Creative Industries And Economic Evolution
Authors: Jason Potts.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2011
Subjects: ARTS–ECONOMIC ASPECTS ; EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS.
Description:
The creative industries are key drivers of modern economies. While economic analysis has traditionally advanced a market-failure model of arts and culture, this book argues for an evolutionary market dynamics or innovation-based approach. Jason Potts explores theoretical and conceptual aspects of an evolutionary economic approach to the study of the creative economy. Topics include creative businesses and labour markets, social networks, innovation processes and systems, institutions, and the role of creative industries in market dynamics and economic growth…More…
Economic Development And The Division Of Labor
Author: Xiaokai Yang.
Publisher: Blackwell
Year: 2003
Subjects: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Description:
This innovative new text from Jeffrey Sachs and Xiokai Yang introduces students to development economics from the perspectives of inframarginal analysis and marginal analysis. The book demonstrates how the new-found emphasis on inframarginal analysis has influenced a shift back to an interest in Classical Economics from Neoclassical Economics.
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Game Theory And International Environmental Cooperation
Author: Michael Finus.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2011
Subject: ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC ASPECTS ; GAME THEORY.
Description:
Key environmental issues, such as biodiversity and climate change, have in recent years become more pressing than ever. Where the critical papers in the early 1990s explained the difficulties of cooperation in tackling transboundary environmental problems, later works have analyzed the various alternatives, and increased our understanding of various institutional designs and negotiation protocols’ impact on the success of cooperation.This collection brings together the most important articles on the game theoretic analysis of international environmental cooperation to both confront the cooperative and non-cooperative approaches to this, and demonstrate the diversity of methods used to analyze international environmental agreements…More …
Insurance Against Poverty
Editor: Stefan Dercon.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: POVERTY– DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; RISK– DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
Description:
The micro-level studies that underpin this book offer new insights on how effective public action could be more effective in protecting the vulnerable against persistent poverty. Policy should focus on providing a comprehensive menu of ex-ante and post-crisis protection mechanisms, including new forms of insurance, savings, safety nets, and the means to strengthen the poor’s asset base. Local communities have a big role to play: public funds should not be used to replace indigenous community-based support networks; rather they should be used to build on the strengths of these networks to ensure broader and more effective protection…More…
Lecture Notes In Microeconomic Theory : The Economic Agent
Author: Ariel Rubinstein.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2012
Subject: MICROECONOMICS ; ECONOMICS.
Description:
This book presents Ariel Rubinstein’s lecture notes for the first part of his well-known graduate course in microeconomics. Developed during the fifteen years that Rubinstein taught the course at Tel Aviv University, Princeton University, and New York University, these notes provide a critical assessment of models of rational economic agents, and are an invaluable supplement to any primary textbook in microeconomic theory.In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Rubinstein retains the striking originality and deep simplicity that characterize his famously engaging style of teaching…More …
Madness And Leadership : From Antiquity To The New Common Era
Author: Savvas Papacostas.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2015
Subject: POWER (SOCIAL SCIENCE) ; POLITICAL LEADERSHIP– PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS.
Description:
Madness and Leadership studies leaders and followers from social, cultural, and biologic perspectives and explores aspects of their personalities that induce them to assume their respective roles. It proposes that leadership and followership are evolutionary adaptations, developed to enhance survival and group cohesion; that leaders possess certain biologically-derived personality traits which set them apart and alert followers, consciously or unconsciously, of their status. Important factors that enhance leader emergence have been linked through evolution and are constituents of all societies past and present. Within political theories and historical examples, this book carries the discussion on leadership into a new direction by suggesting that mild psychopathology is one of its central components…More …
Public Finance : An International Perspective
Author: Joshua E. Greene.
Publisher: World Scientific
Year: 2012
Subject: FINANCE, PUBLIC ; FISCAL POLICY.
Description:
This book expands on issues like fiscal sustainability, state enterprises and the variety of subsidies, with a multi-country focus. Drawing examples from numerous countries, it presents issues in contemporary finance and especially fiscal policy that can benefit researchers and civil servants from both developed, as well as developing worlds and emerging market economies.Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to civil servants and practitioners. It also serves as a reference source for students and academics, and can be used as a text book for advanced courses on public finance…More …
Rational Econometric Man : Transforming Structural Econometrics
Authors: Edward J. Nell and Karim Errouaki
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2013
Subject: ECONOMETRICS ; RATIONALISM ; ECONOMIC MAN.
Description:
The authors begin by rethinking the scientific foundations of structural econometrics, offering a way around the problem of induction that also justifies the assumption of a ‘data generating mechanism’, and of ways to model this. They go on to explain how current critiques of the methodological foundations of structural econometrics are direct consequences of implicitly accepted but seriously flawed elements in neoclassical thinking. In the final part they present their distinctive methodological contribution: a blend of fieldwork and conceptual analysis designed to ensure that their models are well grounded in reality, and at the same time, conceptually coherent as well as statistically adequate. In so doing, they outline a number of elements that will be needed to develop a ‘good’ macroeconometric model of an advanced economy.Rational Econometric Man will prove a stimulating and thought-provoking read for scholars and researchers in the field of economics, and, more specifically, heterodox economics…More …
Recent Developments In Trade And The Environment
Editors: Brian R. Copeland.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2014
Subject: INTERNATIONAL TRADE–ECONOMIC ASPECTS.
