New Reference Books – August 2018

Handbook Of Ecological Economics

Editors: Joan Martinez-Alier, Roldan Muradian.

Publisher: Edward Elgar

Year: 2015

Subjects: ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS.

      Description:

This Handbook provides an overview of major current debates, trends and perspectives in ecological economics. It covers a wide range of issues, such as the foundations of ecological economics, deliberative methods, the de-growth movement, ecological macroeconomics, social metabolism, environmental governance, consumer studies, knowledge systems and new experimental approaches. Written by leading authors in their respective areas of specialisation, the contributions systematize the ‘state of the art’ in the selected topics, and draw insights about new knowledge frontiers… More…

Handbook of Research On Environmental Taxation

Editors: Janet E. Milne, Mikael Skou Andersen.

Publisher: Edward Elgar

Year: 2014

Subjects: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT CHARGES–CASE STUDIES.

     Description:

The Handbook of Research on Environmental Taxation captures the state of the art of research on environmental taxation. Written by 36 specialists in environmental taxation from 16 countries, it takes an interdisciplinary and international approach, focusing on issues that are universal to using taxation to achieve environmental goals…More… (more…)

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  An Introduction To Management Science : Quantitative Approaches To Decision Making

Authors: David R. Anderson [and 6 others]

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Year: 2016

Subjects: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.

     Description:

AN INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT SCIENCE: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO DECISION MAKING, 14E equips readers with a sound conceptual understanding of the role that management science plays in the decision-making process. The trusted market leader for more than two decades, the book uses a proven problem-scenario approach to introduce each quantitative technique within an applications setting. All data sets, applications, and screen visuals reflect the details of Excel 2013 to effectively prepare you to work with the latest spreadsheet tools. In addition, readers can get a copy of LINGO software and Excel add-ins with the book’s online content…More…

  China’s Economy What Everyone Needs To Know

Author: Arthur R. Kroeber.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Year: 2016

Subjects: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT–CHINA.

     Description:

In China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know, Arthur Kroeber offers an overview of the highlights of China’s development since economic reforms were initiated under Deng Xiaoping in 1979. He argues that manufacturing, agricultural change, and construction reoriented the economy in the 1980s and 1990s through state-owned enterprises, private entrepreneurship, and foreign investment. Those shifts unleashed perhaps the largest migration ever in world history from rural areas to urban centers, accompanied by a no less unprecedented expansion of infrastructure…More…

 Cities In Global Capitalism

Author: Ugo Rossi.

Publisher: Polity Press

Year: 2017

Subject: URBAN ECONOMICS ; REGIONAL ECONOMICS.

     Description:

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the city-capitalism nexus.Drawing on a wide range of conceptual approaches, including political economy, neo-institutionalism and radical political theory, this insightful book examines the complex relationships between contemporary capitalist cities and key forces of our times, such as globalization and neoliberalism. Taking a truly global perspective, Ugo Rossi offers a comparative analysis of the ways in which urban economies and societies reflect and at the same time act as engines of global capitalism.Ultimately, this book shows how over the past three decades capitalism has shifted a gear – no longer merely incorporating key aspects of society into its system, but encompassing everything, including life itself – and illustrates how cities play a central role within this life-oriented construction of global capitalism…More…

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