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" Economics, management and sustainability : "
Partha Ray, Runa Sarkar, Anindya Sen, editors.
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890035
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Economics, management and sustainability : : essays in honour of Anup Sinha /\ Partha Ray, Runa Sarkar, Anindya Sen, editors.
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Singapore :: Springer,, [2018]
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1 online resource
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9789811318948
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9789811318931
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981131893X
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3.2 Contingent Valuation Survey
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Intro; Preface; Economic Development; Vulnerabilities and Inclusive Growth; Sustainability and Corporate Governance; Innovation and Management; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Economic Development; Measures of Development-Concepts, Causality, and Context; 1 Alternative Measures of Development; 2 Problems with the Standard Measures of Development; 3 Symptoms Versus Causes of Underdevelopment; 4 Development Measures and the Political Context; 5 Conclusions; References; Governance: Some Observations; 1 Introduction; 2 Governance: Characterization and External Influence
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3 Framework for Examining Governance4 Concluding Comments; References; From Political Economy to Economics and Back Again?; 1 Introduction; 2 Use of the Terms Political Economy and Economics; 3 The Revival of Political Economy; 4 Economics Versus Political Economy; 5 A Very Brief History of Political Economy and Economics; 6 The Problem with Specialization; 7 Why the Shift from Political Economy to Economics?; 8 Conclusion; References; Public-Private Partnerships, Corruption and Inefficiency; 1 Introduction; 2 A Formal Framework; 3 The Analysis; 3.1 Government Department Does the Project
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3.2 Private Firm Does the Project3.3 Public-Private Partnerships; 4 The Government's Organizational Decision in Stage 1; 5 Conclusion; References; Vulnerabilities and Inclusive Growth; Capitalism, Crisis and the Common Man; 1 Introduction; 2 The Model for an Open Economy with Imperfect Capital Mobility; 3 Greek Crisis; 3.1 Effect of an Increase in Y^*; 3.2 Effect of an Increase in barK; 4 Conclusion; References; School Language Policy, Crime and the Minority Underclass; 1 Introduction; 2 The Model with Secure Property Rights; 3 School Policy Under Insecure Property Rights
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4 Discussion and Concluding RemarksReferences; Private Giving in Higher Education; 1 Introduction; 2 Preliminaries; 2.1 Solution; 3 Welfare Effects; 3.1 Agglomeration or Segregation; 3.2 Inefficient Agglomeration; 4 Conclusion; References; Being Out of Work: An Analysis of Unemployment and Its Duration in India; 1 Introduction; 2 Defining Unemployment; 2.1 Official Definition of Unemployment; 2.2 Sen's Criticism; 2.3 An Alternative Concept; 3 Database and Methodology; 4 Unemployment: Levels and Its Determinants; 4.1 Variations in Unemployment by Correlates; 4.2 Econometric Analysis
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5 Duration of Unemployment6 Conclusion; References; Sustainability and Corporate Governance; Sustainable Eco-Management: Participatory Mechanisms and Institutions; 1 Study I: Joint Forest Management; 1.1 Stakeholder Analysis: A MCDA; 1.2 Analytical Hierarchy Process; 1.3 Discussion; 2 Study II: Wetland Fisheries; 2.1 Strategic Importance of Sewage-Fed Fisheries; 2.2 Vocational Transition: Evidence from Field; 2.3 Vocation Switching Tendency; 2.4 Legal Initiatives to Protect EKW; 2.5 A Story of Coordination Failure; 3 Study III: Solid Waste Management; 3.1 Bally Municipality
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This book presents an eclectic mix of interesting new areas in the domain of economics, management and sustainability. Written by leading experts, it provides valuable food for thought, with essays introducing new lines of research and empirical research papers offering sound research methodology. The book not only provides answers, but also raises numerous interesting questions concerning the areas covered to whet readers' appetites to learn more. Professor Anup Sinha is a respected teacher and is a great mind with wide-ranging academic interests spanning from economics and sustainability to management. As well as in various other places in India and the US, he has taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Presidency College (now a University) Calcutta for almost three decades. To commemorate his contributions, this festschrift presents a collection of essays that are broadly subdivided into four sections: Economic Development; Vulnerabilities and Inclusive Growth; Sustainability and Corporate Governance; and Innovation and Management.--
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Economic development.
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Banking.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- General.
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Business the environment, 'Green' approaches to business.
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Development economics emerging economies.
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Economic development.
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Economic growth.
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338.9
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HD82.E26 2018
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Ray, Partha
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Sarkar, Runa
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Sen, Anindya
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Sinha, Anup
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