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Economics Uncut

Author : Simon W. Bowmaker
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184542798X
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Economics Uncut written by Simon W. Bowmaker and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death and Misadventure, edited by Simon Bowmaker, contains several delightful chapters on topics central to economics and the family. Although the book s implicit thesis is to dazzle with the catholicity of economics, the chapters on marriage and divorce, reproduction, suicide, and abortion are lively introductions to these family topics, and other chapters make delightful reading on their own. Darius Conger, Economics and the American Family: A Review of Recent Literature , Choice This volume collects a wide array of economic explanations of social issues that are often thought to be beyond the realm of economic explanation. . . . This work will be valuable reading for general readers and undergraduate students. Graduate students in social sciences other than economics will find accessible economic explanations of many issues in their fields. Highly recommended. R.B. Emmett, Choice Expertly compiled and deftly edited by Simon W. Bowmaker Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death and Misadventure features informed and informative essays and seminal articles by eighteen accomplished economists on a variety of economic issues. . . A superbly organized and presented compendium of seminal studies and commentaries adhering to high academic standards of methodology and reporting, Economics Uncut is an important and strongly recommended addition to academic library Economic Studies reference collection, as well as being quite accessible to the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the economic implications and impacts with respect to the social issues of the present day. Library Bookwatch/Internet Bookwatch The book s variety of subject matter, combined with its innovative yet academic approach, makes it both entertaining as well as thought-provoking. Emma Winberg, Economic Affairs Economics Uncut presents itself as a complete guide to Life, Death and Misadventure . Whatever the specific chapter topic, from pornography to crime, from suicide to assisted reproduction, cost benefit analyses abound, demand and supply relations are discussed in an attempt to rationalize consumer preferences, choice and price levels and, thus, complex relationships are neatly reduced to mathematical equations, with tables and graphs being plentiful. Werner Bonefeld, Journal of Contemporary European Studies If you thought you could hide your secrets from the prying eyes of economists, think again. From sex to drugs to gambling to crime, this book will show you how the tools of economics can be used to understand just about any human behavior. This book will assuredly be the unofficial economist s guide to vice for the foreseeable future. Steven Levitt, University of Chicago and author of Freakonomics In this insightful and entertaining book, Simon Bowmaker introduces readers to the fascinating side of modern economics that applies economic analysis to a wide range of social issues from illegal drugs to religion and everything in between. In this form, economics is anything but the dismal science. This is a fun and enlightening book that shows readers what many economists often forget that economics is a powerful tool for understanding the world around them. Kevin M. Murphy, University of Chicago, US Economics is generally associated with the financial pages of newspapers apart from front page discussion of major topics such as inflation, budget deficits, or unemployment. However, the topics discussed in many of the other pages of a typical newspaper, such as crime, divorce, or sport, are also appropriate for economic analysis. Economics is concerned with decisions and many important topics in today s society involve taking drugs or committing a crime or getting a divorce, for example, and so can be examined from an economic point of view. Many of these areas can be considered from different directions: legal, medical, political, religious, sociological, or psychological, for

Sports Economics Uncut

Author : Brian Goff
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788118731
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Sports Economics Uncut written by Brian Goff and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sport has the power to change the world.” Sports Economics Uncut expresses this insight from Nelson Mandela, exploring sports as a fascinating mirror of the world and a powerful agent of change. In it, Brian Goff covers subjects ranging from the ebb and flow of racial discrimination, to inequality, law enforcement, managers and risky decisions, club membership, and politics. Much more than merely a review or synthesis, this book extends existing perspectives and explores provocative questions such as: how systematic is racial bias in pro sports today? Is all racial segregation in sports due to racial bias? How much are college athletes really worth, and is league parity really optimal?

Global Experience Industries

Author : Jens Christensen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771245812
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Global Experience Industries written by Jens Christensen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience economy is a fourth economic field different from commodities, goods and services. Experiences are an economic value added to a product or identical with the product. When you buy an experience, you pay to spend time enjoying a series of memorable events that a company stages to engage the customer in a personal way. The experience dimension has moved into a predominant place since the 1990s, fueled by an expanding global and digital economy. In developed countries, people get richer and more individualized and having met all basic materiel needs, they focus increasingly on personal development and self realization. Demand for experience-based products increases, such as tourism and sports as well as film, music and other contents of media and interactive technologies. Furthermore, the demand for experience values is extended to include any product and dimension of modern societies, such as the design of houses, furniture, clothes, cars, computers, etc. This is not a completely new story. Commercial entertainment and design has been around for a century or so. And in addition, universal values of love, sex, belief, family and the meaning of life have always been vital to human beings. What is new is the fact that capitalism is invading more and more fields of experiences connected with emotions and the extension of life proportions. In all developed countries and increasingly on a global scale, a series of expanding industries have emerged to supply the market with experience-oriented goods. In this book, the business development of markets and industries is covered from tourism, to media and entertainment, and from design to sex, including leading companies and trends in all industries involved.

