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Climate change, transport, and environmental policy : empirical applications in a federal system
Proost, S. (ed.); Braden, John B. (ed.) - 1998
of government to combat environmental problems. It considers policies for climate change and transport that can be used … abatement and the transport sector, they use quantitative techniques to compare alternative policy solutions. This quantitative … the application of local versus national or federal policies. Climate Change, Transport and Environmental Policy provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473914
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Economic growth : new directions in theory and policy
Arestis, Philip (contributor);  … - 2007
Is growth theory a real subject? /Franklin M. Fisher --What is endogenous growth theory? /Mark Roberts and Mark Setterfield --Is the natural rate of growth exogenous? /Miguel Leon-Ledesma and A.P. Thirlwall --The representative firm and increasing returns : then and now /Stephanie Blankenberg...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420046
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Long-run growth, social institutions and living standards
Opocher, Arrigo (contributor); Salvadori, Neri (contributor) - 2009
1. Does economic growth ultimately lead to a "noble life"? : a comparative analysis of the predictions of Mill, Marshall and Keynes / Arrigo Opocher -- 2. The debate on education financing in the classical perspective / Mario Pomini -- 3. The role of the public sector in the thought of Hyman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851033
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Innovation, agglomeration and regional competition
Johansson, Börje (contributor);  … - 2009
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on regional competition and co-operation. Developing our current understanding of the new role of regions and their behaviour, this book addresses questions such as: How and why do regions compete? How does competition between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851090
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Economic growth and change : national and regional patterns of convergence and divergence
Pigliaru, Francesco (contributor); Adams, John (contributor) - 1999
The pursuit of economic growth is at the top of every nation's policy agenda at the end of the 20th century. This authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly-based convergence model of economic growth by considering global, national and regional patterns of growth from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851184
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A post Keynesian perspective on twenty-first century economic problems
Davidson, Paul (contributor) - International Post Keynesian Workshop <(6th :2000 … - 2002
This book explores key economic problems and new policies for the global economy of the 21st century. The contributors discuss to what extent past policy errors were due to the incompetence of policymakers, and highlight problems including: international payments imbalances and currency crises,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851665
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Migration and economic growth
Czaika, Mathias - 2012
Stark (2004), 'Rethinking the Brain Drain', World Development, 32 (1), 15-22 -- Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Cecily … Oden-Defoort (2011), 'A Panel Data Analysis of the Brain Gain', World Development, 39 (4), 523-32 -- Richard H. Adams Jr …. and John Page (2005), 'Do International Migration and Remittances Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries?', World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852163
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Environment, technology and economic growth : the challenge to sustainable development
Tylecote, Andrew (ed.); Straaten, Jan van der (ed.) - 1997
disaster and to end mass unemployment by accelerating and redirecting world economic growth. This major volume brings together … microelectronics and biotechnology, which is now transforming the world economy, and sets it in the context of long term fluctuations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473910
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Employment, growth, and finance : economic reality, and economic growth
Davidson, Paul (ed.); Kregel, J. A. (ed.) - 1994
This important new book brings together a significant body of new essays on some of the central economic problems facing governments, firms and individuals in the 1990s. Under the direction of Paul Davidson and Jan Kregel, an international group of distinguished economists provide new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473934
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The economics of technology diffusion and energy efficiency
Mulder, Peter - 2005
Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474030