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Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at how Canadians are responding to the forces of globalization through collectively owned enterprises.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Where We Stand – Place, Enterprise, and Community / Brett FairbairnPart 1: Globalization, Autonomy, and Cohesion1 Globalization, Co-operatives, and Social Cohesion / William D. Coleman2 “Nuna Is My Body”: What Northerners Can Teach about Social Cohesion / Isobel M. FindlayPart 2: Social Enterprises and Networks3 “I Felt That I Had Lost Myself”: Credit Unions, Economies, and the Construction of Locality / Brett Fairbairn with Rob Dobrohoczki4 Autonomy and Identity: Constraints and Possibilities in Western Canada’s Co-operative Retailing System / Jason Heit, Murray Fulton, and Brett Fairbairn5 Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis: Atlantic Canada’s Consumers’ Community Co-operative / Leslie H. BrownPart 3: New Partnerships and Models6 Reclaiming Community: Co-operatives and Sectoral Governance in Quebec Forestry / Patrick Gingras and Mario Carrier7 Rebuilding “Home” in a Transient World: Globalization, Social Exclusion, and Innovations in Co-operative Housing / Mitch Diamantopoulos and Jorge Sousa8 Co-operation Reinvented: New Partnerships in Multi-Stakeholder Co-operatives / Jean-Pierre Girard and Geneviève Langlois9 “To See Our Communities Come Alive Again with Pride”: (Re)Inventing Co-operatives for First Nations’ Needs / Lou Hammond Ketilson10 Imagination and the Future: Learning from Social Enterprises / Brett FairbairnAppendix: The Enterprise with Many Names: Establishing a Common Language / Brett FairbairnIndex

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Book SynopsisThis step--by--step guide to healthy habits of church finances will help church leaders focus their best creativity, leadership, and energy on advancing their mission. Written for committee members, key leaders, pastors, and staffs, this is a detailed account of budgeting and fund--raising, complete with charts and questionnaires. .Table of ContentsDEVELOPING YOUR BUDGET. A Mission Budget. Major Priorities. Building an Investment Budget. RAISING YOUR GIVING. Giving Campaigns. Campaign Strategy Objectives. Campaign Organizations. Selecting Fund-Raisers. SETTING GIVING GOALS. Giving Patterns Fluctuate. Your Congregation's Giving Pattern. Projecting Your Budget. New Developments. GROWING YOUR GIVING. Easier to Raise. The Gift of Encouragement. Practices of Giving. Enduring Gifts. Conclusion. Advancing Your Mission.

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Book SynopsisProvides strategies for entering the Japanese market and for using Japan as a springboard to enter other growing Asian markets. The text includes coverage of positioning, pricing, advertising, and merchandising.Trade Review"Although the Japanese economy overall may be slow in recovering, foreign companies are now finding that business opportunities here have never been better. Read this book to discover how best to leverage your business presence in the world's second largest market." --Glen S. Fukushima, president, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan "Leveraging Japan combines an analysis of current Japanese market trends with a primer on how foreign businesses can successfully operate in the labyrinth of rules that govern that market." --Peter B. Frank, director of global integration, PriceWaterhouseCoopers "If you are in Japan or planning to enter-and perhaps especially if you have decided not to enter-this book is required reading. It shows that many of the things we thought we knew about the Japanese market are no longer true. For companies with the right strategies, the opportunities in this market may be greater than ever." --Kenichi Ohmae, managing director, Ohmae & Associates, Inc., Tokyo "An excellent book! Leveraging Japan is written with total clarity to explain the complexities and intricacies of business practice in the New Asia. Fields, Hotaka, and Wind present a practical approach to doing business there that has eluded many for decades." --Y.Y. Wong, founder and chairman, The Wywy Group of Companies, Republic of Singapore "These authors have done a fine job of highlighting the enormous potential of the Japanese consumer market and the profound changes that it is undergoing. Leveraging Japan points out cultural differences in consumer attitudes and potential pitfalls for foreigners without taking the cultural argument too far." --Ulrich Cartellieri, board member, the Deutsche Bank, FrankfurtTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements About the Authors 1. The Fourth Rush 2. From Shoji Screen to Sheet Glass--Forces Shaping the Japanese Market 3. The Japanese Gateway to Asia 4. Strategies for Entering Japan and Asia 5. From "Tap Water" Marketing to Tapping Markets 6. From Power to Finesse--Segmentation, Positioning, and Branding 7. Starting with the Customer--Developing Products and Services 8. The Discovery of Value--Pricing and Promotion 9. Goodbye to Greeting--New Rules of Communications, Advertising, and Public Relations 10. The Rise of Cybermarketing 11. Breaking the Labyrinth--New Rules of Distribution 12. Beyond Bowing--New Rules of Customer Satisfaction and Value Creation 13. New Rules of Marketing Research Conclusion: Leveraging the Future

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Book SynopsisThe deterioration in the economic performance of the advanced industrial democracies during the 1970s has provoked an intense debate about the role of government in economic adjustment and growth. In Governments, Markets, and Growth, John Zysman makes a significant contribution to our understanding of these critical international issues by demonstrating that there is a direct relationship between a nation''s financial system and its government''s ability to restart the growth engine. Professor Zysman argues that there are three distinct types of financial systems, each with different consequences for the political ties between financial markets, industry, and government. Zysman tests his argument by analyzing and comparing the patterns of industrial adjustment in five advanced nations. He contrasts the differing strategies of industrial adjustments primarily in France and Great Britain, but also in Japan, West Germany, and the United States. Governments, Markets, and GrowtTrade ReviewAs the title suggests, this first-rate book covers a lot of ground. At the core is a pioneering analysis of the way national financial systems facilitate or hinder the conduct of industrial policy. A broader focus is on how the different relations of government and market in Japan, France, Germany, Britain, and the U.S. affect each country's ability to cope with changes in the international economy. All these financial systems are shown to be subject to new challenges that differ a good bit from one another. What they have in common, the author reminds us, is that they have provided the foundations for acceptable political systems which may also be called into question if they cannot cope with economic problems. * Foreign Affairs *

