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Principles of Microeconomics, 3e
by David Shapiro Daniel Macdonald Steven A. GreenlawPrinciples of Microeconomics 3e covers the scope and sequence of most one-semester introductory microeconomics courses. The third edition takes a balanced approach to the theory and application of microeconomics concepts. The text uses conversational language and ample illustrations to explore economic theories and provides a wide array of examples using both fictional and real-world applications. The third edition has been carefully and thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments, as well as to provide a deeper background in diverse contributors and their impacts on economic thought and analysis. For example, the third edition highlights the research and views of a broader group of economists. This is the official print version of this OpenStax textbook. OpenStax makes full-color hardcover and B&W paperback print copies available for students who prefer a hardcopy textbook to go with the free digital version of this OpenStax title. The textbook content is exactly the same as the OpenStax digital book. This textbook is available for free download at the OpenStax dot org website, but as many students prefer to study with hardcopy books, we offer affordable OpenStax textbooks for sale through Amazon as well as most campus bookstores.
Principles of Microeconomics: An Integrative Approach (Classroom Companion: Economics)
by Martin KolmarThis textbook provides a comprehensive and unique introduction to modern microeconomics. It adopts an integrative approach, positioning the main findings of economics in a broader context. It critically reflects on theories from a philosophical standpoint and compares them to approaches found in the social sciences, while at the same time highlighting the implications for the design of legal systems and business practices.Intended for undergraduate students, the book presents brief examples and comprehensive case studies to help them grasp the real-world implications of the theories. As such, it is suitable for an applied, yet technically precise approach to teaching microeconomics, as well as for a critical review of the economic mainstream. Starting from the question as to why and how societies organize economic activity, it analyzes the potential and limitations of various types of market with regard to alleviating scarcity and achieving distributive objectives, from an institutional perspective.This second edition systematically expands on decision theory by including chapters on traditional decision theory under risk and uncertainty, and on behavioral economics, as well as a chapter presenting findings from the neurosciences, evolutionary psychology, and narrative psychology. Furthermore, there are theoretical additions, along with updated case studies and examples – from trade wars to pandemics and the climate crisis.A new edition of the companion workbook features a wealth of exercises, ranging from basic multiple-choice questions to challenging mathematical problems and case studies, is also available.
Principles of Microeconomics: An Integrative Approach (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
by Martin KolmarThis text provides a comprehensive and unique introduction to modern microeconomics. It pursues an integrative approach by putting the main findings of economics into a broader perspective; theories are critically reflected on from a philosophical standpoint and by comparing them to approaches found in the social sciences, while implications for the design of the legal system and business practices are highlighted throughout. In addition, the book presents brief examples and comprehensive case studies to facilitate an understanding of the theories’ real-world implications.Starting from the question as to why and how societies organize economic activity, the book adopts an institutional perspective to analyze the potential and limitations of different market types with regard to alleviating scarcity and achieving distributive objectives.It not only covers traditional rational-choice models, but also systematically introduces readers to important findings from behavioral economics and psychology.A companion workbook is available which features a wide variety of exercises, ranging from basic multiple-choice questions to challenging mathematical problems and case study scenarios.
Principles of Microeconomics: Economics and the Economy
by Timothy TaylorThis fourth edition teaches the tools and principles that are standard for introductory economics, in a way that students can see the applications for the U.S. and world economy. The facts, anecdotes, and explanations have been scrutinized and updated throughout. Some new examples include high-profile topics at key points, like using the rise in demand for sand from fracking for principles of supply and demand, or explaining how the Federal Reserve is now conducting monetary policy by varying the interest rate paid on bank reserves. Tim Taylor has provided a complete updating of numerical graphs and statistics. In addition, this book has been structured since the first edition to mix in international topics and to consider product, labor, and capital markets side by side, which helps it apply easily to so many of the topics now in the news: effects of globalization on growth and labor markets, budget deficits, the minimum wage, health insurance, and many more.
Principles of Microeconomics: From Theory to Practice and Applications
by Stefani Milovanska-FarringtonThis textbook offers a comprehensive overview of microeconomics, featuring teachable and applicable approaches to core concepts. It includes fresh examples and applications to help students understand and apply opportunity cost, choice theory, and more to their own world. Throughout the book, there are practice problems with step-by-step solutions that help students better understand the topics covered. Sections provide scenarios to help students analyze consumer choices as well as the decisions of firms. Readers will learn how to evaluate the impact of microeconomic policies and how to perform equilibrium analysis. The author publishes digital worksheets with questions based on recent news stories that readers can use as they work through the book: https://econstefani.substack.com/. The book, combined with these free materials, introduces new and fresh approaches to help students apply fundamental concepts to the world around them. The resulting book is a valuable learning tool that highlights microeconomic principles for a new generation of learners.
Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene: An Introduction, Fourth Edition
by Sue ReedNow in its fourth edition, this book allows for early career occupational hygienists and occupational health and safety professionals or students to develop their basic skills and knowledge to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control workplace hazards that can result in injury, illness, impairment, or affect the well-being of workers and members of the community. Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene: An Introduction, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive overview of occupational health risks and hazardous environments encountered in a range of industries and organizational settings.This new edition offers information on the current techniques and equipment used in assessing workplace hazards. Methods of assessment are developing at a rapid rate due to the new technologies now available. Featuring new chapters on occupational hygiene statistics and psychosocial hazards and fully updated throughout, leading industry professionals and educators explain how to identify key workplace hazards including chemical agents such as dusts, metals and gases; physical agents such as noise, radiation and extremes of heat and cold; and microbiological agents. The book highlights assessment procedures and processes for identifying exposure levels and explains how to evaluate risk and follow safety guidelines to control and manage these hazards effectively. Highly illustrated, up to date with current Workplace Health and Safety legislation and written in a jargon-free manner, this book will be a bible to any student or professional.Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene: An Introduction, Fourth Edition is an essential reference for students, early career Occupational Hygienists professionals and anyone in an Occupational Health and Safety role.
Principles of Operations Management (Eighth Edition)
by Jay Heizer Barry RenderThis book presents a state-of-the- art view of the activities of the operations function. This book will also help you understand how OM affects society and your life.
Principles of Organizational Behavior: The Handbook of Evidence-Based Management
by Edwin A. Locke Craig L. PearceExplore invaluable management advice informed by the latest in organizational and industrial behaviour research In the newly revised Third Edition of Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior: Indispensable Knowledge for Evidence-Based Management, world-renowned organizational behaviourists Edwin A. Locke and Craig L. Pearce deliver a comprehensive and authoritative discussion of sound management practices informed by the most recent evidence and research in organizational and industrial psychology. In the book, the authors present: Complimentary and downloadable video material linked to each chapter Executive interviews and author interviews, new cases, assessments, inventories and exercises Updated chapters written by world-leading experts on the covered topicsAn indispensable resource for students of human resources, organizational behaviour, industrial psychology, public administration and related subjects, Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior will assist students and professionals seeking the latest evidence-based management guidance.
Principles of Pharmaceutical Marketing
by Mickey C. Smith Ph.D.Principles of Pharmaceutical Marketing, Third Edition offers the perspectives of both those who teach and those who practice pharmaceutical marketing. This reflects the need for and the effort to provide the most relevant “real world” approach to this complex and fascinating field. This text is designed for undergraduate students in pharmacy whose background in marketing is limited, those actually involved in pharmaceutical marketing, and anyone desiring an introduction to the intricacies involved in the marketing of pharmaceutical products.
Principles of Political Economy
by Wilhelm RoscherWilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher was a German economist from Hanover. He studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844, and subsequently at Leipzig in 1848. The main origins of the historical school of political economy may be traced to Roscher. Roscher tried to establish the laws of economic development by using the historical method from investigation of histories legal, political, cultural and other aspects, and developed a cyclical theory where nations and their economies pass though youth, manhood, and senile decay.
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation [1911 Edition]
by David RicardoThis landmark treatise formulated the guiding principles behind the market economy. Author Ricardo, with Adam Smith, founded the classical system of political economy, a school of thought that dominated economic policies throughout the 19th century and figured prominently in the theories of John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx.-Print ed.
Principles of Pricing
by Robert J. Dolan John T. GourvillePresents the basic principles of pricing, including value pricing, price sensitivity, and price customization/discrimination.
Principles of Private and Public Planning: A Study in Economic Sociology (Routledge Revivals)
by Wilhelm KeilhauPrinciples of Private and Public Planning (1951) looks at a key economic question: plan or no plan? By examining the economic theories of both planned and unplanned economies together with human and societal impulses, it aims to provide both an analysis and overview of the topic.
Principles of Product Policy
by Anita ElberseProvides an introduction to key product policy issues.
