Towards sustainable development in industry?

reports from seven developing and transition economics

Many developing and transition economies have not yet undertaken the policy integration measures needed to enhance the impact of industry on sustainable development. In this volume, national experts from Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Turkey, Tunisia and Zimbabwe - countries which all have designated national ...

Liberalism, contitutionalism, and democracy

Rural poverty, risk and development

Throughout their lifetime, men and women are subject to a wide variety of risks, such as illness, accident, death, or less directly, unemployment, crop failure, loss of property, disability, business failre and skill obsolescence. This volume investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development ...

The property tax, land use and land use regulation

This text brings together essays by scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a partial substitute for land use regulation and other policies designed to affect how land is utilized. Like many economists ...

Habermas and aesthetics

the limits of communicative reason

Rethinking the welfare state

the political economy of pension reform

False Prophets

the gurus who creates modern management and why their ideas are bad for business today

According to Jim Hoopes, the fundamental principles on which business is based - authority, power, control - are increasingly at odds with principles of life in a democratic society - freedom, equality, individualism. "False Prophets" critically examines the pioneering theories of the early management thinkers, such as Taylor ...

Institutions, innovatio and growth

selected economic papers

Knowledge, inequality and growth in the new economy

During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant modern technology - information and communication technology (ICT) - does not seem to ...

Competition, monopoly and corporate governance

essays in honour of Keith Cowling

INDICE -Internationalisation, trans-nationalism and technical change: coordination and hierarchy in the Japanese firm - the strategic decision making approach vs Aioi, Dan Coffey and Philip R. Tomlinson -Multinationals and labour - evidence from the international acquisition of UK firms, Martin J. Conyon et al -Financial constraints on ...

Money markets and politics

a study of european financial integration and monetary policy options

The dramatic evolution of financial markets in the 1980s and 1990s, accompanied by increasing institutional integration between nations (most notably in the EU), have fostered a widespread belief that governments - particularly those of small economies - have essentially lost the power to pursue sovereign, independent economic ...

The structural foundations of international finance

problems of growth and stability

The principal message of this book is that international financial enterprises must be re-oriented towards funding productive activities rather than potentially destabilizing speculation. The effects of financial sector operations are addressed with serious warnings that the dangers of speculative destabilization are increasing as regulatory and ...

New thinking in macroeconomics

social, institutional, and environmental perspectives

Presenting new and innovate perspectives on macroeconomics at the national and international levels, the editors bring together contributions on a wide range of topics incluideng: current issues of globalization; transitional economies; inequality; unemployment; national and international debt; and the relationship of macrieconomic policies to the ...

Who's who in economics

This biographical dictionary of major economists provides an extensive and authoritative guide to economists both past and present who have made a substantial contribution to the subject, giving biographical, bibliographical and critical information. INDICE General associations, institutions, publishers journals geographic who's who in economics.

Salvador Dalí

su vida, su obra

Historia cultural y educación

ensayos críticos sobre conocimiento y escolarización

Austrian economics and the political economy of freedom

Richard M. Ebeling is one of the most dedicated and competent scholars engaged in research on the life and work of Ludwig von Mises. Professor Ebeling#s work on different aspects of Austrian economics is thorough and enlightening. The publication of this collection of his ...

The evolutionary analysis of economic policy

#This study is a pioneering effort to attempt to integrate evolutionary and economic theory in order to have a better understanding of the way in which political, economic and social systems evolve over time. The result is an exciting series of essays exploring the various ...

L'unité et la diversité de l'Europe

Les Droits des minorités, les exemples belge et hongrois.

Les exemples de la Belgique et de la Hongrie montrent qu'ils le font avec plus ou moins d'enthousiasme. Ils agissent dans des objectifs diversifiés : faut-il protéger les minorités de l'intérieur, celles de l'extérieur ou les deux ? Ils consacrent des droits individuels ...

La Belgique, l'Espagne et l'Italie face à l'integration communautaire

Quelle adaptation des rapports entre l´État et ses collectivités régionales?

Cet ouvrage, fruit d#une thèse soutenue à l#Université Pierre Mendès France de Grenoble, rend compte des répercussions de la construction de l#Europe communautaire sur l#organisation et le fonctionnement du système institutionnel de trois Etats membres de l#Union européenne : la Belgique ...