Personnel Economics in Sports

Author : Neil Longley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786430916
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Personnel Economics in Sports written by Neil Longley and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines personnel economics within the context of the professional sport industry. Sport is an effective industry in which to empirically test theories of personnel economics, primarily because the employer-employee relationship in sport is much more visible and transparent than in almost any other industry. Researchers benefit from having data on a host of variables pertaining to individual employees (i.e. players), such as their age, race, national origin, and experience. Researchers also have data on each employee's performance, on their salary, and on who their co-workers (teammates) and managers (coaches) are. The chapters are organized around the core functional areas of personnel economics and cover all aspects of the employment relationship in sport - from recruiting and selection, to pay and performance, to work team design. Each chapter contains a thorough literature review that provides the reader with a sense of the breadth and depth of the work being done in the area, and with a sense as to how the literature can move forward, both in a sport and non-sport context. The book is suitable for an advanced undergraduate course right through to a PhD-level field-course in both management and economics. Academic researchers in the fields of sports economics, personnel economics, human resource management, strategic management and sport management will also find the book of interest.

Historical Perspectives on Sports Economics

Author : John K. Wilson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178897784X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Historical Perspectives on Sports Economics written by John K. Wilson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sports sector, apart from being of economic significance in itself, is clearly one that many citizens share a great interest in. It is not mere results, but aspects such as history, statistics, interest in labour markets and finances that often spark people’s interest. Historical Perspectives on Sports Economics explores a variety of topics including mega-event analysis, sports governance, anthropometrics, gambling, industrial organisation, infrastructure development and racial issues.

Vanity Economics

Author : C. Simon Fan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783472316
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Vanity Economics written by C. Simon Fan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an accessible and sometimes controversial economic exploration of numerous issues surrounding sex, marriage and family. It analyses the role of Švanity�, defined as social status and self-esteem, in social and economic behaviours. &a

The Economics of Hate

Author : Samuel Cameron
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848445970
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Hate written by Samuel Cameron and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very timely treatment of one of mankind s most important topics. Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, US This important and highly original book explores the application of economics to the subject of hate via such diverse topics as war, terrorism, road rage, witchcraft mania, marriage and divorce, and bullying and harassment. As yet there is no overall economic approach to hate; Samuel Cameron pioneers this work by using standard neo-classical economics concepts of the utility-maximizing consumer and the entrepreneur. He examines emotions as a form of personal capital and hate as a form of negative social capital , and investigates the idea of a modular matrix of hatred as the appropriate means of examining the subject. The likely form and scope of future effects of hate on government policy are also discussed. Seeking to explore the dimensions of hate as a commodity from a wider economic perspective, this exceptional book will prove a fascinating read for those with an interest in the economic value of hatred in particular, and the economics of the unusual more generally.

The Economics of Sport and the Media

Author : Claude Jeanrenaud
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781958803
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Sport and the Media written by Claude Jeanrenaud and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '. . . this is a fascinating and informative volume and the bulk of it is accessible to readers without an economics background. It will be of interest to students of sport and the media and those interested in the commercialisation of leisure in general.' - A.J. Veal, Leisure Studies

An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport

Author : Wladimir Andreff
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030284565
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport by : Wladimir Andreff

Download or read book An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport written by Wladimir Andreff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot provides a comprehensive overview of economic aspects to criminal behaviour in sport. It addresses manipulations, dysfunctions, distortions and crimes triggered by economic interests or pure greed in sports, and challenges the governance of this important industry. Topics covered include hazing, sabotage, refereeing bias, technological manipulations, tanking, bad management, financial doping, ticket touting, circumventing the law through sport, discrimination and child labour. The book is divided into three volumes. Volume I covers those economic manipulations that breach sports rules, sporting integrity, violate managerial rules and the law, and infringe human rights in sport. It builds up a typology of sport manipulations which makes sense from an economic standpoint, not only from a sporting or judicial perspective. Volumes II and III (available separately) focus on Corruption and Economic Crime in Sport, respectively. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and journalists in sports science, sports management and sports economics.

