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Free Download Production Economics : An Empirical Approach (575 Pages)
by Charles B. Moss
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811238863 | 576 pages | True PDF | 11.84 MB

Free Download Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach by Anna Nagurney
English | PDF | 1993 | 334 Pages | ISBN : 0792392930 | 25.2 MB

Free Download Global Forest Carbon: Policy, Economics and Finance
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032565365 | 213 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
The global forest sector is expected to play a major role in achieving the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore practical and promising solutions to the challenges facing carbon accounting and policy assessment as the global community undertakes forest sector actions-including the widely known REDD+ initiative. This book demonstrates how vital it is that we identify appropriate perspectives and formulate approaches to address these challenges in an integrated and effective manner. In doing so, it addresses many of the major issues, including the differential potentials for carbon sequestration within various forest ecosystems as well as for storage within a variety of harvested wood products, the joint production of timber and carbon, and the measurement and impact of forest carbon offsets and credits, results-based payments, and other nationally determined contributions centered differences as well. The book examines regional and country-level case studies from across the world and draws on the author’s decades of experience working on forest policy and with the forest sector. Overall, this book highlights the technical and policy issues regarding forest sector carbon emission and removal to build useful perspectives, frameworks, and methods for addressing these issues successfully in the future. It advances the knowledge frontiers of global forest carbon policy, economics and finance as well as the ability to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of forest climate solutions.

Free Download Appraising the Economics of Smart Meters: Costs and Benefits By Jacopo Torriti
2020 | 172 Pages | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: 2019057254 | PDF | 4 MB
This book focuses on the economics of smart meters and is one of the first to present comprehensive evidence on the impacts, cost-benefits and risks associated with smart metering.Throughout this volume, Jacopo Torriti integrates his findings from institutional cost-benefit analyses and smart metering trials in a range of European countries with key economic and social concepts and policy insights derived from almost ten years of research in this area. He explores the extent to which the benefits of smart meters outweigh the cost, and poses key questions including: which energy savings can be expected from the roll out of smart meters in households? Is Cost-Benefit Analysis an appropriate economic tool for assessing the impacts of smart metering rollouts? Can smart meters play a significant role in research on people’s activities and the timing of energy demand? Torriti concludes by providing a much-needed survey of recent changes and expected future developments in this growing field.　　This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy policy and demand and smart metering infrastructure.

Free Download Identity, Capabilities, and Changing Economics: Reflexive, Adaptive, Socially Embedded Individuals
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009438239 | 303 Pages | PDF | 1.5 MB
Mainstream economics assumes economic agents act and make decisions to maximize their utility. This model of economic behavior, based on rational choice theory, has come under increasing attack in economics because it does not accurately reflect the way people behave and reason. The shift towards a more realistic account of economic agents has been mostly associated with the rise of behavioral economics, which views individuals through the lens of bounded rationality. Identity, Capabilities, and Changing Economics goes further and uses identity analysis to build on this critique of the utility conception of individuals, arguing it should be replaced by a conception of economic agents in an uncertain world as socially embedded and identified with their capabilities. Written by one of the world’s leading philosophers of economics, the book develops a new approach to economics’ theory of the individual, explaining individuals as adaptive and reflexive rather than utility maximizing.

Free Download Dog Economics: Perspectives on Our Canine Relationships
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009445553 | 216 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists study the origins of our relationship with dogs and how it has evolved over time. Sociologists and legal scholars study the roles of dogs in the modern family. Veterinarian researchers address the relationship in the context of professional practice, yet economists have produced scant scholarship on the relationship between humans and dogs. Dog Economics applies economic concepts to relationships between people and dogs to inform our understanding of their domestication. It interprets their contemporary role as both property and family members and explores factors that affect the demand for dogs as well as market failures of the American puppy market. Offering economic perspectives on our varied relationships with dogs, this book assesses mortality risks and addresses end-of-life issues that commonly arise. It develops a framework for classifying canine occupations, considers the impact of pet insurance on euthanasia, and assesses the social value of guide dogs.

Free Download Virgil Henry Storr, "Understanding Ludwig Lachmann’s Economics "
English | ISBN: 1009087665 | 2024 | 75 pages | PDF | 753 KB
Ludwig Lachmann is a central but underappreciated figure within the Austrian school of economics. Although his understanding of institutions, his appreciation of the heterogeneity of capital, his emphasis on subjectivity, and his focus on the dynamism and uncertainty of the real world have become dominant positions amongst Austrian economists, he is still viewed as something of an outsider. As such, the contributions of Lachmann’s economics are arguably misunderstood. This Element attempts to tease out and discuss the critical contributions of Lachmann’s economics. Arguably, one way in which to understand Lachmann’s economics is by seeing it as unified in considering, in various ways, a single conceptual ‘problem’ – the apparent tension between the dynamic nature of social reality and the intelligible nature of the social world. Approaching Lachmann with this theme in mind allows us to put things together more coherently than other exegetical strategies.

Free Download The Economics of Microfinance by Beatriz Armendariz, Jonathan Morduch
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0262012162 | 360 Pages | PDF | 2.0 MB
The microfinance revolution, begun with independent initiatives in Latin America and South Asia starting in the 1970s, has so far allowed 65 million poor people around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy insurance.

Free Download Readings in Development Economics, Volume 1: Micro-Theory by Pranab Bardhan, Christopher Udry
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0262522829 | 376 Pages | PDF | 2.1 MB
These two volumes of readings attempt to bring some degree of structure to a relatively diffuse field. Because of the sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier of the field, rather than as a comprehensive overview.Volume I: Micro-Theory focuses on theoretical work. Topics covered include sharecropping as a principle-agent problem, fragmented duopolies, credit market imperfections, poverty traps, peer monitoring in credit cooperatives, coordination failures, human capital accumulation as an engine of growth, and environmental issues in development.

Free Download Economics of Social Issues (21st Edition) by Charles Register, Paul Grimes
English | 2015 | ISBN: 007802191X | 496 Pages | PDF | 5.1 MB
Register and Grimes’ Economics of Social Issues originated the social issues approach to teaching basic economic principles and has garnered a loyal user following for its timely and impartial handling of current social issues that dominate the news.