Presents an overview of theoretical literature that studies the influence and formation of networks in social and economic situations in which the relations between participants who are not included in a particular participant's network are not of consequence to this participant.
This book seeks to raise the profile of economic perspectives on crime and criminal justice. It includes exemples and contributions, combined with commentaries on each chapter and annotated further readings.
Biotechnology offers great potential for sustainable agricultural growth in developing countries, yet there are many institutional constraints that inhibit the poor's access to such innovations. This text explores these constraints across developing nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
This volume reflects thinking on the implications of corporate governance shifting from shareholders to stakeholders. It deals with the socio-economics of decision making, and closes with a comparative analysis between socio-economics and communitarian thinking.
Economics Methodology and Economics is an introduction in some of the methodologies that have influenced the work of economists. The way in which such 'naturalistic' methodologies, for example those of Bacon, Descartes, Popper Kuhn and Friedman, have moulded much of the contemporary economics is discussed.
Attempting a coherent portrait of the heart of Japan's economic and political decision making, this book presents the top 2000 decision makers occupying the core positions in Japan's ruling party, the central ministries, and in big business and its organizations.