...Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...end V. The Merits of Inflation VI. The Benefits of Oligopolies VII. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk VIII. The Business of Risk IX.... ...of wherewithal falsified all apocalyptic Malthusian scenarios hitherto. Operations research, mathematical modeling, transparent decision making, fr... ...stic position. Oligopolies are better placed to invest excess profits in expensive research and development in order to achieve product differentia... ...dity, external shocks, and other negative externalities. The behavior of a specific security reveals additional, idiosyncratic, risks, known as alph... ...y has yielded an equal number of Nobel prizes and controversies. The vacillation of security prices is often measured by a coefficient of variation ... ...s criticized, on March 26, "western publishers for selling textbooks to third world students at first world prices. There is a "textbook pricing cri... ... student discounts, and so on." Varian evaluates the contribution of each of these practices to economic efficiency in a 1996 article published in ... ... vibrant, model which does not involve over-pricing and anti-competitive predatory practices. The current model of property rights encourages monop...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ...onstitute a violation of the contract? Reductio ad absurdum: if, in the far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain ki... ...ated organs and sliced tissues (mainly the liver) available to their sick parents (practices known as Ko Ku and Ko Kan). Such donation were conside... ...rposes such as population control (chickens, salamanders, toads), food and protein security in conditions of scarcity (hippopotamuses, scorpions, c... ...later proven faked by the disgraced scientist - but they pointed the way for future research non the less. There are two types of cloning. One invo... ...n countries as diverse as Poland and Macedonia attest to this continuity of feudal practices. Both manual labour and trade were derided in the Anci... ... being the body politic. This inimical attitude should have come as no surprise to students of either urban realities or of communism, their parric... ...The owner, after all, looks after the dog and is the source of its subsistence and security. People – and dogs – have been known to have sacrificed...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.