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Normative Economics in the History of Economic Thought: Marx, Mises, Friedman and Popper (Routledge Advances in Social Economics)
by Sina BadieiThis book examines the role of normative economics in the writings of Karl Marx, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman and Karl Popper.The book shows that while distinguishing positive from normative economics can be helpful, this distinction should not minimize the importance of normative economics or reject the possibility of offering objective evaluations of social phenomena and policies in normative economics. The book offers a critical assessment of the attempts by Marx, Mises and Friedman to reduce scientific economics to the positive analysis of social phenomena alone. Through a meticulous analysis of their work, the book shows that their positive theories fail to justify their evaluations of economic phenomena and policies. The book then draws on the writings of Popper to maintain that we should place normative economics at the center of economics. The book argues that normative economics can choose the norms underlying its evaluations of social situations and policies objectively and relies on some of Popper’s ideas to offer some criteria that can facilitate the selection of these norms.The book will be of interest to economists, historians of economic thought, philosophers of economics and political theorists and philosophers.
Normative Foundations of Business
by J. Gregory Dees Jaan EliasWhat is the appropriate role for business to play in a capitalist society? In analyzing responses to this question, this note distinguishes two separate dimensions. The first involves the distinctive objective of business as a social institution, considers the pros and cons of profit maximization as well as alternatives to profit maximization such as putting the customer or the employee first, stakeholder theory, and the corporation as a public service entity. It then considers a second dimension, the appropriate moral constraints on business's pursuit of its objectives. On this dimension, the note considers minimal strategic compliance, libertarian structures against force or fraud, the law, social norms, and independent standards of moral behavior.
Normative Political Economy: Subjective Freedom, the Market and the State (Routledge Frontiers Of Political Economy Ser.)
by David P. LevineNormative Political Economy explores the criteria we use for judging economic institutions and economic policy. It argues that prevailing criteria lack sufficient depth in their understanding of subjective experience. David Levine's arguments cover topics which include: * basic needs, equality and justice * freedom, self-integration and creative living * the role of the state * capitalism and the good society
Normative Readings of the Belt and Road Initiative: Road To New Paradigms
by Wenhua Shan Kimmo Nuotio Kangle ZhangThis timely book offers revealing insights into the changing role of China in world governance as exemplified by the Silk Road Initiative, the People’s Republic’s first published major initiative for external affairs. Focusing on various aspects of the Silk Road Initiative, particularly those that are largely neglected in current discussions, including culture and philosophy, finance and investment, environmental protection and social responsibility, judiciary and lawyers, the authors explore a wide range of contexts in which China’s role as an emerging power in international relations and international law is examined. In the current era of ever-increasing populism, protectionism and challenges to globalization, the authors explore the Chinese philosophy underpinning Chinese norms of regional and international development. Bearing in mind the political and economic uncertainties hampering the establishment of such norms, the authors offer crucial insights into how the Silk Road Initiative could or should be developed and regulated.Given its depth of coverage, the book is an indispensable read for anyone interested in the Initiative and its social-legal implications.
Normatives Entscheiden: Aufgaben und Merkmale der Entscheidungs- und Erwartungsnutzentheorie (essentials)
by Siegfried WeinmannIn knapper Form stellt dieses essential die Theorie des Erwartungsnutzens verständlich dar. Wer sich in kurzer Zeit einen sicheren Umgang mit Modellen der Nutzenmaximierung erwerben will, kommt an diesem Buch nicht vorbei. Es setzt am Ursprung der Theorie des Erwartungsnutzens an, leitet die Modelle aus der These des rationalen Verhaltens ab und diskutiert ihre Wirksamkeit an allgemeingültigen Fällen wie dem Problem des Fahrers bei der Wahl seiner Route oder dem Problem des Investors bei der Wahl der Mischung zweier Wertpapiere. Das essential führt den Leser in origineller Weise auf den wissenschaftlichen Pfad der normativen Entscheidung über unsichere Gewinne oder Verluste.
