Showing 1 - 10 of 122
This manual offers a comprehensive overview of key economic theories applied to environmental issues. It covers classical views of nature as a resource, externalities theory, and critiques of the "Tragedy of the Commons" by Hardin and Ostrom. Behavioral economics concepts, such as status quo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214237
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (April 14, 1891—Dec. 6,1956) was a leader, scholar and activist of the depressed classes known as untouchables, or Dalits (meaning the ‘oppressed’ or ‘crushed’). He appeared on the Indian socio-political scene in the early 1920s and remained in the forefront of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214364
From ancient times to the modern world, "The Shortest History of Economics" (published in the United States as "How Economics Explains the World") discusses the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transformation. It traces how capitalism and the market system emerged, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214595
The meaning is clear: The Student is submitting to the will of the higher authority, for the sake of making more money. Will that behavior also just as easily transfer to the political will of higher authority, to induce the Students to unthinkingly repeat the painful atrocities of the past,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219641
In this brief note describes the trajectory of the fractal models / multifractal F / M by Benoit Mandelbrot. The promise was discovered by the geometry of Mandelbrot covers a broad area of research fields, from meteorology and mathematical physics to the individual and collective behavior in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223727
Paul .A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in Economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century. As a graduate student at Harvard, Samuelson studied Economics under Joseph Schumpeter, W.W. Leontief, Goldfried Haberler and the ‘American Keynes’ Alvin Hansen. He was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015224549
Recently, P Krugman has suggested that psychology should be included in the theory of economics in view of its critical role played in the behaviour of the large masses of people whose day to day participation impacts so heavily upon economic affairs. Here it is argued that such an inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015225241
It is a universal phenomenon that dressing/clothing has an effect on the personality of an individual. One’s attire/dressing is said to be an important part of the personality representation as it gives the first impression on the others. It has been evident through the studies that the mood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015229273
English abstract Animal rights and animal wellbeing. A Utopian approach. Entitling animals with personal rights will change the way of how agricultural production is organized. Animals will negotiate contracts with farmers. Animal rights do not contradict meat production as long as an animal's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015229392
This article describes the argumentative structure of Hayek on the relationship between power to tax and the progressive tax. It is observed throughout its work giving special attention to two works: The Constitution of Liberty (1959) and Law, Legislation and Liberty, vol3; The Political Order of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015229501