evolutionary economists and policy analysts will find this book of great interest, as will economists and students of economics who are interested in enlarging their views with excursions outside the standard curriculum
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: Evolutionary thinking on economic policy -- 2. Why economic policies need comprehensive evolutionary analysis -- 3. Evolutionary markets and the design of institutional policy -- 4. Knowledge and economic policy: A plea for political experimentalism -- 5. Democracy as an evolutionary method -- 6. Ideologies, beliefs, and economic advice - a cognitive-evolutionary view on economic policy making -- 7. Equilibrium and evolutionary foundations of competition and technology policy: New perspectives on the division of labour and the innovation process -- 8. Institutional evolution, regulatory competition and path dependence -- 9. The German neuer markt as an adaptive institution -- 10. Understanding and the mobilisation of error: Eliminating controls in evolutionary learning -- Index.
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    Capital liberalization in transition countries : lessons from the past and for the future (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781957486
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Capital liberalization in transition countries
    DDC: 332/.041
    Keywords: Capital movements Congresses ; Capital movements Congresses ; Capital movements Congresses
    Abstract: This significant new book provides a succinct overview of the essential policy issues surrounding capital liberalization. The book compares the experiences of transition economies in Europe with those of advanced nations, allowing the reader to examine the changing international economic and financial environment within which transition countries have to liberalize. The book first deals with the critical issues concerning liberalization, including sequencing and financial market development. The authors move on to present an overview of the early liberalization experiences of advanced economies and East-Asian countries. This provides the context for a series of chapters reviewing liberalization progress in transition economies, in which international experts and senior officials analyze their own countries' experiences. The authors also emphasise the importance of financial market reform and the construction of a sound institutional framework if countries are to attract and productively use capital inflows. A stable financial system, whilst not infallible, is also crucial for minimizing the risk of financial crises of the type experienced by a number of countries during the 1980s and 1990s. The comprehensive scope of the subject matter and international contributions from a range of different perspectives will ensure this book is warmly received by academics and researchers with an interest in EU accession, transition economics and financial market reform. It will also serve as a useful guide to governments involved in capital liberalization in other parts of the world such as Latin America and Asia
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Capital account liberalization in the transition phase: An overview -- Part I: Policy issues and earlier experiences -- 2. Advanced country experiences with capital account liberalization -- 3. Sequencing capital account liberalization and financial sector stability -- 4. Managing capital account liberalization: Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea and Thailand -- 5. Recent codes-based liberalization in the oecd -- 6. Capital account liberalization and financial sector development in transition countries -- Part II: Transition country experiences -- 7. Capital account liberalization in ukraine -- 8. Capital account liberalization experiences in armenia -- 9. Capital flows and capital account liberalization in croatia -- 10. The liberalization of the capital account in Hungary: Experiences and lessons -- 11. Capital account liberalization and financial market reform in the republic of moldova -- 12. Capital account liberalization in Poland -- References -- Index.
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    Korea's new economic strategy in the globalization era (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 247 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Korea's new economic strategy in the globalization era
    DDC: 330.95195
    Keywords: Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; Korea (South) Congresses Economic policy 1960-1988 ; Korea (South) Congresses Economic conditions 1960-1988 ; Korea (South) Congresses Foreign economic relations
    Abstract: This book presents Korea's economic strategy to meet the emerging challenges, as it recovers from the 1997 financial crisis and moves on into the globalization and information era. For important policy areas, the authors evaluate existing policies, and offer proposals for new strategic direction that can achieve sustainable and equitable economic growth for Korea. A considerable majority of the contributing authors are involved in formulating economic strategy as policy advisors to the Korean government, and they bring to their chapters extensive experience and insights regarding Korean government policies that are rarely available to readers in such a comprehensive form. The book therefore offers a timely, practical, and unique analysis of all aspects of the Korean economy. Academics, policy practitioners, and others with interests in the Korean economy, Asian economies, development studies, and a broad sweep of other issues concerning structural reform will find in this volume a gold mine of detail and opinion
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Korea's response to globalization -- Part I: Korean geopolitical economy in the 21st century -- Part II: Strategy for international trade -- Part III: Strategy for business, finance and investment -- Part IV: Strategy for primary industries -- Part V: Strategy for labor relations and social welfare -- Part VI: Strategy for an information- and knowledge-based economy -- Index.
    Note: "A collection of papers that were presented originally at the Third Biennial Conference of the Australian Centre for Korean Studies held at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 20-21 September 2001"--p. Ack , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Moving towards the virtual workplace : managerial and societal perspectives on telework (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035305056
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 253 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Illegems, Viviane Moving towards the virtual workplace
    DDC: 331.25
    Keywords: Telecommuting ; Telecommuting Management ; Telecommuting Social aspects
    Abstract: Moving Towards the Virtual Workplace provides the first comprehensive overview of the many impacts of telework/telecommuting adoption, from both a managerial and societal perspective. This book argues that telework will be increasingly adopted in the twenty-first century, representing a far-reaching move toward the virtual workplace, with dramatic implications for the management of the workforce and for society at large. Telework, like mass production, has the potential to change society. It permits the significant reduction of the spatial and temporal constraints faced by the conventional organization of the workplace. The new virtual workplace constitutes a key step in the evolution towards a virtual society. In order to realistically assess telework's diffusion potential, the book studies, both conceptually and empirically, the technological, institutional, organizational and individual-level parameters that influence the decision to adopt telework, and the likelihood of telework's success. The book concludes that telework can have enormous socioeconomic impacts, both as a macro-level tool, reducing road transport externalities, and as a managerial instrument to motivate highly skilled workers in knowledge-based industries. As such this fascinating book will be invaluable to scholars of management, transport, economics and industrial and union relations. The telework and business community, both scholarly and practical will also find the book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. A societal perspective on telework -- 3. A managerial perspective on telework adoption: Target group implementation -- 4. A managerial perspective on telework adoption: Parameters affecting the employer's view -- 5. A managerial perspective on telework: Parameters affecting the employee's view -- 6. A societal perspective on telework: The alleviation of road transport externalities -- Appendices -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-243) and index
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    Environmental thought (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 317 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Current issues in ecological economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Environmental thought
    DDC: 333.7/2
    Keywords: Environmental sciences Philosophy
    Abstract: During the past twenty years there has been an explosive growth in research into environmental issues from a social science perspective. Ecological economics, in particular, has emerged as a true transdiscipline which seeks to conceptualise environmental concerns, thus allowing for the formulation of appropriate policy measures. This volume takes stock of this emerging body of work and offers an authoritative insight into current environmental thought. The book is divided into three broad sections: Disciplinary Approaches, Concepts and Issues. Under the heading of disciplinary approaches, the authors review the state of environmental thinking in the diverse fields of philosophy, politics, sociology, economics and law. The concepts addressed include the precautionary principle, sustainable development, environmental security and ecological modernisation. Finally, in the last section, they assess a range of crucial environmental issues such as consumption, biodiversity, global climate change and population. Each of the specially commissioned chapters is written by a recognised expert in the field, while the book as a whole offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Ecological economists, environmental researchers and environmental policy analysts will all find this an accessible and highly rewarding introduction to contemporary environmental thinking
    Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to environmental thought / Edward A. Page and John Proops -- Philosophy / Andrew Brennan -- Politics / Karena Shaw and Matthew Paterson -- Sociology / Ted Benton -- Economics / Mick Common -- Law / David Wilkinson -- The precautionary principle / Meira Hanson -- Sustainable development / Paul Ekins -- Environmental security / Edward A. Page -- Ecological modernisation / John Barry -- Consumption / Lucia A. Reisch -- Biodiversity / Bernd Klauer -- Global climate change / Matthew Paterson -- Population / Frank Jöst.
