Comparative Economics category: 246 books

Cover of Calculation of Utility Maximization on Education
by Homework Help Classof1
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

(a) Let Household A’s utility function have α = 0.5 = β. What is the household’s utility maximizing bundle? (b) What is the share of Household A’s income spent on education? (c) What is the household’s utility if they consume the maximum amt of G allowed by their budget and an amt of free...
Cover of Understanding the Economic Basics and Modern Capitalism

Understanding the Economic Basics and Modern Capitalism

Market Mechanisms and Administered Alternatives

by Dan Blatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014

UNDERSTANDING of the economic successes and failures of the past century and today begins here. Dan Blatt, after almost a half-century of accurate published economic forecasts, examines historys most important economic works. He shows why capitalist market mechanisms successfully raise billions...
Cover of Beyond the Systemic Crisis and Capital-Led Chaos

Beyond the Systemic Crisis and Capital-Led Chaos

Theoretical and Applied Studies

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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014

The current crisis is the expression of the struggle of a dominant ‘fictitious capital’ over real capital to redistribute the global mass of wealth. It is translated into an expansion of assets in financial markets sustained by an inverted pyramid of credits without being backed by a major growth...
Cover of The Foreman on the Assembly Line
by Charles R. Walker, Robert H. Guest, Arthur N. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

As part of a 1950s study dealing with various phases of the impact of mass production on human behaviour, this volume, originally published in 1956 and now a classic of its time examines the technological environment and the foreman within management, from the foreman's point of view. The book presents...
Cover of The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018

Productivity underpins business success and national well-being and thus it is crucial to understand the factors that influence productivity growth. This volume provides a comprehensive exploration into the significance of productivity growth for business, the economy, and for social economic progress....
Cover of Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization

Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization

Argentina, Brazil, China, India and South Korea

by Leonardo E. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

In the past, foreign shocks arrived to national economies mainly through trade channels, and transmissions of such shocks took time to come into effect. However, after capital globalization, shocks spread to markets almost immediately. Despite the increasing macroeconomic dangers that the situation...
Cover of How to Keep a Competitive Edge in the Talent Game

How to Keep a Competitive Edge in the Talent Game

Lessons for the EU from China and the US

by Christal Morehouse, Matthias Busse
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

By 2020, the global map of higher education will be completely redrawn, and by 2030, China is expected to emerge as the world's largest source of brainpower. The European Union should not necessarily view this development as a threat, but rather it can be seen as an opportunity for the EU to become...
Cover of Regulation by Municipal Licensing
by John Bossons, John Palmer, S.M. Makuch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984

Municipal licensing serves a variety of regulatory purposes such as consumer protection and public health and safety. The municipal licensing power is delegated from the provincial government, up to the present, municipalities have been restricted to enumerated, specific powers, and the result has...
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Young Adult Women, Work and Family

Living a Contradiction

by Maureen Padfield, Ian Procter
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Cover of Symmetallism

Symmetallism

An Alternative to Orthodox Bimetallism

by Barthold A. Butenschøn
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017

Originally published in 1936, this book discusses the post-War reconstruction of the monetary system. It examines the American use of silver and changes to China's currency system and asks whether a combination of gold and silver would not be a better solution than a pure Gold Standard. The book discusses...
Cover of Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017

In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security programs and labor force participation,...
Cover of Effective Financial Management in Public and Nonprofit Agencies, 4th Edition
by Jerome B. McKinney
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015

This analytical volume looks at emerging fiscal trends and introduces the tools for effective financial management to American business professionals in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. • Provides step-by-step procedures for developing critical measurement indicators •...
Cover of Analysis of Issues Related to Health Insurance
by Homework Help Classof1
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

(a) What are primarily intended to address the problem of insuring people who don't have health insurance? (b) Would a public national health insurance system reduce the total spending on health care in our economy? (c) What has been found to be the primary cause of the rapid rise in health care costs?...
Cover of Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World

Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms

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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

In nearly every industrialized country, large aging populations and increased life expectancy have placed enormous pressure on social security programs—and, until recently, the pressure has been compounded by a trend toward retirement at an earlier age. With a larger fraction of the population receiving...
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