The Choice

• Author : Ted Allbeury
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 27 March 2014

He had been born and brought up poor. Still poor he had married - a wartime wedding. Quiet. Mary his wife came from the same street and was quietly happy. That was her ambition: to be quietly happy and live where they'd always lived. But then he started to become successful. A job turned into a career and the career demanded a move and another. Mary more and more unhappy watched as he grew away from her and the background

• Author : Susan I. Ranney
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 July 1983

A two-country, two-factor, two-good world with incomplete specialization is explored in the context of international capital transfers, where the techniques of production of the same good differ between the two countries. It is shown that the terms of trade for the South will worsen with a capital transfer to the South under a wide range of assumptions about technology choice in the North, South, and North-owned sector of the South. The implied redistribution of world income, as well as the

• Author : Emmanuel Voyiakis
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 12 January 2017

Some say that private law ought to correct wrongs or to protect rights. Others say that private law ought to maximise social welfare or to minimise social cost. In this book, Emmanuel Voyiakis claims that private law ought to make our responsibilities to others depend on the opportunities we have to affect how things will go for us. Drawing on the work of HLA Hart and TM Scanlon, he argues that private law principles that require us to bear certain

• Author : Scott Franklin Abernathy
• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• Release : 12 November 2009

In School Choice and the Future of American Democracy, Scott Franklin Abernathy shows what is lost in the school choice debate. Abernathy looks at parents as citizens who exert power over the educational system through everything from their votes on school budgets to their membership on school boards. Challenging the assumption that public schools will improve when confronted with market-based reforms, Abernathy examines the possibility that public schools will become more disconnected and isolated as civic life is privatized. Scott

• Author : Sagi Peari
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 30 March 2018

This book focuses on the subject of choice of law as a whole and provides an analysis of its various rules, principles, doctrines and concepts. It offers a conceptual account of choice of law, called "choice equality foundation" (CEF), which aims to flesh out the normative basis of the subject. The author reveals that, despite the multiplicity of titles and labels within the myriad choice of law rules and practices of the U.S., Canadian, European, Australian, and other systems,

• Author : Roger D. Congleton,Bernard N. Grofman,Stefan Voigt
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 07 December 2018

The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice provides a comprehensive overview of the research in economics, political science, law, and sociology that has generated considerable insight into the politics of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as the influence of different institutional frameworks on incentives and outcomes. The result is an improved understanding of public policy, public finance, industrial organization, and macroeconomics as the combination of political and economic analysis shed light on how various interests compete both within a given

• Author : Kotaro Suzumura
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 06 June 2016

Social choice theory critically assesses and rationally designs economic mechanisms for improving human well-being. Kotaro Suzumura—one of the world’s foremost thinkers in social choice theory and welfare economics—fuses abstract ideas with real-world economies to examine foundational issues of normative economics and collective decision making.

• Author : Michael Barber
• Publisher : Zeta Books
• Release : 01 January 2011

• Author : David Gao,Ning Ruan,Wenxun Xing
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 11 November 2014

This proceedings volume addresses advances in global optimization—a multidisciplinary research field that deals with the analysis, characterization and computation of global minima and/or maxima of nonlinear, non-convex and nonsmooth functions in continuous or discrete forms. The volume contains selected papers from the third biannual World Congress on Global Optimization in Engineering & Science (WCGO), held in the Yellow Mountains, Anhui, China on July 8-12, 2013. The papers fall into eight topical sections: mathematical programming; combinatorial optimization; duality theory; topology optimization;

• Author : Paul Weirich
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 16 September 2004

Within traditional decision theory, common decision principles -- e.g. the principle to maximize utility -- generally invoke idealization; they govern ideal agents in ideal circumstances. In Realistic Decision Theory, Paul Weirch adds practicality to decision theory by formulating principles applying to nonideal agents in nonideal circumstances, such as real people coping with complex decisions. Bridging the gap between normative demands and psychological resources, Realistic Decision Theory is essential reading for theorists seeking precise normative decision principles that acknowledge the

• Author : Buenaventura M. Villanueva
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 July 2022

• Author : Joseph Jupille,Walter Mattli,Duncan Snidal
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 29 August 2013

Why do institutions emerge, operate, evolve and persist? 'Institutional Choice and Global Commerce' elaborates a theory of boundedly rational institutional choice that explains when states USE available institutions, SELECT among alternative forums, CHANGE existing rules, or CREATE new arrangements (USCC). The authors reveal the striking staying power of the institutional status quo and test their innovative theory against evidence on institutional choice in global commerce from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Cases range from the establishment in 1876 of the

• Author : Thomas R. Zentall,Edward A. Wasserman
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 20 March 2012

In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 July 1887

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 July 2022