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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9780857935076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (648 Seiten)
    Edition: Second edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Schäfer, Hans-Bernd, 1943 - The economic analysis of civil law
    DDC: 346
    Keywords: Rechtsökonomik ; Bürgerliches Recht ; Eigentumsrechtstheorie ; Haftung ; Vertrag ; Gesellschaftsrecht ; Theorie ; Deutschland ; Law and economics Textbooks ; Civil law ; Economic aspects ; Law and economics ; Electronic books ; Deutschland ; Bürgerliches Recht ; Privatrecht ; Ökonomische Theorie des Rechts
    Abstract: "This comprehensive textbook provides a thorough guide to the economic analysis of law, with a particular focus on civil law systems. It encapsulates a structured analysis and nuanced evaluation of norms and legal policies, using the tools of economic theory. Key features include: Examples and cases that illustrate central concepts of the economic analysis of law in relation to civil law doctrines. Examination of the core areas of civil law: tort law, contract law, property law, intellectual property law as well as basic problems of insolvency law and corporate law. In-depth analysis of the legal rules of statutory law and judge-made law, demonstrating the extent to which these rules are either based on economic criteria or run parallel to them - and the extent to which such criteria facilitate the application and further development of law. This substantially revised second edition presents the latest insights into legal economic research, including important empirical and behavioural deliberations. It will be a valuable guide for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of law and economics"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction to the economic analysis of civil law -- Part I: Fundamentals -- 1. Alternative decisions, consequences, and evaluations -- 2. Normative foundations - what is social welfare? Problems of social choice -- 3. Economics, property rights and economic analysis of law -- 4. Homo economicus, behavioural economics, and paternalism -- Part II: Economic analysis of tort law -- 5. Objectives and regulatory problems of tort law, the magic triangle of tort law -- 6. Fault liability and strict liability -- 7. Reciprocal and bilateral damages -- 8. Attribution of damage, causality -- 9. The scope of protection by tort law, liberal rights, pure economic loss, and non-pecuniary damage -- 10. Special problems of tort law: Product liability, environmental liability, compensation for pain and suffering, vicarious liability, limits of civil liability -- Part III: Economic analysis of contract law -- 11. On the economic analysis of contractual freedom and contract law -- 12. The fully specified contract and its reconstruction by default rules -- 13. Complementary contract interpretation, base of the contract, reconstruction of the fully specified contract, and fair distribution of the total surplus from a contract -- 14. Economic analysis of breach of contract, impossibility and delay -- 15. Liability for defects in sales contracts and contracts for work -- 16. Ignorance, trust, opportunism and efficiency -- 17. Legal protection of legitimate expectations in the law of exchange of goods and services -- Part IV: Property rights (absolute rights) -- 18. Concept, function and design of property rights -- 19. The transfer of rights by acquisition in good faith -- 20. Involuntary transaction of property through taking and regulatory taking -- 21. Insolvency and conflicting security interests of creditors -- 22. Incompatible use of land and efficient use of an area -- 23. Intellectual property rights, the generation of innovations -- Part V: Corporate law -- 24. From contract to hierarchy -- 25. Basic structures and problems of company law -- Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 2
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781788977272
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Research handbooks in business and management series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Innovation ; Innovationsmanagement ; Kreativität ; Theorie ; Welt ; Creative ability in business ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: Introduction: Shared foundations and diverse inquiries for advancing creativity and innovation research / Jing Zhou and Elizabeth D. Rouse -- Part I: Foundations of creativity and innovation research -- 1. Conducting rigorous research on individual creativity / Christina E. Shalley and Amy P. Breidenthal -- 2. The dual pathway to creativity model: Implications for workplace creativity / Bernard A. Nijstad, Eric F. Rietzschel, Matthijs Baas, and Carsten K.W. De Dreu -- 3. Team creativity and innovation / Daan van Knippenberg and Inga J. Hoever -- 4. Creativity and standardization: Tension, complementarity, and paradox / Robert C. Litchfield, Yuna S.H. Lee, and Lucy L. Gilson -- Part II: The role of social influences, interactions, and processes in creativity and innovation -- 5. Social network and creativity / Ronald S. Burt -- 6. Creative leadership across contexts / Charalampos Mainemelis, Olga Epitropaki, and Ronit Kark -- 7. Leading groups and teams towards successful innovation / Eric F. Rietzschel, Diana Rus, and Barbara Wisse -- 8. Teams as synthesizers: The role of constraints in the process of creative synthesis / Sarah Harvey and Poornika Ananth -- 9. Family and its influences on work creativity / Nora Madjar -- 10. Creativity connects: How the creative process fosters social connection and combats loneliness at work / Jack A. Goncalo, Joshua H. Katz, Lynne C. Vincent, Verena Krause, and Shiyu Yang -- Part III: Stretching how we make sense of and study creativity and innovation -- 11. Creative spirals: When ideas beget ideas / Andrew Hargadon -- 12. Creativity over the career / Pier Vittorio Mannucci -- 13. Unraveling the bias against novelty: Guiding the study of our tendency to desire but reject the new / Jennifer Mueller and Yidan Yin -- 14. Who is the creator? How uncertainty, threat and implicit models create paradoxical evaluations of creativity / Kerrie L. Unsworth and Aleksandra Luksyte -- 15. Using qualitative methods to generate divergence in creativity theory / Elizabeth D. Rouse and Michael G. Pratt -- Index.
    Abstract: "This cutting-edge Handbook takes stock of a diverse set of theoretical and methodological perspectives that address creativity, innovation, and the ways in which they intersect. Considering the development of the field, the Handbook examines current trends to chart a path forward for promising future research. Leading international contributors showcase some of the most advanced and interesting work in the creativity and innovation field, providing a platform for idea exchange and cross-fertilization. Reviewing the foundations for conducting rigorous creativity research, chapters elaborate on theoretical models that explain both individual and team creativity and innovation, and discuss the relationship between creativity and standardization. The Handbook also analyzes the role of social influences in the processes of creativity and innovation, as well as how to make sense of and study creativity and innovation. In doing so, the Handbook highlights both quantitative and qualitative research methods for conducting creativity-innovation research. Presenting an expert analysis of research on creativity and innovation, this Handbook will be a vital reference point for scholars and students in these fields, in addition to the areas of organizational innovation and organizational behavior. It will also be useful for practicing managers interested in understanding creativity and innovation"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781839107375
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Standortmarketing ; Stadtmarketing ; Markenimage ; Herkunftsbezeichnung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Place marketing ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: Introduction: The 'country' vs. 'Place' and 'marketing' vs. 'Branding' conundrum / Nicolas Papadopoulos and Mark Cleveland -- Part I: 'birds of a feather, all over the place': My neighbourhood, my town, my country -- 1. Conceptions of place: From streets and neighbourhoods to towns, cities, nations, and beyond / Gary Warnaby and Dominic Medway -- 2. Place brands: Why, who, what, when, where, and how? / Mihalis Kavaratzis and Magdalena Florek -- 3. Will the twain ever meet? 'place' vs. 'Country' in research and practice / Nicolas Papadopoulos and Mark Cleveland -- 4. Six propositions for place marketing: A critical discussion of the current state of our field / Sebastian Zenker -- Part II: 'a case of mistaken identity?': Residents and identity politics in place and space -- 5. In search of a place brand identity model / Magdalena Florek -- 6. From participation to transformation: The multiple roles of residents in the place brand creation process / Alia El Banna and Ioana S. Stoica -- 7. Peoplescapes and placemaking in a multicultural world: Residents' identity, attachment, and belonging / Andrea Insch -- 8. The fabric of person-place-time: What metaphors from outer space can teach us in place branding / Mark Cleveland and Nicolas Papadopoulos -- Part III: 'a place is worth a thousand words': A smorgasbord of country images and effects -- 9. 'New perspectives welcome': A case for alternative approaches to country of origin effect research / Mikael Andéhn and Jean-Noël Patrick L'Espoir Decosta -- 10. The effects of stereotyping on place/country image perceptions / Peter Magnusson and Stanford A. Westjohn -- 11. Consumer dispositions and product connections to places: From parochialism to cosmopolitanism and beyond / Mark Cleveland, Nicolas Papadopoulos, and Boris Bartikowski -- 12. Country of origin cues in advertising: Theoretical insights and practical implications / Fabian Bartsch and Katharina Petra Zeugner-Roth -- 13. Cross-border acquisitions and offshoring strategies: The effects on country/place image and reputation / Michela Matarazzo -- Part IV: 'here, there, and everywhere': Advances, adversities, applications, and associations in 'country' and 'place' marketing -- 14. The role of advertising in place branding / Rick T. Wilson -- 15. Place branding as an instrument in strategic spatial planning: Insights from urban regions in western Europe and North America / Eduardo Oliveira and Anna M. Hersperger -- 16. Popular culture and place-associated products in country image / Candace L. White.
    Abstract: "This book integrates new thinking on the image, marketing, and branding of places at all levels, from town squares to cities and countries, and of the products and peoples associated with them, thereby bridging the 'country' and 'place' silos in place-related research and practice. Insightful contributions from top scholars reflect fresh theorizing and provide a critical appraisal of conventional wisdom by juxtaposing intriguing contexts, questioning commonplace practices, and challenging methodologies and theoretical assumptions. Chapters explore interdependencies among residents, visitors, brand managers, and consumers; image effects of place and social identity, cross-border acquisitions, popular culture exports, and sporting mega-events; country-of-origin research, cross-cultural consumer behaviour, international marketing, destination branding, and brand modelling; and cutting-edge methodological approaches and managerial best practices in place marketing. The book's interdisciplinary know-how and approach makes it an invaluable and comprehensive reference for researchers, managers, consultants, and students alike, in areas from marketing, place management, international business, and tourism to communications, social psychology, urban geography, and regional economics"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781788119405
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Forschung ; Universitäre Forschung ; Industrieforschung ; Theorie ; Research Handbooks, manuals, etc Methodology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contents: Preface and acknowledgements -- Part I: What and why -- 1. Theory-driven, practice-driven, and "sweet spot" management research -- 2. Developing your research philosophy -- 3. Creating value in organizational research: A relational view -- 4. Relevant research: Yesterday and today -- Part II: How -- 5. Theorizing and practice -- 6. Research and practice -- 7. Communicating research to scholars and practitioners -- 8. Managing research relationships in the field -- 9. Being a sweet spot researcher -- Index.
    Abstract: "Amidst rapid and fundamental shifts in the economic, geo-political, technological, and societal landscape, this cutting-edge book makes the timeless case that research can be informed by problems in the 'real world' and make important contributions to theory and practice. Throughout the book, the authors argue that there is a 'sweet spot' where both scholarly and practical research can be done simultaneously. It offers readers insightful and rich examples of how this can be achieved, including frameworks, examples, ideas, and tools which will guide researchers in the lifelong task of defining themselves as researchers and crafting their own unique research practice. It also features critical insights into careers oriented toward having impact on practice, reflective questions that make the principles personal and relevant, and a framework to help develop the network of connections required for research to impact practice. Speaking to the graduate student in all of us, How to Do Relevant Research will greatly benefit Ph.D. students and early career academics who gravitate towards this kind of research but worry about its feasibility and instrumentality, mid-to-late career scholars who do research for practice and teach young scholars how to do it, and to researchers in a think-tank or consultancy who want their work to be scientifically sound and practically useful"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 5
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781789905021
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgar research agendas series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Stress ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Coping-Strategie ; Arbeitszufriedenheit ; Theorie ; Welt ; Job stress Research ; Work environment Research ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contents: Part I: Setting the scene -- 1. Introduction to a research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing / E. Kevin Kelloway and Cary L. Cooper -- 2. Workplace stress and wellbeing: Pathways for future research advances / James Campbell Quick -- 3. The cost of stress to uk employers and employees / Christian van Stolk -- Part II: Specific influences -- 4. Leadership and well-being / Shani Pupco and Julian Barling -- 5. Observer interventions in workplace aggression: The state of the art and future directions / Ivana Vranjes, Zhanna Lyubykh and M. Sandy Hershcovis -- 6. Are your smart technologies 'killing it' or killing you? Developing a research agenda for workplace ict and worker wellbeing / Arla Day, Ryan Cook, Rachael Jones-Chick and Vanessa Myers -- 7. Work-family research: Questioning assumptions and looking forward for true impact / Winny Shen and Kristen M. Shockley -- Part III: Interventions -- 8. Mental health in the workplace: Where we've been and where we're going / Jennifer K. Dimoff, Whitney E.S. Vogel and Olivia Yoder -- 9. Managing work stress: The research agenda / Sheena Johnson and Elinor O'Connor -- 10. Cautions for mindfulness research in organisations: Taking stock and moving forward / Maree Roche, Michelle R. Tuckey and Ute R. Hülsheger -- 11. Organizational interventions - fitting the intervention to the context to ensure the participatory process / Karina Nielsen, Carolyn Axtell and Glorian Sorensen -- 12. Covid-19: Short- and long-term impacts on work and well-being / Gary W. Ivey, Jennifer E.C. Lee, Deniz Fikretoglu, Eva Guérin, Christine Frank, Stacey Silins, Donna I. Pickering, Megan M. Thompson and Madeleine T. D'Agata -- Index.
    Abstract: "Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This insightful Research Agenda considers the current state of research into workplace stress and wellbeing and maps an innovative programme for future investigation that can advance understanding of the interrelationships between work and wellbeing. Bringing together international contributors to outline the field, the book examines the various costs and impacts of workplace stress on employers and employees. Chapters address key features of the workplace that influence employee wellbeing, including technology use, leadership, work-family relationships and aggression, as well as the unique contemporary effects of Covid-19 on wellbeing. Identifying both substantive and methodological questions that remain unanswered, the book considers the benefits of intervention strategies that are designed to enhance individual wellbeing in the workplace. Offering a unique picture of the field, this timely book is crucial reading for researchers and graduate students focused on work and wellbeing who are looking for new and innovative avenues for research. Managers and other practitioners will also benefit from its practical insights into the challenges posed by workplace stress and the potential strategies for managing stress"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781035305612
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 349 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Goodhart, Charles A. E., 1936 - The challenge of financial stability
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    Keywords: Finanzkrise ; Geldpolitik ; Theorie ; Monetary policy ; Finance, Public ; Monetary policy ; Finance, Public ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Internationaler Kreditmarkt ; Kapitalmarkt ; Regulierung ; Stabilität
    Abstract: The achievement of financial stability is one of the most pressing issues today. This timely and innovative book provides an analytical framework to assess financial (in)stability as an equilibrium phenomenon compatible with the orderly functioning of a modern market economy. The authors expertly show how good regulatory policy can be implemented and that its effects on the real as well as the nominal side of the economy can be properly analysed. The core of their approach is to take realistic account of the interaction between endogenous default, agent heterogeneity and money and liquidity, and suggest how a quantifiable metric of financial fragility could be developed. This insightful book will serve as a basis for future work on financial stability management for both academics and policy-makers and provide guidance on how to undertake crisis prevention and resolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos -- Part I: Overview -- 2. 'Analysis of financial stability', / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos in Pierre L. Siklos, Martin T. Bohl and Mark E. Bohar (eds), Challenges in Central Banking: The Current Institutional Environment and Forces Affecting Monetary Policy, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.121-45 -- 3. 'Evaluation of macroeconomic models for financial stability analysis', / Gunnar Bårdsen, Kjersti-Gro Lindquist and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, Journal of World Economic Review, 3 (1), January-June 2008, 7-32 -- Part II: Theory -- 4. 'Equilibrium analysis, banking and financial instability', / Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 39, 2003, 619-55 -- 5. 'A model to analyse financial fragility', / with Pojanart Sunirand, Economic Theory, 27, 2006, 107-42 -- 6. 'On modelling endogenous default', / Dimitrios P. Tsomocos and Lea Zicchino, OFRC-fe, 2005, 1-19 -- 7. 'Banks, relative performance, and sequential contagion', / with Sudipto Bhattacharya and Pojanart Sunirand, Economic Theory, 32, 2007, 381-98 -- Part III: Applications -- 8. 'A model to analysis financial fragility: Applications', / with Pojanart Sunirand, Journal of Financial Stability, 1, 2004, 1-30 -- 9. 'A risk assessment model for banks', / with Pojanart Sunirand, Annals of Finance, 2, 2006, 1-21 -- 10. 'A time series analysis of financial fragility in the UK banking system', / with Pojanart Sunirand, Annals of Finance, 2, 2006, 1-21 -- 11. 'An equilibrium approach to financial stability analysis: The colombian case', / Agustín Saade, Daniel Osorio and Dairo Estrada, Annals of Finance, 3, 2007, 75-105 -- 12. 'A model of financial fragility', / Kevin James, CCBS, 2006, 1-8 -- Part IV: Liquidity and collateral -- 13. 'Modeling a housing and mortgage crisis', / with Alexandros P. Vardoulakis, Financial Stability, Monetary Policy, and Central Banking, 2010, 215-53 -- 14. State prices, liquidity, and default', / with Raphaël A. Espinoza, Economic Theory, 39, 2009, 177-94 -- Part V: Conclusion -- 15. Conclusion / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035305681
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 482 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Salzberger, Thomas Measurement in marketing research
    DDC: 658.83
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    Keywords: Marktforschung ; Messung ; Multivariate Analyse ; Theorie ; Marketing research Methodology ; Rasch models ; Marketingforschung ; Latente Variable ; Stochastisches Modell ; Quantitative Methode ; Marketingforschung ; Latente Variable ; Stochastisches Modell ; Quantitative Methode
    Abstract: Measurement in Marketing Research investigates latent variables in marketing, focusing on current paradigms as well as recently suggested alternative concepts. The book proposes a unified scientific definition of measurement that allows for testing the hypothesis of the real existence of a latent variable. Thomas Salzberger analyses current measurement approaches in terms of their compliance with the scientific requirements of measurement. He reaches the conclusion that the predominantly applied practices, to a varying extent, suffer from substantial shortcomings, and suggests an alternative framework of measurement based on the philosophy of Rasch modelling. In the Rasch model great importance is attached to the mathematical principles of measurements, which take precedence over 'flexibility' in terms of accommodating idiosyncrasies of the data. The Rasch model promises to narrow the gap between the quality of measurement in the natural sciences and in the social sciences. The future of measurement in marketing is about to be set. This book aims to raise researchers' awareness of measurement issues and to contribute to a transfer of knowledge from psychometrics into marketing research. Marketing researchers and postgraduate students will find this book invaluable
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Quantitative research in marketing -- 2. Contemporary measurement in marketing research -- 3. New contributions on measurement in marketing -- 4. The requirements of measurement -- 5. A new agenda of measurement in marketing -- 6. Scientific and practical marketing research -- 7. Empirical examples -- 8. Conclusions and discussion -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-464) and indexes
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    ISBN: 9781035305711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xlii, 209 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Taxation and the promotion of human happiness
    DDC: 336.2001
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    Keywords: Steuertheorie ; Steuerinzidenz ; Steuereinnahmen ; Steuergerechtigkeit ; Zufriedenheit ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Theorie ; Taxation ; Steuerpolitik ; Utilitarismus
    Abstract: George Warde Norman was a Director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872, a key figure behind the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and one of the founders of the Political Economy Club. In 1821 G.W. Norman began an essay on taxation as part of the utilitarian programme. His vision was for increased human happiness through a wholesale reform of the revenue system founded upon direct taxation in the form of a comprehensive property tax. He continued to work on the essay over many years, never losing his faith in the utilitarian ideal or his belief in the property tax solution as the key to fiscal happiness. This book represents G.W. Norman's final thoughts, themselves a manifestation of a significant element in the development of 19th century policy and institutions. This edition of a hitherto unknown work demonstrates the importance of utilitarianism to liberal thinking on taxation. As such, this unique book will appeal to specialists in the history of economic thought and to historians, especially those with an interest in the history of public finance, an area in which G.W. Norman's contribution has been almost entirely overlooked. Providing a new and previously unexploited source, it should also prove to be a fascinating read for postgraduates working in these fields
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Political economy and taxation -- 2. Advantages of taxation -- Part II: Qualities of taxation -- 3. Taxes and other sources of revenue -- 4. Computability -- 5. Simplicity -- 6. Frugality in collection -- 7. Constancy -- 8. Divisibility -- 9. Popularity -- 10. Noninterference -- 11. Equality -- 12. Uncorruptiveness -- 13. Unvexatiousness -- 14. Unevasibility -- Part III: Review of existing or supposed taxes -- 15. Motive influencing the framers of taxes -- 16. General observations on indirect taxes -- 17. Custom house duties -- 18. The excise monopolies -- 19. Taxes on particular classes or persons -- 20. Direct taxes on objects of luxury -- 21. Taxes on travelling and the conveyance of intelligence -- 22. Taxes on justice -- 23. Taxes on the transfer of property, on knowledge, on prudence, on ingenuity, and on health -- 24. Taxes on rent, tythe, land tax -- 25. Continuation of taxes on rent, poor rate, house and window tax -- 26. The poll-tax -- 27. Legacy duty and stamp duty on probates of wills -- 28. The assessed taxes and stamp duties -- 29. Turnpike and bridge tolls, barrières and harbour and light dues -- 30. Taxes on vices -- 31. The income tax in England -- 32. An improved property tax -- 33. Proposals for reform -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages xli-xlii) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035305674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 599 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rose, Adam Economics of climate change policy
    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Klimaschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Environmental economics ; Climatic changes Economic aspects ; Global warming Economic aspects ; Carbon dioxide mitigation Economic aspects ; Greenhouse gas mitigation Economic aspects ; Energy policy Economic aspects ; Anthropogene Klimaänderung ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirtschaft ; Umweltökonomie ; Klimaschutz ; Treibhausgas ; Emissionsverringerung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Treibhauseffekt
    Abstract: This important collection embodies the author's pioneering and on-going efforts to incorporate equity and efficiency principles into the economics of climate change policy. It represents a valuable compendium of work, both previously published and original, the range of which is not otherwise readily accessible. Adam Rose was one of the first both to identify the central role of equity among nations and regions in addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and to quantify many equity principles so that they could be incorporated into formal models. Comprising classic explorations into GHG emission trading design with respect to burden-sharing, borrowing and banking, and political constraints, the papers contained in this volume provide guidance on coalition choices for individual states of the US and partnership choices for developing countries involved in the Clean Development Mechanism today and in emission allowance trading in the future. The impacts of mitigation policy across industries and socioeconomic groups are also analysed, using computable general equilibrium models to examine the economic implications of carbon taxes, fuel taxes, tradable emission permits, and strict regulation. In addition, the book establishes a firm grounding for policy analysis by providing a basic understanding of the carbon cycle, drivers of GHG emissions, and some economic impacts of climate change. The Economics of Climate Change Policy will be of great interest and value to academics and students of environmental economics and policy and will be welcomed by environmental policy-makers involved in climate change issues at the local, regional, national and international level
