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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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In evaluating environmental policy, researchers have tended to focus on the industry or market that is targeted by regulation and to disregard policy impacts in other parts of the economy. Recent research indicates, however, that in economies where governments rely on distortionary taxes,...
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Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...
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In Fiscal Policy and Social Welfare John Creedy examines alternative tax and transfer systems and their redistributive effects. Drawing on original research, this volume concentrates on modelling tax structures and their implications for social welfare and income distribution. After reviewing...
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This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very …. This shift has produced new difficulties, and has undermined central tenets of neoclassical macroeconomic theory (such as …, not only in many aspects of the history of economic theory, but also in fundamental issues in the theories of value …
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game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic … understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems …
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debate. This book will be of interest and relevance to academics in the fields of environmental economics, labour theory and …
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