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Cult of Statistical Significance
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Av Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak
Häftad, 2008
428 kr
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“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”—Thomas Schelling, …
Institutions and Economic Theory
The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics
Av Eirik G. Furubotn, Rudolf Richter
Häftad, 2005
565 kr
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This second edition assesses some of the major refinements, extensions, and useful applications that have developed in neoinstitutionalist thought in recent years. More attention is given to the overlap between the New Institutional Economics and developments in economic history and political …
Imperfect Institutions
Possibilities and Limits of Reform
Häftad, 2005
472 kr
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The emergence of New Institutional Economics toward the end of the twentieth century profoundly changed our ideas about the organization of economic systems and their social and political foundations. Imperfect Institutions explores recent developments in this field and pushes the discussion …
Capitol Investments
The Marketability of Political Skills
Häftad, 2011
383 kr
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What would you do if, the very day you were hired, you knew you could be unemployed in as little as two years? You'd seek opportunities in your current job to develop a portfolio of skills and contacts in order to make yourself more attractive to future employers. Representatives and senators think …
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
Häftad, 1994
395 kr
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In Complexity, the widely applauded work by Mitchell Waldrop that introduced the exciting and important work of the Santa Fe Institute to a wide audience, Brian Arthur and his ideas played a pivotal role and were shown connecting creatively with the many aspects of the Institute's work. This book …
Growth Recurring
Economic Change in World History
Häftad, 2000
441 kr
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This important book compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broadly, it is about the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed. Eric Jones proposes two fundamentally new frameworks. One …
Markets and Cultural Voices
Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters
Av Tyler Cowen
Häftad, 2005
428 kr
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This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product is sold almost exclusively to wealthy American art buyers.Cowen examines this cultural interaction between Mexico and the United States to see how …
Cult of Statistical Significance
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Av Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak
Inbunden, 2008
1264 kr
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“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”—Thomas Schelling, …
Growth Triumphant
The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective
Häftad, 1998
379 kr
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Taking a longer view than most literature on economic development, Richard A. Easterlin stresses the enormous contrast between the collective experience of the last half century in both developed and developing countries and what has gone before. An economic historian and demographer, the author …
Rebel's Dilemma
Häftad, 1998
504 kr
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Since the mid 1960s, theorists have elaborated over two dozen different solutions to the collection action problem. During much of this same period, students of conflict have explored many questions about protest and rebellion. The Rebel's Dilemma examines what happens when one brings the full …
Preference Pollution
How Markets Create the Desires We Dislike
Av David George
Häftad, 2004
395 kr
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Seldom considered is whether markets do an adequate job of shaping our tastes. David George argues that they do not, and that the standard economic definition of efficiency can be used to demonstrate that the market ignores people's desires about their desires. He concludes that markets perform …
Titles, Conflict, and Land Use
The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier
Av Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1163 kr
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The Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, is the last frontier in Brazil. The settlement of large and small farmers, squatters, miners, and loggers in this frontier during the past thirty years has given rise to violent conflicts over land as well as environmental duress. Titles, Conflict, and …
Market-Augmenting Government
The Institutional Foundations for Prosperity
Av Omar Azfar, Charles A. Cadwell
Häftad, 2003
504 kr
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As recently as 1990 policymakers and academics believed widely that all that was needed for dramatic increases in prosperity in transitional economies was to roll back the state. The arguments in this book present an articulate antidote to that assertion: While the state must withdraw from many …
Democracy, Governance, and Growth
Häftad, 2003
474 kr
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For many decades, underdevelopment in much of the world was blamed variously on capital deficits, exploitation by rich nations, and market-distorting economic policies. The chapters in this volume provide much of the evidence underpinning a growing consensus among development and growth economists …
Capitol Investments
The Marketability of Political Skills
Inbunden, 2008
1057 kr
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What would you do if, the very day you were hired, you knew you could be unemployed in as little as two years? You'd seek opportunities in your current job to develop a portfolio of skills and contacts in order to make yourself more attractive to future employers. Representatives and senators think …
Economics and Evolution
Bringing Life Back into Economics
Häftad, 1996
581 kr
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Economic theory is currently at a crossroads, where many leading mainstream economists are calling for a more realistic and practical orientation for economic science. Indeed, many are suggesting that economics should be reconstructed on evolutionary lines.This book is about the application to …
Altruistically Inclined?