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction: A personal, professional and policy odyssey -- Part I: Introduction and overview -- 1. 'Introduction: Nature of the issue and policy options' -- 2. 'What are the options that could significantly affect the North American carbon cycle?' -- 3. 'An international system of tradeable co2 entitlements: Implications for economic development' -- 4. 'Global warming policy: Who decides what is fair?' -- 5. 'Greenhouse gas mitigation action planning: An overview' -- Part II: Greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts -- 6. 'A greenhouse gas emissions inventory for pennsylvania' -- 7. 'Carbon dioxide emissions in the us economy: A structural decomposition analysis' -- 8. 'Characterizing regional economic impacts and responses to climate change' -- 9. 'Simulating the economic impacts of climate change in the mid-atlantic region' -- 10. 'Global climate change and the value of solar energy in us agriculture' -- Part III: Efficiency considerations in policy design -- 11. 'The efficiency and equity of marketable permits for co2 emissions' -- 12. 'Regrets or no regrets - that is the question: Is conservation a costless co2 mitigation strategy?' -- 13. 'The changing role of transaction costs in the evolution of joint implementation' -- 14. 'An economic analysis of flexible permit trading in the kyoto protocol' -- 15. 'A dynamic analysis of the marketable permits approach to global warming policy: A comparison of spatial and temporal flexibility' -- Part IV: International equity and global cooperation -- 16. 'Reducing conflict in global warming policy: The potential of equity as a unifying principle' -- 17. 'Equity in environmental policy with an application to global warming' -- 18. 'Long-run implications for developing countries of joint implementation of greenhouse gas mitigation' -- 19. 'International equity and differentiation in global warming policy' -- 20. 'Greenhouse gas emissions trading among Pacific rim countries: An analysis of policies to bring developing countries to the bargaining table' -- Part V: National impacts of mitigation policy -- 21. 'Motor-fuel taxes and household welfare: An applied general equilibrium analysis' -- 22. 'Global warming policy, energy, and the Chinese economy' -- 23. 'Greenhouse gas reduction policy in the United States: Identifying winners and losers in an expanded permit trading system' -- 24. 'Interregional burden-sharing of greenhouse gas mitigation in the United States' -- 25. 'Regional carbon dioxide permit trading in the United States: Coalition choices for pennsylvania' -- Part VI: Regional impacts of mitigation policy -- 26. 'Global warming policy and the pennsylvania economy: A computable general equilibrium analysis' -- 27. 'The impact of a carbon tax on the susquehanna river basin economy' -- 28. 'Assessing the impacts of carbon emission reduction policies on the mid-atlantic regional economy: A dynamic computable general equilibrium analysis' -- 29. 'Income distribution impacts of climate change mitigation policy in the susquehanna river basin economy' -- 30. 'Climate change policy formation in minnesota: The case for a regional approach' -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035306176
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 257 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Freeman, Christopher, 1921 - 2010 Systems of innovation
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Evolutionary economics ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Evolutionary economics ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Technische Innovation ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Technische Innovation ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Books on innovation have proliferated in the last quarter of a century, during what the author describes as 'the Schumpeterian Renaissance'. This volume provides an authoritative account of many of these new developments and represents the foundation of much ongoing research on innovation. This superlative set of essays by Chris Freeman, founder of SPRU and one of the pioneers of innovation studies, will be of interest to anyone wanting to gain a deeper understanding of technical and social change. The wide-scope lens of the author covers topics ranging from business cycles, through National Systems of Innovation to the information technology paradigm. Having this valuable material in a single volume will be welcomed by all those involved in the economics of innovation, be it in theory, policy or practice
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / by Giovanni Dosi -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Technological infrastructure and international competitiveness -- 3. Structural crises of adjustment, business cycles and investment behaviour with carlota perez -- 4. Innovation and growth -- 5. Family allowances, technical change, inequality and social policy -- 6. Continental, national and sub-national innovation systems - complementarity and economic growth -- 7. Rise of east Asian economies and the computerisation of the world economy -- 8. A hard landing for the 'new economy'? Information technology and the United States national system of innovation -- 9. 'Catching up' and innovation systems: Implications for eastern Europe -- 10. The ict paradigm -- 11. A schumpeterian renaissance? -- 12. Conclusions: A 'theory of reasoned history' -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781781959176
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 324 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New thinking in political economy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Humane economics
    DDC: 300.092
    Keywords: Lavoie, Don ; Lavoie, Don ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Humanismus ; Sozialismus ; Informationstechnik ; Entrepreneurship ; Marktmechanismus ; Theorie ; Wissenssoziologie ; Economics Philosophy ; Hermeneutics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Humanismus
    Abstract: Don Lavoie's published work encompasses a wide range of subjects - socialism, hermeneutics, information technology, and culture. The subjects appear unrelated, but a close examination of his research reveals an underlying unity of thought and an economics at sharp variance with the post World War II mainstream. The contributors to this volume explore the legacy of his scholarship and its implications for economics. Three themes run throughout Don Lavoie's work and are explored in these chapters, the overarching one being the importance of social intelligence to economics. Second, and related to this, was his belief that certain institutions or practices are better at creating social intelligence than others - what might be termed the primacy of liberty or voluntaryism. Thirdly, he asserted that economics is more closely aligned with the humane disciplines than with the physical. As these essays make clear, if the next generation of economists does integrate economics with the humanities, some of the credit must go to Don Lavoie. Students and scholars of economics, methodology, and the humanities more broadly will find this a provocative and enriching collection
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introductory -- 1. Humane economics: An Introduction to the work of don lavoie / Jack High -- Part II: Socialist calculation -- 2. Calculation, competition and entrepreneurship / Israel M. Kirzner -- 3. Don lavoie's contributions to comparative economics / Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko -- 4. A typology of interventionist dynamics / Robert L. Bradley Jr. -- Part III: Information technology -- 5. Institutions as abstraction boundaries / Bill Tulloh and Mark S. Miller / / 6. 'New' Collaborative Learning Environments: The Convergence of Hermeneutics and Hypertext / Virgil Henry Storr -- Part IV: Philosophy -- 7. Hermeneutics and liberty: Remembrance of don lavoie / G.B. Madison -- 8. Hermeneutics in economics: On the status of 'as-if' functions / Wayne J. Froman -- 9. Humility and truth in economics / Deirdre McCloskey -- Part V: Cultural studies -- 10. The development of cultural economy: Foundational questions and future direction / Emily Chamlee-Wright -- 11. Innovation of cardio-imaging technology at hewlett-packard and hp/philips / Don E. Kash -- Part VI: Appendix -- 12. Subjective orientation and objective wealth: Entrepreneurship and the convergence of groupware and hypertext capabilities / Don Lavoie -- Bibliography of don lavoie's publications -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781008164
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Series Statement: New dimensions in networks
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Daniele, Patrizia Dynamic networks and evolutionary variational inequalities
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    Keywords: Netzwerk ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Gleichgewichtstheorie ; Dynamisches Gleichgewicht ; Theorie ; Equilibrium (Economics) ; Netzwerk ; Gleichgewichtstheorie ; Dynamisches Gleichgewicht ; Netzwerk ; Gleichgewichtstheorie ; Dynamisches Gleichgewicht ; Dynamisches Netzwerk
    Abstract: Exposed to powerful new economic forces, and undergoing dramatic ownership reforms and technological changes, China's industries are modernizing at a breakneck pace. In many industries, the outcomes have been chaotic and poorly aligned with societal objectives. This book analyses the transformation and modernization of China's industries through a detailed investigation of the wool and wool textile industries. The authors argue that to remain internationally competitive in the post WTO accession era, Chinese industries need to confront a critical new phase in the modernization process - that of improving management practices and industry co-ordination. Modernizing China's Industries is a comprehensive, integrated and in-depth investigation of industry transformation and modernization. The extensive first-hand research, across a range of industry segments and participants, spans almost two decades. The analysis reveals much about industry modernization and transition in China for a broad range of industries and therefore provides invaluable information for developing strategies and accessing opportunities within China. This book offers unique insights for academics and researchers in Asian studies, transition studies and industrial transformation, as well as policymakers and industry leaders interested in both the intricacies and mega-forces involved in China's industrial modernization. The comprehensive industry analysis also provides a valuable reference for professionals in the increasingly China-centric world of wool and wool textiles as well as offering insights for other textile industry professionals
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Mega-forces and mega-consequences -- 2. Wool textiles and industry transformation -- 3. Evolving institutions -- 4. Changing marketing channels -- 5. Restructuring the processing sector -- 6. Reformingtrading arrangements -- 7. Redesigning domestic raw material supply chains -- 8. Reorganizing domestic raw material production -- 9. Understanding and improving industry transformation -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781008218
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 427 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Economic growth and distribution
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum ; Entwicklung ; Einkommensverteilung ; Vermögensverteilung ; Lohnquote ; Gewinnquote ; Armut ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Theorie ; Wirtschaftsmodell ; Economic development ; Endogenous growth (Economics) ; Distribution (Economic theory) ; Distribution (Economic theory) ; Economic development ; Wealth ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wachstumstheorie ; Einkommensverteilung
    Abstract: Economic Growth and Distribution isolates and compares the logical structures and methodological underpinnings underlying the relationship between economic growth and distribution. It carries out an in-depth analysis of a wide range of issues connected with growth theory considered from different theoretical perspectives. Its uniqueness is derived from the original contributions by a number of scholars of different persuasions; some within the mainstream and others from Keynesian-Kaleckian-Sraffian positions. The book deals with a wide variety of research topics concerning economic growth and distribution, such as the transition from the epoch of Malthusian stagnation to the contemporary era of modern economic growth; comparisons among the classical tradition, modern theory, and heterodox models; problems of policy; dynamics and business cycles; and the role of institutions. For its emphasis on comparisons and complementariness among alternative theories of growth and distribution, Economic Growth and Distribution complements the work of advanced textbooks on the topic. It is a companion to Innovation, Unemployment and Policy in the Theories of Growth and Distribution (edited by N. Salvadori and R. Balducci) and Classical, Neoclassical and Keynesian Views on Growth and Distribution (edited by N. Salvadori and C. Panico). The book will be appreciated by scholars of the theory of economic growth, the theory of distribution, macroeconomics, classical and Keynesian economics, as well as historians of economic thought
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction / Neri Salvadori -- 1. Inequality and the process of development / Oded Galor -- 2. The role of income distribution in long run endogenous growth / Amit Bhaduri -- 3. The competition-of-capitals doctrine and the wage-profit relationship / Ferdinando Meacci -- 4. A heterodox growth and distribution model / Duncan K. Foley and Lance Taylor -- 5. Distribution and growth in a post-Keynesian stock-flow consistent model / Gennaro Zezza and Claudio H. Dos Santos -- 6. Technological progress, income distribution and capacity utilization / Fabio Hideki Ono and José Luís Oreiro -- 7. Demand-led growth and the classical approach to value and distribution: Are they compatible? / Graham White -- 8. Macroeconomic volatility and income inequality in a stochastically growing economy / Cecilia García-Peñalosa and Stephen J. Turnovsky -- 9. The saving-investment nexus in the debate on pension reforms / Sergio Cesaratto -- 10. Income distribution and output change: A macro multiplier approach / Maurizio Ciaschini and Claudio Socci -- 11. A dynamic age model from a classical-Keynesian-schumpeterian approach / Oscar De-Juan -- 12. Heterodox business cycles / Lance Taylor, Nelson H. Barbosa-Filho and Codrina Rada -- 13. Technological innovation, financial fragility and complex dynamics / Alberto Russo, Domenico Delli Gatti and Mauro Gallegati -- 14. Growth, history and institutions / Graziella Bertocchi -- 15. Religious culture, institutions and growth / Michele Bagella, Leonardo Becchetti and Stefano Caiazza -- 16. Trade, poverty and growth: Two perspectives, one message? / Gabriella Berloffa and Maria Luigia Segnana -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781958308
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Martin, Robert E. Cost control, college access, and competition in higher education
    DDC: 338.43378
    Keywords: Hochschulfinanzierung ; Studienfinanzierung ; Bildungsökonomik ; Wettbewerb ; Produktionstheorie ; Kostentheorie ; Theorie ; Großbritannien ; Education, Higher Economic aspects ; Education, Higher Great Britain ; Standards ; Higher education and state Great Britain ; Education, Higher Great Britain ; Finance
    Abstract: Quality has never been more important for the future of higher education and the economy than it is today. Unfortunately, the decline in student quality is accompanied by costs that are out of control, a governance system that will not permit any reallocation of resources, and a society that expects higher education to address problems that are well beyond its core competencies. In this timely volume, Robert E. Martin presents a thorough treatment of the social contract between those who fund higher education and those who benefit from it. In-depth discussions include: * the institution's role as steward of the higher education social contract * the role of transaction costs, risk bearing, production technology, and asset ownership in determining the internal structure of the institution * the market for academic charities * price, quality, and advertising competition in higher education. Formal models of production and cost, optimal fundraising, the maximization of academic reputation, agency behavior, and the student's enrollment decision are also presented and analyzed. Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education will be of great interest to higher education researchers and administrators, economists, and public policymakers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. The social contract -- 2. Foundations -- 3. Production and cost -- 4. The charity market -- 5. An enterprise model -- 6. Price and product differentiation -- 7. College access -- 8. Overview -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781958223
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 305 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dellink, Rob B. Modelling the costs of environmental policy
    DDC: 333.7/01/1
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Umweltökonomik ; Soziale Kosten ; Dynamisches Gleichgewicht ; Theorie ; Environmental policy Costs ; Environmental economics ; Bibliografie ; Kosten ; Umweltschutz ; Gleichgewichtstheorie ; Modellierung ; Umweltschutz ; Kosten
    Abstract: This important new book enhances our understanding of the dynamic interactions between economic activity, economic growth, pollution abatement and environmental policy. It addresses one main policy problem: how can the direct and indirect costs of environmental policy for multiple pollutants be properly assessed in an applied model? Using an original methodology, the author constructs a multi-sectoral dynamic applied general equilibrium model. This new integrated model greatly improves the empirical analysis of the dynamic reactions of economic agents to pollution control, explicitly taking into account the direct and indirect effects of abatement on the economy and the environment. The author goes on to apply the model to study the costs of various environmental policies including climate change, acidification, eutrophication, smog formation and the dispersion of fine dust. He finds that if environmental policies can be implemented simultaneously and in a cost-effective manner, the economic costs of these policies can be effectively limited through a combination of economic restructuring and adopting technical abatement measures. Modelling the Costs of Environmental Policy will prove essential and enlightening reading for scholars, students and researchers of environmental and resource economics, environmental policy and economic modelling
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pollution and abatement in economic modelling -- 3. Dynamic analysis of pollution and abatement in an applied general equilibrium model -- 4. Specification of a dynamic applied general equilibrium model with pollution and abatement for the Netherlands (dean) -- 5. Calibration of the dean model to the Netherlands -- 6. Dynamic empirical analysis of environmental policy -- In the Netherlands using dean -- 7. Alternative specifications of the dean model -- 8. Final discussion and conclusions -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305179
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 264 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Advances in ecological economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mulder, Peter, - 1974- The economics of technology diffusion and energy efficiency
    DDC: 333.79/17
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    Keywords: Innovationsdiffusion ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Energiekonsum ; Energieeinsparung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Diffusion of innovations Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Environmental aspects ; Economic development Environmental aspects ; Energy conservation Technological innovations ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Technische Innovation ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Energieeinsparung
    Abstract: Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not invest in best-practice technologies. The author offers important new explanations for this energy-efficiency paradox. This volume contributes to a better understanding of the interplay between economic growth, energy use and technological change, with particular emphasis on the adoption and diffusion of energy-saving technologies. In the theoretical section, the author examines how several characteristics of technological change and environmental policy affect the dynamics of technology choice. He demonstrates how technological complementarity, learning processes and uncertainty can help explain why the innovation and diffusion of new technologies is such a protracted and complex procedure. The empirical section explores long-run trends in energy and labour productivity performance, as well as patterns of substitutability and technological change across a range of OECD countries. The book concludes by integrating the results in an applied policy model of economy-energy interaction. This book is unique in applying insights from different perspectives to the field of energy economics, and by focusing on the diffusion of energy-saving technologies rather than their innovation. It will be of immense value to academics and policymakers with an interest in energy economics, environmental economics and the interaction between economic growth and natural resources
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Technological change, economic growth and energy use -- 2. Economic theory -- Of growth and technological change: A neoclassical versus an evolutionary perspective -- Part II: Theoretical models -- 3. Explaining slow diffusion of energy-saving technologies: Returns-to-diversity and learning-by-using in a vintage model -- 4. Subsidizing the adoption of energy-saving technologies -- Part III: Empirical analyses -- 5. International comparisons of sectoral energy and labour productivity: Stylized facts and decomposition of trends -- 6. Sectoral energy and labour productivity convergence -- Part IV: Policy analyses and conclusions -- 7. Dynamics of technology diffusion in an applied energy-economic model for the Netherlands -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781959091
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 215 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Advances in ecological economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hoekstra, Rutger, 1974 - Economic growth, material flows and the environment
    Dissertation note: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Free University, Amsterdam, 2003
    DDC: 333.7/01/5195
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    Keywords: Stoffstrommanagement ; Input-Output-Analyse ; Dekompositionsverfahren ; Kunststoffindustrie ; Theorie ; Niederlande ; Stahlprodukt ; Environmental economics Mathematical models ; Sustainable development Mathematical models ; Natural resources Mathematical models ; Materials management Economic aspects ; Hochschulschrift ; Umweltökonomie ; Input-Output-Tabelle ; Stoffstrommanagement ; Kreislaufwirtschaft ; Eisenherstellung ; Stahlproduktion ; Kunststoffherstellung
    Abstract: Rutger Hoekstra examines the complex relationship between the monetary economy and the materials flows that are extracted and emitted by economic activities. These physical flows are responsible for many important environmental problems such as unsustainable resource depletion, waste production and climate change. This book discusses, applies and improves upon techniques which link the monetary and physical economies for environmental analyses. The book uses two sources of analysis: the physical input-output table (PIOT), a macro-economic account for the physical economy, recording material and product flows, including resource extraction, emissions and recycling; and structural decomposition analysis (SDA), which assesses the influence of structural changes, such as economic growth, consumption shifts, export growth and technological change, on environmental indicators. Methodological improvements in the PIOT and SDA systems are then presented by the author, and applied to empirical data. Ecological and industrial economists, along with those with an interest in environmental problems associated with the economy will find this book, with its extensive historical analysis and novel fore- and back-casting models, to be a fascinating read
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Input-output tables and models -- 3. Constructing input-output tables: Theory -- 4. Physical input-output tables -- 5. Hybrid input-output tables for iron and steel and plastics -- 6. Environmental structural decomposition analysis -- 7. Comparing structural and Index decomposition analysis -- 8. Structural decomposition analysis of iron and steel and plastics -- 9. Forecasting and backcasting scenarios -- 10. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782542001
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 300 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Human capital, trade, and public policy in rapidly growing economies
    DDC: 330.95
    Keywords: Humankapital ; Internationale Wirtschaft ; Produktivität ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Theorie ; Ostasien ; Human capital Congresses ; East Asia Congresses Economic conditions ; East Asia Congresses Commerce ; East Asia Congresses Foreign economic relations ; East Asia Congresses Economic policy ; Konferenzschrift ; Ostasien ; Wirtschaftswachstum
    Abstract: Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today exhibits a predilection for perpetual self-improvement. In particular, the book focuses on the forces underlying long-lasting growth in East Asia's Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs). Drawing from the experiences of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, it questions whether public policy can contribute to removing barriers towards accumulation of wealth, and if so, what development policy should be put in place to remedy the existing distortions or market failure problems. Theoretical and empirical analyses are also used to broach other important issues, such as: * Why do some economies experience growth while others decline? * What are the major determinants of long-term growth and development? * Is human capital the main driving force? * Does international trade play a crucial role? This book will appeal to those with an interest in development and public policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction: A quick reference to growth theory -- Part I: Human capital -- 2. Market structure and innovation revisited: Endogenous productivity, training and market shares -- 3. Human capital formation and patterns of growth with multiple equilibria -- 4. On the relationship between fertility and public education in different stages of development -- 5. Productivity growth and catch-up in less-developed economies -- Part II: Trade -- 6. Total factor productivity and the catching-up process -- 7. Indeterminacy in a dynamic general equilibrium model of international trade -- 8. Evaluating the quantitative effects of import restrictions - an almost neoclassical benchmark -- 9. Innovation in a shrinking world -- Part III: Public policy -- 10. Long-run effects of financial policy in an endogenously growing economy -- 11. Credit rationing, public borrowing and endogenous growth -- 12. Government expenditure and social status in a two-sector model of endogenous growth -- 13. Economic growth and the environmental kuznets curve in Taiwan: A simultaneity model analysis -- Index.
