Microeconomics

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This book challenges the generally accepted theories of classical economics, explaining why the expected utility theory, even if it were true, fails to be of much help in solving economic controversies.

Despite its utmost importance, the issue of industrial development has been largely neglected in the literature for the last few decades.

This book demonstrates that there is sufficient evidence on the Nigerian economy and society to inform many policy issues, and reveals the current problems and policy options that a democratic Nigeria will need to debate and resolve.

How can we explain the persistent worsening of the income distribution in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s?

Gaming markets are evolving rapidly.

This is a new edition - with a substantial new introduction - of a book which has had a significant impact on economics, philosophy and political science.

Microeconomic Reform in Britain: Delivering Opportunities for All provides a comprehensive guide to the extensive microeconomic reforms implemented over the last 6 years to realise the UK Government's goals: a stronger more enterprising economy and a fairer society.

This is a book about the whole diverse range of firms that are found in the construction sector, about their decision-making and the economic environments in which they operate.

Economics has paid little attention to the psychology of economic behaviour, leading to somewhat simplistic assumptions about human nature.

Utz-Peter Reich addresses economists interested in a sound empirical foundation for their theoretical concepts.

This book will be of interest to built environment professionals and to students of the economics and management of the built environment.

Foreign-owned firms (FoFs) can have significant implications in terms of employment, income and technology for the national economies involved.

This book incorporates human psychology into economic analysis.

This book examines the economic policies available to a head of state and addresses how best to measure the success of these tools.

The theory of price and quality decision-making in industries with a few firms which recognize their mutual interdependence is of increasing interest to economists and policy makers.

The book deals with economic issues related to income and wealth among individuals, regions and countries.

The development of China's grain marketing system is a crucial part of economic reform.

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.

An updated revisting of the themes of Robin Marris' classic The Economic Theory of Managerial Capitalism (1964).

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`The book is an excellent example of the application of modern econometric techniques to Chinese data, some of which was especially collected for the research.

This revised edition of an established classic textbook brings the subject right up to date.

This book inquires into the origin and early development of Roy Harrod's notion of economic dynamics.

This study traces the origins of the agrarian crisis in southernmost China in the 1920s and 1930s.

Although China is generally considered to have suffered continuous deforestation over most of its history, forests were protected or even planted and maintained for centuries in some places.

This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan.

The proliferation of the internet has often been referred to as the fourth technological revolution.

This book provides a detailed picture of the equity and efficiency of economic restructuring, focusing on the two most important successor states to the Soviet Union.

Personal consumption accounts for two thirds of GDP, yet recent economic events have emphasised our limited ability to translate consumption patterns into policy.

The marriage of neuroscience and the science of choice behaviour gave birth to neuroeconomics.

Law and Markets examines the interaction between legal rules, market forces and prices.

The quick recovery of Asian economies from recent recessions in comparison to the struggling American and European economies can be attributed in part to the positive aggregate-demand externalities of their self-employment sectors.

The Microeconomics of Risk and Information covers the principal areas in the field, including risk aversion, simple portfolio theory, precautionary savings, production under risk, risk sharing in the Edgeworth box, adverse selection and moral hazard.

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy are at the core of research and study in economics.

This volume deals with both a new theoretical framework and the capability of new economics to tackle a number of economic problems.

Building on the impressive first edition, this revised and updated book examines a wide range of highly topical issues.

With the current global crisis, high levels of volatility in trade, capital flows, commodity prices, aid, and the looming threat of climate change, this book brings together high-quality research and presents conceptual issues and empirical results to analyze the determinants of the vulnerability to poverty in developing countries.

This book focuses on the concepts of social capital, corporate social responsibility, and economic development in relation to economic theory of institutions and behavioural economics.

International trade is the core foundation of globalisation.

This book looks at how the benefits of economic development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are not being equally distributed.

Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance.

This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework.

Happiness is a private matter and individual pursuit; however, public policy does have an important role and can contribute much through various enabling means.

The book provides a comprehensive A-to-Z guide for computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, which can analyze various economic issues empirically.

Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field.

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating the performance of economies and of economic policies.

This book analyzes key international monetary issues from a macro-foundations perspective.

This book is designed to scrutinize the Russian business sector in transition with special attention to firm organization, business integration, corporate governance, and company management.

Housing finance structures and Institutional and regulatory/fiscal aspects in housing have changed significantly in recent years.