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Author : Ray V. F. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959506022
Author : Julian Le Grand,Ray V F Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349156320
Author : Sarah Smith,Julian Le Grand,Carol Propper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349922109
This well respected textbook has been fully updated to reflect how economic policies on housing, crime, the environment, pensions among other areas, have changed in recent years. The book offers a lucid, non-technical introduction to important economic concepts, showing how they are applied in a real world setting.
Author : Richard H. Leftwich,Ansel Miree Sharp
Publisher : Dallas : Business Publications ; Georgetown, Ont., : Irwin-Dorsey
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0256020825
Author : Wendy A. Stock
Publisher : Wiley Global Education
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118475980
Stock's Social Issues and Economic Thinking presents a realistic picture of current economic thought through an understanding of theory and the application of issues. It provides concepts in economics and how they relate to real issues in life. It delves into economics by looking at Crime, Labor Markets, Drug Use, Population etc, using the "tools" of economics.
Author : Diane Coyle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400873630
How GDP came to rule our lives—and why it needs to change Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece’s chief statistician charged with treason in 2013 for apparently doing nothing more than trying to accurately report the size of his country’s economy? The answers to all these questions lie in the way we define and measure national economies around the world: Gross Domestic Product. This entertaining and informative book tells the story of GDP, making sense of a statistic that appears constantly in the news, business, and politics, and that seems to rule our lives—but that hardly anyone actually understands. Diane Coyle traces the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors through its invention in the 1940s and its postwar golden age, and then through the Great Crash up to today. The reader learns why this standard measure of the size of a country’s economy was invented, how it has changed over the decades, and what its strengths and weaknesses are. The book explains why even small changes in GDP can decide elections, influence major political decisions, and determine whether countries can keep borrowing or be thrown into recession. The book ends by making the case that GDP was a good measure for the twentieth century but is increasingly inappropriate for a twenty-first-century economy driven by innovation, services, and intangible goods.
Author : Nan Dirk de Graaf,Dingeman Wiertz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351063449
Corruption, crime, economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, financial crises, environmental degradation, population ageing, gender inequality, large-scale migration... This book tackles many of the most pressing problems facing societies today. The authors demonstrate that similar social mechanisms lie behind many of these seemingly disparate problems. Indeed, many societal problems can be traced back to behaviours that are perfectly rational and often well-intended from an individual perspective. Yet, taken together these behaviours can – paradoxically – give rise to unintended and undesirable outcomes at the society level. In addition to addressing the causes of societal problems, the book explains why some problems rank higher on the public agenda than others. Moreover, it is shown how government intervention may sometimes provide a cure, yet other times exacerbate existing problems or create new problems of its own. This book includes an extensive amount of data on trends and geographic variation in the prevalence of different problems, as well as telling examples – both recent and historical – from a variety of countries to support its key arguments. Employing a bold multidisciplinary approach, the authors draw on insights from across the social sciences, including sociology, economics, anthropology, criminology, and psychology. Throughout the book, students are introduced to analytical concepts such as free-riding, herding behaviour, principal-agent relations and moral hazard. These concepts are essential tools for better understanding the roots of many societal problems that regularly make headlines in the news. This improved understanding will, in turn, be critical for ultimately finding solutions to these problems.
Author : Tim B. Thornton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317392095
The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time. A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which many of its other failings flow, is its lack of plurality. By a lack of plurality it is meant that contemporary economics lacks diversity in its methods, theories, epistemology and methodology. It is also meant that economics has become far less interdisciplinary. From Economics to Political Economy offers an explanation as to why economics has become so determinedly non-pluralistic, and also gives considerable attention to exploring and evaluating promising strategies for reform. These strategies include developing a pluralist economics under the label of ‘political economy’ within other social science departments (such as departments of politics). Along the way the reader will learn about the worldwide student movement seeking greater pluralism in economics, encounter some dramatic case studies in intellectual suppression, gain a fuller sense of the nature of contemporary economics and explore the relationship between economics and other social sciences. This book is of interest to any social scientist, particularly those with interests in economics and politics.
