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The Economics of Trade Protection

By: Neil Vousden

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The Economics of Trade Protection

By: Neil Vousden

Over the past two decades there has been a gradual but fundamental change in the nature of trade protection. Even as international negotiation has succeeded in reducing tariffs to low levels, national governments have resorted to a range of increasingly intricate policies to protect their domestic industries from foreign competition. Direct quantitative restrictions on international trade have become particularly widespread. Such nontariff barriers often have very different effects from tariffs and require careful analysis in their own right. This book presents a systematic overview of the modern theory of trade protection. The material in the book divides naturally into four sections. The first section covers trade restrictions in competitive markets, the second trade restrictions and imperfect competition, the third the political economy of trade protection, and the fourth the theory of policy reform. The presentation makes extensive use of diagrams, with the more difficult mathematics included in six appendixes.

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052134669X

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Energy and Evolutionary Conflict

The Metabolic Roots of Cooperation

By: Neil W. Blackstone

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Energy and Evolutionary Conflict

The Metabolic Roots of Cooperation

By: Neil W. Blackstone

In the mid- to late-twentieth century, large scientific conflicts flared in two seemingly distinct fields of scientific inquiry. In bioenergetics, which examines how organisms obtain and utilize energy, the chemiosmotic hypothesis of Mitchell suggested a novel mechanism for energy conversion. In evolutionary biology, meanwhile, Wynne Edwards strongly articulated the view that organisms may act for the “good of the group.” This work crystalized a long history of imprecise thinking about the evolution of cooperation. While both controversies have received ample attention, no one has ever suggested that one might inform the other, i.e., that energy metabolism in general and chemiosmosis in particular might be relevant to the evolution of cooperation. The central idea is nevertheless remarkably simple. Chemiosmosis rapidly converts energy, and once storage capacity is exceeded, an overabundance of product has various negative consequences. While to some extent chemiosmotic processes can be modulated, under certain circumstances it is also possible to simply disperse the products into the environment. This book argues that these two heretofore distinct scientific disciplines are connected, thereby suggesting that a ubiquitous process of energy conversion may underlie the evolution of cooperation and link major transitions in the history of life that have been regarded as mechanistically unrelated.

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Springer Nature

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3031060598

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9783031060595

Legal Framework of the Single European Currency

By: Paul Beaumont,Neil Walker

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Legal Framework of the Single European Currency

By: Paul Beaumont,Neil Walker

This collection features essays by leading experts in European public law on the most significant single initiative in European integration of the past decade. After introductory essays on the legal and economic foundations and political context of the Euro,the book concentrates on the articulation of Monetary Union with other aspects of the legal and political order of the EU. The constitutional status of the institutions of Monetary Union is assessed, as is the relationship between Monetary Union and the broader administrative structure and social objectives of the EU. A final essay considers the implications of the Euro for the cohesiveness of the European legal order in the early years of the next century. This highly topical book is the first of its kind, seeking to address in a comprehensive manner the relationship between the single currency and the European legal order. Contributors: Paul Beaumont, Neil Walker (eds), Alistair Darling, John Usher, Andrew Scott, Ian Harden, Paul Craig, Joanne Scott (Stephen Vousden - co-author), Michelle Everson.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847314260

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Benzopyrenes

By: Martin R. Osborne,Neil T. Crosby

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Benzopyrenes

By: Martin R. Osborne,Neil T. Crosby

This volume surveys the chemistry and cancer-causing properties of the polycyclic hydrocarbons benzo[a]pyrene and benzo[e]pyrene. Benzo[a]pyrene is a pollutant formed whenever organic matter is burnt: it occurs in soot, tar, cigarette smoke and automobile exhaust, and in small amounts in the atmosphere, in water and in soil. It produces cancer in small mammals and is probably also carcinogenic in humans. It has been widely studied both as a measure of industrial pollution and as a model compound in studies of the mechanism of induction of cancer. Information about the compound is scattered through the scientific literature in various journals, conference proceedings and other publications; this book is the first to gather all this information together for easy reference. It includes chapters on the synthesis, physical and chemical properties of benzopyrene, its metabolism, interaction with DNA and induction of mutation and cancer, and also its environmental occurrence and analysis. There are copious references to the original literature. The volume will provide a valuable source of reference for: cancer reseach scientists; environmental scientists working in the area of pollution monitoring, public health, industrial safety, food and drugs; chemists and biochemists.

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CUP Archive

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052130122X

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9780521301220

The Economics of Trade Protection

By: Neil Vousden

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Legal Framework of the Single European Currency

By: Paul Beaumont,Neil Walker

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The Economics of Trade Protection

The Economics of Trade Protection

Energy and Evolutionary Conflict

Energy and Evolutionary Conflict

Legal Framework of the Single European Currency

Legal Framework of the Single European Currency

Benzopyrenes

Benzopyrenes

The Economics of Trade Protection

The Economics of Trade Protection

Legal Framework of the Single European Currency

Legal Framework of the Single European Currency

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