Microeconomics

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.

Following theseminal Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics: Volume I , this second volume brings together the finestacademicsworking in econometrics today andexploresapplied econometrics, containing contributions onsubjects includinggrowth/development econometrics and applied econometrics and computing.

This book discusses both competitive and game theory models of industry growth through new technology, innovations and new entry, and provides a comprehensive treatment of various dynamic models of entry, applications of efficiency and entry models in computers and the pharmaceuticals industry, and applied models of Differential Games.

Easy-to-read and filled with real-world examples of the most complex environmental challenges, this book demonstrates that sound economic analysis and reasoning can be one of the environmental community's strongest allies.

This collection deals with some interesting economic questions related to construction and real estate, namely how construction firms cope with the volatility of construction; whether speculative bubbles or market fundamentals drive those fluctuations; new techniques to predict construction demand; why the office market led the recent real estate cycle; and whether regulation is responsible for speculative behaviour.

This volume presents the most complete collection available of the work of Victor Zarnowitz, a leader in the study of business cycles, growth, inflation, and forecasting.

Measuring costs of labor as a portion of total production costs has never before been treated so thoroughly or so thoughtfully.

The inability of forecasters to predict accurately the 1990-1991 recession emphasizes the need for better ways for charting the course of the economy.

Personalized and precision medicine (PPM)-the targeting of therapies according to an individual's genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics-is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention.

Although Japan and the United States are the world's leading economies, there are significant differences in the ways their wealth is translated into living standards.

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies.

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today.

Since the late 1950s, the engineering job market in the United States has been fraught with fears of a shortage of engineering skill and talent.

In recent years the tremendous growth of the service sector-including international trade in services-has outstripped that of manufacturing in many industrialized nations.

American business has recently been under fire, charged with inflated pricing and an inability to compete in the international marketplace.

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

In recent years, the Federal Reserve and central banks worldwide have enjoyed remarkable success in their battle against inflation.

In the late 1990s, economic and financial crises raged through East Asia, devastating economies that had previously been considered among the strongest in the developing world.

Every time you buy a can of tuna or a new television, its bar code is scanned to record its price and other information.