Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
The Normative Foundations of European Competition Law
Assessing the Goals of Antitrust through the Lens of Legal Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Does competitive process constitute an autonomous societal value or is it a means for achieving more meritorious goals: welfare, growth, integration, and innovation? The hypothesis of The Normative Foundations of European Competition Law is that the former is the case. This insightful book analyses the...
How Great Cities Happen
Integrating People, Land Use and Transport
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of the city, rather than how it functions as a place to live and visit....
Exploring the EU’s Legitimacy Crisis
The Dark Heart of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Exploring the EU’s Legitimacy Crisis provides a profound analysis of the causes and the consequences of the EU's growing legitimacy problem. The prior permissive consensus in the EU has been markedly declining under persistent crisis conditions. Since the onset of the eurozone crisis the EU's governance...
Publish or Perish
Perceived Benefits versus Unintended Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Imad Moosa’s thought-provoking book explores the contemporary doctrine that plagues the academic sphere: the principle of publish or perish. This book identifies the pressures placed upon academics to either publish their work regularly, or suffer the consequences, including lack of promotion, or even redundancy.
by Justin B. Hollander
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
This prescient book presents the intellectual terrain of shrinking cities while exploring the key research questions in each of the field’s sub-domains and reviewing the range of methodologies within these topics.
by Lisa Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment...
Knowledge Borders
Temporary Labor Mobility and the CanadaUS Border Region
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Key sections of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal with temporary labor mobility. Ideally, NAFTA status provisions should make the temporary movement of professionals easier across the border of all NAFTA countries. However, in the case of some key sectors, it is arguably not the case....
Earth Governance
Trusteeship of the Global Commons
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The predicament of uncontrolled growth in a finite world puts the global commons - such as oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere - at risk. So far, states have not found the means to protect, what essentially, is outside their jurisdiction. However the jurisprudence of international law has matured to a...
by Kenneth Button
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In this clear and observant book, Kenneth Button provides an overview of the economics and political economy of transport security, considering its policy from an economic perspective. His analysis applies micro-economic theory to transport issues, supporting and enhancing the larger framework of our knowledge about personal, industrial, and national security.
EU Internet Law
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This comprehensive book provides a detailed overview of EU internet regulation in all its key areas, as well as giving a critical evaluation of EU policymaking and governance. This thoroughly revised second edition includes latest developments in the case law of the Court of Justice. It also discusses...
Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism?
Towards Social Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In this important book, Bryn Jones uses insights from political economy, historical analysis and sociological concepts of the corporation, as a socially disembedded but political actor, to address concerns over the over-reach of Anglo-Saxon corporations. These firms are compared with their continental...
The Financialization of the Firm
Managerial and Social Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The term ‘financialization’ denotes the general tendency in the advanced Western economies to allow a substantial proportion of taxable profits to accumulate in the finance industry. Alexander Styhre discusses the financialization of the firm in the period after 1980 and stresses how key managerial...
Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs
Closing the Governance Gap
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The effects of globalisation, together with the increase in foreign investment and resource development within the developing world, have created a context for human rights abuses by States in which transnational corporations are complicit. This timely book considers how these ‘governance gaps’,...
Intellectual Property Rights as Foreign Direct Investments
From Collision to Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This discerning book examines the interface between intellectual property and foreign direct investments to consider one key question: how does the international investment law framework and the international legal regime regulating intellectual property converge? The book scrutinizes circumstances in...