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This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work in the area, it summarises the contributions of recent theoretical and empirical work to our understanding of how risk affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In...
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This major volume develops a rigorous equilibrium-free political economy based on labour values. Rooted in a non-dualistic approach restoring money to its central role in a commodity economy, Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics is the fruit of extensive international collaboration reflecting a...
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This important new book enhances our understanding of the dynamic interactions between economic activity, economic growth, pollution abatement and environmental policy. It addresses one main policy problem: how can the direct and indirect costs of environmental policy for multiple pollutants be...
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Exposed to powerful new economic forces, and undergoing dramatic ownership reforms and technological changes, China's industries are modernizing at a breakneck pace. In many industries, the outcomes have been chaotic and poorly aligned with societal objectives. This book analyses the...
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This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very-short-period versions, has had very important consequences which are insufficiently appreciated by large parts of the economics profession. This shift has produced new difficulties, and...
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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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firm and the theory and policy of externalities - all aspects of the economy as a process of valuation. This is followed by …
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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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1. Environmental wrongs -- 2. Externalities and the environment -- 3. Property rights for pollution -- 4. Property …
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