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Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy
ISBN: 9781845426217 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book offers a comprehensive defence of classical liberalism against contemporary challenges. It sets out an analytical framework of 'robust political economy' that explores the economic and political problems that arise from the phenomena of imperfect knowledge and imperfect incentives. Using this framework, the book defends the classical liberal focus on markets and the minimal state from the critiques presented by 'market failure' economics and communitarian and egalitarian variants of political theory. Mark Pennington expertly applies the lessons learned from responding to...
This important book offers a comprehensive defence of classical liberalism against contemporary challenges. It sets out an analytical framework of 'ro...
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628,97 |
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Approaching the European Federation?
ISBN: 9780754642442 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The European project has, within only 52 years, achieved a surprising momentum, and the European Union is now approaching full statehood. The Convention on the Future of Europe has finished its work and handed over a proposal for a constitutional treaty to the Heads of State and Government of the EU. It is therefore the ideal time to present an integrated analysis of what appears to be the emerging European State. This key volume therefore discusses the central questions and concepts within the field of European studies, which include federalism, the relationship between statehood and...
The European project has, within only 52 years, achieved a surprising momentum, and the European Union is now approaching full statehood. The Conventi...
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710,17 |
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The Limits to Governance: The Challenge of Policy-Making for the New Life Sciences
ISBN: 9780754675082 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does the state still frame debates about new technology? Can policy-makers ensure the benefits of health developments through genomics while still satisfying the expectations of society and the economic imperatives? In this critique of the new governance agenda for research and innovation in life sciences, the authors discuss the world-wide policy decisions needed, with particular reference to genomics. They suggest the many facets of policy and could be treated as a governmenta governance continuum, where different aspects of genomics may sit at different points, and co-exist. Their findings...
Does the state still frame debates about new technology? Can policy-makers ensure the benefits of health developments through genomics while still sat...
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734,66 |
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Knowledge and Innovation for Development: The Sisyphus Challenge of the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781843766537 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the many different issues related to the Sisyphean task of building science and technology capabilities in developing countries. It attempts to answer crucial questions including: How can knowledge be utilized to improve the human condition? How to bridge the growing knowledge divide between those who produce and use modern science and technology - and those who do not.
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the many different issues related to the Sisyphean task of building science and technology capabili...
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520,71 |
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Comparative Science and Technology Policy
ISBN: 9781858984247 / Angielski / Twarda / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work presents an overview of comparative research on science and technology policy in order to illuminate the choices confronting decision makers. Contributors from various disciplines explore the relationship between science and the state and how governments support research and technology.
This work presents an overview of comparative research on science and technology policy in order to illuminate the choices confronting decision makers...
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1665,23 |
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Sustainable Development in Water-Stressed Developing Countries: A Quantitative Policy Analysis
ISBN: 9781847200624 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative book investigates the practical applications of sustainable development in the spirit of the Brundtland Report, paying special attention to water-stressed developing countries. Satoshi Kojima argues that the main objective of sustainable development is poverty alleviation within the present generation without destroying those ecosystems underpinning life support systems. The policy implications of such sustainable development policies are investigated with an original quantitative policy analysis framework.
This innovative book investigates the practical applications of sustainable development in the spirit of the Brundtland Report, paying special attenti...
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541,33 |
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The Dynamics of Regions and Networks in Industrial Ecosystems
ISBN: 9781847207425 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Industrial ecology provides a rigorous and comprehensive description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. This volume offers methodologies for such descriptions, with contributions covering both basic and advanced analytical concepts and tools to explore the dynamics of industrial ecosystems, concentrating specifically on regions and networks.
Industrial ecology provides a rigorous and comprehensive description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmen...
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572,26 |
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Technology Transfer and Business Enterprise
ISBN: 9781852787271 / Angielski / Twarda / 712 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume have been chosen to illustrate the diversity of scholarship which has been directed towards understanding the complex process of technology transfer in its business contexts. The first part considers the theory and process of technology transfer as developed by economists, sociologists and historians. The remainder of the volume presents essays and excerpts on the agencies of technology transfer, artisans and professionals, the state, private business and multinational enterprise. The papers range from the 18th century to the present and cover industries from coal...
The essays in this volume have been chosen to illustrate the diversity of scholarship which has been directed towards understanding the complex proces...
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1727,09 |
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The Economics of Technology Transfer
ISBN: 9781840645668 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Economics of Technology Transfer" presents a selection of the most important articles in the field, many of which are not easily accessible. The volume pays particular attention to issues facing developing countries in the context of rapid technical change, globalization of production and the international spread of innovation itself. Part 1 of this book focuses on theory and concepts. Part 2, which examines multinationals, deals with the main engines of technology development and transfer. Part 3 discusses developing countries, pointing to the possible conflict between internalized...
"The Economics of Technology Transfer" presents a selection of the most important articles in the field, many of which are not easily accessible. The ...
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1278,56 |
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Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development, Selected Essays of Herman Daly
ISBN: 9781847201010 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development comprises a carefully chosen selection of some 25 articles, speeches, congressional testimonies, reviews, and critiques from the last ten years of Herman Daly's ever-illuminating work. This book seeks to identify the blind spots and errors in standard growth economics, alongside the corrections that ecological economics offers to better guide us toward a sustainable economy - one with deeper biophysical and ethical roots. Under the general heading of sustainability and ecological economics, many specific topics are here brought into relation...
Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development comprises a carefully chosen selection of some 25 articles, speeches, congressional testimonies, revi...
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582,57 |
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Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to Environmental Challenges
ISBN: 9781847208484 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including carbon trading, revenue recycling, and reorientation of private and social investment are analyzed, providing insight into new paths for economic development with flat or negative carbon emissions. These issues will be crucial to macroeconomic and development policies in the twenty-first century.
The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics ...
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711,46 |
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Information Technology Policy and the Digital Divide: Lessons for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781843764137 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages and disadvantages of the IT revolution through detailed studies of a variety of developed and developing nations and regions; Argentina, Estonia, the EU, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, the USA and Thailand. The authors address a number of challenging issues such as standardization. IT in the mass media, Public Key Infrastructure, upstream...
The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing count...
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711,46 |
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Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics
ISBN: 9781845420994 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been? This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable development indicators can be improved in order to both assess the impact of past policies and avoid the repetition of previous failings.
Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more s...
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814,57 |
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Environment and Industry in Developing Countries: Assessing the Adoption of Environmentally Sound Technology
ISBN: 9781845421830 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Industries located in developing countries have made major improvements in environmental performance since the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. More specifically, their record in reducing energy-use and water-pollutant intensities has been better than developed countries. This significant new book investigates what motivates industries in developing countries to adopt environmentally sound technology (EST) - a subject about which very little is actually known. The authors present the findings of a United Nations study of the factors that determined EST adoption by 105 manufacturing plants in four...
Industries located in developing countries have made major improvements in environmental performance since the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. More specific...
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695,99 |
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The Economies of Southeast Asia: Before and After the Crisis
ISBN: 9781840643183 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This updated and revised edition of The Economies of Southeast Asia provides an examination of issues of paramount importance for Southeast Asian economies including: the economic implications of the 1997 Asian crisis for both older and newer members of ASEAN; the role of government and FDI in ASEAN economic growth and development; trade patterns with the US, Japan and the EU and the economic implications of China's accession to the WTO for ASEAN countries; the environmental consequences of industrialization and growth; the emergence of economic growth triangles and their contribution to...
This updated and revised edition of The Economies of Southeast Asia provides an examination of issues of paramount importance for Southeast Asian econ...
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654,75 |
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Institutional Change for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781843765691 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a flexible conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of instututional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and institutional change. This framework is applied and developed through the analysis of five significant arenas of institutional and policy change: environmental policy in the EU; New Zealand's Councils for Sustainable Development Act; and transformative property rights instruments. From these explorations, key principles for insitutional change are identified,...
This volume presents a flexible conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of instu...
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572,26 |
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Smart Growth and Climate Change: Regional Development, Infrastructure and Adaptation
ISBN: 9781845425098 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative volume systematically brings together two strands of applied research that, to date, have been carried out separately - 'smart growth' research and climate change adaptability research. By providing theory, models, and case studies from North America, Oceania and Europe, the book creates synergies between the two strands, reconciles differences, and provides insights for decision-makers at national and local levels.
This innovative volume systematically brings together two strands of applied research that, to date, have been carried out separately - 'smart growth'...
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768,17 |
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Locational Tournaments in the Context of the Eu Competitive Environment: A New Institutional Economics Approach to Foreign Direct Investment Policy Co
ISBN: 9783835002807 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As part of the research undertaken by the Department of Economics at the European Business School, this book explores the role that institutions play in the process of economic competition between jurisdictions for mobile investment. These "locational tournaments" are perpetuated not simply by classical factor endowments of their respective locations, but also by government interventions that impact both market imperfections and FDI flows. The resulting rivalry between competing institutional arrangements, which has been termed institutional competition, lies at the very heart of the author's...
As part of the research undertaken by the Department of Economics at the European Business School, this book explores the role that institutions play ...
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201,24 |
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Researching Sustainability: A Guide to Social Science Methods, Practice and Engagement
ISBN: 9781849711210 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues. Real-world sustainability problems cross many boundaries, and this is the first book to guide students and practitioners through the practical and theoretical challenges of doing interdisciplinary research in this vital and emerging area. Researching Sustainability contains many in-depth, 'hands on' accounts by expert contributors, providing real-life examples and lessons that can be put to use immediately. Coverage... This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-rela... |
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759,15 |
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Canadian International Development Assistance Policies: An Appraisal, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780773514096 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Topics covered include Canadian food aid and the varied factors that have determined its use, the complex relationship between CIDA and Canadian non-governmental organizations, and CIDA assistance to the major multilateral institutions. There is also detailed discussion of CIDA's choice of recipient countries; its use of aid for trade promotion, human rights and development assistance; issues relating to the administration of the aid program; its recent support for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank leverage on the economic policies of the recipient countries; and two case...
Topics covered include Canadian food aid and the varied factors that have determined its use, the complex relationship between CIDA and Canadian non-g...
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156,72 |
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