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Focusing on foundational material, this textbook offers a deep dive into modern microeconomic theory, particularly for first-year graduate students. It highlights the significance of noncooperative game theory as a key tool for modeling economic phenomena, covering diverse topics such as agency theory, market signaling, and mechanism design. Emphasizing the importance of aligning theory with economic intuition, it also includes extensive appendices on game theory concepts and provides free online resources, enhancing the learning experience.

The book critiques the pervasive business and social information systems by examining their foundations in positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics. It argues that these philosophies are fundamentally at odds with nature, challenging their validity. Additionally, it explores alternative philosophical perspectives that oppose this dominant trio, offering a thought-provoking analysis of how these systems shape contemporary life and their implications for society and the environment.

Focusing on the relationship between continuous-time and discrete-time models in frictionless financial economies, this book provides insights into the mathematical foundations of financial mathematics. It serves as a crucial resource for mainstream financial economists and economic theorists seeking to grasp significant concepts and results from complex mathematical literature.

A thoroughly revised new edition of a leading textbook that equips MBA students with the powerful tools of economics This is a thoroughly revised and substantially streamlined new edition of a leading textbook that shows MBA students how understanding economics can help them make smarter and better-informed real-world management decisions. David Kreps, one of the world’s most influential economists, has developed and refined Microeconomics for Managers over decades of teaching at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Stressing game theory and strategic thinking and driven by in-depth, integrated case studies, the book shows future managers how economics can provide practical answers to critical business problems. Focuses on case studies and real companies, such as Amazon, Microsoft, General Motors, United Airlines, and Xerox Covers essential topics for future managers—including price discrimination, Porter’s five forces, risk sharing and spreading, signaling and screening, credibility and reputation, and economics and organizational behavior Features an online supplement (available at micro4managers.stanford.edu) for students that provides solutions to the problems in the book, longer caselike exercises, review problems, a calculus review, and more

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC12 2016, held in Salford, UK, in September 2016. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers deal with the constantly evolving intimate relationship between humans and technology. They focus on three main themes: ethics, communications, and futures.

"In The Motivation Toolkit, economist and management expert David Kreps offers a variety of tools, drawn from the disciplines of economics and social psychology, that you can adapt to your specific situation to achieve better motivation. This starts with understanding both the economic and social relationship your employees have with their work, their jobs, and your organization, then using that understanding to find economic or psychological motivators that will work."--Amazon.

Focusing on evolution from a post-Darwinian standpoint, the book delves into the philosophies of Henri Bergson and his impact on poststructuralist thought in the 1960s. It examines how Bergson's ideas intersect with complexity theory in environmental biology, highlighting the relevance of his concepts in contemporary discussions about evolution and ecological systems. The exploration of these philosophical connections offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing dialogue between science and philosophy.

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is incompatible. With discussions of Latin American revolutionary politics, indigenous knowledges, technologies of government and the teaching of paediatrics in post-invasion Iraq, complexity theory, medical anthropology and biomedicine, and the role of Islam in the transition to modern society in the Arab world, this interdisciplinary volume presents the latest theoretical research on different facets of these two thinkers¿ work, as well as analyses of the specific linkages that exist between them in concrete settings. A rigorous, comparative exploration of the work of two towering figures of the twenty-first century, Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory, political sociology, communication and media studies, and contemporary philosophy.

The book presents theories of individual choice and competitive markets in a clear and engaging manner, addressing common questions of interpretation and motivation that often go unexplored in other texts. Its accessible style makes it a valuable resource for both students and scholars, offering a comprehensive understanding of economic principles.