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Human Agency and Material Welfare
Morris Altman
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Description for Human Agency and Material Welfare
Hardback. Challenges some of the fundamental tenets of conventional economic wisdom, which have had a profound impact on public policy. This book offers a theoretical framework and a reasonable modeling of the economic agent, built upon conventional neoclassical theory while incorporating the research in behavioral economics. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 870.
Some of the fundamental tenets of conventional economic wisdom, which have had a profound impact on public policy, are challenged in this book. These precepts include the affirmation that low wages are more beneficial that high wages to the process of growth and development; convergence in terms of output per person is just a matter of time; minimum wage laws and trade unions negatively impact on the economy as a whole; pay inequality due to labor market discrimination cannot persist over time; larger firms are typically more efficient than smaller firms; and ... Read more
Some of the fundamental tenets of conventional economic wisdom, which have had a profound impact on public policy, are challenged in this book. These precepts include the affirmation that low wages are more beneficial that high wages to the process of growth and development; convergence in terms of output per person is just a matter of time; minimum wage laws and trade unions negatively impact on the economy as a whole; pay inequality due to labor market discrimination cannot persist over time; larger firms are typically more efficient than smaller firms; and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
133
Condition
New
Number of Pages
133
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792398189
SKU
V9780792398189
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Ref
99-15
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