    Note: A collection of original papers, the majority presented at the International Conference on Economic Growth held at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, in December 2000 , Examines the forces underlying economic growth in the East Asian newly industrialized countries of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781781008300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 375 pages) , illustraitons
    Series Statement: New directions in modern economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Petri, Fabio, 1949 - General equilibrium, capital and macroeconomics
    DDC: 339.5
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    Keywords: Allgemeines Gleichgewicht ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Kapitaltheorie ; Theorie ; Equilibrium (Economics) ; Capital ; Macroeconomics ; Equilibrium (Economics) ; Capital ; Macroeconomics ; Bibliografie ; Gleichgewichtstheorie
    Abstract: This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very-short-period versions, has had very important consequences which are insufficiently appreciated by large parts of the economics profession. This shift has produced new difficulties, and has undermined central tenets of neoclassical macroeconomic theory (such as the negative dependence of aggregate investment on the interest rate, or the existence of a downward-sloping demand curve for labour) which had their basis in the long-period versions where capital was treated as a single factor. According to the author, what makes it difficult to appreciate these consequences is the current imperfect grasp of the long-period method (an approach common to classical and to the first generations of neoclassical economists, but nowadays often confused with steady-growth analysis). The origins of this problem date back to the 1930s, and to this day still obscure the history and the logic of the neoclassical approach. The book explains the analytical differences between long-period, steady-growth, and short-period general equilibrium analyses, and proves that on this basis considerable clarification can be achieved, not only in many aspects of the history of economic theory, but also in fundamental issues in the theories of value, distribution, capital, investment, employment and money. For example, the reasons for the disagreements in the 'Cambridge controversies' over capital theory become very apparent. This stimulating critique on the present state of economic theory will appeal to academics and researchers with an interest in macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, and the theory of value and distribution. It will also enlighten and inform anyone wanting to understand the reasons behind the current dissatisfaction with neoclassical economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The long-period method -- 2. The problematic relationship between neo-walrAsian equilibrium analyses and real economies -- 3. Long-period equilibria -- 4. Must long-period equilibria be stationary? With initial observations on investment -- 5. Walras, the shift to neo-walrAsian equilibria, and some confusions -- 6. Reswitching and reverse capital deepening -- 7. Capital theory and macroeconomics i: The theory of aggregate investment -- 8. Capital theory and macroeconomics ii: The labour demand curve -- 9. Summary of the critical argument, and sketch of an alternative approach -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305155
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 368 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Blind, Knut, 1965 - The economics of standards
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Standardisierung ; Theorie ; Standardization Economic aspects ; Normenwesen Technologie Wirtschaftstheorie ; Bibliografie ; Standardisierung ; Wirtschaftlichkeit
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the important topic of standards, which remains a vastly under-researched field of empirical inquiry. It presents a variety of interesting empirical analyses which reveal the driving forces and the economic impacts of standardization both in the manufacturing and the service sector. The author begins by providing a detailed outline of the various types of standards and their possible economic impacts. Before providing empirical validation of the theoretical arguments, he discusses the influence of standards within the regulatory system. Among the other actors in the standardization process, the author focuses in particular on the role of the firm, which acts as the main impetus for the development and implementation of new standards. He also examines the fundamental link between technical change and standardization, to assess whether this relationship is a virtuous or vicious cycle. In this context, the impact of intellectual property rights within standardization is also highlighted. Another significant aspect is the consequences of standards for trade and their role in fostering or inhibiting international trade flows. Finally, the author investigates the effect on macroeconomic growth where, especially in the new economy, formal standards are a crucial source of codified and publicly available knowledge. The analysis is based on extensive microeconomic, sectoral and macroeconomic data, which allows the author to compare the various economic impacts of standards and derive important policy conclusions. This book is a comprehensive and scholarly treatment of the economics of standards which will undoubtedly inspire further research in the field. It will be required reading for industrial economists, R&D managers and policymakers involved with innovation and trade policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. General Introduction -- Part I: The economic impacts of standards: theory -- 2. Introduction to Part I -- 3. A classification of standards by their economic effects -- 4. Specific economic impacts of standards -- Part II: The supply side of regulation: Definitions, legal implications and institutional framework of standards -- 5. Introduction to Part II -- 6. Definitions -- 7. Legal implications of formal standards -- 8. Institutional framework for the elaboration of formal standards -- Part III: The demand for standardization at standardization development organizations -- 9. Introduction to Part III -- 10. Theoretical hypotheses concerning the driving forces of standardization activities -- 11. Test of the sectoral model -- 12. Special focus: The impact of intellectual property rights on the propensity to standardize at standardization development organizations -- 13. Empirical test at the firm level -- 14. The role of standards in the service sector -- Part IV: The economic impacts of standards: Empirical evidence -- 15. Introduction to Part IV -- 16. The relationship between technical change and standardization: Virtuous or vicious circle? -- 17. The impact of technical standards on foreign trade -- 18. The macroeconomic impacts of innovation and standardization -- 19. Overall summary, future research and policy considerations -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781958667
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Modelling in ecological economics
    DDC: 333.7/01/1
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    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Mathematik ; Theorie ; Ökonometrisches Modell ; Environmental economics Methodology ; Environmental economics Econometric models ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltökonomie ; Ökonometrisches Modell
    Abstract: This book focuses on modelling in ecological economics and offers a comprehensive overview of current and emerging methods of applying mathematical, computational and conceptual methods to environmental issues. Following a detailed introduction, the authors investigate various modelling techniques including: * evolutionary modelling * input-output modelling * neo-Austrian modelling * entropy in ecological economics * thermodynamic models * multi-criteria evaluation * agent-based modelling * the environmental Kuznets curve. In each of the specially commissioned chapters, the expert authors have tried to limit the level of complexity to create a unique and accessible resource. As such, this book should have a wide appeal amongst scholars, researchers and students with an interest in modelling techniques and their use in ecological and environmental economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. An Introduction to modelling in ecological economics -- 2. Evolutionary models -- 3. Input-output models -- 4. Neo-austrian models -- 5. Entropy in ecological economics -- 6. Thermodynamic models -- 7. Multi-criteria evaluation -- 8. Agent-based models -- 9. The environmental kuznets curve -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305223
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 139 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Lemmens, Charmianne E. A. V., - 1975- Innovation in technology alliance networks
    DDC: 338.8/7
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    Keywords: Strategische Allianz ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Forschungskooperation ; Innovationsdiffusion ; Hochtechnologie ; Theorie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Soziale Beziehungen ; Strategic alliances (Business) ; Business networks ; High technology industries ; Bibliografie ; Unternehmen ; Technologiemanagement ; Strategische Allianz ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Innovationsfähigkeit
    Abstract: This book studies the dynamics of alliance group formation in technology-based networks. The author attempts to develop the concept of alliance blocks from a social network perspective, and explores the relationship between alliance block membership and innovative performance in a changing technological environment. The book demonstrates that as an alliance network grows, the likelihood of alliance block formation also increases. The author presents evidence that pursuing a block membership strategy favourably affects innovative performance. This is true for conditions of both cumulative and disruptive technological change. However, over time the technology profiles of alliance block members tend to become more similar, which can eventually lead to a reduction in innovative activity. She also reveals that, when compared to their non-member counterparts, firms in alliance blocks are likely to apply for more patents, hold more central positions in the network, have larger revenues and undertake more R&D intensive research. In addition, they are also inclined to originate from an Asian background. This is the first book to propose a well-developed theoretical framework, supported by empirical evidence, to explain alliance block formation processes and their effect on innovative performance. As such, it fills a substantial gap in the literature on competitive rivalry among alliances, an increasingly important area of research. It will be essential reading for academics and practitioners in the fields of industrial organization, strategic management, technological alliances, competition and innovation studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction to the study -- 2. Definitions, data and methodology -- 3. The enabling effect of embeddedness -- 4. The constraining effect of embeddedness -- 5. Alliance block members: Who are they? -- 6. The innovative performance of block members -- 7. Technological change and performance of block members -- 8. Discussion and conclusions -- 9. Summary -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-136) and index
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    ISBN: 9781781958698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Central banking in the modern world
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    Keywords: Geldpolitik ; Zinspolitik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Banks and banking, Central ; Monetary policy ; Interest rates ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Notenbank
    Abstract: Monetarism is dead! Central bankers are all Wicksellians now! They target low inflation rates, with no regard to monetary aggregates whatsoever, by acting upon short-term real rates of interest. This is the New Consensus in monetary economics, or simply the New Keynesian Synthesis. Yet, this synthesis still hinges on variants of the long-run vertical Phillips curve originally proposed by Milton Friedman, the father of old-line monetarism. Contributors to the volume question this New Consensus. While they agree that the money supply should be conceived as endogenous, they carefully examine the procedures pursued by central banks, the monetary policy transmission mechanisms suggested by central bankers themselves, and the assumptions imbedded in the New Consensus. They propose alternative analyses that clearly demonstrate the limits of modern central banking and point to the possible instability of monetary economies. Heterodox and orthodox monetary macroeconomists alike will find this illuminating book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: The new consensus -- 1. The new consensus on monetary policy seen from a post-Keynesian perspective -- 2. Central banking, stability and macroeconomic outcomes: A comparison of new consensus and post-Keynesian monetary macroeconomics -- 3. Interest rate operating procedures and income distribution -- 4. Monetary policy when money is endogenous: Going beyond the 'new consensus' -- Part II: Transmission mechanisms -- 5. Monetary dialogue and dogma at the bank of Canada: Inside -- 6. Interest rate policy at the bank of Canada: Setting the agenda -- 7. Modern central banks only have real effects -- 8. Central banking in the monetary circuit -- 9. Long-term interest rates, liquidity preference, and the limits of central banking -- 10. The role of monetary policy in post-Keynesian stock-flow consistent macroeconomic growth models -- Part III: Historical perspectives -- 11. The effectiveness of monetary policy in open economy macroeconomics: Dornbusch versus tobin -- 12. Minsky and tobin on the instability of a monetary economy -- 13. Considerations on allan h. Meltzer's history of the federal reserve -- 14. Central banking in early industrialization -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781781958605
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 510 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management
    DDC: 658.4/038
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    Keywords: Wissenstransfer ; Spillover-Effekt ; Technologietransfer ; Standort ; Theorie ; Welt ; Wissensmanagement ; Technology transfer Congresses Economic aspects ; Knowledge management Congresses ; Technological innovations Congresses Economic aspects ; Technology transfer Congresses Economic aspects ; Knowledge management Congresses ; Technological innovations Congresses Economic aspects ; Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Wissensmanagement ; Wissen ; Spill-over-Effekt
    Abstract: This book reveals the key importance, in terms of international competitiveness, of firms' capability to adapt to, and develop, new technologies. At the same time, the authors argue that the sheer complexity of emerging technologies is such that the knowledge involved in their creation is likely to be dispersed and distributed between many individuals and over numerous locations. The authors argue that even if one assumes that the internal knowledge base is of strategic importance to many companies, most of the knowledge used by the majority of companies is developed outside the company. Since much knowledge is tacit in nature, the location of companies and their different departments become vital in accessing such knowledge, and there are strong reasons to believe that spillover effects are geographically bounded. Hence, it may often be of strategic importance to companies and their competitiveness to be represented in the 'right' industrial clusters. This book highlights a number of issues at the leading edge of both research and policy making, such as knowledge generation/production, knowledge distribution/transfer, knowledge spillovers, learning, knowledge management, information logistics, industrial clusters, industrial networks and regional innovation systems. This book will appeal to academics and researchers of knowledge management, technology and innovation and industrial organisation. Policy makers and planners in international organisations, national and regional governments - in particular those dealing with R&D policies, industrial policies and regional policies - will also find much to engage them
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management -- Part I: Knowledge spillovers -- Part II: Regional innovation systems -- Part III: Knowledge management -- Index.
    Note: "This book is a result of ... a workshop on Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management, held September 19-21, 2002 at the Centre for Information Logistics in Ljungby, Sweden"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304646
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 405 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Witt, Ulrich, 1946 - The evolving economy
    DDC: 330.1
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    Keywords: Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Evolutionary economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Change manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. The Evolving Economy covers a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the biological foundations of economic behavior to the co-evolution of firms, markets, and institutions. Ulrich Witt's individualistic approach synthesizes elements familiar from the writings of Veblen and Schumpeter on economic evolution. A conceptual debate on what the notion of evolution means in the economic context is as much emphasized as is the discussion of concrete hypotheses explaining why and how evolutionary economic change comes about. Offering an outline of a paradigm focusing on endogenous economic change, this book will be of great interest to economists and economic historians. Sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists will also find this work invaluable as it presents an encompassing assessment of the role of Darwinian thought for understanding human behavior and societal evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Evolutionary economics and the extension of evolution to the economy -- -- Part II: Evolutionary concepts and methodology -- 2. Emergence and dissemination of innovation: Some principles of evolutionary economics -- 3. Evolutionary concepts in economics -- 4. Coordination of individual economic activities as an evolving process of self-organization -- 5. Firms' market behavior under imperfect information and economic natural selection -- 6. "lock-in" vs. "critical masses" - industrial change under network externalities -- -- Part III: The darwinian perspective and the continuity hypothesis -- 7. Bioeconomics as economics from a darwinian perspective -- 8. Economics, sociobiology, and behavioral psychology on pReferences -- 9. Economic behavior and biological evolution: Some remarks on the sociobiology debate -- 10. Self-organization and economics - what is new? -- -- Part IV: Evolution in the context of new institutional economics and public choice -- 11. The evolution of economic institutions as a propagation process -- 12. The endogenous public choice theorist -- 13. Multiple equilibria, critical masses, and institutional change. The coup d'état problem -- 14. Evolution and stability of cooperation without enforceable contracts -- 15. Between appeasement and belligerent moralism: The evolution of moral conduct in international politics -- 16. Innovations, externalities and the problem of economic progress -- -- Part V: The evolutionary approach and the austrian school of economics -- 17. Subjectivism in economics - a suggested reorientation -- 18. Endogenous change - causes and contingencies -- 19. Turning austrian economics into an evolutionary theory -- 20. Do entrepreneurs need firms? A contribution to a missing Chapter in austrian economics -- -- Index.
    Note: Selected essays from various sources , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304233
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 194 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Fai, Felicia M., 1971 - Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification
    Keywords: 1930-1990 ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Innovation ; Unternehmen ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Patent ; Technologie ; Theorie ; USA ; Diversification in industry ; Technological innovations ; Technological innovations Management ; Organizational change ; Technologiemanagement ; Diversifikation ; Innovationsfähigkeit
    Abstract: Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this diversification with respect to firm size, technological relatedness and technological complexity in 32 firms distributed across four broadly defined industrial sectors. The findings suggest that industry and corporate technological profiles remain strong but are becoming blurred by the pervasiveness of general-purpose technologies. Although historically, diversification is associated with an increase in firm size, the author argues that in recent times it results from technological relatedness and complexity. This book will appeal to industrial and business economists, historians of business and technology, and students and scholars of technology management
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The data -- 3. Industry-specific competencies and industrial convergence -- 4. Technological persistence in the evolution of corporate technological competence -- 5. Technological diversification -- 6. Scale and scope in technology: Influences on diversification -- 7. Technological inter-relatedness and complex diversification -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-188) and index
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    ISBN: 9781781956472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 464 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Giocoli, Nicola, 1967 - Modeling rational agents
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    Keywords: Rationalität ; Neoklassische Theorie ; Wirtschaftsmodell ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Spieltheorie ; Theorie ; Economics History 20th century ; Economists History 20th century ; Neoclassical school of economics ; Rational choice theory ; Game theory ; Economics History ; 20th century ; Economists History ; 20th century ; Neoclassical school of economics ; Rational choice theory ; Game theory ; Spieltheorie ; Neoklassische Theorie ; Rationale Erwartung ; Geschichte ; Neoklassische Theorie ; Entscheidungstheorie ; Rational Choice ; Spieltheorie ; Rationalprinzip ; Geschichte 1900-1950
    Abstract: The book explores the evolution, through the first half of the 20th century, of the key neoclassical concept of rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of perfect foresight and analyses the first game-theoretic solution concepts of von Neumann and Nash. The author's proposition is that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consistency. Such a transformation paralleled that of neoclassical economics as a whole from a discipline dealing with real economic processes to one investigating issues of logical consistency between mathematical relationships. Modeling Rational Agents will be of great interest to scholars of the history of economic thought and method, as well as all those working in the field of game and decision theory
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Two images of economics -- 2. The escape from psychology -- 3. The escape from perfect foresight -- 4. Von neumann and morgenstern's game theory -- 5. Nash's game theory -- 6. Conclusion: The fall and rise of modern game theory -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 186 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Schenk, Karl-Ernst, 1929 - Economic institutions and complexity
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Institutionenökonomik ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Institutional economics ; Evolutionary economics ; Economics Political aspects ; Economics Sociological aspects ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Institutionenökonomie ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Systemtheorie ; Institutionenökonomie ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: This book presents a concept of interactive economic institutions and systems, considered by the author to be a bottleneck to scientific progress. In the author's evaluation of contemporary institutional economics, the focus is on the interaction of complex economic structures in terms of their coordination routines, emergent behavioural characteristics and also their economic performance. Differences of behaviour characteristics and economic performances are explained as consequences of differently structured coordination routines. The book demonstrates that complexity, rather than being part of the problem of institutional analysis, can be made part of the solution. Economic Institutions and Complexity will appeal to academics and researchers of New Institutional Economics, microeconomics, evolutionary economics, political science, organization sociology and behavioural science
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Paradigms and reasoning -- 1. Paradigms: Property rights and transaction cost analysis -- 2. How to represent economic institutions and systems -- Part II: Towards complex morphology -- 3. Systems, components and links -- 4. Coordination routines: Economic policy regimes -- 5. Coordination routines: Governance -- 6. Behaviour and multi-level morphology -- Part III: Analysis of complex morphology -- 7. System patterns: Dominant governmental direction -- 8. System patterns: Dominant regulatory regimes -- 9. System patterns: Dominant commercial regimes -- 10. Conclusion: Complexity, emergence and specification -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Rev. ed. of: New institutional dimensions of economics. c1988 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304769
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 361 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Tisdell, Clement A., 1939 - 2022 Ecological and environmental economics
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Ressourcenökonomik ; Umweltpolitik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Environmental economics ; Sustainable development ; Environmental economics ; Sustainable development ; Bibliografie ; Quelle ; Umweltökonomie ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: This unique collection of Clem Tisdell's articles is an eminently readable and comprehensive economic analysis of important contemporary issues involving ecological and environmental economics. Coverage includes the role of ecological economics in the modern world, welfare and ethical considerations in environmental economics, sustainability concerns, the potential role of local communities in conservation, environmental aspects of population growth, and the relevance of carrying capacity concepts. The value for environmental management of different types of governance and of alternative economic policy instruments (such as environmental taxation compared to tradable permits) is also assessed. Ecological, environmental, natural resource, geographical and development economists will all find this book of great interest and value, as will policymakers in this area
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Overview -- Part II: General issues in ecological and environmental economics -- Part III: Governance and policy instruments for environmental control -- Part IV: Environmental issues in australia, Asia and transitional economies -- Part V: Environmental health -- Index.
    Note: Previously published articles , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304844
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 285 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Globalisation, regionalism and economic activity
    DDC: 337
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    Keywords: World Trade Organization Congresses ; Globalisierung ; Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration ; Theorie ; Welt ; Foreign exchange Congresses ; Regionalism Congresses ; Globalization Congresses ; Bibliografie ; Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Welthandel ; Regionalisierung ; Globalisierung ; Welthandel ; Globalisierung ; Regionalisierung
    Abstract: The processes of globalisation and increased economic regionalism have had profound, often destabilising, effects on modern economic and financial systems. In recognition of this fact, the editors of this fine book have collected together a diverse range of heterodox ideas surrounding the complex relationships and interactions between globalisation, regionalism and economic activity. The book promotes real-world economic issues and explores them without adopting any particular methodological, ideological or theoretical agenda. A number of influential economists explore the inter-relationships between globalisation, regionalism, finance, economic growth and development from a global perspective. Amongst other topics, the book includes comprehensive discussions on fixed versus flexible exchange rates; international liquidity; the WTO dispute settlement system; the eastward expansion of the European Union; crowding-out in export led growth; demand and supply in the New Economy; the national origin of financial liberalisation in the US; and the relationship between savings and investment. The range and depth of analysis makes this book a timely and useful contribution to current policy debates. Academics, students and scholars with an interest in globalisation, international economics and macroeconomics will do well to read this eclectic and stimulating volume
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Capital account liberalisation, free long-term capital flows, financial crises and economic development -- 2. Fixed vs. flexible exchange rates, economic growth and international liquidity -- 3. Globalization, distributional conflict and inflation: The case of the us economy during the 1990s -- 4. How well is the WTO dispute settlement system working? -- 5. A fully coherent post Keynesian model of the euro zone -- 6. Finance-industry relationships in Europe and the prospects for growth and convergence -- 7. Eastward expansion of the European Union - nominal and real convergence examined -- 8. Export-led growth: Evidence of developing country crowding out -- 9. Demand and supply in the new economy -- 10. The national origin of financial liberalization: The case of the United States -- 11. Saving is the accounting record of investment -- 12. Globalization, regionalism and state capacity in developing countries: A note -- Index.