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Book SynopsisHow do health insurance regulations affect the care of persons with mental illness, and how do such persons, in turn, affect the economy through lost productivity, reduced labour supply and deviant behaviour at the workplace? This book addresses these and other questions.Trade ReviewThe in-depth analysis of a comprehensive range of topics earns this text an important place in the academic literature for mental health economics. It also has practical applicability to current events. Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseaseTable of ContentsPreface Contributors Chapter 1. Research on Economics and Mental Health: The Past and Future ProspectsPart I. The Supply of Mental Health Care Chapter 2. Mental Health Providers' Response to the Reimbursement System Chapter 3. A Modified TEFRA System for Psychiatric Facilities Chapter 4. Do Public Mental Health Hospitals Crowd Out Care for Indigent Psychiatric Patients in Nonprofit General Hospitals? Part II: The Economic Cost of Mental Illness Chapter 5. Estimates of the Loss of Individual Productivity from Alcohol and Drug Abuse and from Mental Illness Chapter 6. Measurement Error in Self-Evaluations of Mental Health: Implications for Labor Market Analysis Chapter 7. The Effects of Physical and Mental Health of Female Labor Supply Chapter 8. Linkages among Deviance in Adolescence, Antisocial Personality Part III. Insurance and the Demand for Mental Health Care Chapter 9. Econometric Issues in the Demand for Mental Health Care under Insurance Chapter 10. Private Health Insurance and the Use of Medical Care by Disabled Mentally Ill Medical Enrollees Chapter 11. Estimating the costs of a mental health benefit: A small-employer Mandate Part IV. Experimentation Chapter 12. Cost-Utility Analysis of Maintenance Treatment for Recurrent Depression: A Theoretical Framework and Numerical Illustration Chapter 13. The Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Among Mentally Ill Medicaid Enrolles: The Utilization of Services in Prepaid Plans Versus Fee-for Service Care Chapter 14. A Mental Health Capitation Experiment: Evaluating the Monroe-Livingston Experience Chapter 15. The short-run effects of a contracted provider arrangement for mental health careIndex

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Book SynopsisHe offers policy options that can enable state and federal governments to increase investment in higher education.Trade ReviewAn important contribution that not only provides a diagnosis of the main problems facing US higher education but also offers some solutions. Times Higher Education Supplement McMahon has written a serious and important book on the economics of higher education... This book is a must-read for students interested in the economics of higher education and should be included as a required reading in such courses... McMahon's extension and revitalization of human capital theory in higher education should be of interest to a general readership in the field. Journal of Higher Education This extraordinary book patiently, thoughtfully, and thoroughly provides the conceptual framework for understanding the higher education market, the empirical findings about what that market produces and the policy prescriptions needed to make it work better in the future. Review of Higher Education No one else before McMahon has systematically and comprehensively presented the whole picture of higher education benefits and provided a valuation of the private and social non-market benefits. Higher Education This is a significant contribution to both theory and research findings in the study of investment in higher education... Highly recommended. Choice The overwhelming success of this work is that McMahon has articulated clearly and succinctly what students, their families, and governments are getting for their investment in higher education. Journal of Education Finance A timely and insightful text... Academic advisors who want to show their students that a college degree offers benefits beyond starting salaries and career opportunities will find this book to be a valuable resource. NACADA Journal It is not surprising that there is a growing interest in the private and social benefits of higher education and discussion of who should pay for what. Professor McMahon's book... is central to this debate. Academic Matters The first book to systematically identify and develop the evidence necessary to measure comprehensively the benefits of higher education and to estimate their economic value. RorotokoTable of ContentsPreface1. What Is the Problem?2. Challenges Facing Higher Education Policy3. Higher Education and Economic Growth4. Private Non-Market Benefits of Higher Education and Market Failure5. Social Benefits of Higher Education and Their Policy Implications6. University Research7. New Higher Education Policies8. New Strategies for Financing Higher EducationAppendixesA. Correcting for Ability Bias in Returns to Higher EducationB . A Simplified Dynamic Model with Higher Education ExternalitiesC. Valuing the Effects of Higher Education on Private Non-Market OutcomesD. Higher Education and Growth, U.S. and OECD Countries, 1960–2005E. Valuing the External Social Benefi ts of Higher EducationReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisMunicipal licensing serves a variety of regulatory purposes such as consumer protection and public health and safety. The municipal licensing power is delegated from the provincial government, up to the present, municipalities have been restricted to enumerated, specific powers, and the result has been the growth of a disorganized and unwieldy accumulation of bylaws, many of which conflict or are obsolete. The development of a two-tier system of municipal government, exemplified by Metropolitan Toronto, adds to the complexity of the issues. Basing their analysis upon municipal experience in Ontario, the authors envisage a reorganized system in which provincial and municipal powers will be exercised more rationally to deal with problems at the level at which they tend to occur.Municipal licensing in practice is the topic of a study of the cartage and taxicab industries in a number of Canadian and American cities. Comparisons of industry structure in differing regulatory enviro

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Book SynopsisThe publication of the series, 'Studies in Canadian Geography,' by the organizers of the 22nd International Geographical Congress, introduces to the international community of geographers a new perspective of the regional entities which form this vast countries. These studies should contribute to a better understanding among scholars, students, and the people of Canada of the geography of their land.Geographical works embracing the whole of Canada, few in number until recently, have become more numerous during the last few years. This series is original in its purpose of re-evaluating the regional geography of Canada. In the hope of discovering the dynamic trends and the processes responsible for them, the editors and authors of these volumes have sought to interpret the main characteristics and unique attributes of the various regions, rather than follow a strictly inventorial approach.In preparing this volume on Quebec, the contributors have looked at the evolution a

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Book SynopsisOntario is the most populous and most prosperous province in Canada. One-third of the nation's population lives here. They produce more than one-half of Canada's manufactured goods, one-quarter of her output from mines and forests, and one-third of the farm income. Accompanying this economic pre-eminence is a majestic primeval geography. Ontario extends through sixteen degrees of latitude and a distance of over 1600 kilometres from barren tundra along a saltwater shoreline in the north to fertile lowlands bordering freshwater lakes in the south.Productivity and size, two of the basic elements in the geography of the province, stand in contradiction to one another. The former is concentrated in a very small area with an identity and even a name of its own, 'Southern Ontario,' a portion of the province that is as overwhelming in its concentration of activity as the remainder is in its areal extent. The recognition of this distinction is a prerequisite to the further study of a

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Book SynopsisAs the world’s population is increasingly concentrated in urban centres, urban systems analysis has become a critical field of research – one that overlaps the traditional academic territories of geography, economics, and regional science. John Marshall defines urban systems analysis as a study of the spatial organization of networks of urban centres at regional, national, and international scales. In this introduction to the subject he presents a framework for its study.Marshall maintains that the study of the structure and development of urban systems should be guided by a principle-based framework in which the themes of location, economic functions, and population size are in the foreground. He outlines how urban systems analysis seeks to provide ‘insight into the roles performed by urban centres as elements of the gran process of settlement and development of the earth by humankind.’

