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The economic institutions of higher education : economic theories of university behavior
Raines, J. Patrick; Leathers, Charles G. - 2003
assigned to them? Patrick Raines and Charles Leathers present an integrated, coherent theory to explain the behavior of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474161
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Economics, competition and academia : an intellectual history of sophism versus virtue
Stabile, Donald - 2007
1. Introduction : markets, competition, and higher education -- 2. Sophism, academia, and Greek economics -- 3. Adam Smith and sophism : reaction to the endowment model -- 4. Virtue and early academia in the US -- 5. Academia and the rise of capitalism in the US -- 6. Corporate capitalism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420014
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Education and economic performance
Wolf, Alison - 2011
Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence', American Economic Review, 89 (5), December, 1259-78 -- Saul Lach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852307
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The economics of the apprenticeship system
Smits, Wendy; Stromback, Thorsten - 2001
recent developments in systems of youth training and the economic theory of contracts. Using contract theory as the common … blend of theory, evidence, and history. It will appeal to scholars in the fields of labour economics and human resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473880
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Not only an economist : recent essays by Mark Blaug
Blaug, Mark - 1997
Mark Blaug has with good reason been described as the most widely read economist of his generation. He has made important contributions to economic history, cultural economics, the history of economic thought, the methodology of economics and the economics of education. Not Only an Economist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473954
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Cost control, college access, and competition in higher education
Martin, Robert Eugene - 2005
Quality has never been more important for the future of higher education and the economy than it is today. Unfortunately, the decline in student quality is accompanied by costs that are out of control, a governance system that will not permit any reallocation of resources, and a society that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474002
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Econometrics informing natural resources management : selected empirical analyses
Koundouri, Phoebe (contributor) - 2004
uncertatinty -- pt. 4. Recent advances in econometrics methods applied to natural resource management. … using econometrics to inform natural resource management policies, and illustrates them through a number of case studies … econometrics as applied to environmental and natural resource management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420066
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Bounded rationality and economic evolution : a contribution to decision making, economics, and management
Tisdell, Clement Allan - 1996
developments in learning and game theory, transaction costs and evolutionary economics to provide new insights into economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473915
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Post Keynesian econometrics, microeconomics and the theory of the firm
Hillard, John (contributor); Dow, Sheila C. (contributor) - 2002
uncertainty : theory and practice -- 5. A post Keynesian approach to the theory of the firm -- 6. Trust, time and uncertainty -- 7 …. Keynes's views on information -- 8. The role of econometrics in a radical methodology -- 9. Post-orthodox econometrics -- 10 …. Realism, econometrics and post Keynesian economics -- 11. Keynes, post Keynesians and methodology -- 12. How do economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851353
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Valuing environmental and natural resources : the econometrics of non-market valuation
Haab, Timothy C. - 2002
Non-market valuation has become a broadly accepted and widely practiced means of measuring the economic values of the environment and natural resources. In this book, the authors provide a guide to the statistical and econometric practices that economists employ in estimating non-market values
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851462