    Note: "The chapters in this book were presented as papers at the conference on 'Globalisation, Regionalism and Economic Activity' which was held in Downing College, Cambridge, in April 2002"--P. 1 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304752
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 362 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Cooperation, networks and institutions in regional innovation systems
    DDC: 338.8/7
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Regionalökonomik ; Regionales Cluster ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Industrieforschung ; Regionalpolitik ; Wissenstransfer ; Theorie ; Welt ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Regional planning ; Regional economics ; Technology and state ; Research, Industrial ; Industrial promotion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmenskooperation ; Innovationsförderung ; Netzwerk ; Regionalwirtschaft ; Kongress ; Technische Innovation ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Innovation ; Kooperation
    Abstract: This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of clusters which have reached different stages of maturity. The authors address the topic from an empirical, theoretical and political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They offer a comprehensive overview of different approaches in the field and present numerous case studies which stress the influence of networks and local institutions. Significantly, they also introduce several new approaches to regional innovation systems, including contributions which explicitly discuss the design and potential of policy measures to promote regional development. The policy recommendations are based on sound theorising which, in turn, is based on extensive empirical research. This book is a valuable addition to a complex and growing literature which offers new perspectives and insights on cooperation, networks and institutions, and their role in the development of local systems of innovation. The combination of empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented approaches will ensure this book is essential reading for academics and policymakers in the fields of regional economics, innovation research and economic geography
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Towards a political perspective and unifying concept -- Part I. Theoretical approaches -- 2. Local culture and regional innovation networks: Some propositions -- 3. Entrepreneurial activities in a regional context -- 4. The role of trust and power in the institutional regulation of territorial business systems -- 5. Cognitive coordination, institutions and clusters: An exploratory discussion -- 6. Problems and solutions in knowledge transfer -- 7. learning pathologies in losing areas: towards a definition of the cognitive obstacles to local development -- 8. On the unit of analysis in the study of networks -- Part ii. Case studies -- 9. Is Nanjing's concentration of it companies an innovative cluster? -- 10. TV content production in media regions: the necessities and difficulties of public policy support for a project-based industry -- 11. How many networks in a local cluster? Textile machine production and innovation in Brescia -- 12. 'Lock-in' of regional clusters: the case of offshore engineering -- Part III. Policy implications -- 13. Entrepreneurship stimulation in regional innovation systems - public promotion of university-based start-ups in Germany -- 14. Cooperation and knowledge-pooling in clusters: Designing territorial competitiveness policies -- 15. policy measures to support the emergence of localised industrial clusters -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304400
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 178 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Edwards, Brian K., 1954 - The economics of hydroelectric power
    DDC: 333.91/4
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    Keywords: Wasserkraft ; Talsperre ; Wasserkraftwerk ; Theorie ; Welt ; Electric utilities ; Hydroelectric power plants Economic aspects ; Dams Economic aspects ; Elektrizitätswirtschaft ; Wasserkraft
    Abstract: Despite the extensive body of literature on energy economics, very little economics research has been conducted that focuses specifically on dams and hydroelectric power. Brian Edwards addresses this deficiency by examining the multiple roles that dams play, as well as the role of hydroelectric power within the context of the energy industry. Brian Edwards provides an in-depth analysis of how dams are used in water management, flood control and irrigation, as well as the environmental impacts of their construction and operation. He examines the types of restrictions imposed on operators to mitigate impacts, and the resulting tradeoffs between achieving hydroelectric generation and environmental management objectives. Also covered is the role of hydroelectric power in both a regulatory framework and within the context of the energy industry deregulation that has occurred in the US and other countries. A simple dynamic model of a hydroelectric generating facility forms the basis for other models discussed. Case studies of dams operated by the United States Department of Energy are also included. Environmental economists, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and those interested in natural resources and the energy industry will find this a unique and valuable study
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The uses of dams and hydroelectric power -- 3. An overview of natural resource economics -- 4. How they work -- 5. An economic model of hydroelectric power provision -- 6. An economic model of hydroelectric power provision with environmental constraints -- 7. Hydroelectric power provision by a United States power marketing administration -- 8. Hydraulically-coupled dams: When one dam is not enough -- 9. Hydraulically-coupled dams: A case study of the aspinall unit -- 10. Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-170) and index
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    ISBN: 9781781956335
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Firms' investment and finance decisions
    DDC: 332.63
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    Keywords: Investition ; Unternehmensfinanzierung ; Unternehmen ; Betriebliche Investitionstheorie ; Betriebliche Finanzwirtschaft ; Theorie ; Welt ; Belgien ; Capital investments Congresses ; Corporations Congresses Finance ; Konferenzschrift ; Deutschland ; Industrie ; Investition
    Abstract: This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using several unique and high quality microeconomic data-sets, which explore features seldom addressed. Overall, the empirical results confirm theoretical precedents. Some firms are indeed financially constrained, for fixed investment as well as for R&D projects. The 'free cash-flow' hypothesis holds, that is managers divert excess funds away for their own interests, but less so in closely controlled companies. In accordance with the real option theory, the results suggest that uncertainty leads firms to adopt a 'wait and see' strategy which eventually reduces investment, especially for irreversible investment. Corporate governance features are shown to affect managers, discipline and companies' restructuring plans. Finally, different tax reforms are evaluated, and an alternative tax structure that would stimulate growth is proposed. Scholars, including those with an interest in microeconomics and econometrics, and staff within central banks and national and international organisations will also find the book of interest, as will policymakers and decision-makers concerned with the role of financing, corporate governance and taxation on firm's decisions
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword by guy quaden -- Introduction -- 1. Lifting the burden: Fundamental tax reform and us economic growth -- 2. Structural modelling of financial constraints on investment: Where do we stand? -- 3. Capital market imperfections and investment: Evidence from belgian panel data -- 4. Investment, r&d and liquidity constraints: A corporate governance approach to the belgian evidence -- 5. Financing and investment interdependencies in unquoted belgian companies: The role of venture capital -- 6. Financing constraints, fixed capital and r&d investment decisions of belgian firms -- 7. Real options and investment under uncertainty: What do we know? -- 8. Development path and capital structure of belgian biotechnology firms -- 9. Investment, uncertainty and irreversibility: Evidence from belgian accounting data -- 10. The impact of uncertainty on investment plans: A survey data approach -- 11. Governance as a source of managerial discipline -- 12. Capital structure, firm liquidity and growth -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781008416
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (lvi, 588 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Modern theories of money
    DDC: 332.4/01
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    Keywords: Geldtheorie ; Postkeynesianismus ; Bargeld ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Theorie ; Money ; Capitalism ; Keynesian economics ; Money ; Capitalism ; Keynesian economics ; Geldtheorie ; Neokeynesianismus ; Keynesianismus ; Geld ; Kapitalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geldtheorie ; Neokeynesianismus ; Geldkreislauf ; Keynessche Theorie ; Kapitalismus
    Abstract: This book unites diverse heterodox traditions in the study of endogenous money - which until now have been confined to their own academic quarters - and explores their similarities and differences from both sides of the Atlantic. Bringing together perspectives from post-Keynesians, Circuitists and the Dijon School, the book continues the tradition of Keynes's and Kalecki's analysis of a monetary production economy, emphasising the similarities between the various approaches, and expanding the analytical breadth of the theory of endogenous money. The authors open new avenues for monetary research in order to fuel a renewed interest in the nature and role of money in capitalist economies, which is, the authors argue, one of the most controversial, and therefore fascinating, areas of economics. Providing new theoretical and empirical grounds for the construction of a general, policy oriented theory of money, this thought-provoking collection will appeal to academics, researchers and students interested in monetary economics. It will also be welcomed by monetary policymakers and central bank officials
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: The post Keynesian monetary approach -- Part II: The theory of the monetary circuit -- Part III: The theory of money emissions -- Part IV: Further contributions to monetary analysis -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305087
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 172 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Rogers, Mark Knowledge, technological catch-up and economic growth
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    Keywords: Wissen ; Wissenstransfer ; Innovationsdiffusion ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wachstumstheorie ; Neoklassische Theorie ; Endogenes Wachstumsmodell ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Schätzung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Diffusion of innovations ; Technological innovations ; Economic development ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Verbreitung ; Wissen ; Verbreitung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm capabilities - the central argument of the book is that the extent of knowledge diffusion is an important determinant of economic growth. Mark Rogers uses both neoclassical and endogenous growth models to construct testable hypotheses in order to gauge whether countries that are good at acquiring and diffusing new knowledge actually do achieve faster economic growth. His empirical analysis uses new data on communications, international business links, and study abroad in order to proxy absorptive capability and to test these hypotheses. Arguing that existing research on the role of knowledge is underdeveloped, the book aims to convince mainstream economists who perceive knowledge as conceptually vague and too difficult to measure, that the role of knowledge can in fact be analysed and quantified. Making new contributions to the understanding of economic growth, this book will appeal to students, researchers, economists and policy makers with a particular interest in economic performance and the growth process, and knowledge management and technology
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Knowledge in neoclassical growth models -- 3. Knowledge in endogenous growth models -- 4. Modelling technological catch-up -- 5. Imitation and growth -- 6. The empirical analysis of economic growth: An overview -- 7. Technological catch-up and convergence in empirical analysis -- 8. Study abroad and economic growth -- 9. Communications and economic growth -- 10. International business links and economic growth -- 11. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-170) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 269 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The evolutionary analysis of economic policy
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftspolitik ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Evolutionary economics ; Economic policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: This important book analyses evolutionary approaches to economic policy. Its main purpose is to explore the policy implications of evolutionary economics, in particular of approaches inspired on the one hand by Schumpeter and revived by Nelson and Winter which deal with industrial evolution under constant institutions and, on the other hand, of approaches inspired by Hayek and North, which analyse the ways in which institutions themselves evolve. Hitherto evolutionary economists have paid little attention to policy issues, and the relatively few policy implications that they have produced are divergent. Whereas the Neo-Schumpeterian approach has often been used to support political interventions, the Hayekian viewpoint holds that economic policy detracts from economic performance. More systematic evolutionary analysis of economic policy is required if these one-sided findings are to be transcended. Furthermore, such analysis can be expected to develop a coherent theory of economic policy which will plug the gaps and rectify the errors (such as approval of socialist planning and Japanese industrial policies) of both neoclassical and alternative approaches to policy. Evolutionary economists and policy analysts will find this book of great interest, as will economists and students of economics who are interested in enlarging their views with excursions outside the standard curriculum
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: Evolutionary thinking on economic policy -- 2. Why economic policies need comprehensive evolutionary analysis -- 3. Evolutionary markets and the design of institutional policy -- 4. Knowledge and economic policy: A plea for political experimentalism -- 5. Democracy as an evolutionary method -- 6. Ideologies, beliefs, and economic advice - a cognitive-evolutionary view on economic policy making -- 7. Equilibrium and evolutionary foundations of competition and technology policy: New perspectives on the division of labour and the innovation process -- 8. Institutional evolution, regulatory competition and path dependence -- 9. The German neuer markt as an adaptive institution -- 10. Understanding and the mobilisation of error: Eliminating controls in evolutionary learning -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304998
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 322 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New dimensions in networks
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Innovations in financial and economic networks
    DDC: 330/.01/5195
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    Keywords: Netzwerk ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Wirtschaftsmodell ; Theorie ; Finance Mathematical models ; Economics, Mathematical ; Equilibrium (Economics) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Netzwerk ; Wirtschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaft ; Netzwerk ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Networks provide the foundation for the functioning of our societies and economies. Their study has had a long tradition in such fields as engineering, operations research, management science and computer science. More recently, the disciplines of finance and economics have come to be rich and fascinating sources of network-based problems and applications. This focused and refereed volume of contributions from leading international scholars provides a wealth of innovations in the study of financial and economic networks. The volume presents entirely new results: the conceptualization of the stock market as a graph, the evolution of financial systems as networks, the incorporation of electronic transactions in international finance (from a network perspective), new formalisms for the study of supply chains (as fluid models and in an network economic framework) and new applications of agent-based computational economics trade networks with intermediaries and worker-employer networks. Finally, trade networks in web-based caching are introduced. Financial applications covered include: portfolio optimization with transaction costs, integrated pension and corporate planning, evolutionary financial networks, international finance and electronic transactions as well as hedging instruments for transportation networks. Innovative approaches to economic networks are developed in the context of supply chain and distribution networks, a variety of trade (including web-based caching) networks and even worker-employer networks. A major addition to this exciting and important subject, Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks will be an invaluable resource for economists and the networks community, as well as researchers and students in computational economics and finance, operations research, management science, applied mathematics and computer science
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Financial and economic networks: An overview -- Part I: Financial networks -- 2. On structural properties of the market graph -- 3. Multistage stochastic mean-variance portfolio analysis with transaction costs -- 4. A stochastic network approach for integrating pension and corporate financial planning -- 5. Variational inequalities for evolutionary financial equilibrium -- 6. The growing importance of networks in finance and its effects on competition -- 7. International financial networks with electronic transactions -- 8. Using financial options to hedge transportation capacity in a deregulated rail industry -- Part II: Economic networks -- 9. A supply chain network economy: Modeling and qualitative analysis -- 10. Applications of fluid modeling in distribution systems -- 11. An agent-based evolutionary trade network simulation -- 12. Evolution of worker-employer networks and behaviors under alternative non-employment benefits: An agent-based computational study -- 13. Capacity provision networks: A technology framework and economic analysis of web cache trading hubs -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304936
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Nahuis, Richard, 1971 - 2005 Knowledge, inequality and growth in the new economy
    DDC: 331.2/2
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    Keywords: Lohnstruktur ; Qualifikation ; Bildungsertrag ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Produktivität ; Wissensgesellschaft ; Wissen ; Einkommensverteilung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Income distribution ; Wages Effect of education on ; Wages Effect of technological innovations on ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Economic development ; New Economy ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Einkommensverteilung
    Abstract: During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today - information and communication technology (ICT) - does not seem to drive growth as effectively and has coincided with an apparent increase in wage inequality. This book provides explanations of these two characteristics of modern economies and analyses them from both an individual and integrated perspective. Richard Nahuis explores and combines the seemingly separate phenomena of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced by most countries. The author provides a number of alternative theories for the increase in wage inequality as a result of new technologies, combined with an extensive review of the associated literature. He goes on to detail the technological revolution, describe why this does not necessarily result in high productivity growth and outline the best methods to measure productivity in the new economy. This exhaustive exploration of productivity growth and wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers in the knowledge economy will be welcomed by economists and policymakers interested in the complex relationships between labour markets, innovation and technical change
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Knowledge and economic growth: General Introduction and outline -- 2. On technology, trade and wage inequality: A survey -- Part II: Theory -- 3. A gpt in a research and assimilation model: Exploring wage dynamics (i) -- 4. We don't see what we learn: The solow residual, a gpt and inequality -- 5. Vested interests and resistance: Adopting a general purpose technology -- 6. The skill premium and appropriability: Exploring wage dynamics (ii) -- 7. Specific technology, variety, spillovers and welfare -- Part III: Empirical applications -- 8. Economic development and trade in the world economy: Introducing worldscan -- 9. Openness, growth and r&d spillovers: An r&d-amended version of worldscan -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304950
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Baumol, William J., 1922 - 2017 Growth, industrial organization and economic generalities
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum ; Industrieökonomik ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Theorie ; Economic development ; Industrial organization (Economic theory) ; Economic history ; Economic development ; Industrial organization ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: This compendium of essays brings together some of William Baumol's most distinguished and acclaimed papers with some that are more rare, including a discussion of the growth and innovation mechanism that accounts for the unprecedented growth performance of the market economies. Amongst many other papers of note are a discussion of appropriate regulatory principles for privatized and deregulated firms, and a survey of the accomplishments of economists in the past century and the past millennium. This collection includes the following essays: * Productivity Growth, Convergence and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Show * On the Possibility of Continuing Expansion of Finite Resources * Social Wants and Dismal Science: The Curious Case of the Climbing Costs of Health and Teaching * Towards Microeconomics of Innovation: Growth Engine Hallmark of Market Economics * Use of Antitrust to Subvert Competition * Predation and the Logic of the Average Variable Cost Test. The papers engage with an eclectic range of issues and represent a vignette of the author's varied contributions to the economic literature
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: On productivity, growth, the cost disease and scale economies -- Part II: Industrial organization, regulation and privatization -- Part III: Generalities on the economic literature -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781008621
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 251 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Raines, J. Patrick, 1951 - The economic institutions of higher education
    DDC: 338.4/3378
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    Keywords: Hochschule ; Bildungsökonomik ; Theorie ; USA ; Education, Higher Economic aspects ; Universities and colleges Administration ; Universities and colleges Sociological aspects ; Education, Higher Economic aspects ; Universities and colleges Economic aspects ; Universites and colleges Finance ; Bildungsökonomie ; Hochschule ; Hochschulbildung ; Institutionenökonomie
    Abstract: Working within the context of the evolutionary-institutional transformation of higher education, the authors trace the development of an economic model by which the behavioral tendencies of modern universities can be evaluated. That model is expanded to provide insights to the following questions: Why do universities compete and how do they develop and implement their competitive strategies? How do universities make critical institutional decisions about operational missions, academic policies, and internal resource allocation? Do universities efficiently and effectively pursue the special social functions assigned to them? Patrick Raines and Charles Leathers present an integrated, coherent theory to explain the behavior of universities and provide a realistic economic model that predicts how universities allocate their scarce educational resources. This alternative view is contrasted with the mainstream explanations of university behavior based on the maximization of student welfare or faculty influences. The authors extend the existing literature on the operation of universities by presenting a history of the evolution of the modern entrepreneurial universities as well as an explanation of academic capitalism. This absorbing volume will appeal to anyone interested in the history of economic thought or the history of education. Scholars of Veblen, Smith, and Malthus will be fascinated by their individual and comparative theories of the purpose and failures of higher education
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical development of universities -- 3. Adam smith on failures of English universities -- 4. John stuart mill on universities -- 5. Veblen on failures of American universities -- 6. Veblen's economic 'model' of university behavior -- 7. Riesman on veblen and modern universities -- 8. The buchanan-devletoglou economic model of universities -- 9. Recent economic models of higher education -- 10. Meeting the challenge: Explaining the emergence of 'entrepreneurial universities' and 'academic capitalism' -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304271
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 266 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Hochman, Harold M., 1936 - Economic behavior and distributional choice
    DDC: 174
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    Keywords: Umverteilung ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ; Einkommensverteilung ; Stadtökonomik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Distributive justice ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Distributive justice ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Einkommensverteilung ; Entscheidung ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
    Abstract: Economic Behavior and Distributional Choice brings together, for the first time, Harold M. Hochman's key papers on income redistribution and policy in one accessible volume. The introduction describes the genesis and development of a new direction in thinking, and the papers that follow cover the evolutions of an idea: the alliance between distribution policy and distributional preference as developed through public choice theory. This fine collection illustrates Harold M. Hochman's major contributions to the discussion of the relationship between distributional preference, income transfer policy and economic justice, including the concept of Pareto Optimal Distribution. These contributions have significantly advanced our understanding of the ways in which economic analysis can inform income distribution policy. This pathbreaking selection of writings, including a set of innovative papers on fiscal design, urban policy and addictive behavior, will be of great interest to academics, students and researchers concerned with macroeconomics and economic behavior
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Pareto optimal redistribution -- A. The central argument -- B. Conceptual articles -- C. Empirical articles -- D. Economic justice -- Part II: Public policy -- A. Tax policy -- B. Urban economics and urban policy -- C. Addictive behavior -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781957318
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 125 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Kratena, Kurt, 1961 - Environmental tax reform and the labour market
    DDC: 336.2/783337
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    Keywords: Ökosteuer ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Allgemeines Gleichgewicht ; Makroökonometrie ; Theorie ; EU-Staaten ; Doppelte Dividende ; Environmental impact charges ; Labor market ; Environmental impact charges ; Labor market ; Environmental impact charges ; Labor market ; Environmental impact charges Europe ; Labor market Europe ; Umweltsteuer ; Arbeitsmarkt
    Abstract: During the past decade the issue of a general welfare double dividend (an improvement in environmental quality combined with a positive welfare effect) triggered by a tax shift from labour to energy resources has been extensively debated. In this book, Kurt Kratena studies the employment effects of revenue neutral tax shifts from labour to energy, and measures the impact on theoretical and empirical models of the European labour market. A common theoretical framework is devised to analyse the impact of environmental tax reform. Various 'labour market regimes' (competitive labour markets, union wage bargaining and efficiency wages) are derived and taken as the starting point for different specifications of the labour market. The theoretical outcomes of tax shifts in these different labour market regimes are then analysed and compared. The results reveal that whereas an econometric based multi-sectoral model yields significant double dividend effects, a general equilibrium model only finds employment double dividend effects. The book also highlights the potentially positive economic consequences of environmental tax reform such as a shift in demand from energy to non-energy goods. This book provides a concise appraisal of the general double dividend question combined with an innovative analysis of the employment double dividend effect. It utilises extensive empirical evidence and reveals the sensitivity of the various theoretical concepts surrounding the debate. This book will be of interest and relevance to academics in the fields of environmental economics, labour theory and fiscal studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. General aspects of environmental tax reform -- 2. Theoretical assessment of different labour market regimes -- 3. Environmental tax reform in different labour market regimes: Theory -- 4. Environmental tax reform in different labour market regimes: Applications -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782543602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (a xviii, 293 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Essays in economic theory, growth and labour markets
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Wachstumstheorie ; Allgemeines Gleichgewicht ; Lohn ; Spieltheorie ; Theorie ; Economics ; Labor market ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Makroökonomie ; Wachstumstheorie ; Arbeitsmarkttheorie
    Abstract: The distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth, general equilibrium, labor economics and game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic research. They provide fresh insights and approaches to the analysis of these issues, and thus open up wider avenues for our understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems as, for example, unemployment, the intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of wages to price and endowment changes. These contributions, in conjunction with the realisation that the papers are written by some of the most distinguished economists in the respective areas, make the volume an attractive addition for all who are interested in the contemporary research and teaching of economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Economic growth -- 1. Some early conferences on growth theory -- 2. Discounting and the growth of net national product -- Part II: General equilibrium -- 3. Equilibrium selections -- 4. Extensive form implementation of weak fine core allocations through penalties -- 5. Nonlinear neighbourhood interactions and intergenerational transmission of human capital -- 6. Beliefs and the neutrality of money -- 7. Towards a general theory of real capital -- Part III: Labor economics -- 8. Endowment changes, price response, and the behavior of wages -- 9. The pace of work and pay -- 10. The incidence of increased unemployment in the group of seven, 1970-94 -- 11. Labor incentives and manumission in ancient greek slavery -- Part IV: Game theory and applications -- 12. Agency games -- 13. The role of beliefs, knowledge, and rationality in non-cooperative games -- 14. The economics of research joint ventures -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304639
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 654 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Environmental policy making in economies with prior tax distortions
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Umweltabgabe ; Optimale Besteuerung ; Ökosteuer ; Umweltökonomik ; Theorie ; Environmental impact charges ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltabgabe ; Umweltpolitik
    Abstract: In evaluating environmental policy, researchers have tended to focus on the industry or market that is targeted by regulation and to disregard policy impacts in other parts of the economy. Recent research indicates, however, that in economies where governments rely on distortionary taxes, environmental regulation can profoundly affect costs and efficiency in areas other than the targeted industry or market. These findings signal the importance of evaluating environmental policy using a general equilibrium framework - an approach that can capture interactions across industries, sectors or markets. General equilibrium analysis can fundamentally alter the evaluation of environmental tax policies, and can overturn conventional wisdom concerning the relative cost-effectiveness of environmental taxes, emissions quotas, or mandated technologies. This volume gathers together important papers on the general equilibrium impacts of environmental regulation in the presence of distortionary taxes. Topics include optimal environmental taxation,'green tax reform' and the 'double dividend', and the choice among alternative policy instruments. The volume will be of interest to environmental economists, public finance economists and researchers interested in the economics of regulation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Surveys of environmental policy making in the presence of distortionary taxes -- Part II: Optimal environmental taxation in the presence of distortionary taxes -- Part III: Environmental tax reforms and the 'double dividend' -- Part IV: Environmental instrument choice in a second-best setting -- Part V: Efficiency-distribution trade-offs in environmental policy -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304158
