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Since the celebration of the bicentenary of The Wealth of Nations, the last twenty years have seen a burgeoning interest in Adam Smith's contribution to economics. Jan Peil's book aims to provide a new model for interpreting Smith's contribution to economic science. This model elucidates Smith's...
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Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its …
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Managing and developing diversity is on the political and business agenda in many countries; therefore diversity management has become an area of knowledge and practice in its own right. Yet all too often it is referred to as a unifying concept, as if it were to be interpreted uniformly across...
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With over thirty chapters, this book offers a truly interdisciplinary collection of original contributions that are likely to influence theorization in the field of equality, diversity and inclusion at work
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neoclassical discrimination theories whilst analysing models used to calculate the gender wage gap. They conclude that modern … discrimination against women in the labour market may be less severe than public assumptions suggest. Due to its investigative … gender discrimination. It will also be beneficial for university professors lecturing in subjects such as economics …
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), September, 1124-31 -- Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1979), 'Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk …), 'Experimental Economics: Induced Value Theory', American Economic Review, 66 (2), May, 274-9 -- Vernon L. Smith (1980), 'Experiments …: Edward Elgar. -- James M. Buchanan (1949), 'The Pure Theory of Government Finance: A Suggested Approach', Journal of …
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Spencer Pack compares and contrasts Aristotle's, Smith's and Marx's theoretical systems on six fundamental issues: exchange value, money, capital, character, government, and change. This book also provides insights on issues concerning the continuing development of world money, saving,...
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Democracy is the rule of the people. Exchange is supply and demand. Individualism, agreement, tolerance and choice are … a single theory of moderation and pragmatic management …
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demonstrates the considerable influence that his work on economic theory has had on his contemporaries, and the profession as a … / Mark Roberts -- Endogenous growth theory : a partial critique / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- The nature of economic … growth and the neoclassical approach. : more questions than answers? / John McCombie -- On the core of macroeconomic theory …
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The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first part examines the theoretical consequences of...
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