Author : Julian Le Grand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:19795381
Author : Alan Grant
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0133023036
NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyEconLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyEconLab search for 0134098374 / 9780134098371 Economic Analysis of Social Issues Plus MyEconLab with Pearson eText (1-Semester Access) -- Access Card Package, 1/e Package consists of: 0133023036 / 9780133023039 Economic Analysis of Social Issues, 1e 0134088603 / 9780134088600 MyEconLab with Pearson eText (1-Semester Access) -- Access Card MyEconLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Introductory one-semester course for freshman or sophomore non-majors without a background in economics. Real-world data analysis, games, and economic experiments for socially engaged readers Economic Analysis of Social Issues provides readers with a modern analytical approach to economics based on the tools of game theory. Readers who are passionate about contemporary social problems are given an analytical framework to discuss problems like pollution, health care, and the depletion of natural resources. Using fun, simple tools of game theory, readers discover that ultimately, these problems have similar origins. Readers will leave the course with a solid grasp of strategic behavior and understand how such behavior, exercised in the pursuit of individual incentives, can lead to poor collective outcomes. A user-friendly, conversational writing style infused with analytical rigor makes the text approachable and easy to read. Economic experiments and games not found in any other text about the subject, along with real-time data analysis exercises allow readers to learn by doing. This approach teaches readers to analyze social problems, rather than memorize facts that will soon become dated or irrelevant. Also available with MyEconLab(R) MyEconLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. MyEconLab allows you to engage your students in the course material before, during, and after class with a variety of activities and assessments.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:966022108
Author : Victor George,Robert M. Page
Publisher : Polity
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745629520
Suggesting ways in which global social problems could be dealt with through global social policy, this work provides an introduction to a wide range of social problems and their relation to the global era, such as AIDS, poverty and racism.
Author : James E Meade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136877452
First published in 1961, this reissue examines the contemporary economic problems of Mauritius alongside those social problems which have a bearing on economic development. As a small and isolated economy, marked by a very rapid rate of contemporary population growth, by an extreme concentration on a single product, and by a great diversity of racial, religious and linguistic groups within the population, Mauritius is a representative microcosm of the economic problems of a large part of the developing world. The book considers the impact of a lower birth rate, emigration and economic development upon the economy of Mauritius, examining in detail the labour market, the prospects for agricultural and industrial development, the financial system and the education system.
Author : John Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351497053
Economics both describes the way economic forces work and studies the effi ciency, or ineffi ciency, that results. These two aspects of economics have probably never been wholly separated, and it is debatable how far it is possible or desirable to separate them. The question will ultimately be answered by evaluating these different theoretical methods in terms of the results they deliver. The theory of economic effi ciency uniquely incorporates problem of ideals of good conduct and welfare; in short, of morals and ethics. Preface to Social Economics presents thumbnail sketches describing the growth of our awareness of social problems over the past century. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the sciences, both natural and social, made us aware of many factors governing our behavior. With the discovery of controllable external social causes, the responsibility for problems (and change) shifted from the individual to the group. Studies of industrial accidents are an example. When it was learned that the number of injuries per hour increases with the length of the working day and with the absence of mechanical safeguards, it led to a demand for shorter hours, safety laws, and compulsory accident insurance. Similarly, as we begin to understand the connection between the rate of interest with booms in building, unemployment ceases to be a matter of individual responsibility and becomes a problem for business and society. This classic book, initially published in 1936, illumines a growing knowledge of controllable causes of social evils. John Maurice Clark was a long-time professor of economics at Columbia University. The editors of this volume Moses Abramovitz and Eli Ginzberg were both students of Clark, and prepared this volume under his direct supervision.
Author : Corey Dolgon,Chris Baker
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483389325
“p>"This book empowers the powerless and gives sociologists and their students a new vantage point for understanding." —Judith Blau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach, authors Corey Dolgon and Chris Baker integrate an innovative case study approach into a comprehensive introduction that helps students understand how they can address social problems in their communities by applying basic theories and concepts. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award