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    The evolving economy : essays on the evolutionary approach to economics (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 405 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Witt, Ulrich, 1946 - The evolving economy
    DDC: 330.1
    Keywords: Evolutionary economics
    Abstract: Change manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. The Evolving Economy covers a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the biological foundations of economic behavior to the co-evolution of firms, markets, and institutions. Ulrich Witt's individualistic approach synthesizes elements familiar from the writings of Veblen and Schumpeter on economic evolution. A conceptual debate on what the notion of evolution means in the economic context is as much emphasized as is the discussion of concrete hypotheses explaining why and how evolutionary economic change comes about. Offering an outline of a paradigm focusing on endogenous economic change, this book will be of great interest to economists and economic historians. Sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists will also find this work invaluable as it presents an encompassing assessment of the role of Darwinian thought for understanding human behavior and societal evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Evolutionary economics and the extension of evolution to the economy -- -- Part II: Evolutionary concepts and methodology -- 2. Emergence and dissemination of innovation: Some principles of evolutionary economics -- 3. Evolutionary concepts in economics -- 4. Coordination of individual economic activities as an evolving process of self-organization -- 5. Firms' market behavior under imperfect information and economic natural selection -- 6. "lock-in" vs. "critical masses" - industrial change under network externalities -- -- Part III: The darwinian perspective and the continuity hypothesis -- 7. Bioeconomics as economics from a darwinian perspective -- 8. Economics, sociobiology, and behavioral psychology on pReferences -- 9. Economic behavior and biological evolution: Some remarks on the sociobiology debate -- 10. Self-organization and economics - what is new? -- -- Part IV: Evolution in the context of new institutional economics and public choice -- 11. The evolution of economic institutions as a propagation process -- 12. The endogenous public choice theorist -- 13. Multiple equilibria, critical masses, and institutional change. The coup d'état problem -- 14. Evolution and stability of cooperation without enforceable contracts -- 15. Between appeasement and belligerent moralism: The evolution of moral conduct in international politics -- 16. Innovations, externalities and the problem of economic progress -- -- Part V: The evolutionary approach and the austrian school of economics -- 17. Subjectivism in economics - a suggested reorientation -- 18. Endogenous change - causes and contingencies -- 19. Turning austrian economics into an evolutionary theory -- 20. Do entrepreneurs need firms? A contribution to a missing Chapter in austrian economics -- -- Index.
    Note: Selected essays from various sources , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Firms' investment and finance decisions : theory and empirical methodology (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
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    Keywords: Capital investments Congresses ; Corporations Congresses Finance
    Abstract: This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using several unique and high quality microeconomic data-sets, which explore features seldom addressed. Overall, the empirical results confirm theoretical precedents. Some firms are indeed financially constrained, for fixed investment as well as for R&D projects. The 'free cash-flow' hypothesis holds, that is managers divert excess funds away for their own interests, but less so in closely controlled companies. In accordance with the real option theory, the results suggest that uncertainty leads firms to adopt a 'wait and see' strategy which eventually reduces investment, especially for irreversible investment. Corporate governance features are shown to affect managers, discipline and companies' restructuring plans. Finally, different tax reforms are evaluated, and an alternative tax structure that would stimulate growth is proposed. Scholars, including those with an interest in microeconomics and econometrics, and staff within central banks and national and international organisations will also find the book of interest, as will policymakers and decision-makers concerned with the role of financing, corporate governance and taxation on firm's decisions
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword by guy quaden -- Introduction -- 1. Lifting the burden: Fundamental tax reform and us economic growth -- 2. Structural modelling of financial constraints on investment: Where do we stand? -- 3. Capital market imperfections and investment: Evidence from belgian panel data -- 4. Investment, r&d and liquidity constraints: A corporate governance approach to the belgian evidence -- 5. Financing and investment interdependencies in unquoted belgian companies: The role of venture capital -- 6. Financing constraints, fixed capital and r&d investment decisions of belgian firms -- 7. Real options and investment under uncertainty: What do we know? -- 8. Development path and capital structure of belgian biotechnology firms -- 9. Investment, uncertainty and irreversibility: Evidence from belgian accounting data -- 10. The impact of uncertainty on investment plans: A survey data approach -- 11. Governance as a source of managerial discipline -- 12. Capital structure, firm liquidity and growth -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    The status of women in classical economic thought (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781956854
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
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    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Women Economic conditions ; Women Social conditions ; Sex role Economic aspects ; Classical school of economics ; Economics History
    Abstract: The Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought is the first volume to explore how the classical economists explained the status of women in society. As the essays show, the focus of the classical school was not nearly as limited to the activities of men as conventional wisdom has supposed. The contributors explore their insights and how they illuminate contemporary economic debates regarding women's status. The classical school specified a number of fundamental research themes which have since dominated how economists approach this topic. A sophisticated response was developed to the question: why is it that in all human societies women have suffered a lower status than that enjoyed by men? Those who theorized on the question are covered here and include: Poulain de la Barre, John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Nicolas and Sophie de Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Priscilla Wakefield, Jean-Baptiste Say, Nassau Senior, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, Harriet Martineau, William Thompson and Anna Wheeler. Economists interested in the history of their discipline as well as women's studies scholars from history, philosophy and politics will find this an enlightening volume. Non-technical in nature, it will also appeal to anyone interested in how economists have explained the economic and social status of women
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Gender relations and classical economics - the evolution of a tradition -- 2. Poulain de la barre and the rationalist analysis of the status of women -- 3. John locke, equality of rights and diversity of attributes -- 4. Biology and environment: Montesquieu's relativist analysis of gender behaviour -- 5. Adam smith, stage theory and the status of women -- 6. Women's progress and 'the end of history' -- 7. Condorcet and equality of the sexes: One of many fronts for a great fighter for liberty of the eighteenth century -- 8. Cultivating sympathy: Sophie condorcet's letters on sympathy -- 9. 'Let there be no distinction between the sexes': Jeremy bentham on the status of women -- 10. An eighteenth-century English feminist response to political economy: Priscilla wakefield's reflections (1798) -- 11. The market for virtue: Jean-baptiste say on women in the economy and society -- 12. Women in nassau senior's economic thought -- 13. William thompson and anna doyle wheeler: A marriage of minds on jeremy bentham's doorstep -- 14. Taking harriet martineau's economics seriously -- 15. John stuart mill, harriet taylor and French social theory -- Index.
