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Entrepreneurs and the transformation of the global economy

Ellison, Anthony P. - 2002

Anthony Ellison cuts through conventional neo-classical interpretations to expose the indispensable contribution of entrepreneurs in driving the market process and, in particular, in accomplishing the deregulation of the transportation, trade, telecommunications and financial regimes both in...

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World finance and economic stability : selected essays of James Tobin

Tobin, James - 2003

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...

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Research companion to working time and work addiction

Burke, Ronald J. (contributor) - 2006

This Research Companion examines the effects of work hours on individual and family well-being and questions why people work hard and whether some can work too hard. It integrates contributions from two areas of research-- work hours and work addiction-- that have historically been pursued...

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European-American trade and financial alliances

Rugman, Alan M. (contributor); Boyd, Gavin (contributor); … - 2005

1. The role of financial markets in economic performance : the EU and the USA -- 2. Atlantic interdependent knowledge …

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Long-run growth and short-run stabilization : essays in memory of Albert Ando

Ando, Albert (contributor); … - 2006

There is much confusion in the economics literature on wage determination and the employment-inflation trade-off. Few model builders pay as much careful attention to the definition and meaning of long-run concepts as did Albert Ando. Expanding on years of painstaking work by Ando, the...

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The revival of laissez-faire in American macroeconomic theory : a case study of the pioneers

Kasper, Sherryl Davis - 2002

This book provides the definitive account of this watershed and traces the evolution of laissez-faire using the cases of its proponents, Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan and Robert Lucas. By elucidating the pre-analytical framework of their...

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Corporate wellness programs : linking employee and organizational health

Richardsen, Astrid M. (contributor); … - 2014

'This book brings together a wealth of information on a diverse range of corporate wellness programs. Researchers and practitioners alike will benefit from the contributors' evidence-based insights about the design, implementation, success factors and impacts of wellness programs. The book's...

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Evaluation and performance measurement of research and development : techniques and perspectives for multi-level analysis

Chiesa, Vittorio - 2009

This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be...

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Successes and failures in regulating and deregulating utilities : evidence from the UK, Europe and the USA

Robinson, Colin (contributor) - 2004

1. The failure of good intentions : the collapse of American telecommunications after six years of Deregulation -- 2. Road networks : efficiency, externalities and consumer choice -- 3. The Enterprise Act : pluses and minuses for competition policy -- 4. Ofcom and light touch regulation -- 5....

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Alliance capitalism for the new American economy

Rugman, Alan M. (contributor); Boyd, Gavin (contributor) - 2003

Alliance Capitalism for the New American Economy advocates engagement with the USA's macromanagement problems in a … spirit of alliance capitalism, for the development of a more integrated, dynamic economy. Whereas most studies of the USA …1. The American political economy -- 2. Problems of governance in the USA -- 3. American structural and policy …

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