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Опубликовано на портале: 30-11-2003
Maria del Carmen Almansa-Saez, Javier Calatrava-Requena
2002
The methodology used for Economic Valuation of the Externalities generated by the
Watershead Restoration and Erosion Control Projects in the Hydrographic Basins of
the Mediterranean Slope, is based on the Replacement Cost Method. Environmental Economics,
however, today offer us other methodological possibilities, whose application to
the valuation of this type of project may prove to be of interest. It is the case
of the Contingent Valuation Method used for the evaluation of the effects of the
Watershead Restoration and Erosion Control Projects of the Aljibe Basin (Almería)
Spain, presented here. The results obtained show that, in this case study, application
of Contingent Valuation ascribes greater social profitability of the project, with
5.23 % of IRR (Internal Rate of Return), compared to the value obtained using classic
methodology of 2.25%, thus enabling us to draw closer to the true socio-environmental
value of this type of project. In any case, both possibilities rather than alternatives
can be considered as complementary, by focusing on the valuation from different perspectives.


Опубликовано на портале: 21-12-2006
Georg Menz
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 304 с.
Europeanization has often been conceived as a top-down process, necessitating implementation
and adjustment at the national level. However, Europeanization can also be conditioned
by bottom-up national initiatives. While recent endeavors in comparative political
economy have emphasized the resilience of coordinated market economies, few detailed
empirical studies have examined to date exactly how different European systems of
political-economic governance cope with and respond to an European impetus for liberalization.
This original study of the impact of the EU-induced liberalization of service provision
on member states argues that innovative national re-regulatory strategies may be
implemented in response to Europeanization. In permitting any company registered
in an EU member state to provide services throughout Europe, new possibilities were
created for the transnational posting of workers from low-wage to high-wage countries.
However, high-wage countries could re-regulate the wage levels applicable to such
employees. The exact nature of such response strategy is coloured by the respective
institutional power that labour market interest associations like trade unions and
employer associations command. Therefore, different institutionalised varieties of
capitalism generate distinct re-regulations of the Single European Market.
Drawing on detailed case studies of ten European countries, this volume bridges the gap between the rapidly unfolding scholarly debate on Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. It argues that both strongly neocorporatist systems of political-economic governance and statist systems are capable of creating swift, comprehensive and thorough national re-regulations. This applies to Austria and France, but also Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. By contrast, countries with less strongly embedded neocorporatist structures, in which due to organizational deficiencies trade unions face difficulties blocking employer demands, create liberal response strategies, permitting a stratification of wage levels. Hence, both Germany and the Netherlands implemented liberal business-friendly re-regulations.
The volume makes the case for important amendments to existing accounts of Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. Scholars of Europeanization need to incorporate bottom-up re-regulation into their conceptual framework, particularly in response to 'negative integration'. Recent strides in comparative political economy have placed great emphasis on continued divergence, yet this study suggests that even within the presumably unified group of 'non-liberal' coordinated market economies important institutional differences produce very distinct responses in the face of European liberalization.
Drawing on detailed case studies of ten European countries, this volume bridges the gap between the rapidly unfolding scholarly debate on Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. It argues that both strongly neocorporatist systems of political-economic governance and statist systems are capable of creating swift, comprehensive and thorough national re-regulations. This applies to Austria and France, but also Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. By contrast, countries with less strongly embedded neocorporatist structures, in which due to organizational deficiencies trade unions face difficulties blocking employer demands, create liberal response strategies, permitting a stratification of wage levels. Hence, both Germany and the Netherlands implemented liberal business-friendly re-regulations.
The volume makes the case for important amendments to existing accounts of Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. Scholars of Europeanization need to incorporate bottom-up re-regulation into their conceptual framework, particularly in response to 'negative integration'. Recent strides in comparative political economy have placed great emphasis on continued divergence, yet this study suggests that even within the presumably unified group of 'non-liberal' coordinated market economies important institutional differences produce very distinct responses in the face of European liberalization.



Опубликовано на портале: 22-12-2006
Ред.: Martin Myant, David Lane
New-York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, cерия "Studies in Economic Transition", 296 с.
Former communist countries in East-Central Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent
States and Asia have been heading towards capitalism. This book sets their experience
against the 'varieties of capitalism' paradigm, which sets out differences between
mature market economies. It thereby provides a useful and novel framework for comparing
transformation processes and demonstrates how the rather different heritages of the
communist and even pre-communist pasts are leading to different kinds of capitalist
economies. The book focuses on the former European communist societies but also has
chapters on Kazakhstan and China.



Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Matthew Allen
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, cерия "New Perspectives in German Studies", 184 с.
How do the environments, in which businesses operate, condition their success or
failure? Such questions have long been of interest in the fields of business, economics
and politics. They have gained in importance as a result of heightened competitive
pressures associated with 'globalization'. Whilst some see certain institutions as
burdens, others see them as a blessing. This book thoroughly examines the main claims
of the most important contribution - the Varieties of Capitalism paradigm - to this
debate in recent years.



Опубликовано на портале: 08-10-2007
Peter A. Hall, David Soskice
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization
forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences
in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to
these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows
that there is more than one path to economic success.




Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Ред.: David Coates
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 312 с.
Though the emerging sub-discipline of comparative political economy is now rich in
studies of different advanced capitalisms, it still lacks a systematic consideration
of the organizing frameworks and methodologies underpinning those studies. This definitive
volume outlines the two great debates currently shaping the analysis of advanced
capitalism. It makes the case for a greater awareness of underlying theoretical issues
in the design of empirical research, and demonstrates the value of exploring the
interconnections between competing intellectual approaches.



