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Innovation in public sector services : entrepreneurship, creativity and management

Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per M. (contributor) - 2008

This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...

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Governance by evaluation for sustainable development : institutional capacities and learning

Sedlacko, Michal (ed.); Martinuzzi, André (ed.) - 2012

evaluation in supporting governance for sustainable development and learning. This accessible study draws lessons from how … evaluation studies and evaluation systems advance the agendas of sustainable development and good governance. Such studies open … building. It assesses how political-administrative realities affect the design and use of evaluation studies as well as the …

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The economics of organisation and bureaucracy

Jackson, Peter M. - 2013

Approach: An Evaluation and Stocktaking', Industrial and Corporate Change, 12; pp 185-201. -- Galbraith, J. K. (1967) The New … Economic Evaluation of Social Effects and Externalities', in J. Margolis (ed), The Analysis of Public Output. NBER Conference …

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Firms, governments, and economic change : an entrepreneurial perspective

Yu, Tony Fu-Lai - 2001

This topical book interprets firms, governments and economic change from an entrepreneurial perspective. Essentially, it applies the Austrian theory of human agency and evolutionary theories of the firm to explain economic organisation, the state and institutional change. Tony Yu begins by...

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The public sector in Japan : past developments and future prospects

Ihori, Toshihiro; Doi, Takerō - 2009

This book provides the reader with the basis for a theoretical understanding of public-sector finance in general - and more specifically, a comprehensive, policy-oriented application of that understanding to Japanese public finance. Particular emphasis is placed upon developing tools which can...

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Explorations in environmental and natural resource economics : essays in honor of Gardner M. Brown, Jr

Layton, David, F. (contributor); … - 2006

Gardner M. Brown, Jr. has been a leading innovator in the development of environmental and natural resource economics. This book comprises essays written in his honor by some of the most distinguished economists working in this field

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Economic growth and valuation of the environment : a debate

Ierland, Ekko van van (contributor); … - 2001

The debate on the valuation of nature and the environment, sustainable national income and economic growth is one of prime importance in environmental economics. Economic Growth and Valuation of the Environment deals with the fundamental approaches to calculating sustainable national income and...

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Economic valuation with stated preference techniques : a manual

Bateman, Ian (contributor) - 2002

This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It is relevant for the application of these techniques to all non-market goods and services including air and water quality; provision of public open space; health care...

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Valuing nature with travel cost models : a manual

Ward, Frank A. - 2000

1. Support for environmental policy decisions -- 2. History and scope of TCM -- 3. Demand theory and TCM -- 4. Benefits theory and TCM -- 5. Design principles for TCMs -- 6. Design and administration of surveys -- 7. Measurement of the variables -- 8. Data management and analysis -- 9....

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The economics of nature and the nature of economics

Cleveland, Cutler J. (contributor); … - 2001

This book discusses important recent developments in the theory, concepts and empirical applications of ecological economics and sustainable development. The editors have assembled a fascinating collection of papers from some of the leading scholars in the field of ecological economics

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