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Book SynopsisThis case study focuses on and analyses the formation of four co-operatives in the Evangeline region, a small Acadian community in the southwest part of Prince Edward Island. Defined by the authors as an 'integrated community-controlled economy,' the Evangeline community demonstrates the potential that a network of interrelated co-operatives has for community economic development. More specifically, the authors discuss why some co-operatives succeed while others fail, and propose a model that outlines the element necessary for any comprehensive community economic-development process.Wilkinson and Quarter look at the Evangeline experiment in the context of two seemingly contradictory trends today: globalization and decentralization. They argue that the initiatives undertaken by the Evangeline community fit within the trend toward decentralization and community control. The citizens of the Evangeline region have formed a community-controlled economy, refusing to accept t

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Book SynopsisTackling a range of issues and theoretical assumptions, Female Enterprise in the New Economy will be of interest to a wide audience in sociology, organizational studies, entrepreneurship studies, public policy, political economy, and women's studies.Table of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS * Introduction * Economic Restructuring and the 'New' Canadian Economy * Women's Self-Employment and Small Business Ownership (SE/SBO) * Book Outline * Researching Women in the Entrepreneurial Economy * Data Sources * Study Details * Introducing the Women * Terminology: Self-Employed, Small Business Owners, and Entrepreneurs * Women's Paths into Self-Employment and Small Business * What Fuels Self-Employment and Small Business Ownership? * Rethinking the Push-Pull Debate * Women's Education and Work Histories * Women's Past Experience with Business Ownership * Reasons for Becoming Self-Employed * Understanding Pull Factors * From Pull to Push * Conclusion * 'I Love What I Do!' Job Satisfaction and the Creation of Meaningful Work *'I Do Everything': Daily Work and Rhythms *'I Just Come in and Live Here!': Working Hours * Job Satisfaction: Canadian and International Trends * Job Satisfaction and Job Quality: Sharpening the Picture * Excavating Job Satisfaction: The Study * Exploring Differences in Job Satisfaction * Conclusions * Players or Paupers? Income, Job Security, and the Negotiation of Risk * Economic Polarization, Self-Employment, and Small Business Ownership * The Current Picture: National Trends * Income and Economic Security: The Study * Exploring Differences in Income and Economic Security * Conclusions * Building an Entrepreneurial Economy * Business Start-up, Expansion, and Growth Women's Attitudes TowardsBusiness Growth: The Study * Training for an Entrepreneurial Economy *'Policy Limbo' and the 'Do It Yourself Safety Net' * Conclusions * Conclusions APPENDIX 1: INTERVIEW SCHEDULE APPENDIX 2: SUMMARY SHEET APPENDIX 3: INTERVIEW PARTICIPANTS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[B]y examining the formation of credit card markets in eight postcommunist countries, Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva show how [many factors] played a role in fashioning these markets, albeit in different ways in different countries. And in doing so I place it among other wonderful books about market formation . . . [T]here is much to learn here about how credit markets and the rules and practices that generate them are constructed. These are lessons that should be of interest not just to sociologists but economists too."—John L. Campbell, American Journal of Sociology"The authors provide an informative overview of the diverse actors who populate the early payment and credit card markets, including banks, cardholders, merchants, the state, and even multinational employers staking a place in nascent capitalist economies and owners of newly privatized enterprises . . . Plastic Money is meticulously researched and analytically appealing, and it is an important contribution to our understanding of the postcommunist regions of Europe and the developing economic postcommunism of Asian markets."—Daina S. Eglitis, Slavic Review"This fascinating study of the creation of credit card markets in eight European and Asian postcommunist countries is the latest and most expansive work on the subject by Rona-Tas and Guseva . . . The expanded empirical breadth of the book is matched with a new set of substantive questions about how each country overcame a common set of frictions impeding the development of card markets . . . Rona-Tas and Guseva provide a generalized framework for thinking about market generation and methodological cues for measuring it, and I hope that in the near future we will see more work that links processes of market creation and ongoing functionality."—Christopher Yenkey, Administrative Science Quarterly"Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva's empirical research on the spread of payment and credit cards into post-communist economies is highly original and breaks new ground. They adroitly engage a number of important questions about globalization, the emergence of a consumer society, market creation, and the transition from a command to a market economy. A well-written and lively book."—Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University"This book represents a peak achievement of two of the best economic sociologists around. Their insight into the development of credit and debit card markets in eight transitional economies is result is an astoundingly fine empirical study."—Richard Swedberg, Cornell University"With verve and compelling evidence, Alya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas guide us into the intricate world of credit and debit cards in eight post-communist countries. Along the way, Plastic Money boldly demolishes myths about how markets, money, and globalization work. An inspired contribution to economic sociology."—Viviana A. Zelizer, Author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy"Plastic Money is a fascinating study of the creation of new markets. Investigating the emergence of credit cards in eight former socialist countries, Guseva and Rona-Tas show how the social, cultural, technological, and legal infrastructure was built in the process of transition. Their account is an important theoretical and empirical contribution to our sociological understanding."—Jens Beckert, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of SocietiesTable of Contents Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries Author(s): Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva This book draws on original fieldwork to provide a comparative analysis of emerging credit card markets in eight countries—the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, China and Vietnam. The problem of market emergence is posed as analytically distinct from market functioning. Card markets are viewed as being actively constructed, rather than emerging spontaneously and following the US blueprint. The process of market construction involves solving a set of puzzles related to the credit card as a product that is both a means of payment and an instrument of credit. These puzzles are: standardization, information asymmetry, information sharing, market origination and expansion. They were solved differently in each of the countries, and the resulting markets are neither identical to the "Western" blueprint, nor to each other. The book focuses on the trajectories of market development in the eight countries from the moment the first cards were issued to the present time, underscoring both similarities and differences between countries. Chapter 1: Paying with Cards Chapter abstract: This chapter establishes market emergence as a problem analytically distinct from market functioning and introduces two sets of rules: generative and functional. Credit cards are conceived of as global products that are both a means of payment and an instrument of credit. Frequent references to the US credit card market are justified by its role as a performative ideal type—a model that not only helps to explicitly describe postcommunist credit card markets but also attempts to shape them by imposing a set of implicit instructions. The chapter provides the basic statistics of payment card markets in the eight postcommunist countries and concludes with an overview of the remaining chapters. Chapter 2: The Transition from a Communist to a Market Economy Chapter abstract: This chapter lays out the historical background for the development of postcommunist card markets. It revisits theories of the transition, focusing on the three distinct development paths the economies of the eight countries took: the path taken by the Central European countries, which started with an economic recession but soon integrated into the European Union and the developed world; the path navigated by the economies of East Europe, which experienced more tumultuous and protracted transition and a slower European and global integration; and the path traveled by China and Vietnam, two fast-growing East Asian economies that started from an overall much lower level of economic development keeping a strong role of the Communist state in the economy. The chapter discusses the creation of commercial banks and emphasizes the similarities among the countries' developmental paths. It also criticizes the market transition theories for ignoring the demand side of market building. Chapter 3: Payment Puzzles Chapter abstract: This chapter presents how card markets work. It lays out the puzzles encountered by the architects of credit card markets and explains why they pose challenges to standard understandings of market economics. In line with the argument that credit cards combine the features of two products, payment cards and consumer loans, here the focus is on two payment puzzles: two-sided markets and standardization. It is argued that these puzzles are such that they cannot be effectively solved by a self-regulating competitive market driven by the forces of supply and demand in the pursuit of ever-increasing profits. Instead, the solutions to these puzzles require some sort of nonmarket intervention. The chapter concludes with a short account of how each of the two puzzles was solved in the American payment card market, as well as gives a brief preview of solutions used in the postcommunist countries. Chapter 4: Credit Puzzles Chapter abstract: This chapter continues the discussion in the previous chapter focusing on the puzzles related to the consumer loan side of the credit card—information asymmetry, information sharing and market origination and expansion. It concludes with a short account of how each was solved in the American payment card market and presents a brief preview of solutions used in the postcommunist countries. Chapter 5: The Construction of Card Markets in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic Chapter abstract: This chapter focuses on the three Central European countries—Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland. It details the role of multinational card networks, such as Visa and MasterCard, as well as the involvement of state and large employers in solving the market puzzles. On the credit side, market development in Central Europe was influenced by concerns about data privacy. The mechanization of credit assessment, a key technology in making credit card markets profitable, was seen as a threat to borrowers. On the payment side, all three Central European markets are already dominated almost exclusively by Visa and MasterCard. In order to further standardize, the European Union recently began to push for initiatives enabling any European citizen to get their payment card in any European country. Chapter 6: Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria Chapter abstract: The chapter focuses on how card markets were constructed in Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria. The unique features of these markets are: a substantially large "gray" (cash) economy, which gave merchants a strong preference for cash over cards; complicated income verification of credit applicants; and dialogue about creating national payment systems based on domestic cards. The spread of coercive cards via salary projects is now accompanied by pressures to legally mandate card acceptance by merchants. Card issuers appear to be powerless in the face of several puzzles—they are either defeated by the resistance of salary cardholders to use cards for payment and by the refusal of merchants to accept cards, or they are paralyzed by the inability of the banking community to control competitive tendencies in favor of greater cooperation over standards and information. This emphasizes the key role of the state in constructing markets. Chapter 7: Vietnam and China Chapter abstract: This chapter focuses on China and Vietnam—two countries whose political context and transition trajectory differ from those of the other six. The case of China deserves special attention due to the country's sheer size: it is particularly challenging to create a credit card market in a country of more than one billion people, only a small number of whom have bank accounts. Establishing cooperation between banking institutions thousands of miles apart is equally challenging. The Chinese government views cards not as a market, but as part of China's payment system. It has been successful in developing its domestic card system that poses challenges to multinationals not only domestically, but also internationally. The Vietnamese market is the least developed of all eight countries. Its retail banking covers an even smaller percentage of the population than the banking system in China, and its IT infrastructure is even more inadequate. Chapter 8: Conclusion Chapter abstract: The conclusion highlights the common problems that market makers in all of the countries faced, but it also emphasizes the differential successes and sometimes different paths and sequences of events that accompanied the development of card markets in the eight countries. It also notes that in several of the countries, most unambiguously in China, the central purpose of the card market shifted from providing a tool of convenience to customers to offering an instrument of economic control for the state. The discussion then turns to theoretical issues of social order and market emergence, and emphasized the implications of this analysis for the study of globalization, postcommunist transitions and markets

