Economics, management and sustainability : essays in honour of Anup Sinha /: essays in honour of Anup Sinha. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Partha Ray, Runa Sarkar, Anindya Sen, editors.
• Editors: Ray, Partha; Sarkar, Runa; Sen, Anindya
• Other Names: Sinha, Anup honouree.
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Economic Development; Vulnerabilities and Inclusive Growth; Sustainability and Corporate Governance; Innovation and Management; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Economic Development; Measures of Development-Concepts, Causality, and Context; 1 Alternative Measures of Development; 2 Problems with the Standard Measures of Development; 3 Symptoms Versus Causes of Underdevelopment; 4 Development Measures and the Political Context; 5 Conclusions; References; Governance: Some Observations; 1 Introduction; 2 Governance: Characterization and External Influence 3 Framework for Examining Governance4 Concluding Comments; References; From Political Economy to Economics and Back Again?; 1 Introduction; 2 Use of the Terms Political Economy and Economics; 3 The Revival of Political Economy; 4 Economics Versus Political Economy; 5 A Very Brief History of Political Economy and Economics; 6 The Problem with Specialization; 7 Why the Shift from Political Economy to Economics?; 8 Conclusion; References; Public-Private Partnerships, Corruption and Inefficiency; 1 Introduction; 2 A Formal Framework; 3 The Analysis; 3.1 Government Department Does the Project 3.2 Private Firm Does the Project3.3 Public-Private Partnerships; 4 The Government's Organizational Decision in Stage 1; 5 Conclusion; References; Vulnerabilities and Inclusive Growth; Capitalism, Crisis and the Common Man; 1 Introduction; 2 The Model for an Open Economy with Imperfect Capital Mobility; 3 Greek Crisis; 3.1 Effect of an Increase in Y *; 3.2 Effect of an Increase in barK; 4 Conclusion; References; School Language Policy, Crime and the Minority Underclass; 1 Introduction; 2 The Model with Secure Property Rights; 3 School Policy Under Insecure Property Rights 4 Discussion and Concluding RemarksReferences; Private Giving in Higher Education; 1 Introduction; 2 Preliminaries; 2.1 Solution; 3 Welfare Effects; 3.1 Agglomeration or Segregation; 3.2 Inefficient Agglomeration; 4 Conclusion; References; Being Out of Work: An Analysis of Unemployment and Its Duration in India; 1 Introduction; 2 Defining Unemployment; 2.1 Official Definition of Unemployment; 2.2 Sen's Criticism; 2.3 An Alternative Concept; 3 Database and Methodology; 4 Unemployment: Levels and Its Determinants; 4.1 Variations in Unemployment by Correlates; 4.2 Econometric Analysis 5 Duration of Unemployment6 Conclusion; References; Sustainability and Corporate Governance; Sustainable Eco-Management: Participatory Mechanisms and Institutions; 1 Study I: Joint Forest Management; 1.1 Stakeholder Analysis: A MCDA; 1.2 Analytical Hierarchy Process; 1.3 Discussion; 2 Study II: Wetland Fisheries; 2.1 Strategic Importance of Sewage-Fed Fisheries; 2.2 Vocational Transition: Evidence from Field; 2.3 Vocation Switching Tendency; 2.4 Legal Initiatives to Protect EKW; 2.5 A Story of Coordination Failure; 3 Study III: Solid Waste Management; 3.1 Bally Municipality
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.9; Economics; Economic development; Business & Economics -- Development -- General; Business & Economics -- Development -- Sustainable Development; Business & Economics -- Banks & Banking; Development economics & emerging economies; Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business; Banking; Management science; Economic growth; Development economics; Banks and banking; Business & Economics -- Development -- Economic Development; Economic growth; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811318948; 9811318948
• Related ISBNs: 981131893X; 9789811318931
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 12, 2018).
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