The Theory of Competitive Price
Author : George Joseph Stigler
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Competition
ISBN :
The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Author : Daniel M. Jr. Bell
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441240411
Book Description
In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy. Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in terms of how desire is shaped, he casts the conflict as one between different disciplines of desire. He engages the work of two important postmodern philosophers, Deleuze and Foucault, to illuminate the nature of the postmodern world that the church currently inhabits. Bell then considers how the global economy deforms desire in a manner that distorts human relations with God and one another. In contrast, he presents Christianity and the tradition of the works of mercy as a way beyond capitalism and socialism, beyond philanthropy and welfare. Christianity heals desire, renewing human relations and enabling communion with God.
Economics of Rural Land-use Change
Author : Kathleen P. Bell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780754609834
Book Description
Public concern over land management has never been greater. This book provides a broad overview of the economics of rural land-use change, drawing attention to the meaningful role economic analysis can play in resolving public concern and supporting futur
The Irony of Regulatory Reform
Author : Robert Britt Horwitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 23,92 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195054458
Book Description
Horwitz here examines the history of telecommunications to build a compelling new theory of regulation, showing how anti-regulation rhetoric has often had unintended and unwanted effects on American industry.
The Allocation Of Scarce Resources
Author : David Grether
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1989-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
The Economic Theory of Product Differentiation
Author : John Beath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 1991-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521335522
Book Description
There are few industries in modern market economies that do not manufacture differentiated products. This book provides a systematic explanation and analysis of the widespread prevalence of this important category of products. The authors concentrate on models in which product selection is endogenous. In the first four chapters they consider models that try to predict the level of product differentiation that would emerge in situations of market equilibrium. These market equilibria with differentiated products are characterised and then compared with social welfare optima. Particular attention is paid to the distinction between horizontal and vertical differentiation as well as to the related issues of product quality and durability. This book brings together the most important theoretical contributions to these topics in a succinct and coherent manner. One of its major strengths is the way in which it carefully sets out the basic intuition behind the formal results. It will be useful to advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in industrial economics and microeconomic theory.
New Developments in the Analysis of Market Structure
Author : International Economic Association
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262690935
Book Description
These contributions discuss a number of important developments over the past decade in a newly established and important field of economics that have led to notable changes in views on governmental competition policies. They focus on the nature and role of competition and other determinants of market structures, such as numbers of firms and barriers to entry; other factors which determine the effective degree of competition in the market; the influence of major firms (especially when these pursue objectives other than profit maximization); and decentralization and coordination under control relationships other than markets and hierarchies.ContributorsJoseph E. Stiglitz, G. C. Archibald, B. C. Eaton, R. G. Lipsey, David Enaoua, Paul Geroski, Alexis Jacquemin, Richard J. Gilbert, Reinhard Selten, Oliver E. Williamson, Jerry R. Green, G. Frank Mathewson, R. A. Winter, C. d'Aspremont, J. Jaskold Gabszewicz, Steven Salop, Branko Horvat, Z. Roman, W. J. Baumol, J. C. Panzar, R. D. Willig, Richard Schmalensee, Richard Nelson, Michael Scence, and Partha Dasgupta
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
Author : V. Henderson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080495125
Book Description
The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography and its incorporation along with innovations in industrial organization, endogenous growth, network theory and applied econometrics into urban and regional economics. The chapters cover theoretical developments concerning the forces of agglomeration, the nature of neighborhoods and human capital externalities, the foundations of systems of cities, the development of local political institutions, regional agglomerations and regional growth. Such massive progress in understanding the theory behind urban and regional phenomenon is consistent with on-going progress in the field since the late 1960's. What is unprecedented are the developments on the empirical side: the development of a wide body of knowledge concerning the nature of urban externalities, city size distributions, urban sprawl, urban and regional trade, and regional convergence, as well as a body of knowledge on specific regions of the world—Europe, Asia and North America, both current and historical. The Handbook is a key reference piece for anyone wishing to understand the developments in the field.
Handbook of law and economics
Author : A. Mitchell Polinsky
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Droit
ISBN : 0444531203
Book Description
"Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions - for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. The incentives created by the legal system are thus a natural subject of study by economists. Moreover, given the importance of law to the welfare of societies, the economic analysis of law merits prominent treatment as a subdiscipline of economics. This two volume Handbook is intended to foster the study of the legal system by economists. The two volumes form a comprehensive and accessible survey of the current state of the field. Chapters prepared by leading specialists of the area. Summarizes received results as well as new developments."--[Source inconnue].
Topics in Microeconomics
Author : Elmar Wolfstetter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521645348
Book Description
This book in microeconomics focuses on the strategic analysis of markets under imperfect competition, incomplete information, and incentives. Part I of the book covers imperfect competition, from monopoly and regulation to the strategic analysis of oligopolistic markets. Part II explains the analytics of risk, stochastic dominance, and risk aversion, supplemented with a variety of applications from different areas in economics. Part III focuses on markets and incentives under incomplete information, including a comprehensive introduction to the theory of auctions, which plays an important role in modern economics.
