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Die Autoren beschreiben in diesem Essential anhand von Beispielen Schwierigkeiten, die beim Sparen auftreten. Auf Basis der Systemtheorie des Soziologen N. Luhmann, die zu Grundzügen einer Soziologie des Sparens umgeformt wird, entstehen neue Einblicke, weil in Systemen (wie Wirtschaft oder...
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Part I: Introductory Matter -- 1.Utility and Demand -- 2.Elements of Production -- Part II: Models -- 3.Cournot I: Constant Returns -- 4.Cournot II: Returns to Scale and Stability -- Bertrand -- 6.Stackelberg -- 7.Hotelling Duopoly -- 8.Disequilibrium Trade and Pricing of Durable Commodities --...
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Since the days of Lev Pontryagin and his associates, the discipline of Optimal Control has enjoyed a tremendous upswing - not only in terms of its mathematical foundations, but also with regard to numerous fields of application, which have given rise to highly active research areas. Few...
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Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to...
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This book provides researchers and students with an understanding of the basic legal tenets of the Islamic finance … institutions such as Islamic banks and Takaful operators. Islamic Finance in Light of Modern Economic Theory brings together all …Part I. Islamic finance: rationale, history, instruments and the legal framework -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Islamic …
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Cambridge University has and continues to be one of the most important centres for economics. With nine chapters on themes in Cambridge economics and over 40 chapters on the lives and work of Cambridge economists, this volume shows how economics became established at the university, how it...
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On June 3, 2015, the Greek Parliamentary Budget Office, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Democritus University of Thrace, and the University of Peloponnese sponsored an international conference to address medium- and long-term growth in Greece. This collection presents the...
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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,...
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Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: History -- Developments in Risk and Insurance Economics: the Past 40 Years -- Part 2 : Risk and Insurance Theory Without Information Problems -- Higher-Order Risk Attitudes -- Non-Expected Utility and the Robustness of the Classical Insurance Paradigm -- The...
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"Die Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens" gibt einen umfassenden und dennoch detaillierten Überblick über die Entwicklung der ökonomischen Theorie. Die Gesamtschau zeigt wichtige Zusammenhänge und Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen Denkrichtungen auf und erleichtert so deren...
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