The present paper analyses local economic development issues through the prism of urban governance theories and models. From theoretical corpora to empirical LED case studies, we emphasise, through the anarchy paradigm, the privatisation tendencies of urban planning and development projects in local territories. We have taken an interest in comparative analysis of principal concepts and ...

a brief study on the history of 20th century reveals that capitalist system has been facing to political, military and economic crisis including world wars i and ii, economic crisis of 1929 and 1973, economic crisis of southeast of asia in 90s and the current economic crisis. while theories of international political economy have in common with the occurrence of the crisis itself, they are diff...

the theory of efficient breach states that it is socially useful to breach a contract whenever the breach would leave no party worse off, while leaving at least one party better off. in other words, economic analyses of breach are mainly concerned with situations in which breach is pareto-superior, rather than just overall profit-maximizing. in contrast with moral theories that hold that breach...

This paper addresses the claim that monopolies arise naturally out of the free market. I show by comparing and contrasting two theories of monopoly—economic and political monopoly—that this is not true. This paper also demonstrates that the two theories of monopoly have their separate roots in two opposite theories of competition: perfect competition and competition as rivalry. I show that only...

The aim of this section is to: (a) clarify what justifies the inclusion of contingency measures in trade agreements; (b) provide an account of all circumstances when a suspension of commitments may make economic sense; and (c) identify the f lexibility measures built into WTO agreements. The section provides a framework for the discussion of specific contingency measures in the subsequent secti...

The motivation of an analysis of these concepts includes at least the following arguments: firstly, they reflect the history of economic thought with its evolution up to full clearing of the issues that are correlated with the economic and scientific-technical development; secondly, the above mentioned concepts are an essential theoretical support for the practice of our transition period, whic...

The term ‘sustainable consumption’ denotes the search for consumption patterns that reduce human pressure on the environment and nature. This search involves three levels of research. First, the relationship between consumption, lifestyles and environmental sustainability has to be clarified. A general scheme of relationships will be presented here. Second, a theoretical framework for studying ...

The goal of this article is to explore the characteristics of North American anarchists who are union members. New social movement (NSM) theories suggest that movements have changed in recent decades to focus less on economic issues and have divorced themselves from the working class. The union membership of anarchists is related to subjective working-class status, age, being from North America...

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and reciprocity. Moreover, several ...

The point of departure of this essay is the notable lack of theory application to the study of TNCs, environment and development. In order to compensate for this problem, it is proposed that economic theories of international production could provide a suitable starting point for the generation of hypotheses regarding the environmental implications of FDI in LDCs. The main advantage of these th...