""The book is an account of economic liberalization in Aleppo in the 2000s as a social and cultural process as much as a political and economic one. It charts the understandings of commerce and of merchants that came to the fore in Syria as Baathism declined as an official ideology."

Although multi-attribute choice and judgment models have been used to support the product design decisions of firms in a wide variety of industries, their application nevertheless comes with a couple of important caveats. First, some argue that most modeling approaches are limited in their...

An enduring challenge to international environmental law is to facilitate the resolution of environmental problems faster than they are being caused. Prominent among potential foundations for substantive international environmental law to this end are (a) neoclassical economic theory (NET) and...