International Economic Law : The Max Planck Encyclopedia Of Public International Law
Editors: Frauke Lachenmann, Rudiger Wolfrum.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2015
Subjects: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS — ENCYCLOPEDIAS.
Description:
This volume brings together articles on international trade and investment from the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, the definitive reference work on international law. It provides an invaluable resources for scholars, students, and practitioners of international economic law, giving an accessible, thorough overview of all aspects of the field. Each article contains cross-references to related articles, and includes a carefully selected bibliography of the most important writings and primary materials as a guide to further reading. The Encyclopedia can be used by a wide range of readers. Experienced scholars and practitioners will find a wealth of information on areas that they do not already know well as well as in-depth treatments on every aspect of their specialist topics. Articles can also be set as readings for students on taught courses…More…
Handbook Of Behavioral Economics And Smart Decision-Making : Rational Decision-Making Within The Bounds Of Reason
Editor: Morris Altman.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2017
Subjects: ECONOMICS — PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS ; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR.
Description:
This Handbook is a unique and original contribution of over thirty chapters on behavioural economics, examining and addressing an important stream of research where the starting assumption is that decision-makers are for the most part relatively smart or rational. This particular approach is in contrast to a theme running through much contemporary work where individuals’ behaviour is deemed irrational, biased, and error-prone, often due to how people are hardwired. In the smart people approach, where errors or biases occur and when social dilemmas arise, more often than not, improving the decision-making environment can repair these problems without hijacking or manipulating the preferences of decision-makers…More…
Handbook On Social Choice And Voting
Editor: Jac C. Heckelman, Nicholas R. Miller.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2015
Subjects: SOCIAL CHOICE ; VOTING.
Description:
This Handbook provides an overview of interdisciplinary research related to social choice and voting that is intended for a broad audience. Expert contributors from various fields present critical summaries of the existing literature, including intuitive explanations of technical terminology and well-known theorems, suggesting new directions for research.Each chapter presents an expository primer on a particular topic or theme within social choice, with the aim of making the material fully accessible to students and scholars in economics, political science, mathematics, philosophy, law and other fields of study. Topics covered include preference aggregation, voting rules, spatial models, methodology and empirical applications…More…
Handbook On The Economics Of The Internet
Editor: Johannes M. Bauer and Michael Latzer.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subjects: INTERNET — ECONOMIC ASPECTS ; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS.
Description:
The Internet is connecting an increasing number of individuals, organizations, and devices into global networks of information flows. It is accelerating the dynamics of innovation in the digital economy, affecting the nature and intensity of competition, and enabling private companies, governments, and the non-profit sector to develop new business models. In this new ecosystem many of the theoretical assumptions and historical observations upon which economics rests are altered and need critical reassessment…More…
Research Handbook On Disasters And International Law
Editors: Susan C. Breau, Katja L.H. Samuel.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subjects: DISASTER RELIEF — LAW AND LEGISLATION ; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
Description:
The editors take a broad, encompassing approach to the concept of disaster, concluding that a new corpus of international disaster law may be emerging. Key contributions interweave a number of important themes from an international law perspective across a wide range of discrete topics as diverse as water, food and energy security, dispute settlement, protection of vulnerable groups, cyber terrorism, international criminal law, climate change migration and international economics and trade law. This comprehensive study makes an important contribution to international law scholarship governing disasters, which in the past has largely focused on disaster response and relief law…More…
