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Financial Underpinnings of Europe’s Financial Crisis
Nina Eichacker
This book analyzes how financial liberalization affected the development of the financial crisis in Europe, with particular attention given to the ways in which power asymmetries within Western Europe facilitated financial liberalization...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Resource Politics in the Asia-Pacific
Jeffrey D. Wilson
Resource security is a new battleground in the international politics of the Asia-Pacific. With demand for minerals and energy surging, disputes are emerging over access and control of scarce natural resource endowments. Drawing on criti...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Politics as a Peculiar Business
Richard E. Wagner
Economists typically treat government as something outside the business realm, a sort of ‘Lord of the Manor’. Richard Wagner argues that this is the wrong approach and can ultimately be destructive to capitalism and to society.eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Approaching Equality
Roger A. McCain
Drawing on some recent research (especially that of Piketty and his associates) and on older ideas (particularly from Sir Arthur Lewis), Roger McCain proposes policies that, together, would aim to reverse the observed tendency towards th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes
Clair Gammage
This book offers a critical reflection of the North-South regional trade agreements (RTAs), known as the Economic Partnership Agreements, negotiated between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Conceiving of regions ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A History of American State and Local Economic Development
Ronald W. Coan
A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Living Wages Around the World
Richard Anker, Martha Anker
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in ... -
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Creative Destruction and the Sharing Economy
Henrique Schneider
While creative destruction and disruptive innovation change the entrepreneurial landscape; regulation – especially regulation of sectorial markets and competition regulation – can delay this change or even bring it to a halt. Uber plays ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The International Monetary System and the Theory of Monetary Systems]()
The International Monetary System and the Theory of Monetary Systems
Pascal Salin
The international monetary system, and the disparate systems that make it up, are complex and there are many fallacies surrounding the ways in which they work. This book provides a clear and rigorous understanding of these systems and th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy
Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann
Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy traces the past fifty years of transatlantic trade relations in the area of food and agricultural policy, from early skirmishes over chicken exports to ongoing conflicts over biotech foods...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist Welfare State
Andreas Bergh
This book tackles a number of controversial questions regarding Sweden’s economic and political development: • How did Sweden become rich? • How did Sweden become egalitarian? • Why has Sweden since the early 1990s grown fast...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Competition Policies and Consumer Welfare
Edited by Lahcen Achy, Susan Joekes
The fundamental goal of competition law is to support productivity and innovativeness; in fact, the short-term effect of enforcement actions is often a reduction in product prices. This book reports the findings of consumer market studie...eBook:Find out more$40.00
