Authors:Michael J. Oliver, Derek H. Aldcroft,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: century, twentieth, disasters, economic
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2007-05-07
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 184064589X
ISBN-13: 9781840645897

’Here is a book to warm the cockles of George Santayana’s heart. Can policy makers and, especially, economists learn from their mistakes? If they can, then they should start by reading Oliver and Aldcroft’s gripping collection of the great economic policy mistakes of the twentieth century.’- Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, USHow do we define an economic disaster? A difficult question. Most centuries would claim that they have had their share of disasters, but the twentieth century certainly seems to have been more prone to them than

Author: Francesco Gulli
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: new, analyses, horizons, environmental, economics, empirical, issues, power, carbon, pricing, europe, theoretical, markets
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 2009-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1847208096
ISBN-13: 9781847208095

Why do power prices seem to be correlated with the carbon price in some markets and not in others? This crucial question is at the centre of Francesco Gulli’s enlightening book, through which the contributing authors investigate a number of related issues. In particular, they explore why power firms are not consistent in passing-through into power prices the opportunity cost of carbon. They also examine the relationship between the pass-through mechanism and the structure of the power market. This informative study brings together and interprets original contributions by leading exper

Author: Estelle Derclaye
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: research, intellectual, property, handbooks, copyright, handbook, future
Number of Pages: 643
Published: 2009-03-30
List price: $315.00
ISBN-10: 1847203922
ISBN-13: 9781847203922

`Estelle Derclaye’s book is indeed a Handbook on EU copyright law, since practically every aspect of copyright law is examined through the lens of EU law by foremost European specialists. But it goes further than providing an understanding of what has been and ought to be happening in EU copyright law: each chapter can touch a raw nerve in the copyright law of any country in the world. Rarely has it been so obvious that EU copyright law can be considered a laboratory for copyright law in general.’ - Ysolde Gendreau, Universite de Montreal, Canada It has been over fifteen years since th

Authors:Viva Ona Bartkus, James H. Davis,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: reaching, capital, social
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 2009-03-30
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 1847200729
ISBN-13: 9781847200723

`For this conference Bartkus and Davis assembled the social capital equivalent of the New York Yankees’ "slugger’s row" of the 1950s, recruiting some of the best Hall of Fame hitters around along with a number of future stars still early in their careers. The result is a good reflection of the current state of the literature on social capital.’ - Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University, US `Social capital is widely used and sometimes mis-used by scholars, policymakers, and the general public. The time has come for thoughtful reflection, synthesis, and informed criticism regarding this i

Authors:Bernd H. Schmitt, David L. Rogers,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: management, experience, brand, handbook
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 2009-02
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 1847200079
ISBN-13: 9781847200075

This important Handbook explores new and emerging directions in both brand management research and practice and encompasses a diverse set of approaches. These include the latest academic research to offer new frameworks for understanding brand management. Contributors offer the researcher’s perspective on current tools in practice by brand managers today and new research and conceptual frameworks for understanding and managing customer experiences. Recent empirical research and scale development in both brand and experience management and articles by practitioners involved in brand and exper

Author: David Colander
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: economist, european, making
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1848446411
ISBN-13: 9781848446410

David Colander’s highly original and thought provoking book considers ongoing changes in graduate European economics education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the ’economist production function’ in which universities take student ’raw material’ and transform it into economists, in doing so he provides insight into economists and economics. He argues that until recently Europe had a different ’economist production function’ than did the US; thus European economists were different from their US c

Authors:Clifford S. Russell, Duane D. Bauma,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: decision, making, planning, resource, water, evolution
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1848440472
ISBN-13: 9781848440470

This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. While the historical context provided goes back to the early 19th century, the book concentrates on the past sixty years and features a discussion of the difficulty that has generally been encountered in bringing the disciplines of economics and ecology into collaboration in the water resource context. The book explores the evolution of water related analytical capabilities and institutions and provides