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Institutional Design
Inbunden, 1995
1693 kr
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Policy scientists have long been concerned with understanding the basic tools, or instruments, that governments can use to accomplish their goals. The initial interest in inductively developing comprehensive lists of generic instruments for policy analysis soon gave way to efforts to discover more …
Evolutionary Economics: Program and Scope
Av Kurt Dopfer
Inbunden, 2001
1693 kr
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This work offers a fresh look at the paradigmatic foundations and basic theoretical propositions of economics. Twelve authors - each of them with his own distinct contribution to economics - make a step forward by reinterpreting major areas of micro and macroeconomics in line with modern …
Industrial Policies After 2000
Av Wolfram Elsner, John Groenewegen
Inbunden, 2000
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Industrial Policies after 2000 investigates industrial policy during a time of deregulation, privatization and a growing interest in small government. This book brings together scholarship from different countries, different institutional contexts, and different theoretical perspectives. That …
IS-LM and Modern Macroeconomics
Av Benzion Zilberfarb, Warren Young m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
1917 kr
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IS-LM is perhaps the prime example of `cognitive dissonance' in economics, and is problematic to many economists. On the one hand, the IS-LM model is still taught by many academic economists or they use it to derive the AD-AS approach. On the other hand, the same economists realize the limitations …
Coasean Economics Law and Economics and the New Institutional Economics
Inbunden, 1997
1693 kr
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This collection assesses the development of 'Coasean Economics', those aspects of economic analysis that have evolved out of the work of Ronald Coase. Two major strands of research can be identified here: law and economics and the New Institutional Economics. While both law and economics and the …
Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets
Inbunden, 1997
1693 kr
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Regulatory reform represents a major shift in the government's role toward price determination in the transportation and telecommunication industries. The resulting policy emphasizes dependence on market forces to set prices and to encourage efficient production techniques. While extensive research …
Rationality in Economics: Alternative Perspectives
Av Ken Dennis, Ken Dennis
Inbunden, 1998
1131 kr
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Ideas linked to rational choice theory started to appear frequently in the economics literature in the 1960s and 1970s, but the attention given to rationality widened to include commentators presenting far-reaching appraisals and critiques. The literature grew to a steady flow and spanned diverse …
Keynes and the Classics Reconsidered
Inbunden, 1998
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Keynes and the Classics Reconsidered is a collection of scholarly work re-evaluating Keynes's revolution in economic thought, both in the method of macroeconomic reasoning and in policy-making. This book brings together mostly a younger generation of economists to revisit Keynes's interpretation of …
Political Economy of War and Peace
Inbunden, 1998
2254 kr
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cancer n. any malignant tumor . . . Metastasis may occur via the bloodstream or the lymphatic channels or across body cavities . . . setting up secondary tumors . . . Each individual primary tumor has its own pattern . . . There are probably many causative factors . . . Treatment. . . depends on …
Economics of Corruption
Inbunden, 1998
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Corruption has been part of our economic and political life since ancient times. During the past few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in understanding the impact that corruption has on our societies. The objective of this volume is to stimulate further studies on corruption by …
Religion and Economics: Normative Social Theory
Av Anthony Michael C. Waterman, J.M. Dean m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1693 kr
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A sequel to "Economics and Religion: Are They Distinct?", this volume presents a set of case studies of ways in which economics and theology may actually have been combined in the real world. As in the previous volume, these case studies were written first and then sent as a complete set to a …
Work and Idleness
The Political Economy of Full Employment
Av Kluwer Academic Publishers, Jane Wheelock m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1693 kr
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This text develops the view that redistributing employment is a "feasible capitalist" solution, not just to the unemployment which particular groups suffer, but also to the work that others have to contend with, including many women. Putting the redistribution of employment on the policy agenda …
Foreign Aid: New Perspectives
Av K. L. Gupta
Inbunden, 1999
1131 kr
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Foreign aid has been an area of active scholarly investigation since the end of the Second World War, but particularly since the early 1950s when a large number of the erstwhile colonies became independent. Few areas of public policy involving the developed and developing countries have aroused …
Equilibrium Exchange Rates
Av Ronald MacDonald, Jerome L. Stein
Inbunden, 1999
1693 kr
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How successful is PPP, and its extension in the monetary model, as a measure of the equilibrium exchange rate? What are the determinants and dynamics of equilibrium real exchange rates? How can misalignments be measured, and what are their causes? What are the effects of specific policies upon the …
Political Economy of Imperialism
Critical Appraisals
Inbunden, 1999
1131 kr