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 329 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Economic theory and international trade
    DDC: 382/.104
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    Keywords: Außenwirtschaftstheorie ; Außenwirtschaftspolitik ; Marktstruktur ; Theorie ; Ökonometrisches Modell ; International trade Econometric models ; Commercial policy Econometric models ; Economics Econometric models ; International trade Econometric models ; Commercial policy Econometric models ; Economics Econometric models ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Außenwirtschaftstheorie
    Abstract: This volume addresses important issues in economic theory and international trade with contributions from internationally renowned researchers - including some of Murray C. Kemp's many colleagues and former students. Economic Theory and International Trade begins with an examination of classical trade theory and welfare economics. It goes on to discuss international trade policy, including international trading agreements, taxation, tariffs and quotas. Attention then turns to the role of market structure in joint ventures, innovation, tariff policy and political economy. The final section is devoted to economic dynamics and international economics, with an emphasis on learning mechanisms, sustainable growth and immigration. This book will be indispensable to academics and graduate students in the area of international trade. Economic theorists and international trade specialists such as research units and researchers in government will also find this book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Publications of murray c. Kemp from 1992 -- Part I: Classical trade theory -- 1. A new approach to the theory of international trade under increasing returns: The two-commodities case -- 2. On the shape of production possibility loci under variable returns to scale: The n commodity m factor case -- 3. A second correspondence principle -- 4. The welfare economics of encouraging more births -- Part II: International trade policy -- 5. The economic significance of the gatt/wto rules -- 6. Are special economic zones desirable? -- 7. Redistributive taxation in closed and open economies -- 8. Unilateral reforms of trade and environmental policy -- 9. Quotas, voluntary export restraints and welfare -- Part III: Market structure -- 10. International joint ventures, moral hazards and technology spillovers -- 11. The innovation and market structure in general equilibrium -- 12. Imperfect substitutes and strategic trade policies under cournot duopoly -- 13. Comparative static analysis for cournot oligopoly -- 14. Endogenous timing and welfare in the game of trade policies under international oligopoly -- 15. Politics and the nature of competition in oligopolistic markets -- Part IV: Economic dynamics -- 16. Learning in a generalised dornbusch model of exchange rate dynamics -- 17. International immigration, non-traded goods and economic welfare in an overlapping generations model -- 18. The environment, externalities and sustainable growth in an overlapping generations model -- 19. Why trade matters to development: A learning model -- 20. The effects of growth of its trading partners on Malaysia -- Index.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 203 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The economics of household garbage and recycling behavior
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    Keywords: Abfall ; Kreislaufwirtschaft ; Theorie ; Welt ; Refuse and refuse disposal Economic aspects ; Recycling (Waste, etc.) Economic aspects ; Recycling (Waste, etc.) Economic aspects ; Refuse and refuse disposal Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaft ; Haushaltsabfall ; Wirtschaft ; Recycling ; Haushaltsabfall ; Recycling
    Abstract: The market for residential solid waste management and disposal has experienced dramatic changes over the past 20 years. This collection of outstanding published research examines these changes and thoroughly analyzes the strategies popularized by municipal governments over the past two decades. Kerbside recycling, unheard of in the 1970s, is currently available to 46% of Americans. Thousands of towns across the nation have also implemented user fees requiring households to pay a fee for every bag of garbage they generate. These policy shifts have attracted the attention of environmental economists interested in knowing the best strategy for managing solid waste. The editors, both long-time scholars of these trends, offer theoretical solutions for the optimal pricing of garbage and recycling collection. They provide original data collection and suggest appropriate econometric techniques that correct for statistical biases. A policy focus provides information relevant to municipal governments as well as researchers. This excellent volume will be useful for policymakers, students and scholars in environmental economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword by tom tietenberg -- 1. The economics of residential solid waste management -- 2. Garbage, recycling, and illicit burning or dumping -- 3. How a fee per-unit garbage affects aggregate recycling in a model with heterogeneous households -- 4. Household responses to pricing garbage by the bag -- 5. Policies for green design -- 6. Garbage and recycling with endogenous local policy -- 7. Explaining household demand for the collection of solid waste and recycling -- 8. Explaining the growth in municipal recycling programs: The role of market and nonmarket factors -- 9. Environmental levies and distortionary taxation: Comment -- 10. The case for a two-Part Instrument: Presumptive tax and environmental subsidy -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304585
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 236 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Paniccia, Ivana, 1963 - Industrial districts
    DDC: 338.6/0945
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    Keywords: Industrieregion ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Theorie ; Italien ; Industrial districts ; Competition, International ; Industrial districts Case studies ; Industrial districts ; Competition, International ; Industrial districts Italy ; Case studies ; Italien ; Industriegebiet ; Italien ; Industriegebiet
    Abstract: Utilising a wide array of data and rich empirical evidence drawn from a large sample of industrial districts (IDs), Ivana Paniccia presents a realistic, state-of-the-art analysis of their socio-economic structure and performance. This extensive yet detailed study adopts a wide perspective, integrating historical evidence and different streams of literature - from industrial to regional economics - into testable hypotheses. The multidisciplinary, quantitative approach adopted by the author, enables her to 'de-structure' the 'canonical' idea of the ID and evaluate the normative value. Supported by multivariate and econometric analyses, she identifies four general types of ID each with different development paths, performances, inter-organizational relations, and regulatory rules and institutions. The results demonstrate that IDs on average achieve better static or dynamic economic performance than non-ID areas. The analysis also highlights critical points of rupture in the socio-economic equilibrium of IDs which may impair their future competitiveness and social sustainability. The author offers a critical appraisal of the organizational literature on IDs, claiming for caution in their depiction as 'cooperative systems' and goes on to present the first steps towards a 'microfoundation' of a theory on IDs. Providing the methodology to monitor the performance and evolution of IDs, together with precise policy suggestions, this book will appeal to a broad range of scholars and researchers in a variety of disciplines including regional, industrial and institutional economics, organizational studies and industrial sociology
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction and outline -- Part I: theoretical foundations/perspectives -- 1. A critical review of the literature on industrial districts: In search of a theory -- 2. Operationalizing industrial districts -- Part II: Empirical results -- 3. Organizational variety and performance of industrial districts -- 4. The growth and decline of industrial districts -- 5. A 'differentiated' policy for industrial districts -- 6. Conclusions and research implications -- appendix -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781956960
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 272 pages)
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    Keywords: Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Industrieökonomik ; Informationsökonomik ; Postkeynesianismus ; Theorie ; Industrial organization (Economic theory) ; Information theory in economics ; Industrieökonomie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Informationsökonomie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Business economics
    Abstract: This book is an integrated collection of a dozen of Peter Earl's lively and thought-provoking essays, carefully edited and updated. Theoretical topics include the prediction of corporate behaviour, the economic foundations of marketing and shopping mall design, pricing strategy and its relationship with the existence of second-hand markets, and the microfoundations of macroeconomics. Case studies include cooperation in the car industry, managerialist reforms in New Zealand and the university sector, structural change in the advertising industry and the place of G.B. Richardson and G.L.S. Shackle in the literature of economics. Information, Opportunism and Economic Coordination will be of particular interest to historians of economic thought, business economists, behavioural economists and Post Keynesians
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Scientific research programmes and the prediction of corporate behaviour -- 2. The evolution of cooperative strategies: Three automotive industry case studies -- 3. George richardson's career and the literature of economics -- 4. Shackle, entrepreneurship and the theory of the firm -- 5. Managerialism and the economics of the firm -- 6. The economic rationale of universities: A reconsideration -- 7. Principal-agent problems and structural change in the advertising industry -- 8. Marketing as information economics -- 9. Latent demand and the browsing shopper -- 10. Normal cost versus marginalist models of pricing: A behavioural perspective -- 11. Liquidity preference, marketability and pricing -- 12. Information, coordination and macroeconomics -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and indexes
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    ISBN: 9781035304509
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 179 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in the economics of innovation
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Javary, Michele The economics of power, knowledge, and time
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Kapitaltheorie ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Investition ; Wissen ; Institutioneller Wandel ; Theorie ; Großbritannien ; Economics Political aspects ; Power (Social sciences) Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Time and economic reactions ; Marxian economics ; Evolutionary economics ; Capitalism ; Economics Political aspects ; Power (Social sciences) Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Time and economic reactions ; Marxian economics ; Evolutionary economics ; Capitalism ; Investition ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Wissen ; Organisationswandel ; Kapitaltheorie ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Ökonomische Theorie der Politik ; Technische Innovation ; Zeitfaktor
    Abstract: This book examines the significance of technological, organisational and institutional change as crucial factors in the analysis of the turnover time of capital. It also studies the related set of theoretical questions that concern the relationship between power, knowledge and time, in the context of capital accumulation and distribution. Michèle Javary presents a creative and novel analysis of the ways in which these relationships can be analysed both conceptually and historically. She explores current issues relating to the dynamics of technical change, innovation, learning and institutional change by reviving and re-exploring one of the most penetrating contributions to economic thought: Marx's Capital. The author also combines historical and comparative perspectives to analyse the interplay between technology and organisations, based on the analysis of political governance in the United Kingdom and the rapid shift from coal to gas technologies at the time of the privatisation of the electricity supply industry. The analysis presented in the book elucidates many of the debates surrounding the economics of technological change and offers important new insights into both evolutionary and institutional economics. Students and scholars of industrial dynamics and technological change will find great value in the innovative analysis of the social and political factors that impact upon the selection, implementation and deployment of a new technology. Political economists and political scientists wishing to explore the significance of technology, organisations and institutions for capital accumulation and distribution will also be rewarded by this challenging book
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Power, technology and institutions in the process of capital formation -- 3. A critique of the marxian framework for the analysis of technology and organization -- 4. Technology, organization and the turnover time of capital: The transformational and distributive capacities of socio-economic and technical systems -- 5. States and markets transformational and distributive capacity: Political governance in the United Kingdom -- 6. Political governance, technology selection and endogenous money: The making of state-of-the-art technology in electricity generation -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sussex. Science Policy Research Unit, 1999 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304424
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 318 pages)
    Series Statement: The Locke Institute
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Martin-Das, Jennifer C. The European Monetary Union in a public choice perspective
    DDC: 332.4/566/094
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    Keywords: Economic and Monetary Union ; Economic and Monetary Union ; Eurozone ; Währungsunion ; Neue politische Ökonomie ; Theorie ; EU-Staaten ; Monetary unions ; Monetary unions European Union countries ; Europe Economic integration ; Europe Economic integration ; Europäische Union ; Währungsunion ; Europäische Integration ; Europäische Union ; Währungsunion
    Abstract: The future of European Monetary Union (EMU) stands as one of the most important economic issues of the era. The author argues that in the event of macroeconomic shocks, rather than acting as a cohesive force, EMU could give rise to disunity. As EMU is not an optimal currency area, asymmetric shocks affecting each country differently could be critical to its future. The success of EMU depends upon the ability of institutions in the EU to satisfy the monetary and fiscal policy demands of sufficient numbers of national constituents, interest groups, and multinational corporations. This book employs principles from public choice to analyze the EU institutions that participate in the monetary policy making process of EMU and assesses whether they have the mechanisms to cope with asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. In particular, it examines the European Council, Council of Ministers, European Commission, European Parliament and the European Central Bank. This book provides an invaluable critique of the EMU plan and will be of interest to scholars of European economics, macroeconomics and public choice
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. European economic and monetary integration, prior to the creation of the european communities -- 3. European economic and monetary integration: The creation and development of the european communities -- 4. The theory of currency unions -- 5. Economic background to the European monetary union -- 6. Monetary and fiscal policy and institutions in the European monetary union -- 7. A rational choice approach to the political marketplace of the European Union -- 8. Institutions and monetary policy -- 9. Macroeconomic shocks to the European monetary union -- 10. Political implications of macroeconomic shocks -- 11. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-308) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304356
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 649 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Economists of the twentieth century
    Series Statement: Collected papers on the experimental foundations of economics and political science v. 2
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Plott, Charles, 1938 - Collected papers on the experimental foundations of economics and political science ; Vol. 2: Market institutions and price discovery
    DDC: 330.1 s
    Keywords: Experiment ; Markt ; Marktwirtschaft ; Vollkommener Wettbewerb ; Preis ; Theorie ; Capitalism ; Prices
    Abstract: This outstanding collection spanning three decades comprises a superb selection of Charles R. Plott's work in experimental economics. Market Institutions and Price Discovery contains papers which define problems, create laboratory methodology and produce the first results in many areas of experimental economics. Primarily, the volume attempts to explain what is learned from applications of experimental methods, using examples taken from the first stages of the early experimental literature. It goes on to include the first applications of newly developed laboratory methods to matters of national policy, and progresses to examine institutions such as the posted price and to other more complex institutions including opportunities for conspiracy. The focus then shifts to explore the process through which markets find a price, and then discusses the double auction which has enabled experiments to be used to study more complex environments than the single market experiments that existed formerly. The principles of stability are then used in an attempt to learn more about the dynamics of how markets adjust. This pathbreaking volume will be of enormous interest to academics, scholars and researchers involved in experimental economics, the methodology of economics, political theory, and political economy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Introduction and overviews -- Part II: Market institutions, facilitating practices and industrial organization -- Part III: Nature of equilibrium: Price discovery, expectations and stability -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782543046
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (480 pages)
    Series Statement: Economists of the twentieth century
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Brock, William A., 1941 - Growth theory, nonlinear dynamics and economic modelling
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Finanzmathematik ; Wachstumstheorie ; Finanzmarkt ; Umweltökonomik ; Theorie ; Nichtlineare Regression ; Economic development Mathematical models ; Environmental economics Mathematical models ; Nonlinear theories Mathematical models ; Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) Mathematical models ; Economics, Mathematical ; Bibliografie ; Wachstumstheorie ; Mathematisches Modell ; Entwicklungstheorie ; Mathematisches Modell ; Umweltökonomie ; Mathematisches Modell ; Entwicklungstheorie ; Wachstumstheorie ; Umweltökonomie ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: This outstanding collection of William Brock's essays illustrates the power of dynamic modelling to shed light on the forces for stability and instability in economic systems. The articles selected reflect his best work and are indicative both of the type of policy problem that he finds challenging and the complex methodology that he uses to solve them. Also included is an introduction by Brock to his own work, which helps tie together the main aspects of his research to date. The volume covers: * stochastic models and optimal growth * financial and macroeconomic modelling * ecology, mechanism design and regulation * nonlinearity in economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction by w. Davis dechert -- Introduction and discussion by william allen brock -- Part I: Stochastic models -- Part II: Financial modelling and related macroeconomic modelling -- Part III: Ecology, mechanism design and regulation -- Part IV: Nonlinearity in economics -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782543138
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 270 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The dynamics of industrial collaboration
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The dynamics of industrial collaboration
    DDC: 338.8/7
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    Keywords: Unternehmenskooperation ; Strategische Allianz ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Industrieforschung ; Theorie ; Strategic alliances (Business) ; Business networks ; Strategic alliances (Business) ; Business networks ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Strategische Allianz ; Corporate Network ; Strategische Allianz ; Corporate Network
    Abstract: The Dynamics of Industrial Collaboration revisits and reformulates issues previously raised by inter-firm collaboration. The latest research in collaboration, processes and evaluation of cooperation, and industrial and research networks, is presented by way of both empirical and theoretical studies. The authors use several theoretical perspectives to explain inter-firm and inter-institutional collaboration: the theory of transaction costs and contracts, evolutionary theory, and the resource-based view. The book illustrates that none of these approaches are dominant. The issue of collaboration is raised in various contexts such as the new economics, biotechnology, and the motor industry. It will be of special interest to industrial economists and scholars of evolutionary economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Forms of collaboration: Theories and trends -- Part II: Process and evolution of cooperation -- Part III: Industrial and research networks -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781950227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 247 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Evolution and path dependence in economic ideas
    DDC: 330.1
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Evolutionary economics Congresses History ; Evolutionary economics History ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Hysterese ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature. In this book, the authors argue that it is not possible to explain a state of the world without first analysing the processes that lead to that state. The contributions collected in this volume share a critical stance towards the timelessness and a historical theorizing of mainstream economics. Past states in the development of an economic process set the range of possibilities for future development and can be used to construct theories based on the irreversibility of economic time. Many of these notable contributors argue that the study of the history of economic thought is important in two ways. Firstly, because it provides important insights into the ways that economists of the past attempted to address the problems of history and secondly, because it helps us to understand the present state of economics as being itself the outcome of a path dependent process. Evolutionary economists, economic theorists and historians, as well as economists interested in the evolution of economic and other social institutions, will find this challenging collection of papers essential reading
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Evolution and path dependence in economic ideas: Past and present -- 2. Path dependence, its crisis, and the quest for 'historical economics' -- 3. The meaning of market: Comparing austrian and institutional economics -- 4. Schumpeter and the pendulum: How evolution was whipped out in the construction of canonical economics -- 5. Veblen and commons on private property: An institutionalist discussion around a capitalist foundation -- 6. Competition, competitive selection and economic evolution -- 7. Evolutionary themes in the austrian tradition: Menger, wieser and schumpeter on institutions and rationality -- 8. Reading edith penrose's the theory of the growth of the firm forty years on (1959-1999) -- 9. Economic analysis of human effort in organizations: A historical and critical perspective -- 10. Path dependence in scientific evolution -- 11. Reflections on the progress of heterodox economics -- Index.
    Note: An international conference of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304684
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (li, 238 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Rossi, Sergio Money and inflation
    DDC: 339.4
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    Keywords: Geldtheorie ; Inflationstheorie ; Quantitätstheorie ; Theorie ; Inflation (Finance) ; Quantity theory of money ; Money ; Inflation ; Geldtheorie
    Abstract: It is a popular notion that money and output are separate and autonomous entities. Money and Inflation argues that this idea can neither explain the purchasing power of money nor its variations over time, and a new theory is therefore presented in its place. The book aims to provide the foundations for a new analysis of inflation from a macroeconomic perspective. The role of money is investigated in terms of value, prices, profit, and capital accumulation. The author argues that in order to gain a thorough comprehension of inflation it is necessary to focus on the formation of national income, not on its distribution. Sergio Rossi's new approach proposes a structural reform of modern banking systems, and outlines an original macro-theoretical investigation of measurement problems in price index theory. Despite its elective affinity with the works of Ricardo, Walras and Keynes, the new analysis overturns traditional concepts of money. The discussion elicits a deeper understanding of the conditions underlying today's inflationary pressures and prescribes new solutions to permanently eradicate them. This unique and path-breaking study will be of enormous interest to academics, researchers, and students involved in monetary economics, as well as monetary policy makers, and central bank and international banking officials
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword by mauro baranzini and alvaro cencini -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Methodological issues in the measurement of inflation -- 1. The methodological debate in traditional inflation analysis -- 2. From technical biases to analytical issues -- Part II: Towards a macroeconomic analysis of inflation -- 3. The neoclassical analysis of inflation: A critical appraisal -- 4. The argument refined: Exogenous and endogenous money -- Part III: A modern paradigm for inflation analysis -- 5. Wage setting, credit policy and inflation -- 6. Inflation and fixed capital accumulation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-227) and indexes
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    ISBN: 9781035304363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 200 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Peneder, Michael, 1968 - Entrepreneurial competition and industrial location
    DDC: 338/.04
    Keywords: Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Wettbewerb ; Produktionsfaktor ; Immaterielle Werte ; Produktionsstandort ; Theorie ; EU-Staaten ; Japan ; USA ; Competition ; Entrepreneurship ; Intangible property ; Industrial location ; Industrial concentration ; Competition ; Entrepreneurship ; Industrial concentration ; Industrial location ; Intangible property ; Unternehmen ; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ; Standortfaktor ; Immaterielle Investition
    Abstract: Entrepreneurial Competition and Industrial Location explores the notion of entrepreneurial competition from its theoretical foundations in early Austrian and contemporary evolutionary economics. Focusing on the structural development of the intangible factors of production such as labour skills, advertising and research and development, the book's empirical implications are tested in a comparative study of competitive performance in the EU, Japan and the USA. Typical mechanisms of external spillovers, shaping industrial location by means of Marshallian cluster formation, highlight the dimension of industrial location. Peneder finally employs the three evolutionary principles of variation, cumulation and selection to establish entrepreneurship, learning and fair markets as the main pillars of modern competitiveness policy. This volume paves the way for a better understanding of the market process, demonstrating the importance of intangible factors as sources of competitive advantage both by conclusive theoretical argument and careful empirical investigation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Entrepreneurial competition -- 2. The organisation of knowledge -- 3. Intangible investment and human resources -- 4. The competitive performance of European industries -- 5. Sectoral specialisation and industrial location -- 6. Competitiveness policy -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and index
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    ISBN: 9781782541240
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 155 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Lensink, Robert, 1962 - Investment, capital market imperfections, and uncertainty
    DDC: 332.6
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    Keywords: Volkswirtschaftliche Investitionstheorie ; Betriebliche Investitionstheorie ; Finanzmarkt ; Unvollkommener Markt ; Risiko ; Theorie ; Investment analysis ; Uncertainty ; Investments ; Investments ; Capital markets ; Investition ; Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit ; Unvollkommener Kapitalmarkt ; Investition ; Unvollkommener Kapitalmarkt ; Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit ; Investition ; Unvollkommener Kapitalmarkt ; Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit
    Abstract: This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment, financial imperfections and uncertainty. After reviewing the capital market imperfections literature and the empirical results, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They present an overview of empirical results of the modelling of investment under uncertainty. In these examples, the effects of capital market imperfections on investment are carefully considered. The authors conclude that there is overwhelming empirical support for a negative uncertainty-investment relationship. This innovative book will appeal to academics with an interest in investment theory, professionals in the financial sector and students of macroeconomics and finance. Investment, Capital Market Imperfections, and Uncertainty assumes only a basic knowledge of mathematics and is easily accessible
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Capital market imperfections -- 2. Investment and capital market imperfections: Theory -- 3. Investment and capital market imperfections: Empirics -- Part II: Investment under uncertainty -- 4. Investment under uncertainty: Orthodox models -- 5. The option approach to investment under uncertainty -- 6. Empirics of the investment uncertainty relationship -- Part III: Conclusion -- 7. Conclusions -- Part IV: Appendices -- A. Derivation of the q and euler model -- B. Utility functions and assumptions regarding risk -- C. Ito's lemma and dynamic programming -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304073
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 168 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Smits, Wendy The economics of the apprenticeship system
    DDC: 331.25/922
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    Keywords: Betriebliche Ausbildung ; Bildungsinvestition ; Vertragstheorie ; Theorie ; Apprenticeship programs History ; Apprenticeship programs Case studies ; Apprenticeship programs History ; Apprenticeship programs Case studies ; Apprenticeship programs Economic aspects ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Betriebliche Ausbildung ; Ausbildung ; Geschichte ; Bildungsökonomie
    Abstract: The past ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in the apprenticeship system of industrial training. Employers have been shown to carry a large part of the cost of essentially general training with apparent little return to the firm - a problem which has generated a wide range of literature that explores new theoretical models, comparative systems, and recent developments in systems of youth training and the economic theory of contracts. Using contract theory as the common underlying framework, this book brings together recent contributions to this literature, providing a complete and coherent economic analysis of the apprenticeship system. The authors begin with a comparative-historical perspective, and then go on to review a number of recent models of the training decision of firms, before offering a unique insight into the current debate on the future of the apprenticeship system. Well-written and well-researched, this book succeeds in achieving a perfect blend of theory, evidence, and history. It will appeal to scholars in the fields of labour economics and human resource management, as well as those in private and public sectors working on policy development and planning of vocational education and training
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: The history of the apprenticeship system -- 2. Theoretical models of the decision to invest in training -- 3. The theory of contracts and the apprenticeship contract -- 4. The demand for and supply of apprentice training: The current empirical evidence -- 5. The future of the apprenticeship system -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304257
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 174 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Yu, Tony Fu-Lai, 1950 - Firms, governments, and economic change
    DDC: 338/.04
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Theorie der Unternehmung ; Staatliche Einflussnahme ; Entwicklung ; Institutioneller Wandel ; Theorie ; Ostasien ; Entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneurship Government policy ; Business enterprises Government policy ; Economic development ; Entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneurship ; Economic policy ; Ostasien ; Unternehmer ; Management ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: This topical book interprets firms, governments and economic change from an entrepreneurial perspective. Essentially, it applies the Austrian theory of human agency and evolutionary theories of the firm to explain economic organisation, the state and institutional change. Tony Yu begins by discussing the nature of entrepreneurship and the firm followed by an analysis of the role of entrepreneurship in economic change. He thoroughly analyses the process of economic development in late industrialisers, within an entrepreneurial framework outlined within the book. The author argues that ordinary and extraordinary discovery are associated with routine or imitative entrepreneurship and Schumpetarian entrepreneurship respectively. Using this classification, the author shows how it is the interaction of various types of entrepreneurial activities that transformed East Asian latecomers such as Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong from traditional agrarian and fishing economies into international centres of trading, service industries and finance. Firms, Governments and Economic Change will be of special interest to scholars of industrial economics, entrepreneurship and Asian studies. It will also be of use to governmental organisations responsible for economic development, as the analysis is thoroughly up to date easy to understand
