This book is the thirteenth volume in the International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy. A collection of eight papers, the book concentrates on the deregulation of domestic financial markets and discusses financial...

This book provides a comparative study of the use of partnerships and new forms of governance to achieve policy goals that promote economic and social development. In addition to a consideration of the theoretical challenges posed by these institutional developments, the book reviews recent...

Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more innovation, a better...

Macroeconomic Sceneries and Industrial Relations in Italy (1970-1985) -- Ezio Tarantelli: Sketches of an Intellectual Biography -- Analytical Refinements of the Post Keynesian Model -- Post Keynesian Model and Industrial Conflict -- Tarantelli's Economic Policy Proposals -- Concluding Remarks --...

Regional Science is now more than 50 years old, in the last two decades, significant advances in methodology have occurred, spurred in large part by access to computers. The range of analytical techniques now available is enormous, this books provides a sampling of the toolkit that is now at the...

GI Software Tools -- Spatial Statistics in ArcGIS -- Spatial Statistics in SAS -- Spatial Econometric Functions in R -- GeoDa: An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis -- STARS: Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems -- Space-Time Intelligence System Software for the Analysis of Complex Systems...