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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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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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Human capital over the life cycle : a European perspective

Sofer, Catherine (contributor) - 2004

areas of education and training in Europe, in relation to the labour market. The book proposes that one of the most … important challenges faced by Europe today is to understand the link between education and training on the one hand and economic … and social inequality on the other. The authors focus the analysis on three main aspects of the links between education …

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Public private partnerships : the worldwide revolution in infrastructure provision and project finance

Grimsey, Darrin - 2004

This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies

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Forerunners of modern financial economics : a random walk in the history of economic thought

Stabile, Donald - 2005

The economists who began using statistics to analyze financial markets in the 1950s have been credited with revolutionizing the scholarship of investing and with inaugurating modern financial economics. By examining the work of economists who used statistics to analyze financial markets before...

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Handbook of research on complexity

Rosser, John Barkley (contributor) - 2009

Complexity research draws on complexity in various disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and current overview of applications of complexity theory in economics. The 15 chapters, written by leading figures in the field, cover such broad topic areas as conceptual issues,...

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Game practice and the environment

Carraro, Carlo (contributor); Fragnelli, Vito (contributor) - 2004

This book summarises the latest achievements of researchers involved in the application of game theory to the analysis of environmental matters. It provides an overview of different methods and applications, and gives the reader new insights on the solutions to complex environmental problems....

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Spatial dynamics, networks and modelling

Reggiani, Aura (contributor); Nijkamp, Peter (contributor) - 2006

This important new book provides a valuable set of studies on spatial dynamics, emerging networks and modelling efforts. It employs interdisciplinary concepts alongside innovative trajectories to highlight recent advances in analysing and modelling the spatial economy, transport networks,...

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Computable economics

Velupillai, K. Vela - 2011

Computable economics is a growing field of research which has been given much attention by scholars in recent decades. In this authoritative collection, the editors successfully bring together the seminal papers of computable economics from the last sixty years and encompass the works of some of...

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Bargaining and the theory of cooperative games : John Nash and beyond

Thomson, William (contributor) - 2010

Lars Tyge Nielsen (1983), 'Ordinal Interpersonal Comparisons in Bargaining', Econometrica, 51 (1), January, 219-21 -- Yves Sprumont (2000), 'A Note on Ordinally Equivalent Pareto Surfaces', Journal of Mathematical Economics, 34, 27-38 -- Zvi Safra and Dov Samet (2004), 'An Ordinal Solution to...

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