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Logic of Collective Action
Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, With a New Preface and Appendix
Häftad, 1971
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311 kr
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This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist, and …
Negotiating the Law of the Sea
Inbunden, 1984
455 kr
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The Law of the Sea (LOS) treaty resulted from some of the most complicated multilateral negotiations ever conducted. Difficult bargaining produced a remarkably sophisticated agreement on the financial aspects of deep ocean mining and on the financing of a new international mining entity. This book …
Advertising and Market Power
Av William S. Comanor, Thomas A. Wilson
Inbunden, 1974
316 kr
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The current debate over the economics of advertising has long focused on two questions. The first concerns the impact of advertising on the relative positions of large and small firms in an industry and thereby on the state of competition. The second examines the role of advertising on consumer …
British Monetary Policy and the Balance of Payments, 1951–1957
Inbunden, 1960
714 kr
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A detailed study of the revolution in Bank of England policy resulting from the government’s response to the 1954–55 balance-of-payments crisis, this is a first independent analysis. The author investigates the evolution of official thinking and appraises the impact of monetary policy in this …
Canada in the World Economy
Inbunden, 1959
439 kr
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In his study of Canada, John A. Stovel examines the changes in that country’s balance of payments and balance of trade from confederation to the present day, including as part of his examination historical, statistical, and theoretical points of view. The author also reexamines critically—and finds …
Capital Transfers and Economic Policy
Canada, 1951–1962
Av Richard E. Caves, Grant L. Reuber
Inbunden, 1971
509 kr
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Between 1951 and 1962 nearly ten billion dollars in long-term capital (both direct investment and purchase of securities) flowed into Canada. This massive amount represented one third of all long-term capital moving among industrial nations. Its transfer marked the first time since before World War …
Collected Papers
Inbunden, 1973
624 kr
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A pioneer in bringing mathematical methods into everyday use in economics, Lloyd A. Metzler is well known for his adroit use of formal tools and exceptionally readable prose style which have provided a generation of economists with clear solutions to difficult analytical problems. The papers …
Competition in the Midwestern Coal Industry
Av Reed Moyer
Inbunden, 1964
404 kr
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In this vigorous and well-documented "current view" of competition in the mid-western coal industry, Reed Moyer has set himself two tasks: to bring up to date existing economic analyses and to correct a "distortion which arises from generalizing about an industry composed of several diverse …
Competition in an Open Economy
A Model Applied to Canada
Av Richard E. Caves, Michael E. Porter m. fl.
Inbunden, 1980
509 kr
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With the nations of the world becoming more interdependent, it is imperative to take international influences into account in understanding the organization of industry within a country. This book extends the structure/conduct/performance framework of analysis to present a fully specified …
Consumption Behavior and the Effects of Government Fiscal Policies
Inbunden, 1986
495 kr
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In Consumption Behavior and the Effects of Government Fiscal Policies, Randall Mariger explores how people make decisions about how much to consume and save over their lifetimes. An understanding of these issues illuminates not only individual behavior but important properties of the macro economy …
Economic Analysis of Product Innovation
The Case of CT Scanners
Inbunden, 1990
536 kr
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One of the most striking features of contemporary industrial economies is their ability to offer an ever-expanding and improving range of products. Personal computers, tiny pacemakers, digital watches, and VCRs simply did not exist, and were not even dreamt of, only a few decades ago. Such product …
Economics of Multi-Plant Operation
An International Comparisons Study
Av Frederic M. Scherer, Alan Beckenstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 1975
448 kr
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Why should manufacturing firms in many national industries maintain multiple small scale plants when they might produce the same output at a lower unit cost in a single large establishment? What specific benefits are attained through the operation of multiple plants? To address these questions, the …
Employment Hazards
An Investigation of Market Performance
Inbunden, 1980
386 kr
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The safety of the work place is now a highly visible public issue. Many are calling for tighter regulation to reduce worker risk, while others feel government intervention is ineffective and costly. Here Kip Viscusi explores how well markets for hazardous jobs actually work. According to classical …
Essays in the Economics of Uncertainty
Inbunden, 1980
333 kr
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These three elegant essays develop principles central to the understanding of the diverse ways in which imperfect information affects the distribution of resources, incentives, and the evaluation of economic policy. The first concerns the special role that information plays in the allocation …
General Equilibrium of International Discrimination
The Case of Customs Unions
Inbunden, 1965
316 kr
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Perhaps the most important economic development of recent years has been the integration process engaged in by European countries. Today other groups of countries throughout the world either contemplate or have already undertaken similar courses of action. Although professional economists have …
Government Policy and the Distribution of Income in Peru, 1963–1973
Inbunden, 1977
324 kr
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The redistribution of income has been a key element in Peruvian governmental policy. Both the Belaunde and Velasco regimes professed a deep concern with economic injustice, and they have been regarded as models of peaceful progress toward social justice. Despite its good intentions, Richard Webb …
Growth, Distribution, and Prices
Häftad, 1987
254 kr
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What determines the rate of growth, the distribution of income, and the structure of relative prices under capitalism? What, in short, makes capitalist economies tick? This watershed treatise analyzes the answers to these questions provided by three major theoretical traditions: neoclassical, …
Housing and Neighborhood Dynamics
A Simulation Study
Av John F. Kain, William C. Apgar Jr.
