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Deforestation Trends in the Congo Basin: Reconciling Economic Growth and Forest Protection
ISBN: 9780821397428 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Congo Basin forests have been mainly "passively" protected by chronic political instability and conflict, poor infrastructure, and poor governance. Congo Basin countries thus still fit the profile of high forest cover/ low deforestation (HFLD) countries. However, there are signs that Congo Basin forests are under increasing pressure from a variety of sources, including mineral extraction, road development, agribusiness, and biofuels, in addition to subsistence agricultural expansion and charcoal collection. Congo Basin countries are now at a crossroad - they are not yet locked into a...
The Congo Basin forests have been mainly "passively" protected by chronic political instability and conflict, poor infrastructure, and poor governance...
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Energy Economics: A Modern Introduction
ISBN: 9781461370543 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Energy is the go of things," as James Clerk Maxwell pointed out. This th simple truth was largely overlooked during the first 70 years of the 20 century, because in the industrial world most politicians, civil servants, and opinion makers were inclined to believe that virtually an infinite supply of reasonably priced energy would always be available, and so things would continue to 'go' in the manner to which many of their constituents and admirers had become accustomed. Similar opinions were held about fresh air, and water for consumption and agricultural uses. As a result, it was not until...
"Energy is the go of things," as James Clerk Maxwell pointed out. This th simple truth was largely overlooked during the first 70 years of the 20 cent...
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Optimal Consumption and Investment with Bankruptcy
ISBN: 9781461378716 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents papers on continuous-time consumption investment models by Suresh Sethi and various co-authors. Sir Isaac Newton said that he saw so far because he stood on the shoulders of gi ants. Giants upon whose shoulders Professor Sethi and colleagues stand are Robert Merton, particularly Merton's (1969, 1971, 1973) seminal papers, and Paul Samuelson, particularly Samuelson (1969). Karatzas, Lehoczky, Sethi and Shreve (1986), henceforth KLSS, re produced here as Chapter 2, reexamine the model proposed by Mer ton. KLSS use methods of modern mathematical analysis, taking care to prove...
This book presents papers on continuous-time consumption investment models by Suresh Sethi and various co-authors. Sir Isaac Newton said that he saw s...
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Competition and Regulation in Telecommunications: Examining Germany and America
ISBN: 9789401038737 / Angielski / Miękka / 83 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together academic economists and lawyers to evaluate and compare the regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany and the United States. The unifying theme in all of the pa pers is that the goal of public policy in this area should be to make the broadest and most functional competition possible by means of an ap propriate regulatory framework. Because the European and American telecommunications markets are becoming more intertwined each day, the issues addressed in this volume will be topical to the business, government, and academic communities for some time. For...
This volume brings together academic economists and lawyers to evaluate and compare the regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany and the Un...
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An International Perspective on Economic Education
ISBN: 9789401046053 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economics is taught in some form in the secondary schools of nations throughout the world. The subject is rarely taught in elementary schools, and while economics courses are offered in universities, the majority of students end their formal education with secondary school. Thus, the best opportunity for the economic education of the youth of a nation occurs in secondary schools. This book examines economic education at this critical level of the educational system.
The teaching of economics in secondary schools varies across countries. These differences occur because of history, the... Economics is taught in some form in the secondary schools of nations throughout the world. The subject is rarely taught in elementary schools, and whi...
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Financial Crisis Management in Regional Blocs
ISBN: 9789401060387 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Financial crises have occurred throughout history, resulting in the loss of national and international public and personal wealth, creating political uncertainty and shaking the foundations of the national, regional and international economic and social order. This book provides answers to the basic questions of what could have caused some of the more recent regional financial crises, what their key characteristics were, how they could have been prevented, what lessons national governments, central bankers and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have learned and how such crises could be...
Financial crises have occurred throughout history, resulting in the loss of national and international public and personal wealth, creating political ...
