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Regional Security in the Asia Pacific
Edited by Marika Vicziany, David Wright-Neville, Pete Lentini
The September 2001 terrorist attacks shocked the world. But what did they change? In this book Asia specialists from academe and policy think tanks assess the impact of 9/11 on the Asia Pacific. Drawing on unique fieldwork, access to a w...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Money Matters
Edited by Patrick Minford
As a tribute to the exceptional contributions of Alan Walters to monetary theory and policy, this book draws together a distinguished cast of international contributors to write about money. In a series of essays they review controversie...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The New Democratic Federalism For Europe
Bruni S. Frey, Reiner Eichenberger
This innovative book proposes a new institutional arrangement for government to fulfil the needs of its citizens as well as possible. Existing aspects of federalism and direct democracy in Europe are strengthened, and as a result future ... -
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![The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry]()
The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry
Carlos Rufín
The author shows that ideological considerations and bargaining over the distribution of economic rents accruing from certain institutional arrangements are powerful shapers of institutional change. At the same time, the legacy of the pa...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond Profit and Self-Interest
Robert S. Gassler
This book attempts to reformulate existing orthodox economic theory in order to improve its conversation with disciplines that have traditionally been seen as the domain of political scientists, sociologists, psychologists and even biolo... -
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Tourism and Development in Tropical Islands
Edited by Stefan Gössling
Tropical islands are fragile, vulnerable environments and yet they are coming under increasing strain due to coastal developments and global environmental change. As a result of their remote location, small size and limited natural resou... -
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Capitalism and Democracy
Dennis C. Mueller
This distinguished collection of Dennis Mueller’s papers discusses the economic challenges faced as a result of events in the latter third of the twentieth century; the formation of the European Union, the collapse of Communism in East E... -
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Pension Policy in an Integrating Europe
Edited by Onorato Castellino, Elsa Fornero
This book focuses on pension policies in Europe and interestingly includes comparisons both within the EU and between EU countries and the US. The authors show how different countries are confronted with similar problems and that compari... -
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Public Policy in Knowledge-Based Economies
David Rooney, Greg Hearn, Thomas Mandeville, Richard Joseph
The purpose of this book is to illustrate how these social and cultural conditions are identified and analysed through new conceptual frameworks. Such frameworks are necessary to penetrate the surface features of knowledge-based economie... -
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Measurement and Meaning in Economics
Deirdre N. McCloskey, Stephen T. Ziliak
This essential book collects together, for the first time, the writings of Deirdre McCloskey on economic history and the rhetoric of economics. The essays have been presented to show McCloskey’s evolution over time: from economist to cr... -
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Public Goods and Private Wants
Simon Kemp
How valuable to us are the activities of government? Public Goods and Private Wants explores psychological approaches to public economics in order to answer this question. -
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![A Chronological History of the European Union 1946–2001]()
A Chronological History of the European Union 1946–2001
Wim F.V. Vanthoor
This fully revised and updated edition of a seminal reference work provides a detailed chronological account of the development of European integration. The history of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), which began immediately after Worl...
