Alliance Contracting -- Evolving Alternative Project Delivery

Alliance Contracting -- Evolving Alternative Project Delivery
Author: Douglas D. Gransberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2015
Genre: Project management
ISBN: 9780309271561

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 466: Alliance Contracting-Evolving Alternative Project Delivery synthesizes current practices related to the use of alliance contracts around the world, and explores the procurement procedures that have been used to successfully implement alliance contracting on typical transportation projects.

Foundations of Economics

Foundations of Economics
Author: Robin Bade
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
Total Pages: 1016
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780321365057

The Economic Way of Thinking

The Economic Way of Thinking
Author: Paul T. Heyne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Economics
ISBN: 9780131543690

Primarily for a one-semester survey course in general economics. The Economic Way of Thinking develops the basic principles of micro- and macroeconomic analysis, and employs them as tools rather than ends unto themselves. This text introduces students to a method of reasoning; to think like an economist through example and application. It even teaches by showing students how not to think, by exposing them to the errors implicit in much popular reasoning about economic events.

Women and the Economy

Women and the Economy
Author: Saul D. Hoffman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1352012014

An analysis of the enormous changes in women's economic lives around the world, from the family to the labour market. Hoffman and Averett examine topics such as the effect of rising women's wages and improved labour market opportunities on marriage, the ways in which more reliable contraception has shaped women's adult lives and careers, and the forces behind the phenomenal rise in women's labour force activity. This fourth edition includes brand new chapters on gender in economics and race and gender in the USA. It incorporates the latest research findings throughout, many of which are featured in helpful call-out boxes, and illustrated with new graphs and figures. This is invaluable reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics, development and women's studies. The level of economic analysis is suitable for students with basic economics knowledge. New to this Edition: - New chapters on gender in economics and race and gender in economics - Fully updated with new data, policy examples and a new companion website with lecturer resources - Increased pedagogy, with over 30 new boxes

Economics Today

Economics Today
Author: Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Economics
ISBN: 9780132554510

Students learn best when they see a concept applied in the context of examples they understand. That is why Economics Today: The Macro View is so successful in classrooms where students hail from a wide variety of majors, backgrounds, and ages. An abundance of relentlessly current, news-worthy examples motivate every chapter and reflect the interests of today's diverse student population.

Modern Industrial Organization

Modern Industrial Organization
Author: Dennis W. Carlton
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Total Pages: 808
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This text offers modern coverage of modern industrial organizations, including strategic behaviour and game theory. It uses a unified structure to analyse theories and empirical evidence about the organization of firms and indutries.

Law and Economics

Law and Economics
Author: Robert Cooter
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Provides students with a method for applying economic analysis to the study of legal rules and institutions. Four key areas of law are covered: property; contracts; torts; and crime and punishment. Added examples and cases help to clarify economic applications further.

The Economics of Macro Issues

The Economics of Macro Issues
Author: Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Beskrivende økonomi
ISBN: 9780321197511

Economics can be both entertaining and informative. This next text, by the authors of the market leading Economics of Public Issues, focuses solely on macroeconomic issues that include changes in the unemployment rate, inflation, the federal budget deficit, the international balance of payments, interest rates, and Social Security. This all-new text features 29 chapters that examine such compelling topics as the economics of an aging workforce, government spending and why it is growing so quickly, and the spread of overdraft charges.