Data and analysis -- Pareto’s Law of Income Distribution: Evidence for Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States -- Two-class Structure of Income Distribution in the USA: Exponential Bulk and Power-law Tail -- Pareto-Zipf, Gibrat’s Laws, Detailed-Balance and their Breakdown -- Empirical study and model of personal income -- Blockbusters, Bombs and Sleepers: The Income Distribution …
Set Theory. Relations. Functions -- Equations. Functions of one variable. Complex numbers -- Limits. Continuity. Differentiation (one variable) -- Partial derivatives -- Elasticities. Elasticities of substitution -- Systems of equations -- Inequalities -- Series. Taylor’s formula -- Integration -- Difference equations -- Differential equations -- Topology in Euclidean space -- Convexity -- Cl…
The Problem -- Using the Environment — An Allocation Problem -- Static Allocation Aspect -- Production Theory and Transformation Space -- Optimal Environmental Use -- Environmental Quality as a Public Good -- Property-Rights Approach to the Environmental Problem -- Environmental-Policy Instruments -- Incidence of an Emission Tax -- Policy Instruments -- Policy Instruments and the Casuistics o…
Dynamical Connectionist Network and Cooperative Games -- A Direct Method for Open-Loop Dynamic Games for Affine Control Systems -- Braess Paradox and Properties of Wardrop Equilibrium in Some Multiservice Networks -- Production Games and Price Dynamics -- Consistent Conjectures, Equilibria and Dynamic Games -- Cooperative Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information -- Electricity Prices in a Game…
Insights from a Global Survey on Bank Capital -- The Effects of Basel II on Developing Countries: A Summary of a Global Public Goods Network eForum on Basel II -- Capital Games -- The International Transmission of Capital Shocks: Implictions of a Revised Basel Accord for Developing Countries -- Designing Banking Sector Safety Nets: The Australian Experience -- Globalization and the Growth of In…
The First Wave of Americanization, 1870–1945 -- Fordism and Taylorism Come to Europe -- Americanization as a Comprehensive Concept of Economic Development During the 20th Century -- The Second Wave of Americanization: The Great Post-War Boom, 1945–1975 -- Americanization as a Mission, 1945–1955 -- Mass Production, Mass Distribution, and New Technology -- Managing Firms and Their Consumers…
A General Theory of Intergovenmental Grants -- Theory of Public Education Funding with Court Intervention -- Assessing the Empirical Validity of the Theory -- A Legislative and Legal History of Public Education Funding -- The Future of Public Education Funding -- Conclusion.This book is about public education reform and the future of pubHc education funding. Given the many articles, books, and …
Competition, Universal Service and the Graveyard Spiral -- Will Entrants into a Liberalized Delivery Market Attract Investors -- Liberalization and Regulation of the Swiss Letter Market -- The Financial Equilibrium of Universal Service Providers in a Liberalized Postal Market -- Barriers to Entry in Post and Regulatory Responses -- Competition and the Coverage of Price Controls in the Postal Se…
Beyond Path Dependency and Competitive Convergence -- Tacit Knowledge, Path Dependency and Local Trajectories of Growth -- Regional Transformation and Regional Disequilibrium: New Knowledge Economies and their Discontents -- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization? -- Knowledge-intensive services as a key sector for processes of regional economic innovat…
Digital Cities and E-Government: The Institutional Perspective -- E-Government: European Commission Policies and Activities -- TeleCities: The Role of City Networks in E-Government Processes -- The Italian Approach to Local E-Government -- Experience and Initiatives in Europe -- E-Democracy: The Participation of Citizens and New Forms of the Decision-Making Process -- Web Service Portals: Trans…