Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
The Evolution of the World Economy
The ‘Flying-Geese’ Theory of Multinational Corporations and Structural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The world economy is near a critical crossroads, as a rising China, the greatest-ever beneficiary of US-led capitalism, ironically dreams big to replace America's supremacy as a new hegemonic power with a non-liberal world order. This third volume of the trilogy on ‘flying-geese’ theory reformulation...
Public Policy in Action
Perspectives on the Policy Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This comprehensive textbook explores the policy process from a multitude of perspectives, including rationalism, culturalism, institutionalism and from a political point of view. This allows students to discover key concepts from the policy science literature and gain a deeper understanding of how public policy is discussed academically and shaped empirically.
Marketing Rural Tourism
Experience and Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Gunjan Saxena seeks to encourage a fuller understanding of rural tourism marketing by uncovering the lived experiences and enterprise of different actor groups as they respond to the impact of tourism on their communities and cultural identities. In so doing, the author makes a key contribution to the wider marketing discourse that circulates around place marketing and rural destinations.
by Ellen Hey
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This Advanced Introduction provides both an overview and a critical assessment of international environmental law (IEL) written by one of the leading authorities in this field. An invaluable entry point to this complex area of the law, the book pinpoints essential principles and institutions and distils...
The Disappearing Product
Marketing and Markets in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Technological and social change has transfigured the market for creative industries. A new generation of intermediaries including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google deal in context (how we consume) more than content (what we consume), displacing cultural producers, devaluing culturing products and monopolising...
The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing
Understanding the Rise and Significance of a New Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased significantly in recent years, leading to new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed specifically at enhancing wellbeing. This book provides the first theoretically informed account of the rise and...
The Political Economy of Status
Superstars, Markets and Culture Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this timely book, Theodore Koutsobinas explores the system of status markets and their social effects including inequality. He explains how media fascination with superstars and luxury consumption goods amplify positional concerns for all, distort the aspirations of the middle class and cause relative...
by Dedeurwaerdere, T.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The dynamism of science has been catalytic for human prosperity in recent history. Conventional perspectives of the ivory tower model of modern science are, however, rivalled by the failure of humanity to tackle global crises of an economic, environmental and social nature. Operational solutions to...
Sustainable Development in International Law Making and Trade
International Food Governance and Trade in Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This timely book provides an accessible insight into how the concept of sustainable development can be made operational through its translation into legal terms. Understood as a multidimensional legal principle, sustainable development facilitates coherent international law making. Using this notion...
Creative Destruction and the Sharing Economy
Uber as Disruptive Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
While creative destruction and disruptive innovation change the entrepreneurial landscape; regulation especially regulation of sectorial markets and competition regulation can delay this change or even bring it to a halt. Uber plays an active role between these two forces: first as an agent of creative...
Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law
Novel Entanglements of Law and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
This timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoking their most salient functionality: the prediction and preemption of our day-to-day activities, preferences, health and credit risks, criminal intent and spending capacity. Mireille Hildebrandt claims that...
Bank Funding, Liquidity, and Capital Adequacy
A Law and Finance Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Focusing primarily on the banking system in the United States, this book offers an innovative framework that integrates a depository bank’s liquidity and its capital adequacy into a unified notion of funding that helps to explain how the 20072008 crisis unfolded, why central banks succeeded in resolving...
The Fundamentals of Contract Law and Clauses
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This accessible textbook helps students learn essential transactional skills by explaining the meaning and purpose of common contract clauses and exploring some potential pitfalls associated with their use. Nancy Kim utilizes select case summaries and contract clause examples to illustrate doctrinal...
by Günter Frankenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book presents a critique of conventional ways to do comparative law. The author argues that, for comparative law to qualify as a discipline, comparatists must reflect on how and why they compare. The author discusses not only methods and theories, but also the ethical implications and the politics of comparative law.