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31. Copayments and the Demand for Prescription Drugs

    By Domenico Esposito

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

    Increasing prescription drug cost-sharing by patients - in the form of increasing copayments - is one of the most striking, and controversial, developments in the health sector over recent years. The exact nature and use of copayments by health care insurers continues to be hot topic of debate....

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
32. Tiger Management

    Korean Companies on World Markets

    By Martin Hemmert

    Throughout the last several decades, Korean companies have entered the world markets in a wide range of manufacturing industries with great success. How did they achieve this exceptional performance? This book uncovers the secret of their performance through a comprehensive analysis of...

    Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
33. Property Rights, Economics and the Environment

    Edited by Michael D. Kaplowitz

    Series: The Economics of Legal Relationships

    This book explores how discussions of environmental policy increasingly require scholars and practitioners to integrate legal-economic analyses of property rights issues. An excellent array of contributors have come together for the first time to produce this magnificent book....

    Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
34. Innovation in Complex Social Systems

    Edited by Petra Ahrweiler

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists....

    Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
35. The Economics of Social Responsibility

    The World of Social Enterprises

    Edited by Carlo Borzaga, Leonardo Becchetti

    Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

    This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative approach, the chapters explore and reinterpret the impact of social enterprises on the provision of general-interest services, work integration,...

    Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
36. Managerial Economics, 4th Edition

    By Ivan Png

    Now in its fourth edition, Ivan Png's Managerial Economics has been extensively revised with : a completely new introductory chapter emphasizing decision-making and behavioral biases intensive application to current issues including the sub-prime financial crisis and global competition...

    Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
37. International Business in China

    Understanding the Global Economic Crisis

    Edited by Robert Taylor

    This book deals with a number of contentious issues in Chinese management as China emerges as a global economic player, with a greater role in international business during a global economic crisis. This step is in tandem with an economically driven foreign policy. Since the 1980s, Chinese...

    Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
38. Illegal Markets and the Economics of Organized Crime

    Edited by Martin Bouchard, Chris Wilkins

    This book showcases recent advances in the theoretical and empirical understanding of the economic aspects of organised crime and illegal markets. It provides new insights into defining and quantifying the influence of organised crime by drawing on innovative approaches to studying criminal...

    Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
39. Implementing an Inclusive and Equitable Pension Reform

    Lessons from India's New Pension Scheme

    By Cheolsu Kim, Landis MacKellar, Russell Galer, Gautam Bhardwaj

    India is ageing. One response of Indian policy makers has been introduction of the New Pension Scheme (NPS), a defined contribution pension scheme which is mandatory for civil servants and voluntary for the rest of the population. Given the size of the target population, even if take-up is modest,...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
40. Economic Consequences of Globalization

    Evidence from East Asia

    Edited by Shujiro Urata, Hee Hahn Chin, Dionisius Narjoko

    Series: Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics

    Economists have long recognized the gains from international trade. The question is, does international trade – or more broadly, globalization – increase growth? Notwithstanding the debates, there are still many questions, old and new, need to be explored in order to improve our understanding on...

    Published April 12th 2012 by Routledge