This paper shows, using data from both the US and the UK, that average plant size is larger in denser markets. However, many popular theories of agglomeration - spillovers, cost advantages and improved match quality - predict that establishments should be smaller in cities. The paper proposes a theory based...
Organizational use of Information Technology IT is increasingly characterized as 'Services' rather than 'Systems' to more accurately reflect IT's impact on organizational practices. However, frameworks that can help us understand assess, and design information services in organizational contexts are lacked. This paper combines general notions of task, information, and service,...
Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP Total Factor Productivity growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new technology is embodied in new jobs. A model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United States, Japan and Europe is estimated and...
This paper develops and tests a model of electoral competition and campaign contributions. The standard model was extended to consider the implications for factor mobility and hence the structure of production. The model makes two main predictions. First, countries with more capital stock tend to implement more pro-capital policies. Second,...
Wim Van der Stede has become CIMA professor of management accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The appointment, announced at the institute's Management Accounting Research Group conference on April 17, is intended to raise the profile of management accounting and bridge theory and practice to help...
Black Britain; a photographic history. Gilroy, Paul. Saqi Books 2007 320 pages $35.00 Paperback DA125 Through a selection of striking black and white photographs taken between the late 1800s and 2006, Gilroy (social theory,...
Two-sector model of general equilibrium. (reprint, 1971) Johnson, Harry G. AldineTransaction 2007 118 pages $18.95 Paperback HB74 This classic treatment was the first to provide in condensed form the theory of general equilibrium and...
Roberts, M. (2007). Developing the craft of mediation: Reflections on theory and practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Reviewed by Lynne Hornyak, PhD., Washington, D.C Qualified as a barrister and social worker, author Marian Roberts practices as a family mediator at the South East London Family Mediation Bureau, one of...
Hammond, J. Daniel, and Claire H. Hammond. (2006). Making Chicago Price Theory: Friedman--Stigler Correspondence 1945-1957. London: Routledge 165 pp. ISBN 0-415-70078-7. While the various "schools of thought" characteristic of postwar economics are generally well-known, their formation is less so. Historical reconstructions by main actors of these schools often...
The new economic diplomacy; decision-making and negotiation in international economic relations, 2d ed. Ed. by Nicholas Bayne and Stephen Woolcock. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2007 391 pages $99.95 Hardcover Global finance HF1359 The...
Keynes, the Keynesians and monetarism. Congdon, Tim. Edward Elgar Publishing 2007 339 pages $145.00 Hardcover HB103 Congdon (financial markets group, London School of Economics) has influenced British macroeconomic policy for over 30 years; this...
Anti-dumping and countervailing action; limits imposed by economic and legal theory. Bentley, Philip and Aubrey Silberston. Edward Elgar Publishing 2007 225 pages $110.00 Hardcover K4635 Bentley works as an attorney in Brussels, while Silbertson...
Multiculturalism without culture. Phillips, Anne. Princeton U. Press 2007 202 pages $29.95 Hardcover HQ1161 Phillips (political and gender theory, London School of Economics and Political Science) responds to two concerns. The first is that...
I am grateful for the invitation to present this paper on Alpha and some aspects of its theology. Some years ago I asked a member of our congregation, who was a student at the London School of Economics, what he was studying. He replied, "Well, I think...
Wealth, welfare and sustainability; advances in measuring sustainable development. Hamilton, Kirk and Giles Atkinson. Edward Elgar Publishing 2006 201 pages $100.00 Hardcover HD75 If sustainability is to mean anything at all, say Hamilton, an...
The NBER's International Trade and Investment Program met at the NBER's office in California on December 1-2, 2006. Program Director Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: "Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring"--Gene M. ...
Tomorrow may just be a turning point in the way the world tackles climate change. Sir Nicholas Stern's 700-page report on the likely economic impact of such change is published, making the argument that the costs of not acting are likely to be far greater than the costs of acting...
185775770X Screening in disease prevention; what works. Holland, Walter W. and Susie Stewart. Radcliffe Publishing 2005 168 pages $49.95 Paperback RA427 The practice of identifying a disease or pre-disease condition in people...
Feb 13, 2006 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Researchers at the London School of Economics studied data from 700 US and British firms with between 50 and 10,000 staff. The ...
The NBER's Working Group on Political Economy, directed by NBER Research Associate Alberto F. Alesina of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on November 19. The following papers were discussed: Timothy Besley, London School of Economics; Torsten Persson, Stockholm University and NBER; and Danid...
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