Managerial economics and business strategy

Baye offers coverage of both the basic concepts of managerial economics as well as frontier research in his chapter on advanced topics. The Fifth Edition also offers a detailed, real-world case study that explains how book theory translates into action in the business world. And ...

Liberalism against liberalism

theoretical analysis of the works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker

The defence of the market and economic freedom has been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the first two economists are the maximum exponents of the ...

The Oxford handbook of public management

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world. The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector management in many different countries. There is also a fierce debate across academic disciplines about contemporary public administration/management: some ...

The undercover economist

exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor and why you can never buy a decent used car!

This volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover Economist is for anyone who's wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations ...

The global economy in the 1990s

a long-run perspective

The 1990s were an extraordinary, contradictory, fascinating period of economic development, one evoking numerous historical parallels. But the 1990s are far from being well understood and their meaning for the future remains open to debate. In this volume, world-class economic historians analyze the growth of ...

Cheap

the real cost of the global trend for bargains, discounts and consumer choice

In most developed countries, in almost every trade sector, prices have dropped considerably over the last 10 years. In some cases by well over 20 per cent. And the choice of goods on offer is mind-boggling. So much, costing so little. Wonderful, we say. This ...

Trusts and equity

This medium-length textbook has been designed to provide students with a clear step-by-step guide to the typical subject matter of an undergraduate course on trusts and equity. A number of critical perspectives, such as the tension between property and obligations approaches to the trust, are ...

Truts textbook

"Trusts Textbook" is an accessible text that sets out in clear and comprehensive terms the essential content of undergraduate degree courses in trusts. The nature and history of equity is also considered in detail and equitable remedies are discussed throughout the context of trusts law ...

Ancient Greek accentuation

synchronic patterns, frequency effects, and prehistory

The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but Philomen Probert points to some striking correlations between accentuation and a word's synchronic morphological transparency, and between accentuation and word frequency, that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system. Bringing ...

Ancient literaty criticism

The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. Whilst there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the "Russell and ...

The modern Middle East

sourcebook for history

------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- "The Modern Middle East" is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the periodical press, memoirs, western journalists' and travellers' accounts, literature, and official reports (including statistical data). Each document has been prefaced ...

A sociology of Jurisprudence

Luhmann on Law and politics

critical appraisals and applications

Perhaps more than any other social theorist in recent history, Niklas Luhmann's work has aroused extreme, and often antagonistic, responses. It has generated controversies about its political implications, its resolute anti-humanism and its ambitious critique of more established definitions of society, social theory and ...

A theory of foreign policy

This book presents a general explanation of how states develop their foreign policy. The theory stands in contrast to most approaches - which assume that states want to maximize security - by assuming that states pursue two things, or goods, through their foreign policy: change and maintenance ...

The macropolitics of Congress

How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions, by looking at what the ...

Chooseng white-collar crime

For more than three decades, rational-choice theory has reigned as the dominant approach both for interpreting crime and as underpinning for crime-control programs. Although it has been applied to an array of street crimes, white-collar crime and those who commit it have thus far received ...

The politics of sexual harassment

a comparative study of the United States and the European Union, and Germany

Sexual harassment, in particular in the workplace, is a controversial topic which often makes headline news. What accounts for the cross- national variation in laws, employer policies, and implementation of policies dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace? Why was the United States on the ...

Economic development

In this fourth edition of his textbook, E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. This comprehensive and clearly written text explains the growth in real income per person and income disparities within and between developing countries. The ...

Introductory econometrics

using Monte Carlo simulation with Microsoft Excel

This highly accessible and innovative text and accompanying CD-ROM use Excel (R) workbooks powered by Visual Basic macros to teach the core concepts of econometrics without advanced mathematics. It enables students to run Monte Carlo simulations in order to understand the data generating process and ...

Knowledge accumulation and industry evolution

the case of Pharma-Biotech

Written by internationally acclaimed experts in the economics of innovation, this volume examines how the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector is affected by the dynamics of innovation, institutions, and public policy. It contributes both theoretically and empirically to the increasingly influential Schumpetarian framework in industrial economics ...