Comparative economics
The reasons, methods, and outcomes of system change in general, and in Russia and Eastern Europe in particular are analyzed, using the analytical apparatus developed in the monograph.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon [England] :
Routledge
2001, c1994.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Harwood fundamentals of pure and applied economics
Fundamentals of pure and applied economics Economic systems & comparative economics II ; 3 Harwood fundamentals of pure and applied economics. Economic systems & comparative economics II ; 3. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628692506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Series; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Approaches to the study of comparative economics; 1.2. Outline of the monograph; 2. Initial Concepts and Building Blocks; 2.1. Primitive terms; 2.2. Economic systems and system rules; 2.3. Organizations; 2.4. Types of organizations; 2.5. Preferences and values of participants in an economy; 2.6. Prices, money, markets; 2.7. Micro- and macro-coordination; 2.8. Internalities and externalities; 3. Technical-Administrative and Agency Problems in Organizations
- 3.1. Method and approach3.2. Behavioral assumptions; 3.3. Common themes in organizations; 3.4. Hierarchy and common organizational practices; 3.5. Organizational goals and interaction within organizations; 3.6. Variations in the structure and behavior of organizations; 4. Types of Organizations: Households, Firms and Government Organizations; 4.1. Control and agency problems in various types of organizations; 4.2. Households; 4.3. Proprietary firms; 4.4. Employee-owned firms; 4.5. Resource-pooling firms; 4.6. User-oriented (stakeholding and fiduciary) firms; 4.7 Government organizations
- 5. Superorganizations5.1. The coordination of firms through centralized planning; 5.2. Resource-pooling firms and other superorganizations operating in a market economy; 5.3 Franchising; 5.4. Superorganizations and their component firms; 6. Coalitions in Organizations: Labor Unions; 6.1. Power in organizations; 6.2. The formation of coalitions; 6.3. Labor unions as organizations; 7. Comparative Macroeconomics; 7.1. Claims, credit and banks; 7.2. National government policies; 7.3. Fiscal and monetary policies; 7.4. Macroeconomic accounting; 7.5. Banks and firms; 7.6. Foreign economic relations
- 8. Aggregate System Performance and Comparisons8.1. The determinants of outcomes; 8.2. Welfare comparisons; 8.3. Quantitative comparisons; 9. System Change; 9.1. A road map to system change; 9.2. Sources of system change; 9.3. Systems viewed as organic wholes: partial versus comprehensive change; 9.4. Components of system change; 9.5. Initial conditions: legacies and obstacles to change; 9.6. Systems and policies; 9.7. Concluding comments; Bibliography
