Economics of specific sectors

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little attention to gender.

What do we mean by inequality comparisons?

Why does poverty persist?

Changing Welfare States is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades.

While the relationship between norms and the state is an omnipresent research theme in International Relations, most international theory - from classical liberalism to recent constructivism - continues to treat 'normative state power' as an analytical impossibility.

Since the early 1990s, European welfare states have undergone substantial changes, in terms of objectives, areas of intervention, and instruments.

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end.

When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy?

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health.

For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other.

The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice provides an overview of issues arising in work on the foundations of decision theory and social choice over the past three decades.

This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care.

Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South.

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little attention to gender.

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services and the health status of populations.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage.

Bioinvasions and Globalization synthesises our current knowledge of the ecology and economics of biological invasions, providing an in-depth evaluation of the science and its implications for managing the causes and consequences of one of the most pressing environmental issues facing humanity today.

For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other.

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end.

When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy?

The book, a joint work of the African Development Bank and the African Union, presents a comprehensive analysis of the oil and gas resources in Africa.

Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health.

The New Energy Paradigm provides an overview of the current energy policy debate, contextualized by the oil shock from 2000, and considers how the trends in international energy markets impact on security of supply and climate change.

The goal of the Mirrlees Review has been to identify what makes a good tax system for an open developed economy in the 21st century and to suggest how the UK tax system could be reformed to move in that direction.

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized.

Indigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights.

Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human actions.

'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia - China, Korea, and Taiwan in Northeast Asia and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia - pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth.

Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly.

Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly.

This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care.

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries.

The obesity epidemic and the growing debate about what, if any, public health policy should be adopted is the subject of endless debates within the media and in governments around the world.

Economic growth as we know it today cannot persist indefinitely if it entails continuous degradation of natural resources and the environment.

Applied Welfare Economics uses important results in the welfare economics literature to extend a conventional Harberger cost-benefit analysis.

The threat posed by climate change has not yet been matched by international agreements and economic policies that can deliver sharp reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.

China's urban sprawl has led to serious social cleavages.

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns.

The rise of Asia, and China specifically, is the single most important force reshaping the world economy at the beginning of the 21st century.

More than 50 developing countries depend on three or fewer commodities for more than half of their exports and, in fact, many rely on a single commodity for a large share of export earnings.

Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South.

From land management to water rights, this volume looks at the current status of Common Property Resources, or CPRs, in South Asia.

The relentless exploitation and unsustainable use of wildlife, whether for food, medicine or other uses, is a key concern for conservationists worldwide.

This book traces the development of the standard property rights over five kinds of natural resource - inland rivers, ocean fisheries, petroleum resources, gold and base metals and forest resources - from classical times through to the 19th century.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage.

There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it.

There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it.

The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.