Incentives. Motivation and the Economics of Information, Paperback - Donald E. Campbell

This book examines incentives at work to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. Cons...

DescriptionThe Economics of Information Technology is a concise and accessible review of important economic factors affecting information technolog...

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Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT...

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Trucking in the Age of Information provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary trucking industry. Prior research on trucking has focused ...

This 2005 book describes in much detail both how and why franchising works. It also analyses the economic tensions that contribute to conflict in t...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of central banks, and aims to demystify them for the general public, which is the only way to have a rati...

Cryptocurrencies have had a profound effect on financial markets worldwide. This edited book explores the economic implications of the use of crypt...

New Geographies, 7 examines the forms, imprints, places, and territories of information and communication technologies (ICTs) through spatially gro...

Following a brief historical overview showing how the problem of incentives has come to the fore in the past two centuries, the authors their work ...

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DescriptionWorldwide soybean crop yields can achieve USD$130 billion per year in farm-level sales, but around 13% of these yields are lost to disea...

A radical new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society todayFueled by populism and the f...

An introduction to the study of history as a succession of economic regimes. This non-technical introduction is accessible to undergraduate student...

An introduction to the study of history as a succession of economic regimes. This non-technical introduction is accessible to undergraduate student...

Contributor(s): Author: Donald E. KnuthThis multivolume work on the analysis of algorithms has long been recognized as the definitive description o...

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This second edition of The Economics of Entrepreneurship is an essential resource for scholars following the current state of this fast-moving fiel...

Reducere. This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenster...

Open Source Software (OSS) development presents a contrast to traditional production and innovation methods and an unlikely contestant in the marke...

This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and dis...

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A balanced and objective assessment of the financial consequences of Scottish independence from Gavin McCrone, one of the UK's top economists with ...

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Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Fr...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Manuel AmadorIllustration(s): 16 b/w illus. 5 tables.Number of pages: 200Collection: CREI Lectures ...

Many biological studies on insect management do not consider economics or fundamental economic principles. This book brings together economists and...

Written by two medics, who are also qualified economists, this introduction to health economics draws on a wider range of economic thinking than th...

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For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing ec...

Dealing with economic sociology, this title introduces the theory and practical tools needed to analyze markets for singularities. It shows that be...

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Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncAuthor(s): Caleb ScharfNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 209 x 20Cov...