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The Role of Labour Mobility and Informal Networks for Knowledge Transfer

Springer, 2004

The purpose of this volume is to analyze the microfoundations of knowledge spillovers. The microeconomic analysis of spillovers leads to the insight that the spillover and flow of knowledge is not at all automatic. Instead, this volume suggests that a filter exists between knowledge and its economic application. The focus of this volume is on...

International Economics: Theory and Policy (International Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2002

At the start of the twenty-first century, international aspects of economics remain as important and controversial as ever. In the last decade alone, major currency and Financial crises have rocked industrializing countries from East Asia to Latin America; countries in Europe have given up their national currencies in favor of a common currency,...

The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future

MIT Press, 2004

In 2030, as 77 million baby boomers hobble into old age, walkers will outnumber strollers; there will be twice as many retirees as there are today but only 18 percent more workers. How will America handle this demographic overload? How will Social Security and Medicare function with fewer working taxpayers to support these programs? According to...

Perioperative Transfusion Medicine

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive, current reference on perioperative transfusion medicine and coagulation. It provides complete information on all current blood products and transfusion risks, transfusion and coagulation issues during the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods, and...

The Network Society: Social Aspects of New Media

Sage Publications, 2005

The last three decades have witnessed a dramatic acceleration in the use, demand, and need for telecommunications, data communication, and mass communication transmitted and integrated into networks. Through a synthesis of contemporary theories about modernization, this book offers a broad-ranging introduction to the 'network' society in all its...

Efficiency Instead of Justice?: Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law (Law and Philosophy Library)

Springer, 2009

Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. According to Richard A. Posner it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too...

Electrical Energy Efficiency: Technologies and Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

The improvement of electrical energy efficiency is fast becomingone of the most essential areas of sustainability development,backed by political initiatives to control and reduce energydemand.

Now a major topic in industry and the electrical engineeringresearch community, engineers have started to focus on analysis,diagnosis and...

How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire

McGraw-Hill, 2009

"Want excellent insights on retirement planning from a professional who’s actually experienced retirement himself? You’ll get just that from Stan Hinden’s book, How to Retire Happy, now in its third edition. Stan was a Washington Post financial reporter for 20 years, and after he retired, he wrote the...

Dilemmas Of International Trade: Second Edition (Dilemmas in World Politics)

Westview Press, 2000

In the post-Cold War world, trade is the new arena for competition-between nations, between groups, between ethical and theoretical ideas. In this revised and updated second edition of Dilemmas of International Trade political economist Bruce Moon puts contemporary trade events--NAFTA, United States-Japan controversies, the Uruguay...

Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems

Information Science Publishing, 2008

In the last decade there has been a phenomenal growth in interest in crime pattern analysis. Geographic information systems are now widely used in urban police agencies throughout industrial nations. With this, scholarly interest in understanding crime patterns has grown considerably.

Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer...

International Marketing: Strategy and Theory

Routledge, 2004

Marketing is a universal activity that is widely applicable, regardless of the political, social or economic systems of a particular country. However, this doesn't mean that consumers in different parts of the world should be satisified in the same way.

The 4th edition of International Marketing has been written...

Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Springer, 2009

"Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine" provides a complete overview of the state of the art in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Tissue engineering has grown tremendously during the past decade. Advances in genetic medicine and stem cell technology have significantly improved the potential to...

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