...Charles Perrings; Alberto Ansuategi The Brundtland Report (WCED, 1987) encouraged the view that the main threats to the environmental sustainability of development are poverty‐driven depletion of environmental resources in the developing world, and consumption‐driven pollution of the biosphere...

...Christos N. Pitelis; Anastasia N. Pseiridis Two major advances in the theory of the firm and (micro)economics more generally are arguably transaction costs economics (TCE) and the theory of firm resources. TCE has originally been applied to the theory of the firm, but found applications...

...Michael Dietrich Examines the implications for the economics of the firm of the development of total quality control and just‐in‐time management which are becoming increasingly important for intrafirm resource allocation. Shows the Alchian and Demsetz and transaction cost perspectives on the firm...

...Kenneth A. Reinert During the 1950‐1979 period, the governments of Central America often pursued “cheap‐food” policies. A general‐equilibrium model is employed to show how these policies contributed to the resource‐allocation patterns observed in the region during this period. The model also shows...