The paper discusses the design of environmental remediation laws in countries struggling with fundamental market and institutional reforms. Optimal cleanup standards, liability rules, and enforcement are discussed from the standpoint of both economic efficiency and practical implementation. Particular attention is paid to financing mechanisms and issues that arise during privatization.

Innovation in the information industries is being seriously constrained by the concessions that large corporations have wrung out of governments in the form of extensions to intellectual property laws. These extensions run counter to economic theory, and counter to the interests of economies and societies.

In this paper, a comparative study was conducted between complex networks representing origin and destination survey data. Similarities were found between the characteristics of the networks of Brazilian cities with networks of foreign cities. Power laws were found in the distributions of edge weights and this scale free behavior can occur due to the economic characteristics of the cities.

whenever we are analyzing the intellectual property rights we shall treat the enjoyment capacity as a principal issue of the private international laws. the enjoyment capacity of foreigner on intellectual property rights is determined based on the nature of these rights on the legal systems. the economic nature of these rights dictates that the private aspect of these rights to be recognized in...

globalization and social capital are two main concepts in modern sociology. the study of effects of women's social capital on their social participation is one of the critical areas in women's studies. in order to study women's social capital in globalization process, the writers selected 2200 women in the cities of tehran, shiraz and estahban in a random sense. the results show that cultural c...

Metabolic systems are governed by a compromise between metabolic benefit and enzyme cost.This hypothesis and its consequences can be studied by kinetic models in which enzyme profiles arechosen by optimality principles. In enzyme-optimal states, active enzymes must provide benefits: ahigher enzyme level must provide a metabolic benefit to justify the additional enzyme cost. This...

This paper reports on recent developments in Latin American competition (antitrust) policy from the perspective of the role competition policy in supporting market reform. Competition policy is an instance of the use of law to influence economic behavior. More than eighty nations have enacted antitrust laws in the last twenty years, mostly based on U.S. and E.U. models. A review of the antitrus...

Trinidad is a small island developing state caught between the need to engage rapid development while respecting and preserving the environment. This study assessed citizens' education needs related to the environmental laws of Trinidad and Tobago. It focused on a densely populated, at- risk area of the country referred to as the East-West (E-W) corridor. Two hundred (200) persons living along ...