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Book SynopsisBased on the works of Marx, Veblen and Weber, and in stark contrast to mainstream economics, this book presents a view of money as an object of desire.Trade Review"After a theoretical exposition founded chiefly on Marx in the first chapter, the book offers brilliant analyses ranging as far and wide as Dickens' Hard Times, classical and modern economics, communications theory and reality TV, advertising and brand theory, and finally original readings in Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class. Yuran's moves from the mundane and contemporary to high theory and historical myths, and across conceptual divides, are effective. An important strand of argument emerging from these explorations ties money with the consumer economy by showing that money's quality as endlessly exchangeable depends on every other commodity not being so. This structural argument, developed from Marx, offers deep insights about the commodity at the same time that it traverses the material/symbolic dichotomy informing histories of money, and shows a continuity between our own form of symbolic money and older ones based in material substances like gold."—Anat Rosenberg, Critical Inquiry"This excursion into alternative economics is motivated by the belief that the recent financial crisis was caused by inadequacies in mainstream economic theory and that solutions are to be found in reinterpretations of the writings of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Georg Simmel, Thorstein Veblen, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber . . . Recommended."—E. L. Whalen, CHOICE"Noam Yuran's brilliant book offers a new point of view about the relationship between money and the desire for it. Arguing that desire is built into the nature of money and is not an external attachment to it, Yuran opens up new readings of Marx, Veblen, and Weber, and also gives readers a new perspective on the ways in which money can inspire excess and destabilize economies. This book will be of great interest to economists, philosophers, and social theorists."—Arjun Appadurai, New York University

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Book SynopsisBased on the works of Marx, Veblen and Weber, and in stark contrast to mainstream economics, this book presents a view of money as an object of desire.Trade Review"After a theoretical exposition founded chiefly on Marx in the first chapter, the book offers brilliant analyses ranging as far and wide as Dickens' Hard Times, classical and modern economics, communications theory and reality TV, advertising and brand theory, and finally original readings in Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class. Yuran's moves from the mundane and contemporary to high theory and historical myths, and across conceptual divides, are effective. An important strand of argument emerging from these explorations ties money with the consumer economy by showing that money's quality as endlessly exchangeable depends on every other commodity not being so. This structural argument, developed from Marx, offers deep insights about the commodity at the same time that it traverses the material/symbolic dichotomy informing histories of money, and shows a continuity between our own form of symbolic money and older ones based in material substances like gold."—Anat Rosenberg, Critical Inquiry"This excursion into alternative economics is motivated by the belief that the recent financial crisis was caused by inadequacies in mainstream economic theory and that solutions are to be found in reinterpretations of the writings of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Georg Simmel, Thorstein Veblen, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber . . . Recommended."—E. L. Whalen, CHOICE"Noam Yuran's brilliant book offers a new point of view about the relationship between money and the desire for it. Arguing that desire is built into the nature of money and is not an external attachment to it, Yuran opens up new readings of Marx, Veblen, and Weber, and also gives readers a new perspective on the ways in which money can inspire excess and destabilize economies. This book will be of great interest to economists, philosophers, and social theorists."—Arjun Appadurai, New York University