Principles of Project Finance
by E. R. YescombeThe Second Edition of this best selling introduction for practitioners uses new material and updates to describe the changing environment for project finance. Integrating recent developments in credit markets with revised insights into making project finance deals, the second edition offers a balanced view of project financing by combining legal, contractual, scheduling, and other subjects. Its emphasis on concepts and techniques makes it critical for those who want to succeed in financing large projects. With extensive cross references and a comprehensive glossary, the Second Edition presents anew a guide to the principles and practical issues that can commonly cause difficulties in commercial and financial negotiations. <p><p> <ul> <li>Provides a basic introduction to project finance and its relationship with other financing techniques</li> <li>Describes and explains: sources of project finance; typical commercial contracts (e.g., for construction of the project and sale of its product or services) and their effects on project finance structures; project finance risk assessment from the points of view of lenders, investors, and other project parties; how lenders and investors evaluate the risks and returns on a project; the rôle of the public sector in public private partnerships and other privately financed infrastructure projects; how all these issues are dealt with in the financing agreements</li> </ul>
Principles of Project and Infrastructure Finance
by Willie TanCurrent books on project finance tend to be non-technical and are either procedural or rely heavily on case studies. In contrast, this textbook provides a more analytical perspective, without a loss of pragmatism. Principles of Project and Infrastructure Finance is written for senior undergraduates, graduate students and practitioners who wish to know how major projects, such as residential and infrastructural developments, are financed. The approach is intuitive, yet rigorous, making the book highly readable. Case studies are used to illustrate integration as well as to underscore the pragmatic slant.
Principles of Public Finance
by Toshihiro IhoriThis textbook equips instructors and students with an overview of the existing literature so that the latter can attain an overall understanding of macroeconomic and microeconomic public finance. The literature on public finance has grown dramatically with theoretical studies and empirical analysis, and much of the focus has been on macroeconomic effects of public services. The standard textbook offerings, however, are mainly restricted to microeconomic topics of public finance. This text intends to fill this gap by presenting a theoretical-based, comprehensive explanation of public finance. Particular emphasis is directed at developing tools that can be applied theoretically and empirically to clarify essential economic concerns in the current public sector in advanced countries, including Japan. Such concerns include the macroeconomic effect of fiscal policy, the dependence on bonds for covering government deficits, and social security reform. The main text explains the standard concepts of public finance, and the appendix offers various advanced topics. The material will facilitate an understanding of how to investigate changes in the public sector, interpret results, and basically do research on fiscal policy. The textbook will be of value to a broad range of course offerings, including those generally focused on fiscal policy, on social security reform and on tax reform.
Principles of Public Finance (Routledge Library Editions)
by Hugh Dalton'Dalton has succeeded in expressing general economic concepts in simple language' The Economist. The 1971 edition of this famous textbook includes recent material to the general survey on the theory of taxation, other forms of public revenue, public expenditure and public debts. There are chapters on modern theories of budgetary policy and the controversial cheap money policy, pursued by the author when he was in charge of the British Treasury from 1945-1947.
Principles of Public Speaking
by Kathleen GermanBalancing skills and theory, this introductory public speaking textbook encourages the reader to see public speaking as a way to build community in today’s diverse world. Within a framework that emphasizes speaker responsibility, listening, and cultural awareness, this classic book uses examples from college, workplace, political, and social communication to make the study of public speaking relevant, contemporary, and exciting. This new edition includes expanded coverage of mediated speaking with examples from podcasts and online speaking contexts; discussion of ethical issues of contemporary public discourse, including disinformation and public civility; and tips for extemporaneous speaking. This textbook is ideal for general courses on public speaking as well as specialized programs in business, management, political communication, and public affairs. A companion website including an instructor’s manual containing discussion questions, exercises, quiz questions, and suggestions for syllabus design is available at www.routledge.com/cw/german.
Principles of Quantitative Development
by Manoj ThulasidasPrinciples of Quantitative Development is a practical guide to designing, building and deploying a trading platform. It is also a lucid and succinct exposé on the trade life cycle and the business groups involved in managing it, bringing together the big picture of how a trade flows through the systems, and the role of a quantitative professional in the organization.The book begins by looking at the need and demand for in-house trading platforms, addressing the current trends in the industry. It then looks at the trade life cycle and its participants, from beginning to end, and then the functions within the front, middle and back office, giving the reader a full understanding and appreciation of the perspectives and needs of each function. The book then moves on to platform design, addressing all the fundamentals of platform design, system architecture, programming languages and choices. Finally, the book focuses on some of the more technical aspects of platform design and looks at traditional and new languages and approaches used in modern quantitative development.The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM, featuring a fully working option pricing tool with source code and project building instructions, illustrating the design principles discussed, and enabling the reader to develop a mini-trading platform.The book is also accompanied by a website http://pqd.thulasidas.com that contains updates and companion materials.
Principles of Radical Decentralization: Moving Beyond Budgeting
by Jeremy Hope Robin FraserIt is not difficult to see why the budgeting process is such a barrier to effective empowerment. It restricts decision making to specified plans and budgets, and it assumes the absence of trust. This chapter outlines some common principles that leaders have used to remove these barriers to empowerment and transform their organizations.
