Dieses Handbuch bietet sowohl einen Einstieg als auch einen Überblick zu Leben, Werk und Wirkung bedeutender Ökonomen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart - von antiken Vordenkern der Ökonomie bis hin zu Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträgern.
Problems related to the functioning of public healthcare systems encourage the search for alternative solutions, for example to ensure improved access to medical services.
Economic Evaluation in Genomic Medicine introduces health economics and economic evaluation to genomic clinicians and researchers, while also introducing the topic to health economists.
The economic performance of a national economy, as shown by indicators such as the rate of unemployment and inflation, is heavily dependent on the operation of its external and internal labour markets.
This book takes a comprehensive look at Japanese firms engaging in export and foreign direct investment (FDI) and develops new methods and data to investigate the internationalization of firms, which is a focus issue in international trade.
This is a management oriented book about efficiency, quality and effectiveness designed for an audience of management practitioners, scholars, and students.
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.
Technology and technical change is sector- and industry-specific, embedded by locational institutions and organizations, and integrated in global networks.
In this major new collection, leading experts explore the multidisciplinary connections between technology and economy, drawing on new convergences between economic sociology and science and technology studies.
This book aims to answer two questions that are fundamental to the study of agent-based economic models: what is agent-based computational economics and why do we need agent-based economic modelling of economy?
In diesem Buch werden etablierte Gewinntheorien und -strategien in der modernen Wirtschaft untersucht, um ein umfassendes Verständnis für verschiedene Konzepte der Gewinnerzielung zu entwickeln.
This book examines how contemporary financial economy evolved as the predominant economic system, and why unabated accumulation of financial capital takes place in such systems.
Cost Structure and the Measurement of Economic Performance is designed to provide a comprehensive guide for students, researchers or consultants who wish to model, construct, interpret, and use economic performance measures.
This book gives the historical development, explanations of technical specifications, and a basic understanding of how to use different equilibrium models in an applied framework.
This book offers students an accessible and applied introduction to microeconomics in tourism and hospitality through a comprehensive analysis of the market mechanism, demand and supply, firm behavior and strategy, and transaction and institution.
The book enhances current economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, looking beyond the narrow boundaries of neoclassical economics to an interdisciplinary approach based on accounting and law as well as economics itself.
Sehr praxisorientiert, aber stets vor dem Hintergrund aktueller wissenschaftlicher Diskussionen geben die Autoren einen Überblick zur Bewertung von kleinen mittleren Unternehmen (KMU).
Why did the 1989 Chinese student movement end in violent confrontation at Tiananmen Square, despite the fact that both the Chinese government and the students very much wanted to avoid violence?
When one gets older, one looks at the science in which one has been working for a long time from a certain distance such that the general approach, the contours of the whole and the connections to other parts of the social sciences come to the foreground whereas the elaboration of the details must be left to younger colleagues.
The book presents a collective action perspective to explain how extraterritoriality functions and assess when, and to what extent, extraterritoriality is effective.
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.
This book addresses 'global social economy' which addresses the relation of capitalism to human flourishing, the role of international governance in the world economy, the transformation of work and use of time in internationalizing economies, cross-country developments in gender, poverty, and ageing, and ethics economic policy issues in the international economy.