Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk

Geographical economics starts from the observation that economic activity is clearly not randomly distributed across space. This revised and updated introduction to geographical economics uses the modern tools of economic theory to explain the who, why and where of the location of economic activity.

Yves Zenou

The aim of this book is to study the links between urban economics and labor economics. Different models of urban labor economic theory are examined in the initial two parts of this book: first urban search-matching models (Part 1) and then urban efficiency wages (Part 2). In Part 3, we apply these models to analyze urban ghettos and their consequences for ethnic minorities in the labor market.

Microeconomics with Endogenous Entrepreneurs, Firms, Markets, and Organizations

Daniel F. Spulber

The Theory of the Firm presents an innovative general framework for understanding the economics of the firm. Entrepreneurs play a pivotal role by establishing firms. The book addresses why firms exist and the contributions firms make to the economy. The book reexamines the foundations of microeconomics by making institutions endogenous.

Twenty Years of Trial – and Error

David A. Phillips

The aim of this book is to look at the World Bank as an organization and to ask whether twenty years of reforms have improved its efficiency and effectiveness in delivering economic assistance. Efficient organization is a precondition for effective delivery of foreign assistance, and despite years of costly reforms there is reason to conclude that the Bank still has not achieved this.

A Primer for Social Scientists

Charles H. Anderton, John R. Carter

Drawing on a half-century of scholarship, this book presents a primer on the key themes and principles of conflict economics. Although much work in the field is abstract, the book is made accessible to a broad audience of scholars, students, and policymakers by relying on historical data, relatively simple graphs, and intuitive narratives.

Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

Mike Hulme

Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider’s account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and development to explain why we disagree about climate change.

Principles and Practice of Multi-Order Governance

Robin Boadway, Anwar Shah

The book is a comprehensive survey of the economics of fiscal federalism and its application to federations of all sorts around the world. It outlines in detail the assignment of functions among various orders of government in federation, including public spending, revenue-raising, regulation, and intergovernmental transfers.

Benno J. Ndulu, Stephen A. O'Connell, Robert H. Bates, Paul Collier, Chukwuma C. Soludo

The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960–2000 is by far the most ambitious and comprehensive assessment of Africa's post-independence economic performance to date. Volume 1 examines the impact of resource wealth and geographical remoteness on Africa's growth and develops a new dataset of governance regimes covering all of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

Arye L. Hillman

This book is the second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy (2003). It retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. Public choice and political economy concepts are introduced at the beginning for application to later topics, and concepts of behavioral economics are integrated throughout. The purpose of the book is to provide an accessible introduction to the use of public finance and public policy to improve on market outcomes.

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

Economic models in much of the public economics literature have been slow to reflect the significant changes towards double-income households throughout the developed world. This graduate-level text develops a more sophisticated approach to household economics, one that allows for multiple-income earners and shared decision-making.