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The Economics of Defence Policy

A New Perspective

Defence policy is of continuing interest and concern to all nations. There are armed conflicts and new threats. Difficult choices cannot be avoided. This book has three aims. First, to identify the typical questions raised by economists when studying defence policy. Second, to show how simple economic analysis can be used to answer these questions and contribute to our understanding of defence issues. Third, to provide a critical evaluation of defence policy.

Introduction Armed forces require labour as an input into the military production
function. Labour can be obtained by compulsion (conscription or the draft) or by
voluntary recruitment and retention. Military labour markets have some distinctive
 ...

The Economics of Health and Medical Care

Health Sciences & Professions

Define fixed and variable inputs and distinguish between a short-run and a long-
run time horizon in identifying whether inputs are fixed or variable. 2. Explain the
concept of a production function for medical services in terms of inputs and ...

The Economics of Information

A collection of essays on the theory of information as an economic commodity includes discussions of statistical methods, property rights, and economic planning

The members of an economy — the firms, the consumers, the investors, and the
government — make choices. ... The opportunities available to a firm might be all
the technologically feasible combinations of inputs and outputs, in the present ...

The Economics of Sports Broadcasting

Sports now constitute one of the most valuable forms of broadcast entertainment in today’s lucrative international market. This textbook explains the economics underlying the sports broadcasting phenomenon. The specific regulatory culture governing sports broadcasting means that the financial economy of this area has many unique features. The Economics of Sports Broadcasting provides an accessible, detailed introduction to all aspects of economics in this fascinating area. The book contains a wealth of textbook features and has been written and designed to facilitate student learning. It includes: questions of ownership, trade and commodity in sport the historical context for contemporary sports broadcasting the key players – viewers, TV channels, sponsors, clubs, event owners and authorities the regulations governing televised sport the international context for broadcast sport competition and game theory in sports broadcasting sports broadcasting’s changing landscape of ownership and supply channels. This book will be useful for courses in media and broadcasting, economics, sport management and sports development.

It begins with a discussion about the production process, including a description
of the input-output relationship. It then focuses on the ownership issue, including
a discussion of individual versus collective sale procedures. This section also ...

The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century

Leading scholars examine the conflicting paradigms of affluence and destitution in the United States—as well as other free societies—and discuss the influence of education, race, and status on economic mobility.

However, the study of growth and development from a macroeconomic
perspective centers around institutions, which interact with ideas, inputs, and
productivity. In particular, these three factors influence the amount of output
produced in a ...

The Economics of Productivity in Asia and Australia

"Suggests processes and strategies for choosing the best technique to draw up policies for sustainable growth." - dust jacket.

Section 7.6 presents the empirical evidence and section 7.7 concludes. 7.2
MOTIVATION OF CASE STUDY Although many studies have shown that output
growth in Singapore's aggregate economy is input-driven, few studies apart from
Tsao ...

The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China

China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate. How did the country do it? How applicable are the lessons of China's economic reform of the past thirty years to the challenges it faces in the next three decades? What does the detailed pattern of China's success and challenges look like the sub-sectoral and sub-national levels, and what does this mean for future policy? How will China's role as a global economic player evolve? This Oxford Companion to the Economics of China presents an original collection of perspectives on the Chinese economy's past, present and future. The contributors of these entries include: the best of young Chinese researchers based in China and outside; renowned academics from the top universities in China, Europe, and North America; present and past senior officials of international agencies like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; senior Chinese government officials from the Centre and the Provinces; and four recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The Companion consists of 99 entries written by the leading China analysts of our time. The topics covered include: The China Model, Future Prospects for China , China and the Global Economy, Trade and the Chinese Economy, Macroeconomics and Finance, Urbanisation, Industry and Markets, Agriculture and Rural Development, Land, Infrastructure and Environment, Population and Labour, Dimensions of Wellbeing and Inequality, Health and Education, Gender Equity, Regional Divergence in China, and China's Provinces: Selected Perspectives. The Editors are four global leaders in Chinese economic analysis and policy who between them have held or hold the following positions: Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute; Co-Editor, China Economic Review; President Chinese Economists Society; Assistant Director of Research at the IMF; Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank; and Professors of Economics at Ivy League Universities.

One exception is the forthcoming study on the linkages between output tariffs,
input tariffs, and processing trade in China by Miaojie Yu (forthcoming). Yu
merges Chinese census data with firmspecific measures of final goods and
imported ...

The Economics of the Trade Union

This book analyses the crucial features of unionised labour markets. The models in the book refer to labour contracts between unions and management, but the method of analysis is also applicable to non-union labour markets where workers have some market power. In this book, Alison Booth, a researcher in the field, emphasises the connection between theoretical and empirical approaches to studying unionised labour markets. She also highlights the importance of taking into account institutional differences between countries and sectors when constructing models of the unionised labour market. While the focus of the book is on the US and British unionised labour markets, the models and analytical methods are applicable to other industrialised countries with appropriate modifications.

Suppose that all firms in a particular sector face the same technology and the
same input prices. This is likely to be the case with a cross-section of firms in a
particular industry. In such a situation, it might be expected that all firms would
have ...

Computational Models in the Economics of Environment and Development

Computational Models in the Economics of Environment and Development provides a step-by-step guide in designing, developing, and solving non-linear environment-development models. It accomplishes this by focusing on applied models, using real examples as case studies. Additionally, it gives examples of developing policy interventions based on quantitative model results. Finally, it uses a simple computer program, GAMS, to develop and solve models. This book is targeted towards university lecturers and students in economic modeling and sustainable development, but is also of particular interest to researchers at sustainable development research institutes and policy makers at international sustainable development policy institutions such the World Bank, UNDP, and UNEP.

An input-output matrix for steel production. Pig iron Sponge Steel-OH Steel-EL
Steel-BOF Pellets -1.58 -1.38 Coke -0.63 NAT-Gas -0.57 Electric -0.58 Scrap -
0.33 -0.12 Pig iron 1.0 -0.77 -0.95 Sponge 1.00 -1.09 Steel 1.00 1.00 1.00 import
the ...

Welfare Economics and the Economics of Socialism

Towards a Commonsense Critique

The second requires certain uniform relationships between inputs in different
lines of production (as expressed, for example, in uniform ratios of 'effectiveness
of capital')* which have not always been observed in the practice of socialist ...