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Cost Proxy Models and Telecommunications Policy: A New Empirical Approach to …
An empirical approach to understanding telecommunications regulation based on the use of a sophisticated engineering cost proxy model.The telecommunications industry defies easy characterization. The long-distance sector is highly competitive and the local exchange sector much less so, while digital transmission and switching have blurred the distinction between traditional voice communication …
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European Objects: The Troubled Dreams of Harmonization
How interventions based on objects—including chemicals, financial products, and consumer goods—offer a path to rethink European integration. Interventions based on objects, Brice Laurent claims, have become a dominant path for European policy-making. In European Objects, Laurent analyzes the political consequences of these interventions and their democratization. He uses the term “Euro…
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Democratic constitutional design and public policy: analysis and evidence
Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Business and Policy Studies.Leading scholars in rational choice analysis present the public choice, new institutionalist, and new political economy perspectives on the political and economic effects of constitutional design and review the accumulating empirical evidence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Paths to a green world :the political economy of the global environment
This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. Moving beyond the usual academic emphasis on international agreements and institutions,…
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Asset price bubbles :implications for monetary, regulatory, and international…
Revised papers of a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the World Bank.In both the industrialized and developing worlds, a distinctive feature of the last two decades has been prolonged buildups and sharp collapses in asset markets such as stock, housing, and exchange markets. The volatility has sparked intense debate in academic and policy circles over the appropria…
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Banking on the environment :multilateral development banks and their environm…
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly expected to address environmental issues in their economic development lending. Yet the banks have been accused of failing to implement their own environmental policies, thereby contributing to environmental degradation in borrowing countries. In this book Tamar Gutner analyzes the environmental policies of three MDBs: the World Bank, the E…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Indra's net and the Midas touch :living sustainably in a connected world
An exploration of the impact of unintended consequences in an interdependent world and of the opportunities for creativity and community.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) :illustrations
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The Internet upheaval : raising questions, seeking answers in communications …
"At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in particular the Internet, are upending fundamental economic and social structures.These research studies explore some of the tele…
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 426 pages) : illustrations
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Health care turning point: Why single payer won't work
In the battle over health care reform we can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas—or we can acknowledge today's demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point, health policy expert Roger Battistella argues that the conventional wisdom that dominates health policy debates is out of date. Battistella takes on popular misconceptions about the advantages of single-paye…
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Human footprints on the global environment: Threats to sustainability
"The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding of the causes of global environmental change is a function of understanding its human dimension - the range of human choices and actions that affect the environment. This book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of resea…
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