Microeconomics category: 693 books

Cover of The Economics of Professional Road Cycling
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed. This book is the first volume to bring together a majority of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional road cycling. Each chapter treats a particular...
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Network Economics

Principles - Strategies - Competition Policy

by Günter Knieps
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014

This textbook on network economics provides essential microeconomic instruments for the analysis of network sectors like telecommunications, transport or energy. Network-specific characteristics emerge both on the cost side and benefit side, requiring network providers to develop innovative entrepreneurial...
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by Wahiduddin Mahmud, S. R. Osmani
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

The remarkable speed at which microcredit has expanded around the world in the last three decades has piqued the curiosity of practitioners and theorists alike. By developing innovative ways of making credit available to the poor, the idea of microcredit has challenged many traditional assumptions...
Cover of Calculation of Arc Elasticity of Demand.
by Homework Help Classof1
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013

Calculate the indicated arc elasticity of demand
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The Economics of the Popular Music Industry

Modelling from Microeconomic Theory and Industrial Organization

by C. Byun
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

This Palgrave Pivot uses modeling from microeconomic theory and industrial organization to demonstrate how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry. Byun examines the important role of technology in changing its structure, particularly as new methods of creating...
Cover of Simulating Workplace Safety Policy
by Thomas J. Kniesner, John D. Leeth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

People want more from the government. One thing they want more of is a sense of personal safety, at home and at work (Regulation, Fall 1991). People also want the government to quit wasting money. The objective of having the government provide a safer life for us and our children at minimum cost leads...
Cover of The (Peculiar) Economics of NCAA Basketball
by T. McFall
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

The economics of the NCAA Division I men's basketball league are peculiar because it fails to hire the best college-aged players and does little to enhance competitive balance within the league. The league's policy decisions and its ability to remain economically viable, despite its short-sighted governance decisions, are discussed.
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Public Policy in an Uncertain World

Analysis and Decisions

by Charles F. Manski
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013

Manski argues that public policy is based on untrustworthy analysis. Failing to account for uncertainty in an uncertain world, policy analysis routinely misleads policy makers with expressions of certitude. Manski critiques the status quo and offers an innovation to improve both how policy research is conducted and how it is used by policy makers.
Cover of The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015

After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period. The outcome has major implications for the EU’s budget and farmers’ incomes, but also for Europe’s environment,...
Cover of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth
by Philip McCann, Les Oxley
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth. Expert contributions provide a thorough roadmap of the developments in research at the interface of these themes. A...
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Contemporary Economics

An Applications Approach

by Robert Carbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016

The 8th Edition of Contemporary Economics continues to offer a clear, concise presentation of basic micro- and macroeconomic theory. Emphasising how the discipline of economics connects to the world, the book takes a friendly and accessible tone, illustrating theory with applications. This...
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The biological standard of living and the 'Antebellum Puzzle'

An apparent contradiction: Stunting in a booming economy?

by Susanne Schalch
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Economics - Micro-economics, grade: 1,7, LMU Munich (VWL Lehrstuhl), course: Strategic Factors in the Economic Development of the United States, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Imagine someone came up to you and asked you:...
Cover of Increasing Returns and Transport costs - The fundamental Trade-off of a spatial economy
by Christian Lorberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2005

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Economics - Micro-economics, grade: 2,0 (B), University of Paderborn, course: Research and Independent Studies, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this study I want to provide an overview of different research areas according...
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Democracy at Work

A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard D. Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

“Ideas of economic democracy are very much in the air, as they should be, with increasing urgency in the midst of today’s serious crises. Richard Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development,...
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