This book emphasizes the importance of validation and verification in the modernization of systems that are critical to safety, security, and economic profits. Containing integration analyses to control the evolution of legacy systems towards object oriented technologies, this publication...

"This book highlights invaluable research covering the design, development, and evaluation of online learning environments, examining the role of technology enhanced learning in this emerging area"--Provided by publisher.

Nonprofit organizations are arguably the fastest growing and most dynamic part of modern market economies in democratic countries. This Handbook explores the frontiers of knowledge at the intersection of economics and the management of these entities. The authors review the role, structure and...

This book investigates the relationship between corporate governance, market structure and innovation. The editors observe that a number of radical mutations are occurring in industries that have played a crucial role in sustaining and fostering the pace of technological progress

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...

There is much confusion in the economics literature on wage determination and the employment-inflation trade-off. Few model builders pay as much careful attention to the definition and meaning of long-run concepts as did Albert Ando. Expanding on years of painstaking work by Ando, the...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. From War Financier to Bankers’ Bank -- Chapter 3. Central Banks under the Gold Standard -- Chapter 4. The Federal Reserve: A Unique Institution -- Chapter 5. From War to War: 1914-1939 -- Chapter 6. Post-war Progress: 1946-1960 -- Chapter 7. The 1960s:...

Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: History -- Developments in Risk and Insurance Economics: the Past 40 Years -- Part 2 : Risk and Insurance Theory Without Information Problems -- Higher-Order Risk Attitudes -- Non-Expected Utility and the Robustness of the Classical Insurance Paradigm -- The...

List of figures -- List of tables -- Editor biographies -- Contributor biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: teaching public budgeting and finance / Bruce D. McDonald, III and Meagan M. Jordan -- Chapter 2: public budgeting and finance in context / Meagan M. Jordan and Merl Hackbart --...

A definitive reference to the theory and practice of pricing across industries, environments, and methodologies. It covers all major areas of pricing including, pricing fundamentals pricing tactics, and pricing management.