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Author : John Maurice Clark
Publisher : New York : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Economic Institutions and Human Welfare written by John Maurice Clark and published by New York : Knopf. This book was released on 1957 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Economic institutions and human welfare New York, Knopf, 1957 written by John Maurice Clark and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Economic institutions and human welfare written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Boskin
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 148326100X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Economics and Human Welfare written by Michael J. Boskin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Theory, Econometrics, and Mathematical Economics: Economics and Human Welfare: Essays in Honor of Tibor Scitovsky focuses on the principles, influence, and contributions of Tibor Scitovsky on economics. The selection first elaborates on welfare economics and microeconomic theory, property rights doctrine and demand revelation under incomplete information, and experiments in the pricing of theater tickets. Discussions focus on the effect on audience composition, volume, and revenues, failure of bargaining under privacy, growing disenchantment with economic growth, and bargaining as a game of incomplete information. The text then takes a look at economics and the transformation of the idea of progress and changes in the size distribution of income. The text ponders on welfare criteria, distribution, and cost- benefit analysis; position of ethics in the theory of production; and rationing and price as methods of restricting demand for specific products. Topics include excise taxation with revenue distributed like rations; private and social returns to morality; effect of changes in the cost of organization and communication; and logical and historical foundation of the theory of the welfare state. The selection is highly recommended for economists and researchers interested in pursuing studies on the relationship of economics and human welfare.
Author : Michael Albert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887054
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics written by Michael Albert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious work presents a critique of traditional welfare theory and proposes a new approach to it. Radical economists Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert argue that an improved theory of social welfare can consolidate and extend recent advances in microeconomic theory, and generate exciting new results as well. The authors show that once the traditional "welfare paradigm" is appropriately modified, a revitalized welfare theory can clarify the relationship between individual and social rationalitya task that continues to be of interest to mainstream and nonmainstream economists alike. Hahnel and Albert show how recent work in the theory of the labor process, externalities, public goods, and endogenous preferences can advance research in welfare theory. In a series of important theorems, the authors extend the concept of Pareto optimality to dynamic contexts with changing preferences and thus highlight the importance of institutional bias. This discussion provides the basis for further analysis of the properties and consequences of private and public enterprise and of markets and central planning. Not surprisingly, Hahnel and Albert reach a number of conclusions at odds with conventional wisdom. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Bruno S. Frey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400829267
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Happiness and Economics written by Bruno S. Frey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics--and between happiness and democracy. Two respected economists, Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, integrate insights and findings from psychology, where attempts to measure quality of life are well-documented, as well as from sociology and political science. They demonstrate how micro- and macro-economic conditions in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness. The research is centered on Switzerland, whose varying degrees of direct democracy from one canton to another, all within a single economy, allow for political effects to be isolated from economic effects. Not surprisingly, the authors confirm that unemployment and inflation nurture unhappiness. Their most striking revelation, however, is that the more developed the democratic institutions and the degree of local autonomy, the more satisfied people are with their lives. While such factors as rising income increase personal happiness only minimally, institutions that facilitate more individual involvement in politics (such as referendums) have a substantial effect. For countries such as the United States, where disillusionment with politics seems to be on the rise, such findings are especially significant. By applying econometrics to a real-world issue of general concern and yielding surprising results, Happiness and Economics promises to spark healthy debate over a wide range of the social sciences.
Author : National Bureau of Economic Research
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400879760
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity written by National Bureau of Economic Research and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers here range from description and analysis of how our political economy allocates its inventive effort, to studies of the decision making process in specific industrial laboratories. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Carles Boix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107089433
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Political Order and Inequality written by Carles Boix and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. This book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation.
