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The economics of gambling and national lotteries

Vaughan Williams, Leighton - 2012

In recent years there has been a substantial global increase in interest in the study of gambling. To some extent this … strategy as well as the ideal structure of gambling taxes and devising optimal responses to environmental changes, such as the … growth of online gambling. This volume, by bringing together the work of leading scholars, will cover the spectrum of such …

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The economics of e-commerce

Baye, Michael R. (contributor); Morgan, John (contributor) - 2016

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Michael R. Baye and John Morgan (2001), 'Information Gatekeepers on the Internet and the Competitiveness of Homogeneous Product Markets', American Economic Review, 91 (3), June, 454-74 -- Jean-Charles Rochet and Jean Tirole (2003), 'Platform Competition...

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Grocery e-commerce : consumer behaviour and business strategies

Kornum, Niels (ed.); Bjerre, Mogens (ed.) - International Workshop on Consumer Behaviour and … - 2005

This book attempts to shed light on why it is so difficult to develop and maintain successful businesses in the grocery e-commerce arena. Within the last five years, grocery e-commerce has experienced both consistent successes such as Tesco.com and irrevocable failures such as Webvan.com. Niels...

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Research companion to working time and work addiction

Burke, Ronald J. (contributor) - 2006

addiction-- that have historically been pursued separately …Work hours and work addiction / Ronald J. Burke -- How long? : the historical, economic and cultural factors behind …

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The economic analysis of substance use and abuse : the experience of developed countries and lessons for developing countries

Grossman, Michael (ed.); Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (ed.) - 2001

Currently developed countries pay much more attention to harmfully addictive substances than developing countries. However, the experience of developed countries is very relevant to the developing world since substance abuse is likely to impose a continually increasing burden of disease in this...

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Decisions, preferences, and heuristics : an introduction to economic psychology and behavioral economics

Mir Artigues, Pere - 2023

"This enlightening book comprehensively maps the current state of economic psychology and behavioural economics. Exploring key concepts, topics and models in the field, it is also a launching pad for future research, providing useful insights on how to make good personal and professional...

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Economics uncut : a complete guide to life, death and misadventure

Bowmaker, Simon W. (contributor) - 2005

This highly innovative and intriguing book applies principles of microeconomics to unusual settings to inspire students, teachers and scholars alike in the 'dismal science'. Leading experts show how economics reaches into the strangest of places and throws light onto the occasionally dark side...

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Property rights, consumption and the market process

Andersson, David E. - 2008

Property Rights, Consumption and the Market Process extends property rights theory in new and exciting directions by combining complementary insights from Austrian, institutional and evolutionary economics. Mainstream economics tends to analyse property rights within a static equilibrium...

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Post Keynesian and ecological economics : confronting environmental issues

Spash, Clive L. (contributor); … - 2009

It is argued that mainstream economics, with its present methodological approach, is limited in its ability to analyze and develop adequate public policy to deal with current environmental problems and sustainable development. This book provides an alternative approach. Building on the strengths...

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Behavioural macroeconomics

McDonald, Ian M. - 2012

'I only wish that Ian McDonald's Behavioural Macroeconomics had been available when I was preparing A Guide to Behavioral Economics; it certainly would have provided me with material to fill in a number of gaps and cite several additional important concerns!'--Hugh Schwartz, University of the...

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