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword by richard langlois -- Introduction -- Part I. Entrepreneurship -- 1. Entrepreneurial alertness and discovery -- Part II. Firms -- 2. A praxeological theory of the firm -- 3. The Chinese family firm and guerrilla entrepreneurship -- Part III. Governments -- 4. Government entrepreneurship -- 5. The state as a national coordinator -- 6. Asian entrepreneurial states -- Part IV. Economic change -- 7. An entrepreneurial perspective of institutional change -- 8. Economic development in latecomer economies -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304172
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 225 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Neumann, Manfred, 1933 - 2016 Competition policy
    DDC: 338.6/048
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    Keywords: Wettbewerbspolitik ; Industrieökonomik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Competition ; Competition, International ; Competition Government policy ; Industrial policy ; Competition History ; Business cycles ; Wettbewerbspolitik ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Wettbewerbspolitik
    Abstract: Given the increase in large scale mergers throughout the world, this book addresses the growing problem of restricted competition through collusion and the perennial debate surrounding the use of government subsidies for industries to further national interests. The aims of the book are threefold; firstly, to elucidate the antecedents of competition policy in the US and Europe and to demonstrate how far a convergence of principles has developed. Secondly, to outline the theory of industrial organisation as a major tool to devise an appropriate policy, and thirdly, to discuss the practice of competition policy in the US, individual European countries and the EC as a whole, in terms of collusion, mergers and vertical restraints. Manfred Neumann comprehensively explores the economic arguments that justify the need for competition policy. He considers the historical development of competition policy and the relationship between competition policy and the objectives of governmental policy as a whole. In conclusion, he argues that competition policy should be regarded as a constituent part of economic and social policy. This enlightening and comprehensive book will be of great value to students, researchers and practitioners of law, corporate strategy and industrial and political economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Aims and scope of competition policy -- 2. Industrial economics as the foundation of competition policy -- 3. Containing restraints of competition -- 4. The social framework and competition policy -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781956601
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 269 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The choice modelling approach to environmental valuation
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Bewertung ; Conjoint-Analyse ; Präferenztheorie ; Modellierung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Environmental economics ; Environmental policy Costs ; Environmental policy Evaluation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltökonomie ; Umweltpolitik
    Abstract: Choice Modelling is a technique that has recently emerged as a means of estimating the demand for environmental goods and the benefits and costs associated with them. The aims of the book are fourfold: * to introduce the technique in the environmental context * to demonstrate its use in a range of case studies * to provide insights into some methodological issues * to explore the prospects for the technique. The authors contributing to the book show that choice modelling offers considerable potential for the evaluation of environmental goods and services. Its flexibility to cope with a wide range of applications is well demonstrated. The technique also presents numerous challenges to practitioners. A number of these are addressed in the book. Informed and innovative, this book will prove indispensable to all scholars, researchers and practitioners in the areas of environmental studies and environmental economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: The technique -- Part II: Case studies -- Part III: Exploring some methodological issues -- Part IV: Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304066
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 149 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Steininger, Karl W., 1965 - International trade and transport
    DDC: 382
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    Keywords: Güterverkehr ; Außenwirtschaftstheorie ; Neue Außenhandelstheorie ; Regionalökonomik ; Transportkosten ; Umweltökonomik ; Theorie ; International trade ; Transportation ; Economic geography ; International trade ; Transportation ; Economic geography ; Weltwirtschaft ; Welthandel ; Transport ; Wirtschaftsgeografie
    Abstract: The spatial dimension of international trade theory has been neglected during most of its history. Trade barriers such as tariffs have been deemed more important. However, in an increasingly integrated world economy seeking to abolish tariffs, spatial considerations have gained in stature. On the way to fostering a spatial trade theory this book supplies a comprehensive analysis of all the different impacts of the inclusion of space and transport costs, covering orthodox trade theory, new trade theories, and economic geography. Karl Steininger also expands spatial analysis to cover spatial preferences and spatial discounting and catalogues the result of spatial production structure and environmental quality in a global economy. Finally, an empirical account is given of the trade and macro-implications of full cost pricing in transport
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The modelling of transport in international trade theory -- 3. Transport in traditional trade theory -- 4. Transport in new trade theories -- 5. Transport in economic geography -- 6. Foreign trade and spatial pReferences -- 7. Foreign trade and transport cost internationalization -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-143) and indexes
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    ISBN: 9781781956250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 225 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Sell, Friedrich L., 1954 - Contagion in financial markets
    DDC: 332/.042
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    Keywords: Internationaler Finanzmarkt ; Internationales Währungssystem ; Theorie ; Welt ; Schwellenländer ; Finanzkrise ; Contagion ; Financial crises ; International finance ; Emerging Market ; Internationaler Kreditmarkt ; Finanzkrise
    Abstract: This book aims to integrate the notions of contagion in epidemiology and contagion in financial market crises to discover why emerging markets are so susceptible to financial crises. The author first provides a brief introduction of the contagious spill-over of recent financial market crises and models the pattern of these crises. He finds that the contagion between crises in emerging markets, such as that of the crises in Russia and Brazil in 1998-1999, is explicable, despite the fact that at first sight they appear to have little in common. Finally, Friedrich Sell integrates these findings to outline a proposal for a 'new international financial architecture'. This groundbreaking book will be of interest to scholars of financial economics, emerging economies and international money and finance
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contagious financial crises in economic history and in the recent past -- 3. Explaining the onset of financial market crises in emerging markets -- 4. 'Contagion': What is it and who is susceptible to it? -- 5. A simple model of contagious financial crises -- 6. The new international financial architecture -- 7. Final remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 64
    ISBN: 9781035304516
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 338 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Klundert, Theo van de Growth theory in historical perspective
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Klundert, Th van de ; Wachstumstheorie ; Theorie ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Welt ; Economists ; Economic development ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wachstumstheorie
    Abstract: Growth Theory in Historical Perspective is a collection of thirteen carefully selected essays by Theo van de Klundert which demonstrate the development of growth theory over the past forty years. The sequence of chapters reveals the shifts in focus which have occurred since the first formal growth models of the 1940s and 1950s. He illustrates how the Keynesian paradigm was replaced by neo-classical models, which in turn have been superseded by theories of endogenous technical progress, the focus of growth theory in the 1990s. The author explains how the theory of economic growth is strongly shaped by ideas developed in the past. To this extent the book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of growth theory and develops important modern themes such as firm-specific research and development and the relationship between growth and international trade. Moreover, several of the chapters explore themes which, in the author's view, have been unfairly neglected in recent writings on the theory of growth. These include the role of demand factors, vintage models and issues of distribution, which he believes can still contribute to the current thinking on growth theory. By balancing insights from old and new theories of economic growth, this comprehensive book should prove fascinating reading for students, researchers and scholars of growth theory
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Essentials of growth theory -- 1. Constructing growth theory -- 2. Reconstructing growth theory -- Part II: Empirics -- 3. Biased efficiency growth and capital-labour substitution in the us, 1899-1960 -- 4. On the historical continuity of the process of economic growth -- Part III: Growth, distribution and unemployment -- 5. Economic growth and induced technical progress -- 6. Demand and supply as factors determining economic growth -- 7. Endogenous growth and income distribution -- Part IV: R&d and firm-specific knowledge -- 8. Imperfect competition, concentration and growth -- 9. Growth, competition and welfare -- 10. Loss of technological leadership of rentier economies -- Part V: International trade and growth -- 11. Ldcs versus dcs: Trade and growth -- 12. North-south knowledge spillovers and competition: Convergence versus divergence -- 13. Economic development and trade in the world economy -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-333) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304615
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 220 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Gualerzi, Davide, 1952 - Consumption and growth
    DDC: 339.4/7/0973
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    Keywords: Privater Konsum ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage ; Strukturwandel ; Theorie ; USA ; Consumption (Economics) ; Consumption (Economics) United States ; United States Economic conditions 1981-2001 ; United States Economic conditions ; 1981- ; USA ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftsstruktur ; Verbrauch ; Geschichte 1980-2000
    Abstract: The theme of this extensive book is the relationship between consumption and growth in the context of the long run theory of effective demand. Taking Schumpeter's views on economic development as a starting point, the author proposes an original framework for the analysis of consumption patterns as an element of growth in advanced market economies. The book examines the role of demand with respect to the theory of structural change and the theory of consumption at both the micro and macro level. The theoretical framework is employed to analyze the consumption-growth relationship and its implications for the process of structural evolution. The actual dynamics of consumption are examined in terms of the cycle of expansion in the US economy during the 1980s. The author concludes that there is a distinct shift towards a pattern of 'consumption deepening' that explains the consumption fuelled recovery of the 1980s and mirrors a process of 'intensive growth' of the market. This interpretation sheds light on the underlying process sustaining US expansion during the 1990s and the questions facing advanced market economies which have begun to experience the emergence of an 'internet scenario' in terms of development. In focusing on the relationship between consumption changes and the growth process, this book distinguishes itself from much of the literature on the subject which deals with these two aspects individually. Davide Gualerzi breaks genuinely new ground with his empirical and theoretical research. This book will appeal to economists interested in growth and economic development, scholars in related social sciences, and the wide base of economists and academics sympathetic to new approaches to the problem of economic growth
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Economic development, technical change and demand -- 2. Pasinetti's structural dynamics and demand theory -- 3. Consumption theory -- 4. Consumption and growth -- 5. Towards a theory of the consumption-growth relationship -- 6. Empirical analysis and the recovery of the us economy in the 1980s -- 7. Macroeconomic trends and the evolution of the industrial structure -- 8. Consumption expenditure composition -- 9. Market development and output composition -- 10. The structural dynamics of the 1980s: Recovery and the transformation of the consumption sphere -- 11. Composition deepening and intensive growth: A new hypothesis -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index
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  • 66
    ISBN: 9781035303694
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
    Series Statement: Economists of the twentieth century
    Series Statement: The Collected essays of Takashi Negishi v. 3
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Negishi, Takashi, 1933 - The collected essays of Takashi Negishi ; Vol. 3: Economic thought from Smith to Keynes
    DDC: 330
    Keywords: Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Theorie ; Economics History 20th century ; Economists 20th century ; Economics History
    Abstract: Modern theory has greatly influenced our reading of the history of economics. This third volume of Negishi's essays gathers together some of his most significant contributions to this subject, drawing as much from seminal works as from material now rarely obtainable. These essays reconsider economic thought in the light of modern theory, from Smith to Marx, and from Marshall to Keynes. Takashi Negishi discusses contributions made both in classical school and marginal revolution literature which are still significant to modern economic theory, and those heralding from Japan which have lacked exposure in the West. This volume will appeal not only to scholars in the history of economic thought, but more generally will interest those economists who are unsatisfied with the current state of economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Theory and history -- Part II: Classical economics -- Part III: Marxian economics -- Part IV: Neo-classical and Keynesian economics -- Index.
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  • 67
    ISBN: 9781781956427
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 233 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Challen, Ray Institutions, transaction costs and environmental policy
    DDC: 333.91/00994
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    Keywords: Institutioneller Wandel ; Transaktionskosten ; Wasser ; Wasserversorgung ; Theorie ; Australien ; Transaction costs ; Institutional economics Case studies ; Water resources development Case studies ; Water resources development Case studies Environmental aspects ; Transaction costs ; Institutional economics Case studies ; Water resources development Australia ; Case studies ; Water resources development Environmental aspects ; Australia ; Case studies ; Umweltpolitik ; Transaktionskosten ; Australien ; Wasserreserve ; Ressourcenökonomie
    Abstract: Conventional economic analysis of property rights in natural resources is too narrow and restrictive to allow for effective comparisons between alternative institutional structures. In this book, a conceptual framework is developed for the analysis of these structures with illustrative application to the allocation of water resources. Ray Challen introduces and develops a model for the analysis of the problems involved in institutional choice that takes into account constraints in institutional change imposed by history and the value of maintaining options in an uncertain future. The emphasis of institutional analysis shifts from assessing the benefits of particular property rights regimes in isolation to considering the distribution of property rights between levels of governments, communities and individuals in an institutional hierarchy. Conceptual developments in institutional theory are illustrated by using a case study of institutional change in the regulation of water use in irrigated agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Institutions and use of natural resources -- 3. Institutions of water use for irrigation in the murray-darling basin -- 4. Static transaction costs in allocation of water resources -- 5. Transaction costs and institutional change -- 6. Dynamic transaction costs and option values in institutional change -- 7. Policy analysis for institutional change -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index
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  • 68
    ISBN: 9781782543190
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 201 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in the economics of innovation
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Canie͏̈ls, Marjolein C. J. Knowledge spillovers and economic growth
    DDC: 338.94/06
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    Keywords: Regionales Wachstum ; Wissen ; Wissenstransfer ; Spillover-Effekt ; Räumliche Verteilung ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; EU-Staaten ; Technology transfer ; Economic development ; Regional economics ; Europe Economic conditions ; 1945- ; Europe Economic conditions ; Regional disparities ; Europa ; Regionales Wirtschaftswachstum ; Regionale Disparität ; Technologietransfer ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: One of the most striking paradoxes of our time has been the growing importance of regions in the face of a globalizing economy. This insightful book explains the dynamics of regions in a global economy and sheds light on the role of knowledge in driving regional growth. The author examines the way in which regions grow by receiving knowledge from surrounding regions. Using evolutionary theory, she advances the argument that knowledge spillovers operate locally. Computer-simulations analyse the impact of knowledge spillovers on economic growth across European regions. Finally, the author uses new original data on, among others, patents and research and development to demonstrate differences in economic and innovative activity across regions
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Knowledge and location -- 3. Evolutionary thinking -- 4. Introducing geographical distance in the modelling of technology spillovers -- 5. Simulation results -- 6. Modelling technology spillovers, introducing countries -- 7. Gdp per capita gaps, the situation for European regions -- 8. The geographic distribution of patents and value added across European regions -- 9. A concluding summary -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index
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  • 69
    ISBN: 9781035303182
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 353 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New Horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von O'Hara, Phillip Anthony, 1954 - Marx, Veblen, and contemporary institutional political economy
    DDC: 330.12/2
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    Keywords: Veblen, Thorstein ; Marx, Karl ; Marx, Karl ; Veblen, Thorstein ; Veblen, Thorstein *1857-1929* ; Marx, Karl *1818-1883* ; Institutionenökonomik ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Marxismus ; Kapitalismus ; Theorie ; Wirtschaftslage ; Wirtschaftskrise ; USA ; Welt ; Institutional economics ; Evolutionary economics ; Marxian economics ; Capitalism ; Evolutionary economics ; Marxian economics ; Capitalism ; Institutional economics ; United States Economic conditions 1945- ; United States Economic conditions ; 1945- ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Marx, Karl 1818-1883 ; Veblen, Thorstein 1857-1929 ; USA ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Marxismus ; Geschichte 1945-2000
    Abstract: This book uses an institutional-evolutionary approach to analyse economic problems associated with developments in capitalism during the second half of the twentieth century. It argues that economics should centre on institutions - the durable fabric of the economy over time. Drawing on the foundations of Marxist and institutional political economy, the book traces the lineages of institutional themes, as well as considering feminist, post-Keynesian, holistic economics and Schumpeterian perspectives. The nature of institutions in the growth and instability of capitalism is then explored with reference to social structures of accumulation. Particular reference is given to the world economy, the family, the Keynesian welfare state and neo-liberalism, Fordism, the flexible mode of accumulation, and financial regulation and deregulation. The author concludes, using institutional-evolutionary themes of political economy, that the evolution of modern capitalism is likely to be unstable as we move into the next century
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword: William M. Dugger and James Ronald Stanfield -- 1. Introduction -- Part A: The foundations: Marx and Veblen -- 2. Marx's capital and the institutional reproduction of capitalism -- 3. Veblen's 'critique' of marx's philosophical preconceptions of political economy -- 4. Veblen's analysis of social wealth, industry-business, and crises of capitalism -- Part B: Contemporary institutional-evolutionary political economy -- 5. Neo-marxian and neoinstitutional political economy: Holism, evolution, and contradiction -- 6. Capital, the wealth of nations, and inequality in the contemporary world -- 7. A new measure of macroeconomic performance and institutional change -- Part C: Social structures of accumulation and socioeconomic crises of modern capitalism: 1940-2000s -- 8. Long waves of economic growth and development, and the metamorphosis of institutions -- 9. Fordism, accumulation, and institutional contradictions -- 10. The world economy and us hegemony -- 11. Household labor, the family, and macroeconomic instability in the United States -- 12. The Keynesian welfare state: Emergence, contradictions, and evolution -- 13. Financial instability, uncertainty, and endogenous credit in the United States -- 14. A new social structure of accumulation or the emerging global crises of capitalism? -- 15. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-342) and indexes
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  • 70
    ISBN: 9781782541257
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 219 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The environment, sustainable development, and public policies
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Umweltpolitik ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Theorie ; Brasilien ; Entwicklungsländer ; Sustainable development ; Sustainable development Brazil ; Environmental economics Brazil ; Brazil Economic policy ; Brasilien ; Umweltpolitik
    Abstract: This book presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the possibility of creating a sustainable path of economic development which would not harm the natural environment. It presents concepts, theories, methods and policy advice on sustainability and debates the difficulty in establishing a general notion of sustainability. The authors draw on a number of different disciplines to address the formulation of public policy for sustainable development in Brazil. They analyse the basic principles and motivations for sustainability, provide practical advice on how to coordinate public policies and indicate possible courses of action to reach a sustainable society. The authors conclude that there is a need to recognize the biophysical limits imposed on economics by ecosystems, the levels of participatory decision-making processes and the use of environmental services as a strategy for sustainable development. This book will be welcomed by academics and students working in the areas of ecological and environmental economics, sustainable development, development studies and Latin American studies as well as by policymakers and practitioners
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Government policy for sustainable development -- 2. Towards sustainable development -- 3. Scale, ecological economics and the conservation of biodiversity -- 4. Environmental valuation in the quest for a sustainable future -- 5. Achieving a sustainable world -- 6. Policies for sustainable development -- 7. Green accounting and macroeconomic policy -- 8. A politico-communicative model to overcome the impasse of the current politico-technical model for environmental negotiation in Brazil -- 9. Agenda 21 -- 10. International private finance and sustainable development -- 11. Environmental services as a strategy for sustainable development in rural amazonia -- 12. Exploitation of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge in Latin America -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 212 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: The Locke Institute series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Runge, Ian Charles, 1952 - Capital and uncertainty
    DDC: 332.6
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    Keywords: Kapitalanlage ; Opportunitätskosten ; Risiko ; Rationalität ; Spieltheorie ; Betriebliche Investitionstheorie ; Theorie ; Entscheidung unter Unsicherheit ; Capital investments Decision making ; Uncertainty ; Capital investments ; Uncertainty ; Investitionstheorie ; Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit
    Abstract: This book is an important addition to the emerging body of new work on capital. Its primary contribution is in analysing capital investment choice as a process. The understanding of this process requires some modification and significant extension to the standard neo-classical economic tools. Capital and Uncertainty is a non-mathematical text, modernizing and adding to the existing thought in this area, with insights from game theory, rational choice under uncertainty and new institutional economics. Dr Runge also draws upon 25 years of business experience in setting out a thorough and immensely practical exposition of the risk/return trade-off and how major capital investment decisions are made within firms. Topics studied include: * the nature of capital investment decisions * entrepreneurship and the market order * capital investment choice processes * capital investment models * capital decisions: choices between strategies Economists, industrial organisation specialists, business academics and practitioners alike will all find this book of immense interest and use
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nature of capital investment decisions -- 3. Choice, risk and uncertainty -- 4. Rational choice -- 5. Entrepreneurship and the market order -- 6. Intertemporal valuation -- 7. Choice under uncertainty -- 8. Capital investment choice process -- 9. Capital investment models -- 10. Model with capital heterogeneity -- 11. Capital decisions: Choices between strategies -- 12. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Index.
    Note: "The Locke Institute." , Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-198) and index
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  • 72
    ISBN: 9781035303601
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 199 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Laramie, Anthony J., 1956 - A dynamic theory of taxation
    DDC: 336.2
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    Keywords: Kalecki, Michał ; Kalecki, Michał ; Steuertheorie ; Finanzwissenschaft ; Theorie ; Taxation ; Finance, Public ; Kalecki, Michał 1899-1970 ; Steuertheorie
    Abstract: This innovative book offers an original and radical tax policy proposal which can be used to promote growth and stability without affecting income equality. Immediately following the publication of Keynes's General Theory, Kalecki recognized that the theory of tax had to be re-thought, as aggregate income could no longer be thought of as fixed with respect to tax-induced changes in aggregate demand. To this day, orthodox tax policy analysis continues to ignore aggregate demand effects. The authors consider this orthodox approach to be deficient, and show how tax policies can promote growth without having a negative impact on equity. They incorporate Kalecki's theory of tax incidence into an analysis of income determination, income distribution, investment, business cycles, and growth. In addition, they examine the incidence of the corporate profits tax and the macroeconomic and regional incidence, and effects of local taxation. A Dynamic Theory of Taxation will be a welcome addition to the literature and will be of interest to tax policy analysts and government policy advisors, as well as scholars working in the fields of public finance, post Keynesian and Kaleckian economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. The rationale for kaleckian tax analysis -- 2. Integrating kalecki's theories of taxation and income determination -- 3. Taxation and kalecki's theory of the business cycle -- 4. The long-run effects of taxation in a kaleckian model -- 5. The incidence of the corporate profits tax -- 6. The impact of taxation on gross private non-residential fixed investment -- 7. The short-period macroeconomic incidence and effects of state and local taxes -- 8. The macroeconomic and regional effects of national and local taxation: A kaleckian approach -- 9. Conclusion: Policy implications -- Index.
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  • 73
    ISBN: 9781035303465
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 174 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Raines, J. Patrick, 1951 - Economists and the stock market
    DDC: 332.63/228/0973
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    Keywords: Aktienmarkt ; Spekulation ; Börsenkurs ; Theorie ; USA ; Speculation ; Stocks Prices ; Investments ; Stock exchanges ; Speculation United States ; Stocks Prices ; United States ; Investments United States ; Stock exchanges United States ; USA ; Aktienmarkt ; Börsenspekulation ; Wertpapierhandelssystem
    Abstract: The role of the stock market in the recent global financial crisis has led many to question the way in which the modern international financial system operates. This highly topical book offers important insights into the stock market, contrasting the speculative explanation of stock market fluctuations with the conventional efficient markets hypothesis. After summarising economists' views on stock market behavior from the classical period to the present day, the authors focus on two particular explanations of stock price fluctuations. They examine in detail the mainstream neo-classical theory with its emphasis on the efficient markets hypothesis. They then compare this with the theories of Veblen, Galbraith and Keynes who consider markets as being inherently prone to speculation and crisis, in contrast to the neo-classical approach which largely ignores the instability of stock markets and particularly the crashes that have recently occurred. The authors go on to develop a speculative model to account for stock market fluctuations which provides a useful and realistic explanation of how stock price expectations are formed. This book will be welcomed by bankers, financial and monetary economists, historians of economic thought and all those interested in the causes of the recent market crashes
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface the new bull: Will the market still fluctuate? -- 1. Introduction: Economists on (and in) the stock market -- 2. The stock market: Structure, performance and character -- 3. Neo-classical economists on rational markets and speculation -- 4. Stock markets in veblen's theory of business enterprise -- 5. Keynes on speculative stock markets -- 6. Galbraith's model of speculative stock markets -- 7. Recent developments in speculative markets theory: Fads, fashions and 'rational' bubbles -- 8. Current prospects for speculative markets theory -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303755
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 347 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Financial economists of the twentieth century
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Malliaris, Anastasios G., 1942 - Foundations of futures markets
    DDC: 332.64/5
    Keywords: Derivat ; Terminbörse ; Theorie ; Futures ; Futures
    Abstract: Futures markets undergo perpetual change, influenced by and in turn influencing the flux of the world economy, trade balances and the nature of trading itself. A.G. Malliaris has been a pioneer in the analysis of futures markets, and this definitive selection of his work in the area provides a comprehensive analysis of the field. The book is unique in the literature of futures markets because of three distinct features: a comprehensive survey of the field, an exposition of several methodologies, and a detailed presentation of important research topics. These topics include the behaviour of futures prices, relationships between agricultural prices, random walks versus chaotic dynamics, an analysis of hedge ratios for financial futures and the determinants of price volatility. The final section offers important research questions for both agricultural and financial futures. Jerome Stein provides a forward to the volume. This significant collection presents a detailed guide to the subject of futures markets and will be an essential companion for students, researchers and practitioners
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / by Jerome L. Stein -- Preface -- Part I: Overview -- Part II: Methods -- Part III: Agricultural futures -- Part IV: Financial futures -- Part V: Conclusions -- Index.
