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Eleanor Hadley was a woman ahead of her time. While working on a
Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, she was recruited by the U.S.
government for her knowledge of Japanese zaibatsu (business
combines) and subsequently became one of MacArthur's key advisors
during the Occupation. After completing her doctorate, she prepared
for a career in Washington until she learned she was being
blacklisted. Seventeen years passed before Hadley's name was
cleared; she returned to government service in 1967 and began a
distinguished career as a senior policy analyst with the U.S.
Tariff Commission and the General Accounting Office. Widely known
(and feared) by Japanese businessmen and government leaders as "the
trust-busting beauty," Hadley published Antitrust in Japan, a
seminal work on the impact of postwar deconcentration measures, in
1970. She received the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the
Japanese government in 1986. Hadley's personal story provides a
colorful backdrop to her substantive discussions of early postwar
policies, which were created to provide Japan with a more efficient
and competitive economy. As someone closely involved in formulating
U.S. economic policy toward Japan for nearly half a century,
Eleanor Hadley brings a unique perspective--as well as a
down-to-earth sense of humor--to the continuing challenge of
communicating across the Pacific.
The twenty-first century brought unique developments in science and
technology. Research surged as individuals sought to uncover hidden
knowledge, leading to the introduction of research evaluation to
ensure precise and fair research output and dissemination.
Scholarly Content and Its Evolution by Scientometric Indicators:
Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference source
that provides vital research on the application of research
evaluation, specifically through the lens of scientometrics. While
highlighting topics such as bibliometrics and the h-index, this
publication explores a full range of research indicators available
for the evaluation and assessment of scientific literature. This
book is ideally designed for scholars, professors, academicians,
researchers, and graduate-level students seeking current research
on metric science.
Waves of military technological changes have swept through the
Eurasian land mass since the dawn of civilization. Military
technological changes decisively shaped geopolitics and the
fortunes of states, empires and civilizations. In his book Jimmy
Teng claims that to understand the impacts of these military
technological changes is in fact to understand the causes behind
the following major historical puzzles or important facts: the
leading position of the Near East during the dawn of civilization;
the splendid achievements of Greece, India and China during the
axial era; the classical golden age of India under the Gupta
Empire; the Abbasid Golden Age of the Islamic world and the Sung
Puzzle of China during the medieval era; and the rise of the West
during the early modern and modern era.
This series, originally published between 1990 and 1994 arose out
of the increasing need for the international debate and
dissemination of on-going empirical and theoretical research
associated with rural areas in advanced societies. Rural areas,
then, as now, their residents and agencies, are facing rapid
social, economic and political change. Local, national and
international political forces have direct influence upon rural
areas, not only for those concerned with agriculture but also
regarding rural development initiatives, overall economic and
social policy and regional and fiscal arrangements. The volumes are
designed to appeal to a wide audience associated with international
comparative research. They provide reviews of research available at
the original time of publication, taking as their focus one major
theme per volume.
First volume on fundamentals of an Economy-Physics-Ecology
principles of modelling. Primary arithmetic logic with numbers,
units, logic, nature's complexities, humans' complications, Economy
of Information For the conceptions and design of crossed
information models Next volume to complete with networks,
statistics epistemology, etc. Fundamental for any adults, citizens,
high school or further studies under the revolution of information.
'In the study of decision-making by people in the world, the
laboratory, in surveys, or in all of the above, many scholars have
derided our decisions as irrational, uninformed, biased or
vulnerable to illusions, if not delusions, that steer us off-track.
