In this paper, we empirically test the effects of the EU's "cohesion policy" on the performance of 273,500 European manufacturing firms after combining regional policy data at NUTS 2 level with firm-level data. In a framework of heterogeneous firms and different absorptive capacity of regions,...

Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction and Framework of the Study -- The Arab Uprisings of 2011: How Did We Get There? -- Cross-Regional Variation in the Arab Uprisings -- A Political Economy Framework -- The...

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth...

Orientation -- Why the internet is not the answer -- Conventional : north/western" wisdom on emerging markets -- Emerging markets to "emergent" societies -- An east-west Russian integral perspective -- Grounding : mutual aid to earth manifesto -- Emergence : communism to cosmism -- Navigation :...

Public ownership is more widespread and popular in the United States than is commonly understood. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the scope and scale of U.S. public ownership, debunking frequent misconceptions about the alleged inefficiency and underperformance of...