China is a large developing economy and it has been deeply involved in globalization since its economic reform and opening-up. Simultaneously, China has seen a significant change in the spatial distribution of economic resources, especially capital and labor. In the recent 10 years, economists have made significant progress in both theoretical and empirical studies on related topics. The book provides an overview on the existing literature and current policy debates on what we have known and what we have misunderstood. This book includes an analytical framework of the New Economic Geography (NEG) with political economy to help us understand China’s regional development issues. The book of 10 chapters is organized into four thematic sections. The first section is a theoretical discussion on the relationship between economic agglomeration and interregional balanced development. The second section is a political economy analysis on regional and urban-rural development. The third section provides a summary on empirical literatures concerning from market segmentation and institutional barriers to production factor mobility. The final section consists of four empirical chapters on the relationship between agglomeration and balance, which is the core of relevant policy debates.  The book argues that for China to achieve both efficiency and balance for regional development, China may need to reform its systems which constrain production factors mobility. This book is a valuable reference for readers who are interested in spatial economics and the Chinese economy, especially its regional and urban development.

Climate Change and the Economics of the World’s Fisheries: Examples of Small Pelagic Stocks (New Horizons in Environmental Economics series)

Business & Money

Economics

Edward Elgar Publishing

Rhetoric and the Politics of Workplace Innovation: Struggling with Empowerment and Modernization

This book provides a critical insight into the ongoing debates and controversies that surround employee empowerment and workplace innovation. It highlights competing interests and conflicting values, and illuminates some basic tensions between confident rhetoric and everyday realities.
Martin Beirne's contribution marks a contrast with established academic investigations in this area. It combines sober analysis with advocacy to claim space for a research-based activism among coalitions of critical researchers and like-minded practitioners that can anticipate and promote genuinely enriching and empowering ways of managing and organizing work.
Advanced students of management and organization will discover an invaluable, thought-provoking resource. It offers fresh insights, stimulating arguments and applied knowledge that will also appeal to managers with responsibility for work and employee relations, and to educators and researchers in the areas of critical management studies, work and employment.
Contents: Foreword Foreword to Empowerment and Innovation 1. Perspectives on Empowerment and Progressive Change at Work Part I: Contemporary Developments 2. Progressive Teamworking: Disputes, Promise and Practicalities 3. Technology and User Empowerment 4. Financial Participation 5. Gender and Empowerment 6. Culture, Management and Innovation Part II: Enabling, Enacting and Regulating 7. Sustaining a Voluntary Commitment 8. Public Policy and Regulatory Initiatives References Index

Beirne, Martin

Processes & Infrastructure

'Anyone working on tax policy for middle and low income countries will consider this book a must-read. Economic globalization of capital markets and multinational corporations has overtaken the abilities of many countries to tax incomes of multinationals and individual residents. From extraction industries to fiscal federalism, the papers demonstrate the importance of sound legal frameworks and formal cooperation across multiple countries and levels of government for implementing sound tax policy in developing nations.'- Michael J. Wasylenko, Syracuse University, USComprising original essays written by top legal scholars, this innovative volume is the most comprehensive collection to date of independent academic work exploring the relationship between tax, law and development. Contributors cover a range of tax issues, drawing on economic, political, social, and institutional perspectives to offer a comprehensive view of how tax laws affect and are affected by human economic development.Hailing from across the globe, contributors offer expert insight into tax issues in China, Brazil, South Africa, India, and other developing countries. Following a thorough examination of current policy approaches to tax problems in developing nations, the writers conclude that new solutions are needed, and outline a number of groundbreaking ideas and proposals designed to mitigate many of the problems associated with tax law and economic development.Professors, students, and researchers with an interest in tax, law, development, and globalization will find much to admire in this critical and groundbreaking addition to the literature.Contributors include: Y. Brauner, A. Christians, T. Dagan, A.P. Dourado, T. Gutuza, A.C. Infanti, C.D. Luke, L. Philipps, P. Pistone, L.E. Schoueri, M. Stewart, C. Wei

Tax, Law and Development

Accounting

Making European Private Law: Governance Design

The debate concerning the desirability and modes of harmonization of European Private Law (EPL) has, until now, been mainly concerned with substantive rules. The link between rules and institutions suggests that governance of both the process of harmonization and its outcome is necessary. This book covers various perspectives on the challenge of designing governance for EPL: the implications of a multi-level system in terms of competences, the interplay between market integration and regulation, the legitimacy of private law making, the importance of self-regulation, the usefulness of conflict of law rules, the role of intergovernmental institutions, and the aftermath of enlargement. In addressing these, the book's achievements are to successfully link two areas of scholarship that have so far remained separate, EPL and new modes of governance, and to address institutional reforms. The contributions offer different proposals to improve governance: the creation of a European Law institute, the improvement of judicial cooperation among national courts, the use of committees for implementation of EPL. Suggesting practical institutional reforms that can improve the process of Europeanization of private law, this book will be of great interest to scholars of law, politics, political science, sociology and economics. It will also appeal to policymakers, and members of both European institutions and national institutions dealing with European matters.Contents: Part I: Different Facets of Market Integration; Part II: Private Law-Making; Part III: Governance in European Private Law; Part IV: Conclusions; Index Contributors: G. Amato, A. Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, F. Cafaggi, H. Collins, K.J. Cseres, M. Freedland, W. Kerber, L. Liebman, H. Muir Watt, T. Prosser, C. Scott, M. Taruffo, H. Van Loon