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    Industrial relations in China (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
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    DDC: 331/.0951
    Keywords: Industrial relations ; Labor policy ; Labor ; Labor unions ; Labor movement
    Abstract: This enlightening book provides the first systematic introduction to, and exploration of, the emerging system of industrial relations in China, and draws on the authors' extensive research and direct involvement in the developments taking place. The authors argue that there are both unifying and fragmenting elements to the ongoing development of industrial relations, but overall it is one in which the state continues to maintain a major, and direct, influence. Divisions between workers and managers may be escalating with increased open conflicts, but this book reveals that the picture is far more complex and contradictory than to assume that the solution is convergence with western style industrial relations systems. They conclude that industrial relations institutions and processes still act within a political context and with the guiding hand of the Chinese Communist party. Industrial Relations in China draws on up-to-date material and will ensure the book's appeal to industrial relations and Chinese scholars. It will also appeal to a wider audience of Asian labour and development studies scholars
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I. Institutional arrangements -- 2. The role of government -- 3. Enterprises and managers -- 4. Workers -- 5. Trade unions -- Part II. Industrial relations processes -- 6. Participation -- 7. Labour conflict and settlement -- 8. Collective contract -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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    Knowledge, technological catch-up and economic growth (2003)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 172 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Rogers, Mark Knowledge, technological catch-up and economic growth
    DDC: 338/.064
    Keywords: Diffusion of innovations ; Technological innovations ; Economic development
    Abstract: Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm capabilities - the central argument of the book is that the extent of knowledge diffusion is an important determinant of economic growth. Mark Rogers uses both neoclassical and endogenous growth models to construct testable hypotheses in order to gauge whether countries that are good at acquiring and diffusing new knowledge actually do achieve faster economic growth. His empirical analysis uses new data on communications, international business links, and study abroad in order to proxy absorptive capability and to test these hypotheses. Arguing that existing research on the role of knowledge is underdeveloped, the book aims to convince mainstream economists who perceive knowledge as conceptually vague and too difficult to measure, that the role of knowledge can in fact be analysed and quantified. Making new contributions to the understanding of economic growth, this book will appeal to students, researchers, economists and policy makers with a particular interest in economic performance and the growth process, and knowledge management and technology
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Knowledge in neoclassical growth models -- 3. Knowledge in endogenous growth models -- 4. Modelling technological catch-up -- 5. Imitation and growth -- 6. The empirical analysis of economic growth: An overview -- 7. Technological catch-up and convergence in empirical analysis -- 8. Study abroad and economic growth -- 9. Communications and economic growth -- 10. International business links and economic growth -- 11. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Globalizing Europe : deepening integration, alliance capitalism, and structural statecraft (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781952870
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 333 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in international business
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Globalizing Europe
    DDC: 337.1/4
    Keywords: Globalization ; European Union countries Economic integration ; European Union countries Economic policy
    Abstract: Globalizing Europe examines the involvement of the European Union in the deepening integration that results as trade and transnational production link markets and economic systems across the world. This process is posing a unique challenge to European decision-makers to implement measures that will maximize the benefits and reduce the costs of globalization. As Europe expands and becomes more integrated it is being obliged to assume greater control over the development of its external economic relations. To effect this, the authors propose that member states play a more active and constructive role in the global political economy. They advocate the planning and implementation of major initiatives that could ensure greater stability in the world economy. Because of the magnitude of the economic bonds developing between the EU and the USA, special attention is paid to the trends and issues associated with the evolution of Atlantic relations. One of the greatest challenges the authors highlight, and a theme implicit throughout the book, is that the EU's external problems may receive inadequate attention due to the complexities of its decision processes. EU-level decision-making may become more introspective, rather than global, in outlook. Combining firm, industry, regional and country levels of analysis with the diverse and provocative views of the authors, this book will be essential reading for scholars of international economics, international political economy, and international business and finance
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The European Union in the global economy at the millennium -- 2. Globalizing Europe: The overall picture -- 3. Specialization matters, and so does technological accumulation: The case of Europe -- 4. Mergers and acquisitions in globalizing Europe -- 5. Corporate restructuring, corporate strategy and European integration -- 6. European welfare states: Regionalization, globalization and policy change -- 7. The EU in world finance -- 8. The changing nature and determinants of EU trade policies -- 9. Macroeconomic management in the European Union -- 10. European macroeconomic policy interdependencies -- 11. European Union planning for international economic cooperation -- Index.
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    The Asian economies in the twentieth century (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035303908
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 250 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 330.95/043
    Keywords: Asia Economic conditions 20th century
    Abstract: The rapidly increasing importance of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan both in Asia and in the world economy, represents a trend that is set to continue into the 21st century. This book provides an authoritative assessment of the 20th century performance of these countries, and in particular the factors contributing to the acceleration of Asian growth in the latter part of the century. The contributors look at Asia within a global perspective and detailed comparisons are drawn with Australia and the USA. Contributions from leading experts offer a comprehensive review of the procedures necessary to establish valid international comparisons for countries with very different economic histories and levels of development. These include methods of growth performance measurement and techniques of growth accounting. The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century will be an indispensable new tool for policy analysts, international agencies and academic researchers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Measuring Asian performances -- 2. The international comparison of real product and productivity -- 3. International comparison of farm sector performance: Methodological options and empirics findings for Asia-Pacific economies, 1900-94 -- 4. A comparison of real output and productivity levels in australian and United States manufacturing, 1970-95 -- 5. Industrial output and labour productivity in China 1949-94: A reassessment -- 6. Twentieth century economic performance of India -- 7. Indonesia's growth performance in the twentieth century -- 8. The long-term performance of the Japanese economy -- 9. Realising growth potential: South Korea and Taiwan, 1960 to 1998 -- Index.
