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Energy Policies in the European Union
Germany’s Ecological Tax Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Global warming is a serious threat to the stability of world climate and to economic prosperity in some regions. The book offers a theoretical analysis which focuses on double dividend issues. Moreover, the ecological tax reform in Germany and the options of modern energy policy are described and...
Justice, Sustainability, and Security
Global Ethics for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral dimensions and offer prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition.
Integrated Reporting
Useful for investors?
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The introduction of Integrated Reporting (IR) is supposed to tackle shortcomings of corporate reporting that have been criticized for decades. The new reporting format intends to improve the understandability of corporate reports and broaden their often merely financial and backward-looking perspective....
Competition, Coordination, Social Order
Responsible Business, Civil Society, and Government in an Open Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The author analyses competition as one of four coordinating mechanisms helping agents mutually to orientate their actions, avoid chaos, and produce social order. Competition is a key dimension of developed societies. It helps to structure and is also conducive to social change. Competing agents constrain...
The Greek Debt Crisis
In Quest of Growth in Times of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This book sheds new light on the Greek economic challenges and helps readers understand the current debt crisis. Chapters from leading experts in the field identify and outline potential solutions to the on-going decline of the Greek economy by considering both Eurozone-adopted current policy framework...
The First Decade of Living with the Global Crisis
Economic and Social Developments in the Balkans and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This volume sheds new light on economic developments in several countries of Southeast Europe. The European Union and especially the eurozone continue to experience rhythms of fiscal crisis, as can most clearly be seen in the debt crisis in the South Periphery. Despite the fact that several measures...
Property Tax in BRICS Megacities
Local Government Financing and Financial Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
The overall objective of the book is to holistically assess the property tax systems in BRICS megacities. As megacities play a vital role within their respective countries – economically, administratively, and from a human development perspective – they experience the costs and benefits of urbanization...
Electrical Codes, Standards, Recommended Practices and Regulations
An Examination of Relevant Safety Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Electrical codes, standards, recommended practices and regulations can be complex subjects, yet are essential in both electrical design and life safety issues.
This book demystifies their usage.
It is a handbook of codes, standards, recommended practices and regulations in the United...
Markets and Politicians
Politicized economic choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Arye L. Hillman There has been much economic theorizing directed at providing the politician with guidance in the design of policies that will amend market outcomes in ways that achieve specified efficiency or equity objectives. It has been common practice in economic models to portray the politician...
State Aid for Newspapers
Theories, Cases, Actions
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Ever since newspaper companies first turned to their governments for support in the 1950s, print media has been supported by state aid in many parts of the world. Today, the principles and practicalities of these subsidies have been called into question, endangering the secure funding of expensive...
Undeclared Work, Deterrence and Social Norms
The Case of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
For a long time, it has been the declared aim in many countries to fight tax evasion in all its different manifestations, from undeclared work by cleaners and gardeners in private households to tax evasion in the international capital markets. This study focuses on the phenomenon of undeclared work...
The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of Migration: Issues and Prospects
What will migration look like in 2045?
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The reason for the depth the 2008's global depression lies in the intractability of modern economic systems. This has led to an emergence of unprecedented migratory patterns, the analysis and management of which is key to economic recovery.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The book discusses various cases of financialisation and financial crisis in South-Eastern Europe. While these can be directly traced to the region’s reliance upon the global financial regime, the interplay of international financial institutions, the eurozone’s rigidity and domestic policies...
Forensic Economics
Assessing Personal Damages in Civil Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation. In federal and state courts in the United States, as well as in other nations, when one party sues another, the suing party is required not only to prove that the...