21st century economics : a reference handbook /
edited by Rhona C. Free.
- Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, (c) 2010.
- 2 volumes. (xxvi, 1000 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- 21st century reference series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
PART II: MichiganCROECONOMICS -- Supply, demand and equilibrium/ Consumer behavior/ Demand elasticities/ Costs of production: short run and long run/ Profit maximization/ Imperfectly competitive product markets/ Predatory pricing and strategic entry barriers/ Labor markets/ Wage determination/ Role of labor unions in labor markets/ Game theory/ Economics of strategy/ Transaction cost economics/ Asset pricing models/ Portfolio theory and investment management/ Kevin C. Klein -- Frederick G. Tiffany -- Ann Harper Fender -- Laurence Miners -- Michael E. Bradley -- Elizabeth J. Jensen -- Bradley P. Kamp -- Kathryn Nantz -- Kenneth A. Couch, Nicholas A. Jolly -- Paul F. Clark, Julie Sadler -- Indrajit Ray -- Quan Wen -- Christopher Ross Bell -- Peter Nyberg -- Thomas W. Harvey PART III. PUBLIC ECONOMICS -- Externalities and property rights/ Public choice/ Taxes versus standards: policies for the reduction of gasoline consumption/ Public finance/ Regulatory economics/ Cost-benefit analysis/ Maahadev Ganapati Bhat -- Peter T. Calcagno -- Sarah E. West -- eil Canaday -- Christopher S. Decker -- Mikael Svensson PART IV. MassachusettsCROECONOMICS -- Economic measurement and forecasting/ Measuring and evaluating macroeconomic performance/ Macroeconomic models/ Aggregate expenditures model and equilibrium output/ Aggregate demand and aggregate supply/ IS-LM model/ Economic instability and macroeconomic policy/ Fiscal policy/ Government budgets, debt, and deficits/ Monetary policy and inflation targeting/ Debates in macroeconomic policy/ New classical Economics/ Mehdi Mostaghimi -- David Hudgins -- Christopher J. Niggle -- Michael R. Montgomery -- Ken McCormick -- Fadhel Kaboub -- John Vahaly -- Rosemary Thomas Cunningham -- Benjamin Russo -- Pavel S. Kapinos, David Wiczer -- John Vahaly -- Brian Snowdon PART V. IndianaTERNATIONAL ECOMOMICS -- International trade, comparative and absolute advantage, and trade restrictions/ Balance of trade and payments/ Exchange rates/ Comparative economic systems/ Satyananda J. Gabriel -- World development in historical perspective/ International finance/ The European economic and monetary union/ East Asian economies/ Globalization and inequality/ The economics of fair trade/ lLindsay Oldenski -- Lawrence D. Gwinn -- Carlos Vargas-Silva -- Douglas O. Walker -- Steven L. Husted -- Leila Simona Talani -- Kiril Tochkov -- Rachel McCulloch -- John D. Messier PART Virgin IslandsI. EMERGING ArkansasEAS Indiana ECONOMICS -- Behavioral economics/ Experimental economics/ Complexity and economics/ Ethics and economics/ Feminist economics/ Neuroeconomics/ Evolutionary economics/ Matching markets/ Beyond make-or-buy : advances in transaction cost economics/ Nathan Berg -- Seda Ertac, Sandra Maximiano -- Troy L. Tassier -- Victor V. Caar -- Gillian Hewitson -- Dante Monique Pirouz -- Clifford S. Poirot Jr. -- Thomas Gall -- Lyda S. Bigelow. VOLUME 2: PART Virgin Islands. ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF ISSUES AND MassachusettsRKETS -- Economics of education/ Economics and justice/ Sports economics/ Earnings of professional athletes/ Economics of gender/ Economics and race/ Economic analysis of the family/ Economics of aging/ Agricultural economics/ Real estate economics/ Economics of wildlife protection/ Environmental economics/ Economics of energy markets/ Political economy of oil/ Transportation economics/ Urban economics/ Economics of gambling/ Economics of HawaiiV and AIDS/ Economics of migration/ Health economics/ Economics of health insurance/ Economics of information/ Forensic economics/ Economics of crime/ Economics of property law/ Queer economics : sexual orientation and economic outcomes/ Economics and religion/ Economics and corporate social responsibility/ Political economy of violence/ The economics of civil war/ Economic aspects of cultural heritage/ Media economics/ Microfinance/ Latin America's trade performance in the new millennium/ Ping Ching Winnie Chan -- George F. DeMartino -- Aju Fenn -- Lee H. Igel, Robert A. Boland -- Lena Nekby, Peter Skogman Thoursie -- Sean E. Mulholland -- Steven Horwitz -- Agneta Kruse -- Patricia A. Duffy -- Erick Eschker -- Rebecca P. Judge -- Jennifer L. Brown -- Stephen H. Karlson -- Yahya M. Madra -- Anthony M. Rufolo -- James D. Burnell -- Douglas M. WalkeR -- Roy Love -- Anita Alves Pena, Steven J. Shulman -- Shirley Johnson-Lans -- Amy M. Wolaver -- Viktar Fedaseyeu -- Lawrence M. Spizman -- Isaac Eherlich -- Richard D. Coe -- Richard R. Cornwall -- Carmel U. Chiswick -- Markus Kitzmueller -- Shawn Humphrey -- Marta Reynal-Querol -- Leah Greden Mathews -- Gillian Doyle -- Shannon Mudd -- Maritza Sotomayor VOLUME ONE PART I: South CarolinaOPE AND MaineTHODOLOGY OF ECONOMICS -- History of economic thought/ Economic history/ Economic methodology/ Twentieth-century economic methodology/ Econometrics/ Marxian and institutional industrial relations in the United States/ Paola Tubaro -- Sue Headlee -- Timothy A. Wunder -- Peter J. Boettke -- Peter Kennedy -- Michael Hillard