Many behavioural studies employ surveys that rely on a Likert scale for construct measurement. However, prior research has shown that using Likert scales can be problematic. One alternative to Likert scale construction is the 'fast form' approach which uses the semantic differential scale and...

In its recently completed review of Commonwealth fisheries policy the Australian Government, following submissions from the commercial fishing industry, agreed to examine the implications of replacing the power in the Fisheries Management Act 1991 (FM Act) to cancel fishing concessions for...

All industries are based upon a core of knowledge. Economic evolution is the growth of this knowledge as an experimental and path-dependent process involving markets, firms, finance, entrepreneurship, and often substantial uncertainty. In the set of industries associated with information...

This paper explores a new phenomenon which is assuming global proportions: the planning and construction of artificial islands. Varying in size, shape, and purpose, man-made islands are looming on the horizons of an increasing number of aspiring global cities and regions at the margins of global...

Constitutional economics proposes and pursues a solution to public-policy problems, one that supplies rules designed to narrow the opportunity set of rational politicians. This work proposes and pursues “rational policy” as a complementary strategy to solve public-policy problems, where...

Investigates the Phillips curve at the level of the local labor market in the United States, employing occupational wage rates as a measure of the price of labor. Occupations that were selected; Results of regression analysis; Variations in the relationship between unemployment and wage changes by...

Presents a revised mathematical model of labor-force participation in which the ratio of job vacancies to the number of unemployed is used to represent labor market conditions. Fundamental proposition of earlier market-conditions models; Variation of the labor-force participation rate of...