Product Description: If you are a retailer that wants to take your business to the next level, you need quick answers that you can put in place today. You need to read this book if: • your store has hit a plateau that you can't seem to overcome; • your marketing dollars aren't getting the job done; • your store gets many browsers but few buyers; • your customers are not finding what they want at your store...read more

This book provides a comprehensive study of coal in the energy market up until the mid-1980s. It looks at the economics of coal production, the reasons for past decline and the prospects for the industry at the time. The study shows that while much of the loss of market was unlikely to be recovered, coal will have continuing importance - primarily because of remaining competitive in the generation of electricity. This 1987 book looks in detail at the production and consumption trends, the pattern of international trade, the coal market in the major regions, and at how public policy influenced the development of coal. It also looks at different forms of regulation in the coal market - from state regulation of private producers, to direct state intervention and ownership - and their implications. It examines the likely future trends, and draws conclusions for policy towards coal.

Product Description: In this examination of the Microsoft antitrust case, Gordon critically examines the economics of the US government's arguements. The conclusion is that the government presented a sketchy, incoherent, invalid economic case and relied upon creating the impression of misdeeds to persuade the courts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Regulation and Economic Analysis: A Critique Over Two Centuries argues that long experience with the practice of regulation creates a broad anti-intervention consensus among economists. This consensus is based on comparison of real intervention to real markets rather than an ideological preconception...read more

Product Description: The issues of energy policy can only be fully understood through the application of fundamental economic principles: this basic premise is confirmed throughout An Economic Analysis of World Energy Problems. The book presents the relevant principles of economic analysis and demonstrates their applicability to questions of policy appraisal and to specific energy policy decisions...read more