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The economic analysis of substance use and abuse : the experience of developed countries and lessons for developing countries
Grossman, Michael (ed.); Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (ed.) - 2001
Currently developed countries pay much more attention to harmfully addictive substances than developing countries. However, the experience of developed countries is very relevant to the developing world since substance abuse is likely to impose a continually increasing burden of disease in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474092
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Financial constraints and market failures : the microfoundations of the new Keynesian macroeconomics
Messori, Marcello (ed.) - 1999
macroeconomic theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473989
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Market failure or success : the new debate
Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002
Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850972
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Greening the budget : budgetary policies for environmental improvement
Clinch, J. Peter (contributor) - 2002
Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850982
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The economy as a process of valuation
Samuels, Warren J.; Medema, Steven G.; Schmid, Alfred Allan - 1997
firm and the theory and policy of externalities - all aspects of the economy as a process of valuation. This is followed by …The Economy as Process of Valuation sheds new light on the potential benefits of concept and theory formation along … focuses on Coases's work on institutions and considers the implications for a variety of subjects including the theory of the …
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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good
Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998
1. Environmental wrongs -- 2. Externalities and the environment -- 3. Property rights for pollution -- 4. Property …
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Research companion to working time and work addiction
Burke, Ronald J. (contributor) - 2006
addiction-- that have historically been pursued separately …Work hours and work addiction / Ronald J. Burke -- How long? : the historical, economic and cultural factors behind … treatment / Charles P. Chen -- Spiritual leadership theory as a source for future theory, research, and recovery for workaholism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851828
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The German state banks : global players in the international financial markets
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999
The German state banks - or Landesbanks - are not only some of the largest banks in Germany but are also a dominant force in the international banking sector. These state-owned banks enjoy special privileges and government support which have made them major players in the global arena of banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473811
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Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking
Tullock, Gordon - 2005
1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government … look at how governments and externalities are linked. Economists frequently justify government as dealing with … externalities, defined as benefits or costs that are generated as the result of an economic activity, but that do not accrue …
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The dynamics of knowledge externalities : localized technological change in Italy
Antonelli, Cristiano - 2011
This book elaborates a new dependent and localized growth theory based upon knowledge externalities by making two … knowledge externalities that consist in the access to localized external knowledge, at costs that are below equilibrium levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851040