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Investigates managerial values as predictors of managerial decision styles. A multiple regression analysis indicated that existential values related positively to a consultative decision‐making style while tribalistic values related significantly to a pseudo‐consultative decision‐making...
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Provides a model of human capital search by examining college student migration across states. Tests pertinent investment and consumption benefits. Employs OLS estimation for 49 states, with unique measures for college quality, college climate, and college location. Tests income and price...
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Econometrics labours under the same limitations as economics: it rests on unrealistic hypotheses (and non …
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, as opposed to concentrating on only one, is the best framework for the progress of economics. In particular, it increases …
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Describes how mathematics enjoyed a virtual monopoly as the privileged method of economic inquiry in the post‐war period. Counters the argument that such a position generates negative consequences, such as monopoly rents and the abuse of dominant positions. Argues that competing schools of...
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Sketches the history of economic thought regarding the self‐expanding growth of investments through the accrual of compound interest. Exercises that calculate such growth in terms of “doubling times” have already been found in Babylonian textbooks from c. 2000 BC. Although compound...
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Considers a Wirkungsgeschichte of Hermann Heinrich Gossen, focusing on the reactions of the three stars of the Marginal Revolution: William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras and Carl Menger. Although Hermann Heinrich Gossen is today known as one of the forerunners of the Marginal Revolution, it was...
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Böhm‐Bawerk). He was also one of the first to use (simple) mathematics in economics.  …
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Islamic economics are critically examined. In the form as m&m presently exist, they are pointed out to be pre …
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