Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Platform of Understanding -- Prologue "Peasants Always Starve" -- [1] The Silent Emergency -- [2] The Framework of Understanding -- Lessons from the Great Irish Famine [1845-1850] The Causes of Starvation -- Part II:The Crisis of...

Ex-ante regulations and ex-post liabilities for using a new technology will induce additional costs for adopters. The standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of negotiating possible cost reductions. The case analysed is...

Ex-ante regulations and ex-post liabilities for using a new technology will induce additional costs for adopters. The standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of negotiating possible cost reductions. The case analysed is...