How can both sides in a dispute avoid the heavy costs of a protracted struggle likely to produce a mutually unsatisfying outcome?...

Hardbound. The Handbook of Mathematical Economics aims to provide a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for the field of mathematical economics. It surveys, as of the late 1970\'s the state of the art of mathematical economics....

?This carefully assembled collection contains all the key articles needed for theoretical insight into the factors that influence entrepreneurship. It is an important set of readings for any program of study in entrepreneurship which calls for theoretical understanding of the phenomenon.? - Ian C....

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) which asks what people would be willing to pay for an environmental good or attribute, or willing to accept for its loss....

Hardbound. The Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare presents, in two volumes, essays on past and on-going work in social choice theory and welfare economics. The first volume consists of four parts....

Since World War II the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways....

This volume comprises fourteen essays, which identify four areas in which theoretical and empirical developments are discusses for the fuller understanding of personal (as opposed to collective) behavior with economic objectives: rational choice andassociated problems of logic; rationality as explained by game theory; experiments to elucidate ratio...

Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty\'s seeming immunity to public policy....