Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
Accountability in Extraterritoriality
A Comparative and International Law Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Nation states are increasingly asserting jurisdiction over criminal offenses that occur extraterritorially. In some instances, this can cause political tension and legal uncertainty, as the principles of jurisdiction under international law do not adequately resolve competing claims. In that context,...
Social Marketing and Behaviour Change
Models, Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the topic, Social Marketing and Behaviour Change features a review and analysis of the most validated models of behaviour change, using case studies to illustrate these models in practice. Divided into nine sections, the authors and contributors of this unique...
Free Market Economics, Third Edition
An Introduction for the General Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
If you are genuinely interested in what is wrong with modern economics, this is where you can find out. If you would like to understand the flaws in Keynesian macro, this is the book you must read. If you are interested in marginal analysis properly explained, you again need to read this book. Based...
Approaching Equality
What Can Be Done About Wealth Inequality?
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Drawing on some recent research (especially that of Piketty and his associates) and on older ideas (particularly from Sir Arthur Lewis), Roger McCain proposes policies that, together, would aim to reverse the observed tendency towards the concentration of wealth in market economies, thus ‘approach...
Public Debt
An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Over the past decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. This book provides an alternative orientation that explains why concepts of public debt that are relevant for authoritarian regimes are not relevant for democratic...
The Political Economy of Public Debt
Three Centuries of Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
How have the most influential political economists of the past three centuries theorized about sovereign borrowing and shaped its now widespread use? That important question receives a comprehensive answer in this original work, featuring careful textual analysis and illuminating exhibits of public debt...
Crisis and the Failure of Economic Theory
The Responsibility of Economists for the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Economists have rightly been criticized for not having foreseen the crisis that exploded in 20072008. As Giancarlo Bertocco eloquently argues, responsibility does indeed rest heavily on their shoulders. By developing a theory which excluded the possibility that a catastrophic crisis could ever happen,...
Understanding Ponzi Schemes
Can Better Financial Regulation Prevent Investors from Being Defrauded?
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
A Ponzi scheme is one of the simplest, albeit effective, financial frauds to engineer, and new schemes keep coming forward. Despite this, however, people continue to invest in them. How are we to account for the seemingly never-ending lure of such schemes? In providing answers to this central question,...
Post Keynesian Theory and Policy
A Realistic Analysis of the Market Oriented Capitalist Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
How did economic “experts” worldwide fail to predict the financial crisis of 2007-2008? Eminent economist Paul Davidson discusses how mainstream economic theory may not be applicable to the world of experience. Post Keynesian theory is designed to be applicable to the real world, and this book...
by Akhand Akhtar Hossain
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This book reviews key aspects of central banking and monetary policy in selected Muslim-majority countries. While reviewing country-specific experiences and issues in inflation and monetary policy, and analysing them from an historical context, emphasis is given to the evolution of Islamic banking and...
Comparative Insolvency Law
The Pre-pack Approach in Corporate Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Comparative Insolvency Law argues that the most important development in contemporary insolvency law and practice is the shift towards a rescue culture rather than full creditor satisfaction. This book is the first to specifically examine the rise of the pre-pack approach, which permits debtor companies to formulate a clear pre-arranged exit before entering into formal insolvency proceedings.
by Roger J. Van den Bergh
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Offering a concise and critical comparison of EU competition law and US antitrust law from an economic perspective, this is the ideal textbook for international and interdisciplinary courses combining law and economic approaches.
The Climate Resilient Organization
Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular...
Comparative Corporate Governance
Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Comparative Corporate Governance considers the effects of globalization on corporate governance issues and highlights how, despite these widespread consequences, predictions of legal convergence have not come true. By adopting a comparative legal approach, this book explores the disparity between convergence attempts and the persistence of local models of governance in the US, Europe and Asia.