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Redesigning environmental valuation : mixing methods within stated preference techniques

Powe, Neil A. - 2007

Introduction -- Need for public consultation and stated preference -- Stated preference : methods and challenges -- Qualitative methods -- Interpreting stated preference responses -- Investigating sensitivity to scope -- Constructing better preferences? -- Communal nature of stated preference --...

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Recent advances in environmental economics

List, John A. (contributor); Zeeuw, Aart de (contributor) - 2002

1. A reconsideration of environmental federalism / Wallace E. Oates -- 2. Global environmental governance, political lobbying and transboundary pollution / Surjinder Johal and Alistair Ulph -- 3. Endogenous transfrontier pollution / Michael Rauscher -- 4. Allocating greenhouse gas emissions...

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The nature of economic growth : an alternative framework for understanding the performance of nations

Thirlwall, A. P. - 2002

1. Growth theory in the history of thought -- 2. Neoclassical and 'new' growth theory : a critique -- 3. Manufacturing … of payments constrained growth : theory and evidence -- 6. The endogeneity of the natural rate of growth. … theory …

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The environmentalism of the poor : a study of ecological conflicts and valuation

Martinez-Alier, Joan - 2002

1. Currents of environmentalism -- 2. Ecological economics : "taking nature into account" -- 3. Indices of (un) sustainability, and neo-Malthusianism -- 4. Political ecology : the study of ecological distribution conflicts -- 5. Mangroves versus shrimps -- 6. The environmentalism of the poor :...

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Cost-benefit analysis and water resources management

Brouwer, Roy (contributor); … - 2005

1. Introduction -- 2. Economic criteria for water allocation and valuation -- 3. Water as an economic good -- 4. Appraising flood control investments in the UK -- 5. Cost-benefit analysis and flood control policy in the Netherlands -- 6. Cost-benefit analysis of river restoration in Denmark --...

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Fiscal sociology and the theory of public finance : an exploratory essay

Wagner, Richard E. - 2007

Contrasting architectonics for a theory of public finance -- Property, state and public finance -- State and market : a … as a polycentric process of interaction, just as is a market economy. The theory of markets and the theory of public …

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Travel behaviour : spatial patterns, congestion and modelling

Stern, Eliahu (contributor); Salomon, Ilan (contributor); … - 2002

Travel Behaviour is a challenging and original volume, adding to the growing literature focusing on understanding transportation systems. The book capitalises on actual scientific and applied developments in Europe, the importance of EC policies and the resultant trend in studying differences...

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The ethics and the economics of minimalist government

Roth, Timothy P. - 2002

, corruption and the growth of -- government 40 -- 6. The indeterminacy of social welfare theory 59 -- 7. The contractarian …-based, procedurally detached theory of the state has contributed to the growth of government. As part of the Kantian … grounded in consequentialist social welfare theory (SWT), the economist's theory of the state must be rejected. Ad hoc …

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Vilfredo Pareto and the birth of modern microeconomics

Bruni, Luigino - 2002

wars than peace : Pareto and English economists -- 6. A Unitarian reading of Pareto's paradoxes in the theory of choice …. This book reconstructs the genesis and significance of Pareto's theory of choice which is Pareto's greatest contribution to …

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Tax compliance and tax morale : a theoretical and empirical analysis

Torgler, Benno - 2007

The question of why citizens pay their taxes has attracted increased attention in the tax compliance literature of late. In this book, Benno Torgler considers the evidence that suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance within society. To attempt to...

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