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    Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781782543701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 318 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Studies of small and medium size enterprises in East Asia series v. 1
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia
    DDC: 338.6/42/095
    Keywords: Small business Congresses ; Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; Financial crises Congresses ; Small business Congresses Finance
    Abstract: The 1997 financial and economic crisis in East Asia provided the catalyst for an important reappraisal of the Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) sector across the region. In this timely book, a distinguished group of contributors discusses the role of SMEs in the globalisation of the East Asian economies, and assess how the financial crisis has impacted on them. They focus on a number of key aspects of SMEs in the region, including: * financing issues * the role of entrepreneurship * the diffusion of technology in the region * Chinese small businesses * SME requirements for information technology * the opportunities afforded by electronic commerce * regional labour markets and their impact on SMEs. Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia will appeal to academics and researchers of Asian economies and studies, globalisation and those interested in industrial organisation
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Study of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia / Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee -- 2. The Asian Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Regional SMEs / Charles Harvie -- 3. SMEs in the Globalised Developing Economies: Some Asia-Pacific Examples / Henry Wan, Jr. -- 4. SMEs in Southeast Asia: Issues and Constraints in the Pre- and Post-Crisis Environments / Henry Sandee -- 5. Trade Finance for East Asian SMEs and the Asian Financial Crisis / Donald G. Ross -- 6. Financing Issues: SME IPOs in China and Australia / Gurmeet S. Bhabra, John G. Powell, Jing Shi and Tian Ze -- 7. Small and Medium Enterprises: Evaluating Foreign Direct Investments in the Presence of Political Risk / Boon-Chye Lee and John G. Powell -- 8. The Role of SMEs in the Diffusion of Technology among East Asian Economies / Tim Turpin -- 9. Requirements for SME Information Technology / Craig Van Slyke, Christopher Conca and Kenneth Trimmer -- 10. Electronic Commerce and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia / Boon-Chye Lee -- 11. SMEs and Regional Labour Markets: Major Trends Since 1997 / Peter van Diermen -- 12. From Miracle to Crisis and Beyond: The Role of Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Asia / Hock-Beng Cheah -- 13. Small Chinese Businesses after the Asian Crisis: Surviving and Reviving / Constance Lever-Tracy and David Ip -- 14. Connections, Culture and Context: Business Relationships and Networks in the Asia-Pacific Region / Liz Fulop and David Richards -- 15. Franchising: An Interdependent Alternative to Independent SMEs / Leo Paul Dana, Hamid Etemad and Richard W Wright.
    Note: Papers presented at an international conference, organized by the International Business Research Institute of the University of Wollongong, Australia, held in Wollongong on June 16-17, 2000 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Managing know-who based companies : a multinetworked approach to knowledge and innovation management (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304707
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 293 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: 2nd ed
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Harryson, Sigvald, 1966 - Managing know-who based companies
    DDC: 658.4/038
    Keywords: Communication in management ; Organizational learning ; Information resources management ; Knowledge management
    Abstract: In this fully revised and updated second edition of the widely acclaimed first volume, Sigvald Harryson provides powerful evidence as to how the most successful innovators are distinguished by their ability to synergistically link external and internal knowledge networks. Based on extensive research with leading global innovators along with ten years of experience in management of knowledge and technology for accelerated innovation, Managing Know-Who Based Companies provides practical guidance regarding how to manage these networks. Important theoretical arguments that advance our thinking about managing knowledge for innovation are also presented. The author studies how individuals and teams who possess the required active empathy and relationship-building skills to function as human knowledge bridges across various centres of excellence, functions and teams - the 'know-who' - are central to successful innovation in the global value networks of today's business environment. This book is recommended reading for CEOs of multinational companies who wish to make better use of the value networks in which they live and do business. It will also be of significant value to CTOs, CKOs and Human Resource Managers interested in new ways to turning both hard technologies and soft human brainpower within and beyond the corporate borders into faster and more powerful innovation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / by Peter Lorange -- Preface -- 1. Introduction and objectives -- 2. Know-who based R&D projects -- 3. Crystallizing know-who based networking -- 4. Developing a model for know-who based innovation -- 5. Adding knowledge creation for innovation performance -- 6. Taking a multinetworked approach to K&I management -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Beyond rules in society and business (2002)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 401 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in leadership series
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    DDC: 174/.4
    Keywords: Business ethics ; Management Moral and ethical aspects ; Leadership Moral and ethical aspects ; Responsibility ; Values
    Abstract: This provocative book challenges traditional tenets about behavioral regulation in society as well as in business. Verner Petersen asserts that attempts to solve ethical problems by creating explicit guidelines, codes and rules discourage individual reflection and responsibility. Likewise, attempts to put important aspects of human life into tabular form, by devising schemes for counting everything that matters, have serious flaws, leading to further erosion of individual responsibility and insight. This book stresses the importance of tacit knowledge, ineffable values and a shared social grammar, as the foundation for individual responsibility and ethical awareness. It shows how the moral fabric of societies may be inculcated, changed and kept alive through individual decisions and actions. Based upon these ideas he argues that the open-endedness of self-regulation is the only viable alternative to modern bureaucratic attempts to regulate and control behavior. Instead of explicit regulation from the outside, putting a leash on a straining economic logic, it argues that this logic can be contained by the self-regulation of business and the responsible entrepreneurship of individual decision-makers. To make this possible Petersen presents a new view of leadership. He shows how spirited leadership can give direction, sense and latitude to employees, and asserts the importance of tacit knowledge and ineffable values for achieving coherence and unity of purpose. Scholars and students interested in management, leadership and ethics will find this well-argued volume intriguing and convincing as will business practitioners, HR professionals and those concerned with public regulation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword prologomena: Strings of thought -- Part I. Acute problems -- 1. The erosion of responsibility -- 2. Ambiguous spirals of decay -- 3. Deceptive measures -- Part II: Tacit foundations -- 4. Tacit knowledge and understanding -- 5. Arguments for a social grammar -- 6. Weaving the moral fabric -- Part III: Expressive actions -- 7. Containing the logic -- 8. Self-organising solutions -- 9. spirited and value-based leadership -- References -- Index.
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    Complexity and ecosystem management : the theory and practice of multi-agent systems (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 344 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    DDC: 333.95
    Keywords: Ecosystem management Congresses
    Abstract: The quality of ecosystems is affected by the actions of different stakeholders who use them in a variety of ways. In order to understand this complex relationship between humans and nature, it is vital to understand the complexity of the interacting agents. The authors in this book attempt to do this by applying multi-agent systems to the problems of ecosystem management. The multi-agent approach to ecosystem management is a relatively new and rapidly developing field which takes a formal computational approach towards the interaction of humans with their environment. The authors highlight some of the promising new methodologies which are emerging in the field from disciplines such as computer science and computational social science. They move on to address a number of important topics including diffusion processes, common-pool resources, land use change and the participatory use of models, in an attempt to solve contemporary management issues. They clearly demonstrate the potential utility of multi-agent systems in the context of theoretical problems and practical case studies. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the theory and application of multi-agent systems for ecosystem management. It will prove indispensable for ecological economists, natural resource and social scientists, and policymakers. It will also appeal to students and scholars who are interested in modelling the human dimensions of global environmental change
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Methods and concepts -- Part II: Applications -- References -- Index.
