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Beyond Conventional Economics presents new original work from leading scholars on the interface between the individual and political and social institutions. The book offers a critique of the inadequacies of the conventional economic approach to politics and a state-of-the-art view of new...
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Game theory is useful in understanding collective human activity as the outcome of interactive decisions. In recent … analytical tools of game theory with the pragmatic purpose of identifying problems and exploring potential solutions in public …
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international environmental agreement (IEA). Finus shows that by integrating real world restrictions into a model, game theory is a … games with continuous strategy space -- 13. Coalition models : a first approach -- 14. Coalition models : a second approach … -- 15. Coalition models : a third approach -- 16. Summary and conclusions …
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advances in coalition theory and presents both the latest theoretical developments and novel applications in the field of …1. Advances in the theory of large cooperative games and applications to club theory : the side payments case -- 2. Non …-cooperative models of coalition formation in games with spillovers -- 3. Endogenous formation of economic coalitions : a survey on the …
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policy process? And what have we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical … we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical research on public choice …
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"Innovative in its approach, Rethinking Public Choice reviews the concept of public choice since the 1950s post war period and the application of economics to political practices and institutions, as well as its evolution in recent years attracting contributions from political science and...
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Does free trade contribute to the deterioration of the environment? This important book offers a fresh look at the trade-environment debate from a political-economic perspective. It provides an extensive analysis of the environmental consequences of free trade, and examines how trade affects...
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include the foundations of public choice theory, its scope and method, constitutional economics, game theory, rent …-seeking, the European Union, public finance and the theory of societal economics. The pioneering research, theory and analysis …
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Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
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The future of European Monetary Union (EMU) stands as one of the most important economic issues of the era. The author argues that in the event of macroeconomic shocks, rather than acting as a cohesive force, EMU could give rise to disunity. As EMU is not an optimal currency area, asymmetric...
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