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This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical...
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Entrepreneurial Competition and Industrial Location explores the notion of entrepreneurial competition from its …
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Emissions taxes, tradeable emission permits and voluntary compliance policies are becoming the instruments of choice in controlling environmental problems at the national and international level. Careful design of these policies in second-best environments is a very important factor for their...
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, quality, and advertising competition in higher education. Formal models of production and cost, optimal fundraising, the … Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education will be of great interest to higher education researchers and …
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and competition policy issues arising from trade liberalization …pt. 1. Trade liberalization -- pt. 2. Competition -- pt. 3. The World Trade Organization …
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comprehensive economic theory encompassing industry, the public sector and financial markets …
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of increasing competition in the provision of them. Competition in the Provision of Local Public Goods uses two … and uni-functionality of jurisdictions. The book analyses the effect of these two aspects on competition among … jurisdictions and the impact this probable increase in competition may have on the achievement of the optimal allocation of local …
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regulation in Portugal / João Castro and Agostinho Franco -- 4. Competition through downstream access in the UK postal sector … of postal services / Philippe De Donder ... [et al.] -- 11. Postal price elasticities and intermedia competition : a …
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Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively …. The existing literature tends to assume that the beneficial effects of inter state competition have been confined to … decentralised rule or inter state competition. The same is true for Japan. If the Hume-Kant hypothesis is correct, it should also …
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"Placing himself at the crossroads of economics, law, and sociology, Christian Bessy investigates the contemporary transformation of intellectual property rights (IPR). He demonstrates how entities previously considered inappropriate have now become the object of property rights by means of a...
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