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Skidmore, Mark (ed.) - 2022

-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in … research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars explore the role of both the private and public sectors in … deeper into disaster economics, the Handbook then presents empirical methods and applications used in modelling disaster …

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Connecting Asia : infrastructure for integrating south and southeast Asia

Plummer, Michael G. (contributor); … - 2016

This book analyses how closer regional connectivity and economic integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia can benefit both regions. With a focus on the role played by infrastructure and public policies in facilitating this process, it provides a detailed and up-to-date discussion of...

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Computable economics

Velupillai, K. Vela - 2011

Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics: Pursuing the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. -- Wittgenstein …

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Competitive electricity markets and sustainability

Lévêque, François (contributor) - 2006

This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between nuclear, gas and renewable resources are mainly left to...

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Economic and natural disasters since 1900 : a comparative history

Singleton, John - 2016

1. The disaster cycle -- 2. Hurricane Katrina : a classic natural disaster -- 3. The first World War -- 4. The Great …A crisis is a period of uncertainty that may or may not lead to disaster, depending in part on the capacity of actors … Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle - a framework normally used in the context of natural …

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Effective federalism and local finance

Ahmad, Ehtisham - 2011

Economic Review, 42, 583-92 -- Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew Haughwout (2007), 'On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance …

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The economics of environmental risk : information, perception and valuation

Smith, Vincent Kerry - 2022

"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk expertly demonstrates that policy makers need to consider how people learn about those risks. Offering insights into examples such as hazardous waste, radon, smoking, hurricanes and...

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Modelling the composition of government expenditure

Creedy, John - 2011

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Knowledge, beliefs and economics

Festré, Agnès (contributor); Arena, Richard (contributor) - 2006

This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as general equilibrium theory, decision theory, game theory, experimental economics, evolutionary theory of the firm, financial markets and the history of economic thought

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General equilibrium analysis and the theory of markets

Costa, Manuel Luís - 1998

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