    Note: Edited papers from the Biannual Meeting of the Society for Ecological Economists held in Canberra, Australia, 2000 , Includes index , Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-342)
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    Ethics, equity, and international negotiations on climate change (2002)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 181 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 363.738/74526
    Keywords: Climatic changes Government policy ; Environmental ethics
    Abstract: Climate change is an issue in which every human being on the planet is a potential stakeholder. Therefore, equity and ethical considerations have an important role to play in determining a climate change response strategy that will prevent the worst case scenario. In this context, the authors of this important new book attempt to provide a better understanding of the practical and analytical issues surrounding climate change negotiations. Each of the chapters reflects on an issue linked to the concepts of ethics, equity and climate change such as economics, morality, politics, rights and law, philosophy, and atmospheric science. The authors, who come from a diverse range of national, disciplinary and sectoral backgrounds, advance pragmatic policy suggestions to enhance international negotiations on climate change and highlight the value of considering more humanistic aspects in the negotiation process. Greenhouse gas emissions are widely considered to be the ultimate environmental externality and consequently an issue of great contemporary concern. This insightful and original treatment of the important issues will be welcomed by climate change negotiators, policymakers, and economic, environmental and social researchers. It will also be of interest to anyone who believes that the negotiation process may benefit from a more deep-rooted shift in social attitudes and beliefs
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Ethics, equity and climate change: An overview -- 2. Equity, responsibility and climate change -- 3. Equity and climate change -- 4. Analysing ethics, equity and climate change in the sustainomics trans-disciplinary framework -- 5. Equity and the clean development mechanism: Equity, additionality, supplementarity -- 6. Ethics, equity and the convention on climate change -- 7. The ethics of international emissions trading -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    International climate policy to combat global warming : an analysis of the ancillary benefits of reducing carbon emissions (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781782542742
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 185 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    DDC: 363.738/74526
    Keywords: Climatic changes Government policy ; Global warming Government policy ; Greenhouse gas mitigation Government policy
    Abstract: In their pursuit of policies to combat global warming, countries will find that they may also receive additional benefits which are not directly associated with the primary aim. These ancillary benefits are likely to include, for example, a reduction in pollution as a result of carbon containment policies. International Climate Policy to Combat Global Warming is one of the first books which analyses climate policy, taking account of ancillary as well as primary benefits. The author integrates ancillary benefits into the theory and explores the implications for international policy measures. Because of the private character of ancillary benefits, the author is able to treat climate policy as an impure public good which in turn has an impact on the efficient climate protection level. He highlights the general failures of the standard approach to climate policy design and goes on to propose a new approach to international negotiations on climate change. He suggests a flexible matching scheme which would help overcome free-rider incentives and which would have considerable advantages over traditional co-operative designs. By proposing a novel framework for the analysis of, and solution to, the problem of global warming, this book will be welcomed by environmental and ecological economists, policymakers and researchers of political science
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 -- 2 Benefits of Climate Policy 5 -- 3 Climate Policy as an Impure Public Good 35 -- 4 International Transfers 51 -- 5 Matching Schemes 89 -- 6 Summary and Conclusions 123 -- A Emissions and Targets 127 -- B Ancillary Effects 129 -- C Samuelson Condition 131 -- D Comparative Static Model 133 -- E Matching Model 149 -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-177) and index
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    Environmental economics for sustainable growth : a handbook for practitioners (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304189
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 567 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Environmental economics for sustainable growth
    DDC: 338.9/27
    Keywords: Environmental policy Handbooks, manuals, etc Economic aspects ; Sustainable development Handbooks, manuals, etc
    Abstract: Environmental Economics for Sustainable Growth is a specially designed handbook for trainers, practitioners and government advisors involved in environmental policy making. It will enable professionals to initiate and implement environmental economic studies and identify policies and investments which will ensure sustainable development in their respective countries. The book focuses on economic tools but also encompasses ecological and sociological perspectives, all of which are essential to any successful environmental policy. The authors highlight the major issues in environmental policy making and the analysis of projects with environmental impacts. Features include: * sustainable development in a global context * macroeconomic policies and the environment * environmental policies and priorities * legal and institutional dimensions * integration of environmental assessment into project analysis * valuation techniques and case studies. This handbook will be of immense use in the training of policymakers, practitioners, and students of environmental policy as well as development managers and scholars working in the areas of environment and development
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction and structure -- Part I: Economy-wide policies and the environment -- 2. Sustainable development vision in a global context -- 3. Macroeconomic policies and the environment -- 4. Sectoral policies and the environment -- 5. Policies, instruments and the environment -- 6. Laws, regulations and institutions -- 7. National environmental strategies -- 8. Economy-wide policies and the valuation of environmental impacts -- Part II: Environmental valuation methods for policies and projects -- 9. Economic principles and overview of valuation methods -- 10. Revealed preference: Direct proxy methods -- 11. Revealed preference: Indirect proxy methods -- 12. Stated preference: Contingent valuation methods -- 13. Use of monetary values of environmental and natural resources for benefit-cost analysis: An application to a soil moisture conservation project in tunisia -- 14. Use of monetary values of environmental and natural resources in the framework of national accounts: An application to costa rica -- 15. Valuing health impacts: A case study of air pollution in new delhi, India -- Index.
