Economics of specific sectors

Today, information and the technologies that store and disseminate it are producing deep-rooted and widespread changes in society - changes of the same magnitude as those that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.

Today, information and the technologies that store and disseminate it are producing deep-rooted and widespread changes in society - changes of the same magnitude as those that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.

Public concern over issues such as urban sprawl, the conversion of agricultural land and the management of public lands has never been greater.

Public concern over issues such as urban sprawl, the conversion of agricultural land and the management of public lands has never been greater.

This book breaks new ground by accounting for the welfare implications of both severe inequality and environmental degradation and developing a sustainable development indicator that incorporates changes over time in each of these dimensions.

This book breaks new ground by accounting for the welfare implications of both severe inequality and environmental degradation and developing a sustainable development indicator that incorporates changes over time in each of these dimensions.

Collecting and analyzing data on unemployment, inflation, and inequality help describe the complex world around us.

Collecting and analyzing data on unemployment, inflation, and inequality help describe the complex world around us.

The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century.

The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century.

Most of the current literature on healthcare operations management is focused on importing principles and methods from manufacturing.

Most of the current literature on healthcare operations management is focused on importing principles and methods from manufacturing.

As mass global and social media communications spread across the globe, we are seeing a need for a change in the way we approach issues of political and economic development.

As mass global and social media communications spread across the globe, we are seeing a need for a change in the way we approach issues of political and economic development.

Carbon markets are developing and expanding around the world, but how and to what extent is their design shaped by learning and interaction between them?

Healthcare in the U.

Healthcare in the U.

The idea and practice of the 'green economy' is gaining momentum, coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the Global North, but generally more positive economic circumstances in the Global South.

The idea and practice of the 'green economy' is gaining momentum, coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the Global North, but generally more positive economic circumstances in the Global South.

In this book, Phelps and Parente explore the US health care system and set out the case for its reform.

In this book, Phelps and Parente explore the US health care system and set out the case for its reform.

Carbon markets are developing and expanding around the world, but how and to what extent is their design shaped by learning and interaction between them?

This book advances our understanding of resource-dependent regions in developed economies in the 21st Century.

This book advances our understanding of resource-dependent regions in developed economies in the 21st Century.

Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline.

Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline.

On December 12th, 2015, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Paris, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal and legally binding climate deal.

On December 12th, 2015, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Paris, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal and legally binding climate deal.

Part I of this book explores the economists debate over the relative costs of the two health care systems.

Part I of this book explores the economists debate over the relative costs of the two health care systems.

This book shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States.

This book shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States.

This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an alternative rural development path.

This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an alternative rural development path.

The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban.

The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban.

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

This book, first published in 1975, discusses the development of transport policy in the UK against a background of economic theory.

This book, first published in 1975, discusses the development of transport policy in the UK against a background of economic theory.

Providing human service through markets is inherently problematic.

Providing human service through markets is inherently problematic.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The central problem to which this book, first published in 1984, is addressed is the transformation of agrarian structure as it historically evolved in India.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science.

Originally published in 1991.

Originally published in 1991.

When we look at the state of the world today, what is most evident is the fact that the major problems of our time - energy, environment, economy, climate change and social justice - cannot be understood in isolation.

When we look at the state of the world today, what is most evident is the fact that the major problems of our time - energy, environment, economy, climate change and social justice - cannot be understood in isolation.