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21. Organization Theory and its Applications

    By Susheng Wang

    Organization theory is a fast-developing field of microeconomics. Organizational approaches are now used in a wide range of topics in business studies. They are based on information economics, contract theory, and mechanism design. This book introduces such organizational approaches and how to...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
22. Public Debt Sustainability in Developing Asia

    Edited by Benno Ferrarini, Raghbendra Jha, Arief Ramayandi

    Addressing the global financial crisis has required fiscal intervention on a substantial scale by governments around the world. The consequent buildup of public debt, in particular its sustainability, has moved to center stage in the policy debate. If the Asia and Pacific region is to continue to...

    Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
23. Topology of 2x2 Games

    By David Goforth, David Robinson

    Series: Routledge Advances in Game Theory

    Game theory has implications for all the social sciences and beyond. It now provides the theoretical basis for almost all teaching in economics, and 2x2 games provide the very basis of game theory. Here, Goforth and Robinson here have delivered a well-written and knowledgeable, 'periodic table' of...

    Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
24. Tiger Management

    Korean Companies on World Markets

    By Martin Hemmert

    Throughout the last several decades, Korean companies have entered the world markets in a wide range of manufacturing industries with great success. How did they achieve this exceptional performance? This book uncovers the secret of their performance through a comprehensive analysis of...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
25. Applied Health Economics

    2nd Edition

    By Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice, Teresa Bago d'Uva, Silvia Balia

    Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

    The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before. This second...

    Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
26. The Experiment in the History of Economics

    Edited by Philippe Fontaine, Robert Leonard

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    Throughout the history of economic ideas, it has often been asserted that experimentation is impossible, yet, in fact, history shows that the idea of ‘experimentation’ has always been important, and as such has been interpreted and put to use in many ways. Rich in historical detail, the essays in...

    Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
27. The Applied Law and Economics of Public Procurement

    Edited by Gustavo Piga, Steen Treumer

    Series: The Economics of Legal Relationships

    This book explores Public Procurement novelties and challenges in an interdisciplinary way. The process whereby the public sector awards contracts to companies for the supply of works, goods or services is a powerful instrument to ensure the achievement of new public goals as well as an efficient...

    Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
28. Behavioural Economics and Finance

    By Michelle Baddeley

    Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

    Standard models in economics and finance usually assume that people are rational, self-interested maximisers, effectively co-ordinated via the invisible hand of the price mechanism. Whilst these approaches produce tractable, simple models, they cannot fully capture the uncertainties and...

    Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
29. Regional Development through Ecological Business

    Unique Cases in Japanese Rural Regions

    By Makoto Hirano

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    Regional disparity is one of the current pressing social issues. Many countries lack basic infrastructures of establishing a new business or industrial cluster. The book argues that existing arguments which have mostly focused on macroscopic view of economy of society...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
30. Globalization from Below

    The World's Other Economy

    Edited by Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Carlos Alba Vega

    This book explores globalization as actually experienced by most of the world’s people, buying goods from street vendors brought by traders moving past borders and across continents under the radar of the law. The dimensions and practices of ‘globalization from below’ are depicted and analyzed in...

    Published July 29th 2012 by Routledge