Non-Equilibrium Social Science & Policy -- Economics -- Social Psychology and Narrative Economy -- Sociology and Non-Equilibrium Social Science -- Geography far from Equilibrium -- Cities in Disequilibrium -- The Evolutionary Theory of Globalization -- Systems, Networks, and Policy -- Towards a...

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...

Online Communities and Social Media -- Stock BBS Factor Model Using Principal Component Score -- How Consumer-Generated Advertising Works: An Empirical Agent-Based Simulation -- Understanding Citizens’ Channel Choice of Public Service Delivery: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach -- Cyclical...

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...

Social sciences and economics have undergone enormous progress. While certain topics have been fully researched, others have remained largely under-researched or ignored. It is this discrepancy which prompted the research paradigm of 'Crossing Bridges'. For this volume, ten authors have joined...

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...

The London School of Economics (LSE) has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics. With six chapters on themes in LSE economics and 29 chapters on the lives and work of LSE economists, this volume shows how economics became established at the School, how it...

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...