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The economic growth engine : how energy and work drive material prosperity
Ayres, Robert U. - 2009
The historic link between output (GDP) growth and employment has weakened. Since there is no quantitively verifiable economic theory to explain past growth, this unique book explores the fundamental relationship between thermodynamics (physical work) and economics
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852051
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Recruitment, retention, and retirement in higher education : building and managing the faculty of the future
Ma, Jennifer (contributor); Clark, Robert Louis (contributor) - 2005
This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. Contributors discuss topics such as: ageing of faculty, changing economic conditions and shifts in faculty employment patterns, rapid increases in health care costs and trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851394
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Elgar encyclopedia of labour studies
Eriksson, Tor (ed.) - 2023
"This authoritative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour markets of firms, it clearly lays out the current state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372509
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Monetary policy and the great inflation in the United States : the Federal Reserve and the failure of macroeconomic policy, 1965-1979
Mayer, Thomas - 1999
great inflation of the late 1960s and 1970s. It is the first detailed analysis, using Federal Reserve documents, of the … policy that led to this inflation. Thomas Mayer considers forecasting errors and wage and price controls in his attempt to … explain why the inflation occurred and places some of the blame on ineffective operating procedures, institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473850
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Monetary policy and Taiwan's economy
Dwyer, Gerald P. (ed.); Lin, Jin-Lung (ed.); Xu, Jiadong (ed.) - International Conference on the Conduct of Monetary … - 2002
Monetary Policy and Taiwan's Economy questions whether the Asian crisis could have been avoided through the application of recommendations highlighted by the contributors. The conclusion reached is that in an abstract world, perhaps; but in the world in which we live; no. It is argued that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474165
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Green national accounting and sustainability
Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf - 2011
. (2004), Welfare Measurement in Imperfect Markets, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. -- Arrow … Measuring Sustainable Development, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. -- Hartwick, J. and …
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Sustainable welfare in the Asia-Pacific : studies using the genuine progress indicator
Lawn, Philip A. (ed.); Clarke, Matthew (ed.) - 2008
Frequent references are made to the 'Asian economic miracle' as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth experienced across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twenty years. Implicit in this description is the assumption that the Asia-Pacific region has progressed at the same rate that GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474049
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Economic forecasting : an Edward Elgar research review
Mills, Terence C. - 2016
and Christina ZIEGLER (2008), How Successful are Dynamic Factor Models at Forecasting Output and Inflation? A Meta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419869
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The handbook of technology foresight : concepts and practice
Georghiou, Luke (ed.) - 2008
, Germany, the United Kingdom, the USA, Japan, China, Latin America, small European nations, Nordic countries and selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473802
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Blockchain + antitrust : the decentralization formula
Schrepel, Thibault - 2021
Contents: Preface -- Introduction: The decentralization -- Part 1 a common ambition -- 1. Blockchain: From ideology to implementation -- 2. Blockchain's toolbox -- 3. Blockchain and darwin -- 4. Decentralization? -- 5. Comes antitrust: The paradox -- Part 2 best frenemies? -- 6. The theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704219