    Note: "In association with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank." , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    The European Monetary Union in a public choice perspective (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304424
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 318 pages)
    Series Statement: The Locke Institute
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Martin-Das, Jennifer C. The European Monetary Union in a public choice perspective
    DDC: 332.4/566/094
    Keywords: Economic and Monetary Union ; Monetary unions ; Europe Economic integration
    Abstract: The future of European Monetary Union (EMU) stands as one of the most important economic issues of the era. The author argues that in the event of macroeconomic shocks, rather than acting as a cohesive force, EMU could give rise to disunity. As EMU is not an optimal currency area, asymmetric shocks affecting each country differently could be critical to its future. The success of EMU depends upon the ability of institutions in the EU to satisfy the monetary and fiscal policy demands of sufficient numbers of national constituents, interest groups, and multinational corporations. This book employs principles from public choice to analyze the EU institutions that participate in the monetary policy making process of EMU and assesses whether they have the mechanisms to cope with asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. In particular, it examines the European Council, Council of Ministers, European Commission, European Parliament and the European Central Bank. This book provides an invaluable critique of the EMU plan and will be of interest to scholars of European economics, macroeconomics and public choice
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. European economic and monetary integration, prior to the creation of the european communities -- 3. European economic and monetary integration: The creation and development of the european communities -- 4. The theory of currency unions -- 5. Economic background to the European monetary union -- 6. Monetary and fiscal policy and institutions in the European monetary union -- 7. A rational choice approach to the political marketplace of the European Union -- 8. Institutions and monetary policy -- 9. Macroeconomic shocks to the European monetary union -- 10. Political implications of macroeconomic shocks -- 11. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-308) and index
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    Governance and economic development : a comparative institutional approach (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781959923
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 433 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New thinking in political economy
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Ahrens, Joachim, 1963 - Governance and economic development
    DDC: 338.7
    Keywords: Corporate governance ; Corporate governance ; Corporate governance ; Industrial policy ; Industrial policy ; Industrial policy ; Post-communism ; Economic development ; Developing countries Economic conditions ; Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1989- ; East Asia Economic conditions
    Abstract: The main theme of this study is the political economy of policy reform in less developed countries and post-socialist countries. Given the complexity of economic development and transition, Joachim Ahrens views failures in policy reform, poor public sector management, rent-seeking, corruption, and over-centralization as systematic, though not exclusive, instances of institutional failure. This interdisciplinary study looks for ways of constructing effective market-enhancing governance structures that provide appropriate incentive systems to cope with such failures. No blueprint is offered, but the book provides a conceptual governance framework that can be applied in a comparative way to analyze economic, political, and social obstacles to policy and institutional reform. The concept is not only used to analyze the politico-institutional foundation of policy reform in East Asia and Eastern Europe, but it also allows to elaborate country specific strategies to craft institutional safeguards that help overcome impediments to development and transition. This innovative book, which overcomes the conventional perspective of a government-market dichotomy, will be of interest to researchers, students, policymakers and all those concerned with the impact of the dialectic interaction between political and economic forces on economic development
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: Market, state, and economic development -- Part I: Policy reform, institutions, and economic performance -- 2. The washington consensus and its limits -- 3. From new political economy to new institutional economics -- 4. Institutional change and economic performance -- Part II: Governance: Theory and practice -- 5. Governance and economic performance: Conceptual considerations -- 6. Governance in practice: Evidence from less developed countries and economies in transition -- 7. Rethinking effective governance: Politico-institutional structures and economic development in comparative perspective -- Appendix -- References -- Index.
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    The foreign economic policies of Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 330 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Dent, Christopher M., 1965 - The foreign economic policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
    DDC: 337.51
    Keywords: Singapore Foreign economic relations ; Singapore Commercial policy ; Singapore Economic policy ; Korea (South) Foreign economic relations ; Korea (South) Commercial policy ; Korea (South) Economic policy ; Taiwan Foreign economic relations ; Taiwan Commercial policy ; Taiwan Economic policy 1945-
    Abstract: 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 policies, highlighting how the NIE-3 have engaged with the international economic system in an increasingly dynamic way. The book develops a new macro-framework of foreign economic policy analysis that provides the structure for this study. The author argues that the 'development context' of the NIE-3's foreign economic policies is grounded in their common development statism and semi-peripheralisation. He further contends that it is the pursuit of economic security that primarily motivates their respective foreign economic policies. This new conceptualisation of economic security in the context of foreign economic policy will appeal to academics, researchers and students in wide range of disciplines including: Asian studies, international relations, international political economy, economics and politics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Foreign economic policy: A new macro-analytical framework -- 2. The development context: Developmental statism and semi-peripheralization in perspective -- 3. Singapore: The fep of a global city-state -- 4. South Korea: The fep of a deconstructing developmental state -- 5. Taiwan: The fep of a contested state -- 6. Conclusion: A comparative summary -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320) and index
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    The contingent valuation of natural parks : assessing the warmglow propensity factor (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304745
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 258 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Nunes, Paulo A. L. D., 1970 - The contingent valuation of natural parks
    DDC: 333.78/3
    Keywords: Contingent valuation ; Parks Economic aspects
    Abstract: The contingent valuation technique for measuring the economic value of environmental goods and services has become increasingly popular in recent years and has many advantages over other revealed or stated preference methods. It has been criticised, however, for being inconsistent with economic theory by reflecting altruistic motives and moral obligations. This book examines the role of the 'warmglow' effect (the pleasure derived from giving to good causes or being concerned about the environment) in contingent valuation studies and examines whether warmglow is an underlying force in CV responses. The author argues that if the empirical evidence suggests that warmglow is important, then its magnitude needs to be assessed in the valuation function. The ultimate goal is to disentangle the warmglow effect from the original 'willingness-to-pay' mean estimates and compute a dry estimate, free from any warmglow. The author conducts a CV application in a Portuguese natural park to test the validity of this approach. He tests the premise that the financial contribution by itself constitutes a source of well-being to the respondent and also discusses whether the warm glow component should or should not be included when formulating benefit-cost analysis and environmental policy. This innovative book will be essential reading to all students and scholars of the economics of environmental valuation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Economic valuation, warmglow and preference modelling -- 1. Values, valuation methods and contingent valuation: An overview -- 2. Evaluating cv measurement validity: Separating the light from the heat -- 3. Modelling consumer pReferences -- Part II: Survey design and implementation -- 4. Preliminary design research -- 5. Structure of the final survey instrument -- 6. Survey execution -- Part III: Analysis of the survey results -- 7. Descriptive analysis of the survey responses -- 8. Non-parametric testing procedures of the stated wtp responses -- 9. A univariate estimation of the stated wtp responses -- 10. Operationalization of consumer motivations -- 11. The valuation function -- 12. Conclusions -- Part IV: Appendices and bibliographic -- A. Derivation of comparative static results -- B. Comprehensive Indexc. The survey instrument: Questionnaire and visual aid -- D. Public opinion with respect to government policy issues -- E. Information context: Multivariate regression analysis -- F. Factor analysis -- G. Warmglow payment vehicle cross effect: Estimation results -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index
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    Environmental co-operation and institutional change : theories and policies for European agriculture (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781782543916
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 385 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Environmental co-operation and institutional change
    DDC: 333.76/094
    Keywords: Agriculture Congresses Environmental aspects ; Agricultural ecology Congresses ; Agriculture and state Congresses ; Sustainable development Congresses
    Abstract: Although the history of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is dominated by a process of centralisation, growing pressures to integrate agri-environmental problems into the CAP have revealed the need to embrace decentralised approaches in an efficient federal structure. Indeed, in recent years it has become increasingly evident that the agricultural sector must undergo fundamental changes in order to enter an era of sustainable development. The authors do not believe that this will be an easy process, not only because agricultural policies in Europe are dominated by specific interest groups, but primarily because integrating environmental aspects into the CAP requires difficult institutional change at different levels. Centralised decision making at the EU level has characterised recent agricultural policy and the authors argue that centralised and hierarchical governance structures may fail to produce adequate solutions if they are not linked to regional and more diverse institutional arrangements. They demonstrate how these new institutional arrangements should be designed and how this change can be organised. In particular, they highlight the need for cooperation, and the participation of farmers, as a strategy to cope with agri-environmental issues and resource management problems. Addressing the value of co-operative strategies to achieve sustainable development and cope with agri-environmental problems, this book will be of great interest to agricultural economists and those with an interest in ecological reforms of agricultural policies. It will also be particularly relevant to policymakers within EU nations, as well as policymakers within the countries of Eastern and Central Europe who will be amongst the first to be admitted to the EU in the next wave of expansion
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Theoretical approaches and institutional foundations of environmental co-operation -- Part II: Designing and managing environmental co-operatives: The dutch experience -- Part III: Governance structures and learning processes for changing agricultural practices -- Part IV: Implementation of agri-environmental policies as an issue of collective action -- Part V: The role of co-operative arrangements in implementing environmental policies -- Part VI: Knowledge systems, stakeholders' interests and conflict resolution in protected areas -- Part VII: Promoting environmental protection by co-operative marketing of food products -- Index.
