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How do humans make choices, both when facing nature and when interacting with one another? Experimental Economics Volume I seeks to answer these questions by examining individual's choices in strategic settings and predicting choices based on experimental methodology.
How do applications affect behavior? Experimental Economics Volume II seeks to answer these questions by examining the auction mechanism, imperfect competition and incentives to understand financial crises, political preferences and elections, and more.
How do humans make choices, both when facing nature and when interacting with one another? Experimental Economics Volume I seeks to answer these questions by examining individual's choices in strategic settings and predicting choices based on experimental methodology.
Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child. For most of the world, critical medications that treat these deadly diseases are scarce, costly, and growing obsolete, as access to first-line drugs remains out of reach and resistance rates rise. Rather than focusing research and development on creating affordable medicines for these deadly global diseases, pharmaceutical companies instead invest in commercially lucrative products for more affluent customers. Nicole Hassoun argues that everyone has a human right to health and to access to essential medicines, and she proposes th...
This publication brings new research in the field of demographic economics studies, the economics of labour, including the supply and demand of labour, decisions of workers/employers, and labour market problems (i.e. unemployment and unions).
Behavioral correlates of hormones, emphasized by psychologists, have captured the attention of economists in the past years. Behavioral economists, in particular, have investigated the possible roles of hormones on economic decision making and behavior as well as social preferences and cognitive abilities. Testosterone, oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin and stress hormones are the foremost studied ones in economic contexts. Yet, the results are mixed and the relationship between hormones and economic behavior is under-investigated to this date. Hormone levels are measurable and manipulatable (e.g. activate, de-activate, block). The fact that the behavioral economics also employs experimental met...
Leading researcher John F. Tomer presents an invigorating and concise introduction to behavioral economics that offers essential behavioral theories, perspectives, trends and developments within this ever-evolving discipline.
This volume deals with a range of contemporary issues in Indian and other world economies, with a focus on economic theory and policy and their longstanding implications. It analyses and predicts the mechanisms that can come into play to determine the function of institutions and the impact of public policy.
한국 교회 여성들의 자유와 해방을 향한 갈망과 실천 종교성과 의식 변화를 추적함으로써 한국 교회의 현재와 미래를 본다. 교회탐구포럼에서 ‘한국 교회와 직분자’에 이어 두 번째로 다룬 주제는 ‘한국 교회와 여성’이다. 자칫 광범위한 주제일 수 있지만, 사회적?역사적 맥락에서 한국 교회 여성들의 역할과 자리를 되짚어보고, 그들의 탁월한 종교성 발현의 연원을 고찰함으로써 한국 교회가 보다 발전적으로 나아갈 길을 모색했다. 이에 대해 먼저 이덕주는 한국 교회사가로서 ‘자유’와 ‘해방’, ‘실천’을 화두로 ...