Top Research Papers on Economics

"Women and Economics" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is recognised as a cornerstone of feminist literature. The work deeply examines women's social and domestic roles from an economic perspective. Gilman strikingly reveals how women's financial dependence on men hinders both their individual development and societal progress. Arguing that women can only achieve true freedom through economic independence, this book stands as a powerful manifesto that remains relevant from the time it was written to the present day.

Economics of Aquaculture presents basic economic theory in a concise and logical format which is easily adaptable to practical application. Examples of economic solutions to common problems help you understand the need for economic application to aquaculture and the success that may come with sound economic planning and management. It also provides coverage of virtually all basic principles of microeconomics, farm management finance, and marketing applicable to the aquacultural industry. You will "walk" through the intricate maze of decisions which are necessary for success in the business env...

Welfare and well-being have traditionally been gauged by using income and employment statistics, life expectancy, and other objective measures. The Economics of Happiness, which is based on people’s reports of how their lives are going, provides a complementary yet radically different approach to studying human well-being. Typically, subjective well-being measures include positive and negative feelings (e.g., momentary experiences of happiness or stress), life evaluations (e.g., life satisfaction), and feelings of having a life purpose. Both businesses and policymakers now increasingly make de...

Public attitudes and policies toward LGBTQ individuals have improved substantially in recent decades. Economists are actively shaping the discourse around these policies and contributing to our understanding of the economic lives of LGBTQ individuals. In this paper, we present the most up-to-date estimates of the size, location, demographic characteristics, and family structures of LGBTQ individuals in the United States. We describe an emerging literature on the effects of legal access to same-sex marriage on family and socioeconomic outcomes. We also summarize what is known about the size, di...

I. INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF ECONOMIC CONCEPTS 1. Introduction 2. Review of the Economist's Arsenal II. THE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION OF SPORTS 3. Sports Franchises as Profit-Maximizing Firms 4. Monopoly and Antitrust 5. Competitive Balance III. THE PUBLIC FINANCE OF SPORTS 6. The Public Finance of Sports: The Market for Sports Franchises 7. The Costs and Benefits of a Franchise to a City IV. THE LABOR ECONOMICS OF SPORTS 8. An Introduction to Labor Markets in Professional Sports 9. Labor Unions and Labor Relations 10. Discrimination 11. The Economics of Amateurism and College Sports

This paper brings together methodological, theoretical, and empirical analysis into the framework of linguistic diversity. It reflects both historical and contemporary research by economists and other social scientists on the impact of language on economic outcomes and public policies. We examine whether and how language influences human thinking (including emotions) and behavior, and analyze the effects of linguistic distances on trade, migrations, financial markets, language learning, and its returns. The quantitative foundations of linguistic diversity, which rely on group identification, l...

The object of Marshall and Marshall's Economics of Industry was to construct, on the lines laid down in Mill's Political Economy, a theory of value, wages, and profits which shall include the chief results of the work of the present generation of economists. The result is a seminal economics work of the 18th century and beyond. Packed into this slim volume is material based upon the foundations of Mill's work.

Foreword: Institutions, Markets, and Games by Avner Greif ix Acknowledgments xxxiii Introduction by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg xxxv PART I: The New Study of Capitalism 1 The Economic Sociology of Capitalism: An Introduction and Agenda by Richard Swedberg 3 Capitalism and Economic Growth by Douglass C. North 41 Organizational Dynamics of Change: Politicized Capitalism in China by Victor Nee 53 Still Disenchanted? The Modernity of Postindustrial Capitalism by Francis Fukuyama 75 The Challenges of the Institutional Turn: New Interdisciplinary Opportunities in Development Theory by Peter Evan...

Methods for representing documents as high-dimensional count vectors over vocabulary terms, for representing words as vectors, and for representing word sequences as embedding vectors are introduced.

Students in economics are ever more distressed by the disconnect between mainstream economics and the real world. This book shows how post-Keynesian economics constitutes a coherent heterodox alternative, based on realistic assumptions and the integration of the financial and real sides of the economy, with an emphasis on the many paradoxes that arise in a truly macroeconomic analysis. The book is a considerably revised and updated version of the widely used and frequently cited 2014 edition, which won the EAEPE Myrdal Prize (now the Joan Robinson Prize).

This undergraduate/postgraduate textbook History of Economic Ideas details the History of Economic Thought and Political Economy over the last 250 years.

There is significant uncertainty around estimates due to the assumption that avoidable ADEs correspond to medication errors, data quality, and lack of data around longer-term impacts of errors.

The role of particular scientists in opposing policies to slow and halt global warming has been extensively documented. The role of economists, however, has received less attention. Here, I trace the history of an influential group of economic consultants hired by the petroleum industry from the 1990s to the 2010s to estimate the costs of various proposed climate policies. The economists used models that inflated predicted costs while ignoring policy benefits, and their results were often portrayed to the public as independent rather than industry-sponsored. Their work played a key role in und...

This chapter argues that an evolutionary perspective can provide useful insights that are widely relevant for the study of economic history and long-run economic growth.

A Handbook of Cultural Economics includes over 60 eminently readable and concise articles by 50 expert contributors. This unique Handbook is both highly informative and readable; it covers a wide area of cultural economics and its closely related subjects. While being accessible to any reader with a basic knowledge of economics, it presents a comprehensive study at the fore-front of the field.

Sociologist, historian and political economist, Max Weber is one of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His astonishing range and penetrating insights resulted in many influential books spanning religion, society, politics, and economics, permanently affecting the direction of the social sciences. General Economic History, published in 1923 (three years after Weber's death) and compiled from meticulous notes taken by his students, ranks as one of his most important books. It is a landmark work in economic history. From early forms of exchange in pre-capitalis...

Devine begins with an analysis of the theory and practice of capitalist planning, central planning and 'market socialism'. He argues that, while market socialism is currently favoured by many economists who reject both capitalism and the command planning of the Soviet model, it cannot fulfil the promises held out for it. In the remainder of the bo

For business statistics courses taught in Economics and Business Schools. This classic text is known for its accuracy and statistical precision. This text enables students to conduct serious analysis of applied problems in contrast to merely running simple"canned" applications to help students become stronger analysts and future managers. It is also at a mathematically higher level than most business statistics texts.

This 2nd edition compendium contains and explains essential statistical formulas and practical examples within an economic context.

Poor medication practices and inadequate system infrastructure—resulting in poor adherence, medication-related harms, and medication errors—too often results in patient harm. As many as 1 in 10 hospitalizations in OECD countries may be caused by a medication-related event and as many one in five inpatients experience medication-related harms during hospitalization. Together, costs from avoidable admissions due to medication-related events and added length of stay due to preventable hospital-acquired medication-related harms total over USD 54 billion in OECD countries. This report includes four...