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    A Macroeconomic Approach

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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  • Energy Economics

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    Series series Engineering (R0)
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  • Lives in Peril

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    Series series Business and Management (R0)
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  • Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development

    How Trade Can Promote Development

    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series
    How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the ... Read more

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    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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  • The Applied Law and Economics of Public Procurement

    Edited by Gustavo Piga, Steen Treumer ...
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    Edited by Michael A. Crew ...
    Series Book 37 - Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
    Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries reviews the changing regulatory environment, notably incentive regulation and competition in regulated industries. Some of the major changes in electricity, gas, and telephone utilities allow for competition in local service through unbundling. This book is of interest to researchers, utility managers, regulatory commissions, and the Federal Government ... Read more

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