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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"classical economics"”.
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Measuring Productivity and Technological Progress: Development of a Constructive Method Based on Classical Economics and Input-Output Tables
The present work is organized in five chapters and it proposes and applies alternative measures of productivity constructed using input-output tables and based mainly on the Sraffian scheme. The first three chapters of the thesis are devoted to the development and the empirical application of new …
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Intention, economic opportunity and their impact on venture creation
… of nascent entrepreneurship. Drawing on neo-classical economics, the theory of planned behavior and complex adaptive systems theory the essays integrate and extend existing theory, and break new ground in the study of “still trying” nascent entrepreneurs.
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A value chain perspective on the economic drivers of competition in the wireless telecommunications industry
… telecommunications. We draw upon elements of classical economic theory in understanding the dynamics driving these changes. A System Dynamics model is constructed to bridge the theoretical and empirical gap between value chain theory and classical economics. We use this model to understand the …
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Piercy Ravenstone: a study in nineteenth century radical economics
… socialism and its connection with the more classical economics. Profiles of the 2 more well-known members of the school are given and thoughts of Karl Marx on the work of these men are briefly discussed. The conclusion reached is that Ravenstone was not a true socialist but rather was …
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Diversity in management accounting practice through the ABC paradox : testing an institutional perspective
… Framework, drawn from Old Institutional Economics, to explain diversity in management accounting practice. The framework contends that management accounting practices can shape, and be shaped by, the taken for granted ways of thinking (institutions) that exist within an organisation, and …
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The Management Accounting Needs of Small Enterprises And the Role of Small Accounting Practices.
… theory, which tends to be based on neo-classical economics, and the approach used in practice in small firms and SAPs. The research investigates these barriers, assessing the extent to which owner-managers carry out management accounting in small enterprises despite the opportunity costs …
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A multiple objective approach to evaluate economic and environmental impacts of agricultural management systems from a sustainable development perspective
… view of economic development while neo-classical economics has a one dimensional view. The concept of sustainable development recognizes absolute resource scarcity, which is represented by the limited quantity of resources for inputs to economic systems; and is represented by the limits …
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William E. Hearn and classical political economy
… to prior and to subsequent work of others in economics. In Chapter I, Hearn is introduced as a classical political economist in the “Smithian,” as opposed to the "Ricardian," tradition. This distinction is explained, and the emergence of neoclassical or modern economics is discussed as a …
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THE LAW&ECONOMICS OF INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS: THREE ESSATS.
THE LAW&ECONOMICS OF INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS: THREE ESSAYS The present thesis is essentially devoted to exploring the legal consequences of bounded rationality. This concept, due to H. Simon, constitutes one of the first erosion of classical economics. In particular: in the traditional economics …
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British businessmen and the 'scientific' tariff : a study of Joseph Chamberlain's Tariff Commission, 1903-1921, with special reference to the period 1903-1913
… As a historical economist, he believed that neo-classical economics paid insufficient attention to economic dynamics, and that inductive study would reveal the causes and remedies of Britain's economic 'decline'.Chapter 3 examines the economic interests of the business members of the Commission. …
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The modern state and economic leadership: Canada, New Zealand and Australia’s trade and investment relations with Japan 1985-1998
… regional development. In the current age of neo-classical economics, where country after country has publicly indicated their greater confidence in the ability of the free market to determine the best economic opportunities, governments have surrendered some, if not all, of their responsibility …
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Scholastic Economics, Classical, and Modern
… theory, and the three branches of today’s Neoclassical economic theory (summarized in Table 1-1). Then the four basic equations that describe the economic behavior of an individual according to the updated Neoscholastic Economic Theory are presented and compared with the three basic equations …
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Capital 2.0 capital formation and legal risk in a new global economic order from fiat to exit: including case studies of the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership between the United States and the European Union and the financing relation between the United States and the People’s Republic of China
… of capital formation, their historical basis in classical and neo-classical economics and its forefathers such as The Austrians around Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek and most notably and controversial, Karl Marx, and their impact on today’s exponential expansion …
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The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History
… on land values, it briefly covers the early Classical economists and Gerald Fitzhugh. Among early 20th century Marxist economists, unequal exchange appeared in Otto Bauer's explanation of nationalist antagonism, and in Henryk Grossmann as countering the breakdown of capitalism. It is argued …