Inbunden, 1985
448 kr
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This book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs provide direct assistance to low–income property owners in an attempt to arrest neighborhood decline and encourage revitalization. The authors used the Harvard Urban …
Investment and Production
A Study in the Theory of the Capital-Using Enterprise
Inbunden, 1961
448 kr
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Developing a unified theory of production and investment, Vernon L. Smith explores the empirical and theoretical nature of the interdependence between “short-run” current account production decisions and “long-run” investment planning, taking into account such technological factors as equipment …
Market Control and Planning in Communist China
Inbunden, 1966
316 kr
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In the first study in depth of this subject by an economist, the author focuses on a major problem—common to all planned economies—that has confronted the Chinese Communists: whether to centralize all controls in the hands of the planners, or to allow factory and farm managers some degree of …
Modeling Japanese-American Trade
A Study of Asymmetric Interdependence
Inbunden, 1984
342 kr
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This book examines, in rigorous, quantitative detail, the structure of trade between Japan and the United States, tracing the evolution of trade interdependence and the causes of its increasing intensity. It also looks at sectoral differences in interdependence—at the patterns behind changes in the …
New England Textiles in the Nineteenth Century
Profits and Investment
Inbunden, 1968
369 kr
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This unique study determines, by means of rigorous quantitative analysis, how cycles in New England cotton textile profits, output, borrowing, and capacity affected investment—and therefore industrial growth—during the nineteenth century. The firms studied were transitional forms between …
Service Sector in Soviet Economic Growth
A Comparative Study
Av Gur Ofer
Inbunden, 1973
298 kr
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The service sector represents a smaller share of the national economy in the Soviet Union than in other countries at similar levels. This gap is found in trade, in private and business services, and, surprisingly, in public administration. Gur Ofer provides a twofold examination of this phenomenon. …
Studies in Development Planning
Inbunden, 1971
298 kr
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In 1965, a group of economists at Harvard University established the Project for Quantitative Research in Economic Development in the Center for International Affairs. Brought together by a common background of fieldwork in developing countries and a desire to apply modern techniques of …
Taxation of Capital Income
Inbunden, 1983
360 kr
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This important contribution to tax analysis presents seven related theoretical essays that examine the effects of capital income taxation on the behavior of firms. It is divided into three sections, focusing on optimal tax design, firm financial policy, and inflation. Taken together, the essays …
Theory of Markets
Av Tun Thin
Inbunden, 1960
228 kr
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Concerned primarily with oligopoly, this work includes a general study of pricing in three different markets—perfect competition, perfect monopoly, and imperfect competition. The solutions of these markets offered by Cournot, Smithies, Chamberlin, Stackelberg, Fellner, and Robinson are presented …
Theory of Trade and Protection
Inbunden, 1964
351 kr
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How much does a country's commercial policy affect its economic efficiency? How would free trade change the structure of a country’s economy and foreign trade? William Penfield Travis extends the Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory and addresses it to an empirical study of these and related questions. He …
Trade and Economic Structure
Models and Methods
Inbunden, 1960
404 kr
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This comprehensive discussion of international trade theories focuses on logically distinct models of international trade rather than on chronology or “schools of thought.” The author gives primary attention to the differences in the empirical implications derivable from the “Heckscher-Ohlin model” …
United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation
An Economic Analysis of an Anti-Trust Case
Av Carl Kaysen
Inbunden, 1956
448 kr
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Carl Kaysen offers a penetrating economic analysis of the issues in the civil antitrust suit brought by the United States Government against the United Shoe Machinery Corporation under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. Kaysen, who served as clerk to Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. of the U.S. …
Vertical Integration and Joint Ventures in the Aluminum Industry
Inbunden, 1983
527 kr
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A consultant with McKinsey & Company surveys the international aluminum industry and asks why its various activities are divided among firms in the way that they are. These components include the minding of bauxite, its refining into alumina, aluminum smelting, fabrication, and manufacture of the …
