Скачать книгу (размер 7 215 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1416) Аннотация: Auctions play a crucial role in the allocation of resources in many industries. This selection of topics and papers should be of help to the student, researcher and economic practitioner, offering comprehensive reference material. Topics include risk aversion, correlation/affiliation and bidders.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'The insightful chapters collected here show that markets are a matter of concern because they can be spaces for making concerns matter.' — David Stark, Columbia University, US and author of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life' 'Do those impersonal allocation mechanisms that we call markets even exist as such? Or should we drop this questionable euphemism if what we want…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: 'This twenty-seven chapter book provides an excellent and accessible overview of the literature on rent seeking since its inception. What makes the book a fascinating reading is its application to different areas, such as regulation and economic aid, and presentation of an array of highly readable cases studies, including on China, Greece, India and Russia. It is a must for both students of…
Скачать книгу (размер 8 398 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1648) Аннотация: This book takes as its starting point the question of whether contemporary state capitalism simply uses different tools than earlier or other variants of capitalism, or whether it is an altogether new kind of economic regime. It brings together key research and commentary which will help to define the concept of contemporary state capitalism as an economic model and present a nuanced view of…
Скачать книгу (размер 14 273 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 2800) Аннотация: Comparative law is a field with a rich history, and one to which scholars from many disciplines have contributed. This four-volume set includes an original introduction by the editors, who trace the major developments in the field, covering both private and public law, as well as legal institutions and methodological debates. Encompassing more than a century of scholarship, the collection…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The opening of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum in 2014 marks a new era of reflection toward enhancing homeland security regulation in the United States. In the context of this new era, it is necessary to consider how policy intended to reinforce homeland security is evaluated. Benefit-Cost Analyses for Security Policies describes how to undertake the evaluation of security…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance—not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But what? The Eurozone is in a deep and prolonged crisis. It is now clear that monetary union is a historic…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Michel Aglietta’s path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil War to the Carter presidency. A major document of the “Regulation School” of heterodox economics, it was received as the boldest book in its field since the classic studies of Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy and Harry Braverman. This edition includes a…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Fashion—that means glamour, creativity, and always the expression of a certain attitude toward life. This book is devoted to the legendary world of fashion, from its origins in the nineteenth century until our own time. Which social, historical, and cultural developments coalesced to allow fashion to become what it is today? Which designers had especially significant impact on their fashion eras,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: 'This volume is authoritative and nuanced, yet concise and highly readable. At a time when international trade law is becoming the de facto law of globalization, affecting practically every area of public policy, Advanced Introduction to International Trade Law is essential reading for policy-makers, scholars and students alike.' — Joel P. Trachtman, Tufts University, US 'Who better to provide…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: 'The NIEMO development effort is as ambitious as any in regional science. In addition to immense data handling issues faced are the numerous conceptual and theoretical hurdles these researchers have cleared so adeptly. The volume's chapters present many of the critical areas of analysis to which analytical frameworks like NIEMO can be put, and demonstrate what can be accomplished when a group of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Intra-Industry Trade calls for us to rethink what trade most often looks like and how it shapes global institutions, fostering peace among states. Cameron G. Thies and Timothy M. Peterson argue that our understanding of trade has not kept pace with its changing nature in the 21st century; existing models, rooted in Ricardo's theories, regard trade uniformly as taking place between entities and…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: This unique book highlights the contributions made by Muslim scholars to economic thought throughout history, a topic that has received relatively little attention in mainstream economics. Abdul Azim Islahi discusses various ways in which Muslim ideas reached the European West, influencing scholars and helping to form the foundations of modern economic ideas and theories. Early chapters outline…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: 'The policy framework advocated by Minford et al. . . . is grounded in economic theory and an incisive empirical analysis of the costs of UK's membership of the EU. Their thesis that the EU is a political union practising economic protectionism in the guise of gradualism towards free trade makes sense. . . . Minford and his associates' analysis suggests that the EU's policy framework of free…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'In these creative and imaginative essays, James M. Buchanan and Yong J. Yoon explore new analytical territory by explaining how democratic politics can generate economic disorder. While some of these themes are present throughout Buchanan's scholarly oeuvre, these essays break new analytical ground by examining the ability of democratic processes to promote destructive outcomes in the absence of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictates the quality and organization of daily life? Rebel Cities places the city…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: How did economic 'experts' worldwide fail to predict the financial crisis of 2007-2008? Eminent economist Paul Davidson discusses how mainstream economic theory may not be applicable to the world of experience. Post Keynesian theory, on the other hand, is designed to be applicable to the real world, and this book shows how applying it to policy formulation could help practically resolve economic…