Fabrizio Cafaggi

Horatia Muir Watt

Foreign & International Law

Research Handbook on International Law and Migration (Research Handbooks in International Law series)

Migration is a complex and multifaceted issue, and the current legal framework suffers from considerable ambiguity and lack of cohesive focus. This Handbook offers a comprehensive take on the intersection of law and migration studies and provides strategies for better understanding the potential of international legal norms in regulating migration. Authoritative analyses by the most renowned and knowledgeable experts in the field focus on important migration issues and challenge the current normative framework with new ways of thinking about the topic.
The book examines the many facets of migration from an international law perspective. Topics discussed include the relationship between migration and state sovereignty, the human rights of migrants, human trafficking, migrant workers, refugees and internal displacement. The expert contributors hail from a number of diverse international law backgrounds (including refugee law, human rights law, humanitarian law, labor law, WTO law and others), allowing them to synthesize many different perspectives and present a comprehensive, cohesive and timely study of a complicated and fractured topic.
The Research Handbook on International Law and Migration provides a critical examination of migration and international law, identifying the issues still to be tackled and suggesting further developments to be made. It will appeal to advanced and postgraduate students, academics and policymakers.
Contributors: T.A. Aleinikoff, I. Atak, H. Battjes, V. Chetail, R. Cohen, F. Crépeau, C. Dauvergne, M. Duchatellier, T. Gammeltoft-Hansen, G. Gilbert, E. Guild, W. Kälin, H. Lambert, S.H. Legomsky, B. Lyon, L.A. Nessel, H. O'Nions, S. Ojeda, C. Phuong, R. Piotrowicz, J. Rhodes, P.J. Spiro, H. Storey, J.P. Trachtman, W. Vandenhole, A. Vermeer-Künzli, J. Vedsted-Hansen, R.M.M. Wallace, D. Weissbrodt, M. Zieck

Vincent Chetail

Céline Bauloz

Research Handbook On International Law And Migration

Clusters And Economic Growth In Asia

This detailed book explores and provides insights into the development and transformation of various clusters, economies and industrial sectors in East and Southeast Asia.
The authors study a number of important issues including the role of information and communication technology in economic growth, an emerging biomedical cluster in South Korea, an industrial agglomeration of Taiwanese electronics firms in China, and different sectorial and regional growth models in China. They also investigate the increasing relevance of cluster policies and the need to understand them in the context of the institutional and structural transition of newly industrializing East Asian economies. The book moves on to study the technology intensity of FDI in Vietnam and the implications for economic growth and emerging clusters, as well as the origin and characteristics of foreign technology transfer in a Chinese aircraft industry cluster.
Clusters and Economic Growth in Asia will greatly appeal to academics, researchers, politicians, policy planners and industrial specialists, as well as those with a specific interest in clusters and economic growth in Asian economies.
Contributors: W.-M. Chia, J. Choi, A. Ebner, S. Eriksson, J. Koo, H. Kroll, Y. Li, B. Liang, F.H. Liao, C. Nestor, D. Schiller, K.Z. Xu

Clusters and Economic Growth in Asia

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Principles of Public Economics: A Public Choice Approach

