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The transition from socialism to capitalism in former socialist economies is one of the main economic events of the … emphasis in economics from standard price and monetary theory to contracting and its institutional environment. Economic … initial conditions and on sustained political support. Unlike early policy literature on transition economics, which focused …
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David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is … woman in his Economics of Social Issues class is distractingly flirtatious. His research is stagnant, to put it kindly. His … search for a tenure-track job looms dauntingly. (The previous visiting assistant professor of economics is now working in a …
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Design structure matrix (DSM) is a straightforward and flexible modeling technique that can be used for designing, developing, and managing complex systems. DSM offers network modeling tools that represent the elements of a system and their interactions, thereby highlighting the system’s...
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David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is … woman in his Economics of Social Issues class is distractingly flirtatious. His research is stagnant, to put it kindly. His … search for a tenure-track job looms dauntingly. (The previous visiting assistant professor of economics is now working in a …
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economics of religion has little to do with counting the money in the collection basket and much to do with understanding the … organized body of worshipers, it's natural to use a science that seeks to explain the behavior of organization—economics … and nontechnical background information on economics and the economics of religion before focusing on the Reformation and …
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In this unusual book, first published by The MIT Press in 1980 and now updated with a new chapter, Steven Brams applies the mathematical theory of games to the Hebrew Bible. Brams's thesis is that God and the human biblical characters acted rationally—that is, given their preferences and their...
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Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a...
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competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn …-driven economics needs more prose and less math. Leamer shows that the Heckscher–Ohlin framework is still useful, and that there is …
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The explanatory power of economic theory is tested by the phenomenon of irrational consumption, examples of which include such addictive behaviors as disordered and pathological gambling. Midbrain Mutiny examines different economic models of disordered gambling, using the frameworks of...
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The MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics is an up-to-date, authoritative reference designed primarily for students of …
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