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Cari koleksi dengan cepat sesuai kebutuhan Anda.Priority number one, for both your AP course and for this book, is to prepare you to do well enough on the AP Microeconomics and Macroeconomics Exams to earn college credit. Some memorization is required for any standardized test: it?s the nature of the beast. But a memorizer of formulas is in deep trouble when questions ask her to analyze the relative success of several possible economic polic…
I wrote this text to increase readers? understanding of the economics of the developing world of Asia, Africa, Latin American, and East-Central Europe, where three-fourths of the world?s population lives. The book is suitable for students who have taken a course in principles of economics. The growth in real income per person in the third-world nations of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, about …
Few textbooks confront this scarsity problem direcctly. Some one-semester books are nearly as long as full-blown principles texts. The shorter ones tend to condense topics and omit the additional explanations, illustrations, and applications that are especially important in survey souses. Students and teachers alike get frustrated trying to pick out tahe essentials from abridged principles texts.
Financial markets encompass a broad, continually evolving and not altogether clearly delimited collection of institutions, formal and informal, that serve to facilitate the exchange of assets. More to the point, the concept of an ?asset? is open to a variety of interpretations.1 Rather than get bogged down in arbitrary classifications ? and in ultimately fruitless distinctions ? the nature of ?…
This second volume is a direct outgrowth of the work Joel Demski and Jerry started in their 1978 Accounting Review paper, Economic Incentives in Budgetary Control Systems. This paper later received the AAA 1994 Seminal Contribution to Accounting Literature Award. Joel is referenced many times throughout this volume because he has produced a number of significant papers dealing with agency theor…
This book addresses the social aspects of KM (Knowledge Management) that are largely ignored in the literature. Using various social science perspectives, the authors provide critical analyses of KM in higher education, with an emphasis on unintended consequences and future implications. The objectives of this book are to examine the strengths and weaknesses of KM, and to provide examples of th…
I acknowledge with gratitude the support that I received for my research during 1999/2000, when I held a fellowship at the International Center for Economic Research (ICER, Turin), as well as the continuous support that I received from the Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l?Innovation (IMRI) at the University Paris Dauphine. I am particularly grateful to Valérie Fleurette and …