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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Neoclassical economics"”.
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Engaging Communicative Praxis in an Era of Neoclassical Economics
… and explore the relationship between CSR and neoclassical economic thought.
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The Spectacle of Neoclassical Economics: The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development Project and Exploitation in the Niger Delta and the Chad Basin
<p>In recent years, neoclassical economic literature has undergone a fundamental change of emphasis, from orthodox neoclassical to neoinstitutional theory. World Bank research and high-level policy departments have reflected this change by shifting from development as ‘structural adjustment’ to …
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Beyond rationalist orthodoxy: towards a complex concept of the self in IPE
… that currently provided to the subject field by neoclassical economics. In particular, I focus on the thought of Adam Smith, whose ideas are gaining interest in IPE owing to an increasing recognition of his seminal contribution to the subject field. I investigate the secondary debate on Smith, …
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Finance matters in the Japanese real estate market : interaction between finance and real estate ownership
… in perfect and efficient markets. Based on neoclassical economics, financial capital is always perfectly priced, and all investments are completely valued in frictionless markets. In the real world, however, finance does matter, especially in the real estate market, which is relatively …
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Akratic Homo Economicus: Does the Neoclassical Economic Theory "Rational Agent" Assumption Accurately Depict Human Nature?
<p>Neoclassical economic theory has long been scrutinized for its failure to be congruent with reality, often lacking generality and tractability due to, what many critics argue to be, unrealistic assumptions. One of the theory's core suppositions is a representative "rational agent" or <em>homo …
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The make-or-and-buy decision for in-house legal department : a concurrent sourcing approach
… academic framework, utilising Transaction Cost economics, Neoclassical economics and Capabilities economics to determine the economic drivers of a concurrent sourcing choice where In-house legal departments both make-and-buy legal services. Mixed methodology research included 12 in-depth …
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The regulatory function of contract law: A comparative law and economics approach
… Exploring the limits of promissory theory and neoclassical economics, the second chapter develops an innovative interdisciplinary methodology joining the new institutional economics with the comparative law method. The third, fourth and fifth chapters offer taxonomies of remedies, types of …
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A geography of e-commerce in China
… framework grounded by social theory and neoclassical economics. After presenting a background of the development of e-commerce in China, a multiscale approach was applied to examine the multiplicity and heterogeneity of its social impacts. The spatiality of e-commerce is examined at the …
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Market Values in Education: A Case Study of its Effect on the Principal's Model for School Governance in Alberta
… schools. Public choice theory, emanating from neoclassical economics, is the economics model that this model operates within the educational system. A total of seventeen Alberta public, separate, charter, and private school principals were interviewed in this multi-site case study investigating …
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Rational irrationality; the making of property decisions in firms as a part of resource allocation processes- a Korean example
… the profit maximising assumption and neoclassic economics view of the behaviour of the firm, no firm is expected to behave differently in the market or it will be forced out of the market by incurring higher costs than the competitors. This research aims to investigate how property decisions as a …
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The Structure of Production and Portfolio Decisions of Investment
… portfolio theory is at the center of the way neoclassical economics understands private investment and economic policy. Nonetheless, this theory is highly vulnerable to multiple criticisms, and its empirical validity is doubtful. This dissertation proposes an alternative to orthodox portfolio …
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The Education of Economists: Social Norms and the Academy in the Canadian Context
… of 158 respondents. This thesis aims to examine economics education in the Canadian context, charting the rise of neoclassical economics from the 1970s onwards while examining the educational processes, choice of language, social norms, and views of human nature to be found among a variety of …
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A pathway to sustainability in urban sanitation for developing Asian countries
… depend on perspective, by comparing how neoclassical economics’, ecological economics’ and Buddhist economics’ perspectives indicate different approaches to these, with different alignments with sustainability. By arguing that these perspectives are complementary rather than mutually …
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PAP Singapore : a case study of stationary bandit in a market economy
… economy. The conventional methodology in the neoclassical economics tradition is essentially apolitical and is thus inadequate to appraise the inner working mechanism of the Singapore polity, given the pervasive influence of politics in policy decisions. This study therefore synthesizes a new …
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Accounting in action in the New Zealand health reform process: an analysis informed by a specific case study of a major health provider
… at the macro level, to the resurrection of neoclassical economics policies and the relative ascendancy of free market solutions. The process through which areas of knowledge and in this case particularly public policy become problematised is explicated. My research attempts to describe the …
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Contributions to EU regional policy
… on theoretical and empirical grounds from an economics point of view. The first two articles of the thesis (“The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration” and “Internal migration and EU regional policy transfer payments: a panel data analysis for 28 EU member countries”) enter into …
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Essays on the Economics of the National Basketball Association (N.B.A.): Testing for Inefficiencies in the N.B.A. Labor Market
… in the National Basketball Association (N.B.A.). Neoclassical economics often incorporate models that assume individuals are utility-maximizing agents who behave rationally. However, many studies in the field of behavioral economics have found evidence of irrational decision making, both within …