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  • 75
    ISBN: 9781782542827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Credit, interest rates and the open economy
    DDC: 332.4
    Keywords: Geldmenge ; Geldpolitik ; Kredittheorie ; Zins ; Theorie ; Money supply ; Monetary policy ; Credit ; Money supply ; Monetary policy ; Credit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Offene Volkswirtschaft
    Abstract: The horizontalist perspective is an extension of the post-Keynesian approach, that has hitherto focused on a theory of credit and money. This book extends horizontalism beyond its traditional boundaries and makes it consistent with the post-Keynesian theories of output and the open economy. The authors compare and contrast the horizontalist position with various orthodox and non-orthodox views on money. They argue that horizontalism is perfectly compatible with liquidity preference, credit constraints, and a flexible interest-rate mark-up, and address recent developments in banking that reinforce the validity of a horizontal schedule of credit-money. The overall intention is to place horizontalism within the current heterodox tradition as a general theory of the creation of money that is consistent with the post-Keynesian view on macroeconomic policy. Credit, Interest Rates and the Open Economy is essential reading for those who wish to expand their theoretical understanding of international financial issues and will be of great interest to those involved in macroeconomics, money and banking and radical economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface: Anthony thirlwall -- Introduction -- Part I: Setting the record straight -- 1. Some reflections on endogenous money -- 2. Horizontalism -- Part II: Debates on horizontalism -- 3. Money without scarcity -- 4. Money endogeneity and monetary non-neutrality -- 5. Horizontalism and new Keynesian economics -- Part III: Horizontalism and history of thought issues -- 6. The German balance of payments school and the Latin American neo-structuralists -- 7. Horizontalism and inflation accommodation -- 8. Notes on hicks on money and monetary theory -- 9. Bank creation of money and endogenous money supply as the outcome of the evolution of the banking system -- Part IV: Horizontalism and the open economy -- 10. The reflux mechanism and the open economy -- 11. Monetary autonomy and financial integration -- 12. Foreign exchange, interest and prices -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782543152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 320 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New Horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Institutions and the role of the state
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Staatliche Einflussnahme ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Institutionenökonomik ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Politische Reform ; Theorie ; Welt ; Economic policy ; State, The ; Institutional economics ; Evolutionary economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Institutionenökonomie ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft
    Abstract: The rise of the institutionalist and evolutionary approaches in economics has posed a serious intellectual challenge to the dominant neo-classical paradigm. This book draws together leading scholars in the fields of institutional and evolutionary economics who apply cutting-edge research to one of the most controversial issues of our day, namely, the role of the state. The authors offer a sound methodological guide to the research in this fast-evolving area of economics. They provide a firm theoretical foundation for the role of the state and review the history of policy making. They also use country studies to reinforce their approach, including the role of the state in the Asian Crisis, the current debate on state reform in Japan, public administration in Central and Eastern Europe and the practice of state reform in Brazil. This book will inspire readers to reassess their views on the role of the state and state reform
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical perspectives on the role of the state, institutions and conventions -- 1. An institutional perspective on the role of the state: Towards an institutionalist political economy -- 2. Evolutionary economics and the economic role of the state -- 3. Disorderly coordination: The limited capacities of states and markets -- 4. Conventions and institutions: Rethinking problems of state reform, governance and policy -- 5. From micro to macro: The concept of emergence and the role of institutions -- Part II: Policy perspectives -- 6. National diversity and global capitalism -- 7. Gestalt shift: From 'miracle' -- To 'cronyism' in the Asian crisis -- 8. State reform in the 1990s: Logic and control mechanisms -- 9. Blockage versus continuance in Brazilian industrialization -- 10. Central banking, democratic governance and political authority: The case of Brazil in a comparative perspective -- 11. Public administration in central and eastern Europe: Considerations from the 'state science' approach -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304080
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 234 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Is economics an evolutionary science?
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    Keywords: Veblen, Thorstein ; Veblen, Thorstein ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Evolutionary economics ; Veblen, Thorstein 1857-1929 ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Thorstein Veblen has made an immeasurable impact on the development of economics. His legacy has been to challenge orthodox thinking and inspire the institutionalist and evolutionary school of thought. In this book, a distinguished group of contributors analyses the impact, a century later, of Veblen's 1898 challenge to economics. The authors examine the contribution of Veblen and some of his disciples to heterodox economics. They also reassess other contemporaneous discussions and contributions by other authors - Mitchell, Ayres, Commons, Keynes, Schumpeter, Tinbergen, Frisch - and present an overview of the state of the art in evolutionary economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Veblen's challenge -- 2. Mind-sets, and why veblen was ineffectual -- 3. How can economics be an institutional-evolutionary science? -- 4. Thorstein veblen and the political economy of the ordinary -- 5. Veblen and theories of the 'firm' -- 6. Institutional economics and the specificity of social evolution -- 7. The significance of clarence ayres and the texas school -- 8. Bounded rationality, institutionalism and the diversity of economic institutions -- 9. Is economics an evolutionary science? -- Part II: The challenged reconsidered -- 10. The travelling salesman returns from the war -- 11. Is capitalism doomed? -- 12. An institutionalist foundation for development studies -- 13. The future's unknowability -- Part III: Perspectives -- 14. Instituted economic processes, increasing returns and endogenous growth -- Index.
    Note: "European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy." , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781782541851
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 703 pages) , illustrations
    Uniform Title: Essays Selections
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Dosi, Giovanni, 1953 - Innovation, organization and economic dynamics
    DDC: 338/.064
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Industrieökonomik ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Technische Innovation ; Innovation
    Abstract: Giovanni Dosi is recognized as one of the world's leading scholars in industrial economics and corporate change. This volume contains a selection of his most important work and provides an excellent overview of the contribution he has made to the economics of innovation and technical change. Key topics include: * technological paradigms and innovation diffusion * economic behaviour and learning * organizational structures and behaviour in a changing environment * corporate finance and innovation * industrial dynamics * evolutionary theories in economics * institutions, technical change and economic growth. The book will be welcomed by scholars and students of innovation, industrial organization, business and institutional and evolutionary economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Innovation, organization and economic dynamics: An autobiographical Introduction -- Part I: Opportunities of innovation, search procedures and diffusion -- Part II: Economic behaviours, organizations and innovation in changing environments -- Part III: Evolutionary interpretations of economic change -- Part IV: Learning and market selection: Evolutionary models of economic change -- Part V: Institutions and economic dynamics.
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    ISBN: 9781781959312
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 146 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Greer, William B., 1962 - Ethics and uncertainty
    DDC: 330.15/6
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    Keywords: Keynes, John Maynard ; Knight, Frank Hyneman ; Keynes, John Maynard ; Knight, Frank H ; Keynes, John Maynard ; Knight, Frank Hyneman ; Risiko ; Ethik ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Keynesianismus ; Theorie ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Economic policy Moral and ethical aspects ; Economic development Moral and ethical aspects ; Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Keynessche Theorie ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit ; Knight, Frank Hyneman 1885-1972 ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit
    Abstract: Despite their common emphasis upon uncertainty as a key economic variable, Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes viewed its role from different ethical perspectives. These attitudes were derived from contrasting formative influences and differing views regarding the role of economic theory as applied to the real world. William Greer reveals that the intellectual atmosphere into which Keynes was born led him to consider individual and collective action positively, enabling policymakers to take purposeful, deliberate action, in the face of an uncertain, non-ergodic future. The conservative, theological era from which Knight emerged left him accepting of a predetermined, ergodic world in which the government should assume a minimal role in ensuring the smooth operation of a system of otherwise free markets. Ethics and Uncertainty explores how two economists, who both placed 'uncertainty' at the heart of their economic theories, come to drastically different and opposing policy recommendations. The volume illustrates that the important lesson to learn from both Knight and Keynes is that ethics and the desire to improve mankind should be the focus of economic enquiry. This fascinating volume will be essential reading for followers of Keynes and Knight. The book will also be welcomed by scholars in the field of economic thought, and those interested in the development of modern macroeconomics and microeconomics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Background and direction -- 2. Contrasting theological and intellectual influences -- 3. Probability and uncertainty to knight and to keynes -- 4. The ethical implications of uncertainty to knight and to keynes -- 5. The purpose and method of economics to knight and to keynes -- 6. Contrasting economic outlooks and policy recommendations -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index
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  • 80
    ISBN: 9781782543831
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 271 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: International studies in environmental policy making
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Market-based instruments for environmental management
    DDC: 336.2
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    Keywords: Umweltabgabe ; Ökosteuer ; Umweltpolitik ; Theorie ; Europa ; Japan ; Environmental impact charges Congresses ; Environmental impact charges Congresses ; Environmental management Congresses ; Environmental management Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Europa ; Japan ; Umweltbezogenes Management ; Produktpolitik ; Marketing ; Marktpolitik
    Abstract: Market-based instruments are becoming the environmental management tool of choice and have provided a new perspective on the conventional wisdom about policy instruments. This book analyses the complexities of designing and implementing market-based instruments using case study experiences from the Nordic countries, Japan, France, The Netherlands, Germany and Britain, where a range of green taxes have been introduced. The contributors examine the role of political processes in designing, introducing and implementing green taxes and charges and analyse the extent to which political concerns complicate the approach favoured by environmental economists. The authors then focus on the implementation of market-based instruments to achieve environmental objectives and offer an ex-post evaluation of different countries' experiences with economic instruments. This volume brings together contributions from political scientists and environmental economists and will prove invaluable for academics, practitioners and policymakers interested in the experiences of countries where market-based instruments are well established
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Market-based instruments in environmental policies -- Part II: Politics and institutions -- 2. Designing and introducing green taxes -- 3. Environmental innovations from the standpoint of policy analysis -- 4. What the doctor should know -- Part III: Mbis in the policy process -- 5. Dialogue and economic efficiency -- 6. Efficiency and fairness -- 7. Explaining why the swedes but not the danes tax fertilizers -- 8. Considering feasibility and efficiency -- Part IV: Implementation problems of mbis -- 9. The limitations of economic instruments as stimuli for technical change, technological change and innovation -- 10. A socio-economic evaluation of the sox charge in Japan -- 11. Assessing the efficiency of economic instruments -- 12. The danish waste tax -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304011
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 226 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Stanley, Tom D., 1950 - Challenging time series
    DDC: 519.5/5
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    Keywords: Zeitreihenanalyse ; Theorie ; Time-series analysis ; Time-series analysis ; Zeitreihenanalyse
    Abstract: This unorthodox book derives and tests a simple theory of economic time series using several well-known empirical economic puzzles, from stock market bubbles to the failure of conventional economic theory, to explain low levels of inflation and unemployment in the US. Professor Stanley develops a new econometric methodology which demonstrates the explanatory power of the behavioral inertia hypothesis and solves the pretest/specification dilemma. He then applies this to important measures of the world's economies including GDP, prices and consumer spending. The behavioral inertia hypothesis claims that inertia and randomness (or 'caprice') are the most important factors in representing and forecasting many economic time series. The development of this new model integrates well-known patterns in economic time series data with well-accepted ideas in contemporary philosophy of science. Academic economists will find this book interesting as it presents a unified approach to economic time series, solves a number of important empirical puzzles and introduces a new econometric methodology. Business and financial analysts will also find it useful because it offers a simple, yet powerful, framework in which to study and predict financial market movements
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Empirical paradox and the behavioral inertia hypothesis -- 3. Economic inertia as humean habit and stylized fact -- 4. Caprice: Dostoevsky's uncertainty principle -- 5. Empirical economics? An econometric dilemma with only a methodological solution -- 6. Ain't misbehavin' - capricious consumption or permanent income? -- 7. Prices, inflation, unemployment, and okun's law -- 8. An empirical critique of the lucas critique -- 9. Meta-analysis of ricardian equivalence: New wine in old bottles -- 10. The trouble with testing: Bubbles, inertia and experience in experimental asset markets -- 11. Dénouement: What's the difference? -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304110
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 315 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Groot, Henri L. F. de, 1971 - Growth, unemployment and deindustrialization
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Produktivität ; Deindustrialisierung ; Theorie ; Economic development ; Industrial productivity ; Unemployment ; Economic development ; Industrial productivity ; Unemployment ; Deindustrialization ; Macroeconomics ; Europe Economic conditions ; 20th century ; Bibliografie ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Arbeitsproduktivität ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Deindustrialisierung
    Abstract: The sectoral composition of economies is fundamental to the understanding of growth, unemployment and the relative performance of nations. Henri de Groot models the relationship between these four factors from a single theoretical perspective in order to determine the foundations of the wealth of nations. Special issues that are addressed include: * the macroeconomic consequences of outsourcing and downsizing * unemployment and catching-up * the relationship between growth and unemployment in a dual labour market * the relative stagnancy of Europe versus the USA in terms of productivity levels and unemployment * transitional dynamics in two-sector endogenous growth models * the causes of deindustrialization * the role of trade unions and efficiency-wage considerations Growth, Unemployment and Deindustrialization will be of paramount interest to scholars of endogenous growth theory, economic growth and unemployment, labour market economics and industrial organization
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Growth, unemployment and deindustrialization: An Introduction -- Part I: Relative productivity and unemployment -- 2. Unemployment and catching up: Europe vis-à-vis the usa -- 3. Macroeconomic consequences of downsizing -- 4. Catching up and the changing sectoral composition of a small open economy -- Part II: Growth and unemployment -- 5. Unemployment, growth and efficiency wages -- 6. Unemployment, growth and trade unions -- Part III: Sectoral structure and growth -- 7. The determination and development of sectoral structures -- 8. The macroeconomic consequences of outsourcing -- 9. Optimal sectoral structure and economic policy -- 10. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index
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  • 83
    ISBN: 9781781952818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 138 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in the economics of innovation
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Mazzucato, Mariana, 1968 - Firm size, innovation, and market structure
    DDC: 338.6
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    Keywords: Industrieökonomik ; Betriebsgröße ; Innovation ; Marktstruktur ; Unternehmenskonzentration ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Simulation ; Theorie ; Kfz-Industrie ; USA ; Industrial organization (Economic theory) ; Industries Size ; Computer simulation ; Industrial concentration Computer simulation ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Computer simulation ; Evolutionary economics ; Industrial organization (Economic theory) ; Industries Size ; Computer simulation ; Industrial concentration Computer simulation ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Computer simulation ; Evolutionary economics ; Unternehmenskonzentration ; Unternehmensgröße ; Marktstruktur ; Innovationsmanagement ; Computersimulation ; Unternehmensgröße ; Unternehmenskonzentration ; Marktstruktur ; Simulation
    Abstract: Firm Size, Innovation and Market Structure uses evolutionary dynamic theory, non-linear mathematics and computer simulation techniques to explore the relationship between firm size, innovation and market structure. The book begins by reviewing the connection between these variables from a theoretical and an empirical point of view, and goes on to illustrate how analytical tools may be used in order to explore Schumpeterian propositions regarding firm size, innovation and the specific role of idiosyncratic events. In the concluding chapter, Mariana Mazzucato focuses on the US automobile industry from 1900-1997, and uses empirical evidence in order to determine whether or not there is a relationship between market share instability and stock price volatility, and to what degree the relationship is connected to industry specific factors. This innovative new book will prove invaluable to researchers, lecturers and scholars of industrial organisation, technology and market structure
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Firm-size dynamics: New ideas and dynamic methods -- 2. A computational model of economies of scale and market share instability: A deterministic analysis -- 3. The effect of idiosyncratic events on the feedback between firm size and innovation: A stochastic analysis -- 4. Market share instability and stock price volatility during the industry life-cycle: The us automobile industry -- concluding statement -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 84
    ISBN: 9781035304332
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 258 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in the economics of innovation
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Texier, François Industrial diversification and innovation
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    Keywords: SAAB-Scania Aktiebolaget ; Dassault Aviation ; Daewoo Group ; Luftfahrtindustrie ; Innovation ; Diversifikation ; Theorie ; Frankreich ; Schweden ; Südkorea ; Aerospace industries Case studies ; Diversification in industry Case studies ; Aerospace industries Case studies Technological innovations ; Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie ; Rüstungsindustrie ; Diversifikation ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Militär ; Privatwirtschaft ; Innovation ; Führungstechnik ; Frankreich ; Schweden ; Südkorea ; Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie ; Diversifikation ; Innovationsmanagement
    Abstract: This innovative and clearly written book examines the process of diversification as a strategy to promote innovation and growth within firms and to foster structural change in industry. Through a comparative case study of the aerospace industry, using cases of diversification at Dassault (France), Saab (Sweden) and Daewoo (South Korea), the author examines interactions between the firm and the state, and critically evaluates the role of national and sectoral institutions during the diversification process. He then uses these findings to propose a new, original model for diversification. Key features include: * an exploration of the ways in which the systems of innovation approach can be used to analyse strategies in firms * new insights into the concept of 'institutions' * an examination of the relationship between the behaviour of diversifying firms and institutions * path-breaking research on the South Korean aerospace industry. The combination of an up-to-date and thorough analysis of the general literature on diversification and its shortcomings, as well as three detailed case studies, will render this work invaluable to those interested in management studies and systems of innovation, and anyone working in the aircraft industry
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical framework and methods -- 2. Diversification in systems of innovation -- 3. A case-study approach to analyse diversification in firms -- Part II: Empirical research -- 4. From military aircraft to business jets in France: The case of the dassault mystère-falcon 20 -- 5. From military to regional aircraft in Sweden: The case of the saab 340 -- 6. The first indigenous Korean aircraft: The case of the daewoo ktx-1 'woong-bee' -- Part III: Analysis and conclusions -- 7. Why did the firms diversify? -- 8. How did the firms diversify? -- 9. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781959992
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 262 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Hettich, Frank, 1966 - Economic growth and environmental policy
    DDC: 363.7
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Ökosteuer ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Endogenes Wachstumsmodell ; Theorie ; Economic development Environmental aspects ; Environmental policy ; Hochschulschrift ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Umweltpolitik
    Abstract: The use of dynamic models to address the problem of environmental degradation is central to environmental policy because decisions taken now affect not only the current generation but have a profound impact on the future. In this innovative book, Frank Hettich uses dynamic modelling to study the interactions between economic growth, environmental policy and tax reform. He incorporates pollution and abatement technologies into different endogenous growth models that take into account consumer preferences and physical and human capital accumulation. He focuses on the effects of environmental policy in closed and open economies in the short, medium and long term. He sheds light on the following questions: * what kind of environmental policy can reverse tendencies towards increasing pollution? * will tighter environmental policy inevitably reduce economic growth? * does environmental taxation provide an efficient source of revenue for governments? * how will higher preferences for a clean environment affect optimal growth rates? * what are the effects of international cooperation on growth, welfare and pollution? * does sustainable environmental development necessarily preclude economic growth? This book will interest all students and scholars of environmental economics and particularly those interested in the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Survey of literature and general model setup -- 3. Environmental policy in the linear growth model -- 4. Environmental policy in the uzawa-lucas model -- 5. Environmental policy in the uzawa-lucas model with leisure -- 6. Environmental policy in the generalized uzawa-lucas model -- 7. Summary and outlook -- A -- Technical appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303595
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 262 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Payson, Steven, 1957 - Economics, science and technology
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Wissenschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Forschung ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Theorie ; Economics ; Science and industry ; Technological innovations ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Innovationsforschung
    Abstract: Economists need to understand some fundamental aspects of science in order to measure and analyse the process of technological change. This book explores the interrelationships between economics, science and technology in order to find ways of improving economists' approaches to technical change. Dr Payson begins by offering a scientific critique of economic discourse and presents a unique, unconstrained and critical view of the behavioral differences between economists and scientists. The economic literature on technological change is analysed in order to assess economists' approach to science. The author then offers concrete solutions for the useful economic study of technological change including alternative methods of classifying data based on scientific principles, a characteristics approach to measuring physical capital, and a futuristic exploration into how artificial intelligence may improve economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: A scientific critique of economic discourse -- 1. Economics of science versus science of economics -- 2. The difference in behavior between economists and scientists -- 3. Measurement in economics must be taken more seriously -- Part II: Economic literature on scientific advancement, technological change and related topics -- 4. Science as a public good -- 5. Subfields on the economic effects of scientific research -- 6. Economic literature on technological change -- Part III: New attitudes, philosophies, frameworks and models -- 7. Product evolution and the case for function-based classification -- 8. Business interests in scientific discoveries -- 9. Capital input - it need not be metaphysical -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-252) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303922
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 261 pages)
    Series Statement: Current issues in ecological economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Greening the accounts
    DDC: 339.3
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    Keywords: Umweltökonomische Gesamtrechnung ; Input-Output-Analyse ; Theorie ; Welt ; National income Case studies Accounting ; Sustainable development Case studies ; Environmental economics Case studies ; Environmental economics ; National income Accounting ; Case studies ; Sustainable development Case studies ; Environmental economics Case studies ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltökonomische Gesamtrechnung ; Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung ; Umweltökonomie ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umweltökonomie ; Umweltökonomische Gesamtrechnung
    Abstract: This path-breaking book shows how green accounting can be compatible with ecological economics and how it can contribute to the implementation of sustainability. It explores the history and methodology of green accounting and describes the state-of-the-art construction of green accounts in individual countries. The authors first provide an overview of the history of national accounting and its place in the debate concerning sustainability. In particular they address the social role that accounts play, the relationship of national accounts to economic traditions, and the relationship between green national accounts and ecological economics. They go on to describe issues related to the history of green accounts and the methodologies adopted, and discuss the Dutch experience with the NAMEA system, the use of input-output analysis in national accounting and the conceptual issues raised by green accounting. Finally, the authors show how green accounts are being constructed and used in various countries, by both national governments and corporate businesses. The book features new case studies of green national accounting in Europe, Africa and Canada, the UK experience in establishing green accounts and the process of greening business accounts. Greening the Accounts will be required reading for scholars of ecological economics, environmental studies and business and national accounting
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: The history of national accounts -- 2. The social and political roles of national accounting -- 3. Roots of green accounting in the classical and neoclassical schools -- 4. Sustainability, ecological economics and green accounting -- Part II: Green accounting as a policy instrument -- 5. Indicators and accounts of sustainable development: The namea approach -- 6. Formal models and practical measurement for greening the accounts -- 7. The magic triangle of input-output tables -- 8. Alternative green accounting methodologies -- Part III: Uses of green accounting -- 9. Case studies: Uses of green accounting -- 10. Constructing green accounts -- 11. Corporate environmental accounting: Accounting for environmentally sustainable profits -- 12. Setting the agenda for green accounting in the 21st century -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304301
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 261 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Global emissions trading
    DDC: 363.738/745
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    Keywords: Emissionshandel ; Klimaschutz ; Umweltabkommen ; International ; Theorie ; Welt ; Emissions trading ; Industriestaaten ; Umweltzertifikathandel
    Abstract: Issues surrounding Annex I trading - the trading of greenhouse gas emissions among industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change - comprise the central theme of this collection, which offers an integrated discussion of the practical, economic and political issues involved in its implementation. Topics explored include compliance of the Protocol as a whole and compliance issues arising from trading; the design of a system for tracking the trade of permits; fair competition, market power and Annex B trading; and the development of guidelines for joint implementation. Global Emissions Trading has grown out of direct work with Annex I delegates and representatives of the business community. Thus, it reflects and responds to their concerns and their assessment of the political and practical feasibility of different options. Several authors have contributed to this volume, but the papers were developed together and the result is a unified and cohesive text, which aims to provide a focus for future debate on issues where there are real conflicts of interest and genuine uncertainties about appropriate design. Further, the book should stimulate debate on the solutions proposed and encourage research in areas where recommendations are ambiguous. Economists, policymakers, students and readers concerned about environmental issues and climate change will find this collection essential reading
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword by edward a. (ned) helme -- 1. Introduction: Trading toward a stable climate -- 2. An international tracking system for greenhouse gas trading -- 3. Treaty compliance as background for an effective trading program -- 4. Additional compliance issues arising from trading -- 5. Inclusion of all source and sink categories in international emissions trading -- 6. Domestic greenhouse regulation and international emissions trading -- 7. Fair competition and annex b trading -- 8. Market power and annex b trading -- 9. Developing rules and guidelines for joint implementation -- 10. The way forward? Design principles for annex b trading -- Appendices -- Reference -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304240
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 224 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Schmidt, Carsten, 19XX - Designing international environmental agreements
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Internationale Umweltpolitik ; Umweltabkommen ; Kosten-Wirksamkeits-Analyse ; Spieltheorie ; Nash-Gleichgewicht ; Theorie ; Environmental economics ; Environmental policy International cooperation ; Environmental policy Cost effectiveness ; Environmental protection Economic aspects ; Environmental protection International cooperation ; Environmental policy ; Hochschulschrift ; Umweltpolitik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Effizienz
    Abstract: The international character of today's most pressing environmental problems has become a key challenge for environmental policy making. As regulation by a supranational authority is not a realistic option at present, policymakers have to rely on decentralized approaches to the management of international environmental resources. This study combines two core dimensions of international environmental policy: the traditional search for cost-effective policy instruments and the creation of incentives for voluntary cooperation among sovereign nations. The analysis offers some clear-cut policy recommendations for the design of environmental treaties and for the further development of existing international institutions to protect the global environment
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. International environmental problems -- 3. Cost-effectiveness -- 4. Incentive compatibility -- 5. Enforcement and side payments -- 6. Financing incremental abatement costs under asymmetric information -- 7. Institutions for the global environment -- 8. Summary and outlook -- appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303793
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 261 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Environmental regulation and market power
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Umweltökonomik ; Marktmacht ; Wettbewerb ; Offene Volkswirtschaft ; Theorie ; Welt ; Environmental impact charges ; Environmental policy ; Competition ; International trade ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltabgabe ; Marktstruktur ; Umweltpolitik ; Außenhandel ; Wettbewerb
    Abstract: Emissions taxes, tradeable emission permits and voluntary compliance policies are becoming the instruments of choice in controlling environmental problems at the national and international level. Careful design of these policies in second-best environments is a very important factor for their success. This book uses cutting-edge research in order to appraise their efficiency in varying market conditions. This book evaluates the impact that market power could have on the implementation of market-based environmental policies within static, dynamic and open economy frameworks. It explores the potential negative impacts that market-based instruments could have on competitiveness and examines the effects that time inconsistency in the implementation of emission taxes and emission permits could have on environmental innovation. Utilizing open economy frameworks, the contributors also analyse the impact of market imperfections on the structure of environmental polices across countries. They advocate co-operation across countries as a means to maximise the benefits from these policies. Environmental Regulation and Market Power will prove invaluable to scholars and policymakers in the area of environmental studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Emission taxes for price setting firms: Differentiated commodities and monopolistic competition -- 2. Minimum quality standard as an environmental policy: Domestic and international effects -- 3. Emissions permits trading and market structure -- 4. Experimental tests of market power in emission trading markets -- 5. The competitive implications of facility-specific environmental agreements: The intel corporation and project xl -- 6. Environmental policy and time consistency: Emission taxes and emissions trading -- 7. Does government precommitment promote environmental innovation? -- 8. Diffusion of abatement technologies in a differentiated industry -- 9. Pollution, pigouvian taxes and asymmetric international oligopoly -- 10. R&d cooperation, innovation spillovers and firm location in a model of environmental policy -- 11. Relative standards as strategic instruments in open economies -- 12. Ecological dumping: Harmonization and minimum standards -- Index.
