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"Interdisciplinary in its approach, with expert contributors from diverse backgrounds, Resilience and Regional Development brings to light the significance of multiple dimensions of resilience and its implications for the economy. Using a spectrum of analytical tools and a diverse range of...
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This path-breaking book provides balanced and comprehensive coverage of current research and practice on the role of evaluation in supporting governance for sustainable development and learning. This accessible study draws lessons from how evaluation studies and evaluation systems advance the...
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standard -- 6. Classical liberalism and collectivism in the 20th century -- 7. The political myths and economic realities of … liberalism : past, present and future …
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The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author … argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, go …. Using an evolutionary perspective on economic liberalism, the book develops new arguments about how economic liberalism can …
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This book makes a rational and eloquent case for the closer integration of ethics and economics. It expands upon themes concerned with esteem, self-esteem, emotional bonding between agents, expressive concerns, and moral requirements
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Nobel Laureate James Buchanan collects in this volume original and recent hard-to-find essays exploring liberalism and … conservatism as distinct ways of looking at and thinking about the realm of human interaction. Classical liberalism is presented … here as a coherent political and economic position, as distinguished from both modern liberalism and conservatism …
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1. Introduction -- 2. Ruin and reform : the crisis of German economic liberalism -- 3. Economics and the economist -- 4 …. Toward a new economic liberalism -- 5. Booms, recessions and business cycles -- 6. After Keynes : full employment, inflation …
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, provide a robust defence of the concept of classical liberalism in modern 'civil' society. In the first essay, Douglas … Rasmussen and Douglas Uyl discuss the basic approaches and principles of liberalism in the post-modern age and show how a moral … philosophy can serve to support a political philosophy. They supply a clear, fundamental defence of liberalism in an era which …
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Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self's 'natural rights' against others' moralistic and … normative work of the conservative, constitutional political economist. He shows that, unlike modern liberalism, conservatism is … modern liberalism and conservatism will also want to add this title to their library …
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pt. 1. Biophysical aspects of forestry and carbon management -- pt. 2. The economic valuation of forests : boreal and …
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