Conquering the dating marketfrom an economists point of viewAfter more than twenty years, economist Paul Oyer found himself back on the dating scenebut what a difference a few years made.
Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide.
Delve into the complex landscape of the informal economy with the Routledge Handbook of the Informal Economy, a groundbreaking volume that transcends conventional economic analysis by contextualizing it within a broader regulatory and social framework.
The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.
Rarely in the short history of liberal-democratic government has a primer on basic liberal-democratic values and institutions been more needed than now.
Economic and organizational literature has long separated the figure of the capitalist and the manager, but it often continues to assimilate that of the capitalist and the entrepreneur around the notion of risk-bearing.
From the 2008 global financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, to Brexit and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, the past two decades have been a turbulent period for the global economy.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical tools, real-world applications, policy implications and corner solutions of microeconomics.
Most volumes in the environmental economics literature consider the environment to be a public good and hence write out a role for the private sector in a source of supply.
This book extends research in consumption economics by identifying similarities and differences in consumption patterns in a large number of countries, both developed and less developed.
China's continuing economic reforms since 1978 have substantially altered its economic structure, expanding the service sector, including the tourist industry.
This book offers the first set of quantitative analyses of the results of deregulation of the gas wellhead process coupled with partial deregulation of pipeline transportation and product storage.
Written by production economics and finance specialists Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf of Oregon State University and Dimitris Margaritis of the University of Auckland, Pricing Non-marketed Goods Using Distance Functions, is an inspiring new contribution highlighting the importance of duality theory for valuation purposes, especially for hard to price inputs or resources, intended or unintended goods and assets.
Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral.
Microeconomics studies the choices made by individuals under conditions of scarcity of resources and time and the interaction between different decision makers.
This book reviews the basic process of China's fourteen five-year plans with systematic theoretical overview and rich historical data and moves on to discuss the theoretical logic of plan-based state governance.
This book presents perspectives by eminent economists, social scientists and policy makers, exploring in depth the post-reform developments in India, including issues pertaining to growth and equity, issues which have been at the core of life-time work of Prof.
This book presents a multidimensional perspective on the interlinkage between human development, community characteristics and public service delivery with special reference to India.
