Despite their important role in local and national activity, SMEs are widely recognised by governmental bodies and comminities to be a major source of local environmental quality degradation. This paper considers the issues surrounding the traditional applicatioon of planning instruments to...

Management of artists is a generally neglected area of cultural economics research, despite the high profile that agent-artist relations have enjoyed in the popular media and specialist music literature. This paper identifies the specific functions of agents and draws upon transaction cost...

This paper considers a number of hypotheses. Primarily amongst them is the notion that foreign owned plants spend more on pollution abatement than domestically owned plants after controlling for productive efficiency and cognisant of the prevailing regulatory regime. In essence, this study...

This paper outlines and critically evaluates a property rights driven model devised by Lein, Moore and Reja (1997) to guide the economic organization of urban public transport in a regime of full privatization and deregulation. Some extensions to the model are also provided to address some...

This paper aims to identify the likely winners and losers in the biotechnological revolution by firstly reviewing the history of GM technology and identifies the scientific risks to the consumer and environment, arising from the cultivation of GM crops and the consumers perceptions thereof.

This paper develops a policy simulation model based on the system dynamics approach to examine the role of wood trade liberalization in helping long-term forestry development in China.

This poper examines the popular magazine Woman's Own during teh 1930s. We suggest the it epitomised the evolution of a new sub-genre of magazines aimed at british lower-middle-class and working-class women.

What form of utility function can represent behaviour motivated by duty which leaves an agent worse off in material terms? In pursuit of an answer to this question, this paper investigates concepts of utility as explained in textbooks, and as discussed by earlier economists who were instrumental...