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Policy Analysis and Economics
Developments, Tensions, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies. Positive economics provides the tools for predicting the impacts of prop osed policies; normative economics, especially welfare theory, offers a framework...
The Classical Foundations of Population Thought
From Plato to Quesnay
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Whereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected. Specialists systematically ignore a noteworthy paradox: strictly speaking, the great intellectual figures of the past dealt with in this book have...
by Peter Pavel Remec
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
According to democratic theory the state is for man not man for the state. This theory has been implemented by bills of rights in many national constitutions giving the individual a legal opportunity to redress abuses by his state. In Federal Consti tutions, however, difficulties have been faced...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation, and Remediation reports research results in sustainable land management and land degradation status and mitigation in 36 countries around the world. It includes background papers with continental and international perspectives dealing with...
by Thomas J. Kniesner, John D. Leeth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
People want more from the government. One thing they want more of is a sense of personal safety, at home and at work (Regulation, Fall 1991). People also want the government to quit wasting money. The objective of having the government provide a safer life for us and our children at minimum cost leads...
Dewey and European Education
General Problems and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although John Dewey's ideas have been of central interest in Anglo-Saxon philosophy and history of education, it is only recently that similar interest has developed in continental Europe.
Deweyan philosophy of education has had to pass through national filters, which meant that it was received in...
Sociology Faces Pessimism
A Study of European Sociological Thought Amidst a Fading Optimism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My initial interest in sociology stemmed from the desire to see specific social change in certain areas of my native United States of America. My rather naive assumption at that time was that if the truth is known about social phenomena and presented to rational and educated persons, public opinion...
The Cult of Authority
The Political Philosophy of the Saint-Simonians
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There exists an extensive literature on the history of the Saint Simonian movement as well as on various phases of Saint-Simo nian economic, literary, aesthetic, feminist, and pacifist thought and activity. However, until the first edition of the present work, no larger study had undertaken an...
by Ken Devos
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of why taxpayers behave the way they do. It reveals the motivations for why some taxpayers comply with the law while others choose not to comply. Given the current global financial climate there is a need for governments worldwide to increase their revenue...
by Lorenzo Pellegrini
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
The book analyses the influence of corruption on economic growth and environmental protection, examining corruption from different perspectives. It contributes to several streams of the literature and assembles evidence of the influence of corruption on two important variables in human welfare: income...
The Family, the Market or the State?
Intergenerational Support Under Pressure in Ageing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes...
Quality of life in Italy
Research and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
The outcome of the first Italian National Conference on Quality of Life, this volume is full of cogent analysis of topics and issues related to well being and quality of life, including focused papers on specific population groupings and discrete themes. Held in Florence in September 2010, the...
Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization
Essays in Honor of Leonard W. Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization brings together leading scholars who present state-of-the-art research in the spirit of the structure-conduct-performance paradigm embodied in the work of Leonard W. Weiss.
The individual chapters are generally empirically or public policy oriented. A number...