Microeconomics

EQ-5D from the EuroQol Group is a standardised, non-disease-specific instrument for describing and valuing health.

The theoretical claims for eco-tariffs are rigorously analyzed within a unified framework formed of an international trade model enriched with both a domestic and a global externality.

Technological Infrastructure Policy provides a systematic treatment of technological infrastructure (TI) and Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP) which are emerging fields of interest both for academic economists and for policy makers in both advanced and developing economies.

Knowledge is the great fifth production factor in our economy, besides capital, labour, land, and entrepreneurship.

Market Evolution: Competition and Cooperation is a selection of papers presented at the recent meeting of the European Association of Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE).

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Uncertainty could be associated with wisdom, enterprise, and discovery.

The book is divided into three major sections.

Constitutional political economy is a research program that directs inquiry to the working properties of rules and institutions within which individuals interact and to the processes through which these rules and institutions are chosen or come into being.

This volume is a compilation of essays by prominent economists in the area of household and family economics.

While income redistribution is one of the most important functions of modern governments, the world has changed greatly since this first edition of Economics of Income Redistribution was published in 1983.

Modeling Environmental Policy demonstrates the link between physical models of the environment and policy analysis in support of policy making.

The main objective of this book is to restate the important theories and evidence from economic analysis concerning intergovernmental fiscal issues.

Upon hearing that Ronald Coase had been awarded the Nobel Prize, a fellow economist's first response was to ask with whom Coase had shared the Prize.

Students in Technical and Agricultural faculties spend only a limited amount of time on general economics, environmental economics and resource economics.

Conventional economic accounts, which measure Gross National Product (GNP)and related indicators of national performance, do not fully allow for the damages caused to the environment in the course of producing and consuming goods and services.

CLAUDEJEANRENAUD NILS SOGUEL Smoking is a very common habit all over the world.

The papers collected here represent the most recent work on a much- neglected problem in practical reasoning.

All humans eventually die, but life expectancies differ over time and among different demographic groups.

Work and Idleness develops the view that redistributing employment is a `feasible capitalist' solution, not just to the unemployment which particular groups suffer, but also to the work that others have to contend with, including many women.

Normative Social Theory James M.

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Professor Sten Malmquist constructed the Malmquist quantity index and in doing so developed a distance function defined on a consumption space.

Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies.

Louis Phlips The stabilisation of primary commodity prices, and the related issue of the stabilisation of export earnings of developing countries, have traditionally been studied without reference to the futures markets (that exist or could exist) for these commodities.

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oil is the lifeblood of the World's economy.

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We have undertaken this volume in the belief that there is now sufficient research completed on environmental risk to justify a retrospective assessment of what is known.

The Conference on "e;Utility: Theories, Measurements, and Applications"e; met at the Inn at Pasatiempo in Santa Cruz, California, from June II to 15, 1989.

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.

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7 take advantage of the panel structure of their data to control for possible errors of specifica- tion in their models.

Computers communicate globally via satellite or fiber optic links, wide area networks share resources thousands of miles away, and the average home can have the capacity of access information at the push of a button - the digital information age has arrived!

Two related trends have created novel challenges for managing risk in the United States.

When we first invited the group of distinguished scholars represented here to contribute to a new volume on Austrian economics, four themes were stressed: tensions, new directions, selectivity, and criticism.

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The modern system-wide approach to applied demand analysis emphasizes a unity between theory and applications.

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Economics is taught in some form in the secondary schools of nations throughout the world.

Decision Theory and Decision Analysis: Trends and Challenges is divided into three parts.

Electric utilities throughout the world continue to face new challenges involving ownership, market structure, and regulation.

Labour markets are differentiated by occupation and types of training, and these submarkets are seldom in equilibrium.

Regulations to promote health and safety may be costly relative to the expected health and safety benefits, and may actually have negative effects on health and safety.

Road pricing (tolls, etc.

Biz Jets: Technology and Market Structure in the Corporate Jet Aircraft Industry traces the development of business jet aircraft from the mid-1950s through early 1993.

Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environmental resources are finite.