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This book is the outcome of a workshop at Michigan State University on the career of A. Allan Schmid offering a collection of original essays that explore several approaches to understanding the impact of alternative legal-economic institutions.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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A comprehensive four-volume resource that explains more than 800 topics within the foundations of economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and global economics, all presented in an easy-to-read format. As the global economy becomes increasingly complex, interconnected, and therefore relevant to each individual, in every country, it becomes more important to be economically literate—to gain an understanding of how things work beyond the microcosm of the economic needs of a single individual or family unit. This expansive reference set serves to establish basic economic literacy of students and researchers, providing more than 800 objective and factually driven entries on all the major the...
The first and only encyclopedia to focus on the economic and financial behaviors of consumers, investors, and organizations, including an exploration of how people make good—and bad—economic decisions. Traditional economic theories speculate how and when people should spend money. But consumers don't always behave as expected and often adopt strategies that might appear unorthodox yet are, at times, more effective than the rule prescribed by conventional wisdom. This groundbreaking text examines the ways in which people make financial decisions, whether it is because they are smart but atypical in their choices ... or just irrational decision makers. A leading authority on behavioral eco...
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Die Dissertation zur politischen Macht von transnationalen Unternehmen entwickelt eine neue mikroökonomische Machttheorie. Mit einer politökonomischen Interpretation des Capability-Ansatzes von Amartya Sen entsteht ein Modell, um die politische Macht von transnationalen Unternehmen auf internationale Organisationen zu erfassen, wobei auf die soziologische Kapitaltheorie von Pierre Bourdieu zurückgegriffen wird. Macht wird als Reduktion von Handlungsmöglichkeit definiert und mathematisch mit Machtressourcen und Machtinstrumente abgeleitet. Die politische Macht transnationaler Unternehmen wurde durch einen Empirieüberblick an zahlreichen Einzelfällen dokumentiert. Die volkswirtschaftlich...