The economics of energy and the production process

an evolutionary approach

The economics of energy has been a contested issue over the past century. Although it has not figured prominently in mainstream economics, numerous alternative proposals have called for energy to play a more central role in economic theory. In this highly original and enlightening volume ...

The economics of energy efficiency

barriers to cost-effective investment

Eco-efficiency,regulation and sustainable business

towards a governance structure for sustainable development

This book presents important new research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable development and achieve positive economic and ecological benefits. The distinguished authors discuss a ...

Sustaining agriculture and the rural environment

governance, policy and multifunctionality

Institutional change for sustainable development

This volume presents a flexible conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of instututional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and institutional change. This framework is applied and developed through the analysis of five significant arenas of institutional and ...

Recent developments in environmental economics

This two volume collection includes the most important and influential contributions to environmental economics during the last ten years. The articles cover a broad range of topics and the collection gives an excellent overview over the present state of knowledge in the field. These timely ...

Urban and regional transportation modeling

essays in honor of David Boyce

Honoring David Boyce for his legendary contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science, the chapters in this festschrift highlight and analyze state-of-the-art and state-of- the-practice methodologies and theories in transportation modeling, regional and urban planning. Authors from academia and industry, all experts ...

The world's wine markets

globalizacion at work

This is a useful work which provides a comprehensive overwiew of the world's wine markets. Its particular strengths are its golobal coverage, its focus on both production and consuption, and the large number of charts and tables with which the volume is replete. With ...

The new American regionalism

This book provides a broad quantitative analysis of the new facets of regionalism in the Americas. In particular, major aspects of the New American Regionalism are discussed in terms of two basic notions: the genuine political character of economic integration schemes, and the profound inter-connectedness ...

International money relations in the new global economy

These volumes contain the best articles political scientists have published in recent years on international monetery relations. They cover every conceivable topic of interest, incluiding the domestic politics of capital mobility, monetary institutions, and policy cooperation.

International conflict and the global economy

The relationship between the global economy and national segurity has been and enduring source of interest and debate. This volume contains a set of pioneering studies that paved the way for contemporary work on the political economy of national security as well as some more ...

Strategic business alliances

an examination of the core dimensions

Strategic Business Alliances examines key issues in the analysis, management and performance of international joint ventures using a sample of UK-European equity joint ventures. The authors consider the viewpoint of all configurations of the international joint venture # UK parent, European parent and joint venture management ...

Multinational firms' location and the new economic geography

The choice of location for the production plants of multinational firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which ...

Law,economics and cyberspace

the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law

This book is not only the best kind of law and economics, but it is the best kind of cyberspace law and economics. By framing the economic analysis around market failures, the authors demonstrate both the power and limits of economic analysis. And by applying ...

The law and economics of antitrust and intellectual property

an Austrian approach

Dina Kallay#s work is a pathbreaking application of Austrian economics to one of the most important regulatory issues facing globalizing economies # a refreshingly novel perspective on the intersection between intellectual property and antitrust law.# # Ronald J. Mann, University of Texas School of Law, US ...

New perspectives on economic crime

Edited by Hans Sjögren and Göran Skogh Economic crime is, by definition, crime committed to gain profit within an otherwise legitimate business. Examples are illegal pollution, brand name infringement and tax evasion. The victims of such crimes may be private citizens, businesses and the state ...

Changing institutions in the European Union

a public choice perspective

This book makes a valuable, analytical contribution to recent debates on the ongoing institutional changes occurring within the European Union. It provides a comprehensive and diverse insight into a variety of areas, including in-depth studies of fiscal, monetary and voting issues, to help elucidate the ...

Full employment and price stability

the macroeconomic vision of William S. Vickrey

Collecting Nobel Laureate William S. Vickrey's articles on macroeconomic theory and policy witten near the end of his life, this volume demostrates Vickrey's enduring commitment to full employment and price stablity and his rejection of conventional macroeconomic theorizing.

Founders of modern economics

Maastricht lectures in political economy

This new and original collection on the founders of modern economics aims to provide the sasis for a better understanding of the context from which traditional econimic thought is drived. It includes papers on the tradition of economic thought in the Mediterranean world, the Ancient ...

Time in economic theory

No question has more intrigued the minds of scholars of economic thought throughout history than that of the nature and meaning of time. The articles in this insghtful collection attempt to privide satisfactory answers to fundamental issues on the use of time in economic theory ...