Introduction -- The rise of regulatory governance -- Theories of regulation -- Regulatory space and regulatory regimes -- Policy processes and the regulatory policy cycle -- Bad, better and legitimate regulation -- Define: agenda-setting, issue diagnosis and objective setting -- Design: regime...

Preface -- Nature and dangers of statism -- The government from a sharia perspective -- Sharia free market model -- Zakat : a mandatory redistributive principle of a Sharia model -- Fiscal policy from a sharia perspective -- Nature of money in sharia -- On the nature of inflationary financing --...

chapter 1 Can Industrial Relations Save the World? -- chapter 2 Industrial Relations Policy: Conflict & Cooperation in the Governance of Work -- chapter 3 Industrial Relations Theory: From Industrial Democracy to the Web of Rules and Back Again -- chapter 4 System, Lifeworld and Points in...

In light of growing discourse on 'frugal innovation', this book offers novel approaches to innovation based on extensive empirical research. The study complements a decade of scholarly attention on frugal innovation by taking a research-based approach to innovation in resource-scarce and complex...

This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of stochastic dominance and its related concepts in a unified framework. A method for ordering probability distributions, stochastic dominance has grown in importance recently as a way to measure comparisons in welfare economics, inequality...

The main thrust of this Element is a critical assessment of the theory and evidence concerning the sources of scale effects. It is argued that the analysis of static scale effects is important because scale effects are embedding in our world, and new technologies associated with an evolving...

This book examines whether continuous-time models in frictionless financial economies can be well approximated by discrete-time models. It specifically looks to answer the question: in what sense and to what extent does the famous Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) continuous-time model of financial...