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  • How to Manage Covid-19 and Other Pandemics

    Without Undermining Our Economies and Our Freedoms

    by Morris Altman, Hannah Altman, Louise Lamontagne ...
    This compelling book critically examines the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular by challenging the efficiency of lockdown measures. Morris Altman, Hannah Altman and Louise Lamontagne highlight the negative economic, social and psychological impacts of these measures, while proposing alternative strategies for pandemic management.Drawing on comparative global data, the authors ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Exploring Asian-Pacific Co-operatives in Theory and Practice

    Resilience and Thriving between the State and the Market

    Edited by Morris Altman, Akira Kurimoto ...
    Series series Perspectives in Behavioral Economics and the Economics of Behavior
    Exploring Asian-Pacific Cooperatives in Theory and Practice: Resilience and Thriving between the State and the Market investigates Asian-Pacific coop models mainly through the analytical lenses of Asian-Pacific researchers. It consists of theoretical and empirical analyses on transversal themes from interdisciplinary studies and national case studies covering multiple sectors and countries. It ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics

    Foundations and Developments

    by Morris Altman ...
    At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to resolve, this groundbreaking handbook of original works by leading behavioral economists offers the first comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics theory. Borrowing from the findings of psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, legal ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Lessons from a Successfully Export-Oriented, Resource-Rich Economy

    Quantitative Adventures into Canada’s Past

    by Morris Altman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    A major theme of this book is that, contrary to what many experts believe, being endowed with a plenitude of natural resources is not a curse: rather it provides a potential advantage, if capitalized by the well-endowed economy. Much depends on the institutions that help frame the decision-making process that affects the process of growth and development. Canada is an example of a successful ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Constructing a More Scientific Economics

    John Tomer's Pluralistic and Humanistic Economics

    Edited by Morris Altman ...
    Series series Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics
    John Tomer was a leading intellectual figure in behavioural economics, making distinct contributions to the theory of the firm, social economy, choice theory, and government policy. His underlying methodology as an economist was to incorporate different disciplinary approaches to the subject at hand, whilst maintaining an underlying respect and understanding of how and why humans behave the way ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Behavioural Sports Economics

    A Research Companion

    Edited by Hannah Josepha Rachel Altman, Morris Altman, Benno Torgler ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Behavioural Economics and Finance
    Economists have entered into the realm of sports to provide what they believe to be more cogent explanations for sport-related behaviour and to suggest ways in which incentives can improve sports outcomes. But prices and income, the traditional workhorses of conventional economics, can only provide partial explanations and understandings. Drawing on a bounded rationality approach to behavioural ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance

    by Morris Altman ...
    This book challenges some of the fundamental tenets of "free market" economics that have had a profound impact on public policy and the plight of the American worker. These include the beliefs that high wages inevitably mean low profits; that a "free" market will automatically reduce discrimination and pay inequality; that anti-trust legislation hinders competitive market forces; and that minimum ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance

    by Morris Altman ...
    This book challenges some of the fundamental tenets of "free market" economics that have had a profound impact on public policy and the plight of the American worker. These include the beliefs that high wages inevitably mean low profits; that a "free" market will automatically reduce discrimination and pay inequality; that anti-trust legislation hinders competitive market forces; and that minimum ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential

    Edited by Morris Altman, Anthony Jensen, Akira Kurimoto, Robby Tulus, Yashavantha Dongre, Seungkwon Jang ...
    Replete with case studies, Waking the Asian Pacific Cooperative Potential applies a novel theoretical framework to aid in understanding meaningful change in cooperative firms, mutual firms, collectives, and communes, focusing in particular on the underexamined Asia Pacific region. It explores the common, albeit competing, objectives of transformational cooperatives that deliver a range of social ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Smart Economic Decision-Making in a Complex World

    by Morris Altman ...
    Smart Economic Decision-Making in a Complex World is a fresh and reality-based perspective on decision-making with significant implications for analysis, self-understanding and policy. The book examines the conditions under which smart people generate outcomes that improve their place of work, their household and society. Within this work, the curious reader will find interesting open questions on ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Why Ethical Behaviour is Good for the Economy

    Towards Growth, Wellbeing and Freedom

    by Morris Altman ...
    This timely book offers a nuanced critique of the nudge narrative, and demonstrates why and how ethical behaviour can have significant positive economic and wellbeing outcomes. Morris Altman models a complex alternative to the expectations of ethical behaviour and shows how this behaviour can be consistent with competitive market economies, contrary to what conventional economic theory suggests ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Behavioral Economics For Dummies

    by Morris Altman ...
    A guide to the study of how and why you really make financial decisionsWhile classical economics is based on the notion that people act with rational self-interest, many key money decisions—like splurging on an expensive watch—can seem far from rational. The field of behavioral economics sheds light on the many subtle and not-so-subtle factors that contribute to our financial and purchasing ... Read more

    $13.00 USD