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Global Intellectual Property Law מאת Graham Dutfield `Dutfield and Suthersanen have skillfully captured in one concise volume all the important things you need to know about international intellectual property law. The materials are accessible, timely, methodically presented and at times critical. The book's detailed, in-depth and comparative analyses...

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Inequality, Consumer Credit And The Saving Puzzle (New Directions in Modern Economics) מאת Christopher Brown Providing much needed context for current events like the sub-prime mortgage crisis, this timely book presents a vision of an economy evolved to greater dependence on consumer credit and analyzes the trade-offs and risks associated with it. While synthesizing the Keynesian theory of consumption with...

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Collaboration With Customers To Innovate: Conceiving and Marketing Products in the Networking Age מאת Emanuela Prandelli `The profound research effort and the farsightedness of the theories elaborated make this book an essential guide to innovation through collaboration. As a matter of fact, many of the techniques described here are being leveraged by IBM today to improve the relationship with its customers.' - Guido...

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Work-Family Balance, Gender and Policy מאת Jane Lewis `Based on multiple comparative as well as UK sources, this new book by one of the most well known European social scientists unravels the multiple dimensions and relationships involved in balancing family and paid work demands. Jane Lewis documents persisting, and even increasing cross country diffe...

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Corporate Rescue Law: An Anglo-American Perspective (Corporations, Globalisation and the Law) מאת Gerald Mccormack This book offers an unprecedented and detailed comparative critique of Anglo-American corporate bankruptcy law. It challenges the standard characterisation that US law in the sphere of corporate bankruptcy is 'pro-debtor' and UK law is 'pro-creditor', and suggests that the traditional thesis is, at ...

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The Political Economy of Trade Reform in Emerging Markets: Crisis or Opportunity? מאת Philip Alves `This book is a refreshing reminder of the benefits of unilateral trade liberalisation in countries whose leaders dare. An important story told with clarity and authority.' - Ross Garnaut, The Australian National University, Australia `That trade liberalization is good for emerging market eco...

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How Markets Work: Supply, Demand, and the 'Real World' מאת Robert E. Prasch How Markets Work presents a new and refreshing introduction to elementary economics. The venerable theory of supply and demand is reconstituted upon plausible and defensible assumptions concerning human nature, the law, and the facts of everyday life - in short - the `Real World'. The message is tha...

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Trade Liberalisation And The Poverty Of Nations מאת A. P. Thirlwall `This book breaks out of the standard distinction between "free trade" and "protectionism", and shows how to think constructively about trade policy as an instrument of national economic strategy. It is highly recommended for those who wish to think beyond orthodoxy, and especially for those in deve...

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The Entrepreneur As Business Leader: Cognitive Leadership in the Firm מאת Silke Scheer `The governance regime of cognitive leadership, its attractive co-operative features, and the challenges it faces in the process of organizational growth are the topic of Silke Scheer's fascinating study. . . To explore the mutual contingencies of socially shared cognitive frames, social models of...

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The Golden Constant: The English and American Experience 1560-2007 מאת Roy W. Jastram `Roy Jastram's classic book has been updated, to the delight of all students of gold.' - Lord William Rees-Mogg, former Editor of The Times `As gold holds its value over the long run, so, I predict, will this superb book. Must reading for the investor and scholar alike.' - James Grant, ...

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Global Intellectual Property Law מאת Graham Dutfield `Dutfield and Suthersanen have skillfully captured in one concise volume all the important things you need to know about international intellectual property law. The materials are accessible, timely, methodically presented and at times critical. The book's detailed, in-depth and comparative analyses...

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Property Rights, Consumption and the Market Process (New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics Series) מאת David Emanuel Andersson "Property Rights, Consumption and the Market Process" extends property rights theory in new and exciting directions by combining complementary insights from Austrian, institutional and evolutionary economics. Mainstream economics tends to analyze property rights within a static equilibrium framework...

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Media, Development, and Institutional Change (New Thinking in Political Economy) מאת Christopher J. Coyne Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development.

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International Knowledge and Innovation Networks: Knowledge Creation and Innovation in Medium-Technology Clusters (New Horizons in Regional Science) מאת Riccardo Cappellin `This book is remarkable for several reasons. It provides highly relevant empirical analysis into a fundamental but under-researched area, namely medium technology industries. It proposes a new theoretical approach which builds on cognitive economics to explain how innovation in these industries is ...

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Economics of Knowledge: Theory, Models and Measurements מאת Ake E. Andersson Economics of Knowledge explores the theory and empirical facts needed for rational decisions on knowledge investments, creative processes and management of knowledge based industries and institutions. The accumulation of knowledge through higher education, scientific research and indu...

