Microeconomics

This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North, father of the field of new institutional economics.

Appropriate laws and regulations are essential tools to direct the action of procurers toward the public good and avoid corruption and misallocation of resources.

The new global climate of free enterprise has brought with it a proliferation of offshore financial centers that presumably have important roles to play in the emergent global economy.

A study of the changes that have taken place in the various sectors of the economy and the factors that currently influence economic development and policy in Saudi Arabia.

This Palgrave Pivot presents experiments that reveal core dynamics of trade in a complex system.

Exploring the relationship between human behaviour and economic analysis, Microeconomics and Behaviour establishes the fundamentals of intermediate microeconomics in a clear and narrative style and develops economic intuition about the world around us.

The global economic system is experiencing a profound period of rapid change.

La macroeconomía estudia el funcionamiento de la economía en su conjunto, por ello centra su atención en el comportamiento de los agregados económicos.

The Annual Report objectively reflects the whole year's progress of politics, economy, society, culture, system, environment, innovation and reform, as well as the problems, challenges and countermeasures in traditional special economic zones and new special economic zones.

If you have no time to follow the market closely, then Trend Trading is the book for you.

Discover the secrets to applying simple econometric techniques to improve forecasting Equipping analysts, practitioners, and graduate students with a statistical framework to make effective decisions based on the application of simple economic and statistical methods, Economic and Business Forecasting offers a comprehensive and practical approach to quantifying and accurate forecasting of key variables.

Escaping from Bad Decisions presents a modern conceptual and mathematical framework of the decision-making process.

This book began as a study of the nature and accounting treatment of intangible assets.

This edited collection focuses on migrant women and their families, aiming to study their migration patterns in a historical and gendered perspective from early modernity to contemporary times, and to reassess the role and the nature of their commitment in migration dynamics.

China's power sector has performed impressively during the past twenty years in support of economic growth.

Microeconomics studies the choices made by individuals under conditions of scarcity of resources and time and the interaction between different decision makers.

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the mixed ownership reform, a timely and critical topic in the Chinese economy.

The third edition of Economic Foundations of Law introduces readers to the economic analysis of the major areas of the law: property law, torts, contracts, criminal law, civil procedure, corporation law and financial markets, taxation, and labor law.

Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development.

This textbook is addressed to PhD or senior undergraduate students in mathematics, with interests in analysis, calculus of variations, probability and optimal transport.

Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons.

This book explores how discussions of environmental policy increasingly require scholars and practitioners to integrate legal-economic analyses of property rights issues.

The foreign exchange market is the largest, fastest-growing financial market in the world.

Decisions, Games and Markets is designed to stimulate new developments in decision theory, game theory and general equilibrium theory, as well as in their applications to economics.

Although most traditional economic theory puts the individual at the centre of analysis, more recent approaches have acknowledged the importance of a wider sense of identity as a determinant of individual behaviour.

The introduction to market design discusses the theory and empirical results relevant for the design of multi-object auctions and matching.

Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Student's Guide has two main goals.

Why are some countries rich and others poor?

This book focuses on the importance for China to correct the present imbalance in the relationship between the financial sector and the real economy.

Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts.

The new fifth edition of Managerial Economics is an ideal text for any course focusing on the practical application of micro-economic principles to management.

Qualitative methods are increasingly used within health economics research, but there is almost no specific material to guide the use of these methods in this context; there is very little that links them to the specific questions that (health) economists ask or that provides guidance on analyzing from an 'economic' or 'resource-focused' perspective.

Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons.

Economics affects our daily lives in crucial ways.

The economics of education is a burgeoning area of study, employing increasingly sophisticated analytical tools to answer questions with high societal impact.

A demonstration of how economics is used (and sometimes abused) in competition cases in practical competition policy across Europe.

A broad overview of market mechanisms, with an emphasis on the interplay between theory and real-life applications; examples range from eBay auctions to school choice.

In the context of growing public interest in sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not brought about the expected improvement in terms of sustainable business.

In high power, high voltage electronics systems, a strategy to manage short timescale energy imbalances is fundamental to the system reliability.

The question arises whether logic was given to us by God or whether it is the result of human evolution.

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.

Despite the dynamic development of the discipline of economics, the ways in which economics is taught and how it defines its basic principles have hardly changed, resulting in economics being criticised for its inability to provide relevant insights on global challenges.