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  • The Economics of Consumption

    Theory and Evidence

    Consumption decisions are crucial determinants of business cycles and growth. Knowledge of how consumers respond to the economic environment and how they react to the risks that they encounter during the life-cycle is therefore important for evaluating stabilization policies and the effectiveness of fiscal packages implemented in response to economic downturns or financial crises. In The Economics ... Leer más

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  • Teaching, Research and Academic Careers

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book evaluates research quality, quality of teaching and the relationship between the two through sound statistical methods, and in a comparative perspective with other European countries. In so doing, it covers an increasingly important topic for universities that affects university funding. It discusses whether university evaluation should be limited to a single factor or ... Leer más

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    A Gender Analysis of the Standards of Living

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    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and afforded the same status as paid activities. This book constitutes a rigorous economic analysis with special emphasis on gender issues and covers every conceivable angle of unpaid work and all its ramifications for the modern economy ... Leer más

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  • Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

    From Theory to Practice

    This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools ... Leer más

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  • Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good

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  • Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3

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  • Measuring Research

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  • Youth and the Crisis

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  • Modelling the City

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    Modelling the City examines the changing role of urban models in respect to both the need to readdress measures of urban well-being and the perceived need to bring model outputs more in tune with key planning problems. The authors argue that whilst there has been substantial progress with a wide range of theoretical problems in urban modelling, modellers have not paid enough attention to the ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy

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  • Equity for Women in Science

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