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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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Greening the accounts
Simon, Sandrine (ed.); Proops, John L. R. (ed.) - 2000
This path-breaking book shows how green accounting can be compatible with ecological economics and how it can contribute to the implementation of sustainability. It explores the history and methodology of green accounting and describes the state-of-the-art construction of green accounts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473833
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Economic growth, material flows and the environment : new applications of structural decomposition analysis and physical input-output tables
Hoekstra, Rutger - 2005
Rutger Hoekstra examines the complex relationship between the monetary economy and the materials flows that are extracted and emitted by economic activities. These physical flows are responsible for many important environmental problems such as unsustainable resource depletion, waste production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473999
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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good
Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998
1. Environmental wrongs -- 2. Externalities and the environment -- 3. Property rights for pollution -- 4. Property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851479
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The economy as a process of valuation
Samuels, Warren J.; Medema, Steven G.; Schmid, Alfred Allan - 1997
firm and the theory and policy of externalities - all aspects of the economy as a process of valuation. This is followed by …The Economy as Process of Valuation sheds new light on the potential benefits of concept and theory formation along … focuses on Coases's work on institutions and considers the implications for a variety of subjects including the theory of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473949
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Joint production and responsibility in ecological economics : on the foundations of environmental policy
Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2006
This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at how environmental problems emerge from economic activity and how they may be addressed in a responsible and sustainable manner. At its centre is the concept of joint production. This captures the phenomenon whereby several effects necessarily emerge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851862
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Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking
Tullock, Gordon - 2005
1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government … look at how governments and externalities are linked. Economists frequently justify government as dealing with … externalities, defined as benefits or costs that are generated as the result of an economic activity, but that do not accrue …
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The dynamics of knowledge externalities : localized technological change in Italy
Antonelli, Cristiano - 2011
This book elaborates a new dependent and localized growth theory based upon knowledge externalities by making two … knowledge externalities that consist in the access to localized external knowledge, at costs that are below equilibrium levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851040
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Blockchain + antitrust : the decentralization formula
Schrepel, Thibault - 2021
-- Part 2 best frenemies? -- 6. The theory of the firm -- 7. The theory of granularity -- 8. Collusion on blockchain -- 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704219
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A research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing
Kelloway, E. Kevin (ed.); Cooper, Cary (ed.) - 2021
Contents: Part I: Setting the scene -- 1. Introduction to a research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing / E. Kevin Kelloway and Cary L. Cooper -- 2. Workplace stress and wellbeing: Pathways for future research advances / James Campbell Quick -- 3. The cost of stress to uk employers and...
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