Principles of Retailing
by Christopher Moore John Fernie Suzanne FernieRetailing is one of the biggest and most important sectors in today's economy. Graduates who are seeking a career in the sector will therefore require a solid knowledge of its core principles. The Principles of Retailing Second Edition is a topical, engaging and authoritative update of a hugely successful textbook by three leading experts in retail management designed to be a digestible introduction to retailing for management and marketing students. The previous edition was praised for the quality of its coverage, the clarity of its style and the strength of its sections on operation and supply chain issues such as buying and logistics, which are often neglected by other texts. This new edition has been comprehensively reworked in response to the rapid changes to the industry, including the growth of online retail and the subsequent decline of physical retail space and new technologies that improve customer experience and help track consumer behaviour. It also builds upon the authors' research over the last decade with new chapters on offshore sourcing and CSR and product management in addition to considerable revisions to existing chapters to highlight changes in online retailing and e-tail logistics, retail branding, retail security, internationalisation and the fashion supply chain. This edition will also be supported by a collection of online teaching materials to help tutors spend less time preparing and more time teaching.
Principles of Security and Crime Prevention
by Clifford W. Van Meter Truett A. Ricks Pamela A. CollinsThis introductory text provides a thorough overview of the private security system. This edition includes crime prevention and its zones of protection - the theoretical framework that provides the bridge between private and public sector law enforcement. From the historical development and the professional nature of security and crime prevention to the legal aspects of private security, this well-rounded text covers basic elements of security and crime prevention.
Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling
by Kenneth R. Baker Dan TrietschAn up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of scheduling theory, including recent advances and state-of-the-art topicsPrinciples of Sequencing and Scheduling strikes a unique balance between theory and practice, providing an accessible introduction to the concepts, methods, and results of scheduling theory and its core topics. With real-world examples and up-to-date modeling techniques, the book equips readers with the basic knowledge needed for understanding scheduling theory and delving into its applications. The authors begin with an introduction and overview of sequencing and scheduling, including single-machine sequencing, optimization and heuristic solution methods, and models with earliness and tardiness penalties. The most current material on stochastic scheduling, including correct scheduling of safety time and the use of simulation for optimization, is then presented and integrated with deterministic models. Additional topical coverage includes:Extensions of the basic modelParallel-machine modelsFlow shop schedulingScheduling groups of jobsThe job shop problemSimulation models for the dynamic job shopNetwork methods for project schedulingResource-constrained project schedulingStochastic and safe schedulingExtensive end-of-chapter exercises are provided, some of which are spreadsheet-oriented, and link scheduling theory to the most popular analytic platform among today's students and practitioners--the Microsoft Office Excel® spreadsheet. Extensive references direct readers to additional literature, and the book's related Web site houses material that reinforces the book's concepts, including research notes, data sets, and examples from the text.Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling is an excellent book for courses on sequencing and scheduling at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the fields of statistics, computer science, operations research, and engineering.
Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling (Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science)
by Kenneth R. Baker Dan TrietschAn updated edition of the text that explores the core topics in scheduling theory The second edition of Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling has been revised and updated to provide comprehensive coverage of sequencing and scheduling topics as well as emerging developments in the field. The text offers balanced coverage of deterministic models and stochastic models and includes new developments in safe scheduling and project scheduling, including coverage of project analytics. These new topics help bridge the gap between classical scheduling and actual practice. The authors—noted experts in the field—present a coherent and detailed introduction to the basic models, problems, and methods of scheduling theory. This book offers an introduction and overview of sequencing and scheduling and covers such topics as single-machine and multi-machine models, deterministic and stochastic problem formulations, optimization and heuristic solution approaches, and generic and specialized software methods. This new edition adds coverage on topics of recent interest in shop scheduling and project scheduling. This important resource: Offers comprehensive coverage of deterministic models as well as recent approaches and developments for stochastic models Emphasizes the application of generic optimization software to basic sequencing problems and the use of spreadsheet-based optimization methods Includes updated coverage on safe scheduling, lognormal modeling, and job selection Provides basic coverage of robust scheduling as contrasted with safe scheduling Adds a new chapter on project analytics, which supports the PERT21 framework for project scheduling in a stochastic environment. Extends the coverage of PERT 21 to include hierarchical scheduling Provides end-of-chapter references and access to advanced Research Notes, to aid readers in the further exploration of advanced topics Written for upper-undergraduate and graduate level courses covering such topics as scheduling theory and applications, project scheduling, and operations scheduling, the second edition of Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling is a resource that covers scheduling techniques and contains the most current research and emerging topics.