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Journal Article
Clusters and the new economics of competition.
PubMed
Economic geography in an era of global competition poses a paradox. In theory, location should no longer be a source of competitive advantage. Open global markets, rapid transportation, and high-speed communications should allow any company to source...
Competition (biology)Competitive advantageProsperityIncentiveProductivity
Difficult (12.3)
Journal Article
Essays in Positive Economics.
The Economic Journal
Journal Article Essays in Positive Economics Get access Essays in Positive Economics. By Milton Friedman. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press (London : Cambridge University Press), 1954. Pp. v + 328. 43s. 6d.) T. W. Hutchison T. W. Hutchison Londo...
Economic historyEconomicsMedia studiesPositive economicsLaw and economics
Difficult (12.5)
DOI: 10.2307/2228046
Book
Stone Age Economics
Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of...
Economic anthropologyStone AgeSociologyDistribution (mathematics)Social science
Very Difficult (18.1)
DOI: 10.4324/9780203037416
Journal Article
Handbook of Labor Economics
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique
This handbook comprises two volumes: 'Developments in research methods and their applications' (volume 4A) and 'New developments and research on labor markets' (volume 4B). The purpose is to examine what new tools and models economists can use to und...
EconomicsNeoclassical economicsLabour economics
Very Difficult (17.0)
DOI: 10.2307/135687
Book Chapter
The Economics of Information
Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems
Information economicsEconomicsComputer scienceNeoclassical economics
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-51565-1_86
Journal Article
Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy
Southern Economic Journal
What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government deficits, and the stance of monetary policy during the course of ...
PoliticsEconomicsInstitutional economicsPolitical scienceNeoclassical economics
Difficult (13.5)
DOI: 10.2307/1061733
Journal Article
Psychology and Economics
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
: Because psychology systematically explores human judgment, behavior, and well-being, it can teach us important facts about how humans differ from traditional economic assumptions. In this essay I discuss a selection of psychological findings releva...
George (robot)Bounded rationalitySociologyArt historyArt
Very Difficult (15.9)
Book Chapter
Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics
Princeton University Press eBooks
People like to help those who are helping them and to hurt those who are hurting them. Outcomes rejecting such motivations are called fairness equilibria. Outcomes are mutual-max when each person maximizes the other's material payoffs, and mutual-min...
Game theoryMathematical economicsEconomicsNeoclassical economicsPositive economics
Difficult (11.3)
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvcm4j8j.15
Book
Handbook of The Economics of Education
Handbook of the economics of education
Economics educationMathematics educationEconomicsSociologyLibrary science
DOI: 10.1016/c2009-0-19772-6
Journal Article
The journal of financial economics
Journal of Financial Economics
Data for the 516 papers published in volumes 1–30 of the Journal of Financial Economics in the period 1974–91 are analyzed. 477 authors from 136 institutions contributed papers, and these papers received 16,231 citations according to the Social Scien...
CitationIndex (typography)EconomicsPolitical scienceLaw
Very Difficult (15.3)
DOI: 10.1016/0304-405x(93)90012-z
Journal Article
The law and economics of self-dealing
Journal of Financial Economics
ExpropriationShareholderIndex (typography)EnforcementDatabase transaction
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.02.007
Book Chapter
UNCERTAINTY AND THE WELFARE ECONOMICS OF MEDICAL CARE
This chapter focuses on the way in which the operation of the medical-care industry and the efficacy with which it satisfies the needs of society differ from a norm. The term norm that the economist usually uses for the purposes of such comparisons i...
EconomicsWelfarePublic economicsHealth economicsMedical care
Very Difficult (15.0)
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv11sn34h.6
Book Chapter
The Economics of Climate Change
Oxford University Press eBooks
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are externalities and represent the biggest market failure the world has seen. We all produce emissions, people around the world are already suffering from past emissions, and current emissions will have potentially cat...
ExternalityGreenhouse gasClimate changeMarket failureConsumption (sociology)
Moderate (10.9)
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195399622.003.
Journal Article
Essays in Positive Economics
Southern Economic Journal
EconomicsNeoclassical economicsPositive economics
DOI: 10.2307/1053873
Journal Article
The Economics of Education
Southern Economic Journal
The main aim of the book is to present a comprehensive survey of the economics of education from an international perspective. This revised volume includes new chapters on educational costs and benefits, teacher's salaries and educational finance.
Economics educationEconomicsMathematics educationPsychologyEconomic growth
Very Difficult (14.6)
DOI: 10.2307/1057569
Journal Article
Digital Economics
Journal of Economic Literature
Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data. Research on digital economics examines whether and how digital technology changes economic activi...
Cost reductionReplication (statistics)Economic costRepresentation (politics)Computation
Very Difficult (14.6)
DOI: 10.1257/jel.20171452
Review
Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum
Ecology Letters
Wood performs several essential functions in plants, including mechanically supporting aboveground tissue, storing water and other resources, and transporting sap. Woody tissues are likely to face physiological, structural and defensive trade-offs. H...
Functional ecologyEcologyBiologyBiogeochemistryEcosystem
Very Difficult (14.6)
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01285
Journal Article
Fairness and the Assumptions of Economics
The Journal of Business
Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch, Richard H. Thaler, Fairness and the Assumptions of Economics, The Journal of Business, Vol. 59, No. 4, Part 2: The Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory (Oct., 1986), pp. S285-S300
EconomicsPositive economicsNeoclassical economicsMathematical economicsPublic economics
Easy (7.9)
DOI: 10.1086/296367
Book Chapter
The New Institutional Economics
Cambridge University Press eBooks
It is commonly said, and it may be true, that the New Institutional Economics started with my article, “The Nature of the Firm” (1937) with its explicit introduction of transaction costs into economic analysis. But it needs to be remembered that the ...
Transaction costInstitutional economicsNew institutional economicsSchools of economic thoughtPositive economics
Difficult (11.9)
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511613807.002
Journal Article
Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
This article discusses the equilibrium in competitive insurance markets. Analyzes competitive markets in which the characteristics of the commodities exchange are not fully known to at least one of the parties to the transaction. It also determines t...
RothschildImperfectEconomicsPerfect informationInformation economics
Very Difficult (14.0)
DOI: 10.2307/1885326