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and the environment in developing Asian economies -- 4. Deforestation and upland land degradation in an open economy …
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This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully … observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the … author is able to reject much of the "perceived wisdom". He skillfully dissects various models of deforestation and provides …
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Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy is one of the first books to analyse environmental disruption under the Soviet economic system. Using original Soviet data the author shows that considerable damage has been done to the environment and that measures which were intended to protect it...
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competing visions of benefit-cost analysis', Land Economics, 85, 3-23. -- Bewley, T.F. (1981), 'A critique of Tiebout's theory …), 'Profit maximizing communities and the theory of local public expenditures', Journal of Urban Economics, 5, 263 …', Journal of Urban Economics, 7, 102-18. -- Tiebout, C. (1956), 'A pure theory of local public expenditures,' Journal of …
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This unique book allows readers to compare analyses of how North American states and European nation-states use incentives, regulations or plans to approach a core set of universal land use issues such as: containing sprawl, mixed use development, transit oriented development, affordable...
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Dick Netzer, a leading public finance economist specializing in state and local issues and urban government, brings together in this comprehensive volume essays by top scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a partial substitute...
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Faced with intensified environmental degradation and decreased agricultural land productivity, the Chinese government has sought policy interventions to reverse both of these negative trends. Among the policy instruments is the Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program (CCFGP) that...
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Recommended readings (Machine generated): Bagwell, K. and R.W. Staiger (1999), 'An Economic Theory of GATT', American … United States. -- Mayer, W. (1984), 'The infant-export industry argument', Canadian Journal of Economics, 17, 249 … the Theory of Optimum Subsidy', Journal of Political Economy, 71 (1), February, 44-50 -- Harry G. Johnson (1965), 'Optimal …
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This book reprints 18 essays selected from almost 30 years of work by the author as a high level official at the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core analytical thinking behind positions taken by these...
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-- Part 2 best frenemies? -- 6. The theory of the firm -- 7. The theory of granularity -- 8. Collusion on blockchain -- 9 …
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