Better Living through Economics / / ed. by John J. Siegfried.

From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human beings. Shulman elucidates the distinctiveness of South Indian theories of the imagination and shows how they differ radically from Western notions of r...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2010
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
Overview: Highlights of the Benefits of Basic Science in Economics --
1. The Evolution of Emissions Trading --
2. Better Living through Improved Price Indexes --
3. Economics and the Earned Income Tax Credit --
4. Trade Liberalization and Growth in Developing Countries --
5. The Role of Economics in the Welfare- to- Work Reforms of the 1990s --
6. Better Living through Monetary Economics --
7. The Greatest Auction in History --
8. Air-Transportation Deregulation --
9. Deferred- Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice --
10. Economics, Economists, and Antitrust: A Tale of Growing Influence --
11. Economics and the All- Volunteer Military Force --
12. Public Policy and Saving for Retirement: The Autosave Features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 --
Contributors --
Index
Summary:From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human beings. Shulman elucidates the distinctiveness of South Indian theories of the imagination and shows how they differ radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780674054622
9783110756067
9783110442205
DOI:10.4159/9780674054622
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by John J. Siegfried.