Marginal Worth

Author : Lionel Stanley Lewis
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 141282804X

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The evidence collected and analyzed by Lewis suggests that this is the case because teaching is not a particularly productive activity, and its quality is hard to measure. Teaching does not generate automatic prestige, most students do not learn a great deal, and in many instances other matters absorb the attention of faculty. Fifteen anonymous academic administrators and faculty members from around the country provided Lewis with the many letters, reports, and other documents he used in his analysis. By examining the material justifying merit salary awards, he reveals how merit is defined in academia. The focus of the letters is on teaching, research, administration, and service; teaching is not always seen as central to the academic role

Author : L. V. Birck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135033422

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The Theory of Marginal Value by L. V. Birck Pdf

The concept of 'marginal value' is critical to the emergence of neo-classical economics. This volume is divided into sections on: Book I: Utility (Disutility of labour, Utility and Wants, Direct and Indirect Utility, Utility Equations, Subjective Price) Book II: Value and Market (Objective Price, Markets, Value) Book III: Relations of Subjective Prices (The Distribution of Income and Prices, The Elasticity of Consumption, Differential Rent) Book IV: The Normal Market (Constant, Decreasing and Increasing Return)

Author : LAURITS VILHELM. BIRCK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033503479

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THEORY OF MARGINAL VALUE by LAURITS VILHELM. BIRCK Pdf

Author : Laurits Vilhelm Birck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008301320

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The Theory of Marginal Value by Laurits Vilhelm Birck Pdf

Author : Laurits Vilhelm 1871 Birck
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1372413944

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THEORY OF MARGINAL VALUE by Laurits Vilhelm 1871 Birck Pdf

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Author : John Pullen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134010899

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The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution by John Pullen Pdf

John Pullen presents a critical history of the concept of the Marginal Profit Theory of Distribution looking at the contributions of its proponents (eg Stigler) and its critics (eg Pareto) and stressing the continuity of the debate.

Author : Lionel S. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351292269

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Marginal Worth by Lionel S. Lewis Pdf

In the American university system for most of this century, the academic reward system has been blamed for both the neglect of teaching and a glut of uninspiring research. The salaries for faculty at institutions that place special emphasis on teaching are lower than those for faculty at institutions where both teaching and research are expected. In Marginal Worth, Lionel S. Lewis examines the contemporary academic labor market to explain why teaching—which is almost universally acknowledged both off and on campus to be at the center of the American educational experience—is not at the center of the academic labor market, and why it is only modestly rewarded. The evidence collected and analyzed by Lewis suggests that this is the case because teaching is not a particularly productive activity, and its quality is hard to measure. Teaching does not generate automatic prestige, most students do not learn a great deal, and in many instances other matters absorb the attention of faculty. Fifteen anonymous academic administrators and faculty members from around the country provided Lewis with the many letters, reports, and other documents he used in his analysis. By examining the material justifying merit salary awards, he reveals how merit is defined in academia. The focus of the letters is on teaching, research, administration, and service; teaching is not always seen as central to the academic role. For several years and from all sides, American institutions of higher learning have been called to account for a variety of failures. Significantly, the one indictment most often heard is that classrooms have been abandoned for laboratories and libraries, where faculty pursue interests to further their careers. Lewis argues that restoring the balance between teaching and research is too simple a solution to the problem. We need to better understand how disciplinary and institutional reward structures affect teaching, how and why faculty allocate their tune, and why teaching appears to be neglected and underappreciated. Lewis applies tenets of the neoclassical labor market model to the academy, and considers what might be done to strike a better balance between expectations and circumstances in the academic marketplace. This candid look into the political economy of higher education will be enlightening reading for all concerned with the future of American higher education: professors, administrators, students, and parents.

Author : Correa Moylan Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015026080286

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The Four Kinds of Economic Value by Correa Moylan Walsh Pdf

Author : J. David Velleman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783741670

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Beyond Price by J. David Velleman Pdf

In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.

Author : Laurits Vilhelm Birck
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0266467121

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The Theory of Marginal Value (Classic Reprint) by Laurits Vilhelm Birck Pdf

Excerpt from The Theory of Marginal Value I am indebted to Messrs. Fred Zeuthen, m.a. (copenhagen), Hugh Dalton, m.a., Cambridge, and Thomas A. Joynt, m.a., Edinburgh, for valuable advice both as to form and matter, and to the latter for his patience and courtesy in reading Of the proofs.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Leon A Petrosyan,David Wing Kay Yeung
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789811202025

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Game Theoretic Analysis by Leon A Petrosyan,David Wing Kay Yeung Pdf