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    Essays in economic theory, growth, and labour markets : a festschrift in honour of E. Drandakis (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781782543602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (a xviii, 293 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Essays in economic theory, growth and labour markets
    DDC: 330
    Keywords: Economics ; Labor market
    Abstract: The distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth, general equilibrium, labor economics and game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic research. They provide fresh insights and approaches to the analysis of these issues, and thus open up wider avenues for our understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems as, for example, unemployment, the intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of wages to price and endowment changes. These contributions, in conjunction with the realisation that the papers are written by some of the most distinguished economists in the respective areas, make the volume an attractive addition for all who are interested in the contemporary research and teaching of economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Economic growth -- 1. Some early conferences on growth theory -- 2. Discounting and the growth of net national product -- Part II: General equilibrium -- 3. Equilibrium selections -- 4. Extensive form implementation of weak fine core allocations through penalties -- 5. Nonlinear neighbourhood interactions and intergenerational transmission of human capital -- 6. Beliefs and the neutrality of money -- 7. Towards a general theory of real capital -- Part III: Labor economics -- 8. Endowment changes, price response, and the behavior of wages -- 9. The pace of work and pay -- 10. The incidence of increased unemployment in the group of seven, 1970-94 -- 11. Labor incentives and manumission in ancient greek slavery -- Part IV: Game theory and applications -- 12. Agency games -- 13. The role of beliefs, knowledge, and rationality in non-cooperative games -- 14. The economics of research joint ventures -- Index.
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    The macroeconomics of East Asian growth (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304523
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 241 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Wu, Yanrui, 1964 - The macroeconomics of East Asian growth
    DDC: 338.95
    Keywords: Macroeconomics ; East Asia Case studies Economic conditions
    Abstract: During the past few decades the economies of East and South East Asia have grown at a significant rate, resulting in a large proportion of the world's population being relieved from poverty in a relatively short space of time. This unprecedented phenomena underlines the importance of understanding the driving forces behind the growth 'miracle' of East Asia. Yanrui Wu addresses some of the most critical macroeconomic issues associated with East Asian growth. Principally focusing on the most rapidly emerging economies in the region, the author covers a broad base of topics. Several determinants of growth are examined and in each case an analytical framework is applied to empirical data. Specific themes include: * economic openness and growth * stock market development * intra-industry trade * growth engines in Singapore * productivity growth in Taiwan * the Asian financial crisis. Employing both cross-country analyses and case studies of individual economies, this important new book substantially contributes to the many debates surrounding economic growth in East Asia. The author's concise yet absorbing style will appeal to economic researchers, lecturers and students of economics, as well as business economists and market analysts
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Openness and growth -- 3. The impact of stock markets -- 4. Intra-industry trade -- 5. The role of productivity growth -- 6. Mechanics of growth: The singaporean experience -- 7. Asian financial crisis and recovery -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-236) and index
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    The evolution of the stock market in China's transitional economy (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 187 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Advances in Chinese economic studies series
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Chen, Jianxun, 1933 - The evolution of the stock market in China's transitional economy
    DDC: 332.64/251
    Keywords: Stock exchanges ; Free enterprise
    Abstract: The establishment of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in December 1990 was a landmark in China's institutional transformation. With this in mind, the authors consider the factors relating to institutional change - such as changes in the financial system, the scale and structure of stock market, operational efficiency and the regulatory system of the stock market. During the course of its development the Chinese stock market has experienced speculation, dramatic fluctuations and violations of market regulations of frequent and diverse natures. There is therefore, urgent need for the discussion contained within this volume of best procedure policies for the establishment of a properly ordered and regulated market. The authors assess the operational performance of listed companies, and changes in the external environment such as the impact of China's accession to the WTO on the stock market. The authors find that WTO accession will have a more serious impact on the more heavily protected agricultural sector and on capital-intensive industries such as automobile, instruments, cotton and wheat to name a few. They argue that the fundamental reason for the inefficiency of China's stock market is the weakness of the competitive mechanism leading to imperfect competition and rent-seeking activity. This book will be of great interest to academics and researchers of Asian studies and money and finance. Multinational enterprise managers, as well as brokers, dealers, business economists and others involved in the global financial markets will also find this book of value
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Institutional change and the stock market -- 2. The scale and structure of China's stock market -- 3. Operational efficiency and regulatory system of the Chinese stock market -- 4. Operational performance of listed companies -- 5. The impact of China's WTO accession on the stock market -- 6. Future trends in the evolution of China's stock market -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index
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    Markets and authorities : global finance and human choice (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (184 pages)
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    Keywords: International finance ; Globalization
    Abstract: This stimulating book addresses the relationship between market authority and political authority - a favourite theme of Susan Strange to whom the book is dedicated. From a survey of the bias against capital liberalisation in economic thought to an analysis of the US role in global monetary affairs, it discusses how and why free capital flows contribute to the instability of the global capitalist system. The internationally renowned contributors analyse the history and theory of international capital flows to make sense of contemporary global investments and what they mean for global polity and the economy. They argue over the challenges of integrating large developing countries into a liberal world order and the consequences of the multilateral system for the world's poor. In further discussions they investigate the sustainability of global capitalism in light of financial crises, widespread inequality and the uncertain future for traditional welfare states. They also advance various mechanisms through which they believe greater stability and equity could be introduced into the global financial system and the world economy. Implicit in these arguments is the shared belief that tensions between visions of a rule-based, liberal world and concepts of a more equitable distribution of resources drive most of the major conflicts in the global economy. Investigating the economic, political and social drawbacks of volatile global finance, and the human choices required to introduce stability, equity and a sense of purpose to the world economy, Markets and Authorities will be an invaluable addition to the fields of economics, political science, political economy and international business
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The 'home bias' approach in the history of economic thought: Issues on financial globalisation from adam smith to john maynard keynes -- 2. Benign neglect -- 3. Musings on the world political economy of the future: A plural global system? -- 4. Global poverty and the rich-country racket -- 5. Pensioners to the casino -- 6. Private power and public authority -- postscript -- Index.
