Industrial Economics

High-speed Rail (HSR) is a technological transportation advance that has raised the interest of policy makers and researchers worldwide. The study of High-speed Rail is a recent phenomenon but has received increasing attention due to the extension of this mode of transportation around the globe. Eva..

This new book brings evolutionary economics to bear upon economic geography in a coordinated study of the European Union. Jovanovic takes up a hot and increasingly important topic that is rarely addressed in such an accessible fashion...

This book provides a positive explanation of the reform in China’s railway sector between 1978 and the dissolution of the Ministry of Railways. It bridges the socialist reform and transport policy literature, and studies the empirical changes of the property rights arrangements in China’s railway sy..

Originally published in 1995, this book explores a number of subjects of significance for labor and economic policy, especially the role of U. S. tax policy in the relocation of jobs from the contintental USA to Puerto Rico...

This title was first published in 2000:  Establishes the real income situation of farmers and their households in the European Union and uses the information to challenge the CAP...

Originally published in 1994 this book undertakes a comprehensive study dealing with the effects of machine flexibility, tool magazine capacity, varying production demands and different operating policies on the production planning problems...

Rigas Doganis’s Flying Off Course has been the bible of the airline industry for several decades now and this new edition is published to take into account of the sweeping changes that the business has undergone in the new millennium...

Published in 1999, a thought-provoking study of an important coping mechanism adopted by many urban dwellers, this volume uses theoretical models to study among other things, the characteristics of urban farmers, the official attitude toward urban agriculture, and the influence of social inequality ..

Understanding finance is critical in any industry; however, the financial track record of the airline industry places even more importance on effective financial management. Foundations of Airline Finance is an accessible, up-to-date introduction to the current state of the aviation industry which p..

Understanding finance is critical in any industry; however, the financial track record of the airline industry places even more importance on effective financial management. Foundations of Airline Finance is an accessible, up-to-date introduction to the current state of the aviation industry which p..

Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for British, European and international readers. It deals not only with the technical aspects of transport, logistics and supply chain management, but also the interactions betwe..

This book focuses on the relationships between rules of decision-making and economic development, concentrating on the similarities and differences between old and modern modes of governance in both business and politics...