Economics of industrial organization

This book, first published in 1986, is a major reference work for the political discussions arising out of the 1985 Congress revisions of US food and farm laws.

Most developed economies, including single-industry and resource dependent rural or small town regions, are transforming rapidly as a result of social, political, and economic change.

This book is a series of vignettes about changes to Australian institutions, organisations and systems that have significantly improved economic and social well-being for Australians.

This proceedings volume presents new methods and applications in applied economic research with an emphasis on advances in panel data analysis.

This 1996 edition of Britain's Economic Problem opens with a substantial new chapter, 'Bacon and Eltis after 20 Years', in which the authors assess the impact of the policies of successive Conservative governments to bring British public expenditure under control.

The economics literature on industry dynamics contains a wide array of empirical works identifying a set of stylized facts.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

Volume 3: Managing the Ecosystem focuses on those ecosystems in which human intervention has been or continues to be predominant, specifically within cities and rural areas.

This textbook looks at economic development at the local, community or regional scale.

Winner of the 2009 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award!

This collection of speeches delivered by Michael Debabrata Patra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), captures the dilemmas and trepidations of conducting monetary policy in India.

This book investigates the challenges being experienced in the traditional procurement methods for road infrastructure in developing countries and explores the features of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as an alternative procurement method with the potential of achieving a more sustainable highway network in Nigeria and other developing countries of Africa.

Power Structure examines the effects on economic performance of several key features of the U.

When my Habilitation (the tenure research document for my professorship) was published for the first time by StudienVerlag in 2003, I did not expect that a scientific study such as this would reach such a large readership in the Germ- speaking world.

Since the explosion of multimedia, the creation and promotion of multimedia clusters has become a target for regional development strategies across the globe.

This survey, first published in 1934, was designed as a contribution to our knowledge of poverty, its incidence and causes.

This book offers conceptual and empirical insights from economic geography to explore how uncertainties, crises, and risks, shape, reshape, and ultimately transform the spatial arrangements of companies and regions.

This book focuses on the importance of human factors in optimizing the learning and training process.

The Physiology of Industry is a remarkable work which set out to challenge contemporary theory surrounding the economics of labour, supply and demand.

This book synthesises the vast literature on economic regulation into a coherent overview of regulatory theory and practice.

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovations?

The short essays in this volume, contributed by leading experts on Chinese economic policy, provide crisp and insightful analyses of the Chinese state's approach toward markets, the role of key actors and institutions, the evolving nature of industrial policy and the effectiveness of China's international commitments to constrain such practices, and a preview of the likely contents and significance of China's 13th Five-Year Plan.

We are bombarded with economic numbers: unemployment, retail sales, inflation, GDP-the list goes on and on.

Sports Economics focuses primarily on the business aspects of major professional sports, employing the principles of economics to address essential issues in the industry.

Modelling is a tool used by savvy business managers to understand the processes of their business and to estimate the impact of changes.

Reissuing works originally published between 1964 and 1994, this set of ten volumes is an excellent collection of works on energy - production and consumption, economics and policy, conservation and the crisis.

Entrepreneurial Economics is concerned with the role of entrepreneurs, and the nature and scope of entrepreneurship in the economy.

First published in 1990, this is an analysis of the history of western economics from Petty to Supply-Side, through the prism of the controversies over productive labour and its product.

This detailed case study of Gazprom explores motivation behind the company's foreign policies, it's strategies and tactics.

First published in 1979.

Americans tend to believe that their country is very different from Europe.

This title was first published in 2001.

The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge in innovation networks.

Originally published in 1965, this book is concerned with an important yet neglected part of economic life 'fringe benefits' which employers provide for and on behalf of their employees apart from wages and salaries.

International production networks in manufacturing, particularly in machinery industries, have rapidly developed over the last two decades, resulting in dramatic increases in intra-regional and intra-industry trade, providing a key source of regional growth, integration and development in East Asia.

This book explores Japan's efforts to promote the commercial benefits of science and technology.

Trade, Development and Political Economy takes fundamental issues in trade and development policy and subjects them to well-based economic analysis in a form that is easily accessible to the non-specialist.

Communications markets have made much progress towards competition and deregulation in recent years.

First Published in 2001.

Huang examines a recurring pattern of rapid economic growth in East Asia from 1951 to the present and explores how far a single East Asian Growth model can be said to exist.

Marcus Warren's book provides a broad coverage of economic theory, analysis and policy relevant to most undergraduate students studying economics as part of their degree.

Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies on Africa: Algeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Ship management is a worldwide activity.

This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia's Fair Work Act.

The concept of self-sufficiency involves the notion of sustainable, circular, and carbon-neutral cities.

After a decade or more of privatisation and deregulation there is a growing consensus that government can have a positive role in promoting industrial development.

Studer shows that institutional, geographical, political, and technological factors account for Europe''s rise to undisputed world economic leader.

While the computer revolution has created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, it has threatened as many other jobs with obsolescence and has often caused the displacement of workers by computer-based machines.

This book is Volume I of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various tests for antitrust legality, including those promulgated by US and EU antitrust law.