'A long professional and personal association with Francesco Forte accustoms one to the extraordinary breadth of his knowledge, understanding and original thinking not only on economic but also legal and political questions. Principles of Public Economics displays all these estimable qualities to the full, adding for good measure a style and content that must attract both student and savant alike.'- Sir Alan Peacock, Heriot-Watt University, UK'Francesco Forte has taught public economics and political economy for more than fifty years. He has served as Minister of Finance in Italy as well as a member of the Italian parliament. Forte has lived through and contributed to the development of public finance in a way that few of us can equal. In this text, in which the history of ideas is given a prominent role, Forte offers a thoughtful and at times critical exposition of the field of public economics as a whole.'- Stanley Winer, Carleton University, Canada'Bringing his life-long teaching and research experience in this field to the task, the author offers a comprehensive treatise of public economics that is distinctive in its thoroughgoing public choice approach and its emphasis on real decision-making processes in modern democracy.'- Viktor J. Vanberg, Walter Eucken Institut, Germany Francesco Forte's book fits into a great tradition of masterful treatises of political economy in which readers are offered both a relatively informal or reader-friendly presentation of standard material, as in textbooks, and profound analyses and thoughts developed in the course of time or for the purpose by the author himself. A particular strength of the analysis is the way it combines a modern perspective on public economics, understood broadly, and continuity with the contributions of past scholars. This is especially important with regard to the Italian tradition, whose reputation owes a lot to its discovery, at an early stage of his thought, by James Buchanan. Forte s intimacy with the work of many of the authors belonging to that tradition allows him to demonstrate in many ways its continuing relevance. - Pierre Salmon, Université de Bourgogne, FranceIn response to the idea that alternative theories, ideologies and institutions of public economics are unsatisfactory, this important and path-breaking book deals with the principles of economics using a more realistic 'tempered public choice approach'. Opening with an introduction on the development of the economic theory of public finance, Francesco Forte develops a discourse based on a theoretical framework of welfare economics. Here, the assumption of 'homo oeconomicus' is replaced by that of an average man with imperfect rationality and imperfect ethical constraints, and social welfare functions are replaced by equilibrium solutions in 'games' played by contracting parties at constitutional and post-constitutional stages. The positive and normative theory of public goods becomes much more complex, and merit wants are evaluated from an individualistic perspective. Theories of public expenditure, public revenues and the interrelation between various levels of government are also analyzed. The public choice approach combined with theoretical welfare economics and institutions will prove a stimulating and engaging read for those with a special interest in public sector economics, public choice and Austrian economics.Contents: Introduction: Background: Some Aspects of the History of Thought; 1. Decision-making Processes and the Structures of Public Finance; 2. Individual and Collective Welfare; 3. Public Wants and Public Goods; 4. Equilibrium and Disequilibrium between Demand and Supply of Public Goods; 5. Bureaucracy and Interest Groups; 6. The Fiscal Constitution and the Rules Governing the Budget; 7. Publi

Forte, Francesco

Economic Analysis of International Law

Through original and incisive contributions from leading scholars, this book applies economics and other rational choice methods to understanding public international law, providing a birds-eye view on some of its most fundamental elements from the perspective of economics.
The chapters cover a range of topics, beginning with the building blocks of the nation state, and continuing with the sources and the enforcement of international law and its various applications and extensions. The application of economic analysis to public international law is still in its formative stages, and Economic Analysis of International Law provides a useful overview, as well as setting directions for new research.
This volume provides a path through recent literature while identifying new areas and issues for research, making it an invaluable resource for scholars of public international law.
Contributors include: A. Bell, T. Broude, B.L. Coggins, T. Ginsburg, A. Guzman, I. Kala, E. Kontorovich, J.D. Morrow, F. Parisi, D. Pi, E. Spolaore, P.B. Stephan, A. van Aaken

Patent Misuse And Antitrust Law

Three major contributions [of Patents Misuse and Antitrust Law] stand out. First, it illustrates as well as any other work how to bridge the study of antitrust law and patent law... A second and related feature is Professor Lim's excellent use of historical narratives to show how patent misuse concepts have developed over time... A third impressive dimension is its powerful empirical orientation. Professor Lim combines a comprehensive examination of misuse cases with extensive interviews to demonstrate how theory meets practice. In these respects and others, Patent Misuse and Antitrust Law broadens and extends the emerging path of a refreshing new scholarship that links antitrust and patent law. --From the foreword by Prof. William E. Kovacic, former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, George Washington University Law School 'The age old debate as to whether patents are simply a property right in that any trespassing on the property should be punishable, or whether they are tools of economic policy so that questions of misuse can arise when they are not used to encourage commercial developments of new products, has become heated with the advent of patent assertion entities and the problems that arise when use of a patented invention is necessary to comply with an industry standard. Daryl Lim's timely book provides a sober background against which to consider such ideas and possible expansion of types of action that may give rise to claims of patent misuse in the future.' - John Richards, Partner, Ladas &amp; Parry, LLP
This unique book provides a comprehensive account of the patent misuse doctrine and its relationship with antitrust law. Created to remedy and discourage misconduct by patent owners a century ago, its proper role today is debated more than ever before. Innovation and competition take place in increasingly complex environments that demand a clear understanding of where illegality ends and legitimate corporate strategy begins.
The book is an essential resource for the curious, the expert and all those engaged in deciding what patent misuse means and should mean today. In addition to in-depth doctrinal and policy perspectives, it looks at patent misuse through the eyes of today's leading practitioners, judges, government officials and academics. It also presents a qualitative analysis of modern misuse case law spanning 1953 to 2012. The result is a compelling account that lays out an important doctrinal, policy and empirical framework for future cases and scholarship.
Patent law students and scholars will find the author's comprehensive study of popular and actual perceptions of the misuse doctrine a valuable resource, while practitioners, government officials and judges will appreciate the predictive value of the author's findings.
Contents: Foreword by William E. Kovacic Preface Prologue Introduction 1. Misuse and Antitrust 2. A Brief History of Patent Misuse 3. The Anatomy of a Defense 4. Key Objections 5. Rethinking the Future of Patent Misuse 6. The Empirical Landscape of Misuse 7. Charting the Scope of Patent Misuse 8. Conclusion Index

Patent Misuse and Antitrust Law: Empirical, Doctrinal and Policy Perspectives

Lim, Daryl

Law Practice

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