Author: Donald Stabile
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: economic, thought, history, lessons, wage, living
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-01-09
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 1848441975
ISBN-13: 9781848441972

For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill support the idea of a living wage and contrast with the ideas of more recent free-market economists who do not. The lessons we can learn from the contrasting ideas of both the early and recent economists will help us to think more clearly about the issues surrounding whether, how and why workers should be pai

Authors:Gerald A. McBeath, Tse-Kang Leng,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: governance, asia, series, environmental, china, biodiversity, conservation, taiwan
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1843768100
ISBN-13: 9781843768104

`This fascinating volume highlights the ongoing conflict between economic development and environmental protection in both mainland China and Taiwan. The authors value biological diversity and examine its loss and conservation from historical and comparative perspectives. Despite significant differences in institutional frameworks and environmental NGOs on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, the authors also note a similar approach to biodiversity conservation and the entailed success or failure. This volume is a must read for people who are concerned with the endangered global

Authors:Thomas Eger, Michael Faure, Zhang Naigen,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: china, law, analysis, economic
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $126.84
ISBN-10: 1847200362
ISBN-13: 9781847200365

`This is an extremely valuable collection of essays on modern Chinese law viewed through the lens of the law and economics movement. China is developing very rapidly and law is now understood to provide the essential framework for economic development - provided the law itself is economically rational. The essays in this volume are excellent examples of how economics can be used to clarify and guide the law applicable to the essential dimensions of the economy. I recommend it wholeheartedly and without reservations.’- Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for

Authors:Robert L. Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: macroeconomy, transfers, intergenerational, aging, population
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2007-11
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1847200990
ISBN-13: 9781847200990

Population aging is a global phenomenon that influences not only the industrialized countries of Asia and the West, but also many middle- and low- income countries that have experienced rapid fertility decline and achieved long life expectancies. This book explores how workers and consumers are responding to population aging and examines how economic growth, generational equity, trade and international capital flows are influenced by population aging. The contributors draw on the experience of the developing and industrialized worlds and on countries in Asia, North America, and Europe. They of

Author: Dennis W. Jansen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: series, economics, public, policy, school, bush, economy, past, present, future, new
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 1845425448
ISBN-13: 9781845425449

What is the New Economy, what makes it new, and what are the implications for antitrust, regulation and macroeconomic policy? Providing a non-technical and compelling analysis of the modern macro-economy, the contributors to this volume provide their views on the New Economy from a variety of perspectives.

Authors:Brian Snowdon, Howard R. Vane,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: current, state, development, origins, macroeconomics, modern
Number of Pages: 807
Published: 2005-04-05
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1845422082
ISBN-13: 9781845422080

More than a decade after the publication of the critically acclaimed A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics, Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane have produced a worthy successor in the form of Modern Macroeconomics. Thoroughly extended, revised and updated, it will become the indispensable text for students and teachers of macroeconomics in the new millennium. The authors skillfully trace the origins, development and current state of modern macroeconomics from an historical perspective. They do so by thoroughly appraising the central tenets underlying the main competing schools of macroeconomic thought

Authors:Tatsu Kambara, Christopher Howe,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: china, oil, natural, gas, prospects, development, global, energy, crisis
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2007-03-07
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1845429664
ISBN-13: 9781845429669

`This is a timely volume. Understanding the oil and gas industry that China has at home is an essential prerequisite to understanding Chinese foreign policy and the future role of China in world oil and gas markets. It is certain to be a major one.’ - From the preface by Ron Oxburgh, Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool, (Climate Change Capital) China’s rapid economic development is having profound implications for energy resources. China has always been exceptionally reliant on its abundant coal, but consumption of oil and gas have grown rapidly since reform began in the