You won't find that simplistic reduction in this book. You will
find plenty of cases of error, sometimes random, sometimes
systematic, and sometimes in the models that are alleged to specify
rational behaviour. You will also find penetrating analyses of
institutions and other social systems that have made us smart, or
smart enough to muddle through in an uncertain world.' From the
Foreword by Vernon L. Smith, Chapman University, US This Handbook
is a unique and original contribution of over thirty chapters on
behavioural economics. It examines and addresses an important
stream of research where the starting assumption is that
decision-makers are, for the most part, relatively smart or
rational. This particular approach is in contrast to a theme
running though much contemporary work in which individuals'
behaviour is deemed irrational, biased and error-prone, often due
to how the brain is hardwired. In the smart people or bounded
rationality approach, where errors or biases occur and when social
dilemmas arise, more often than not, improving the decision-making
environment can repair these problems without hijacking or
manipulating the preferences of individuals. The Handbook covers a
wide-range of themes from micro to macro, including economic
psychology, heuristics, fast and slow thinking, neuroeconomics,
experiments, the capabilities approach, institutional economics,
methodology, nudging, ethics and public policy. It argues that
neoclassical decision-making benchmarks are typically not the gold
standard for best practice. The expert contributions demonstrate
that decision-making capabilities and decision-making environments
can both be more effective and consistent than nudging in improving
welfare and utility, and in maximizing well-being. They also
demonstrate how learning, improved information, empowerment, voice
and preference play a vital role in determining smart
decision-making outcomes. This comprehensive and original Handbook
will appeal to academics in behavioural and experimental economics,
and economic psychology. Contributors include: M. Altman, C.L.
Anderson, G. Antonides, M. Augier, S. Austen, N. Berg, P. Biscaye,
P.J. Boettke, S. Bourgeois-Gironde, R.A. Candela, A. Cronholm, G.
Danese, G. Foster, R. Frantz, P. Frijters, K. Gangl, H. Gintis,
M.J.J. Handgraaf, B. Harrison, B. Hartl, A. Hopfensitz, S. James,
B. Kamleitner, E.L. Khalil, R. Kheirandish, D. Kilger, E. Kirchler,
F. Kutzner, D. Lester, A. Leung, E. McPhail, B. Meder, T. Mengay,
L. Mittone, S. Mousavi, H. Neth, A. Ortmann, M. Pingle, O. Powell,
O. Rosin, T.F. Roetheli, N. Sari, N. Shestakova, L. Spiliopoulos,
V. Tarko, S. Teraji, J.F. Tomer, J. van Beek, T. Vogel, B. Yang
Lester
McPherson captures the best and worst aspects of American
journalism since 1965. The press has evolved into a conglomeration
of entities, that today can be described as pervasive,
entertaining, and justifiably mistrusted. In some ways, today's
press offers the best journalism Americans have ever seen. In other
ways, the modern news media fall short of the ideals held by most
of those who care about journalism, and far short of the promise
they once seemed to offer in terms of helping create an enlightened
democracy. Neither a paean to the press nor an exercise in media
bashing, this book finds much to criticize and to praise about
recent American journalism, while illustrating that traditional
journalistic values have diminished in importance -- not just for
many of those who control the media, but also for the media
consumers who most need good journalism.
Chapters are devoted to various themes that include social
unrest, the influence of entertainment values, technological
shifts, media consolidation and corporatization, issues of content
versus context, new kinds of news media, and why the 1970s may have
been the high point of American journalism. Events and issues given
extra attention include the rise of television news (and later
CNN), the Civil Rights Movement and other race-related issues, the
Women's Movement, various forms of alternative journalism, wars in
Vietnam and Iraq, investigative journalism, the World Trade Center
attacks, the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, the 2000 and 2004
presidential campaigns and elections, civic journalism, and
journalism scandals.
This report, first published in 1985, written by a distinguished
group of legal and public policy experts, documents the growing
trade in hazardous industries and toxic products. Hazard export
threatens the health and environment of workers and ordinary
citizens the world over. It is carried out by transnational
corporations, in order to locate their most dangerous industrial
activities outside the US, in countries where regulatory controls
may be less strict. The issues represented here include
occupational safety, environmental protection, international
relations and problems of legal control. Attention is focused on
the political and economic impact of hazard export on the US,
Europe and developing countries, and the book's critical analysis
is addressed directly to the institutional level best suited to
constructive action. This title will be of interest to students of
business studies.