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    The economics of health care in Asia-Pacific countries (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781782542728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 273 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Academia studies in Asian economies
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The economics of health care in Asia-Pacific countries
    DDC: 362.1/095
    Keywords: Medical care ; Medical care ; Medical economics ; Medical economics
    Abstract: In order to control ever-increasing health care expenditure, Western and Asian countries are seeking to develop more efficient health care models. Studies on health care that focus specifically on Asian countries are rare, rendering this a unique and welcome addition to the literature. This book presents quantitative research on various aspects of health care reform and health policy in Asia-Pacific countries such as China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the US - nations diverse in their economic development, social demographic structure and health care expenditures. The book's main topic for discussion is the role of both government and health insurers in funding health care. The implementation of community-based, supplemental and national health insurance is explored, as are grants and the financing of hospitals and care for the elderly. The effectiveness of education as an input to health investment and the rehabilitation of patients are also examined. Aiming to close the gap between the existing economics research and the rapid pace of the development of Asian health care markets, this unique and timely book is a must read for policymakers, researchers, academics and students with a special interest in health economics, policies and services
    Description / Table of Contents: Full Contents: 1. Editors' Introduction -- Part I: Health care reform -- 2. Health care reforms in Taiwan and the us: What we can learn from each other -- 3. Physician contracting with health plans: A survey of the literature -- 4. Health insurance reform in Korea: Consolidation of funds -- Part II: Production of health -- 5. Is rehabilitation following an acute hospital stay productive? Evidence from elderly patients in the United States -- 6. Do investments in child education and nutrition improve adult health? Evidence from indonesia -- Part III: Health care utilization -- 7. China's urban health insurance reform experiment in zhenjiang: Cost and utilization analyses -- 8. Catastrophic illness policy and equity in delivering health care: Empirical evidence from Taiwan -- 9. Demand for supplemental health insurance and health care utilization in Taiwan -- Part IV: Hospital behavior -- 10. Cost shifting or sample selection: The case study of surgically treated workers' compensation back pain patients -- 11. Hospital services under a national health insurance system: Transition from a free-for-service to a capitation system -- Part V: Health care financing -- 12. Financing health care for the elderly: Will an aging population end 'health for all' in south Korea? -- 13. Monitoring and enforcement in federal alcohol and drug abuse block grants -- Index.
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    Environmental policy making in economies with prior tax distortions (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781035304639
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 654 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Environmental policy making in economies with prior tax distortions
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: Environmental impact charges ; Environmental policy Economic aspects
    Abstract: In evaluating environmental policy, researchers have tended to focus on the industry or market that is targeted by regulation and to disregard policy impacts in other parts of the economy. Recent research indicates, however, that in economies where governments rely on distortionary taxes, environmental regulation can profoundly affect costs and efficiency in areas other than the targeted industry or market. These findings signal the importance of evaluating environmental policy using a general equilibrium framework - an approach that can capture interactions across industries, sectors or markets. General equilibrium analysis can fundamentally alter the evaluation of environmental tax policies, and can overturn conventional wisdom concerning the relative cost-effectiveness of environmental taxes, emissions quotas, or mandated technologies. This volume gathers together important papers on the general equilibrium impacts of environmental regulation in the presence of distortionary taxes. Topics include optimal environmental taxation,'green tax reform' and the 'double dividend', and the choice among alternative policy instruments. The volume will be of interest to environmental economists, public finance economists and researchers interested in the economics of regulation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Surveys of environmental policy making in the presence of distortionary taxes -- Part II: Optimal environmental taxation in the presence of distortionary taxes -- Part III: Environmental tax reforms and the 'double dividend' -- Part IV: Environmental instrument choice in a second-best setting -- Part V: Efficiency-distribution trade-offs in environmental policy -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Monetary policy and Taiwan's economy (2002)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781781957141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 230 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Academia studies in Asian economies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Monetary policy and Taiwan's economy
    DDC: 339.5/0951249
    Keywords: Monetary policy Congresses ; Banking law Congresses ; Taiwan Congresses Economic policy
    Abstract: Monetary Policy and Taiwan's Economy questions whether the Asian crisis could have been avoided through the application of recommendations highlighted by the contributors. The conclusion reached is that in an abstract world, perhaps; but in the world in which we live; no. It is argued that the proposals made could certainly contribute to improved policy, albeit effecting marginal improvements rather than ground breaking changes. The contributors demonstrate that proficient monetary policy and banking regulation can be achieved through sound economic analysis that takes into account: * monetary aggregates in monetary policy * the role of exchange rate policies in the Asian crisis * the relationship between the exchange rate, capital flows and central bank intervention * similarities between the restructuring of banking systems in Asia and in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism. This book will appeal to academics and researchers of macroeconomics - especially those with a particular interest in monetary theory and policy. Economic analysts, commercial banks, financial institutions and specialists in financial crisis will also find the book to be a fascinating read
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Editors' Introduction -- Part II: Monetary policy -- 2. Inflation and money stock targets: Is there really a difference? -- 3. Historical u.s. Money growth, inflation and inflation credibility -- 4. Money growth and inflation in the United States -- 5. Inflation targeting and inflation forecasting: Two sides of the same coin? -- 6. Monetary policy and the Asian crisis: The role of dollar exchange rate targets -- 7. Capital flows and exchanges rates in Taiwan -- 8. The choice of intermediate targets - money or interest rate: The case of Taiwan -- Part III: Banking regulation -- 9. The microeconomic dimension of monetary policy -- 10. Enterprise restructuring and banking reform: Lessons from eastern Europe since 1990 -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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