Опубликовано на портале: 22-12-2006
Ред.: Carola Frege, John Kelly
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 228 с.
As unions face an ongoing crisis all over the industrialized world, they have often
been portrayed as outmoded remnants of an old economic structure. This book argues
that despite structural shifts in the economy and in politics, unions retain important
functions for capitalist economies as well as for political democracy. Union revitalization
in the face of their current difficulties is therefore of fundamental importance.
The book charts the strategies unions are using to respond to global union decline
and to revive their fortunes in five countries - US, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain
- providing a wide range of institutional settings, union structures, identities
and union responses. It provides a rich source of documentation about union activity,
but more importantly it goes beyond description to address two of the big questions
in comparative research: How can we explain cross-country differences of union responses
to global decline? And how effective are these actions in helping to revitalize the
labour movements?
Union strategies and union revitalization outcomes varied strongly across countries
and were shaped by national industrial relations institutions, as well as by the
interactions between union, employer and state strategies. These findings support
the argument for national divergence of the varieties of capitalism literature and
challenge the globalization thesis which predicts a degree of convergence in the
fate of union movements across the advanced capitalist world. There is no single
revitalization strategy that works well for all union movements; the same strategy
is likely to produce different results in different countries. Moreover, evidence
for variation in revitalization outcomes emerges most clearly when we adopt a multi-dimensional
conceptualization of revitalization, moving beyond union membership and density to
embrace economic and political power as well as the institutional dimension of union
reform. Despite serious revitalization attempts in all countries the scale of revitalization
is extremely modest when compared to the great upsurges of unionism in history.
Varieties of Unionism presents important research and analysis of union strategy
for academics and graduate students of Industrial Relations, Management, Politics,
Political Economy, and Sociology.



Опубликовано на портале: 04-01-2004
Jurgen Wandel
Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, 359-381 с.
By means of the transaction cost theory, the study identifies the motives for vertical
integration or coordination in the Russian agro-food sector and assesses the forms
of vertical integration developed so far. One can distinguish between state-initiated
integration forms and such initiated by the economic agents themselves. Whereas the
aim of the former is to dilute assumed market power of the food industry, uncertainty
about market partners regarding reliable supply and marketing conditions and especially
the fulfillment of payment obligation is the main motive for the latter. Often the
chosen forms of vertical integration or cooperation not only comprise enterprises
of the whole marketing chain, but also of a whole region. This could create problems
with regard to competition, since barriers to entry could be raised substantially
and collusion among economic agents facilitated.


Опубликовано на портале: 29-11-2003
W. Erno Kuiper, Clemens Lutz, Aad van Tilburg
2002
This paper considers vertical price relationships between wholesalers and retailers
on five
local maize markets in Benin. We show that if the common factor and the long-run
disequilibrium error are not explicitly taken into account in testing the channel
model, one
can easily be wrong about how restrictions on the error-correction structure must
be
interpreted in terms of economic power in the channel. The empirical results show
interesting
differences between markets and reveal that retailers play a more prominent role
in the price
formation process than generally assumed in the literature. Retailers in the two
major towns
do not allow wholesalers to behave as vertical price leaders, but in the two larger
rural
centers, wholesalers involved in arbitrage among urban markets are able to influence
price
formation.


Visio 2002 Professional [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 31-05-2003
Борис Леонтьев
Изд-во: Солон-Р, 2002, cерия "Полное руководство", 512 с.



Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 14-11-2006
Tim Patrick, John Clark Craig
Изд-во: O'Reilly Media, 2006, 740 с.
This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common
tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned
.NET developer, beginning Visual Basic programmer, or a developer seeking a simple
and clear migration path from VB6 to Visual Basic 2005, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook
delivers a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of Visual
Basic programming tasks. It's sure to save you time, serving up the code you need,
when you need it.



Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 14-11-2006
Wei-Meng Lee
Изд-во: O'Reilly Media, 2005, 214 с.
Okay, VB6 developers--time's up. Microsoft no longer supports this version of Visual
Basic, but VB 2005 offers several attractive reasons to upgrade. Our jumpstart guide
lets you test-drive the beta version of VB 2005 with three hands-on projects that
let you learn the new syntax quickly. It's the painless way to migrate, and the perfect
training manual for moving to the world of .NET.



Опубликовано на портале: 15-11-2006
Jesse Liberty
Изд-во: O'Reilly Media, 2005, cерия "The Developer's Notebook Series", 239 с.
Microsoft's C# language has attracted millions to .NET. Now, to make development
on this platform quicker and easier, C# 2.0 offers some key changes as part of Visual
Studio 2005. Our unique "all lab, no lecture" guide offers 50 hands-on projects to
explore each new feature. Learn what C# 2.0 can do for you now.



Опубликовано на портале: 29-11-2003
Jutta Roosen, Andrea Ordonez
2002
Voluntary environmental agreements have been popular with government agencies in
several countries. However, many questions remain about their efficiency as a regulatory
tool. Recent analyses suggest that they are more effective than conventional regulatory
or
economic approaches when dealing with diffuse pollution and when innovation processes
at
the source are necessary to define effective regulation. This paper applies an activity-based
framework to assess the contribution of such a voluntary agreement to the environmental
performance of farms participating in a whole farm plan in the Southern part of Belgium.
Using a cross-section of 52 farms, our results show that farms entering into environmental
agreements are environmentally more efficient than non-participating farms in terms
of the
preservation and provision of landscape features. However, their environmental efficiency
with regard to the reduction of non-desirable outputs, such as organic nitrogen,
is mostly
determined by technical efficiency and not by participation in the whole farm plan.

