Prosperity

better business makes the greater good

What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching about business around the world but it is fundamentally wrong, Colin Mayer argues. It has had disastrous ...

The philosophy of taxation and public finance

Most public finance books are texts, which are aimed at undergraduate or graduate students. They are overly technical in nature and appeal only to a narrow range of bureaucrats and academics. Books on taxation are written for tax practitioners and usually emphasize either what the ...

Environmental systems engineering and economics

Environmental Systems Engineering and Economics emphasizes the application of optimization, economics, and systems engineering to problems in environmental resources management. This senior level/graduate textbook introduces optimization theory and algorithms that have been successful in resolving water quality and groundwater management problems. Both linear programming ...

Fiscal federalism in unitary states

Decentralism of political power to regions and local government occurs worldwide in response to demands from the periphery. Such devolution of power raises a number of problems - political, financial, and legal. By gathering together important papers from a series of workshops sponsored by the SNS ...

Scheduled-based dynamic transit modeling

theory and applications

Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling: Theory and Applications outlines the new schedule-based dynamic approach to mass transit modeling. In the last ten years the schedule-based dynamic approach has been developed and applied especially for operational planning. It allows time evolution of on- board loads and travel ...

Optimization methods for a stakeholder society

a revolution in economic thinking by multi-objective optimization

Geography and technology

New perspectives on retailing and store patronage behavior

a study of the interface between retailers and consumers

Today's interface between retailers and consumers is highly dynamic. Problems and opportunities like increased product complexity, rapidly changing consumer expectations, and the introduction of new technologies point to the need for explaining and understanding at suitable intervals the behavior of retailers and consumers in ...

Monitoring the quality of health care

Issues and scientific approaches

Handbook of the sociology of the military

Never before has there been so extensive a collection of what has been thought, said, and written about the sociology of the military. This accessible handbook is the first of its kind to delve into the sociological approach to the study of the military. This ...

The concept of ideals in legal theory

Exchange rate regimes and macroeconomic stability

Economics of accounting

Vol. I: Information in markets

Market response models

econometric and time series analysis

A guide to the use of market response models for planning and forecasting. The text can serve as a text for graduate students in marketing, as a guide for marketing scientists and as a handbook for marketing professionals. In each case the purpose has been ...

Dynamic models of advertising competition

The dynamic modelling and analysis of advertising competition continues to be a topic of importance to scholars and practitioners. The second edition of this text reviews empirical and analytical research on the topic and extends the research through analytical and numerical investigation. Three types of ...

Innovations in governmental accounting

The purpose of this book is to present an updated overview of what, in the contributors' opinions, are the most useful and innovative international experiences in governmental accounting, reporting and control. The text presents a perspective on the contemporary state and foreseeable evolution of international ...

Asset pricing

discrete time approach

The theory of asset pricing has grown markedly more sophisticated since the early 1980s, with the application of powerful mathematical tools such as probability theory, stochastic processes and numerical analysis. The main goal of this text is to provide a systematic exposition, with practical applications ...

Quantitative models for performance evaluation and benchmarking

data development analysis with spreadsheets and DEA Excel solver

It is difficult to evaluate an organization's performance when there are multiple inputs and multiple outputs to the system. The difficulties are further enhanced when the relationships between the inputs and the outputs are complex and involve unknown tradeoffs. This work introduces DEA as ...

Technology, growth and the labor market

In the late-20th and early-21st centuries, economic prognosticators have pondered whether the US economy has entered a new era. This "new economy" is generally characterized as having technological innovations that have raised productivity and, accordingly, removed pricing power from the world's producers on a ...

General equilibrium foundations of finance

structure of incomplete markets models

The purpose of this text is to give a sound economic foundation of finance based on the general equilibrium model with incomplete markets which embodies the famous CAPM as an important special case. This goal is achieved by giving reasonable restrictions on the agents' characteristics ...

Contributions to modern econometrics

from data analysis to economic policy

The field of econometrics has gone through remarkable changes during the last decades of the 20th century - the earlier focus on testing macroeconomic theories has been widened considerably. It has turned into a discipline concerned with the development and application of statistical methods for any ...

Entrepreneurial wage dynamics in the knowledge economy

This title challenges the conclusions that link entrepreneurship to lower employee compensation. This challenge is based on theories of entrepreneurship, which view the role of small firms as existing in a dynamic context rather than a static framework. The evolutionary theory of entrepreneurship views the ...