Normatives Entscheiden: Aufgaben und Merkmale der Entscheidungs- und Erwartungsnutzentheorie (essentials)
by Siegfried WeinmannIn knapper Form stellt dieses essential die Theorie des Erwartungsnutzens verständlich dar. Wer sich in kurzer Zeit einen sicheren Umgang mit Modellen der Nutzenmaximierung erwerben will, kommt an diesem Buch nicht vorbei. Es setzt am Ursprung der Theorie des Erwartungsnutzens an, leitet die Modelle aus der These des rationalen Verhaltens ab und diskutiert ihre Wirksamkeit an allgemeingültigen Fällen wie dem Problem des Fahrers bei der Wahl seiner Route oder dem Problem des Investors bei der Wahl der Mischung zweier Wertpapiere. Das essential führt den Leser in origineller Weise auf den wissenschaftlichen Pfad der normativen Entscheidung über unsichere Gewinne oder Verluste. In der zweiten Auflage wird dem Leser die Bewertung von Verlusten am Beispiel der Routenwahl eines Fahrers einfacher und klarer vermittelt; entsprechend sind die Aufgaben und Lösungen überarbeitet worden. Die Versicherung unsicherer Gewinne wird ergänzt durch die Berechnung der Risikoprämie voneinander unabhängiger Investitionen in allgemeiner Form.
Normativity and Diversity in Family Law: Lessons from Comparative Law (Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law #57)
by Nadjma Yassari Marie-Claire FobletsWith regard to family law, this volume examines claims based on cultural tradition, ethnic background, custom, religious affiliation and sexual orientation, as well as various other “claims” that are not officially recognized in state law, in 15 jurisdictions around the world. The country reports seek to determine whether these claims represent a challenge to family law as conceived by the state, and if so, how these challenges are being managed. The focus lies on the interaction between (i) claims and traditions raising minority-related and diversity-related issues and (ii) the state as the addressee of these demands for accommodation. The reports identify specific instances and situations that have proven (and in many cases still are) particularly difficult to resolve. They force decision-makers to engage in a delicate balancing act between different, often clashing interests.
Normung für alle: Eine Einführung plus CE für Druckgeräte und Maschinen
by Werner FellnerZu berücksichtigende Vorgaben aus Normen und Gesetzen bilden ein komplexes System mit vielschichtigen Wechselwirkungen. Mit Fokus auf Druckgeräte (Behälter und Rohrleitungen) und Maschinen, die in Europa in Verkehr gebracht werden sollen (CE-Kennzeichen!), bietet dieses Fachbuch eine Einführung in die Welt der Normen und Gesetze. Neben Philosophie und Struktur der Verbindlichkeiten vermittelt es notwendiges Fachwissen für die Konstruktion und Planung von Produkten. Es verdeutlicht die Verantwortung von Konstrukteuren und Planern und solchen, die es werden wollen. Das Buch hilft Ihnen bei der Analyse der Vorgaben und der Beschaffung der Informationen.
Normung für alle: Eine Einführung plus CE für Druckgeräte und Maschinen
by Werner FellnerBei der Konstruktion und Planung von Produkten und Anlagen ist eine Vielzahl von Vorgaben aus Normen und Gesetzen zu berücksichtigen. Diese bilden ein komplexes System mit vielschichtigen Wechselwirkungen. Dieses kompakte Fachbuch führt in die Welt der Normung ein und betrachtet dazu im Speziellen das Inverkehrbringen von Druckgeräten (Behälter und Rohrleitungen) und Maschinen. In Europa ist dies mit der CE-Kennzeichnung verbunden, die auf allen Produkten zu finden ist. Das Buch vermittelt die Philosophie und Struktur der Verbindlichkeiten und verdeutlicht die Verantwortung von Fachleuten in Konstruktion und Planung. Neben notwendigem Fachwissen zur Normung wird auch eine Hilfestellung für die Analyse der Vorgaben und der Beschaffung der Informationen gegeben.