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCorporate Sovereignty provides a genealogy of corporate power, and argues that it is historically and ontologically linked to modern political sovereignty. Joshua Barkan takes the reader with care and attention through complex legal debates, and draws out those aspects that are fascinating in the contemporary context. He contributes to the academic debate concerning understandings of corporate power in the age of globalization, and speaks to theoretical debates concerning the theoretisation of the exception, as is done through the work of Agamben and others. The result is a wonderful book that genuinely sheds new light on our current understandings of corporate power.—Marieke de Goede, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. The Sovereign Gift2. Property3. Personhood4. Territory5. Responsibility6. The Corporate UniversityConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn anthropologically based interdisciplinary collection on sites and projections of imagined futures from conspiracy theorists to technological dystopias.Trade Review“An eclectic, provocative mix of ideas and approaches united by their common intelligence and lucidity, the essays in Daniel Rosenberg’s and Susan Harding’s Histories of the Future tease out unexpected adjacencies between a welter of social, political, and cultural scenarios that touch on questions of the yet-to-come. This is a book that should be read by anyone with an interest in the relationship of the future to the past—and of the present to both.”—Jeffrey Kastner, senior editor of Cabinet magazine“Telling of timelines to the end of time and boom times for imagining the future, this fine book is a boon for all of us who tune in for such timely discourses. Astute essays—and a chancy global futures card game—take the reader from salvage frontiers in South Kalimantan; to desert folk futurologies in Rachel, Nevada, and lived surreal cityscapes in Irvine, California; to fraught future makings through art, technology, and social movements in the Philippines and Japan; to that end-of-the millennium portal, Heaven’s Gate. Histories of the Future experiments with topic, genre, and mode. Its own narratives of the metastasizing metanarratives of late-twentieth-century and early-twenty-first-century future making are at home in trauma time, everyday time, Big Time, prophecy time, local nonstandard time, and global time. Asking how to examine grand stories with local acts, this valuable collection makes palpable the rich collaborative thinking that bound the authors as they studied the shapes of futures already lost and futures still imaginable. We never get Big Stories out of place; rather, Histories of the Future gives us robust places, artifacts, practices, texts, and performances in which narrative control of possible futures is at stake.”—Donna J. Haraway, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: Histories of the Future / Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding 1 2. A Notebook on Desert Modernism: From the Nevada Test Site to Liberace's Two-Hundred-Pound Suit / Joseph Masco 19 3. How to Make Resources in Order to Destroy Them (and Then Save Them?) on the Salvage Frontier / Anna Tsing 51 4. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael 75 Interlude I. Global Futures: The Game / Anna Tsing and Elizabeth Pollman 105 5. Electronic Memory / Daniel Rosenberg 123 6. All That Is Solid Melts into Sauce: Futurists, Surrealists, and Molded Food / Jamar Hunt 153 7. Sing Out Ubik / Pamela Jackson 171 Interlude II. Access Fantasy: A Story / Jonathan Lethem 185 8. Subject, City, Machine / Miryam Sas 202 Interlude III. Manifesto of the Japanese Futurist Movement / Hirato Renkichi (Translated by Miryam Sas) 225 9. The Future of the Old Economy: New Deal Motives in New Economy Investors / Christopher Newfield 231 10. Why Rachel Isn't Buried at Her Grave: Ghosts, UFOs, and a Place in the West / Susan Lepselter 255 Interlude IV. The Trouble with Timelines and a Timeline of Timelines / Daniel Rosenberg and Sasha Archibald 281 11. Living Prophecy at Heaven's Gate / Susan Harding 297 12. Trauma Time: A Still Life / Kathleen Stewart 321 Bibliography 341 Notes on Contributors 355 Index 357

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Book SynopsisBased on the case of Kyrgyzstan, while going well beyond it to elaborate a theory of the developing state that comprehends corruption as not merely criminal, but a type of market based on highly rational decisions made by the powerful individuals within, or connected to, the state.

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the sociotechnical imaginaries that promoted, sustained, and contested Korea's scientific, medical, and technological projects in realizing desired futures. The book reminds us how deeply intertwined science, medicine, and technology are to not only our polities, corporations, and societies but also the very human condition.

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Book SynopsisGenetically modified (GM) agricultural crops which are approved as safe in North America (Canada and the United States) are facing significant regulatory hurdles in gaining access to the European Union. The development and commercialization of GM crops illustrate a complex challenge facing trade diplomacy - the challenge of regulatory regionalism created by social regulatory barriers.Trade Review"The book makes a superb contribution to an often fractious and difficult debate, and it deserves to be widely read." Alan Matthews, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Volume 30."Table of ContentsPART I: THE ISSUES 1: CHAPTER 1: Social Regulatory Barriers 1.1: Regulations: Instability and Market Access Barriers 1.2: International Integration 1.3: Social Regulatory Barriers: A Case Study 2: CHAPTER 2: Agricultural Biotechnology 2.1: Modern Biotechnology and Agricultural Crops 2.2: Agricultural Biotechnology: An Overview of Consumer Acceptance 2.3: Conclusions PART II: REGULATORY DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION 3: CHAPTER 3: Economic Interests 3.1: Regulatory Development 3.2: Regulatory Integration: The Traditional Trade Approach 3.3: Conclusions 4: CHAPTER 4: Social Interests 4.1: Regulatory Development and Integration 4.2: Social Regulatory Integration: Case Study of the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety 4.3: Conclusions 5: CHAPTER 5: Regulatory Development and Integration 5.1: Regulating Technology: The Risk Analysis Framework 5.2: Principles of GM Crop Regulations 5.3: Regulatory Integration 5.4: Conclusions PART III: TRANSATLANTIC REGULATORY REGIONALISM 6: CHAPTER 6: North American Regulatory Approach 6.1: Introduction 6.2: Agricultural Biotechnology in the USA 6.3: Agricultural Biotechnology in Canada 6.4: North American Regulatory Integration 6.5: Conclusions 7: CHAPTER 7: European Regulatory Approach 7.1: Introduction 7.2: Agricultural Biotechnology in the European Union 7.3: Agricultural Biotechnology in the United Kingdom 7.4: EU - Member State Regulatory Integration 7.5: Conclusions PART IV: ANALYSIS 8: CHAPTER 8: Transatlantic Regulatory Integration 8.1: Trade Diplomacy at a Crossroads 8.2: Ideal Regulatory Framework 8.3: Conclusions and Implications

