Political economy

This book arises from a meeting held at Wiston House, Sussex, UK, in September 1987.

The European Coal and Steel Community has been called "e;a new structure in the marches between internal and international law.

Fluctuations in social prosperity, employment levels and production have long been objects of study.

This monograph is primarily addressed to the problem of avoidance, noncompliance or defiance of obligations related to international organiza- tions by members and nonmembers.

It was in the early summer of 1906 that Violet Bonham Carter first met Winston Churchill: an encounter which left an "e;indelible im- pression"e; upon her.

During the latter half of the nineteenth century tremendous economic, technological, and scientific developments took place in Western Europe as states shifted from predominantly agricultural to pre- dominantly industrial economies.

Austria was the first victim of Hitler's policy of aggression.

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Much of the legal system existing among the members of the society of nations has its origin in treaties and agreements.

A mbassador at Large: Diplomat Extraordinary is a welcome contri- bution to the literature on contemporary diplomacy, and is especially relevant to the conduct of United States foreign relations.

In his former work, Burma in the Family oj Nations, Dr.

This is an attempt to study and interpret the Constitution of the Union of Burma which has now passed its tenth year.

My original research on the present subject was done a number of years ago as I was preparing a doctoral dissertation at Colum- bia University.

This study consists of an empirical examination of the legal effect of war on treaties to which the United States and one or more enemy states were parties at the outbreak of World War II.

The International Information Centre for Local Credit, with the assistance of member banks, carries out investigations in different countries and publishes the results.

The book is divided into three major sections.

Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems aims to redirect the study of what was previously referred to as comparative economic systems toward analysis of the history and development of institutions, and the effects of alternative institutional arrangements on economic behavior.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the second workshop on Evaluation and Planning held at Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes (CIHEAM) in Valenzano (Bari) in November 1993.

There has been a tremendous explosion of interest in European urban history in the last decades.

Modeling Environmental Policy demonstrates the link between physical models of the environment and policy analysis in support of policy making.

An attentive reader embarking on this book might wonder what "e;the"e; economic transition to which the title refers might be.

Can insurance be used as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy?

It is clear that our society must become a more sustainable one.

Supply of sufficient clean drinking water is often taken for granted, but it requires a considerable technical and financial effort to ensure reliable and economic water supply.

As Japan comes to grips with a decade of economic malaise after its spectacular post-war growth record, how will Japanese society react?

Newspapers: A Lost Cause?

Sustainable development and environmental improvement are often regarded as intrinsically valuable a priori.

CLAUDEJEANRENAUD NILS SOGUEL Smoking is a very common habit all over the world.

Agriculture is a crucial component of the economies of many of the countries in transition from a centrally-planned to a market economy and the sector is by no means immune to the environmental and socioeconomic problems confronting the countries as a whole.

All humans eventually die, but life expectancies differ over time and among different demographic groups.

Measuring Up revisits vital issues of equity and assessment through the research efforts and insights of many of the nation's most prominent educators and assessment experts.

When solving real-life engineering problems, linguistic information is often encountered that is frequently hard to quantify using "e;classical"e; mathematical techniques.

This book uses a range of S&T and structural indicators to analyse the transfonnation process, in particular the transfonnation of science, technology and industry, in the fonner communist countries.

In the late 1980s, the field of comparative economics and NATO faced a similar problem: the threat of obsolescence.

All over the world, many people who live in urban areas find themselves in an arduous social situation.

International comparisons of economic institutions and government poli- cies are fraught with difficulties.

Cigarettes are under political attack at all_levels of government in the United States.

Electronic Money Flows describes the far-reaching present changes under- way in payments and capital markets.

Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies.

This conference brought together an international group of fisheries economists from academia, business, government, and inter-governmentalagencies, to consider a coordinated project to build an econometric model of the world trade in groundfish.

This volume is the result of a collective effort made by its authors to reason and write about environmental policy from an empirical, rather than from a prescriptive perspective.

This book brings together much of the best policy-oriented research on state and local mortgage revenue bond (MRB) programs.

Bernard R.