The political economy of institutional change in the electricity supply industry

Through a variety of analytical lenses, this text helps fill a gap in the political economy of second-wave, or microeconomic, reforms around the world, and more specifically in the context of the electricity supply industry, where such reforms have been as problematic as they have ...

Economic institutions and complexity

structures, interactions and emergent properties

This work presents a concept of interactive economic institutions and systems, considered by the author to be a bottleneck to scientific progress. In the author's evaluation of contemporary institutional economics, the focus is on the interaction of complex economic structures in terms of their ...

Japan's economic recovery

commercial policy, monetary policy, and corporate governance

The contributors to this book, from the US and Japan, explore the main issues involved in the international trade, foreign direct investment and macro/financial relations of the US and Japan and provide guidance to policymakers for measures to help overcome Japan's economic stagnation ...

The entrepreneur

an economic theory

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Mark Casson's "The Entrepreneur" presents a novel synthesis of the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight and Friedrich Hayek, according to which the defining characteristic of the entrepreneur is the exercise of judgement in business decisions. The ...

Culture, institutions and economic development

a study of eight european regions

Property rights, planning and markets

managing spontaneous cities

The economics of hydroelectric power

Despite the extensive body of literature on energy economics, very little economics research has been conducted that focuses specifically on dams and hydroelectric power. This work addresses this deficiency by examining the multiple roles that dams play, as well as the role of hydroelectric power ...

The political economy of the European Union

institutions, policy and economic growth

Utility privatization and regulation

a fair deal for consumers?

Latin American countries have now privatized a large number of their utility industries and make more use of market approaches to delivery through networks. Privatization has major consequences for efficiency, long-term growth, consumer welfare and income distribution but insufficient attention has been paid to the ...

The economics of social policy

The international handbook of telecommunications economics

Vol. III: World telecommunications markets

Competition in european electricity markets

a cross-country comparison

Industries in Europe

competition, trends and policy issues

Market dominance and antitrust policy

Monetary regimes and inflation

history, economic and political relationships

Growth and development in the global economy

World finance and economic stability

selected essays of James Tobin

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economics and policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare ...

Financial supervision in Europe

Modern theories of money

The nature and role of money in capitalist economics

Central banking, monetary theory and practice

essays in honour of Charles Goodhart.Volume 1

Celebrating the contribution that Charles Goodhart has made to monetary economics and policy, this compendium of original papers draws together a highly respected group of international academics, central bankers and financial market regulators covering a broad range of issues in modern monetary economics. Topics discussed ...