pt. I. Theoretical and empirical developments : Becker, Ehrlich. and beyond -- pt. II. Economic analysis of the public production of criminal justice -- pt. III. Crime and the economy -- pt. IV. Controversies and debates in the economics-of-crime literature.

This book reports and rationalizes the state-of-the-art concerning the social costs of electricity generation. Social costs are assessed by adding to the private generation costs, the external costs associated with damages to human health, the environment, crops, materials, and those related to...

Global crises are very rare events. After the Great Depression and the Great Stagflation, new macroeconomic paradigms associated with a new policy regime emerged. This book addresses how some macroeconomic ideas have failed, and examines which theories researchers should preserve and develop. It...