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Cost-benefit analysis is not scientific, because it requires interpersonal comparisons of well-being
Cost-benefit analysis is not scientific, because it requires interpersonal comparisons of well-being
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2002
Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject Economics - Micro-economics, grade: 1,7 (A-), Royal Holloway, University of London (Department of Economics), course: Public Economics, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay is meant to give a brief overview of Cost-benefits-Analysis...
The Entrepreneur in Rule-Based Economics
Theory, Empirical Practice, and Policy Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This volume brings together three areas of interest: the rule-based approach, the entrepreneur, and Japan as an empirical application. It highlights the advantages of the rule-based approach for economic analysis by linking different methodological underpinnings. Using these, the author exemplifies...
Austrian Economics (Routledge Revivals)
Historical and Philosophical Background
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
First published in 1986, this book presents a reissue of the first detailed confrontation between the Austrian school of economics and Austrian philosophy, especially the philosophy of the Brentano school. It contains a study of the roots of Austrian economics in the liberal political theory of the...
Financial Theory
Perspectives from China
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
China is now the second largest economy in the world, with an increasingly efficient and open financial system. Many firms, agents and financial institutions have realized the potential in making money in China. Financial Theory: Perspectives from China serves as a timely textbook providing a unique...
The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision
A Financial, Social and Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
This short book reviews the provision of food bank and other emergency food aid provision with a specific focus on the UK, whilst drawing lessons from North America, Brazil and Europe. The authors look at the historical positioning of food aid and the growth of the food aid sector in the UK following...
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN: Economics Books, Business Essays & Political Articles
The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This unique edition of "THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Contents:...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy issues beyond...
Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare
Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
It has always been an important task of economics to assess individual and social welfare. The traditional approach has assumed that the measuring rod for welfare is the satisfaction of the individual’s given and unchanging preferences, but recent work in behavioural economics has called this into...
Reconsidering Identity Economics
Human Well-Being and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This book presents an unorthodox identity economics that approaches social identity through a non-classical psychology. Garai applies the modern physics concept of wave-particle duality to economic psychology, finding a corresponding duality in object-oriented activity and historically generated social...
by James Boner
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This volume is one of the most remarkable works in the history of economic thought. First published in 1893, its principal significance rests in its argument that economic theory, however technical or pragmatic, is necessarily formed by and derives its meaning from larger moral and philosophical systems...
Economics and Literature
A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highlights crucial aspects of the economy. The nexus linking characters to their economic environment is central in a new genre, the "economic novel",...
by Nicola Anderson, Claire Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Exam Board: CCEA
Level: GCSE
Subject: Home Economics
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: June 2019
Fully updated to cover the 2017 CCEA Home Economics: Food and Nutrition GCSE specification, this new edition of the market-leading textbook will guide your students through the content,...
by Michael Turk
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Although Otto Neurath left his mark across an array of fields in the first half of the twentieth century, he was trained as an economist and wrote extensively about economics. He questioned the philosophical foundations of economic concepts, the fuzziness of economic terminology, the unwarranted reduction...
Gender, Development and Globalization
Economics as if All People Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in this second edition by Gunseli Berik and Maria Floro to update the text to reflect the major theoretical, empirical,...