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Money and households in a capitalist economy : a gendered post Keynesian-institutional analysis
Todorova, Zdravka K. - 2009
Post Keynesian analyses of monetary production have not given much attention to households as institutions, while a good deal of the literature in feminist economics discusses households in a strictly microeconomic context, with little consideration of monetary phenomena. This book, a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850974
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Long-run growth, social institutions and living standards
Opocher, Arrigo (contributor); Salvadori, Neri (contributor) - 2009
tradition / Mario Pomini -- 7. Education and poverty in a Solow growth model / Thomas Bassetti -- 8. Child mortality decline …, inequality and economic growth / Tamara Fioroni -- 9. Health funding, inequality and economic growth / Davide Dottori -- 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851033
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Handbook on the economics of happiness
Bruni, Luigino (contributor); Porta, Pier Luigi (contributor) - 2007
This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851597
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International perspectives on household wealth
Wolff, Edward N. (contributor) - 2006
The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851778
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The economics of German unification : an introduction
Lange, Thomas; Pugh, Geoff - 1998
Following German reunification in 1990, East Germany's centrally planned economy was abolished and replaced by West Germany's social market economy. Western Germany has since provided vast financial support to aid the transformation, and enable eastern Germany to catch-up with western Germany's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473913
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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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The economics of sport, health and happiness : the promotion of well-being through sporting activities
Humphreys, Brad R. (contributor);  … - 2011
significant component for improving the happiness, health and well-being of citizens, communities and society as a whole. In so …1. Participation in physical activity and health outcomes : evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey / Jane E …. Ruseski and Brad R. Humphreys -- 2. An economic analysis of the subjective health and well-being of physical activity / Paul …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851324
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Management and happiness
Cooper, Cary L. - 2013
latitude, and risk of coronary heart disease within the Whitehall II study', Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 57 … and ruins your health, Alamaeda, CA, USA: Hunter House. -- Taris, T.W. and P.J. Schreurs (2009), 'Wellbeing and …E.B. Faragher, C.L. Cooper and S. Cartwright (2004), 'A Shortened Stress Evaluation Tool (ASSET)', Stress and Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852156
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Rural poverty, risk and development
Fafchamps, Marcel - 2003
This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work … in the area, it summarises the contributions of recent theoretical and empirical work to our understanding of how risk … affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In particular the book examines what we do and do not know about risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851057
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Globalization and the environment : risk assessment and the WTO
Kellow, Aynsley John (contributor);  … - 2001
One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …
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