Global governance of drug and pharmaceutical industries

transatlantic, trilateral and multilateral policy cooperation for drug safety

The recultion of drug safety and the governance of globalization in the pharmaceutical industry present growing challenges for govermments, the viotechnology sector and civil society. Currently, regulation and policy is driven by the interests of industrialized nations. However recent conflicts over patents, generics, and emerging ...

European collaboration in research and development

business strategy and public policy

#[This book] addresses the relevant topic of collaborations in research and development at two complementary levels. First, it focuses on their determinants, performance and impact through a survey of more than 500 companies in seven European countries and through case studies on several research joint ...

Localised learning and cluster capabilities

organisation of knowledge and constitution of regional competitive adventage

Based upon a novel synthesis of theorecal fields, spanning from organisational economics, economic sociology and old institutionalism to the resoruce-based and knowledge-based approaches to the firm, localised learning and cluster capabilities offers a systematic and critical evaluation of the cluster thesis. The book's exposition ...

International handbook on the economics of education

This book is unique as it presents an academic and a practical aspect on managing pension funds to clarify the global debate on social security. The authors establish the basic choices in designating any system to help policy makers develop the system that achieves their ...

The welfare economics in public policy

a practical approach to project and policy evaluation

This outstanding text, a follow up to the authors' 1982 text, develops economic welfare theory in the context of application to public policy questions. The authors provide a complete treatment of economic welfare theory and ilustrate how this theory can be used to develop policy ...

International handbook of land and property taxation

Taxes on land and property exist all over the world in many forms and are an important source of finance for local governments. The extent to which local governments have control over property taxes is often an important determinant of their ability to make autonomous ...

The politics of regulation

institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance

This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for the adoption of ...

Environmental policy and fiscal federalism

selected essays of Wallace E.Oates

Wally Oates is one of the most important scholars in both environmental economics and public finance and this new volume of his essays collects together his best recent research in both these areas, covering theory, research and policy. The first half of the book includes ...

Analysing strategic environmental assessment

towards better decision-making

Analytical Strategic Environmental Assessment (ANSEA) is an insightful new approach to environmental evaluation, based on decision theory, policy analysis and environmental considerations. These concepts, though not new in their own fields of application, are combined and integrated in an innovative fashion. This book presents recent ...

Economic instruments of pollution control in an imperfect world

theory and implications for carbon dioxide emissions control in China

This volume discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon dioxide emissions in China. The book begins with a general analysis of economic instruments of pollution control, and is followed by the ...

The economics of energy and the production process

an evolutionary approach

The economics of energy has been a contested issue over the past century. Although it has not figured prominently in mainstream economics, numerous alternative proposals have called for energy to play a more central role in economic theory. In this highly original and enlightening volume ...

The economics of energy efficiency

barriers to cost-effective investment

Eco-efficiency,regulation and sustainable business

towards a governance structure for sustainable development

This book presents important new research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable development and achieve positive economic and ecological benefits. The distinguished authors discuss a ...

Sustaining agriculture and the rural environment

governance, policy and multifunctionality

Institutional change for sustainable development

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 ...

Recent developments in environmental economics

This two volume collection includes the most important and influential contributions to environmental economics during the last ten years. The articles cover a broad range of topics and the collection gives an excellent overview over the present state of knowledge in the field. These timely ...

Urban and regional transportation modeling

essays in honor of David Boyce

Honoring David Boyce for his legendary contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science, the chapters in this festschrift highlight and analyze state-of-the-art and state-of- the-practice methodologies and theories in transportation modeling, regional and urban planning. Authors from academia and industry, all experts ...

The world's wine markets

globalizacion at work

This is a useful work which provides a comprehensive overwiew of the world's wine markets. Its particular strengths are its golobal coverage, its focus on both production and consuption, and the large number of charts and tables with which the volume is replete. With ...

The new American regionalism

This book provides a broad quantitative analysis of the new facets of regionalism in the Americas. In particular, major aspects of the New American Regionalism are discussed in terms of two basic notions: the genuine political character of economic integration schemes, and the profound inter-connectedness ...

International money relations in the new global economy

These volumes contain the best articles political scientists have published in recent years on international monetery relations. They cover every conceivable topic of interest, incluiding the domestic politics of capital mobility, monetary institutions, and policy cooperation.

International conflict and the global economy

The relationship between the global economy and national segurity has been and enduring source of interest and debate. This volume contains a set of pioneering studies that paved the way for contemporary work on the political economy of national security as well as some more ...

Strategic business alliances

an examination of the core dimensions

Strategic Business Alliances examines key issues in the analysis, management and performance of international joint ventures using a sample of UK-European equity joint ventures. The authors consider the viewpoint of all configurations of the international joint venture # UK parent, European parent and joint venture management ...