People and Markets (Microeconomics) -- Crises of Market Economies (Macroeconomics) -- Trade and Changes in the World Economy (Foreign trade) -- The State and Social Matters (Public Finance).The economies of the European Union are today highly integrated. Constitutive part of this high degree of integration is the euro which unites most of the Member Stateswithintheeuro-zone. Inordertoensurepros…
The Rationality of Consumer Decisions to Adopt and Utilize Product-Attribute Enhancements: Why Are We Lured by Product Features We Never Use? -- A Behavioral Accounting Study of Strategic Interaction in a Tax Compliance Game -- Information Distribution and Attitudes Toward Risk in an Experimental Market of Risky Assets -- Effects of Idiosyncratic Investments in Collaborative Networks: An Experi…
Durable Goods Lease Contracts and Used-Goods Market Behavior: An Experimental Study -- Towards a Hybrid Model of Microeconomic and Financial Price Adjustment Processes: The Case of a Market with Continuously Refreshed Supply and Demand -- Choosing a Model out of Many Possible Alternatives: Emissions Trading as an Example -- Internet Congestion: A Laboratory Experiment -- Experimental Evidence o…
Science and Society -- The Past, Present and Future of Human Nature -- Unethical Contexts for Ethical Questions -- Human Subject Protections -- Secret State Experiments and Medical Ethics -- Cross-Cultural Considerations in Medical Ethics -- Medical Ethics -- Reproductive Rights and Health in the Developing World -- Genetic Testing of Human Embryos -- Choosing Our Children -- The Heart Disease …
To the Reducibility Hypothesis -- Meritories and Social Interest -- The Autonomous Interest of Society -- The Principles of Economic Sociodynamics -- The Realization of Social Interest -- The Individual, the State and Society -- The Rational Behavior of the State -- Instead of a Conclusion… -- Economic Sociodynamics: Variations on a Given Theme.Grinberg and Rubinstein have written a profound …
Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction (Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes and Christoph Scherrer) -- 2. Can Germany Learn from the USA? (Christoph Scherrer) -- 3. After the Miracle (Stefan Beck) -- 4. The Dynamics of Industrial Restructuring (Frank Klobes) -- 5. The German Way (Michael Fichter) -- 6. Disentangling Deutschland AG (Christian Kellermann) -- 7. Transforming the Welfare State (Kai Mosebach) --…
Speech research overview -- Speech production and synthesis -- The voice source -- Speech analysis and features -- Speech perception -- Prosody.The overall aim of the book is to provide an integrated view of the separate stages of the speech chain, covering the production process, speech data analysis and speech perception. Analysis of information bearing elements of the speech signal have foun…
Poverty and Global Justice: Some Challenges Ahead -- Justice, Morality and Power in the Global Context -- “Saving Amina”: Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue -- Poverty as a Human Rights Violation and the Limits of Nationalism -- International or Global Justice? Evaluating the Cosmopolitan Approach -- Understanding and Evaluating the Contribution Principle -- World Poverty a…
Quality of Life in the Global Context: A Chinese Response -- Arts and the Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study -- Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live -- Global Quality of Life (QOL), Health and Ability Are Primarily Determined by Our Consciousness. Research Findings from Denmark 1991–2004 -- Participatory Partnerships: Engaging and Empowering to Enhance Enviro…
Age-Structural Transitions, Population Waves and “Political Arithmetick” -- Issues and Patterns -- Age-Structural Transitions and Policy: Frameworks -- Human Capital Aspects of Economic Development: A Comparative Perspective in Asia -- A Comparative History of Age-Structure and Social Transitions Among Asian Youth -- Policy Analysis, Models and Methods -- A Formal Model of Age-Structural Tr…