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Market, State and Feminism offers an inter-disciplinary critique of the 'free market backlash' - the belief that free market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors argue that, far from being restrictive and intrusive, state action can enhance the...
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-making Processes: The Relevance of Motivation / Philip Jones -- 7. Positive Constraints on Normative Political Theory / Geoffrey …
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In this broad and illuminating work, experts on public finance discuss innovations in state and local tax policy that have been implemented or considered over the course of the last three decades. The authors provide original work that analyzes whether state and local governments have 'gone...
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This important new book presents a state-of-the-art assessment of how economic models can be used by different levels of government to combat environmental problems. It considers policies for climate change and transport that can be used at federal and confederal levels of government. The...
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how environmental policy in a federal or confederal system may differ both in theory and practice from that found in a …
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volume of his essays brings together his recent research in both these areas, covering theory, research and policy. The first … and environmental federalism. The second half deals with fiscal and regulatory competition, state and local government … finance and fiscal federalism. This new collection will be essential reading for scholars and students in both environmental …
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"fiscal federalism", providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy …pt. 1. Approaches to fiscal federalism -- pt. 2. Decentralization and development -- pt. 3. Implementing multilevel …
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pt. I: Coase in context -- pt. II: Foundations : key concepts -- pt. III: Firm and organization theory -- pt. IV … influence in economics, law and economics, organization theory, management and political science. In this comprehensive …
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Introduction / Colin Robinson -- 1. Beyond regulation / Stephen Littlechild -- Comment / Colin Robinson -- 2. Ronald coase and the spectrum question / Thomas W. Hazlett -- Comment / Leonard Waverman -- 3. European energy liberalisation : progress and problems / Jorge Vasconcelos -- Comment /...
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Introduction -- Shifting from coal to oil : what price security? -- The European coal and steel community -- Moving the margin to the centre : pricing electricity -- Electricity investment : rewarding the past, discounting the future -- Deregulation, privatisation and liberalisation -- Conclusion.
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