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The economics of an ageing population

macroeconomic issues

The Economics of an Ageing Population studies the effects of demographic transition on the economies of industrialised countries. The authors demonstrate that an ageing population does not necessarily lead to a reduction in growth, providing that the working population are more productive and save a ...

Game practice and the environment

Game theory is one of the most powerful tools that economists can use to deal with complex economic and policy problems. At the same time, environmental issues are at the heart of many domestic and international policy processes, where interactions among different stakeholders play a ...

Predictable surprise

the disasters you should have seen coming, and how to prevent them

Demonios en el convento

el Conde-Duque de Olivares frente a la Inquisición

Welfare measurement in imperfect markets

a growth theoretical approach

This book cleverly integrates the research on welfare measurement and social accounting in imperfect market economies. In their previously acclaimed volume, Welfare Measurement, Sustainability and Green National Accounting, the authors focused on the external effects associated with environmental damage and analysed their role in the ...

The ecological economics of comsumption

Research on consumption from an environmental perspective has exploded since the late 1990s. This important new volume cuts across disciplines to present the latest research in the field. Contents: 1. The Place of Consumption in Ecological Economics Part I: Problematizing Consumption 2. Questionable Assumptions about ...

Sustainable consumption

the implications of changing infraestructures of provision

Sustainable Consumption is unique, not just in its inter-disciplinary and substantive subject matter (changing networks of utility consumption and production), but because it examines empirically the key theoretical debates underpinning the social sciences at the beginning of the 21st century. This book shifts the focus ...

Achieving a sustainable global energy system

identifying possibilities using long-term energy scenarios

Sustainable development and global climate change have figured prominently in scientific analysis and international policymaking since the early 1990s. This book formulates technology strategies that will lead to environmentally sustainable energy systems, based on an analysis of global climate change issues using the concept of ...

Econometrics informing natural resources management

selected empirical analyses

Regional economies as knowledge laboratories

Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis # utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and ...

The network economy

strategy, structure and management

With an ever increasing number of relationships between different companies, overseeing a portfolio of strategic alliances has become one of the most challenging tasks for managers. Indeed, the network, rather than the individual firm, has become the most relevant and effective form of organization in ...

La maldita trinidad

el Fondo Monetario Internacional, el Banco Mundial y la Organización Mundial de Comercio

Se calcula que unos seis millones de niños africanos,asiáticos y latinoamericanos mueren cada año a causa de los efectos del ajuste estructural que el Fondo Monetario Internacional ha impuesto a la mayor parte de los países en desarrollo si quieren seguir recibiendo sus créditos ...

Blowback

costes y consecuencias del imperio americano

"Blowback" es una palabra inventada por la CIA en la década de 1950 que puede traducirse aproximadamente por"contragolpe", "represalia","reacción" o "efecto bumerán":se trata de las consecuencias no deseadas,sufridas por los propios ciudadanos norteamericanos,de la política exterior imperial y agresiva de ...

Mujeres economistas

1816-1898

¿Son injustos los programas de historia de las doctrinas económicas si no incluyen en sus contenidos a las autoras de textos económicos ¿Acaso no hubo mujeres que participaron en la construcción de la economía Estas preguntas son las que justifican este ensayo, y adelantando la ...

Diccionario temático de frases hechas

Globalization and the location of firms

This authoritative collection reprints the key articles in the field of locational clustering, and the relationship between local clusters and the activities of multinational firms. It covers both the principal theoretical and statistical explanations of the clustering of firms in common locations, and includes a ...

Érase una vez el zorro y el erizo

las humanidades y la ciencia en el tercer milenio

Cuando ya creíamos que tendríamos que acostumbrarnos a no leer ningún nuevo libro de Stephen Jay Gould, al que la muerte se llevó un cada vez más lejano, pero siempre doloroso, día de mayo de 2002; a no disfrutar una vez más con sus maravillosas ...

General equilibrium, capital and macroeconomics

a key recent controversies in equilibrium theory

This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very-short-period versions, has had very important consequences which are insufficiently appreciated by large parts of the economics profession. This shift has produced new difficulties, and has undermined central ...

Evolution and economic complexity

Dedicated to the goal of furthering evolutionary economic analysis, this book provides a coherent scientific approach to deal with the real world of continual change in the economic system. Expansive in its scope, this book ranges from abstract discussions of ontology, analysis and theory to ...

Applied evolutionary economics and complex systems

This book takes up the challenge of developing an empirically based foundation for evolutionary economics built upon complex system theory. The authors argue that modern evolutionary economics is at a crossroads. At a theoretical level, modern evolutionary economics is moving away from the traditional focus ...