Normungs- und Standardisierungsstrategien in China und Indien: Im Spannungsfeld von Industrie- und Geopolitik und Implikationen für Europa
by Joachim Freimuth Monika Schädler Siglinde KaiserNormen bzw. Standards sind unterschätzte Teile von Modernisierung und Innovation. Sie wurden zudem lange als rein technische Angelegenheit betrachtet. Spätestens mit der Digitalisierung zeigt sich nun ihre ökonomische und politische Dimension. Dieses Buch betrachtet Normungs- und Standardisierungsansätze in Indien und China. Die Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis analysieren die jeweiligen Kontexte und beleuchten exemplarisch konkrete Themenfelder. China verfolgt konsequent einen zentralen Plan mit einer geordneten Institutionenlandschaft.In Indien kristallisiert sich ein hybrides Modell heraus, das die diverse Struktur des Landes spiegelt. Beide Länder verfügen über ein technologisches Potenzial, das zu einer bedeutsameren Rolle in der globalen Normungsdebatte führen wird. All das hat Implikationen für die deutsche und europäische Ökonomie, die abschließend betrachtet werden.
North Africa: Politics, Region, and the Limits of Transformation
by Yahia H. Zoubir Haizam Amirah-FernándezThis volume provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary Maghreb. Made up of contributions from leading academics in the field, it highlights specific issues of importance, including international and security affairs. With profiles of individual countries and regional issues, such as migration, gender, integration, economics, and war in Western Sahara, as well as a section dealing with international relations and the Maghreb, including US and EU foreign policy and security issues, North Africa: Politics, Region, and the Limits of Transformation is a major resource for all students of Middle Eastern Studies and North African Politics.
North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora
by Andrea KhalilThis book provides insight into contemporary film production from North African countries referred to as the Maghreb. Focus is both on the socio-economic context of film production, which suffers some of the same setbacks and obstacles as other regions of the developing world, and on the thematic details treated in the films themselves. The book delves into ideas such as gender and sexuality, national identity, political conflict, and issues of post and neo-colonial relationships in the context of globalisation. The book includes close analyses of individual films which at times show the taboo subjects of sexual and substance abuse, the lives of street children, and prostitution, as well as upper-class contradictions between an increasingly global position of privilege while in the midst of a traditionalist society. Others chapters focus on an individual filmmakers’ world view as depicted in representations of contemporary daily life of the average Tunisian, Moroccan or Algerian. The book provides an understanding of day to day existence in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria as depicted by local artists. The theoretical questions raised stretch beyond this topic to touch on ‘third world’ art and film production, and production in conditions of political repression and rigid moral conservatism.
North America in Question
by Laura Macdonald Jeffrey AyresCan North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico provide theoretically innovative and rich empirical reflections on current challenges sweeping the continent and on the faltering political support for North American regionalism.This collection begins by reviewing the recent trajectories and events that have undermined North America's trilateral relationship, then addresses concerns that go beyond NAFTA and economic issues, including labour, immigration, energy, the environment, quality of citizenship, borders, women's and civil society struggles, and democratic deficits. Although demonstrating that many informal dimensions of North American integration continue to flourish, the contributors assess whether the future will hold greater economic instability, security crises, and emerging bilateral relationships.
North American Firms in East Asia: HSBC Bank Canada Papers on Asia, Volume 5
by A. E. Safarian Paul BeamishThis volume examines how foreign firms, which are entering or operating in various Asian countries, have responded to the obstacles and opportunities which were identified in the preceding volumes of this series. There is an overview chapter and seven case studies of Canadian and American-based businesses.The studies cover a variety of sectors such as telecommunication, finance, and engineering services. The authors highlight a range of issues that have to be resolved when operating in particular countries. The outcome of the bargaining process on entry into another country, for example, or the approach taken in personnel relations, can be critical to success or failure.
