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Skidmore, Mark (ed.) - 2022

-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in … research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars explore the role of both the private and public sectors in … deeper into disaster economics, the Handbook then presents empirical methods and applications used in modelling disaster …

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Economic and natural disasters since 1900 : a comparative history

Singleton, John - 2016

1. The disaster cycle -- 2. Hurricane Katrina : a classic natural disaster -- 3. The first World War -- 4. The Great …A crisis is a period of uncertainty that may or may not lead to disaster, depending in part on the capacity of actors … Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle - a framework normally used in the context of natural …

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The economics of environmental risk : information, perception and valuation

Smith, Vincent Kerry - 2022

"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk expertly demonstrates that policy makers need to consider how people learn about those risks. Offering insights into examples such as hazardous waste, radon, smoking, hurricanes and...

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Effective federalism and local finance

Ahmad, Ehtisham - 2011

Economic Review, 42, 583-92 -- Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew Haughwout (2007), 'On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance …

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Fast growing firms in a slow growth economy : institutional conditions for innovation

Visintin, Francesca (contributor); … - 2016

Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage for SMEs growth / D. Lauto G. Pittino and F. Visintin -- Part I the context -- 2. Entrepreneurship and technological clusters. the influence of contextual factors on the birth...

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Universities and strategic knowledge creation : specialization and performance in Europe

Bonaccorsi, Andrea (contributor); Daraio, Cinzia (contributor) - 2007

Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of systematic quantitative evidence at the micro-level, with virtually all policy discussion based on country level statistics or case studies. This book redresses the balance by...

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Necessity entrepreneurs : microenterprise education and economic development

Brewer, Jeremi (contributor); Gibson, Stephen W. (contributor) - 2014

'This groundbreaking exploration of the concept of necessity entrepreneurship cuts to the heart of the culture wars with potential ramifications for public policy. Central to this volume is the question, "What is culture?" The politically incorrect conclusion that some cultures are...

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Entrepreneurial growth in industrial districts : four Italian cases

Alberti, Fernando G. (contributor) - 2008

Entrepreneurial Growth in Industrial Districts illustrates that Industrial Districts (ID) have dramatically changed over the past three decades; the Marshallian notion of a cluster of small firms has been vastly transformed by the emergence of rapidly growing firms

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The cutting edge : innovation and entrepreneurship in New Europe

Welter, Friederike (contributor); Aidis, Ruta (contributor) - 2008

This original selection of case studies from eight new EU member countries looks at the ability of entrepreneurs to develop innovative and successful firms in an environment of turbulent social and economic change

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Entrepreneurship and public policy

Smallbone, David (contributor) - 2010

V.1Entrepreneurship, public policy and research.Emergence of entrepreneurship policy /Brett Anitra Gilbert, David B. Audretsch, Patricia P. McDougall --Linking entrepreneurship and economic growth /Sander Wennekers, Roy Thurik --Entrepreneurship, economic growth and public policy /Zoltan J. Acs,...

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