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Market, State and Feminism offers an inter-disciplinary critique of the 'free market backlash' - the belief that free market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors argue that, far from being restrictive and intrusive, state action can enhance the...
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Mark Blaug has with good reason been described as the most widely read economist of his generation. He has made important contributions to economic history, cultural economics, the history of economic thought, the methodology of economics and the economics of education. Not Only an Economist...
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: getting dynamic theory correct / Jeffrey B. Vancouver and Cassandra E. Colton -- 23. Thinking longitudinal: a framework for … a temporal lens by focusing on the role of time and its various implications for research. When a phenomenon occurs …
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, development of a new product--for an ex ante limited period of time …
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The amount of physical matter in the world is fixed and improvements to people's material circumstances are only created by their ability to reconfigure this matter. What distinguishes labour, and subsequently what allows for differing increments of value, are our capabilities, skills and...
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This ambitious book presents a conceptual framework for an institutional approach to economic change and economic transformation. It sheds important light on two basic concepts: social complexity and interactive governance. The first part of the book develops the theoretical foundations for...
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approach based on the pure time preference theory offers an attractive alternative to both the orthodox neoclassical and the …. This consistent subjectivism makes it possible to present the pure time (Fetter-Mises) preference theory of interest in … capital and interest theory. In the three classic essays featured in this book, Professor Kirzner argues that an Austrian …
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Contents: Introduction / David Crowther and Linne Marie Lauesen -- Part I: Methodology planning -- 1. Grounded theory …: Quantitative methods -- 7. Game theory as a research tool for sustainability / Shahla Seifi -- 8. Key concerns in longitudinal …. Yekini -- 15. Ethnographic research methods in CSR research : building theory out of people's everyday life with materials …
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wars than peace : Pareto and English economists -- 6. A Unitarian reading of Pareto's paradoxes in the theory of choice …. This book reconstructs the genesis and significance of Pareto's theory of choice which is Pareto's greatest contribution to …
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insights and on developments in evolutionary theory, offer challenging views on how economics can use evolutionary ideas …
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