Complementarity, equilibrium, efficiency and economics

Political friendship and the good life

two liberal arguments against perfectionism.

The market of virtue

morality and commitment in a liberal society.

Legal method and the rule of law

Why Grundnorm?

A Treatise on the Implications of Kelsen's Doctrine.

The legal essays of Michael Bayles

Mutual expectations

a conventionalist theory of law.

Legal institutions

Conscience and love in making judicial decisions

Living lawfully

love in law and law in love.

Regional trade agreements in the GATT/WTO

article XXIV and the internal trade requirement

The debate over regionalism and the multilateral trading system intensifies in the WTO as dozens of regional trade agreements are declared to be exceptions to GATT's most-favoured nation obligation. Commentators debate whether such agreements are stepping stones to freer world trade, and WTO Members ...

Markets, pricing, and deregulation of utilities

Markets, Pricing, and Deregulation of Utilities examines the effects of deregulation on the energy and telecommunications industries in an economic environment that has changed dramatically since deregulation was first introduced in those industries several years ago. The contributors to this book discuss the aspects of ...

Geography, culture and education

Police and justice co-operation and the new European borders

Antitrust developments in Europe 2001

Differential topology and general equilibrium with complete and incomplete markets

The goal of this publication is to provide basic tools of differential topology to study systems of nonlinear equations, and to apply them to the analysis of general equilibrium models with complete and incomplete markets. The main content of general equilibrium analysis is to study ...

Programming languages and systems in Computational Economics and Finance

This volume contains a collection of invited, peer-reviewed papers that each highlights a particular system, language, model or paradigm from one of the computational disciplines, aimed at researchers and practitioners from the other fields. The 15 papers cover a wide range of relevant topics; Models ...

Jurisdiction of International Tribunals

The European Union in Search of a Democratic and Constitutional Theory

European integration confronts us with the limits of current constitutional and democratic language. The way out of this impasse will only appear through a refinement of what we consider the European Union to be as a political entity and of our concepts of democracy. In ...

Prospects for constitutionalism in post-communist countries

The last decade of the 20th century saw radical changes in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. Most of these countries made a transition from totalitarianism or authoriatarianism to democracy and from central planning to a market economy. Adding to the latter, a number of ...

Stochastic modeling in economics and finance

Credible threats in negotiations

A game-theoretic approach