Economics of specific sectors

This book is a collection of seven papers originally given at the 1989 meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

First Published in 1985.

First Published in 1985.

This four-part monograph traces the dialectical development of economic thought from the Physiocrats through Marx to the present.

This four-part monograph traces the dialectical development of economic thought from the Physiocrats through Marx to the present.

First Published in 2017.

First Published in 2017.

This book focuses on the problems in America's health care system that have developed over the past 30 years and that will be with us for the next 30 years.

This book focuses on the problems in America's health care system that have developed over the past 30 years and that will be with us for the next 30 years.

Based on an analysis of a 1988 nationwide sample survey of 10,258 households, this book aims to offer insights into issues of rural inequality in China.

This work tracks the role of the states in US health care policy reform.

This work tracks the role of the states in US health care policy reform.

This collection of articles on population growth spans 20 years of the author's thinking and research on a wide range of issues.

This collection of articles on population growth spans 20 years of the author's thinking and research on a wide range of issues.

This book aids those concerned about environmental issues to firmly grasp relevant analytical methods and to comprehend the thought process behind environmental economics.

This book aids those concerned about environmental issues to firmly grasp relevant analytical methods and to comprehend the thought process behind environmental economics.

Securing sustainable food for everyone is one of the world's most pressing challenges, but research, policy, and programmes remain fragmented, and effective solutions have been slow to emerge.

Securing sustainable food for everyone is one of the world's most pressing challenges, but research, policy, and programmes remain fragmented, and effective solutions have been slow to emerge.

Energy consumption and production have major influences on the economy, environment, and society, but in return they are also influenced by how the economy is structured, how the social institutions work, and how the society deals with environmental degradation.

Energy consumption and production have major influences on the economy, environment, and society, but in return they are also influenced by how the economy is structured, how the social institutions work, and how the society deals with environmental degradation.

Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy.

Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy.

This book looks at food security from a socio-economic perspective.

This book looks at food security from a socio-economic perspective.

Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost.

Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost.

In this age of overlapping and mutually reinforcing deep global crises (financial convulsions, global warming, mass migrations, militarism, inequality, selfish nation-states, etc.

In this age of overlapping and mutually reinforcing deep global crises (financial convulsions, global warming, mass migrations, militarism, inequality, selfish nation-states, etc.

This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities-the 'digital polis'-and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies.

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined.

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined.

Traditionally, Sociology has identified its subject matter as a distinct set - social phenomena - that can be taken as quite different and largely disconnected from potentially relevant disciplines such as Psychology, Economics or Planetary Ecology.

Traditionally, Sociology has identified its subject matter as a distinct set - social phenomena - that can be taken as quite different and largely disconnected from potentially relevant disciplines such as Psychology, Economics or Planetary Ecology.

Any economics that does not deal forthrightly with economic inequality is no longer suitable for the twenty-first century.

Any economics that does not deal forthrightly with economic inequality is no longer suitable for the twenty-first century.

Biosimilars have the potential to change the way we think about, identify, and manage health problems.

Cluster Randomised Trials, Second Edition discusses the design, conduct, and analysis of trials that randomise groups of individuals to different treatments.

Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences provides a compendium of statistical approaches for decision making, ranging from graphical methods and classical procedures through computationally intensive bootstrap strategies to advanced empirical likelihood techniques.

This book presents an introduction to modern public health seen from the perspective of practitioners of public health medicine.

First Published in 2018.

First Published in 2018.

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities.

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward.

There has been ever increasing interest in understanding the various aspects of available resources and production, in terms of need and supply, conservation and environmental impacts and so on.

The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of $3600 per head of population.

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities.

This second edition reviews recent reforms and the likely impact of future developments in management and competition in the NHS.

The concepts and terminology of the new General Medical Services Contract can be confusing and daunting.

Recent changes to the health service including new structures and ways of working at both local and national levels are having major influences on the working lives of every health visitor and community nurse and on their professional opportunities.

This compendium volume, Urban Land Use: Community-Based Planning, covers a range of land use planning and community engagement issues.