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The living wage : lessons from the history of economic thought
Stabile, Donald - 2008
For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill...
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The golden constant : the English and American experience, 1560-2007
Jastram, Roy W. - 2009 - Rev. ed
-depth examination of how the purchasing power of gold has performed over the centuries in both England and the USA. It contains a … in England, and from 1800 in the USA, up to 2007. The book also contains detailed historical statistics on gold …, wholesale and consumer prices and the real price of gold. This important book will be an essential resource for institutional …
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Handbook of experience science : tourism, hospitality, and leisure
Chen, Joseph (ed.); Prebensen, Nina K. (ed.);  … - 2024 - First edition
"Carefully examining the challenges of meeting fast-developing consumer demands and preferences, this enlightening Handbook captures the difficulties involved in providing optimal service experiences. It provides invaluable theoretical guidance while emphasising the evolutionary nature of...
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The minimum wage revisited in the enlarged EU
Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel (contributor) - 2010
This book provides in-depth and innovative analysis of the minimum wage in Europe. The authors explore its role and scope within the enlarged EU, and address the question of whether there should be harmonization between the individual member states or even a common EU minimum wage. They also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850870
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Tax and transfer policy using behavioural microsimulation modelling : design and evaluation
Creedy, John; Mok, Penny - 2022
"Combining theoretical and practical aspects of policy analysis, this book evaluates actual and proposed policy reforms to income tax and transfer systems, using a behavioural tax microsimulation model. It highlights how these models allow for the full details of tax systems and the considerable...
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Markets and market institutions : their origin and evolution
Casson, Mark - 2011
electronic edition, accessed 30/10/09. -- Peter Temin (2002), 'Price Behavior in Ancient Babylon', Explorations in Economic …
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The Economics of restructuring and intervention
Michie, Jonathan (ed.) - 1991
The Economics of Restructuring and Intervention carries forward the work of Marx, Kalecki, Keynes and Kaldor in analysing questions of growth, distribution and government intervention. It will be essential reading for all those wishing to understand the massive economic and political shifts as...
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Market institutions and price discovery
Plott, Charles R. - 2001
experimental economics. Market Institutions and Price Discovery contains papers which define problems, create laboratory … policy, and progresses to examine institutions such as the posted price and to other more complex institutions including … opportunities for conspiracy. The focus then shifts to explore the process through which markets find a price, and then discusses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474107
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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...
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Evolution of the corporation in the United States : from social control to financialization
Atkinson, Glen; Hake, Eric R.; Paschall, Stephen P. - 2021
Contents: 1. Financialization and the corporation in the twenty-first century -- 2. Capitalist development -- 3. Widening of the market and the transition from scarcity to abundance -- 4. Role of the corporation -- 5. Failure of federal policy to achieve social control -- 6. Corporations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487423