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This book brings together important essays by distinguished scholars who have devoted past attention to the study of imperialism and development. It comple ments an anthology of previously published essays that brings together important theoretical perspectives around the issues and debates on …
Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement
Inbunden, 1999
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Amartya Sen "Equality," I spoke the word As if a wedding vow Ah, but I was so much older then, I am younger than that now. Thus sang Bob Dylan in 1964. Approbation of equality varies not only with our age (though it is not absolutely clear in which direction the values may shift over one's life …
Social Economics: Retrospect and Prospect
Av Mark A. Lutz
Inbunden, 1989
1131 kr
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At the very heart of the conception of the present volume lies the conviction that social economics is a highly pluralistic discipline, inspired and enriched by several often radically different world views, Schumpeterian visions, and at times even quite antagonistic social doctrines. Yet, in spite …
Public Utility Regulation
The Economic and Social Control of Industry
Av Kenneth Nowotny, David B. Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
1693 kr
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David B. Smith This is a book about the application of economic theory to a unique form of social control - public utility regulation. A central theme of this work is to examine the role that economics has played in shaping the rationale and direction of regulatory practices. While economic theory …
Neoclassical Economic Theory, 1870 to 1930
Av Klaus Hennings, Warren J. Samuels
Inbunden, 1990
2254 kr
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Warren J. Samuels Each book in this series explores the present status of its field in terms of where it is, how it got there, the existing tensions within the field, and something of how the field might develop in the future. Each book presumes that work in each field is neither settled nor …
Economics As Discourse
An Analysis of the Language of Economists
Inbunden, 1990
1131 kr
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1 Warren J. Samuels The study of economics as discourse requires a perspective that focuses on the relationships among knowledge (or truth), discourse (or lan guage), and meaning. Central to this task is the recognition that the con duct of economic analysis uses words and that words embody …
Organization and Decision Theory
Av Ira Horowitz
Inbunden, 1989
2254 kr
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Ira Horowitz Depending upon one's perspective, the need to choose among alternatives can be an unwelcome but unavoidable responsibility, an exciting and challenging opportunity, a run-of-the-mill activity that one performs seem ingly "without thinking very much about it," or perhaps something in …
Policy Analysis and Economics
Developments, Tensions, Prospects
Inbunden, 1991
1098 kr
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Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies. Positive economics provides the tools for predicting the impacts of prop osed policies; normative economics, especially welfare theory, offers a …
Social Response to Environmental Risk
Policy Formulation in an Age of Uncertainty
Av Daniel W. Bromley, Kathleen Segerson
Inbunden, 1992
1693 kr
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We have undertaken this volume in the belief that there is now sufficient research completed on environmental risk to justify a retrospective assessment of what is known. Our authors and our intended audience are eclectic indeed. Environ mental risk assessment receives increasing attention in the …
Taking Property and Just Compensation
Law and Economics Perspectives of the Takings Issue
Inbunden, 1992
1131 kr
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While much has been gained from the traditional legal scholars' doctrinal mode of analysis of the takings issue, this volume is presented in the belief that contributions from scholars from the various schools of thought that comprise Law and Economics can complement the traditional doctrinal …
Post-Popperian Methodology of Economics
Recovering Practice
Inbunden, 1992
1693 kr
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For much of the last three decades or more economic methodology has been dominated by the work of Karl Popper who advocated the position that science is what it is by virtue of its adherence to certain ideals. The methodology of science is therefore not empirical or descriptive, but rather a set of …
Economics of Saving
Inbunden, 1992
1693 kr
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This book began when a letter reached my desk in November 1989. Written by Warren Samuels, professor of economics at Michigan State University and editor for Kluwer Academic Publishers, the letter reviewed the philosophy behind Kluwer's series on recent economic thought and accordingly expressed …
Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets
Inbunden, 1992
1693 kr
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William Darity, Jr. In 1984 the Kluwer series in Modern Economic Thought, under the editorial direction of Warren Samuels, brought out a book under my editorship entitled Labor Economics: Modern Views. It consisted of a series of essays and commentaries that sought, in a critical fashion, to assess …
Austrian Economics: Tensions and New Directions
Av Bruce J. Caldwell, Stephan Böhm
Inbunden, 1993
1693 kr
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When we first invited the group of distinguished scholars represented here to contribute to a new volume on Austrian economics, four themes were stressed: tensions, new directions, selectivity, and criticism. In this brief introduction we will explain why those themes were emphasized and thereby …
Institutional Economics: Theory, Method, Policy
Av Marc R. Tool
Inbunden, 1993
1693 kr
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Marc R. Tool This book of especially solicited contributions is intended to appraise, re- fine, and extend the institutionalists' evolutionary theory of political eco- nomy in six different areas of inquiry. These areas are the institutionalist challenge to move beyond dissent, methodology of …
