The Empirics of Social Progress: The Interplay between Subjective Well-Being and Societal Performance by Fehder, Daniel Colin, Porter, Michael S., Stern, Scott

“…Though economists have long recognized that GDP is not by itself a measure of societal well-being, most GDP alternatives incorporate direct measures of economic performance. …”
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Sunk costs and sunk benefits in environmental policy : I. basic theory by Pindyck, Robert S.

“…The standard framework in which economists evaluate environmental policies is cost-benefit analysis, so that policy debates usually focus on expected costs and benefits, or on the choice of discount rate. …”
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Willingness-to-pay and demand curves: a comparison of results obtained using different elicitation formats. by Whynes, D, Frew, E, Wolstenholme, J

“…Health economists use "willingness-to-pay" to assess the prospective value of novel interventions. …”

Competition in regulated industries

“…Contributors are mainly economists and some are regulators. Helm is at New College, Oxford. …”

Why Is Central Bank Independence So Widely Approved? by Forder, J

“…It is further suggested that although many of the factors that have contributed to the rise of independent central banking since 1988 have been mentioned in the literature, there are also previously unconsidered interests which have been advanced by it and that their recognition contributes powerfully to understanding economists' support for independence.…”

War and Military Expenditure in Developing Countries and Their Consequences for Development. by Collier, P

The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research by Cavallo, Alberto F., Rigobon, Roberto

“…We emphasize how Big Data technologies are providing macro and international economists with opportunities to stop treating the data as “given” and to get directly involved with data collection.…”
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Accounting for the Poor by Townsend, Robert

“…Economists and other social scientists have long tried to understand the nature of poverty and how poor people make decisions. …”
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The economics of television in a digital world by Barwise, P, Picard, R

“…This report explores the economic factors underlying television and the policy arguments that emanate from them in the all-digital television world and reveals where differing perspectives and debates take place among economists and economic policy analysts and the roots of those differences. …”

Networks and economic policy by Elliott, ML, Goyal, S, Teytelboym, A

“…Over the past two decades, economists have made significant advances in understanding how networks affect individual behaviour and shape aggregate outcomes. …”

Productivity and the Crisis of Fordism. by Glyn, A

“…The paper examines the claim by the regulation school of French economists that the slackening of productivity growth in the advanced capitalist countries reflects the erosion of the "Fordist" system of production. …”

Trends in FDI movement of New Zealand economy over the last two decades: an analysis / Ershad Ali and Ronica Joyce Adriano by Ali, Ershad, Adriano, Ronica Joyce

“…Findings of the study might be of interest for researchers, policy makers and economists.…”
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Rhetoric of economic nationalism by Uzelac, Gordana

“…It is a 'well-known fact' - at least among economists, political economists, and in public perception - that Economic Liberalism and Economic Nationalism are antitheses. …”
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Constructing a social accounting matrix framework to analyse the impact of public expenditure on income distribution in Malaysia by Harun, Mukaramah, Abdul Rashid, Zakariah, Mohamed, Azali

“…The use of the social accounting matrix (SAM) in income distribution analysis is a method recommended by economists. However, until now, there have only been a few SAM developed in Malaysia. …”
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The Economics of Sharecropping: A Study of Two Tarai Villages of Nepal by Acharya, Ram N.

“…The issue of resource allocation under share tenancy system has always been a fruitful source of controversy in economic literature. The Marshallian economists believe that the share tenants apply variable inputs less intensively than the fixed rent tenants or owner operators while the Cheungian economists argue that there would be no difference in input intensity across the tenure systems. …”
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On the Causes of Civil War. by Hoeffler, A

“…What makes individuals take up arms and risk their lives in an insurgency? Economists, among other social scientists, have tried to investigate these important questions by using economic theory as well as empirical tests. …”

International trade and the environment: theoretical and policy linkages by Neary, J

Economic History and the Historians by McCants, Anne EC

“…An economics that is sensitive to the complexity of the past, conducive to beneficial social conditions in the present, or even just an economic history with a viable future will depend fundamentally on the commitment to hold two disciplinary inclinations in fruitful and balanced tension. Economists and historians should continue to talk to each other regularly, with open minds, as many already do, and as the fifty-year existence of the JIH attests. …”
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14.11 Special Topics in Economics: The Challenge of World Poverty, Fall 2006 by Banerjee, Abhijit

“…This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, have had some economics, and believe that economists might have something useful to say about this question. …”
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The impact of exchange rate misalignment on portfolio inflows in Malaysia by Mohd Sidek, Noor Zahirah, Yusoff, Mohammed

“…The primary reason why exchange rate misalignment is of interest to economists lie with the notional premise that risks emanating from overvaluation may undermine the competitiveness of Malaysia as a destination for portfolio investment inflows. …”
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