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Thomas Harry Tietenberg, Editor ; Henk Folmer, Editor | Cheltenham : Edward Elgar | New horizons in environmental economics | 19984e de couv : "This major annual publication is an authoritative state-of-the-art survey of current issues in environmental and resource economics written by the leading academics in the field. The discipline of environmental and resource econ[...]
4e de couv : "Though scientists and environmentalists have long expressed concern over the rapid deterioration of the global environment, economists have largely failed to recognize the issues relevance to their field. Salah El Serafy argues for[...]
Back cover: "This book examines the major economic and political factors influencing China’s exchange rate policies from the foundation of the People’s Republic to the present. It considers how national economic and political priorities, interna[...]
This book is concerned with some of the conceptual and practical problems of measuring the changes in welfare of individuals and the excess burdens arising from taxation.
4e de couv : "This authoritative volume brings together Vito Tanzi’s pioneering work on institutions and the influence of the behavior of government officials and economic agents on economic decision-making. It focuses on the ‘dark side’ of econ[...]
In this book, the authors outline how policymakers in advanced countries have moved away from exclusive reliance on the public sector in social service delivery, towards a more multi-faceted approach that seeks to combine the strengths of public[...]
Claude Le Bouthillier, Editor ; Miriam Alfie Cohen, Editor ; Albert Mumma, Editor ; Susan Lea Smith, Editor | Cheltenham : Edward Elgar | 20124e de couv : "This timely book explores the complex relationship between the alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment. There is every reason to believe that these issues are in many ways interdependent. However this book dem[...]
Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the most useful tools of applied economics for the social appraisal of public projects and government policies. Nick Hanley and Edward Barbier show how CBA can be applied to environmental policy choice and e[...]
Paul Cook, Editor ; Colin H Kirkpatrick, Editor | Cheltenham : Edward Elgar | The international library of critical writings in economics | 2000In recent decades, privatisation has been a key policy instrument in the move to more market-based economic systems in all parts of the developing world. Privatisation, however, has not necessarily been accompanied by an increase in market compe[...]
Note de l'éditeur : "This important book investigates the causes of the decline in public capital spending which has occurred in most OECD countries over the past 25 years, and estimates the macroeconomic consequences of this decline. Governmen[...]
Meher Manzur, Editor | Cheltenham : Edward Elgar | The international library of critical writings in economics | 2008`The realignment of the dollar, the "true" value of the Chinese yuan, the expansion of the euro block, and the pricing of Big Macs around the world all relate to purchasing power parity. In short, never before has there been so much interest in [...]
Water issues in the American West share many similarities with those seen elsewhere in the world as population growth exacerbates longstanding problems of inappropriate water use and management. The contributors to this timely volume examine the[...]