Equitable Access to High-Cost Pharmaceuticals seeks to aid the
development and implementation of equitable public health policies
by pharmaco-economics professionals, health economists, and
policymakers. With detailed country-by country analysis of policy
and regulation, the Work compares and contrasts national healthcare
systems to support researchers and practitioners identify optimal
healthcare policy solutions. The Work incorporates chapters on
global regulatory changes, health technology assessment guidelines,
and competitive effectiveness research recommendations from
international bodies such as the OECD or the EU. Novel policies
such as horizon scanning, managed-entry agreement and post-launch
monitoring are considered in detail. The Work also thoroughly
reviews novel pharmaceuticals with particular research interest,
including cancer drugs, orphan medicines, Hep C, and personalized
medicines.
This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the
perspective of economics. The approach here differs from those in
medical, psychiatric, epidemiological, and sociological studies of
suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance
of economic and institutional settings in the problem of suicide.
The authors argue that suicide imposes a tremendous economic cost
on contemporary society in a variety of ways, requiring the
government to develop an effective prevention strategy. An
empirical analysis using data from Japan and other developed
countries shows that natural disasters and economic crises increase
suicide rates, while liberal government policies favorable to the
poor can decrease them. Further, the types of effective prevention
strategies in the context of railway/subway suicides, celebrity
suicides, public awareness campaigns, and education using data
primarily from Japan are revealed. This book ultimately contributes
to an understanding of suicides and the development of
evidence-based policy proposals. The Japanese version of this book
won the 56th Nikkei Prize for Economics Books (Nikkei Keizai Tosho
Bunka Award) in 2013. Yasuyuki Sawada is Chief Economist of the
Asian Development Bank and Professor of Economics at The University
of Tokyo. Michiko Ueda is Associate Professor in the Faculty of
Political Science and Economics at Waseda University. Tetsuya
Matsubayashi is Associate Professor of Osaka School of
International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University.
This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider,
and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in
European health care from the postwar period to the present day.
Examining representative countries England, the Netherlands,
Germany, and Sweden, it documents the roles of providers and
legislatures in facilitating consumer involvement, and the varied
forms of patient input into hospital operations. These findings are
compared and contrasted against the intent and ideals behind
patient involvement to assess the effectiveness of implementation
policy, strengths and drawbacks of patient participation, and
patient satisfaction and outcomes. The book's conclusions identify
emerging forms of patient participation and predict the impact of
health policy on the future of European collective patient
involvement. Included in the coverage: * Patient involvement: who,
what for, and in what way? * The Netherlands: the legislative
process to collective patient involvement * England: formal means
of public involvement-a continuous story of discontinuity *
Germany: Joint Federal Committee-the "Little Legislator" * Sweden:
reasons for a late emergence of patient involvement * Lessons to be
learned from implementing patient involvement The Evolution and
Everyday Practice of Collective Patient Involvement in Europe will
interest and inspire scholars and researchers in diverse fields,
including social policy, sociology, political sciences, and nursing
studies, as well as patient organizations, policymakers, and
healthcare providers.
As part of its efforts to improve fertilizer use and efficiency in
West Africa, and following the recent adoption of the West African
fertilizer recommendation action plan (RAP) by ECOWAS, this volume
focuses on IFDC's technical lead with key partner institutions and
experts to build on previous and current fertilizer recommendations
for various crops and countries in West Africa for wider uptake by
public policy makers and fertilizer industry actors.
Over 40 years of experience to help individuals create, sell, and
become rich physically, mentally, spiritually, and financially.It
will cover the four different kinds of buyers there are and how to
ask the right questions, so you will get the responses you want. It
will show you how you can become financially independant within
10-15 years.
This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about
healthcare management and replaces them with practical strategies
and realistic policy goals. Using Henry Mintzberg's "Myths of
Healthcare" as a springboard, it reveals management practices that
undermine care delivery, explores their cultural and corporate
origins, and details how they may be reversed through changes in
management strategy, organization, scale, and style. Tackling
conventional wisdom about decision-making, cost-effectiveness,
service quality, and equity, contributors fine-tune concepts of
mission and vision by promoting collaboration, engagement, and
common sense. The book's multidisciplinary panel of experts
analyzes the most popular healthcare management "myths," among
them: * The healthcare system is failing. * The healthcare system
can be fixed through social engineering. * Healthcare institutions
can be fixed by bringing in the heroic leader. * The healthcare
system can be fixed by treating it more as a business. * Healthcare
is rightly left to the private sector, for the sake of efficiency.
