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This book is an important addition to the emerging body of new work on capital. Its primary contribution is in analysing capital investment choice as a process. The understanding of this process requires some modification and significant extension to the standard neo-classical economic tools....
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rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of … that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consistency. Such …
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, and the management of bounded rationality and its evolutionary consequences. Clem Tisdell successfully combines recent … organizations. Bounded Rationality and Economic Evolution will be of particular use to economists, academics in management, business …
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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...
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In standard economic theory human beings are portrayed as selfish money-maximizing actors. This book investigates the conditions under which people deviate from this prediction and when they are prepared to contribute to the common good in a more altruistic fashion. Based on field experiments...
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ecological rationality research program, it presents the main factors that determine economic choices, before exploring the most …
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Recommended readings (Machine generated): David C. Rapport (2004), 'The Four Waves of Modern Terrorism', in Audrey … Kurth Cronin and James M. Ludes (eds), Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy, Chapter 2, Washington, D ….C.: Georgetown University Press, 46-72 -- Martha Crenshaw (1981), 'The Causes of Terrorism', Comparative Politics, 13 (4), July, 379 …
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Terrorism : considering new policies / Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger -- An empirical analysis of the Terrorism … W. Poole, Jr. -- Cost-effective strategies to address urban terrorism : a risk management approach. / Richard G. Little …/11 : risk management at National Park Service / Larry Parkinson -- The national economic impacts of a food terrorism event …
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By defining political economy and war in the broadest sense, this unique Handbook brings together a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars from economics, political science, sociology, and policy studies to address a multitude of important topics. These include an analysis of why wars begin,...
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This original collection examines the managerial and organizational implications of international terrorism and threats …pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Impact of terrorism -- pt. 3. Building individual and organizational resilience …
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