Microeconomics category: 693 books
Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization
Essays in Honor of Leonard W. Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization brings together leading scholars who present state-of-the-art research in the spirit of the structure-conduct-performance paradigm embodied in the work of Leonard W. Weiss.
The individual chapters are generally empirically or public policy oriented. A number...
Cohesion and Growth
The Theory and Practice of European Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
To combat economic disparity and low growth, the European Union has established an integrated policy system that pursues increased cohesion and smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth. This integrated approach is realized through thousands of development projects and takes up more than a third of...
Left Behind
Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region´s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean...
by Meredith Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This paper examines market solutions to stem the decline of Alaskan Steller sea lion populations due to overfishing, reviewing the possibility of taxation and quota systems.
by Homework Help Classof1
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Calculate the price elasticity of demand for the product below using average values for the prices and quantities in your formula. Over the price range in question, is this demand schedule price inelastic, unitary elastic, or elastic? Is total revenue greater at the lower price or at the higher price?
The Analysis of Household Surveys (Reissue Edition with a New Preface)
A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Two decades after its original publication, The Analysis of Household Surveys is reissued with a new preface by its author, Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This classic work remains relevant to anyone with a serious interest in using household survey data...
An Economy of Well-Being
Common-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it's difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about creating a new world, using common-sense economics?
In An Economy of Well-being, author Mark Anielski presents...
by Ariel Rubinstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts in modern economic thought, Ariel Rubinstein offers some powerful and...
Expectation, Enterprise and Profit
The Theory of the Firm
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Production is a complex system of interdependent activities, necessary to the system as a whole, which itself depends on the continuance of each individual activity that composes it. In such a system, resources must be committed to specific technological purposes long in advance to the ultimate sale...
by Guido Candela, Paolo Figini
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The book aims at providing an overview of the main economic issues related to tourism activities. While tourism is an important sector, contributing to more than 10% of the European Union’s GDP, research and teaching at the university level has only recently grown to a considerable level, and the...
by Homework Help Classof1
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
A mid-level manager with 10 years experience at an insurance company located in San Francisco generally earns more than a high school teacher with the same experience in Evansville, Indiana. Give at least three explanations of why economic reasoning would argue that this is to be expected.
by Homework Help Classof1
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
"Application of heteroskedasticity-robust estimator to provide an explanation for the variable 'r' and to comment on a residual plot. "
Positive Political Theory I
Collective Preference
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Positive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include such well-known examples as majority and unanimity rule and focusing in particular...
Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory: Volume Three
Sraffa's Legacy: Interpretations and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution and the construction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach.