Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
by David Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In this discerning book, David Collins provides an eloquent analysis of performance requirements and investment incentives as vital tools of economic policy. Adopting a consciously broad definition of both instruments, this work provokes a constructively critical assessment of their existing treatment under international economic law.
Global Environmental Protection through Trade
A Systematic Approach to Extraterritoriality
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Despite an increasing global awareness of environmental concerns, setting internationally binding and ambitious commitments has proven exceedingly complex. As states are seeking alternative methods to support global environmental protection, this book takes a closer look at the possibility of using national...
Economic Catch-up and Technological Leapfrogging
The Path to Development and Macroeconomic Stability in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book elaborates upon the dynamic changes to Korean firms and the economy from the perspective of catch-up theory. The central premise of the book is that a latecomer’s sustained catch-up is not possible by simply following the path of the forerunners but by creating a new path or ‘leapfrogging’....
Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development
Betterment and Compensation in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Land value capture has long been a hotly debated topic, and it has influenced a wide variety of land ownership regimes. Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development examines the role and impact of government intervention on land markets in China. It reveals that the state has taken selective advantage...
Law and Development
An Institutional Critique
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
This book draws on the analytical framework of New Institutional Economics (NIE) to critically examine the role which law and the legal system play in economic development. Analytical concepts from NIE are used to assess policies which have been supported by multilateral development organisations...
by Sara Hsu
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
This fascinating volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of the events, causes and outcomes of the major financial crises from 1929 to the present day. Beginning with an overview of the global financial system, Sara Hsu presents both theoretical and empirical evidence to explain the roots of financial...
The International Monetary Fund
Distinguishing Reality from Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
There is no shortage of opinion about the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Some see it as the agent of austerity, being manipulated by wealthy nations and forcing poorer countries to pursue economic policies that suppress growth and development. A sharply contrasting view regards it as bailing out...
Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions
Economic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This innovative book identifies socio-economic processes which transform the stock of genetic resources and ecosystems and discusses sustainability issues raised by variations in this stock. It focuses subsequently on the socio-economics of the conservation and change in the stock of human developed...
China’s Economic Growth Prospects
From Demographic Dividend To Reform Dividend
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
In this book Cai Fang explores the contribution of demographic transition to economic growth in China’s reform period, depicts the population factors causing the economic slowdown since the second decade of the twenty-first century, analyses the challenges facing its long-term sustainability when the...
by Laura Von Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Fiscal Decentralization and Budget Control explores possible institutional solutions to fiscal instability in countries that have traditionally been caught up in problems of over-expenditure and over-indebtedness. How can governments control spending pressure from influential groups, often representing...
Understanding China's Urbanization
The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
China’s urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China’s...
Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice
Paradoxes in Play, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Aimed primarily at undergraduate students, this highly successful textbook provides the reader with a broad overview of the entrepreneurship phenomenon. It focuses on the emergence, evaluation and organizing of entrepreneurial opportunities in various organizational contexts. This thoroughly revised...
by Glen Atkinson, Stephen P. Paschall
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Law and economics are interdependent. Using a historical case analysis approach, this book demonstrates how the legal process relates to and is affected by economic circumstances. Glen Atkinson and Stephen P. Paschall examine this co-evolution in the context of the economic development that occurred...
The Rise of the Hybrid Domain
Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
By conceptualizing the rise of the hybrid domain as an emerging institutional form that overlaps public and private interests, this book explores how corporations, states, and civil society organizations develop common agendas, despite the differences in their primary objectives. Using evidence from...