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Posing a major challenge to economic orthodoxy, <i>Imperfect Knowledge Economics</i> asserts that exact models of purposeful human behavior are beyond the reach of economic analysis. Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue that the longstanding empirical failures of conventional economic models stem...
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In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. It has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a...
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How do individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases? In this innovative book, economist Phillip Levine uses economic analysis to consider this question, comparing abortion to a form of insurance. Like insurance, he contends, abortion provides protection from downside risk. A...
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. Drawing out policy implications, the authors conclude that multinational enterprises are generally a force for the promotion …
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generations. It is also central to other policy debates, including, for example, the appropriate level of public debt, investment … can be applied to many policy areas, Pricing the Planet's Future offers an ideal framework for dynamic problems and …
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generations. It is also central to other policy debates, including, for example, the appropriate level of public debt, investment … can be applied to many policy areas, Pricing the Planet's Future offers an ideal framework for dynamic problems and …
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sociologists, political scientists, and urban planning and policy researchers. Focusing on individual and household location … social interactions in specific contexts is essential for grasping their scope and use in informing policy. Revealing how …
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sociologists, political scientists, and urban planning and policy researchers. Focusing on individual and household location … social interactions in specific contexts is essential for grasping their scope and use in informing policy. Revealing how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681703
policy? What underpins the right of nongovernmental actors to create new currencies? And how might new forms of money surpass …
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, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they … profoundly influence all international economic activity. Despite the critical role of exchange rate policy, there are few … currency policy preferences on the part of industries seeking to influence politicians, Jeffry Frieden shows how each industry …
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