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McCain, Roger A. - 2009

Game theory is useful in understanding collective human activity as the outcome of interactive decisions. In recent years it has become a more prominent aspect of research and applications in public policy disciplines such as economics, philosophy, management and political science, and in work...

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Regulatory impact assessment : towards better regulation?

Kirkpatrick, Colin H. (ed.); Parker, David (ed.) - 2007

1. Regulatory impact assessment : an overview -- 2. Current trends in the process and methods of regulatory impact assessment : mainstreaming RIA into policy processes -- 3. Indicators of regulatory quality -- 4. Measuring RIA quality and performance -- 5. Better regulation and impact assessment...

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Information technology policy and the digital divide : lessons for developing countries

Giovannetti, Emanuele (contributor); … - 2004

The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages and disadvantages of the IT revolution through detailed...

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Political events and economic ideas

Schefold, Bertram (contributor); Barens, Ingo (contributor); … - European Society for the History of Economic Thought … - 2004

The influence of political developments on the evolution of economic thought is the main theme behind this book. As the authors reveal throughout the book, history has shown many times that political events can trigger the formulation of new economic conceptions that in turn influence the future...

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Dealing with terrorism : stick or carrot?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2004

Emphasising a positive approach to dealing with terrorism (the carrot), this book provides a critique of deterrence policy (the stick) which can be ineffective and even counterproductive, and proposes three alternative and effective anti-terrorist policies: Decentralisation reduces vulnerability...

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Authoritarian capitalism in the age of globalization

Bloom, Peter - 2023 - 2nd ed.

"Authoritarian capitalism is rapidly evolving, intensifying and spreading across the globe. This updated second edition book demonstrates that the recent resurgence of fascism and repressive democracies are connected to and symptomatic of the fundamental authoritarianism of capitalism. Analysing...

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Entrepreneurship and talent management from a global perspective : global returnees

Wang, Huiyao (contributor); Liu, Yipeng (contributor) - 2016

Talent has become the most important resource for organizations across a wide range of sectors throughout the world including business, non-profit, and government. These organizations are now engaged in an increasingly fierce competition to acquire the best talent as they seek to gain the upper...

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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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The dynamics of knowledge externalities : localized technological change in Italy

Antonelli, Cristiano - 2011

This book elaborates a new dependent and localized growth theory based upon knowledge externalities by making two … knowledge externalities that consist in the access to localized external knowledge, at costs that are below equilibrium levels …

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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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