North American Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations
by Tom WatsonThis is the seventh volume of The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series, which is the first to offer an authentic worldwide view of the history of public relations freed from a corporatist framework. . The series features seven books, six of which cover continental and regional groups including (Book 1) Asia and Australasia, (Book 2) Eastern Europe and Russia, (Book 3) Middle East and Africa, (Book 4) Latin America and Caribbean, (Book 5) Western Europe, and this volume, (Book 7) North America. The sixth volume featured five essays on new and revised historiographic and theoretical approaches. Written by leading public relations historians and scholars, some histories of national public relations development are offered for the first time while others are reinterpreted using new archival sources and other historiographical approaches. The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series makes a major contribution to the wider knowledge of PR's history.
North American Regionalism and Global Spread
by Imtiaz Hussain Roberto DominguezWas the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) designed as a definitive trade agreement, or as a stepping stone? This book reviews NAFTA's performances on trade, investment, intellectual property rights, dispute-settlement, as well as environmental and labor side-agreements within a theoretical construct.
North American Regionalism: Stagnation, Decline, or Renewal? (The Americas in the World Series)
by Eric Hershberg and Tom LongNorth American Regionalism problematizes &“North America&” as an important region in its own right, breaking with the area-studies convention that divides the Global North and Global South portions of the Western Hemisphere at the US-Mexican border. By cutting across this division, the theoretically sophisticated essays in this volume yield new insights about politics, society, and the economy of North America, opening dialogues with the New Regionalism approach and the literature on comparative regional studies.Drawing on a six-year interdisciplinary collaboration among leading scholars from Canadian, Mexican, US, and European universities, the book brings North America back into International Relations&’ study of regions and regionalism. The book includes robust theoretical and empirical engagement with issues of trade, migration, security, energy and climate, and the rise of China.
North America’s Lost Decade?: The Munk Debate on the Economy (The Munk Debates)
by Paul Krugman Ian Bremmer David Rosenberg Lawrence SummersAs stock markets gyrate, Europe lurches from crisis to crisis, and recovery in the United States slows, the future of the North American economy is more uncertain than ever. Can individual entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and governments create a new era of sustained economic growth? Or, will the ongoing financial crisis, political dysfunction in the United States, and the rise of emerging nations erode living standards in North America for the long term? In this edition of the Munk Debates -- Canada's premier international debate series -- Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman and former Chief Economist at the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch David Rosenberg square off against former director of President Obama’s National Economic Council Lawrence Summers and bestselling author Ian Bremmer to tackle the resolution: Be it resolved North America faces a Japan-style era of high unemployment and slow growth. This riveting debate features four of the world's most renowned economists discussing the single most important issue facing all North Americans in a lively, engaging forum. The economy is a concern that demands our immediate attention and this enlightening and hugely important debate is a must-read for all of us.
North Carolina Tobacco: A History
by Billy YearginA look at the plant&’s influence on the history and culture of the Old North State. The days when rural life revolved around tobacco planting and harvest are gone, but many fondly remember when North Carolina was the state of farming, planting and picking tobacco. In this book, historian Billy Yeargin takes readers back to the days when communities were founded and built upon tobacco culture, and when traditions developed as industries were born. Yeargin recounts the deeply intriguing influence of tobacco on the history and culture of the state.
North Carolina Triad Beer: A History (American Palate)
by Richard Cox David Gwynn Erin LawrimoreNow centered on Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, the Triad was home to one of North Carolina's earliest brewery operations in the Moravian community of Bethabara. Easy access by rail and then highways attracted national breweries, and starting in the 1960s, the region began producing beer for companies like Miller and Schlitz. The passage of the "Pop the Cap" legislation led to an explosion of craft beer and brewpubs, and in 2019, three of the top five producing craft breweries in North Carolina were anchored in the area. Local beer historians Richard Cox, David Gwynn and Erin Lawrimore narrate the history of the Triad brewing industry, from early Moravian communities to the operators of nineteenth-century saloons and from Big Beer factories to modern craft breweries.
