Book Review: The Economics of Economists. Institutional Setting, Individual Incentives, and Future Prospects

Limits to rationality: economics, economists and priority setting.

This paper investigates why economic approaches to priority setting have had only limited impact in practice. It argues that obstacles to the take-up of the economic approach centre on (1) limitations in the theory and practice of economic evaluations, and (2) the nature of the wider context within which decisions on priority setting take place. On the first point, it argues that, despite advan...

The State of Islamic Finance: Post-crisis and Future Prospects

The main purpose of this paper is to trace epistemological roots of conventional and Islamic finance. Based on an extensive literature review, this paper aims to highlight, explain, and discuss an ideal conventional and Islamic financial system. The ideal conventional financial system is discussed in light of various writings by Smith and Arrow, based on Arrow-Debreu model. On the other ...

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...

Book Review The Economics of Russian Transition

This formidable book, organised into 26 chapters plus 6 scientific and statistical appendices, provides very detailed testimony and analysis of a group of economists, most members of the Institute of Economic Transition (IET) headed by Gaidar, intermittently at or near the helm of the Russian Government and the reforms during 1991–1993, and later leader of 'Democratic Choice', a liberal, market...

Book Review: Concept of the Corporation, Financing American Prosperity: A Symposium of Economists, & Economics in One Lesson