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Globalization and environmental reform

the ecological globalization of global economy

Many writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this book environmental sociologist Arthur Mol provides a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization and environmental quality. Mol bases his arguments on his theory of ecological modernization, which ...

Economic growth

After an introductory discussion of economic growth, the book examines neoclassical growth theories, from Solow-Swan in the 1950s and Cass- Koopmans in the 1960s to more recent refinements; this is followed by a discussion of extensions to the model, with expanded treatment in this edition ...

Dynamic economics

quantitative methods and applications

This book is an effective, concise text for students and researchers that combines the tools of dynamic programming with numerical techniques and simulation-based econometric methods. Doing so, it bridges the traditional gap between theoretical and empirical research and offers an integrated framework for studying applied ...

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia

Volume I: Prehistory to 1520

This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting ...

Economics for an imperfect world

essays in honor of Joseph E.Stiglitz

Throughout Joseph Stiglitz's long and distinguished career in economics, the focus has been on the real world, with all of its imperfections. His 2001 Nobel Prize recognized his pioneering research in imperfect information; his work in other areas, including macroeconomics, public economics, and development ...

China's economic growth

a miracle with Chinese characteristics

This title outlines the main characteristics of Chinese economic growth during the 1980s and 1990s, and investigates in detail the key determinants of growth, especially capital formulation and productivity issues

Community water, community management

from system to service in rural areas

This book is based on the experience gained over twenty years of working to strengthen the capacities of rural communities to manage their own water supply systems. The day-to-day experiences of 22 communities in six different countries # with differing geographical, socio-economic and cultural settings # are ...

Poliética

El hilo común de la Humanidad

una historia sobre la ciencia, la política, la ética y el genoma humano

Días de guerra

Diario de Bagdad

Spectrum auctions and competition in telecommunications

In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and ...

La Prehistoria

La Prehistoria de la península Ibérica abarca un enorme lapso temporal, desde que se produce la primitiva colonización humana de Europa hace algo más de un millón de años hasta que, a raíz de las Guerras Púnicas, el territorio entra en la órbita del Estado ...

La plena Edad Media. Siglos XII-XIII

Generational policy

In these eight 2002 Cairoli Lectures, presented at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laurence Kotlikoff shows how generational policy works, how it is measured, and how much it matters. Kotlikoff discusses the incidence and measurement of generational policy, the relationship of ...

La Baja Edad Media

economía y sociedad

The economic effects of constitutions

The authors of The Economic Effects of Constitutions use econometric tools to study what they call the "missing link" between constitutional systems and economic policy; the book is an uncompromisingly empirical sequel to their previous theoretical analysis of economic policy. Taking recent theoretical work as ...

The size of nations

The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the ...

Democracy, governance and economic performance

theory and evidence

In this book Yi Feng combines political and economic analyses to study the effects of political institutions on economic performance. Traditionally, political scientists disregard details of economic conditions, while economists may not take into consideration a systematic explanation of political regimes. The growing interest in ...

The political economy of monetary institutions

an international organization reader

Normal;Recent analysis by political economists of monetary institution determinants in different countries has been limited by the fact that exchange rate regimes and central bank institutions are studied in isolation from each other, without examining how one institution affects the costs and benefits of ...

Genetic and cultural evolution of cooperation

Current thinking in evolutionary biology holds that competition among individuals is the key to understanding natural selection. When competition exists, it is obvious that conflict arises; the emergence of cooperation, however, is less straightforward and calls for in-depth analysis. Much research is now focused on ...