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This book examines the theory and practice of performance budgeting, which aims make government more effective by linking the funding of government agencies to the results they deliver. Combining thematic studies and case studies, it clearly presents the diverse range...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-08-30
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Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine brings together sixty years of experience in medicine in a book that holds the keys to a new structure for healthcare based on voluntary...
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PublicAffairs
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2007-08-05
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George Loewenstein is one of the pioneers of the rapidly growing field of behavioral economics. For over twenty years he has been working at the intersection of economics and psychology and is one of the few people of whom it can be said that their work is equally...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-08-02
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The rise of China and India has completely changed the world economy, moving it towards disequilibrium. Several alternative economic policies are tested to seek a way towards high growth in any continent associated with long-run real and financial equilibrium.The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-07-30
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The 4th volume of Davidson's major contributions to the economics and policy debates of our times, this book contains articles, newspaper columns and papers that explain why Keynes's General Theory , as developed by Post Keynesian theorists, provides important policy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-07-12
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This text presents a cutting edge approach to the analysis of brand choice, relevant to marketing practice and social science.This analysis reveals the causes of consumer choice that underlie brand selection; the role of price and non-price elements of marketing; a new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-06-27
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Today more and more people want their investments to reflect their social, environmental and/or humanitarian values. This ground-breaking book explains how you can put your money where your heart is and still make healthy profits. The Ethical Investor covers all aspects...
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E-Penguin
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2007-06-04
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-05-16
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Ken Binmore's previous game theory textbook, Fun and Games (D.C. Heath, 1991), carved out a significant niche in the advanced undergraduate market; it was intellectually serious and more up-to-date than its competitors, but also accessibly written. Its central thesis...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-03-29
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A renowned economist argues for the importance of property rights in "the most intelligent book yet written about the current challenge of establishing capitalism in the developing world" (Economist) "The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph,"...
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Basic Books
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2007-03-20
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Transition economies offer a test case for concepts and theories, for broader ideas and for the methods of scientific enquiry, but also for the multiplicity of ideological interpretations. This volume addresses the major issues of transformation, institutional design,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-03-13
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Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-02-22
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Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-02-22
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This book investigates how organizations can be designed for efficiency. Strategy, structure, boundaries and the governance of organizations are analyzed for any interdependencies within or between them and synthesised to a consistent system. Case studies illustrate the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-02-21
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House price bubbles, and their aftermath, have become a focus of macro-economic policy concern in most developed countries. This book elucidates the two-way relationship between house-price fluctuations and economic fundamentals. Housing has many features which make it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-12-21
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One may have various reasons for compiling a volume of papers devoted to and inspired by Walras and Pareto. Pareto succeeded Walras in 1893 on the chair of Political Economy at the University of Lausanne. The relation between the two was not always without tensions,...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-12-15
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Globalization has created new opportunities and challenges for late industrialization. This book identifies underlying factors for latecomer firms to catch up as system integrators, or upgrade as suppliers in fast-globalizing industries. With in-depth case studies,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-12-12
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This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework. It also develops some operational mathematical models to show how this framework can be applied to health economics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-12-06
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This book challenges the mainstream paradigm, based on the inter-temporal optimisation of welfare by individual agents. It introduces a methodology for studying how it is institutions which create flows of income, expenditure and production together with stocks of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-12-01
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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.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-11-28
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