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  • More is Less

    Why Parties May Deliberately Write Incomplete Contracts

    by Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Oliver Hart ...
    Series series Elements in Law, Economics and Politics
    Why are contracts incomplete? Transaction costs and bounded rationality cannot be a total explanation since states of the world are often describable, foreseeable, and yet are not mentioned in a contract. Asymmetric information theories also have limitations. We offer an explanation based on 'contracts as reference points'. Including a contingency of the form, 'The buyer will require a good in ... Read more

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  • Rescaling Sustainability Transitions

    Unfolding the Spatialities of Power Relations, Governance Arrangements, and Socio-Economic Systems

    Edited by Maija Halonen, Moritz Albrecht, Irene Kuhmonen ...
    This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes induced by sustainability transitions are expected to assemble as a variegated and heterogeneous process reproduced by different spatial contexts and scales. Hence, the ... Read more

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    Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now

    by Richard H. Thaler, Alex Imas ...
    Named one of Financial Times’s Best Books of 2025, that bestselling author Tim Hartford called "fun" and "nerdy in the best way"Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and rising star economist Alex O. Imas explore the past, present, and cutting-edge future in behavioral economics in The Winner’s Curse.Why do people cooperate with one another when they have no obvious motivation to do so? Why do we ... Read more

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  • Growth for Good

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  • Taxmann's CRACKER – Business Economics & Business and Commercial Knowledge

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    by Dr. Ritu Gupta ...
    Series series 2nd Edition | January 2021
    This book provides previous exam solved papers on ‘Business Economics & Business and Commercial Knowledge’.The Present Publication authored by Dr. Ritu Gupta, is the 2nd Edition for New Syllabus, with the following noteworthy features:• Coverage of this book includes:o Complete coverage of ICAI study material questionso Each chapter has been divided into sub-topicso Questions of Business and ... Read more

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  • The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize ... Read more

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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    World-changing books about finance aren't built in a day. Adam Smith needed 17 years to write The Wealth of Nations. John Maynard Keynes took six years to write The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Yes, those are lofty comparisons. And yes, later histories will record whether the socionomic theory of finance actually did replace conventional macroeconomics. Even so: You can read ... Read more

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  • Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities

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    This open-access book foregrounds 10 novel collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, for strengthening European climate policy.Part of a three-volume collection covering climate, energy, and mobility policy. ... Read more

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  • The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

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    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

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