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  • The Economics of Education

    Human Capital, Family Background and Inequality

    by Daniele Checchi ...
    In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in social inequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker, Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on human capital and social ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Teaching, Research and Academic Careers

    An Analysis of the Interrelations and Impacts

    Edited by Daniele Checchi, Tullio Jappelli, Antonio Uricchio ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book evaluates research quality, quality of teaching and the relationship between the two through sound statistical methods, and in a comparative perspective with other European countries. In so doing, it covers an increasingly important topic for universities that affects university funding. It discusses whether university evaluation should be limited to a single factor or ... Read more

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  • Unpaid Work and the Economy

    A Gender Analysis of the Standards of Living

    Edited by Antonella Picchio ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and afforded the same status as paid activities. This book constitutes a rigorous economic analysis with special emphasis on gender issues and covers every conceivable angle of unpaid work and all its ramifications for the modern economy ... Read more

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  • Human Capital

    A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Happiness

    A Revolution in Economics

    by Bruno S. Frey ...
    Series series Munich Lectures in Economics
    A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Vincent A. W. J. Marchau, Warren E. Walker, Pieter J. T. M. Bloemen, Steven W. Popper ...
    This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools ... Read more

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  • The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics

    by Louis Kaplow ...
    The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original treatment of the subject rather than a textbook synthesis, the book contains new analysis that generates novel results, including some that overturn long-standing conventional wisdom. This fresh approach should change ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good

    Frameworks for Engagement

    Edited by Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender, Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Massive amounts of data on human beings can now be analyzed. Pragmatic purposes abound, including selling goods and services, winning political campaigns, and identifying possible terrorists. Yet 'big data' can also be harnessed to serve the public good: scientists can use big data to do research that improves the lives of human beings, improves government services, and reduces taxpayer costs. In ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3

    The Toolkit for Assessment

    Edited by Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell ...
    Series series Sustainable Urban Development Series
    The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evaluations.This book ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    A collection of essays analyzing the economic factors underlying human decision-making from the Nobel Prize–winning American economist.Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all human behavior. In a highly readable selection of essays Becker applies this ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Measuring Research

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Policy makers, academic administrators, scholars, and members of the public are clamoring for indicators of the value and reach of research. The question of how to quantify the impact and importance of research and scholarly output, from the publication of books and journal articles to the indexing of citations and tweets, is a critical one in predicting innovation, and in deciding what sorts of ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Social Justice

    The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy

    by Madison Powers, Ruth Faden ...
    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD