Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association
Contents Optimal Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Expenditures in Environmentally Small Economies School Infrastructure and Educational Outcomes: A literature Review, with, Special Reference to Latin America Effects of Nutrition Promotion on Child Growth in El Alto, Bolivia: Results from a Geographic Discontinuity Design Firm Size ......
This book analyzes and highlights the development and success of major league baseball teams in the National League and the American League, focusing on each team's performance and the extent to which each succeeded as a business enterprise despite competition for market share from other types of entertainment.
90 miles off the coast of Florida a new revolution is afoot. This time instead of guerrillas marching through the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will revolutionize Cuba. Open for Business examines the Cuban economy from its long held and outdated economic model to its early steps into developing a dynamic market economy.
The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers
Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral.
This book shows the effects and implications of regulation on how the market functions, with an emphasis on how regulation affects economic actors in other parts of the economy. It focuses on how re-allocation of resources due to real change versus artificial change caused by regulation affects the choice situation of individual actors.
This book provides a complete picture of the Chinese economy over the past six decades, focusing on the recent comprehensive reform program and current international evaluations of China's long-term economic prospects.
We all shop. The essays in this wide-ranging anthology demonstrates how a material culture perspective-a focus on the mutual creation of people and their things-yields significant insights into multiple aspects of consumption in American culture.
National Football League Franchises highlights and analyzes thirty-two teams' historical regular-season and postseason performances and provides a financial profile of each as a profitable or unprofitable enterprise. This book reveals how effectively each team competes and operates from a business perspective.
Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations uses the tools of economics, political science, and law to explain how top-down institutions have shackled reservation economies and why bottom-up institutions are necessary to unlock the human, physical, and natural capital of Native Americans.
