A range of cross-sectional models are estimated with a view to establishing the factors that determine the valuation of professional athletes in a highly-specialised sport, with an application to cricket's Indian Premier League (IPL). We distinguish between personal characteristic and playing...

The chapter attempts to provide economists who actively teach their discipline some suggested paths toward making the experience more palatable if not enjoyable for students. The authors emphasize three lessons. First, economics is a fascinating and rewarding discipline. Second, introductory...

Kapitel 1: Wahrnehmungen -- Kapitel 2: Entscheidungen treffen: Lehren aus der Verhaltensökonomie -- Kapitel 3: Der Aufbau der sozialistischen Arbeitswelt: Arbeit, Normen und die Einführung der Akkordarbeit -- Kapitel 4: Von der Sowjetunion lernen, heißt siegen lernen: Gruppentechnologie und...

This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime. By studying serious political resistance from a quantitative historical perspective, the book...