The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity
Häftad, 2004
431 kr
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Altruistically Inclined? examines the implications of recent research in the natural sciences for two important social scientific approaches to individual behavior: the economic/rational choice approach and the sociological/anthropological. It considers jointly two controversial and related ideas: …
Market-Augmenting Government
The Institutional Foundations for Prosperity
Av Omar Azfar, Charles A. Cadwell
Inbunden, 2003
1264 kr
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As recently as 1990 policymakers and academics believed widely that all that was needed for dramatic increases in prosperity in transitional economies was to roll back the state. The arguments in this book present an articulate antidote to that assertion: While the state must withdraw from many …
Markets and Cultural Voices
Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters
Av Tyler Cowen
Inbunden, 2005
1264 kr
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This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product is sold almost exclusively to wealthy American art buyers.Cowen examines this cultural interaction between Mexico and the United States to see how …
Explaining Process and Change
Approaches to Evolutionary Economics
Av Ulrich Witt
Inbunden, 1992
1160 kr
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Recently, many economists have advocated the adoption of an evolutionary perspective to better understand the permanent flux of the economy. So far, most of the work in this budding field has been confined to industrial organization research in the Schumpeterian tradition. In Explaining Process and …
Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity
Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-Exchange
Av Janet Landa
Inbunden, 1995
1295 kr
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Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity deals with the economic role of laws and institutions in achieving social order in a decentralized economy. Specifically, this book considers the coordinating role of three major nonprice institutions--ethnic trading networks, contract law, and gift-exchange--in …
Paradigms and Conventions
Uncertainty, Decision Making, and Entrepreneurship
Inbunden, 1993
1161 kr
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An innovative approach to the analysis of decision making under uncertainty
Evolutionary Concepts in Contemporary Economics
Inbunden, 1994
1373 kr
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A view of new work in economics taking an evolutionary approach.
Cooperator's Dilemma
Inbunden, 1996
1228 kr
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In The Cooperator's Dilemma, Mark Lichbach provides an up-to-date and complete evaluation of the collective-action approach. A special strength of the work is that it integrates in a unique way both game theoretic and micro- economics approaches to the collective-action problem. Prisoner's Dilemma …
Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution
East Germany, 1989
Av Karl-Dieter Opp, Christiane Gern m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1264 kr
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November 1989: East Germans danced on the Berlin Wall, and the communist regime began to collapse. A unique revolution has occurred: changes were brought about by peaceful, spontaneous demonstrations. No group organized the famous gatherings of thousands of people at the Karl Marx Square in Leipzig …
Regions, Institutions, and Agrarian Change in European History
Inbunden, 1999
1302 kr
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Examining how and why agricultural change and development occurred in Western Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries is the central task of this unique comparative, historical study. It describes the factors that account for the transformation of a poor, unproductive agricultural …
Great Breakthrough and Its Cause
Av Julian Lincoln Simon, Timur Kuran
Inbunden, 2001
1160 kr
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One of Julian Simon's last works-in-progress--cut short just before completion by his death in early 1998--The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause explores the question of why human progress accelerated in Western Europe starting around 1750. Why did life expectancy, the household consumption level, …
From Liberty to Democracy
The Transformation of American Government
Inbunden, 2002
1444 kr
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At the nation's founding, the fundamental principle underlying American government was liberty, and the nation's new government was designed to protect the rights of individuals. The American founders intended to design a government that would protect the rights of its citizens, and at that time …
Signaling Goodness
Social Rules and Public Choice
Av Phillip J. Nelson, Kenneth V. Greene
Inbunden, 2003
1195 kr
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Political, intellectual, and academic discourse in the United States has been awash in political correctness, which has itself been berated and defended -- yet little understood. As a corrective, Nelson and Greene look at a more general process: adopting political positions to enhance one's …
Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development
An Institutional Design Perspective
Inbunden, 2003
1402 kr
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Ruttan advances a model of institutional change, which creates an environment where resource and cultural endowments and technical change can take place. The disequilibria resulting from such changes create opportunities for the design of more efficient institutional arrangements. The design …