Author : Robert Leonard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book To Advance Human Welfare! written by Robert Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between approximately 1950 and 1968, the Ford Foundation committed itself to funding research in economics at universities and other institutions both in the United States and abroad. The Foundation designed a specific program for this purpose: Economic Development and Administration (EDA). Intending to encourage the economics discipline to solve practical problems related to economic policy, EDA over this period gave support amounting to roughly $95 million. The first section of this paper traces the development of EDA in the context of the broader aims of the Foundation. The interaction between the Foundation and the "economics community" is examined, highlighting the various interests of each group and the way in which these were reconciled when in conflict. The ultimate demise of the program is related to the changing political and social environment of the late 1960's and a largely negative assessment, by the Ford Foundation, of the ability of economics to solve emerging social problems. The paper's second section provides some reflections on the relationship between the economics profession and foundations in a more general sense, concluding that extensive support of economics, of the magnitude afforded in the above period, is unlikely to be repeated."
Author : Demetrius S. Iatridis
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Social Policy written by Demetrius S. Iatridis and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines key questions facing American society: Who is responsible for determining the quality of life or for providing solutions? Who should bear the costs and benefits of societal development? What justifies government action or inaction?
Author : Ernest R. Diedrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Human Welfare and Econocentrism written by Ernest R. Diedrich and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heinz Kohler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Economic Systems and Human Welfare written by Heinz Kohler and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Leeson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400829860
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Invisible Hook written by Peter Leeson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flags of Skull & Bones? Why did they create a "pirate code"? Were pirates really ferocious madmen? And what made them so successful? The Invisible Hook uses economics to examine these and other infamous aspects of piracy. Leeson argues that the pirate customs we know and love resulted from pirates responding rationally to prevailing economic conditions in the pursuit of profits. The Invisible Hook looks at legendary pirate captains like Blackbeard, Black Bart Roberts, and Calico Jack Rackam, and shows how pirates' search for plunder led them to pioneer remarkable and forward-thinking practices. Pirates understood the advantages of constitutional democracy--a model they adopted more than fifty years before the United States did so. Pirates also initiated an early system of workers' compensation, regulated drinking and smoking, and in some cases practiced racial tolerance and equality. Leeson contends that pirates exemplified the virtues of vice--their self-seeking interests generated socially desirable effects and their greedy criminality secured social order. Pirates proved that anarchy could be organized. Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world.
Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139480456
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Human Capital and Institutions written by David Eltis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic development. The issues they address range from nutrition in pre-modern societies to twentieth-century advances in medical care; from the social institutions that provided temporary relief to workers in the middle and lower ranges of the wage scale to the factors that affected the performance of those who reached the pinnacle in business and art; and from political systems that stifled the advance of literacy to those that promoted public and higher education. Just as human capital has been a key to economic growth, so has the emergence of appropriate institutions been a key to the growth of human capital.
Author : Kenneth E. Boulding
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791497234
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (972 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Human Betterment written by Kenneth E. Boulding and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Economics of Human Betterment is a comparative look at economic change and social progress. It is about betterment—a change or process—and about institutions and countries as they evolve. It is about human betterment—and therefore concerned with perceived welfare and the identification of basic human needs. And it is about economics, but about means as means, not means as ends. This book asks in what way productive activities (whether free market or planned, whether in developed or in developing countries) influence and reflect basic human values. The essays contained herein represent some of the best up-to-date accounts available on such topics as the welfare state in Holland or the relationship between growth and betterment in Singapore. Other essays take in the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and the planned economy of the Soviet Union. The contributors are all well-known experts in their own field. And their essays reveal a common conviction that economics is about people first, and about things only in so far as they contribute to human betterment.
Author : Oliver E. Williamson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 068486374X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Economic Intstitutions of Capitalism written by Oliver E. Williamson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited sequel to the modem classic "Markets and Hierarchies" develops and extends Williamson's innovative use of transaction cost economics as an approach to studying economic organization by applying it to work and labor as well as the corporation itself. In addition, Williamson explores its growing implications for public policy, including its potential influence on antitrust and merger guidelines, labor policy, and SEC and public utility regulations.
Author : I. Gough
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289096
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies written by I. Gough and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the needs of capital ever be reconciled with the needs of people? To what extent can social policies bridge the gap between social rights and human welfare, and economic competitiveness in a global world? Building on his previous writings on political economy and human need, Ian Gough throws new light on these perennial questions in a series of penetrating and original essays. The conclusion is upbeat: social policy still has the potential to narrow (though never close) the gap between the drive of capital and the universal needs of people.
