Data envelopment analysis

theory and techniques for economics and operation research

Using the neo-classical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book provides a unified and easily comprehensible, yet fairly rigorous, exposition of the core literature on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for readers based.in different disciplines INDICE 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Productivity ...

The political economy of Stalinism

evidence from the Soviet secret archives

This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the ...

Gambling in America

costs and benefits

Gambling in America carefully breaks new ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and ...

Designing federalism

a theory of self-sustainable federal institutions

Because of the redistributive nature of institutions and the availability of implementable alternatives with different distributive consequences, the desire of federation members to change institutional specifics in their favor is a permanent feature of the federal political process. This is so for two reasons. First ...

Regressive taxation and welfare state

path dependence and policy diffusion

Political economists have considered large public expenditures a product of leftist rule and an expression of a stronger representation of labor interest. Although the size of the government has become the most important policy difference between the left and right in postwar politics, the formation ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.1.Industrialization, 1700-1860

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.2.Economic maturity, 1860-1939

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.3.Structural change and growth, 1939-2000

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

Markets in historical contexts

ideas and politics in the modern world

Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of Marxism? What alternative ways of thinking about markets can we recover from the past? The ...

Legitimacy and Law in the roman world

tabulae in roman belief and practice

War and social change in Modern Europe

the great transformation revisited

Contention and democracy in Europe, 1650-2000

Fashioning jewish identity in medieval western christendom

During the course of the twelfth century, increasing numbers of Jews migrated into western Christendom from Islamic lands. But western Christendom was both appealing and threatening to the Jewish immigrants. Indeed, western Christendom was entering a phase of intense missionizing activity, some of which was ...

An introduction to Mill's utilitarian ethics

John Stuart Mill

a biography

The Cambridge Companion to Brentano

A systematic theory of argumentation

the pragma-dialectical approach

Hegel on ethics and politics

Locke's philosophy of language

Kant on representation and objectivity

Doha and beyond

the future of the multilateral trading system

The conduct of hostilities under the Law of international armed conflict