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The aim of this book is to re-establish custom in economics. Current economic theorizing largely neglects the forces of custom that underpin market exchange. Economic sociologists have stressed this repeatedly by referring to the 'embeddedness' of all kinds of economic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1998-03-26
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The Age of Mass Migration offers a thorough treatment of a period of vital development in the economic history of the modern world and, moreover, devotes much objective consideration to certain economic questions that still baffle us today.
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998
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This book tells readers what this stagnation or fall in population will mean - economically, politically, and historically - for the nations of the world.
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998
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Transition in Central and Eastern Europe has led to a U-shaped response of output: a sharp decline in output followed by recovery. Most of the countries of Central Europe seem now firmly on the upside; most of the countries of Eastern Europe are still close to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1997-08-28
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This book was first published in 1960. It addressed issues of fundamental importance in economic analysis. The questions it raised are if anything, more central to the concerns of economists than they were on first publication. It is reissued with the addition of two of...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1997-07-24
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In New Directions for Organization Theory, Jeffrey Pfeffer offers a comprehensive analysis and overview of the field of organization theory and its research literature. This work traces the evolution of organization studies, particularly its more recent history, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-06-05
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Over the past two decades, the field of law and economics has matured to the point where scholars have employed the latest economic methods in an effort to understand the nature of legal rules and to guide legal reform. This book is the first to provide a broad survey...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-02-20
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This work provides a unified and simple treatment of dynamic economics using dynamic optimization as the main theme, and the method of Lagrange multipliers to solve dynamic economic problems. The author presents the optimization framework for dynamic economics in order...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-02-13
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This is a graduate textbook on the theory of contracting under asymmetric information, a key part of modern microeconomic theory. It examines the characteristics of optimal contracts when one party has certain relevant knowledge that the other party does not. The...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1996-10-03
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This textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Evolutionary Game Theory covers recent developments in the field, with an emphasis on economic contexts and applications. It begins with the basic ideas as they originated within the field of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1996-09-26
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This book brings together in one place the work of one of our most respected economic theorists, on a field in which he has played a large part in originating: the New Institutional Economics. Transaction cost economics, which studies the governance of contractual...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1996-02-29
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This work makes a systematic analysis of the proposal for a foreign exchange transactions levy. Its chapters examine the economic desirability of such a levy, its technical and political feasibility, its revenue potential, the possible uses of that revenue, and related...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1996
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Global markets, Japanese competition, the service economy, the sophisticated consumer--American business today faces challenges undreamed of just a few decades ago, and traditional approaches to corporate problems are becoming increasingly less effective. And yet, as...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1995-12-14
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This book provides a framework for thinking about economic instiutions such as firms. The basic idea is that institutions arise in situations where people write incomplete contracts and where the allocation of power or control is therefore important. Power and control...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1995-10-05
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This book provides a framework for thinking about economic instiutions such as firms. The basic idea is that institutions arise in situations where people write incomplete contracts and where the allocation of power or control is therefore important. Power and control...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1995-10-05
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This book authoritatively considers the phenomenon of the severe economic crises of the 1970s and 1980s, as exemplified by the combination of high inflation and negative growth in Israel and Latin America. The author analyses the common characteristics of such processes...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1993-08-05
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Economists and other social scientists in this century have often supported economic arguments by referring to positions taken by philosophers of science. This important new book looks at the reliability of this practice and, in the process, provides economists, social...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-05-27
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Increasing returns to scale is an area in economics that has recently become the focus of much attention. While most firms operate under constant or decreasing return to scale on their relevant range of production, some firms produce goods or services with a technology...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-01-07
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The book makes an original contribution by describing international trade data that relates to the evaluation of the extraordinary success of these four countries.
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993
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