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Profits, Wages and Productivity in the Business Cycle: A Kaldorian Analysis
ISBN: 9789401062602 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to explain the changes in specific macroeconomic variables such as the relative share of labour, the profit rate and the real wage rate in advanced capitalist economies, in relation to the influence of the business cycle in income distribution. To explain these changes the author examines three types of theory - Kaldorian theory, the Real Business Cycle theory, and the new Keynesian theory - with a specific focus on Kaldor's approach.
The purpose of this book is to explain the changes in specific macroeconomic variables such as the relative share of labour, the profit rate and the r...
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Project Appraisal and Macroeconomic Policy
ISBN: 9789401065030 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental economics addresses the issues that arise on the boundaries between economic systems and natural systems, such as pollution and natural resource de pletion and degradation. Like any other branch of applied economics, it has drawn its tools and techniques from the wide range already available in economics gener ally, selecting, adapting and extending these to meet its own particular requirements in its own particular context. Here, as elsewhere in economics, public policy analy sis requires quantitative assessments of the economic impact of different policy choices. Perhaps the...
Environmental economics addresses the issues that arise on the boundaries between economic systems and natural systems, such as pollution and natural ...
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Economics of Climate Change in the Arab World: Case Studies from the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, and the Republic of Yemen
ISBN: 9780821398463 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes both a global as well as a local perspective in assessing the impacts of climate change on the economy, agricultural sector, and households in three of the MENA countries; Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. The major channels of impact for global climate change are through changing world food (and energy) prices, especially since all the countries under analysis are or have become net importers of oil and petroleum products and many food commodities in recent years. The impacts of local climate change decrease crop yields in the longer run and through them, productivity in the...
This book takes both a global as well as a local perspective in assessing the impacts of climate change on the economy, agricultural sector, and house...
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Microeconomics for Business and Marketing: Lectures, Cases and Worked Essays
ISBN: 9781852788629 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text which is designed for intermediate-level students of microeconomics, offers a series of alternative approaches to economic analysis. It emphasizes practical problem solving, making it relevant to students of business and commerce. As well as neoclassical microeconomics, it seeks to promote an awareness of different approaches, including the application of behavioural-institutionalist economics to real world problems. Rather than emphasizing technical set pieces, this book offers students a range of approaches such as behavioural theories of consumer choice and institutionalist...
This text which is designed for intermediate-level students of microeconomics, offers a series of alternative approaches to economic analysis. It emph...
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Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy
ISBN: 9780804770033 / Angielski / Twarda / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying concept, arguing that collective-action problems lie at the foundation of market success, market failure, economic development, and the motivations for policy. Ferguson draws on information economics, social preference theory, cognition theory, institutional economics, as well as...
In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive po...
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Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy
ISBN: 9780804770040 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying concept, arguing that collective-action problems lie at the foundation of market success, market failure, economic development, and the motivations for policy. Ferguson draws on information economics, social preference theory, cognition theory, institutional economics, as well as...
In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive po...
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The Foundations of Evolutionary Institutional Economics: Generic Institutionalism
ISBN: 9780415810760 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evolutionary economics implicitly deals with generic analysis of economic processes," "but thus far there have been relatively few attempts to make this stream of thought and" "analysis explicit within a common theoretical framework. ""This book explores the foundational principles of evolutionary institutional economics, with the aim of establishing common ground for scientific self-sufficiency and openness to pluralism, and of establishing the theoretical, analytical and methodological categories of a "Generic Institutionalism." The main objective of the book is to synthesize... Evolutionary economics implicitly deals with generic analysis of economic processes," "but thus far there have been relatively few attempts to make... |
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Analytical Peace Economics: The Illusion of War for Peace
ISBN: 9781138935457 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Middle East is at an unprecedented crossroads between the established Euro-centric system and the emerging Asian powerhouses like India and China. Their economies, policies and social structures are a half-way-house between these two dominant groups and are an important case study to examine in order to highlight future prospects and problems of the global system. The Middle East is an important missing piece in a huge global puzzle. This book makes a significant step towards understanding that puzzle and offers solutions for how to fully integrate this missing jigsaw piece into the... The Middle East is at an unprecedented crossroads between the established Euro-centric system and the emerging Asian powerhouses like India and Chi... |
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Challenge and Change: Global Threats and the State in Twenty-First Century International Politics
ISBN: 9781137492647 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume addresses how the state system, the organizing political institution in world politics, copes with challenges of rapid change, unanticipated crises, and general turmoil in the twenty-first century. These disruptions are occurring against the background of declining US influence and the rising power of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Traditional inter-state security concerns coexist with new security preoccupations, such as rivalries likely to erupt over the resources of the global commons, the threat of cyber warfare, the ever-present threat of terrorism, and...