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Book SynopsisDevelops a specific benchmarking methodology relevant to international tourism destinations. This book evaluates different approaches to benchmarking, and their application within tourism destinations. The book considers organization benchmarking - performance evaluation of a particular organization and its departments - and destination benchmarking, which involves all elements such as transport services, airport services, accommodation, leisure and sport, hospitality and local attitudes.Table of ContentsChapter One: Overview of Benchmarking Theory 1.1: Overview of Benchmarking Theory 1.2: Overview of Performance Measurement Theory Chapter Two: Evaluating Benchmarking Studies in Tourism 2.1: Overview of Benchmarking Studies in Tourism 2.2: Limitations of Past Benchmarking Research in Tourism Chapter Three: Towards Destination Benchmarking 3.1: Major Characteristics of the Tourism Industry 3.2: Rationale for Destination Benchmarking 3.3: What is 'Destination Benchmarking'? 3.4: Elements of Destination Benchmarking 3.5: Measuring Destination Performance 3.6: Types of Destination Benchmarking 3.7: Taking Action Chapter Four: Measures of Destination Benchmarking 4.1: Rationale for Measuring Destination Performance 4.2: Indicators of Destination Performance Measures 4.3: Qualitative Measures 4.4: Quantitative Measures 4.5: Strengths and Weaknesses of Destination Measures Chapter Five: Internal Destination Benchmarking 5.1: Practices of Internal Destination Benchmarking 5.2: Proposed Model of Internal Destination Benchmarking 5.2.a: Measuring the Internal Performance 5.2.b: Collecting the Data 5.2.c: Identifying Performance Gaps 5.2.d: Deciding What to Benchmark 5.2.e: Presenting the Benchmarking Findings 5.2.f: Taking Action 5.3: Strengths and Weaknesses of Internal Destination Benchmarking Chapter Six: External Destination Benchmarking 6.1: Practices of External Destination Benchmarking 6.2: Proposed Model of External Destination Benchmarking 6.3: Strengths and Weaknesses of External Destination Benchmarking Chapter Seven: Generic Destination Benchmarking 7.1: Practices of Generic Destination Benchmarking 7.2: Proposed Model of Generic Destination Benchmarking 7.2.a: Measuring the Internal Performance 7.2.b: Collecting the Data 7.2.c: Identifying Performance Gaps 7.2.d: Deciding what to Benchmark 7.2.e: Taking Action 7.3: Strengths and Weaknesses of Generic Destination Benchmarking Chapter Eight: Data Collection and Analysis 8.1: Research Methods 8.2: Formulation of Data Collection Procedures 8.2.a: Application of Quantitative Research Methods 8.2.b: Application of Qualitative Research Methods 8.3: Selection of Sample Populations 8.4: Collecting Primary Data 8.5: Collecting Secondary Data 8.6: Analysis of Quantitative Data 8.7: Analysis of Qualitative Data 8.8: Overall Analysis Chapter Nine: Destination Benchmarking: Characteristics and Limitations 9.1: Destination Benchmarking versus Organisation Benchmarking 9.2: Principles of Destination Benchmarking 9.3: Limitations Influencing the Success of Destination Benchmarking Chapter Ten: Conclusion 10.1: A General Overview of Destination Benchmarking 10.2: Recommendations for Benchmarking in Practice

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Book SynopsisThe public choice approach combined with theoretical welfare economics and institutions will prove a stimulating and engaging read for those with a special interest in public sector economics, public choice and Austrian economics.Trade Review’A long professional and personal association with Francesco Forte accustoms one to the extraordinary breadth of his knowledge, understanding and original thinking not only on economic but also legal and political questions. Principles of Public Economics displays all these estimable qualities to the full, adding for good measure a style and content that must attract both student and savant alike.’Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Background: Some Aspects of the History of Thought 1. Decision-making Processes and the Structures of Public Finance 2. Individual and Collective Welfare 3. Public Wants and Public Goods 4. Equilibrium and Disequilibrium between Demand and Supply of Public Goods 5. Bureaucracy and Interest Groups 6. The Fiscal Constitution and the Rules Governing the Budget 7. Public Expenditure 8. Public Revenue and the Tax Burden 9. Income Effects and Allocation Effects of Taxes 10. Optimal Taxation in a Public Economy Conforming to the Market Economy 11. Tax Shifting 12. Public Prices 13. Public Debt and Fiscal Policy 14. Supranational, Regional and Local Public Finance Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary law and economics has greatly expanded its scope of inquiry as well as its sphere of influence.Trade Review'To date, economic analysis has not realized its enormous potential for illuminating issues of comparative law. The Research Handbook in Comparative Law and Economics fills that gap. Edited by eminent scholars in the field, this book demonstrates the power of economic methodology to illuminate theoretical and policy-oriented issues across many legal systems. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in cutting edge research in the fields of economic analysis and comparative law.' --Geoffrey Miller, New York University, Law School, US'This remarkable volume shows off the eclectic potential of the comparative law and economics brand. It is comparative not only in assembling scholars from around the world and in zipping from Taiwanese civil disputes to international high courts to drug regulators for case studies, but most importantly in highlighting an empirical methodology that welcomes a range of complementary approaches that broadens the core economic analysis of law. It's a fascinating tour across boundaries.' --Stewart J. Schwab, Cornell Law SchoolTable of ContentsContents: PART I THEORETICAL ISSUES 1. The Past, Present and Future of Comparative Law and Economics Giovanni B. Ramello 2. Markets, Contracts, and Firms: A Unified Model of Organizational Choice Thomas J. Miceli 3. Law, Social Norms, and Standards: Their Nexus with Government and their Impact on the Economic Performance of Nation States Nicholas Mercuro 4. The Market for Legal Innovation: Law and Economics in Europe and the United States, Nuno Garoupa and Thomas S. Ulen 5. Principles, Tolerance and Institutional Torpor Enrico Colombatto PART II SELECTED CASES 6. Structure and Style in Comparative Property Law Yun-chien Chang and Henry E. Smith 7. A Comparative View of Local Tax and Expenditure Limitations and their Consequences Federico Revelli 8. Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove? Judicial Behavior in Mixed Courts Valerie P. Hans and Anne Jolivet 9. Global Competition Law Convergence: Potential Roles for Economics David J. Gerber 10. The Comparative Law and Economics of Energy Markets Giuseppe Bellantuono 11. A Comparative Law and Economics Analysis of Damages for Patent Infringement Thomas F. Cotter 12. The Comparative Economics of International Intellectual Property Agreements Peter K. Yu 13. Copyright and Tort as Mirror Models: On Not Mistaking for the Right Hand What the Left Hand is Doing Wendy J. Gordon 14. The Eurozone Crisis, the Defective Policy Response and the Need for Institutional Innovation Enrico Marelli and Marcello Signorelli PART III EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS 15. The Effect of Stakes on Settlement: An Empirical Lesson from Taiwan Kuo-Chang Huang 16. Comparative Judicial Efficiency: Examining Case Disposition in Five Countries' Courts of Last Resort Anthony Kreis, John Szmer and Robert K. Christensen 17. Copyright Law and the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies Ivan Paak Liang Png and Qiu-hong Wang 18. International Environmental Agreement Effectiveness: A Review of Empirical Studies Kendall A. Houghton and Helen T. Naughton 19. The American and the European Market of Human Experimentation, A Comparative Study on Regulation and Competitiveness Antonella Foddis and Roberto Ippoliti Index

