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Ninan, Abraham (contributor); Rooney, David (contributor); … - 2005

This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical...

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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition

Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis

In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...

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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications

Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew K. - 1996

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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Advancing public goods

Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - Cournot Centre for Economic Studies <Paris, France)> / … - 2006

The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...

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Modelling the composition of government expenditure

Creedy, John - 2011

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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good

Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998

The crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates

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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice

Petermann Reifschneider, Alexandra - 2006

The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....

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The economics of e-commerce

Baye, Michael R. (contributor); Morgan, John (contributor) - 2016

Internet and the Competitiveness of Homogeneous Product Markets', American Economic Review, 91 (3), June, 454-74 -- Jean …, XLVI (2), April, 135-49 -- Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael D. Smith (2000), 'Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet … Scholten (2004), 'Price Dispersion in the Small and in the Large: Evidence from an Internet Price Comparison Site', Journal of …

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Market failure or success : the new debate

Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002

Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...

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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 …

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