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Andreas Kontoleon, Editor ; Unai Pascual, Editor ; Timothy M Swanson, Editor | New York : Cambridge University Press | 2007Human induced biodiversity loss is greater now than at any time in human history, with extinctions occurring at rates hundreds of times higher than background extinction levels. The field of biodiversity economics analyses the socio-economic cau[...]
Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods[...]
Fernando Vega-Redondo, Author | New York : Cambridge University Press | Econometric Society monographs | 2007This 2007 book provides a systematic and self-contained account of the fast-developing theory of complex social networks. Social networks are central to the understanding of most socio-economic phenomena in the modern world. The classical approa[...]
Martin Browning, Author ; Pierre-André Chiappori, Author ; Yoram Weiss, Author | New York : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge surveys of economic literature (English ed.), ISSN 1355-798X | 2014"The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work, and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn[...]
Avner Greif, Author | New York : Cambridge University Press | Political economy of institutions and decisions | 2006Editor's description : "It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and others poor, some democratic an[...]
Riccardo Faini, Editor ; Jaime De Melo, Editor ; Klaus F. Zimmermann, Editor | New York : Cambridge University Press | 1999This 1999 volume takes a critical look at the current divide over immigration policies. It hopes to shed light on the debate by bringing together papers that investigate the link between trade and factor mobility, particularly labour migration, [...]
Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1), shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve [...]
Christiaan Grootaert, Editor ; Thierry Van Bastelaer, Editor ; Robert D. Putnam, Author of introduction, etc. | New York : Cambridge University Press | 2002Previously the role of social capital - defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, and the associated norms and values - in programs of poverty alleviation and development has risen to considerable prominence. Alth[...]
Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the twenty-first century. This textbook - based on the author's course and rigorously class-tested by his students - provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sus[...]
