Microeconomics

Most of our daily decisions are made under uncertainty and risk, without complete information about all relevant aspects. We all constantly make such decisions, from the simplest "should I take my raincoat today?" to more serious examples, such...

A presentation of the basic models of the most important economic agents (households, firms, the banking system etc.). The influence of ethics on the decisions of persons is discussed within the context of mutual influences of one person on another. It...

Focused on Dhaka, and applicable to other cities, this book uses geospatial techniques to explore land use, climate variability, urban sprawl, population density modeling, flooding, water quality, urban growth modeling, infectious disease and quality of...

Over the last decades, technological progress has brought about a multitude of standardization problems. For instance, compatibility standards ensure the interoperability of goods, which is of decisive importance when users face positive externalities in...

Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the life course and reflects the differences between the societies in which we are ageing. This multidisciplinary book answers questions from all life course phases and its interconnections...

This volume discusses diverse methodologies in economics education, focusing on experiential economic education away from campus through study abroad, study away, and other off-campus programs. These twenty-three chapters provide a 'how-to' guide for...

Altruistic Reveries is a unique volume, which arises out of an Interdisciplinary Conference on Perspectives on Altruism from the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Centre for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349115617Author Oleg T. BogomolovFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 434g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349094998Author James E. SawyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 271g

Schooling as a Risky Investment focuses exclusively on the risk that is associated with investing in education. In this monograph, the authors' acknowledge that in educational choice, risk is everywhere, and that the variables affecting this choice are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995894815Format PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Endeavor Literary PressPublisher Endeavor Literary PressWeight(grams) 152g

This book develops a general economic theory that integrates various economic theories and ideas and establishes important relationships between economic variables that are not formally recognized in the economic literature. The author demonstrates how...

Public procurement affects a substantial share of world trade flows, amounting to 1000 billion euros per year. In the EU, the public purchase of works, goods and services has been estimated to account on average for 16 percent of GDP. The novelty of this...

Aggregation of individual opinions into a social decision is a problem widely observed in everyday life. For centuries people tried to invent the `best' aggregation rule. In 1951 young American scientist and future Nobel Prize winner Kenneth Arrow...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts and principles of microeconomics. It introduces students to the models, assumptions, and empirical applications of modern microeconomics, as well as to the necessary mathematical...

This monograph studies multi-member households or, more generally, socio-economic groups from a purely theoretical perspective and within a general equilibrium framework, in contrast to a sizeable empirical literature. The approach is based on the belief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805111214Author Martin J OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 1012g

Alexander von Kotzebue investigates the interdependency of charitable giving, fundraising, and governmental intervention. His study comprises a literature survey, a model of the donor-fundraiser relation, and finally, an econometric analysis of the...

Network problems are manifold and extremely complex. Many problems result from engineering details or mathematical difficulties, others are caused by disregarding economic principles and imperfections of markets. The text provides a fairly integrated...

Computers communicate globally via satellite or fiber optic links, wide area networks share resources thousands of miles away, and the average home can have the capacity of access information at the push of a button - the digital information age has...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts and principles of microeconomics. It introduces students to the models, assumptions, and empirical applications of modern microeconomics, as well as to the necessary mathematical...

Rakesh V. Vohra offers a unique approach to studying and understanding intermediate microeconomics by reversing the conventional order of treatment, starting with topics that are mathematically simpler and progressing to the more complex. The book begins...

Governments need to know how much revenue their tax systems will raise, who will pay tax and what the effects on the incentives to save, work and invest will be. This book draws on the experience of tax modelling in western European economies and...

This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North, winner of the Nobel Prize and father of the field of new institutional economics. Leading scholars contribute to a substantive discussion that best illustrates the broad reach and depth of...

Originally published in 1927, this book provides an analysis 'of the economic position of the small cultivator, particularly in contrast with that of the wage-labourer' based on a survey of small-scale farming in the Carmarthenshire area. At the time of...

The Law and Economics of Public Health synthesizes the empirical research findings on the relationship between law and the public's health that are found scattered in different literature ranging from economic journals to medical journals, journals on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390976898Author Tanushree NagaveniFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Habiliss Systems Private LimitedPublisher Habiliss Systems Private...

In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349032297Author Alison WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 271g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636511177Author Amlan RayFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Vibrant PublishersPublisher Vibrant PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

This introductory textbook on social choice theory makes the social choice theoretic framework and its main results, that have a direct bearing on the discourses on electoral rules and policy evaluation, accessible to a larger audience. The text is...

In this book the reader is provided with an overview of the most interesting ideas in Competitive General Equilibrium Theory as well as Welfare Economy. In doing so, the author adopts a methodological approach of a closed and inter-related system where...

This monograph is concerned with the formulation and implementation of ORANI-INT, an intertemporal Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the Australian economy. The aim is to bring together, in a balanced approach, theory and data for the purpose...

The motive force of human activity that propels the stream of progress is here caught at its source, in its most modest, material expressions. The mechanism of the passions acting as determinant in these low spheres is less complex and can therefore be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390082698Author Chandrasekaran RFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Shanlax PublicationsPublisher Shanlax PublicationsWeight(grams) 186g

swollen with deutschemarks and yen newly created to purchase unwanted dollars from the markets. When the Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan began to raise their interest rates to slow domestic monetary expansion, the fabric of international monetary...

Visit the Unspun website which includes Table of Contents and the Introduction. The World Wide Web has cut a wide path through our daily lives. As claims of "the Web changes everything" suffuse print media, television, movies, and even...

Both Taiwan and China are extremely populous nations that, due to population pressures and continuing high growth levels, have experienced challenges in sustainable development. Hsu illustrates Taiwan's path toward sustainable development and contrasts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349087860Author Ian KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 271g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783748938Author Martin OsborneFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 1220g