The Myths of Health Care speaks to a large, diverse audience:
scholars of all levels interested in the research in health policy
and management, graduate and under-graduate students attending
courses in leadership and management of public sector organization,
and practitioners in the field of health care.
For upper-level undergraduate and first-year MBA courses in
managerial and applied economics. This Global Edition has been
edited to include enhancements making it more relevant to students
outside the United States This text will excite readers by
providing a more linear progression, while proving the consistency
and relevance of microeconomic theory. The Seventh Edition welcomes
a new co-author, Stephen Erfle of Dickinson College, who has
contributed many revisions and improvements to the quantitative
sections of the text, as well as provided a major addition: the use
of Excel in the presentation of many of the numerical and graphical
illustrations presented throughout the text. To strengthen
students' ability to use Excel-a critical skill in today's job
market-new Excel Applications (Excel Apps) allow readers to turn
the static figures and tables in the text into dynamic
illustrations.
Theo S. Eicher and Thomas Strobel present an industry-level account
of the recent changes in German productivity growth and compare the
trends to Europe and the US. The specific focus is on how
differential investments in information and communication
technologies (ICT) affected the economic performance of these
economies. Not all industrialized countries shared the economic
fortunes that ICT presented to the US economy. While the US
experienced successive accelerations in its trend growth in 1995
and again in 2000, Germany experienced dual reductions in labor
productivity growth. Some European economies fared better and
others even worse than Germany. Since productivity is the ultimate
determinant of living standards, the authors examine the sources of
these productivity differentials. They also present a new German
growth accounting database that utilizes unique ICT investment
data, sourced directly from the industries, to place their findings
into an international context. This book is targeted at economists
and policymakers alike, and is designed to provide clear guidance
for those interested in industrial policy and statistical account
methods.
This book employs an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral lens to
explore the collaborative dynamics that are currently disrupting,
re-creating and transforming the production and consumption of
tourism. House swapping, ridesharing, voluntourism, couchsurfing,
dinner hosting, social enterprise and similar phenomena are among
these collective innovations in tourism that are shaking the very
bedrock of an industrial system that has been traditionally
sustained along commercial value chains. To date there has been
very little investigation of these trends, which have been inspired
by, amongst other things, de-industrialization processes and
post-capitalist forms of production and consumption,
postmaterialism, the rise of the third sector and collaborative
governance. Addressing that gap, this book explores the character,
depth and breadth of these disruptions, the creative opportunities
for tourism that are emerging from them, and how governments are
responding to these new challenges. In doing so, the book provides
both theoretical and practical insights into the future of tourism
in a world that is, paradoxically, becoming both increasingly
collaborative and individualized.
The Cognitive Basis of Institutions: A Synthesis of Behavioral and
Institutional Economics synthesizes modern research in behavioral
economics with traditional institutional economics. This work
emphasizes that institution and agent are inextricably linked, and
that both cognitive and institutional processes coalesce to
influence human decision-making. It integrates cognition and
institution through the behavioral economics theoretical lens of
bounded rationality. Methodologically, it develops
game-theoretical, complexity and neuroeconomic solutions to unite
study of the two areas. The work concludes by proposing general
implications for the economic study of decisions using the
cognitive-institutional approach, also providing specific
recommendations for public policy.
Promoting rural entrepreneurship is a necessary step to limit the
negative effects of classical agricultural policy based on a linear
process and attracting secondary resources to the economic process.
The analysis of agricultural policy and rural development in
conjunction to entrepreneurship in terms of production may
represent a further step in understanding the role and importance
of diversifying the rural potentials in contemporary economies. The
Handbook of Research on Agricultural Policy, Rural Development, and
Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Economies is an essential
publication of academic research that examines agricultural policy
and its impact on shaping future resilient economy in rural areas
and identifies green business models and new business patterns in
rural communities. Covering a range of topics such as
entrepreneurship, product management, and marketing, this book is
ideal for researchers, policymakers, academicians, economists,
agriculture professionals, rural developers, business investors,
and students.
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