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by Paul Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Maps have long held a fascination for travellers and would-be travellers alike. Drawing on fascinating and unique material from the British Airways archive, curator Paul Jarvis focuses on the beautiful map artwork used over nearly 100 years of history to chart our voyages through the skies – from...
by Norman A. Katz
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Even the largest companies find managing vendors a daunting task. If you get it wrong then you risk inadvertently penalizing potentially valuable suppliers with misguided, overly bureaucratic or costly processes. Worse the burdens placed on the vendors backfires on the customer entity itself as the...
The Authority Guide to Profitable Pricing
How to develop a powerful strategy to boost turnover, profit, cash flow and business growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Make a fast, effective impact on the financial success of your business.
Setting the optimum price for your products and services, that’s right for your customers and market, is vital to success. But how do you know that what you’re charging is doing the best job possible? In this smart,...
Paradigm Theory & Policy Making
Reconfiguring the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A review of clashes between global and local economics, reveals a new insight for anticipating the economic future.
Paradigm Theory and Policy Making is a wideranging and thoughtprovoking treatise on the forces that have shaped the political economies of the developed and developing world...
Regulation of Foreign Investment
Challenges to International Harmonization
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules. Particular attention is paid to the most controversial and contentious issues with the view of appraising the prospects...
Public Services and International Trade Liberalization
Human Rights and Gender Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Does public service liberalization pose a threat to gender and human rights? Traditionally considered essential services provided by a state to its citizens, public services are often viewed as public goods which embody social values. Subjecting them to market ideology thus raises concerns that the...
Deconstructing the High Line
Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property...
Re-Act
Tools for Urban Re-Activation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Urban re-activation is becoming an increasingly relevant and complex topic in Europe, as it brings together a growing community of influential actors who, in recent years, have established a number of successful interventions in the field of re-use and re-appropriation. In this book, we will not only...
On the Causes of Economic Growth
Lessons of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What's the secret? Can policies "grow" the economy? How do leaders make their countries prosper? Since the earliest of times, humans have endeavored to uncover the causes of prosperity. Step by step, Sabillon tests the principal theories on the causes of economic growth against the facts of history.Here,...
by Jeff Lumin
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Revitalizing America’s industrial prowess and economic strength is a long and difficult path. To stop businesses, big and small, from leaving American soil, the biggest challenges are from insiders: entrenched interest group, free riders, government officials and Congress members who have sold their...
Access to Justice
A Critical Analysis of Recoverable Conditional Fees and No Win No Fee Funding
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
This book addresses an experiment in funding money damage claims in England from 2000 to 2013. The model - recoverable conditional fees - was unique and has remained so. It covers the development, amendment and effective abolition of the model, as well as the process of policy development and the motivation and objectives of the policy makers.
by David Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In this discerning book, David Collins provides an eloquent analysis of performance requirements and investment incentives as vital tools of economic policy. Adopting a consciously broad definition of both instruments, this work provokes a constructively critical assessment of their existing treatment under international economic law.
by J. Peter Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Around the world concerns about cost, efficiency, and safety - employee, product, process and consumer -- have led to changes in the way food plants are planned, constructed and evaluated. From initiation of major capital requests to legal design requirements to project management and plant operations,...
Trade Policy Flexibility and Enforcement in the WTO
A Law and Economics Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an incomplete contract among sovereign countries. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are designed to deal with contractual gaps, which are the inevitable consequence of this contractual incompleteness. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are backed up by enforcement...