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The political economy of destructive power
Vahabi, Mehrdad - 2004
Economic science has extensively studied the creative power of individuals and social groups, but it has largely ignored the destructive power of economic agents. This highly original book redresses the balance and, for the first time, looks at how much an agent can destroy. Destructive power is...
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Convenience triangle in white-collar crime : case studies of fraud examinations
Gottschalk, Petter - 2019
. Retaliation against whistleblowers -- 4. Crime in religious organizations -- 5. Convenience triangle in crime -- 6. When fraud … -- 10. Case 1: Office of the sheriff -- 11. Case 2: Pelham property fraud -- 12. Case 3: Nigeria petroleum fraud -- 13: Case … 4: Toshiba accounting misconduct -- 14: Case 5 Wells Fargo sales misconduct -- 15: Case 6: Fuji Xerox customer fraud …
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Increasing occupational health and safety in workplaces : individual, work and organizational factors
Burke, Ronald J. (ed.); Richardsen, Astrid M. (ed.) - 2019
Duraisingam -- 5. Understanding domestic violence as a workplace problem / Barb MacQuarrie, Katreena Scott, Danielle Lim, Laura …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294445
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Handbook on the economics of conflict
Braddon, Derek L. (ed.); Hartley, Keith (ed.) - 2011
The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its various dimensions embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of peacekeeping in conflict prevention. The economics of conflict is a relatively new branch...
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Augustin Cournot : modelling economics
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - 2007
1. Cournot as economist : 200 years of relevance / Jean Magnan de Bornier -- 2. Cournot's probabilistic epistemology / Thierry Martin -- 3. The functions of economic models / Bernard Walliser -- 4. From Cournot's principle to market efficiency / Glenn Shafer -- 5. War and peace / Robert J....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420015
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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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Handbook of economic organization : integrating economic and organization theory
Grandori, Anna (contributor) - 2013
pt. I. The micro-foundations of economic organization : extending behavioral assumptions on knowledge, interest, and rationality -- pt. II. The constitution of economic organization between interacting and contracting -- pt. III. The shaping of economic organization between design and evolution...
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Defending the history of economic thought
Kates, Steven - 2013
1. Preliminary thoughts -- 2. Why study the history of economic thought -- 3. Debating the role of the history of economic thought -- 4. Teaching the history of economic thought -- 5. Defending the history of economic thought.
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The Elgar companion to social economics
Davis, John Bryan (ed.); Dolfsma, Wilfred (ed.) - 2015 - 2nd ed
This comprehensive second edition of The Elgar Companion to Social Economics presents an overview of a dynamic and growing field in economics that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being embedded in...
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The making of a European economist
Colander, David C. - 2009
David Colander's highly original and thought provoking book considers ongoing changes in graduate European economics education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the 'economist production function' in which universities take student 'raw...
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