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Planning Theory

This book makes two really compelling arguments: Firstly, that planning theory has lost its focus on the planning process ...

Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia

This volume addresses the process and policy reforms these countries face and how the reforms may impact agricultural development ...

Political Economy, Linguistics and Culture

During the late 19th and throughout the 20th century, social sciences in general and economics in particular have undergone ...

Population Ageing and Economic Growth

We review standard economic growth models concentrating on the relationship between population ageing and economic growth ...

Portfolio Management with Heuristic Optimization

Portfolio Management with Heuristic Optimization consist of two parts. The first part (Foundations) deals with the foundations ...

Portfolio Strategies of Private Equity Firms

Ulrich Lossen explores the choice of portfolio strategies by private equity firms and the impact of this choice on funds’ ...

Portfolios of Real Options

This book develops a modeling approach for dynamic investment problems where limited resources are allocated to interacting ...

Posted Price Offers in Internet Auction Markets

New information technologies allow for the design of innovative electronic markets which can improve the efficiency of trading. ...

Potentials for Efficiency Increase in Modern Freight Forwarding

The freight forwarding market has become extremely demanding for the professional carriers in a road transport. Apart from ...

Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to ...

Poverty and Equity

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of ...

Poverty and Inequality in the Era of Structural Reforms: The Case of Bolivia

Fueled by the ongoing debate about the distributive effects of the Washington Consensus, the dynamics of poverty and inequality ...

Poverty, Inequality and Development

Traditionally, there have been two strands in the analysis of poverty, inequality and development – a micro strand that ...

Power, Freedom, and Voting

Power, Freedom, and Voting is an interdisciplinary book that presents a comprehensive insight into current research by economists, ...

Practical Fruits of Econophysics

Some economic phenomena are predictable and controllable, and some are impos sible to foresee. Existing economic theories ...

Precaution Incentives in Accident Settings

Tim Friehe analyzes important aspects for the design of tort law which intends to induce optimal individual choices and possible ...

Prediction or Prophecy?

Economic policy making matters to all of us. Economists are supposed to provide the necessary knowledge which enables policy ...

Preferences and Procedures

Preferences and Procedures presents and tests game-theoretic models of European Union legislative decision-making. It is ...

Preferences in Negotiations

Cognitive biases like overconfidence, egocentrism, and the mythical fixed pie illusion oftentimes foreclose profitable results. ...

Presenting Futures

The ideas and imagery about the future that characterize nanotechnology today are shaped by multiple values and agendas which ...

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