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Creative Labour Regulation
Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
The volume is at the forefront of the academic and policy debates on effective labour regulation, offering innovative approaches to research and policy. It is an interdisciplinary response to the central challenges that face modern labour regulation and draws on contributions by leading experts in a range of disciplines.
Government and Markets
Establishing a Democratic Constitutional Order and a Market Economy in Former Socialist Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Government and Markets is the first book to tackle systematically and in a multidisciplinary fashion the role of democratic governments during and after the transition from plan to market. The role of governments during the transformation is important for eliminating the obstacles and putting into...
Challenging the Orthodoxy
Reflections on Frank Stilwell's Contribution to Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Political economy focuses on issues that are fundamental to individual and collective well-being and rests on the proposition that economic phenomena do not occur in isolation from social and political processes. One leading Australian political economist is Frank Stilwell. Highlights of his work...
by Claudia Max
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The book offers a comprehensive analysis of insurance intermediaries from a capital markets perspective. It presents an up-to-date market perspective, drawing the attention to the important trends and developments in the industry and recommends strategies to secure future growth. Further, it offers...
Money, Prices and Wages
Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage history, and macroeconomic history. These essays, in his honour, demonstrate the analytical power and chronological reach of the novel interdisciplinary approach he has nurtured in himself and others.
Seigniorage
On the Revenue from the Creation of Money
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
This book analyzes the revenues from the creation of currency by a central government. Adopting an institutional perspective, it develops a general theory of seigniorage by identifying three monetary regimes in economic history and the history of economic thought: a commodity currency, a fiat currency...
Tax Progression in OECD Countries
An Integrative Analysis of Tax Schedules and Income Distributions
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
This is the first book that performs international and intertemporal comparisons of uniform tax progression with empirical data. While conventional measures of tax progression suffer from serious disadvantages for empirical analyses, this book extends uniform measures to progression comparisons...
Military Conscription
An Economic Analysis of the Labour Component in the Armed Forces
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In this book, entitled "Military Conscription: an economic analysis of the labour component in the armed forces", military conscription is regarded as an eco nomic policy to minimize the cost of labour in the armed forces. The economic cost of conscription becomes clear when we analyse...
Worlds of Taxation
The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation since World War II; the turn...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book offers a critical perspective on the issues related to women’s empowerment, microfinance, and entrepreneurship in India. Written by distinguishing experts in this field, this book highlights women’s empowerment, which is a process of entrusting power to an individual on the control over...
Leadership or Chaos
The Heart and Soul of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Combining elements of economic reasoning and political science has proven to be very useful for understanding the broad variation in economic development around the world. In a sense research in this field goes back to the Scottish Enlightenment and Adam Smith’s original plan in his Theory of Moral...
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Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Gegenstand dieses Buchs ist die Frage, wie die Budgetpolitik gestaltet werden soll, um eine nachhaltige Entwicklung der Staatsverschuldung zu gewährleisten. Die Beiträge berücksichtigen dabei sowohl kurz- und mittelfristige konjunkturelle Auswirkungen von Staatsschulden wie Wachstumseffekte. Einen...
Gluecksspiele
Eine verhaltens- und gesundheitsoekonomische Analyse mit rechtspolitischen Empfehlungen
Language: German
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Der Autor analysiert den Glücksspielmarkt in Deutschland umfassend theoretisch und empirisch und stellt seinen Nutzen den Kosten für die Gesellschaft gegenüber. Obwohl jeder Zweite gelegentlich an Glücksspielen teilnimmt, basiert das Geschäftsmodell der Anbieter auf einer kleinen Gruppe Spielsüchtiger....
by Marc Reichhardt
Language: German
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Wirtschaftsstrafverfahren in jüngerer Zeit haben zu einer verstärkten Diskussion über die strafrechtlichen Risiken für Unternehmensleiter und Aufsichtspersonen wegen fehlender oder defizitärer Compliance geführt. Der Autor verfolgt in diesem Kontext das Anliegen, die Bedeutung des § 130 OWiG...