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Greening aid?

understanding the environmental impact of development assitance

Aut. Robert L. Hicks...[et al]. Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South. Why do donors provide this aid? What do they seek to achieve? How effective is the ...

The theory of multi-level governance

conceptual, empirical, and normative challenges

This book explores the theoretical issues, empirical evidence, and normative debates elicited by the concept of multi-level governance (MLG). The concept is a useful descriptor of decision-making processes that involve the simultaneous mobilization of public authorities at different jurisdictional levels as well as that of ...

An emergent european executive order

This book poses two pertinent questions: First, if a European executive order is emerging, how can we empirically see it? Second, if a European executive order is emerging, how can we explain everyday decision-making processes within it? The goal of this book is two-fold: First ...

The economic repercussions of terrorism

Ed. Mikel Buesa, Thomas Baumert. The Economic Repercussions of Terrorism offers a theoretical overview of the economics of terrorism and provides a detailed evaluation of the costs of terrorist attacks, focusing in particular on the Madrid bombings of 2004, but also including comparisons with 9 ...

Beauty imagined

a history of the global beauty industry

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book ...

The performance economy

The industrial economy is transforming from a production-based model into a more intelligent performance-based model. Yet despite the proven benefits that selling performance provides, too many managers and policy makers still focus on designing, manufacturing, and selling goods using costly economic models and production methods ...

Combinatorial auctions

Eds. Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham, Richard Steinberg. With a foreword by Vernon L. Smith, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. The study of combinatorial auctions--auctions in which bidders can bid on combinations of items or "packages"--draws on the disciplines of economics, operations ...

Global imbalances and the lessons of Bretton Woods

Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable. In "Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods", Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the ...

Economics and psychology

a promising new cross-disciplinary field

Eds. Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer. The integration of economics and psychology has created a vibrant and fruitful emerging field of study. The essays in Economics and Psychology take a broad view of the interface between these two disciplines, going beyond the usual focus on ...

Priceless

the myth of fair value (and how to take advantage of it)

In Priceless, the bestselling author William Poundstone reveals the hidden psychology of value. In psychological experiments, people are unable to estimate #fair# prices accurately and are strongly influenced by the unconscious, irrational, and politically incorrect. It hasn#t taken long for marketers to apply these ...

Jealousy of trade

international competition and the nation-state in historical perspective

This collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century. 'Jealousy of Trade' refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military and ...

The ideologies of taxation

Foreword by David A. Weisbach. Originally published in 1961, "The Ideologies of Taxation" is a classic of taxation - a long-unavailable volume that remains uniquely applicable today. Louis Eisenstein starts from the idea that the tax system in a democracy is shaped by competing factions, each ...

The masters private equity and venture capital

management lessons from the pioneers of private investing

Ten Leading private investors share their secrets to maximum profitability In The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, the pioneers of the industry share the investing and management wisdom they have gained by investing in and transforming their portfolio companies. Based on original interviews ...

Forex trading secrets

trading strategies for the Forex market

This is an insider's guide to profiting in the foreign exchange market. Picking up where his highly successful "Forex Made Easy" left off, James Dicks helps readers implement specific trading strategies and build a successful trading plan. Other topics of this title include money ...

Corporate financial analysis with Microsoft Excel

Corporate Financial Analysis with Microsoft(R) Excel(R) combines both spreadsheet skills with management skills to build the reader's proficiency with Excel(R), the most important tool for those in finance and security analysis. The author includes questions designed to challenge readers to think ...

Brand society

how brands transform management and lifestyle

Brands are a fait accompli: they represent a mountain range of evidence in search of a theory. They are much exploited, but little explored. In this book, Martin Kornberger sets out to rectify the ratio between exploiting and exploring through sketching out a theory of ...

Adam Smith and the circles of sympathy

cosmopolitanism and moral theory

Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy pursues Adam Smith's views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law both in historical context and through a twenty-first century cosmopolitan lens, making this a major and timely contribution not only to Smith studies ...

A textbook of cultural economics

What determines the price of a pop concert or an opera? Why does Hollywood dominate the film industry? Does illegal downloading damage the record industry? Does free entry to museums bring in more visitors? In A Textbook of Cultural Economics, one of the world's ...

Oil, dollars, debt, and crises

the global curse of black gold

Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises studies the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and shows how America's and the world's growing dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of banking, currency, and energy-price crises. Unlike other books on the ...

Macroeconomic performance in a globalising economy

Eds. Robert Anderton, Geoff Kenny. The process of globalisation has been ongoing for centuries, but few would doubt that it has accelerated and intensified in recent decades. This acceleration is evidenced as much by the strong synchronicity in the rapid transmission of financial crises starting ...