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Worlds of Taxation : The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945
Hürlimann, Gisela (ed.); Brownlee, W. Elliot (ed.);  … - 2018
The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945: An Introduction -- How Employers and … Tax Policy, 1940s to 1960s -- Unfairness, Inequality, and Tax Evasion: An Analysis of the Distribution of the Tax Burden … in Greece, 1955-1989 -- Limits to Redistribution in Late Democratic Transitions: The Case of Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396807
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African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession
Holder, Michelle - 2017
This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after the Great Recession. Using a model of occupational crowding, the book outlines how the representation of African American men in major occupational categories almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014018640
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Behavioral Economics : Moving Forward
Ghisellini, Fabrizio; Chang, Beryl Y. - 2018
This book sets the agenda to turn behavioral economics, which has long been considered a subordinate discipline, into mainstream economics. Ghisellini and Chang expose the conceptual and empirical inadequacy of conventional economics using illustrations of real world decision-making in a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396820
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Suspicions of Markets : Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century
Rutherford, Donald - 2016
In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397122
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Dionysian Economics : Making Economics a Scientific Social Science
Ward, Benjamin - 2016
Nietzsche distinguished between two forces in art: Apollonian, which represents order and reason, and Dionysian, which represents chaos and energy. An ideal work of art combines these two characteristics in a believable, relatable balance. Economists, Ward argues, have operated for too long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397126
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Minds, Models and Milieux : Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon
Frantz, Roger (ed.); Marsh, Leslie (ed.) - 2016
This book is a collection of specially commissioned chapters from philosophers, economists, political and behavioral economists, cognitive and organizational psychologists, computer scientists, sociologists and permutations thereof as befits the polymathic subject of this book Herbert Simon
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Collaborative Research in Economics : The Wisdom of Working Together
Szenberg, Michael (ed.); Ramrattan, Lall B. (ed.) - 2017
This collection gathers some of the greatest minds in economics to discuss their experiences of collaborative research and publication. Nobel Prize winners and other eminent scholars from a representative sample of economics' major sub-disciplines share how and why they came to work primarily in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397840
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Enacting Dismal Science : New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics
Boldyrev, Ivan A. (ed.); Svetlova, Ekaterina (ed.) - 2016
In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the latest contributions to the performativity debate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398043
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Selected Papers from the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance (APEF 2016)
Tan, Lee Ming (ed.); Tan, Jing Hee (ed.) - 2017
This book features the best papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance in 2016. Chapters include research conducted by experts in the field of Economics, Finance and Business from the region. Put together by East Asia Research, East Asia Institute of Management &...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398221
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Essays on Research Methodology
Hegde, Dinesh S. (ed.) - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402156