This edited volume addresses how the state system, the organizing political institution in world politics, copes with challenges of rapid change, unan...
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Managerial Economics: Economic Tools for Today's Decision Makers
ISBN: 9780133020267 / Angielski / Twarda / 593 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Directed primarily toward undergraduate/MBA students in Economics, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals. This text will excite readers by providing a more linear progression, while proving the consistency and relevance of microeconomic theory. The Seventh Edition welcomes a new co-author, Stephen Erfle of Dickinson College, who has contributed many revisions and improvements to the quantitative sections of the text, as well as provided a major addition: the use of Excel in the presentation of many of the numerical and...
Directed primarily toward undergraduate/MBA students in Economics, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry profe...
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A Primer on Microeconomics
ISBN: 9781606494219 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economics, far from being the "dismal science," offers us valuable lessons that can be applied to our everyday experiences. At its heart, economics is the science of choice, and a study of economic principles allows us to achieve a more informed understanding of how we make our choices, regardless of whether these choices occur in our everyday life or in our work environment. This book brings a real commonsense approach to basic microeconomics. It delivers clear statements of essential economic principles, supported by easy-to-understand examples, and uncluttered by extraneous material; the...
Economics, far from being the "dismal science," offers us valuable lessons that can be applied to our everyday experiences. At its heart, economics is...
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Equilibrium Models in an Applied Framework: Industrial Structure and Transformation
ISBN: 9783642349935 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives the historical development, explanations of technical specifications, and a basic understanding of how to use different equilibrium models in an applied framework. It contains an accessible analytical survey of economic equilibrium models, including multi-sector programming models (linear and quadratic) and the computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The book introduces the importance of disinvestment, and hence, a model of economic transformation is developed. Finally, the globalisation process of the production system is examined.The equilibrium models in this book are...
This book gives the historical development, explanations of technical specifications, and a basic understanding of how to use different equilibrium mo...
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Economic Analyses of Social Networks
ISBN: 9781781006436 / Angielski / Twarda / 1740 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive two-volume set brings together important contributions providing fundamental economic analyses of social networks and the central roles they play in many facets of our lives. The first volume consists of classic articles that model network formation and games on networks, as well as those on the identification of peer effects from an econometric viewpoint. The second volume provides empirical analyses of network effects on labor, education, development, crime and industrial organization, as well as some laboratory and field experiments. This set of indispensable papers,...
This comprehensive two-volume set brings together important contributions providing fundamental economic analyses of social networks and the central r...
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Firms, Strategies and Economic Change: Explorations in Austrian Economics
ISBN: 9781843768944 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Firms, Strategies and Economic Change, Fu-Lai Tony Yu acknowledges the shortcomings of contemporary research on industrial organisation and strategy, while proposing a novel subjectivist approach to economic and management problems. Based largely on the works of Max Weber, Alfred Schutz, Ludwig von Mises and Frank H. Knight, this book develops the subjective interpretation framework to promote better understanding of entrepreneurship, industrial organisation and strategy, vertical integration, innovation, consumer behaviour, business cycles and institutional change more fully. The author...
In Firms, Strategies and Economic Change, Fu-Lai Tony Yu acknowledges the shortcomings of contemporary research on industrial organisation and strateg...
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