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Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster (Advances in Ecological Economics) מאת Peter A. Victor `At last, Managing without Growth, a book that puts economics in its proper place within the real world and points the direction we must go in confronting the ecological crisis of the planet. As an economist, environmental studies professor Peter Victor is eminently qualified for the task. He examin...

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EU Criminal Law and Justice (Elgar European Law) מאת Maria Fletcher Today, EU criminal law and justice constitutes a significant body of law potentially affecting most aspects of criminal justice. This book provides a comprehensive, accessible yet analytically challenging account of the institutional and legal developments in this field to date. It also includes ful...

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The Economcs of Innovation: An Introduction מאת G. M. Peter Swann This text provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the economics of innovation, written for those with some basic knowledge of economics. Innovation is one of the most important economic and business phenomena of our time and a topic of great practical and policy interest. The aim of ...

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The Economics Of Small Island Tourism: International Demand and Country Risk Analysis (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Feem) Series on Economics, the) מאת Riaz Shareef This study forms an entirely new area of research on Small Island Tourism Economies (SITEs). It addresses the importance of uncertainty in monthly international tourist arrivals and country risk indicators to the macroeconomy. Conditional volatilities are estimated for international tourist arrivals...

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Geographies of Development in the 21st Century: An Introduction to the Global South מאת Sylvia Chant Written by two widely published academics with many years experience in university teaching, research and consultancy, "Geographies of Development in the 21st Century" provides a concise yet informative introduction to development in the contemporary Global South. Incorporating field research from M...

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Social Protection in Africa מאת Frank Ellis This timely book makes accessible to a broad audience the ideas, principles and practicalities of establishing effective social protection in Africa. It focuses on the major shift in strategy for tackling hunger and vulnerability, from emergency responses mainly in the form of food transfers to pred...

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Regulatory Governance in Developing Countries (The Crc Series on Competition, Regulation and Development) מאת Martin Minoque The past decade has seen a quickening of the pace and extent of privatisation reforms in developing countries. An associated set of post-privatisation policies has seen the introduction of new and changed regulatory institutions. This book critically reviews regulatory reforms in developing ...

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Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries: A Multidisciplinary Approach מאת Ernst ten Heuvelhof `This book convincingly argues that - from a theoretical point of view - present day network industries offer opportunities for strategic behaviour and that these opportunities are also actually utilized in practice. The authors show that this behaviour can be harmful to the realization of the expec...

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Rule Of Law Reform And Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress מאת Michael J. Treblicock `This book offers a sophisticated yet pragmatic account of the proper purposes of rule of law reform, the obstacles to achieving it, and the role that the international community can play. The procedural conception of the rule of law offers an appealing alternative to both one-size-fits-all universa...

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EU Competition Enforcement And Human Rights מאת Andreangeli Arianna This book discusses the procedural rights enjoyed by those being investigated under Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty and of the Merger Control Regulation, and their right to challenge the Commission's decision in the Community Courts. It further assesses how their rights to `due process' in compe...

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Roads to Wisdom, Conversations With Ten Nobel Laureates in Economics מאת Karen Ilse Horn `This is a beautifully written and engaging book. At its heart is a series of structured interviews with ten Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics that provide fascinating insights into the main influences on their career paths and pioneering work. Karen Horn is to be applauded, not just for her wid...

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Leadership and Institutions in Regional Endogenous Development (New Horizons in Regional Science) מאת Robert Stimson The authors of this comprehensive book provide a detailed rationale and original theory for the study of leadership and institutional factors, including entrepreneurship, in the growth and development of cities and regions. They demonstrate why leadership, institutions and entrepreneurship can - a...

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Measuring and Improving Productivity in Services: Issues, Strategies and Challenges (Services, Economy and Innovation) מאת Faridah Djellal The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first part examines the theoretical consequences of services s...

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Taming the Regulatory State: Politics and Ethics מאת Noralv Veggeland `Professor Veggeland's ambitious study of the regulatory state is an exceptionally timely and apposite analysis. It combines theoretical, historical, and empirical perspectives on the evolution of state regulation of the economy over the past century with an emphasis on the past thirty years. It cov...

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Institutions and Development (Advances in New Institutional Analysis) מאת Mary M. Shirley `Institutions and Development is a landmark contribution to our understanding of economic development. It combines the author's extensive experience with a thorough knowledge of the literature to provide an indispensable guide to improving economic performance in underdeveloped countries.' - Dougla...