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Research on Economic Inequality
ISBN: 9780762303595 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This discussion is part of a series which aims to cover a broad spectrum of topics related to economic inequality. It discusses: is the size distribution of income stationary?; trade liberalization and the US living standard; inequality and unemployment; and identifying low standards of living.
This discussion is part of a series which aims to cover a broad spectrum of topics related to economic inequality. It discusses: is the size distribut...
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773,85 |
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Living Through 50 Years of Economic Progress: the Most Productive Generation in History, 1946-1996
ISBN: 9780762305902 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces various developments in business breakthroughs during the most productive period in world history. The half century from 1946 to 1996 brought space trips to the moon, artificial intelligence, cloning of animals, and much more.
This book traces various developments in business breakthroughs during the most productive period in world history. The half century from 1946 to 1996...
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525,81 |
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New Frontiers in Agricultural History
ISBN: 9780762306121 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first volume includes articles on the topics of Italian sharecropping, agricultural wage discrimination, factor endowment and contract choice, as well as new total factor productivity measures for the United States.
This first volume includes articles on the topics of Italian sharecropping, agricultural wage discrimination, factor endowment and contract choice, as...
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773,85 |
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A Research Annual
ISBN: 9780762308477 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains articles on Adam Smith, Antonio Horta Ororio, John Maynard Keynes, and on methodological, interpretive and policy issues of economic development in Ghana. This work also includes review essays on twenty-two books on the history and methodology of economics.
Contains articles on Adam Smith, Antonio Horta Ororio, John Maynard Keynes, and on methodological, interpretive and policy issues of economic developm...
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1004,48 |
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The End of a Natural Monopoly: Deregulation and Competition in the Electric Power Industry
ISBN: 9780762309955 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation. After decades of the presumption that the electric power industry was a natural monopoly, recent times have seen a trend of deregulation followed by panicked re-regulation. This important book critically analyses this controversial area from a legal and economic perspective. This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation. After decades of the presumption ... |
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773,33 |
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The Governance of Relations in Markets and Organizations
ISBN: 9780762310050 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transactions often differ on important dimensions from spot exchanges on perfect neo-classical markets. Information is seldom complete and instantaneous exchange is just as rare as full competition. The authors in this volume extend the standard economic model stressing the proposition that the social context is an important determinant of the governance of transactions. To foster the development of a body of cumulative knowledge in the new economic sociology, this approach is consistently applied to a diversity of topics including purchase relations, strategic alliances, and relations among...
Transactions often differ on important dimensions from spot exchanges on perfect neo-classical markets. Information is seldom complete and instantaneo...
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536,12 |
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A Research Annual
ISBN: 9780762310890 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains four sets of refereed essays. One group includes papers on Harrod and Robertson; Adam Smith; Keynes; Mendeleev; Veblen; and J. M. Clark. The second group has six papers on the historiography of institutional economics during the inter-war period. The third group has two papers on a conference on the status of the status quo. The fourth group has thirteen essays each reviewing one or more recent works.
Contains four sets of refereed essays. One group includes papers on Harrod and Robertson; Adam Smith; Keynes; Mendeleev; Veblen; and J. M. Clark. The ...
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1142,86 |
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Documents on and from the History of Economic Thought
ISBN: 9780762310913 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains two groups of archival materials. The first group includes Edwin Cannan's unsuccessful Cobden Essay; an early critique of economics by Eli Ginzberg; introductory notes on the study of the history of economic thought by Warren Samuels; and a memoir by Jacob Warshaw on Thorstein Veblen. The second group contains lecture notes taken by F. Taylor Ostrander in courses given by David Taggart Clark (Williams College), Redvers Opie (Oxford), and Frank H. Knight (Chicago) on the history of economics.
Contains two groups of archival materials. The first group includes Edwin Cannan's unsuccessful Cobden Essay; an early critique of economics by Eli Gi...
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1030,10 |
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Studies on Economic Well Being: Essays in Honor of John P Formby
ISBN: 9780762311361 / Angielski / Twarda / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12" is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference, May 22-25, 2003. The motivation for the conference was to honor John P. Formby upon his retirement. The conference, funded by the University, was designed to bring together three groups of people; first, some of the most recognized scholars in the field, second, current and former colleagues of John Formby's working in this field, and third, Dr. Formby's former PhD and post-doctoral students. Seventeen papers were presented, eleven of which are authored or co-authored by...
"Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12" is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference, May 22-25, 2003. The motivat...
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978,85 |
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A Research Annual
ISBN: 9780762311644 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 23A of this research annual first presents two articles on Adam Smith, one on his use of the concept of the invisible hand, and another on his use of Isaac Newton's methodology; an article on rival conceptions of distribution: in the 20th century; and a set of introductory notes to the study of the history of economic thought. Secondly, the volume presents multiple review essays on a book on the history of institutional economics, and single review essays on a variety of books, including books on causality, economic thought and the making the European monetary union, the Scottish...
Volume 23A of this research annual first presents two articles on Adam Smith, one on his use of the concept of the invisible hand, and another on his ...
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917,35 |
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Documents from F. Taylor Ostrander
ISBN: 9780762311651 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 23B of this research annual presents eight sets of lecture notes taken in 1933-4 by F. Taylor Ostrander at the University of Chicago. The notes are from courses given by Frank H. Knight, Henry C. Simons, and Melchior Palyi. The materials provide insight into the first generation of the Chicago School.
Volume 23B of this research annual presents eight sets of lecture notes taken in 1933-4 by F. Taylor Ostrander at the University of Chicago. The notes...
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1004,48 |
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Markets and Market Liberalization: Ethnographic Reflections
ISBN: 9780762312252 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The general theme of Volume 24 is the impact of, and reaction to, the spread of market systems and market liberalization by local communities. Part I examines cases in which migration has opened new market and entrepreneurial opportunities to local populations. Part II contains cases that describe ethnographically the impacts the oil industry market has had on towns of Louisiana's Gulf coast. The essays of Part III concern themselves with community repercussions that recent neoliberal market policies have had, while Part IV contains papers that analyse the process in which values of products...
The general theme of Volume 24 is the impact of, and reaction to, the spread of market systems and market liberalization by local communities. Part I ...
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845,60 |
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Cyclic Nature of Innovation: Connecting Hard Sciences with Soft Values
ISBN: 9780762313365 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series aims to present the latest research on entrepreneurship and innovation and the impact on economic performance. Research topics covered include all aspects of entrepreneurial behavior-the determinants of research and development, intellectual property concerns, innovation within and across firms, the effect of government regulation and tax policies, patenting and other property rights issues, organizational factors, market structure effects, marketing strategies, entrepreneurship programs and other educational activities, and the relative performance of entrepreneurial firms. The...
This series aims to present the latest research on entrepreneurship and innovation and the impact on economic performance. Research topics covered inc...
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458,79 |
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Value of Innovation: Impacts on Health, Life Quality, Safety, and Regulatory Research
ISBN: 9780762313464 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will present contributions by economists, systems developers, safety, health services, occupational and environmental health, and biomedical researchers in the fields of regulatory development, safety, quality assurance, health outcomes, occupational health, and biomedicine. The contributing research will explore the synergy of new science-based risk regulatory approaches, industry focus on manufacturing efficiencies and information technology and biogenetic innovations, and consumers??? demand for improved safety and quality of products, services, quality assurance, and...
This book will present contributions by economists, systems developers, safety, health services, occupational and environmental health, and biomedical...
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717,48 |
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Further Documents from F. Taylor Ostrander
ISBN: 9780762313549 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume continues publication of the class notes of F. Taylor Ostrander at Williams College, 1929-32. The courses are Principles of Economics, Money and Banking, Public Finance, the Senior Seminar and Review of Political Theory. Also included are two memoranda on Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 and 1945, and a memoir on the founding of the Williams College Liberal Club. This book provides a look into the thinking of leading economists in the 20th century. F. Taylor Ostrander is a very influential economist and the insight gained by his classnotes is extremely valuable.
This volume continues publication of the class notes of F. Taylor Ostrander at Williams College, 1929-32. The courses are Principles of Economics, Mon...
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942,97 |
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Cooperative Firms in Global Markets: Incidence, Viability and Economic Performance
ISBN: 9780762313891 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A number of competing views are swirling around the literature concerning the impact of globalization on the ability of cooperatives to survive. This 10th volume of the "Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms" series wants to understand some of these elements in the evolution of cooperatives in a world where globalization seems to be the driving force behind innovative forms of organization. In keeping with the main focus of the economics literature, the volume is focused on worker and producer cooperatives. This issue contains eleven papers and is organized...
A number of competing views are swirling around the literature concerning the impact of globalization on the ability of cooperatives to survive. This ...
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794,35 |
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Aspects of Worker Well-Being
ISBN: 9780762313907 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. Topics covered include job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and schooling. Among the questions answered are: To what extent do greater work hours of women mitigate the widening of the family earnings distribution? To what extent does the decline in unionization widen the distribution of earnings? To what extent do computers...
This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic institutions affe...
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525,81 |
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Value Creation in Multinational Enterprise
ISBN: 9780762313921 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers in this volume of "International Finance Review" provide a reflection on the role of international finance - and its relationship to strategy, economics, political science and public policy - in examining value creation in multinational enterprise. These are 22 original papers submitted specifically for this volume based on its theme. The papers present a breadth of methodologies, including theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and case study approaches. Several papers offer combinations of these different categories. Among the empirical papers, there are many kinds of data sets...
The papers in this volume of "International Finance Review" provide a reflection on the role of international finance - and its relationship to strate...
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881,48 |
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Equity
ISBN: 9780762314508 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For equity, societies may wish to eliminate certain forms or manifestations of inequality. Horizontal equity and vertical equity in the income tax are topics which have interested me for some years. Although any shortfall from each of these objectives can be measured in terms of unwanted inequalities, equity per se is a different concept from equality. Equity relates to fairness, justice and other societal norms which give expression to the best aspirations of our collective social conscience. For example, equal access to health care for those in equal need is an accepted norm for horizontal...
For equity, societies may wish to eliminate certain forms or manifestations of inequality. Horizontal equity and vertical equity in the income tax are...
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794,35 |
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The Evolution of Consumption: Theories and Practices
ISBN: 9780762314522 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theory of consumer choice fills the opening chapters of any micro-economic textbook. Yet, surprisingly, this position of privilege has not translated into a flourishing of economic research that is comparable to what has happened in other branches of economic reasoning. Starting with Menger, the Austrian economic tradition has always shifted the focus of attention from the problem of equilibrium to that of social order, to the evolution of norms, institutions and practices that favor social cooperation and coordination. Within this tradition competition and markets are not viewed as...
The theory of consumer choice fills the opening chapters of any micro-economic textbook. Yet, surprisingly, this position of privilege has not transla...
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794,35 |