Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
Econometrics as a Con Art
Exposing the Limitations and Abuses of Econometrics
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Imad Moosa challenges convention with this comprehensive and compelling critique of econometrics, condemning the common practices of misapplied statistical methods in both economics and finance.
Economics and Environmental Change
The Challenges We Face
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
In this innovative book, Clement Tisdell adopts a holistic approach, combining economic, social, biophysical and historical considerations to analyse the economic origins of major contemporary environmental problems, especially those associated with climate change. The ability of humankind to respond...
Should Britain Leave the EU?
An Economic Analysis of a Troubled Relationship, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This second edition brings up to date a thorough review of all economic aspects of the UK's relationship with the EU, which also puts it in the political context of the upcoming referendum. It notes the intention of the EU to move to 'ever closer union' and the nature of the regulatory and general economic...
Structuring PublicPrivate Research Partnerships for Success
Empowering University Partners
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
As funding for universities and governmental research units has declined, these institutions have turned to the private sector to augment their research and development budgets. This book presents a framework for structuring public-private research partnerships that protect both these institutions’...
by Subhash C. Jain, Ben L. Kedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book traces the history of India’s progress since its independence in 1947 and advances strategies for continuing economic growth. Insiders and outsiders that have criticized India for slow economic growth fail to recognize all it has achieved in the last seven decades, including handling the...
A History of American State and Local Economic Development
As Two Ships Pass in the Night
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems approach while exploring the three eras of economic development.
by Emanuel Towfigh, Niels Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Responding to the growing importance of economic reasoning in legal scholarship, this innovative work provides an essential introduction to the economic tools, which can usefully be employed in legal reasoning. It is geared specifically towards those without a great deal of exposure to economic thinking...
Corruption and Criminal Justice
Bridging Economic and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The author addresses the role of criminal justice in anti-corruption by investigating assumptions in the classic law and economics approach and debating the underlying criteria for an efficient criminal justice system. Drawing on real life challenges from the policy world, the book combines insights...
Exchange Rate Economics
The Uncovered Interest Parity Puzzle and Other Anomalies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) puzzle has remained a moot point since it first circulated economic discourse in 1984. Despite a number of attempts at a solution, the UIP puzzle and other anomalies in exchange rate economics continue to perplex economic thought in international finance. This fundamental...
by Roger A. McCain
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This book provides a critical, selective review of concepts from game theory and their applications in public policy, and further suggests some modifications for some of the models (chiefly in cooperative game theory) to improve their applicability to economics and public policy.
by Akhand Akhtar Hossain
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This book of case studies is a contribution to monetary macroeconomics in which country-specific experience and issues in inflation and monetary policy are reviewed and analysed in an historical context. In doing so, the key ideas and views on the sources and dynamics of inflation and monetary-policy...
Introduction to Regional Economic Development
Major Theories and Basic Analytical Tools
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This is a relatively simple and easy to read introduction of major regional and local economic development theories, their theoretical evolution and other relevant topics such as governance, institutions and local leadership within the globalization context. It also discusses some basic analytical tools...
by Moosa, I.A., Ramiah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Costs and Benefits of Environmental Regulation presents a thorough investigation into environmental regulation, its economic and financial effects and the associated costs and benefits. A variety of issues, pertaining to regulation in general and environmental regulation in particular, are examined....
Global Climate Justice
Proposals, Arguments and Justification
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
In this thoughtful and original book, social scientist Olivier Godard considers the ways in which arguments of justice cling to international efforts to address global climate change. Proposals made by governments, experts and NGOs as well as concepts and arguments born of moral and political philosophy...