Author: Todd Sandler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: action, collective, global
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2004-07-19
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0521834775
ISBN-13: 9780521834773

This book examines how nations and other key participants in the global community address problems requiring coordinated efforts of two or more entities, that is, collective action. The global community has achieved some successes on issues such as eradicating smallpox, but others, such as the reduction of drug trafficking, efforts to coordinate nations’ actions have not been sufficient. This book identifies the factors that promote or inhibit successful collective action at the regional and global level for an ever-growing set of challenges stemming from augmented cross-border flows ass

Author: Todd Sandler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sciences, social, concepts, economic
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2001-09-17
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521796776
ISBN-13: 9780521796774

This book presents an overview and assessment of the conceptual advances in economics during the last century. The book relies heavily on engaging examples, intended to draw in the reader and to demonstrate the far-reaching application of economic reasoning to social phenomena. The book is aimed at a broad audience including those with little or no formal training in economics. Readers will come to appreciate the novel insights and methods developed by economists in recent decades.

Authors:Todd Sandler, Keith Hartley,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: present, century, past, nato, economy, political
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1999-04-13
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0521638801
ISBN-13: 9780521638807

Using simple economic methods while accounting for political and institutional factors, this book puts forward a political economy viewpoint of NATO’s current status and its future prospects. A host of NATO policy concerns are addressed including the optimal membership for the alliance, its role in peacekeeping missions worldwide, the appropriate methods for deterring terrorism, and proper procurement practices for the next generation of weapons. Additional topics concern defense burden sharing, arms trade, NATO’s institutional structure, and NATO’s role vis-a-vis other inter

Authors:Todd Sandler, Keith Hartley,
Publisher: North Holland
Keywords: defense, world, globalized, economics, handbook
Number of Pages: 698
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $154.95
ISBN-10: 0444519106
ISBN-13: 9780444519108

The second volume of the Handbook of Defense Economics addresses defense needs, practices, threats, and policies in the modern era of globalization. This new era concerns the enhanced cross-border flows of all kinds (e.g., capital and labor flows, revolutionary rhetoric, guerrillas, and terrorists) including the spillovers of benefits and costs associated with public goods and transnational externalities (i.e., uncompensated interdependencies affecting two or more nations). These ever-increasing flows mean that military armaments and armies are less able to keep out security threats. Thus,

Authors:Walter Enders, Todd Sandler,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: terrorism, economy, political
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2005-11-14
List price: $78.00
ISBN-10: 0521851009
ISBN-13: 9780521851008

Presenting a widely accessible approach to the study of terrorism, this volume combines economic methods with political analysis and realities. It applies economic methodology--theoretical and empirical--with political analysis to the study of domestic and transnational terrorism, to provide a qualitative and quantitative investigation of terrorism in a balanced up-to-date presentation for students, policymakers, researchers, and the general reader. Included are historical aspects of the phenomenon, a discussion of watershed events, the rise of modern-day terrorism, examination of current tre

Authors:Richard Cornes, Todd Sandler,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: goods, club, public, externalities, theory
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 1996-06-28
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 0521477182
ISBN-13: 9780521477185

This book presents a theoretical treatment of externalities (i.e. uncompensated interdependencies), public goods, and club goods. The new edition updates and expands the discussion of externalities and their implications, coverage of asymmetric information, underlying game-theoretic formulations, and intuitive and graphical presentations. Aimed at well-prepared undergraduates and graduate students making a serious foray into this branch of economics, the analysis should also interest professional economists wishing to survey recent advancements in the field. No other single source for the ra

Authors:Todd Sandler, Keith Hartley,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: economic, literature, surveys, cambridge, defense, economics
Number of Pages: 401
Published: 1995-05-26
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0521442044
ISBN-13: 9780521442046

Defense economics examines both peace and defense issues, using such macroeconomic and microeconomic tools as growth theory, static optimization, dynamic optimization, comparative statics, game theory and econometrics. This book provides an up-to-date survey of the field of defense economics, synthesizing and unifying the vast literature in this area. Many aspects of defense, disarmament, conversion and peace are examined; both demand and supply issues of defense spending are analyzed.