The Economy of Roman Religion

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192883534
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Economy of Roman Religion written by Andrew Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman religion and the economy has largely been ignored in work on the Roman economy, but this volume explores the many complex ways in which economic and religious thinking and activities were interwoven, from individuals to institutions. The broad geographic and chronological scope of the volume engages with a notable variety of evidence: epigraphic, archaeological, historical, papyrological, and zooarchaeological. In addition to providing case studies that draw from the rich archaeological, documentary, and epigraphic evidence, the volume also explores the different and sometimes divergent pictures offered by these sources (from discrepancies in the cost of religious buildings, to the tensions between piety and ostentatious donation). The edited collection thus bridges economic, social, and religious themes. The volume provides a view of a society in which religion had a central role in economic activity on an institutional to individual scale. The volume allows an evaluation of impact of that activity from both financial and social viewpoints, providing a new perspective on Roman religion - a perspective to which a wide range of archaeological and documentary evidence, from animal bone to coins and building costs, has contributed. As a result, this volume not only provides new information on the economy of Roman religion: it also proposes new ways of looking at existing bodies of evidence.

White Collar Crime

Author : Edwin H. Sutherland
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300033184
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Collar Crime written by Edwin H. Sutherland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents evidence to support a thesis that there is much crime in the upper socio-economic classes and only the administrative procedures, used to deal with it, separate it from other animal behavior.

Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy

Author : Werner Bonefeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144115227X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy by : Werner Bonefeld

Download or read book Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy written by Werner Bonefeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of political economy is a thoroughly subversive business. It rejects the appearance of economic reality as a natural thing, argues that economy has not independent existence, expounds economy as political economy, and rejects as conformist rebellion those anti-capitalist perspectives that derive their rationality from the existing conceptuality of society. Subversion focuses on human conditions. Its critical subject is society unaware of itself. This book develops Marx's critique of political economy as negative theory of society. It does not conform to the patterns of the world and demands that society rids itself of all the muck of ages and founds itself anew.

Law and Markets

Author : A. Robson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230354947
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Law and Markets written by A. Robson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Markets examines the interaction between legal rules, market forces and prices. It emphasises the economic effects of legal rules on individual incentives in both market and non-market settings, and draws on cases and materials from a wide variety of legal jurisdictions to illustrate economic principles.

Outcome Uncertainty in Sporting Events

Author : Plácido Rodríguez
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839102179
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Outcome Uncertainty in Sporting Events written by Plácido Rodríguez and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines competitive balance and outcome uncertainty from multiple perspectives. Chapters address the topic in different sports in a range of countries, to help to understand its significance. It provides readers with important new insights into previously unexplored dimensions as well as a rich context for better understanding why fans, teams, and leagues value competitive balance. The book challenges readers to think about the topic in a broad and rigorous way, and in some cases to question widely held beliefs about how outcome uncertainty motivates competitive balance, and how sports fans actually view competitive balance.

Professional Team Sports and the Soft Budget Constraint

Author : Storm, Rasmus K.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800375999
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Professional Team Sports and the Soft Budget Constraint written by Storm, Rasmus K. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring why professional team sport clubs are almost always able to survive despite financial mismanagement, inflated player salaries and persistent deficits, this book provides new evidence on how to explain this phenomenon. It looks at the context in which many clubs operate – the soft budget constraint – and how the clubs in this respect resemble state-owned enterprises in socialist countries or big banks in financial crises.

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste

Author : Philip Mirowski
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781683026
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste written by Philip Mirowski and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. Yet in the harsh light of a new day, attacks against government intervention and the global drive for austerity are as strong as ever. Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste is the definitive account of the wreckage of what passes for economic thought, and how neoliberal ideas were used to solve the very crisis they had created. Now updated with a new afterword, Philip Mirowski’s sharp and witty work provides a roadmap for those looking to escape today’s misguided economic dogma.

Elements of a Philosophy of Management and Organization

Author : Peter Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642111408
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Elements of a Philosophy of Management and Organization written by Peter Koslowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing as a form of human action has an inherent link with philosophy, which is also concerned with choosing the right action and the best way to lead our lives. Management theory and philosophy can join forces in epistemology (the philosophy of knowledge), ethics, and cultural theory. The epistemology of management concerns the question of how management can improve its ability to create knowledge about managing companies and about using management theory in the task of managing. Management ethics investigates the question of what the right management actions are. The cultural theory of management examines how corporate culture can increase the cooperation within the firm and how the cultural surplus value of products and brand management can increase the firm’s value creation in its products. This book introduces the readers to central approaches in this new field, which represents a synthesis of management and philosophical theory.