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Industries, Firms, and Jobs
. Ed(S): Farkas, George; England, Paula
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Paperback. Editor(s): Farkas, George; England, Paula. Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry. Num Pages: 350 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 634.
This book is a welcome reassertion of an old tradition of interdisdplinary research. That tradition has tended to atrophy in the last decade, largely because of an enormous expansion of the domain of neoc1assical economics. The expansion has fed on two sdentific developments: first, human capital theory; second, contract theory. Both developments have taken phenomena critical to the operation of the economy but previously understood in terms of categories separate and distinct from those with which economists generally work and sought to apply the same analytical techniques that we use to understand other economic problems. Human capital theory has applied ... Read more
This book is a welcome reassertion of an old tradition of interdisdplinary research. That tradition has tended to atrophy in the last decade, largely because of an enormous expansion of the domain of neoc1assical economics. The expansion has fed on two sdentific developments: first, human capital theory; second, contract theory. Both developments have taken phenomena critical to the operation of the economy but previously understood in terms of categories separate and distinct from those with which economists generally work and sought to apply the same analytical techniques that we use to understand other economic problems. Human capital theory has applied ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Series
Springer Studies in Work and Industry
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781489935380
SKU
V9781489935380
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