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9781035304042
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 443 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Economics, welfare policy and the history of economic thought
    DDC: 330
    Keywords: Heertje, Arnold ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Theorie ; Economics ; Economics History ; Welfare economics ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Wohlfahrtstheorie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In this book, internationally renowned scholars, including two Nobel Laureates, have been drawn together to celebrate Arnold Heertje's rich contribution to the field of economics. Their essays reflect his influence in the areas of economic theory and policy. In particular, they follow in the tradition of his work on oligopoly and price theory, welfare theory and policy, growth theory, environmental economics, technical change and the history of economic thought and methodology. The contributors offer penetrating insights into the structure and functioning of different types of market structures and the character of technical change. In addition, they address current topics such as the recent problems in East Asian economies, the money supply in the European Monetary Union and economic development. Finally, they pay tribute to Arnold Heertje's work on the history of economic thought, discussing the writings of David Ricardo, the German historical school, Herbert Robinson, Alfred Marshall and Herbert Foxwell. This book will attract economic theorists, and scholars and students who are interested in the history of economic thought or in empirical subjects such as the policy implications of studies of labour markets, property rights and European Monetary Union
    Description / Table of Contents: Full Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Economic theory -- 1. A cooperative theory of duopoly -- 2. A commodity flow model of flexible exchange rates with overshooting in response to inflation -- 3. The market for oranges -- 4. Complications in the model of a perfectly competitive firm and industry -- 5. Models of the market -- 6. Revisiting the schumpeter-hypotheses: Firm size, market structure and technological regime -- 7. Technical change and economic growth: The case of "catch-up" -- 8. Coordination, technical progress and economic growth -- 9. Reswitching: Simplifying a famous example -- Part II: Economic policy and applied economics -- 10. Labour market 'flexibility' and welfare -- 11. On substitutability among domestic money and cross-border deposits -- 12. The role of international financial institutions in the current global economy -- 13. The coase theorem and the cooperative nash bargaining game -- 14. On property rights and their modification -- 15. Economic development in Europe, 1960-1996 -- 16. Different data sources for studying behaviour -- 17. Economy and morality: A conceptual framework -- Part III: History of economic thought -- 18. -- Ricardo's misunderstood value theory and the readability of the principles -- 19. Sherlock holmes and the swarthy German: The case of inanely 'transforming' mehrwert to prices -- 20. Alfred marshall and herbert somerton foxwell: A tale of two libraries -- 21. The after-glow of the German historical school, 1945-1960 -- 22. An economist turned entrepreneur -- 23. Authority systems and schools of economic thought -- Index.
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9781035303670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 263 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Tisdell, Clement A., 1939 - 2022 Biodiversity, conservation and sustainable development
    DDC: 333.95/16
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Artenvielfalt ; Umweltökonomik ; Naturschutz ; Naturschutzgebiet ; Theorie ; China ; Welt ; Asien ; Nature conservation Economic aspects ; Sustainable development ; Biodiversity conservation Economic aspects ; Nature conservation Case studies Economic aspects ; Sustainable development Case studies ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umweltschutz ; Wirtschaft ; Problem ; Biodiversität ; Umweltverträglichkeit ; Artenschutz ; Naturschutz ; Fallstudie ; Asien ; China ; Indien ; Asien ; Naturschutz ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: This important book highlights the conflicts between economic growth and the conservation of nature in the context of sustainable development. It places particular emphasis on biological diversity and examines possible policies for resolving conflicts which arise from the contrasting goals of conserving the natural environment and economic growth. The book opens with an overview of the challenges of economics, nature conservation and sustainable development and goes on to discuss general principles and broad policies. Case studies from China and north-east India help illustrate important economic and social principles involved in nature conservation. General issues examined include: * the value of environmental and resource economics in planning sustainable development * the importance of biodiversity conservation for sustainable development and for the stability and sustainability of ecological systems * the impact of economic globalization and market systems on the conservation of nature * priorities for the financial support of protected areas * the extent to which ecotourism can be harnessed to reconcile economic utilisation of an area with nature conservation * the costs and benefits of conservation * financing the management of nature reserves This book will be essential reading for economists interested in the environment, ecology and development
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: An overview -- 1. Economics, nature conservation and sustainable development: An overview -- Part II: General principles and policies -- 2. Environmental and resource economics -- 3. Conservation of biodiversity -- 4. Biodiversity, stability and sustainability -- 5. Does the commercial use of wildlife favour conservation of biodiversity? -- 6. Conservation, protected areas and the global economic system -- 7. Ranking requests for financial support for protected areas -- 8. Ecotourism, economics and the environment -- Part III: Experiences and cases from Asia -- 9. The environment and Asian economic development -- 10. Economics of in situ biodiversity conservation in China -- 11. Reconciling economic development, nature conservation and local communities -- 12. Tourism development and conservation of nature -- 13. Agricultural pests and protected areas -- 14. Financing nature reserves in China -- 15. Sustainable development and biodiversity conservation in north-east India in context -- Part IV: Concluding observations -- 16. Nature conservation and development in retrospect -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303779
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 202 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Global money, capital restructuring and the changing patterns of labour
    DDC: 331.12
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    Keywords: Arbeitsmarkt ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit ; Investition ; Kapital ; Globalisierung ; Arbeitsteilung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Labor market Congresses ; Saving and investment Congresses ; Money Congresses ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Geld ; Kapitalbewegung ; Bibliografie ; Konferenzschrift 1997 ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Geldmarkt ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: The last two decades have seen a reshaping of the international economy together with a radical weakening in the conditions of the working class. New productive techniques and methods in the organization of labour have been implemented on a world-wide scale partly as a consequence of the financialization of capital. The geographical diffusion of market relations has continued and with it the dominance of capital in all realms of social reproduction. In charting this change, the book offers an alternative view of contemporary capitalism. It has been suggested that we are entering a new phase where the 'globalization' of economic activities is fully achieved, where 'post-Fordist' regulation has overcome the crisis of Keynesian capitalism, and where the dominant tendency is towards the 'end of work'. In contrast to this view, the authors of this book argue that current internationalization is not a structure, but a contradictory process and that new patterns in the division of labour while successful in increasing the pressure over workers have not been able to supersede Fordism entirely. They conclude that the slow growth of the economies, caused by neoliberal economic policies, is a crucial factor in explaining unemployment and the fragmentation of labour
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. After fordism, what? Capitalism at the end of the century -- 2. Structural unemployment in the crisis of the late twentieth century -- 3. Which Europe do we need now? which can we get? -- 4. Britain under 'new labour' -- 5. The euro and Europe's labour -- 6. The accumulation process in Japan and east Asia as compared with the role of Germany in European post-war growth -- 7. Historical notes on the rise and fall of fordism and flexible accumulation in the United States -- 8. Lean production in North America -- 9. Management-by-stress and skilled work -- 10. Is technical change the cause of unemployment? -- 11. Intensive and extensive investment, employment and working time in the European Union -- 12. The transformation of the Italian labour market -- 13. Changing patterns in the division of labour and in the segmentation of the labour force -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782542018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 214 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Creedy, John, 1949 - Modelling indirect taxes and tax reform
    DDC: 336.2/00994
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    Keywords: Indirekte Besteuerung ; Steuerreform ; Steuerwirkung ; Wohlfahrtsanalyse ; Umverteilung ; Australien ; Partielles Gleichgewicht ; Theorie ; Indirect taxation ; Taxation ; Welfare economics ; Indirect taxation Australia ; Taxation Australia ; Welfare economics ; Indirekte Steuer ; Steuerreform
    Abstract: Indirect taxes have become an increasingly important revenue-raising tool for governments in developed countries. In this book, John Creedy applies his wealth of experience and expertise to the analysis of indirect taxes and, in particular, concentrates on the modelling of indirect tax reform and its distributional implications. Initially, he examines the implications of alternative indirect tax systems and provides an introductory survey of various measures of welfare change and excess burden in the context of indirect taxes. He pays particular attention to the measurement issues involved and uses partial equilibrium models to uncover various aspects of tax reform. Specifically, he: * addresses the questions of measuring welfare changes arising from price changes * examines the built-in flexibility of various forms of consumption taxation * calculates the possible redistributive effects of indirect taxes and illustrates his methods using case study examples of the indirect tax system in Australia * examines the horizontal inequity of different consumption taxes * considers the optimal direction of small changes in indirect tax rates * analyses the positive and negative effects of a carbon tax Modelling Indirect Taxes and Tax Reform will be useful to scholars and policymakers interested in public economics and finance and modelling taxes
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction and outline -- Part II: Theory and concepts -- 2. Income and consumption taxes -- 3. Prices, taxes and welfare changes -- 4. Welfare changes and budget data -- 5. Built-in flexibility of indirect taxes -- Part III: Applications -- 6. Tax reform and demographic groups -- 7. The limits to redistribution -- 8. Indirect taxes and horizontal inequity -- 9. Marginal indirect tax reform -- 10. Carbon taxation -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304097
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 198 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Rizzello, Salvatore, 1963 - The economics of the mind
    DDC: 330.15/7
    Keywords: Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Österreichische Schule ; Neoklassische Theorie ; Institutionenökonomik ; Transaktionskosten ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Austrian school of economics ; Neoclassical school of economics ; Institutional economics ; Austrian school of economics ; Neoclassical school of economics ; Institutional economics ; Wiener Schule ; Kapitaltheorie ; Neoklassische Theorie
    Abstract: The Economics of the Mind addresses economics from the perspective of real men and women: how they assess things, decide and act. It looks at the choices we make, and calls for the assumptions which make up the foundations of economic theory to be consistent with the mechanisms which guide the workings of the human mind. The author begins by presenting an historical analysis of the role of knowledge and decision-making, taking into account the work of Hayek and Simon. Salvatore Rizzello then reconstructs the birth and development of neo-institutionalism, experimental economics and evolutionary economics. He discusses economic and social institutions and how these simplify the individual's choices related to knowledge and tasks. Specifically, he examines rules, learning and evolution in neo-institutional economics. The book breaks new ground on the role of the social sciences, and economics in particular, and suggests a move away from neoclassical economics towards a more definite link between economics, psychology and the artificial sciences. The book will be warmly welcomed by institutional and evolutionary economists, and those working in the field of economic psychology
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword (massimo egidi) -- Introduction -- Part I: Hayek's criticism to the neoclassical paradigm -- 1. Neoclassical paradigm and the anomaly of the austrian school -- 2. Hayek on competition and knowledge -- 3. Mind and institutions -- Part II: Simon's criticism: From substantive rationality to procedural rationality -- 4. Bounded rationality -- 5. Optimizing and "satisficing" -- 6. Problem-solving -- 7. Decision-making process: Procedural rationality and learning -- 8. Economics and psychology -- Part III: Neoinstitutionalism: Rules, learning and evolution -- 9. The implications of the neurobiological approach for economic theory (i): The decision-making process -- 10. The implications of the neurobiological approach for economic theory (ii): The process of exchange -- 11. The implications of the neurobiological approach for economic theory (iii): "path-dependency" -- 12. Transaction costs and the new theory of the firm -- 13. Evolution, organizations and institutions -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-190) and index
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    ISBN: 9781782541325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 197 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Valdés, Benigno, 1953 - Economic growth
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Wachstumstheorie ; Monetäre Wachstumstheorie ; Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz ; Theorie ; Economic development ; Economic policy ; Economic development ; Wachstumstheorie ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: Economic Growth is an advanced undergraduate text written specifically for one semester courses in growth theory and for first year graduate students to refresh their knowledge. It will also be of great use for scholars and professional economists as the text contains many references to practical policy issues. The author condenses the fundamental issues of growth theory and covers the new ideas in a highly entertaining text, written in a clear and accessible style
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. The "stylized facts" of economic growth -- Part II: The theory of economic growth with "exogenous" technical progress -- 2. the neoclassical model of economic growth -- 3. the hypothesis of convergence (i): Economies with the same steady state -- 4. the hypothesis of convergence (ii): Economies with different steady states -- 5. economic growth and social welfare: The "golden rules" of accumulation -- 6. Growth accounting and the solow residual -- Part III: The theory of economic growth with "endogenous" technical progress -- 7. learning-by-doing, knowledge spillovers and economic growth -- 8. schumpeterian models of economic growth -- Part IV: Concluding remarks -- 9. Theories of economic growth: "old" and "new" -- Mathematical appendices -- References -- Index.
    Note: "ICADE, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain" , Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303830
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 206 pages)
    Edition: Revised English edition
    Uniform Title: Adam Smith en de economische wetenschap
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Peil, Jan Adam Smith and economic science
    DDC: 330.15/3
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    Keywords: Smith, Adam ; Smith, Adam ; Smith, Adam ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Theorie ; Economists ; Smith, Adam 1723-1790
    Abstract: Since the celebration of the bicentenary of The Wealth of Nations, the last twenty years have seen a burgeoning interest in Adam Smith's contribution to economics. Jan Peil's book aims to provide a new model for interpreting Smith's contribution to economic science. This model elucidates Smith's vision of the free market economy by placing it in the historical circumstances of the time. In the first part of the book the author discusses how we should read Smith and outlines the new hermeneutical model of interpretation of his economic thought. For example, in reviewing The Wealth of Nations, the author places Smith's work firmly in the context of moral philosophy and the debate on the sense and meaning of the emerging commercial society which was taking place in the 18th century. In discussing Smith's economics, the author clearly focuses on the question: why should we re-read Smith and according to which model of interpretation? Finally, he discusses the relevance of reinterpreting Smith's economics as part of moral philosophy for today's debate on the principles of economics. This innovative book will be of great interest to historians of economic thought and political economy, scholars and students of the philosophy and methodology of economics and all those interested in Adam Smith and his relevance for economics today
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: An adam smith renaissance anno 1976 -- Part II: A contextual approach to the wealth of nations -- Part III: Mutual sympathy and commerce -- Part IV: The invisible hand and mutual sympathy -- Part V: Adam smith and the crisis of modern economics -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Rev. English ed , Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-199) and index
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9781035303915
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 379 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Dhanda, Kanwalroop Kathy, 1970 - Environmental networks
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Oligopol ; Mehrproduktfertigung ; Verkehrsweg ; Emissionshandel ; Räumlicher Wettbewerb ; Theorie ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Environmental economics ; Economic development Environmental aspects ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Environmental economics ; Economic development Environmental aspects ; Umweltökonomie ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltökonomie ; Umweltaudit
    Abstract: This original book presents a new basis for environmental policymaking: environmental networks. This framework graphically simplifies the analysis of environmental problems and emphasizes the spatial nature of economic activity and pollution dispersion. The book first discusses the foundations of environmental economics before going on to apply the environmental network approach to different firm structures. The authors then extend the analysis to incorporate multiple products and pollutants, the presence of transaction costs, the availability of investment in production technologies, and the issue of noncompliance versus compliance. They also apply the network approach to pollution caused by transportation and assess the success of permits in limiting this. The authors then formulate integrated models, analyzing the use of permits and taxes in firms, producers, and consumers, as well as transportation and trade routes. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in environmental and transport economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction and overview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Foundations of environmental economics -- 3. Methodological foundations -- Part II: Firms and the environment -- 4. Pollution permit models for single-product, single-pollutant firms -- 5. Multiproduct, multipollutant firms with transaction costs -- 6. Oligopolistic markets and technological investments -- 7. Noncompliant oligopolistic firms: Statics and dynamics -- Part III: Transportation and the environment -- 8. Environmental targets and single-modal traffic networks -- 9. Environmental targets and multimodal traffic networks -- 10. Emission pollution permits for transportation networks -- 11. Multimodal network permits: Compliance versus noncompliance -- Part IV: Spatial price networks and the environment -- 12. Environmental targets and spatial price networks -- 13. Pollution permits and spatial price networks -- 14. Spatial oligopolies and pollution permits -- Glossary.
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    ISBN: 9781781959596
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 341 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Rochon, Louis-Philippe Credit, money and production
    DDC: 332.4
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    Keywords: Geldtheorie ; Kredittheorie ; Keynesianismus ; Postkeynesianismus ; Kritik ; Theorie ; Money ; Credit ; Keynesian economics ; Kredittheorie ; Credit ; Macroeconomics ; Makroökonomie ; Neokeynesianismus ; Keynessche Theorie ; Geldtheorie
    Abstract: This thought-provoking book clearly and systematically analyses the post-Keynesian approaches to endogenous money and, in doing so, provides an informed critique of the development of post-Keynesian economics. Using a horizontalist perspective the author offers an historical overview of the post-Keynesian and circuit approaches to endogenous money, starting with a comprehensive survey of the Franco-Italian circuit school. He argues that rather than emphasizing the early writings of Minsky, Kaldor and Tobin in the 1950s and of Davidson and Rousseas later, post-Keynesians ought to have followed the writings of Joan Robinson and Richard Kahn who offered far better theories of credit-money. The author then compares the current post-Keynesian structuralist theory with New Keynesian monetary thought. In conclusion, he develops an innovative theory of banking based on Keynesian uncertainty and consistent with the horizontalist tradition taking into account credit restraints, crunches and creditworthiness. This book will be illuminating to scholars of post-Keynesian economics, macroeconomics, and history of economic thought
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The franco-italian circuitists: Credit, money and production -- 2. Credit, money and post-Keynesian theory: Clarifications of familiar themes -- 3. The early views of "endogenous" money: Minsky, kaldor and tobin -- 4. The early views of "endogenous" money revisited: Davidson and rousseas versus robinson and kahn -- 5. Horizontalists and structuralists: Credit and endogenous "money" -- 6. Post-Keynesians and orthodoxy: "neo" post-Keynesians? -- 7. New Keynesian monetary theory and the transmission mechanism: A comparison with post-Keynesian theory -- 8. A post-Keynesian/circuitist theory of banks: Uncertainty, creditworthiness, and the supply of credit -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-329) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303625
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 348 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Beyond the representative agent
    DDC: 339
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftstheorie ; Makroökonomik ; Theorie ; Macroeconomics ; Social interaction ; Economics Sociological aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; Makroökonomie
    Abstract: This challenging book extends standard economic theory to take into account the presence of heterogeneity among economic agents. It argues for an approach to economic analysis which regards the economy as an interactive system with heterogeneous agents and not simply a system which treats aggregates as some 'representative' individual. The authors consider that no sector of the economy can be treated as behaving like a single individual and each sector should be modelled as a complex interactive system. They apply this approach to many macro- and micro- analyses including monetary policy and firms, technological innovation and the insider-outsider model. In conclusion the authors find that this approach proves much more fruitful in explaining empirical phenomena than much of the existing theory. The result of this approach to economic theory which encompasses many realistic features, provides a vision of the economy which is not at odds with common sense, but which does not abandon rigorous analysis. This important book will be welcomed by those interested in both macro and micro economic theory
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Interaction and market -- 2. Tutorial on social interaction economics -- 3. Multilevel interactions with a Keynesian flavour in a stochastic macroeconomic model -- 4. Economic theory and 'conformism' -- 5. Firms' size and monetary policy -- 6. Agents' heterogeneity and coordination failure -- 7. Compartmental analysis of economic systems with heterogeneous agents -- 8. Macroeconomic fluctuations and heterogeneous agents -- 9. Fluctuations and growth due to technological innovation and diffusion -- 10. Hysteresis and economics -- 11. An insider-outsider model with non-trivially heterogeneous labour force -- 12. Agents' heterogeneity, financial fragility, and learning -- Index.
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