This is a collection of recent novel contributions in game theory from a group of prominent authors in the field. It covers Non-cooperative Games, Equilibrium Analysis, Cooperative Games and Axiomatic Values in static and dynamic contexts.Part 1: Non-cooperative Games and Equilibrium AnalysisIn game theory, a non-cooperative game is a game with competition between individual players and in which only self-enforcing (e.g. through credible threats) alliances (or competition between groups of players, called 'coalitions') are possible due to the absence of external means to enforce cooperative behavior (e.g. contract law), as opposed to cooperative games. In fact, non-cooperative games are the foundation for the development of cooperative games by acting as the status quo. Non-cooperative games are generally analysed through the framework of equilibrium, which tries to predict players' individual strategies and payoffs. Indeed, equilibrium analysis is the centre of non-cooperative games. This volume on non-cooperative games and equilibrium analysis contains a variety of non-cooperative games and non-cooperative game equilibria from prominent authors in the field.Part 2: Cooperative Games and Axiomatic ValuesIt is well known that non-cooperative behaviours, in general, would not lead to a Pareto optimal outcome. Highly undesirable outcomes (like the prisoner's dilemma) and even devastating results (like the tragedy of the commons) could appear when the involved parties only care about their individual interests in a non-cooperative situation. Cooperative games offer the possibility of obtaining socially optimal and group efficient solutions to decision problems involving strategic actions. In addition, axiomatic values serve as guidance for establishing cooperative solutions. This volume on cooperative games and axiomatic values presents a collection of cooperative games and axiomatic values from prominent authors in the field.

Author : Benjamin M. Anderson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547566526

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The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson Pdf

"The Value of Money" by Benjamin M. Anderson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : M.W Merkhofer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400946989

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Decision Science and Social Risk Management by M.W Merkhofer Pdf

Economists, decision analysts, management scientists, and others have long argued that government should take a more scientific approach to decision making. Pointing to various theories for prescribing and rational izing choices, they have maintained that social goals could be achieved more effectively and at lower costs if government decisions were routinely subjected to analysis. Now, government policy makers are putting decision science to the test. Recent government actions encourage and in some cases require government decisions to be evaluated using formally defined principles 01' rationality. Will decision science pass tbis test? The answer depends on whether analysts can quickly and successfully translate their theories into practical approaches and whether these approaches promote the solution of the complex, highly uncertain, and politically sensitive problems that are of greatest concern to government decision makers. The future of decision science, perhaps even the nation's well-being, depends on the outcome. A major difficulty for the analysts who are being called upon by government to apply decision-aiding approaches is that decision science has not yet evolved a universally accepted methodology for analyzing social decisions involving risk. Numerous approaches have been proposed, including variations of cost-benefit analysis, decision analysis, and applied social welfare theory. Each of these, however, has its limitations and deficiencies and none has a proven track record for application to govern ment decisions involving risk. Cost-benefit approaches have been exten sively applied by the government, but most applications have been for decisions that were largely risk-free.

Author : Christopher T. Morehart,Kristin De Lucia
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607323808

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Surplus by Christopher T. Morehart,Kristin De Lucia Pdf

The concept of surplus captures the politics of production and also conveys the active material means by which people develop the strategies to navigate everyday life. Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life examines how surpluses affected ancient economies, governments, and households in civilizations across Mesoamerica, the Southwest United States, the Andes, Northern Europe, West Africa, Mesopotamia, and eastern Asia. A hallmark of archaeological research on sociopolitical complexity, surplus is central to theories of political inequality and institutional finance. This book investigates surplus as a macro-scalar process on which states or other complex political formations depend and considers how past people—differentially positioned based on age, class, gender, ethnicity, role, and goal—produced, modified, and mobilized their social and physical worlds. Placing the concept of surplus at the forefront of archaeological discussions on production, consumption, power, strategy, and change, this volume reaches beyond conventional ways of thinking about top-down or bottom-up models and offers a comparative framework to examine surplus, generating new questions and methodologies to elucidate the social and political economies of the past. Contributors include Douglas J. Bolender, James A. Brown, Cathy L. Costin, Kristin De Lucia, Timothy Earle, John E. Kelly, Heather M. L. Miller, Christopher R. Moore, Christopher T. Morehart, Neil L. Norman, Ann B. Stahl, Victor D. Thompson, T. L. Thurston, and E. Christian Wells.

Author : Aman Khan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030192266

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Fundamentals of Public Budgeting and Finance by Aman Khan Pdf

Budgeting is probably the single most important function in government, considering the amount of money a government spends each year on various expenditure programs and activities, as well as the time it spends in preparing the budget, appropriating funds for these activities and, finally, executing them. This book integrates the complex theory and practice of public budgeting into a single text. Written in a simple, concise and easy to understand manner, The Fundamentals of Public Budgeting and Finance captures the multidimensional perspective of public budgeting that students, as well as practitioners will find useful.