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For additional materials, please contact the author directly: www.mariekedemooij.com"Marieke de Mooij shows that American theories of consumer behavior do not necessarily apply abroad. Her national consumption data are an unobtrusive measure of national cultures. She has made marketing students discover culture, and her work should make cross-cultural psychologists discover the consumer as an informant."

--Geert Hofstede, "Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation, the Netherlands"

Consumers worldwide are not the...

Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of education for all is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it is a larger social goal and a deeper political statement about the need for attacking entrenched social inequalities.

Drawing on original data collected in the two states of Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, the...

In the Netherlands, CPB often adopts the MIMIC model to explore the structural labour market implications of changes in the tax and social-insurance system. This applied general-equilibrium model combines microeconomic theory with a rich institutional detail and a firm empirical basis. This book describes the structure of MIMIC and discusses a large number of policy measures that have been proposed during the last five years. Moreover, it elaborates on proposals that are currently in discussion, such as the flat tax. To ease the understanding of the model, we also present a core version with...

Gänse sind Boten am Himmel - im Frühling wie im Herbst kündigen ihre Rufe und Keilformationen den Wechsel der Jahreszeit an. Was aber macht die Gans zu so einem faszinierenden Geschöpf? Ist es ihr soziales Wesen? Ihre Bereitschaft, gefährliche und kräftezehrende Wanderungen über Tausende von Kilometern auf sich zu nehmen? Ihre Anpassungsfähigkeit an den Lebensraum und den Menschen? Die Autoren antworten auf diese Fragen mit verständlichen Texten, illustriert mit brillanten Fotos.Sie stellen von Blässgans über Graugans bis zur Ringelgans und Weißwangengans alle in Europa lebenden...

Environmental Taxation and the Double Dividend" explores the welfare effects of environmental taxes in a second-best framework. It starts from a benchmark model which reveals that environmental taxes typically exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, even if the revenues are used to cut other distortionary taxes. Subsequent chapters extend the benchmark model by introducing capital, terms of trade effects, transfers, involuntary unemployment, or environmental feedbacks. Thus, the book reveals several channels through which a double-dividend can be obtained. However, it also shows the...

This series has already become a classic. In general, one volume is published per year. The advances section presents fields of neurosurgery and related areas in which important recent progress has been made. The technical standards section features detailed descriptions of standard procedures to assist young neurosurgeons in their post-graduate training. The contributions are written by experienced clinicians and are reviewed by all members of the editorial board.