Economics
Economics is the social science that studies how people interact with value; in particular, the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions. Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, and sellers. Macroeconomics analyzes the economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact, and factors affecting it: employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land, currency inflation, economic growth, and public policies …
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Invasive Species Council of BC · 16 May 2024 English
ISCBC coordinates the charity and non-profit society making a difference Indigenous Invasive Species Network to support in the lives of people across British Columbia by communication and knowledge exchange on …
economy. This report highlights examples of how the economics of doing projects invasive species pose a threat …
UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English
Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in …
comments from Laurier and Leacock reveal, if economics provided the motivation for the Empire, with …
Mackenzie Institute · 15 May 2024 English
(Written by Junhua Zhang. Originally published here in GIS Reports, republished with permission.) In a...
UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English
The old neo-liberal economic theory that deregulation will solve the problem of unaffordable housing is being contradicted by reality, with ugly consequences for social cohesion, mental health, urban vitality, and …
Inequality, Disease, and Urban Land / 13 2 The Economics of Urban Land Value / 55 3 Henry George and His … Chapters 2 and 3, which cover the underlying economics of the global housing crisis, are probably best … was an assumed fundamental law of real estate economics. This so-called law, as we shall see later in … job depends on it. The invisible hand of land economics over- whelms any rational government response …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …
makeable” (Heinzen and Muliro 2004, 9). Hayekian economics and resilience theory each supply, in separate … colonialism) is understood to serve as proxy. As economics becomes the principal mechanism of selection/dysselection …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday …
expert in physics doesn’t give you expertise in economics or politics. Einstein was wise enough to recognize …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be …
and capitalism ushered in the “carbon-intensive economics” behind global heating.25 Whyte argues that the …
Global Risk Institute in Financial Services · 13 May 2024 English
According to the report by the World Bank (2018)3 the driving force behind the price collapse was the “boom and rapid efficiency gains in U. [...] The oil price plunge …
pricing: A simplified approach. Journal of Financial Economics, 7(3), pp.229-263. Diebold, F.X., Yilmaz, K., … response analysis in linear multivariate models, Economics Letters, 58, pp. 17-29 World Bank, 2018. “With …
MEI: Montreal Economic Institute · 13 May 2024
By the end of 2024, there will be 103 in the province.2 With the broadest scope of practice and prescribing authority in Canada, pharmacists in Alberta pro- vide patients with …
public policy debate and reforms based on sound economics and entrepreneurship. 910 Peel Street, Suite 600 …
LCO: Law Commission of Ontario · 10 May 2024 English
More specifically, the project considers how to update traditional consumer protections such as notice and disclosure requirements, deception and unconscionability rules, and consumer enforcement in light of the new, complex, …
(March 1, 2010), University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 516, online: https://ssrn … (March 1, 2010), University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 516, online: https://ssrn … (168 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 1 (March 2012) at 1. 149 F lorencia Marotta-Wurgler … (168 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 1 (March 2012) at 1. 150 Yannis Bakos, Florencia … 312 A merican legal scholars of the “law and economics” school of thought have written extensively on …