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In the wake of the publication of Forrester's World Dynamics and Meadow's The Limits to Growth-books which in The Netherlands may have received ex cessive attention from the public at large-the Neth……続きを見る

In this book the reader is provided with an overview of the most interesting ideas in Competitive General Equilibrium Theory as well as Welfare Economy. In doing so, the author adopts a methodologic……続きを見る

The increasing capital flows in the emerging markets and developed countries have raised various concerns worldwide. One main concern is the impact of the sharp decline of capital flows – so-called ……続きを見る

How do we create employment, grow businesses, and build greater economic resilience in our low-income communities? How do we create economic development for everyone, everywhere – including rural to……続きを見る

The New World of Economics, 6th edition, by Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, represents a revival of a classic text that, when it was first published, changed substantially the way economics wou……続きを見る

Compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI is used to index Social Security payments and many other federal programs, as well as to adjust tax brackets. Today, the accuracy of the CPI is be……続きを見る

Author Amusa Abdulateef, broke away from the use of economic jargons of the economists, public think tanks and financial analysts to use explicit and unambiguous lucid words to define economic reces……続きを見る

Economic geographers study and attempt to explain the spatial configuration of economic activities, including the production of goods and services, their transfer from one economic agent to another ……続きを見る

If treated as a single economy, the European Union is the largest in the world, with an estimated GDP of over 14 trillion euros. Despite its size, European economic policy has often lagged behind th……続きを見る

In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates i……続きを見る

The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better resultsーand we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accept……続きを見る

In Homer Economicus a cast of lively contributors takes a field trip to Springfield, where the Simpsons reveal that economics is everywhere. By exploring the hometown of television's first family, t……続きを見る

Criminals and Victims presents an economic analysis of decisions made by criminals and victims of crime before, during, and after a crime or victimization occurs. Its main purpose is to illustrate h……続きを見る

Questions of the social implications of biotechnology and biological exchange (the extraction of human tissues such as blood, skin and organs for testing, storage and/or distribution for therapeutic……続きを見る

In Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health, editors Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie Zissimopoulos bring together leading scholars to study ……続きを見る

Hispanics account for more than half the population growth in the United States over the last decade. With this surge has come a dramatic spike in the number of Hispanic-owned businesses. Hispanic E……続きを見る

Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Student's Guide has two main goals. The first is to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students an understanding of the core model of economics: Walrasian g……続きを見る

The field of behavioural economics can tell us a great deal about cognitive bias and unconscious decision-making, challenging the orthodox economic model whereby consumers make rational and informed……続きを見る

When we stop to consider it, a free economy is a marvel. Millions of people, mostly unknown to one another, each producing some particular good or service, somehow manage to coordinate their actions……続きを見る

Il futuro successo dei nostri figli dipende da ciò che insegniamo loro nel presente Il vero «lavoro» di tutti i genitori è costituito dalle migliaia di piccole azioni, dalle attenzioni quotidiane e ……続きを見る

To study the strategic interaction of individuals, we can use game theory. Despite the long history shared by game theory and political science, many political scientists remain unaware of the excit……続きを見る

This book provides insights into China’s energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies. It explores energy saving ways and argues for an energy consumption revolution, which……続きを見る

This volume constitutes the first ever attempt to establish a basis for comparative research on defence procurement regulation. For decades there has been repeated emphasis on the extent to which ba……続きを見る

The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care. This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and th……続きを見る

Over the past few decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. Using methodological individualism and micro-ec……続きを見る

El mundo moderno de producción y consumo necesita herramientas prácticas y científicas para la toma de decisiones, ayudas que proporciona la microeconomía a los productores y los consumidores. El an……続きを見る

Este volumen introduce al lector a la microeconomía, que es el fundamento del análisis económico en cualquier sociedad. A diferencia de otros textos introductorios, este libro desarrolla tres caract……続きを見る

Im vorliegenden Sammelband werden die Einsatzfähigkeit von Verfahren und Methoden der Produktivitätsmessung in produktionsnahen Dienstleistungsbereichen diskutiert sowie Praxisbeispiele zur Messung ……続きを見る

The belief that men and women have fundamentally distinct natures, resulting in divergent preferences and behaviours, is widespread*.* Recently, economists have also engaged in the search for gender……続きを見る

The Handbook of Investors' Behavior during Financial Crises provides fundamental information about investor behavior during turbulent periods, such the 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 global financi……続きを見る