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Market failure or success : the new debate
Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002
Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850972
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Post Keynesian and ecological economics : confronting environmental issues
Spash, Clive L. (contributor);  … - 2009
It is argued that mainstream economics, with its present methodological approach, is limited in its ability to analyze and develop adequate public policy to deal with current environmental problems and sustainable development. This book provides an alternative approach. Building on the strengths...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851031
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The economics of social institutions
Davis, John B. - 2013
Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. -- Lipsey, R. G., K. Carlaw, and C. Bekar (2005), Economic Transformations: General Purpose … Evolutionary Science?', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 12 (4), July, 373-97 -- Walton H. Hamilton (1919), 'The Institutional …', American Political Science Review, 87 (3), September, 567-76 -- Oliver E. Williamson (2000), 'The New Institutional Economics …
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Economics and the social sciences : boundaries, interaction and integration
Ioannides, Stavros (contributor); Nielsen, Klaus (contributor) - 2007
pt. 1. Economics and other social sciences : relationships and boundaries -- pt. 2. New light on rationality, social relations and the environment -- pt. 3. Flexibility, routines and production in economics and social sciences.
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Institutions and evolution of capitalism : essays in honour of Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Gagliardi, Francesca (ed.); Gindis, David (ed.);  … - 2019
empirical science? / Kurt Dopfer and Jason Potts -- Part V: Geoff Hodgson on Geoff Hodgson -- 21: A conversation with Geoff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251861
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New themes in institutional analysis : topics and issues from European research
Krücken, Georg; Mazza, Carmelo; Meyer, Renate E.; … - 2017
traced to Europe, and an important intellectual objective of this book is to examine North American theory strands and to …
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Evolutionary economic thought : European contributions and concepts
Backhaus, Jürgen G. (contributor) - 2003
Evolutionary Economic Thought explores the theoretical roots of the evolutionary approach, and in so doing, demonstrates how it fits squarely into the theoretical mainstream. Focusing on the institutions of evolutionary change and the processes - such as competition - that generate change, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852047
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Research companion to corruption in organizations
Cooper, Cary L. (contributor); Burke, Ronald J. (contributor) - 2009
Corruption in organizations is creating an increasing number of victims and causing huge costs. This timely book brings together international researchers who address the causes and consequences of corruption in organizations and the action needed to reduce levels of corruption worldwide
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850606
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Regional economies as knowledge laboratories
Piccaluga, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2004
facts in biotechnology in Europe and the United States -- 4. Knowledge intensive business services and regional development … economic systems -- 7. High-tech industry clustering rationales : the case of German biotechnology -- 8. Industry-science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850693
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A handbook of alternative theories of public economics
Forte, Francesco (ed.) - 2014
This comprehensive and thought-provoking Handbook reviews public sector economics from pluralist perspectives that either complement or reach beyond mainstream views. The book takes a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, drawing on economic elements in the fields of philosophy, sociology,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852077