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Transforming Payment Systems in Europe
The European payment market has undergone rapid transformation in recent years due to changes in payment habits, new business rules and new legal frameworks and regulation. There has also been an advent of new technologies and payment solutions which has altered the European payments landscape drastically. This book provides an overview of the fundamental issues involved in this new payments…
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- 978-1-137-54121-5
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Transforming City Governments for Successful Smart Cities
There has been much attention paid to the idea of Smart Cities as researchers have sought to define and characterize the main aspects of the concept, including the role of creative industries in urban growth, the importance of social capital in urban development, and the role of urban sustainability. This book develops a critical view of the Smart City concept, the incentives and role of govern…
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- 978-3-319-03167-5
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A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law
International criminal law has witnessed a rapid rise after the end of the Cold War. The United Nations refers to the birth of a new 'age of accountability', but certain historical objections, such as selectivity or victor's justice, have never fully gone away, and many of the justice dimensions of international criminal law remain unexplored. Various critiques have emerged in socio-legal schol…
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- 9781108399906
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The Dynamics of Opportunity in America
Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly differ…
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- 978-3-319-25991-8
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- XXVIII, 489, 68 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
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The Public Economy in Crisis
This Brief proposes a new theory of public economics which deemphasizes reliance on the free market and affirms the importance of public goods and services within the context of the democratic process and constitutional governance. Public non-market production makes up from a quarter to more than half of all economic activity in advanced democratic nation-states. Yet by imposing market precepts…
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- 978-3-319-40487-5
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- XV, 128, 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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The Property Tax in China
This monograph offers a detailed analysis of the creation, pilot implementation, and possible wide adoption of the real property tax at the local level in China. Starting in 2003, as China’s economy gradually recovered from the Asian financial crisis that started in 1998, the real property market entered a period of rapid expansion, followed immediately by rampant speculation, rising housing …
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- 978-3-319-10049-4
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- XVII, 186, 39 illustrations in colour
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- Development and Governance
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A Farewell to Fragmentation Reassertion and Convergence in International Law
Fragmentation has been much discussed as a threat to international law as a legal system. This book contends that the fragmentation of international law is far exceeded by its convergence, as international bodies find ways to account for each other and the interactions of emerging sub-fields. Reasserting its role as the 'principal judicial organ of the United Nations', the International Court o…
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- 9781139979498
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- Studies on International Courts and Tribunals
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The Politics of Budgetary Surplus
This book probes the hollow rhetoric of debt, deficits and austerity. It explores the decisions of parties of the left which have attempted to deflect criticisms of economic mismanagement and gain trust by depoliticising the budget process and financial management with various rules, albeit with elements of discretion. The book argues that this is a perverse form of trust as it is premised on t…
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- 978-1-137-58597-4
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- XV, 187
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The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation in Japan
This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation and implement structural reforms for reorganizing fiscal expenditures. Focusing on particular policy fields including social security, female labor sup…
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- 978-4-431-55127-0
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- XIII, 195, 26 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
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- Advances in Japanese Business and Economics Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
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Resetting the Stage Public Theatre Between the Market and Democracy
Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe and the UK, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption—as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when the rationale behind these subsidies is being widely reexamined, it has never been more important for public theatre to demonstrate its continued merit. In Resetting the Stage…
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