<EM>Consultancy and Innovation</EM> links two important aspects of European economic development in the past thirty years: the pace of technical and management innovation, and the growing significance of technical and business consultancy. This book includes detailed studies of consultancy activities or...</em>

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: What Went Right? The Emperor, the Kings, and the Genies -- I: THE EMS AND ECONOMIC STABILIZATION -- 1. Rules and Institutions in Multi-Country Economies -- 2. Capital Mobility: Why is the Treaty Not Implemented? -- 3. Lessons from the European Monetary System...

<span><span>This book examines three bipolar relationships that have emerged as a result of the Eurasian energy triangle</span><span>-</span><span>Russia-Former Soviet Union region, Russia-EU, and Russia-China</span><span>-and the ways in which they, along with Putin's foreign energy policy, relate to the debate between neorealism and neoliberal...</span></span>

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Advanced Nano-Technology and Biomedical Material (ANTBM 2014), June 29-30, 2014, Guangzhou, China. The 117 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Advanced Nano-Technology and Application, Chapter 2:...

Among America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American perspective on global...

With the dramatic changes OPEC precipitated in the structure of world energy markets during the 1970s, energy became a central concern to policymakers throughout the industrialized West. This book ex-amines the responses of public officials in three leading European nations -- the Federal...

Economists tend to view a uniform emissions price as the most cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper offers a different view, focusing on economies where society values the well-being of future generations more than private actors. Employing analytical and...

Economists tend to view a uniform emissions price as the most cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper offers a different view, focusing on economies where society values the well-being of future generations more than private actors. Employing analytical and...