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The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones: Pasts, Presents, Futures
ChapterThis chapter describes and analyses economic development planning in special economic zones (SEZs) since the end of World War II. The focus is on changing ideas about zone set-ups and the industrial ventures targeted for relocations to the zones.

Economics and economic impact of copyright
ChapterJOBNAME: Picard PAGE: 1 SESS: 5 OUTPUT: Fri Jan 23 14:35:50 2015 15. Economics and economic impact of copyright Ruth Towse With one or two notable exceptions, interest in the economics of copyright developed in the last quarter of the twentieth ce….

Readers, Markets and a Packet of Literary Media, please – efferent readers and their ordering of a new economics
ChapterThe modelling of our desires as they are mediated through goods is most often done by economics: not only by that discipline but by an institutionalised version of that discipline, which operates as though it were a natural science articulating universal laws.

Economics and economic impact of copyright
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Introduction
Chapter© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.Cultural economics has been fortunate in attracting eminent economists to contribute to it and none has made so comprehensive a contribution as Professor Sir Alan Peacock.

Digitization internet and the economics of creative industries
ChapterThe creative industries are increasingly understood to contribute significantly to national Income and economic growth. Made up of the performing, literary and visual arts, museums and heritage and the music, film, video, broadcasting and advertising industries, they are at the confluence of two streams of change: one due to the widespread adoption of digital technologies and the Internet and the other in the economic theories needed to understand their effects.

Embedded digital creatives
ChapterWidespread and thoroughgoing participation in the digital economy - ‘the global network of economic and social activities that are enabled by information and communications technologies’ (Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 2013) - is widely acknowledged to be one of the keys to future productivity, competitiveness and social well-being.

The validation of the tourism-led growth hypothesis in the next leading economies: Accounting for the relevant role of education on carbon emissions reduction?
ChapterOver the last few decades, a significant volume of research has been documented on the tourism-led growth hypothesis (TLGH). However, the role of education over environmental degradation is yet to be given the desired attention.

The European Union–India Strategic Partnership: An Examination of the Economic Aspects
ChapterThis chapter provides an up-to-date insight into the economic relations of the European Union (EU) and India. It unravels the economic aspects of the 2018 EU strategy on India by discussing the driving forces of the relationship.

Economic Evaluation and Its Types
ChapterIn this chapter, we provide a basic introduction to the different forms of economic evaluation, including cost-minimization analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and cost-utility analysis.

Representations of the economic crisis and austerity politics
ChapterIn the period between the 2009 and 2014 elections to the European Parliament, the international economic recession and related global debt crisis impacted seriously in several European Union (EU) member states.

Copyright and economics
ChapterA brief history of economic thought on copyright Copyright law is a development of market economies which gradually replaced the medieval guild system.

Marginalization Between Border and Metropolis: Drivers of Socio-Spatial Change in Post-socialist Croatia
ChapterAs a characteristic, geographic marginalization is not static in space and time; socio-economic changes such as globalization, deindustrialization, or economic transition can cause profound and heterogeneous changes, benefiting certain areas while creating disadvantages for others.

Special economic zones: The global frontlines of neoliberalism's value regime
ChapterThis chapter develops an anthropological theory and ethnographic research paradigm to capture the role of special economic zones (SEZs) as frontlines in neoliberalism’s global value regime.

Free Trade Zones, Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and Global Imperial Formations 200 BCE to 2015 CE
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Global sustainability in the presence of green technology transfer
ChapterSome strands of studies give more credence to the role of energy consumption, and air transport to induce economic growth, without much attention to the role of green technology transfer.

New Corporate Responsibilities in the Digital Economy
ChapterTheories that relate to digital technology and CSR have been dominated by online CSR communication and disclosure practices. Almost entirely absent in such CSR research is a consideration of new areas of responsibility that are emerging from digital technologies and related online communication platforms.

Economic Impact
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E-Tourism as a Tool for Socio-economic Development
ChapterThe nature of the contribution of tourism to local socio-economic development is subject to numerous debates, both by practitioners and academics. UNWTO declared 2017 the Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, endorsing de facto the travel industry as one of the levers for socio-economic development.

The economic impact of the Teaching Company Scheme on the local manufacturing base
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Dynamics of risk, concentration and effiency in banking sectors of transition economies
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South Asian migration in the Gulf: Topics for economic investigations
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Dynamics of Risk, Concentration, and Efficiency in Transition Economies
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Property Rights
ChapterFrom the Editors of Palgrave's iconic series 'Studies in Economic Transition' comes the Palgrave Dictionary of Emerging Markets and Transition Economics.

Cultural economics and the Internet
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