Description:
This volume brings together a selection of recent articles by leading scholars on the economics of international trade and the environment. The collection incorporates key papers published between 2000 and 2013 that investigate the major themes in the field including the effects of globalization on environmental outcomes, the effects of environmental policy on international competitiveness, evidence on the pollution haven hypothesis, effects of trade on the sustainability of renewable resources, interaction between trade policy and environmental policy and trade and climate change…More …
Rethinking Economic Evolution : Essays On Economic Change And Its Theory
Author: Ulrich Witt.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subject: EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS ; ECONOMICS.
Description:
Modern economies never come to rest. From institutions to activities of production, trade, and consumption, everything is locked in processes of perpetual transformation – and so are our daily lives. Why and how do such transformations occur? What can economic theory tell us about these changes and where they might lead? Ulrich Witt’s book discusses why evolutionary concepts are necessary to answer such questions. While economic evolution is in many respects unique, it nonetheless needs to be seen within the broader context of natural evolution. By exploring this complex relationship, Rethinking Economic Evolution demonstrates the significance of an evolutionary economic theory…More …
The Economics Of Outsourcing
Author: Leslie P. Willcocks, Mary C. Lacity.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2015
Subject: CONTRACTING OUT.
Description:
In this wide-ranging collection, Professor Willcocks and Professor Lacity examine the economic determinants and outcomes of outsourcing and offshoring at both the firm and country levels. They provide a comprehensive overview of the topic, offering an interdisciplinary perspective, which covers the empirical and theoretical research not only of economists but also of researchers from other disciplines, most notably business strategy, information systems and international business.With an authoritative, original introduction by the editors, the book will be an indispensible guide to students and scholars, wishing to understand the theoretical and empirical research on the economics of outsourcing from its beginnings in the 1930s to current thinking…More …
The Diffusion Of Western Economic Ideas In East Asia
Editor: Malcolm Warner.
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Subject: ECONOMIC– EAST ASIA– HISTORY ; ECONOMIC HISTORY.
Description:
This book examines the diffusion of economic ideas in East Asia, assessing the impact of external ideas on internal theory and practice. It considers economists from Adam Smith onwards, including Marx, Keynes, Hayek and contemporary economists, and covers the subject both historically and also includes present day and likely future developments. The book covers all the major countries of East Asia, and pays particular attention to specific economists who have had a strong impact in specific countries, and to important developments in economic theory in East Asia, exploring how far these have been driven by Western economic ideas.This book will be welcomed by students and scholars of East Asia and South-east Asia, as well as those interested in economics, economic history and management…More …
The Economics Of The Frontier : Conquest And Settlement
Authors: Ronald Findlay, Mats Lundahl.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2017
Subjects: ARTS–ECONOMIC ASPECTS ; EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS.
Description:
This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers – conceptual, theoretical and empirical – and introduce the fundamental theoretical model for extending frontiers which is drawn on throughout the book. The authors use this theoretical apparatus by applying it to a number of historical cases. These include the division of the European territory between the Byzantine Empire, Islam and Western Europe, the creation and expansion of the Mongol Empire, the impact of the Black Death, the European discovery of the New World, the staples trade from 1870–1914, and the rise and fall of banditry in Brazil…More…
The Law And Policy Of Environmental Federalism : A Comparative Analysis
Editor: Kalyani Robbins.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2015
Subject: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW– UNITED STATES.
Description:
This book provides a comparative analysis of the various approaches to environmental federalism and a consideration of what each system might learn from the others. Each chapter focuses on a different regime, and together they offer a broad overview of the field as well as original theory and policy analysis that is sure to meaningfully contribute to our understanding of environmental federalism as well as our policy-making future…More …
The New Evolutionary Economics
Authors: Kurt Dopfer and Jason Potts.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2014
Subjects: EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS.
Description:
This three volume set gathers together selected key articles in evolutionary economics, ordering these into the domains of micro analysis (concerned with agents), meso analysis (concerned with rule populations and trajectories) and macro analysis (concerned with the structure and development of the whole economy). This authoritative collection, with an original introduction by the editors, will be of interest to scholars and researchers seeking to understand how evolutionary economics fits together and to advance such an integrated approach…More…
Water Resource Economics And Policy : An Introduction
Editor: W. Douglass Shaw.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2005
Subject: WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT– UNITED STATES–ECONOMIC ASPECTS.
Description:
A concise introduction to issues of water quality and quantity in both urban and agricultural settings, Water Resource Economics and Policy will be a valuable resource or text for students and researchers in the fields of agricultural economics, geography, law and hydrology. Those involved in water resource agencies and private utilities will also find the book a useful reference…More …
Writings On Political Economy Volume 1
Editor: Michael Quinn.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Subject: ECONOMICS– EARLY WORKS TO 1800.
Description:
The volume continues with Defence of Usury, first published 1787, which was well received, quickly translated, and established some reputation for Bentham in political economy. In 1790, while preparing a second edition, Bentham drafted the raft of additional materials included here in five appendices. At the same time he began Manual of Political Economy, an introductory handbook which he never finished, while the surviving text appears here, supplemented by seven appendices. In March 1793 Bentham reacted to press reports of the Irish Budget by composing A Protest against Law Taxes, a trenchant critique of the taxation of legal proceedings, and the denial of justice to the poor, which was printed in 1793, published in 1795, and extended in 1816, and which completes the volume…More…
