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Abstract rules for complex systems
This article addresses the question—What is the structure of rules required to undergird a complex dynamic system of actions such as the market...
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Co** with unforeseen circumstances: the COVID-19 crisis and bus contract renegotiation in Sweden
In principle, competitively tendered contracts in Swedish public bus transport are not supposed to be renegotiated during the contract period. In...
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James L. Medoff (1947–2012)
James Medoff served in the Economics Department at Harvard from 1975 to 2008. He was an empirically oriented labour economist who did important work...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Nuclear Power Plants: Who Is Liable When AI Fails to Perform
The sheer magnitude of process parameters and interactions between the systems in a nuclear power plant’s operation poses complications for...
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Biorights as a Financial Mechanism
Important elements of the economic framework of biorights with implications for related compensation and modes of payments are substantiated with...
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Property Rights and the Rule of Law
Demands for the return of stolen property or payment of reparations rely on concepts associated with the rule of law such as compensation for breach...
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Civil Service Systems and HRM Public Service Reforms
This Chapter illustrates that a variety of reforms have been introduced regarding Civil Service Systems and HRM Public Service Reforms. These have...
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The Initial Response Systems Used for Major Earthquakes and Disaster-Resistant City Planning
This chapter examines the emergency disaster management activities conducted after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, particularly the initial...
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Political economy of law, efficiency and adverse ‘inclusion’: rethinking land acquisition in India
With the escalated rate of land acquisition in India to produce viable development projects and essential infrastructure for ‘public purpose’, there...
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Taxing mobile and overconfident top earners
We set up a simple model of tax competition for mobile, highly-skilled and overconfident managers. Firms endogenously choose the compensation scheme...
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Health systems and nutrition in the time of COVID-19
As infection rates rise, job losses increase and workers leave cities to walk back home, and there is a silent hunger and nutrition crisis striking...
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Strategies for Public Law Enforcement in Securities Class Action Amid the Knowledge Economy Revolution
This study explores the dynamics between public and private enforcement mechanisms within China’s evolving securities regulatory landscape. Focusing...
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Shareholder Value Maximisation in Banks and Financial Firms
Chapter 16 of the Stage 2 Key Code and Advanced Handbook for the governance of Australian major banks examines shareholder value maximisation in...
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Causal Analysis of Policy Effects on Fertility
This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on evidence from experiments and quasi-experiments in...
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Tiebout, Coase and urban scaling
A growing body of urban research takes a natural science perspective on systems of cities as self-organising human clusters. From a systems...
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Legacies of Injustice and Racial Inequality
Is wealth inequality unjust? Is it automatically an injustice for some groups to have more wealth than others? This chapter answers these questions...
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Key Questions and Core Failures in Bank Governance
In Chapter 6 of the Key Code and Advanced Handbook we postulate the key questions for the governance and supervision of major banks in the GFC and...
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Spheres of Money, Payments, and Credit Systems in the Colony of Senegal in the Long Nineteenth Century
This chapter attempts to show how people made payments before the introduction of modern money and how the system was altered by colonization. The...
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Agricultural loss due to wildlife: a case study on elephant depredation in a protected area of South India
Crop raiding by wildlife is an important form of human–wildlife conflict and has been reported from several protected areas of India. With the...
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Is environmental innovation the key to addressing the dual economic and sustainability challenge of the Italian economy?
The effects of rising global temperatures are becoming increasingly evident, with observable consequences such as the melting of polar ice caps, the...
