Economics of specific sectors

This book evaluates the validity of a key proposition of public choice theory: that competition is associated with superior performance by governmental organisations.

Since the early seventies, following the pioneering work by Leo Hurwicz, economists have been studying the relationship between socially optimal goals and private self-interest.

Sustainability Analysis provides a detailed exploration of current environmental thinking from a variety of perspectives, including institutional and psychological angles.

The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government.

Leading scholars assess the transformations in energy security policy that flow from recognition of global climate change.

If we are becoming increasingly disconnected from our local communities, are there implications for health, well being and happiness, particularly for people on low incomes?

Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years.

Green Trade Agreements reviews and analyses the environmental provisions that have become an important characteristic of the growing number of bilateral and regional free trade agreements.

The impact of the environment in general, and climate change in particular, is now entrenched as a key political concern.

This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters.

Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking high on the political agenda of European countries.

Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers.

How do you create world-class educational institutions that are academically rigorous and vocationally relevant?

Building on the impressive first edition, this revised and updated book examines a wide range of highly topical issues.

Based on research-informed 'future-scoping' and emerging practice in the field of executive education this bookis split into three parts: Future Context, Future Learning and Future Learners.

This book looks at how the benefits of economic development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are not being equally distributed.

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the population and underdeveloped states.

Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti.

This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries.

This book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries.

Develops a new theory of 'identity' ecological modernization (EM), to analyse renewable history and policy development in many of the world's states which are leading the drive to install renewable energy.

Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance.

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide a public good; if MFIs create and deepen markets where none existed before, there may be a case for public support.

In India today only 35 percent of people have access to medicines.

With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.

This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework.

Happiness is a private matter and individual pursuit; however, public policy does have an important role and can contribute much through various enabling means.

This book examines how local and global environment-society relations play out in coastal communities dependent on tourism for economic survival.

Summarizing the three main reasons why customized programs are commissioned, this book explains and explores the key aspects of successful development programs, with views from corporate sponsors, participants, faculty contributors and case studies of customised programs commissioned by 6 organizations.

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating the performance of economies and of economic policies.

How can we determine if current growth patterns are sustainable, and what changes to we need to make to make them more so?

This book addresses the EU as powerful driver of the wave of privatizations in the network industries and public services since the early 1990s.

Housing finance structures and Institutional and regulatory/fiscal aspects in housing have changed significantly in recent years.

Duncan Pritchard offers students not only a new exploration of topics central to current epistemological debate, but also a new way of doing epistemology.

The New Energy Crisis comes from the recent intrusion of climate change issues into energy economics and geopolitics.

Recognizing increasing returns disrupts much of the established wisdom in economic analysis, making money non-neutral, equity conflict with freedom, and encouraging goods with increasing returns efficient.

This book addresses distributive justice across generations and includes original theories from distinguished economists on intergenerational equity, efficiency and rationality, which discuss policies on social security, pensions, and environmental degradation, as examples of policies of the present generation which impact upon future generations.

Cutting carbon emissions is urgent but very challenging in wealthy democracies.

This book explores the life and work of Nicholas Kaldor, examining the influences that shaped and inspired his writings, and looks in detail at the crucial part he played in twentieth-century economics.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of national fiscal policies in the European Union and in the European Monetary Union.

This new edition examines the economics of health care systems in a non-technical manner.

This book explores the economic challenges involved in managing hydrocarbon wealth in the Caspian region, and looks at how to design an optimal energy policy.

The 2007-09 financial crisis and economic downturn inflicted considerable hardship on the U.

Holds critical information that is needed by anyone who wants to understand how to make money from 'green' technology and how to avoid investments that will soon suffer from hidden carbon liabilities.

A structured guideline for development and implementation of business strategies, programs, and models with core sustainability values is then proposed and explicitly discussed, drawing upon management models, tools and techniques proven to be effective in organizational decision-making and prognostication.

Easy-to-read and filled with real-world examples of the most complex environmental challenges, this book demonstrates that sound economic analysis and reasoning can be one of the environmental community's strongest allies.

An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century.

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world's influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.