Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Deirdre McCloskey -- 2. Kenneth G. Binmore -- 3. Herbert Gintis -- 4. Robert H. Frank -- 5. Matthew Rabin -- 6. William A. ("Buz") Brock -- 7. Duncan K. Foley -- 8. Richard B. Norgaard -- 9. Robert Axtell and H. Peyton Young -- 10. Kenneth Arrow...

A guide for organizational and social research in business studies and the social sciences, providing a clear framework for research design and methodology. It will be an invaluable tool for academics, researchers, and graduate students across the social sciences concerned with rigorous and...

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working...

Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Tabellenverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung und Grundlagen -- 2 Bezugsrahmen, Theorie, Technologie -- 3. Operationalisieren und Messen -- 4. Forschungsmotive, -strategien und -prozesse -- 5. Forschungsformen -- 6 Grundgesamtheit und Stichproben -- 8....

Research Methods for Business and Social Science Students aims to present a clear discussion of the research methods employed in various disciplines related to our daily life problems. The theoretical basis of research methods is explained clearly and succinctly. Collecting data is a key part of...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter One: Art and Science -- 1.1 Unveiling Econ- Art -- 1.2 The Question of Purpose -- 1.3 The Purpose of Art -- 1.4 Art versus Science -- 1.5 Science versus Art -- 1.6 Art and the Act of Insight -- 1.7 A Micro View -- 1.8 Culture and...

The book's comprehensive coverage on the application of econometric methods to empirical analysis of economic issues is impressive. It uncovers the missing link between textbooks on economic theory and econometrics and highlights the powerful connection between economic theory and empirical...

First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to all...

For decades, the market, asset, and income approaches to business valuation have taken center stage in the assessment of the firm. This book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, consisting of nine well-defined valuation principles hailing from the fields of economics, finance,...