Economic growth

Achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development requires better information about the consequences of proposed actions.

Regional economic models are the key to predicting the effects of transportation, economic development, energy, fiscal and environmental policies.

The connection between economic growth and the quality of the environment is a popular subject.

I am both pleased and honored to introduce this book to readers, and I want to take a few moments to explain why.

In recent years, the contemporary social sciences have again turned their attention to space and places.

Despite their importance in terms of employment and income generation, inshore fisheries have been a neglected area of study.

The Unique Nature of Frontier Cities and their Development Challenge Harvey Lithwick and Yehuda Grad us The advent of government downsizing, and globalization has led to enormous com- petitive pressures as well as the opening of new opportunities.

Corporate Geography examines the spatial structures and behaviour of large business organizations.

Global climate change is expected to have major impacts on water resources and aquatic ecosystems.

Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.

European Consumer Policy after Maastricht raises both `horizontal' and `vertical' issues of consumer policy in the European Community and associated countries.

Policy failures in environment and development have been blamed on frag- mented and eclectic policies and strategies.

Cities form one of the principal arenas in which globalization processes are manifest.

Systems approaches for agricultural development are needed to determine rational strategies for the role of agriculture in national development.

This book contains six studies on various national environmental policies and environment -oriented technology policy systems in Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, sandwiched between this introductory and a concluding chapter.

This volume contains the genuine proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation, Bled, Slovenia, June 3-5, 1997.

Over the last several decades there has been a growing interest in Research & Development (R&D) policy.

Technology transfer has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years in Western Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim.

In the autumn of 1990 there was a sense of change taking place in the world economy.

After decades of effortless growth and prosperity, America's postsecondary institutions of education have come under increasing financial stress and waning public support.

A Billion Trips a Day: Tradition and Transition in European Travel Patterns consists of twenty-four original chapters developed by a network of transport professionals in a coordinated manner.

Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems aims to redirect the study of what was previously referred to as comparative economic systems toward analysis of the history and development of institutions, and the effects of alternative institutional arrangements on economic behavior.

Systems approaches for agricultural development are needed to determine rational strategies for the role of agriculture in national development.

Experiences with Financial Liberalization provides a broad spectrum of policy experiences relating to financial liberalization around the globe since the 1960s.

This book brings together important essays by distinguished scholars who have devoted past attention to the study of imperialism and development.

Do the antitrust laws have a place in the digital economy or are they obsolete?

here ofexchange, and borrowing in debates between these disciplines, all the more so, as we shall see a little further on, as the analysis of the Central and East European transformations has also contributed to introduce into political science and sociology theoretical systematizations first formulated in economics.

This book uses a range of S&T and structural indicators to analyse the transfonnation process, in particular the transfonnation of science, technology and industry, in the fonner communist countries.

Most Asian countries have shown a strong commitment to rapid economic development.

Industrial Policies after 2000 investigates industrial policy during a time of deregulation, privatization and a growing interest in small government.

Services today account for a major share of employment and national product in the U.

Postsecondary educational institutions in the United States are facing increasing financial stress and waning public support.

This volume is meant to be a modest contribution to the ongoing debate about the transitions away from the administrative planning environment typical of the former communist regimes.

Since the 'environmental revolution' began in the late 1960s, economists have done a lot of work in the field of economic theory-building on the preservation of nature.

Stabilization and Privatization: An Economic Evaluation of the Shock Therapy Program is the first comprehensive account of Poland's economic transition since mid-1989.

Capitalism versus Pragmatic Market Socialism: A General Equilibrium Evaluation contains important contributions both to general economic theory and to the evaluation of potential market socialist economic systems.

When we first invited the group of distinguished scholars represented here to contribute to a new volume on Austrian economics, four themes were stressed: tensions, new directions, selectivity, and criticism.

The modern system-wide approach to applied demand analysis emphasizes a unity between theory and applications.

I consider it a privilege to have been invited to write a preface for "e;The Limits to Certainty"e;.

The computer revolution both in the hardware as well as in software has made it possible for economists to analyze complex issues which could not be solved in the past by analytical methods.

Two central problems in the pure theory of economic growth are analysed in this monograph: 1) the dynamic laws governing the economic growth processes, 2) the kinematic and geometric properties of the set of solutions to the dynamic systems.

Road pricing (tolls, etc.

Telecommunications Demand in Theory and Practice, which builds upon the author's seminal 1980 book, Telecommunications Demand: A Review and Critique, provides comprehensive analyses of the determinants and structure of telecommunications demands in the United States and Canada.

THE CONCEPTION OF THIS VOLUME This volume, Cardinalism, has been initiated by Ole Hagen, and is now published due to his perseverance and to Kluwer Academic Publishers.

This volume in essence continues my recent contributions towards building up a better understanding of the wide range of obstacles besetting the transitions away from administrative planning in the former communist regimes in the eastern part of Europe.

In his book "e;Jurassic Park"e; (and in the movie based on the book), Michael Crichton describes a crazed professor who through techniques of genetic engineering manages to recreate the dinosaurs and giant ferns of 65 million years past.

Inevitably, at a panel discussion not too long ago comparing planning cultures the discussion turned on the issue of globalisation.

In this book Eileen Trauth peers inside the day-to-day work lives of the people who have been bringing about Ireland's transition from a small agricultural country to a healthy information economy.