North Carolina beyond the Connected Age: The Tar Heel State in 2050
by Michael L. WaldenFor years, North Carolina has been one of the nation's fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state's people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government. Much of this change resulted from the information and technology revolution, which connected the state more fully to the country and the world. But we are now moving beyond the connected age, argues Michael L. Walden, to a new era of living, production, and work, and North Carolina faces not only unanswered questions about the past but also new challenges and opportunities visible on the horizon. What will these new transformations mean for the state's people, places, and prosperity?In this book, Walden lays out these looming economic issues and offers predictions of future trends as well as multiple policy options for taxation, infrastructure, and environmental issues. While the future cannot be perfectly predicted, Walden's expert analysis is mandatory reading for policy makers, business leaders, and everyday people seeking to prepare for upcoming changes in North Carolina's economy.
North Carolina in the Connected Age
by Michael L. WaldenAt a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future. Today we are living in a technologically connected age that has completely transformed the North Carolina economy, Walden explains. Once driven by tobacco, textiles, and furniture, the North Carolina economy now thrives on technology, pharmaceuticals, finance, food processing, and the manufacture of vehicle parts. While the state as a whole has benefited from these dramatic transformations, some population groups and regions have not experienced consistent economic growth. Walden identifies education as the key factor; a skilled, college-educated work force, he argues, is now a region's most prized commodity. Walden traces how the forces of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have remade the North Carolina economy, impacted people and regions, and led to the most substantive public policy debates in decades. Written in a lively style and including original research and insights, North Carolina in the Connected Age is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the state arrived where it is today and what its future might hold.
North Dakota Beer: A Heady History (American Palate)
by Alicia Underlee NelsonBefore North Dakota obtained statehood and entered the Union as a dry state, the region’s commercial beer industry thrived. A lengthy era of temperance forced locals to find clever ways to get a beer, such as crossing the Montana and Minnesota borders for a pint, smuggling beer over the rails and brewing at home. After Prohibition, the state’s farmers became national leaders in malting barley production, serving the biggest brewers in the world. However, local breweries struggled until 1995, when the first wave of brewpubs arrived on the scene. A craft brewing renaissance this century led to an explosion of more than a dozen craft breweries and brewpubs in less than a decade. Alicia Underlee Nelson recounts North Dakota’s journey from a dry state to a booming craft beer hub.
North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660–1860: The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea (Perspectives in Economic and Social History)
by Werner ScheltjensThis book offers the first long-term analysis of the protracted struggle between Britain, France, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden for economic power and political influence in the northern part of the Eurasian continent between 1660 and 1860. This book shows how their commercial, diplomatic, and military entanglements determined the course of Baltic trade from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, provoking, among other things, the decline of the Dutch Republic and the partitions of Poland-Lithuania. The author conceptualizes the Baltic Sea as one of North Eurasia’s western border basins, alongside the White, Black, and Caspian Seas, and employs novel statistical series of Baltic trade as a proxy for the long-term development of North Eurasian trade in world history. Based on extensive quantitative evidence and sources for the history of international relations, this book outlines how North Eurasian trade became an object of growing tensions between various larger and smaller powers with a stake in North Eurasia’s riches. The book addresses the long-term impact of mercantilist policies, territorial greed, and military conflicts in North Eurasia’s border basins, and accentuates the significance of developments in the preindustrial transport and commercial infrastructure of the North Eurasian landmass. Employing the concept of North Eurasia and its different borderlands and border basins, this book overcomes previous limitations in the historiography of globalization and sheds light on a large, continental landmass, which researchers tend to leave aside for the benefit of a predominant maritime perspective in historical studies of globalization. North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660–1860 will be invaluable reading for students and scholars interested in world history, East European history, and the history of international relations and trade.
North Forty: Managing a Microsoft Family Office
by Luis M. Viceira William Simmons Cameron ParkerNorth Forty: Managing a Microsoft Family Office by Luis M. Viceira, Cameron Parker and William Simmons