Microeconomics

In the recent years, microfinance has increased attentions of people around the world for fighting the problems of poverty and unemployment.

An interdisciplinary microeconomics primer covering for-profit and non-profit institutions in the visual arts.

The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support.

This book examines the inclusive development experiences and impacts of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

This text is designed for use in a course on the economics of crime in a variety of settings.

Many decision problems in Operations Research are defined on temporal networks, that is, workflows of time-consuming tasks whose processing order is constrained by precedence relations.

The Decline and Fall of Neoliberalism argues that the neoliberal era - starting after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system - is coming to an end.

This Palgrave Pivot presents theoretical models that explain common historical sequences, such as wars of secession, the rise and fall of empires, and international war.

Herbert Simon (1916-2001) is mostly celebrated for the theory of bounded rationality and satisficing.

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic.

Maya Subsistence

The Biology of Crustacea, Volume 3: Neurobiology: Structure and Function focuses on fundamental aspects of crustacean neurobiology, from the organization of the central nervous system (CNS) and neuromuscular systems to synapses and neurotransmitters, nerve and muscle, hormones and neurosecretion, photoreception, chemoreception and thermoreception, and mechanoreception.

An examination and evaluation of the problem of various forms of biodiversity loss.

The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability: Recasting the Economic Process explores the civil economy tradition in economic thought.

Pathology in Marine Science contains the majority of papers presented at the Third International Colloquium on Pathology in Marine Aquaculture held in Gloucester Point, Virginia, USA in October 1988.

In this volume, leading researchers focus on applied questions at the forefront of standards policy.

Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice blends a rigorous theoretical introduction to industrial organization with empirical data, real-world applications and case studies.

This is the third volume in a new, definitive, six-volume edition of the works of Joseph Stiglitz, one of today's most distinguished and controversial economists.

A central concern of economics is how society allocates its resources.

Social enterprises represent a new kind of venture, dedicated to pursuing profits for owners and benefits for society.

The present book is the offspring of my Habilitation, which is the key to academic tenure in Austria.

This two-volume text represents a common sense approach to basic microeconomics.

First published in 1998, this study offers a survey of the conceptual background, the political dimension, and the macroeconomic context and constraints of the social security system in Israel, which in four decades (since the mid-1950s) grew virtually from scratch into a comprehensive system, similar in scope to that of Western and Northern Europe, North America, the European outposts in the antipodes and, of course, Japan.

The free market underpins our economy and our way of thinking around enterprise and value, but it is also a major factor in the sustainability problems that we now live with.

Economic Principles and Problems: A Pluralistic Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to the major perspectives in modern economics, including mainstream and heterodox approaches.

Labour in Transition (1992) examines the massive transformations undertaken by state socialist regimes at the end of the 1980s.

First published in 1998, this study offers a survey of the conceptual background, the political dimension, and the macroeconomic context and constraints of the social security system in Israel, which in four decades (since the mid-1950s) grew virtually from scratch into a comprehensive system, similar in scope to that of Western and Northern Europe, North America, the European outposts in the antipodes and, of course, Japan.

The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care.

This book advances our knowledge on intangibles and their role in productivity growth, presenting a unique multi-level perspective.

The enterprise-focused framework of supply chain, which an overwhelming majority of books on supply chain management (SCM) have adopted, falls short in explaining recent developments in the real world, especially the so-called Wal-Mart model, in which a 'factory' is a virtual logistics network of multiple international manufacturing firms.

In the wake of the publication of Forrester's World Dynamics and Meadow's The Limits to Growth-books which in The Netherlands may have received ex- cessive attention from the public at large-the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) established a commission under the chair- manship of the late Professor R.

This book provides an engaging introduction to economics through a literary lens.

Health, The Medical Profession, and Regulation presents new evidence concerning health and the environment, inequality of health in many countries, and the compatibility of different quality of life measurements, along with new solutions to problems of health policy.

En las páginas que componen este libro se pretende exponer lo que ha ocurrido en la economía española en los últimos veintidós años, con el propósito de divulgar los mejores datos posibles sobre el quehacer económico y dar respuesta a una cuestión muy precisa: ¿se ha producido un cambio de modelo productivo en la economía española a raíz de la crisis que ha cuajado en la reciente recuperación económica?

The ninth edition of Contemporary Economics continues to offer a clear, concise presentation of basic micro- and macroeconomic theory.

Soviet Management and Labor Relations (1988) examines the official model of Soviet labor relations and the operational reality.

The electric utility industry and its stakeholders in the.

Worldwide, there is considerable interest in postal and delivery economics.

Many governments in the developed world can now best be described as 'neuroliberal': having a combination of neoliberal principles with policy initiatives derived from insights in the behavioural sciences.

Over the past 20 years, more than 100 countries have implemented social safety nets, targeted at the poorest and most vulnerable.

I urge everyone to read this important new book.

This Festschrift in honor ofChristian Seidl combines a group of prominent authors who are experts in areas like public economics, welfare economic, decision theory, and experimental economics in a unique volume.

Consumption takes place in settings or environments which have both direct and indirect effects on its dynamic path.

A Cultural History of Shopping was a Library Journal Best in Reference selection for 2022.

This book explains how, and why, economics has been applied to a terrible pandemic, using a range of examples mostly drawn from the region most affected, sub-Saharan Africa.

Inequalities of opportunity affect a person's life expectancy and access to basic services and human rights through discrimination, abuse, and lack of access to justice.