Introduction -- Formulating the problem -- Searching the literature -- Gathering information from studies -- Evaluating the quality of studies -- Analyzing and integrating the outcomes of studies -- Interpreting the evidence -- Presenting the results -- Conclusion: Threats to the validity of...

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then...

The book presents a collection of essays addressing a perceived need for persistent and logical thinking, critical reasoning, rigor and relevance on the part of researchers pursuing their doctorates. Accordingly, eminent experts have come together to consider these significant aspects of the...

Part I - The New World of Economic Thinking: Economic Thinking -- Anything Worth Doing Is Not Necessarily Worth Doing Well -- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs-And Economist’s Demand -- Part II -The New World of Market Economics: Price and the “Law of Unintended Consequences”.- Pricing Lemons,...

Teil I Deskriptive Statistik -- Einführung -- Eindimensionale empirische Verteilungen -- Eindimensionale Maßzahlen -- Konzentrationsmessung -- Zweidimensionale Maßzahlen -- Einfache lineare Regression -- Verhältniszahlen -- Teil II Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung -- Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung...

Provides details on a specific approach to research. The book is relevant to a broad range of disciplines, can be used in teaching and by practitioners, and is focused on an integrated approach to qualitative and quantitative research

Transferring Negative Externalities: Feedback Effects of Self-Protection Choices in a Two Hemispheres Model -- Structural Change, Economic Growth and Environmental Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents -- Bifurcations and Chaotic Attractors in an Overlapping Generations Model with Negative...

Immer stärker basieren Unternehmensentscheidungen auf der Auswertung wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Daten. Ökonomen und Sozialwissenschaftler sehen sich daher mit immer größeren Datenmengen konfrontiert, die mit statistischen Methoden geordnet und analysiert werden müssen. Daher kommt der...