Innovation management in the ICT sector

how frontrunners stay ahead

Edward Huizenga explores how knowledge and service intensive companies can thrive on innovation and entrepreneurship in the ICT sector. He applies new theoretical insights from strategy and organisation theory, and includes case studies of 30 European service companies. These case studies address the key innovation ...

The economics of european integration

limits and prospects

It is of paramount importance that European firms, investors and countries, take into consideration the implications, changes and opportunities of European integration in their decision-making processes. This is reinforced by the fact that the EU has been continuously evolving and enlarging. This textbook is one ...

Economy and morality

the philosophy of the welfare state

What is the purpose of the economy? To answer this intriguing and fundamental question, this book provides a systematic approach to economic ethics and constructs a relationship between the economy and morality; it expounds theoretical and practical issues of economic philosophy along two dimensions: values ...

Globalization and international economic instability

This book is an authoritative collection of important previusly published articles addressing the changing nature of the linkages between domestic financial system caused by the globalization of economic activity and capital flows. How these linkeges affect developed emerging and eveloping economies are investigated as well ...

Recent developments in international trade theory

The last decade has seen many important contributions to the field of International Trade Theory. This authoritative volume contains 27 seminal articles that represent the most significant of these recent developments. Topics include multinational firms, trade with heterogeneous firms, general equilibrium with oligopolistic firms, outsourcing ...

The economics of deflation

#Deflation may be one of the most daunting policy challenges facing policymakers today. What makes deflation particularly challenging is its multifaceted nature and its newness for the current generation of economists and policymakers. With his extensive knowledge of history and the current debate, Pierre Siklos ...

Modern macroeconomics

its origins, development and current state

More than a decade after the publication of the critically acclaimed A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics, Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane have produced a worthy successor in the form of Modern Macroeconomics. Thoroughly extended, revised and updated, it will become the indispensable text for students ...

The Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics

an introduction to their careers and main published works

This book provides an introduction to the careers and main published works of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. It will prove to be an invaluable reference book on key figures in economics and their path- breaking insights. The vignettes should also encourage the reader ...

Why I, too, am not a conservative

the normative vision of classical liberalism

Nobel Laureate James Buchanan collects in this volume original and recent hard-to-find essays exploring liberalism and conservatism as distinct ways of looking and thinking about the realm of human interaction. Classical liberalism is presented here as a coherent political and economic position, as distinguished from ...

Institutional reform, regulation and privatization

process and outcomes in infrastructure industries

Table of Contents: 1 Process and outcomes of the infrastructure reform : an evolutionary perspective by John P. M. Groenewegen and Rolf W. Kunneke 2 Deregulation : design, learning and legitimacy by Atle Midttun 3 Competition policy, networks, and the 'new economy' by Erik J. Kloosterhuis and ...

The welfare economics of public policy

a practical approach to project and policy evaluation

This outstanding text, a follow-up to the authors# award-winning 1982 text, provides a thorough treatment of economic welfare theory and develops a complete theoretical and empirical framework for applied project and policy evaluation. The authors illustrate how this theory can be used to develop policy ...

The dictionary of health economics

From Abscissa, through to the World Health Organization, this expansive Dictionary comprehensively covers the field of health economics and closely related fields including epidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, demography, medical sociology, medical statistics and bio-statistics, health policy, health administration and health service management, public health medicine and qualitative ...

Leading issues in competition, regulation and development

The promotion of liberalised and deregulated markets by bilateral and multilateral aid donors, and by global institutions such as the WTO, has led to significant attention being paid to competition and regulatory reforms in developing economies. The process of reform involves the transfer and diffusion ...

The economics of unemployment in Europe

noeclassical, keynesian and structuralist interpretations

This book refreshes the debate of unemployment and the Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU), within a European context. It presents three general views -neo-classical, Keynesian an structuralist.

Monetary theory

Competition and efficiency in a Unified European Banking Market

Private property in the 21st Century

the future of an american ideal

The economics of anti-trust and regulation in telecommunications

perspectives for the new European regulatory framework

Macroeconomics in retrospect

the selected essays of David Laidler

This important collection brings together nineteen of his essays on topics in the history of macroeconomics. It begings with a paper on Adam Smith and ends with a discussion of the implications of newclassical economists' ideas on the role of economic ideas in conditioning agents ...

The new value controversy and the foundations of economics

The papers that comprise this collection introduce key advances in modern value theory. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium approaches are discussed alongside the theory behind abstract labour and money.