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Book SynopsisIn this spirit, the Research Handbook on the Economics of Family Law gives us a series of original essays by distinguished scholars in economics, law or both. They have in common one thing: each scholar employs a core economic tool or insight to shed light on some aspect of family law and social institutions broadly understood.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright 1. Is it Just about Love? Factors that Influence Marriage Joseph Price 2. Diverging Family Structure and ‘Rational’ Behavior: The Decline in Marriage as a Disorder of Choice Amy L. Wax 3. Economic Perspectives on Marriage: Causes, Consequences, and Public Policy Robert I. Lerman 4. Trends in Marital Stability Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers 5. The State’s Choice of Divorce Law Michael Hanlon 6. Partnering and Incentive Structures Antony W. Dnes 7. The Anatomy of Canada’s Child Support Guidelines: The Effects, Details, and History of a Feminist Family Policy Douglas W. Allen 8. The Economics of Infant Feeding Tiffany Green and Katherine Dickinson 9. Abortion Access and Risky Sex Jonathan Klick and Thomas Stratmann 10. Prostitution, Technology, and the Law: New Data and Directions Scott Cunningham and Todd D. Kendall 11. A Survey of the Literature on Early Legal Access to the Birth Control Pill and its Influence on Young Women’s Fertility, Education, Career and Labor Supply Melanie Guldi Index

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Book SynopsisThe law and economics movement came of age in the second half of the 20th century and had a profound effect on both the scholarship and practice of law. The specially commissioned essays in this book honor the pioneering contributions of those who created the foundation of the modern law and economics enterprise.Trade Review'. . . pure gems in each and every essay. . . Reading this book provides an intellectual framework for the history of thought in the field that until now it had sorely lacked.' -- Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi, American Review of Political EconomyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Ronald H. Coase Thomas W. Hazlett 2. Aaron Director Remembered Stephen M. Stigler 3. Aaron Director’s Influence on Antitrust Policy Sam Peltzman 4. George J. Stigler and his Contributions to Law and Economics Harold Demsetz 5. The Enduring Contributions of Armen Alchian Susan Woodward 6. Harold Demsetz Mark F. Grady 7. Benjamin Klein’s Contributions to Law and Economics Joshua D. Wright 8. Buchanan and Tullock on Law and Economics Robert D. Tollison 9. Henry Manne: Intellectual Entrepreneur Larry E. Ribstein 10. Gary Becker’s Contributions to Law and Economics John F. Pfaff 11. Pioneers of Law and Economics: William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner Thomas S. Ulen 12. Putting Law First: Richard Epstein’s Contribution to Law and Economics Andrew P. Morriss 13. Calabresi’s Influence of Law and Economics Keith N. Hylton 14. Easterbrook and Fischel Katherine V. Litvak 15. The Path Breaking Contributions of A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell to Law and Economics Nuno Garoupa and Fernando Gómez-Pomar Index

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Book SynopsisThe transport sector has many unique characteristics - non-storability, economies of scale and scope, indivisibilities and extensive production of positive and negative externalities - that need careful consideration in any analysis.Trade Review'This book's title reveals a great ambition and the content, which covers all transport modes and all critical issues of our discipline, reaches a remarkable level of thoroughness. I have no doubt that this book will become a most valuable tool for students and researchers in transport economics.' --(Alain Bonnafous, University of Lyon, France)Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Chris Nash PART I COSTS 2. Road and Rail Infrastructure Costs Heike Link 3. Public Transport Operations Costs Andrew Smith, Phill Wheat and Michal Wolanski 4. Freight Costs Tony Fowkes PART II EXTERNALITIES 5. Valuing Transport Externalities Luis I. Rizzi and Juan de Dios Ortúzar 6. Road Congestion Anthony D. May, Ronghui Liu and Simon Shepherd 7. Congestion and Scarcity in Scheduled Transport Modes Jan-Eric Nilsson 8. Accidents Gunnar Lindberg PART III DEMAND 9. Demand for Road transport John Bates 10. Public Transport Demand John Preston 11. Freight Demand Gerard de Jong PART IV PRICING AND INVESTMENT 12. Road Pricing and Investment Bruno de Borger and Stef Proost 13. Pricing Public Transport Services Jan Owen Jansson, Johan Holmgren and Anders Ljungberg 14. Airport Pricing and Investment Ginés de Rus and Ofelia Betancor 15. Port Pricing Hilde Meersman, Siri Pettersen Strandenes and Eddy Van de Voorde, PART V DEREGULATION AND PRIVATISATION 16. Local and Regional Public Transport Didier Van de Velde 17. Rail Chris Nash 18. Airlines Steve Morrison Part VI Transport Policy Impacts 19. Economic Impacts of Transport Policy Roger Vickerman 20. Approaches to Internalisation of Transport Externalities Werner Rothengatter 21. Equity in Transport John Stanley and Janet Stanley Index

