International Commercial Arbitration

This book is the first-ever to explore commercial arbitration in the Ethiopian context. Alternative conflict resolution mechanisms are nothing new to the country: arbitration as a dispute settlement mechanism by which a third party issues a binding decision on a dispute between two or more parties by exercising the jurisdictional mandate conferred on it by the parties themselves was established…

Strengthening Regional Trade Integration in South Asia

This book brings forth the philosophical, conceptual and practical contours of the trade regionalism provisions under the GATT/WTO. It analyses SAARC as the regional integration organisation of South Asia along with identifying major challenges and bottlenecks faced by it in the process of achieving regional integration. It presents ways and methods through which SAARC can be made a more effect…

Customs Unions in the WTO

How the WTO deals with regional trade agreements (RTAs) is conceptually and practically one of the most important questions in international trade law. This book clarifies that relationship focussing on one form of regional integration – customs unions – and one form of trade measures – anti-dumping measures. This book answers the question how anti-dumping measures and legislation change …

Biological Diversity and International Law

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance. It addresses the systemic challenges by analyzing the legal interactions between international biodiversity law and related international law applicable to economic activities, as well as issues related to the governance of biodiversity based on functional, normative, and geographic dime…

Transnational Actors in International Investment Law

This book reviews for the first time some of the less frequently addressed actors in international investment law. Traditional studies concerning actors in international investment law have tended to focus on arbitrators, claimant investors and respondent states. This book explores transnational actors, such as UNCITRAL, the EU, international standardizing bodies, domestic and international cou…

Blockchain, Law and Governance

This volume explores from a legal perspective, how blockchain works. Perhaps more than ever before, this new technology requires us to take a multidisciplinary approach. The contributing authors, which include distinguished academics, public officials from important national authorities, and market operators, discuss and demonstrate how this technology can be a driver of innovation and yield po…

Emerging Powers, Global Justice and International Economic Law

The book assesses emerging powers’ influence on international economic law and analyses whether their rhetoric of reforming this ‘unjust’ order translates into concrete reforms. The questions at the heart of the book surround the extent to which Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa individually and as a bloc (BRICS) provide alternative regulatory ideas to those of ‘Western’ …

Foreign Investor Misconduct in International Investment Law

This book examines the issue of foreign investor misconduct in modern international investment law, focusing on the approach that international investment law as it currently operates has developed towards foreign investor misconduct. The term ‘misconduct’ is not a legal notion, but is used to describe a certain phenomenon, namely, a group/class of actions. This term is convenient since it …

CETA's Investment Chapter

This book provides a comprehensive account of the CETA Investment Chapter’s ability to overcome the legitimacy crisis facing investment arbitration. To do so, it first examines the root causes behind the legitimacy crisis, ultimately arguing that it reflects a fundamental rule of law crisis within investment arbitration. In particular, it asserts that the normative standpoints of the legitima…

The WTO and the New Generation EU FTA Dispute Settlement Mechanisms

This book explores interactions between the new generation EU FTA and the WTO dispute settlement mechanisms, adopting an innovative, comprehensive approach. It investigates how the mechanisms potentially could and actually do compete, conflict, and cooperate, focusing not only on the potential negative consequences of fragmentation, but also on how synergies could be enhanced. Thus, unlike the …

Re-Politicising International Investment Law in Latin America through the Dut…

This book offers insights into how international investment law (IIL) has frustrated states’ protection of human rights in Latin America, and IIL has generally abstained from dealing with inter-regime frictions. In these circumstances, this study not only argues that IIL should be an object of contention and debate (‘politicisation’). It also contends that Latin American countries have tr…

New Maritime Business

This book provides a response to the unexpected challenges imposed on every aspect of today’s maritime business. All chapters of this book are concerned with the single challenge facing the maritime business world – that is, uncertainty. Each chapter deals with a specific area of the maritime business community in an effort to better understand the complicated markets, to seek for a solutio…

Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law 2020

The second volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) focuses on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), which was signed 40 years ago. The contributions analyse a broad range of aspects and reflect the latest developments; those in the permanent sections on European Law and International Law explore contemporary challe…

The Circular Economy

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the concept of the Circular Economy (CE), as well as an assessment of the drivers and barriers for circular practices by firms, and its implications for managers in firms and public policy makers. It includes proposals for policy frameworks and instruments that will encourage the uptake of CE practices. The book is presented in three linked parts. …

World Development Report 1991: The Challenge of Development

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-19-520869-2

Collation

viii, p. : ill. ; 27 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

330.9 Wor w

The Economic Superorganism

Energy drives the economy, economics informs policy, and policy affects social outcomes. Since the oil crises of the 1970s, pundits have debated the validity of this sequence, but most economists and politicians still ignore it. Thus, they delude the public about the underlying influence of energy costs and constraints on economic policies that address such pressing contemporary issues as incom…

ECONOMICS, FOURTH EDITION

Edition

4th

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-273-77984-1

Collation

830 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

330 Hub e

Deep Energy Retrofit—A Guide for Decision Makers

Many governments worldwide are setting more stringent targets for reductions in energy use in government/public buildings. Buildings constructed more than 10 years ago account for a major share of energy used by the building stock. However, the funding and “know-how” (applied knowledge) available for owner-directed energy retrofit projects has not kept pace with new requirements. With typic…

Energy Humanities. Current State and Future Directions

This edited book explicitly deals with the energy humanities, summarising existing knowledge in the area and outlining possible future directions for the nascent field. Assuming a variety of disciplinary stances and using a plethora of methodologies to address a number of pressing energy-related issues, the individual contributions showcase the crucial importance of including the humanities and…

The Palgrave Handbook of FinTech and Blockchain

Financial services technology and its effect on the field of finance and banking has been of major importance within the last few years. The spread of these so-called disruptive technologies, including Blockchain, has radically changed financial markets and transformed the operation of the industry as a whole. This is the first multidisciplinary handbook of FinTech and Blockchain covering finan…

RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS MACROECONOMICS: An Introductory Handbook

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

0-631-17787-6

Collation

xv, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

339 Min r

MICROECONOMIC THEORY ; A Mathematical Approach

Edition

3

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-028101-7

Collation

xix, 419 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

Economics Handbook Series

Call Number

330.0151 Hen m 1980

HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOLUME 1

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-444-87856-4

Collation

xxii, 787 p.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

331 Han h

HANDBOOK OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

1-55938-261-9

Collation

vii, 547p.; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

330.019 Han h

HANDBOOK OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, VOLUME 1

Edition

1st

ISBN/ISSN

0-444-70337-3

Collation

882 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

HANDBOOK IN ECONOMICS 9

Call Number

338.9 Hol h

HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS VOLUME 2

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-444-87857-2

Collation

xxii, 787 p.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

331 Han h

HANDBOOK OF INCOME DISTRIBUTION, VOLUME I

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-444-81631-3

Collation

938 p.; ill.; 23 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

339.2 Atk h

HANDBOOK OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: VOLUME 2B AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD POLICY

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-444-51079-6

Collation

xxi, 2247 p. : ill. ; 24,5 cm

Series Title

Handbook in Economics 18

Call Number

338.1 Gar h

Study Guide for use with: MACROECONOMICS

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-283627-X

Collation

xvi, 427 p. ; 30 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

339.070 Del s

The Palgrave Handbook of Technological Finance

This handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of the fast-evolving alternative finance space and makes a timely and in-depth contribution to the literature in this area. Bringing together expert contributions in the field from both practitioners and academics, in one of the most dynamic parts of the financial sector, it provides a solid reference for this exciting discipline. Divi…