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Book SynopsisThe Great Recession has punctuated the long history of capitalism and is a necessary outcome of contemporary capitalism’s great contradictions, both in its Anglo-Saxon configuration and European neo-mercantilism posture.Trade Review‘The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism is a critically important contribution and a strongly recommended addition to the academic library economics reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists’ -- The Midwest Book Review‘This book makes a difference compared with the mass of existing crisis literature. Exploring a variety of heterodox approaches, it clearly discusses the important issues behind the well known facts: the dynamics of capitalism leading to the current crisis, the character of the crisis as mainly financial or as a result of changing conditions in production and consumption, the “rationality” of money, credit and debt, and the gender perspective of the crisis. Here you can find interesting alternatives to sterile mainstream discussions.’ -- Michael Heinrich, University of Technology and Economics, Germany‘An excellent assemblage of scholarly thought on the current economic mess in Europe and America. Drawing on a range of left traditions in political economy, from Marx to Keynes to Minsky, the authors offer original takes on crisis theory, financial fragility and austerity. The book’s great strength is the depth of analysis of money, debt and speculation, and how they are implicated in the malfunctioning of contemporary capitalism. A salutatory challenge to the aridity of so much of conventional economics.’ -- Richard A. Walker, University of California, US‘The Great Recession has shaken up the economics profession, underscoring the urgency of developing new and innovative ways of understanding the changes in the global economy. This excellent and thoughtful volume offers a series of heterodox analyses that will do just that. It will prove valuable to economists ready to question neoclassical and even Keynesian assumptions about how macroeconomies function in order to develop more relevant models and policies that fit our current system.’ -- Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Riccardo Bellofiore and Giovanna Vertova 1. The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism Riccardo Bellofiore 2. The Crisis of the Early 21st Century: Marxian Perspective Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy 3. Marx, Keynes and Hayek and the Great Recession of 2008 Meghnad Desai 4. Fictitious Capital in the Context of Global Over-accumulation and Changing International Economic Power Relationship François Chesnais 5. Conventions and Disruptions Christian Marazzi 6. Debt, Class and Asset Inflation Jan Toporowski 7. Speculation, Financial Fragility and Stock-flow Consistency Jo Michell 8. A Structural Monetary Reform to Reduce Global Imbalances: Keynes’ Plan Revisited to Avert International Payment Deficits Sergio Rossi 9. The True Rules of a Good Management of Public Finance. An Implication of the Fatal Euro-zone Crisis. Alain Parguez 10. Growth and Crisis in the Italian Economy Vittorio Valli 11. What’s Gender got to do with the Great Recession? The Italian Case. Giovanna Vertova 12. Financial and Nuclear Meltdowns: the Fragility of Chain-reaction Critical Processes Alessandro Vercelli Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative volume includes a selection of seminal articles published in the emerging field of technological progress and innovation. The first part of the book is dedicated to the economics of innovation, while the following parts include important papers in various legal areas that focus on innovation.Trade Review‘Lawyers, post-graduate students of law and economics, as well as policy makers and judges concerned with the issues raised by class actions will find this book, with its copious footnotes, a valuable tool for further research into this emerging area of law.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Eli M. Salzberger PART I ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION 1. Nathan Rosenberg (1976), ‘On Technological Expectations’ 2. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (1977), ‘In Search of Useful Theory of Innovation’ 3. Partha Dasgupta and Joseph Stiglitz (1980), ‘Industrial Structure and the Nature of Innovative Activity’ 4. Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch (1988), ‘Innovation in Large and Small Firms: An Empirical Analysis’ 5. Paul M. Romer (1990), ‘Endogenous Technical Change’ 6. David J. Teece (1992), ‘Competition, Cooperation, and Innovation: Organizational Arrangements for Regimes of Rapid Technological Progress’ 7. Chris Freeman (1994), ‘The Economics of Technical Change’ 8. Giovanni Dosi (1997), ‘Opportunities, Incentives and the Collective Patterns of Technological Change’ 9. Gregory N. Stock, Noel P. Greis and William A. Fischer (2002), ‘Firm Size and Dynamic Technological Innovation’ PART II IP AND INNOVATION 10. Steven Shavell and Tanguy van Ypersele (2001), ‘Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights’ 11. Philip J. Weiser (2003), ‘The Internet, Innovation, and Intellectual Property Policy’ 12. Gregory N. Mandel (2005), ‘Promoting Environmental Innovation with Intellectual Property Innovation: A New Basis for Patent Rewards’ 13. Tim Wu (2006), ‘Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Decentralized Decisions’ 14. John M. Golden (2010), ‘Principles for Patent Remedies’ PART III PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES 15. Bruce Kogut and Anca Metiu (2001), ‘Open-Source Software Development and Distributed Innovation’ 16. Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman (2006), ‘The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design’ PART IV ANTI-TRUST AND INNOVATION [170 pp] 17. David J. Teece and Mary Coleman (1998), ‘The Meaning of Monopoly: Antitrust Analysis in High-Technology Industries’ 18. Michel A. Carrier (2008), ‘Two Puzzles Resolved: Of the Schumpeter-Arrow Stalemate and Pharmaceutical Innovation Markets’ 19. Daniel F. Spulber (2008), ‘Competition Policy and the Incentive to Innovate: The Dynamic Effects of Microsoft v. Commission’ PART V TORTS 20. Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein (2008–09), ‘Torts and Innovation’ PART VI REGULATION 21. Jukka Similä (2002), ‘Pollution Regulation and Its Effects on Technological Innovations’ 22. Rebecca S. Eisenberg (2007), ‘The Role of the FDA in Innovation Policy’

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Book SynopsisOffers managers and supervisors in the power and petroleum fields basic economic skills that enable them to make better policy decisions relating to energy. This practical textbook contains toolbox of models, along with institutional, technological, and historical information on oil, coal, gas, and electricity (including renewables).Table of Contents Introduction Energy Lessons from the Past for the Future Perfect Competition and the Coal Industry Natural Monopoly and Electricity Generation Deregulation and Privatization of Electricity Generation Monopoly, Dominant Firm and OPEC Market Structure, Transaction Costs Economics and U.S. Natural Gas Markets Externalities and Energy Pollution Public Goods and Global Warming Monopsony-Japan and the Asia Pacific LNG Market Same Theory and the European Natural Gas Market Allocating Fossil Fuel Production Over Time and Oil Leasing Computing Energy Costs and Supply Oil Refining, Energy Transportation, and Linear Programming Energy Futures and Options Markets for Managing Risk Energy Information Technologies Managing in the Multinational World Energy Appendix A: Glossary and Abbreviator Appendix B: Conversion Charts Appendix C: Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJosef Banyar and Jozsef Meszaros address issues surrounding the pension systems of developed countries, as well as societies that are experiencing falling birth rates and rising life expectancies. The authors focus on Hungary because it excellently illustrates the difficulties and demographic challenges facing Central Europe as it transforms economically.

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