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The Guide of the Perplexed

By: Moses Maimonides,Daniel H. Frank

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The reissue of Guttmann's edition of Rabin's translation is a welcome event. There has long been a need for a readable, judicious edition, for classroom use, of this large and complex work." --Michael L. Morgan, Indiana University

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Arturo Toscanini

The NBC Years

By: Mortimer H. Frank

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Arturo Toscanini

The NBC Years

By: Mortimer H. Frank

A detailed volume on Toscanini's heroic 17 years conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra, which he started at age 70. Includes archival broadcast recordings, repertoire lists, videography and a discography. 34 photos.

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1574670697

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Non-Punitive School Discipline

Relational Practices to Help Students Overcome Problem Behaviors

By: Adam H. Frank

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Non-Punitive School Discipline

Relational Practices to Help Students Overcome Problem Behaviors

By: Adam H. Frank

When educators are challenged to address problem student behaviors, the question in their minds should never be "What's the right punishment?" Instead, this book describes the benefits to both teachers and students of using a relational discipline approach. The author draws on deep experiences as a teacher, coach, and school principal to show how discipline done right can help students to grow in self-management and responsibility. Listening to students and getting to know them are key to helping them to see consequences and make good choices. The author includes sample teacher-student dialogs with actual words to use to deflect power struggles, develop positive relationships, and keep kids accountable without fostering resentment. Frank shares guidelines that have already helped hundreds of grateful teachers to avoid the frustration and discouragement that often occur when working with student misbehavior. Featuring enlightening stories and situation-specific strategies, Non-Punitive School Discipline will help K-12 teachers, school administrators, and support staff experience the joy and satisfaction that can come when students grow in positive ways. Book Features: Provides guidance for how to handle minor and major misbehaviors. Promotes discipline that includes accountability, within a non-punitive, restorative, and relational approach. Shows how schools can foster relationships that lead to positive growth for every student, even those who present problem behaviors. Ready-to-use forms and practical strategies to aid in implementation.

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Teachers College Press

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0807767263

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Luxury Fever

Money and Happiness in an Era of Excess

By: Robert H. Frank

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Luxury Fever

Money and Happiness in an Era of Excess

By: Robert H. Frank

Noting that America is in the grip of a luxury-buying fever, the author offers the first comprehensive and accessible summary of scientific evidence suggesting America's spending choices are unhealthy, as people are working more and socializing less. Frank proposes ways to curb the excess.

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Princeton University Press

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0691070113

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Microeconomics and Behavior

By: Robert H. Frank

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Microeconomics and Behavior

By: Robert H. Frank

Robert Frank' s Microeconomics and Behavior covers the essential topics of microeconomics while exploring the relationship between economics analysis and human behavior. The book' s clear narrative appeals to students, and its numerous examples help students develop economic intuition. This book introduces modern topics not often found in intermediate textbooks. Its focus throughout is to develop a student' s capacity to " think like an economist.

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0070218773

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Success and Luck

Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

By: Robert H. Frank

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Success and Luck

Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

By: Robert H. Frank

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone, and what we can do about it How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that chance plays a much larger role in important life outcomes than most people imagine. In Success and Luck, bestselling author and New York Times economics columnist Robert Frank explores the surprising implications of those findings to show why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in success—and why that hurts everyone, even the wealthy. Frank describes how, in a world increasingly dominated by winner-take-all markets, chance opportunities and trivial initial advantages often translate into much larger ones—and enormous income differences—over time; how false beliefs about luck persist, despite compelling evidence against them; and how myths about personal success and luck shape individual and political choices in harmful ways. But, Frank argues, we could decrease the inequality driven by sheer luck by adopting simple, unintrusive policies that would free up trillions of dollars each year—more than enough to fix our crumbling infrastructure, expand healthcare coverage, fight global warming, and reduce poverty, all without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. If this sounds implausible, you'll be surprised to discover that the solution requires only a few, noncontroversial steps. Compellingly readable, Success and Luck shows how a more accurate understanding of the role of chance in life could lead to better, richer, and fairer economies and societies.

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0691178305

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THE ECONOMIC NATURALIST

In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas

By: Robert H. Frank

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THE ECONOMIC NATURALIST

In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas

By: Robert H. Frank

Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic principles operate in the real world-which they do everywhere, all the time. Once you learn to think like an economist, all kinds of puzzling observations start to make sense. Drive-up ATM keypads have Braille dots because it's cheaper to make the same machine for both drive-up and walk-up locations. Travelers from Kansas City to Orlando pay less because they are usually price-sensitive tourists with many choices of destination, whereas travelers originating from Orlando typically choose Kansas City for specific family or business reasons. The Economic Naturalist employs basic economic principles to answer scores of intriguing questions from everyday life, and, along the way, introduces key ideas such as the cost-benefit principle, the "no cash on the table" principle, and the law of one price. This is as delightful and painless a way to learn fundamental economics as there is.

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What Price the Moral High Ground?

How to Succeed without Selling Your Soul

By: Robert H. Frank

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What Price the Moral High Ground?

How to Succeed without Selling Your Soul

By: Robert H. Frank

Financial disasters--and stories of the greedy bankers who precipitated them--seem to underscore the idea that self-interest will always trump concerns for the greater good. Indeed, this idea is supported by the prevailing theories in both economics and evolutionary biology. But is it valid? In What Price the Moral High Ground?, economist and social critic Robert Frank challenges the notion that doing well is accomplished only at the expense of doing good. Frank explores exciting new work in economics, psychology, and biology to argue that honest individuals often succeed, even in highly competitive environments, because their commitment to principle makes them more attractive as trading partners. Drawing on research he has conducted and published over the past decade, Frank challenges the familiar homo economicus stereotype by describing how people create bonds that sustain cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemmas. He goes on to describe how people often choose modestly paid positions in the public and nonprofit sectors over comparable, higher-paying jobs in the for-profit sector; how studying economics appears to inhibit cooperation; how social norms often deter opportunistic behavior; how a given charitable organization manages to appeal to donors with seemingly incompatible motives; how concerns about status and fairness affect salaries in organizations; and how socially responsible firms often prosper despite the higher costs associated with their business practices. Frank's arguments have important implications for the conduct of leaders in private as well as public life. Tossing aside the model of the self-interested homo economicus, Frank provides a tool for understanding how to better structure organizations, public policies, and even our own lives.

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0691146942

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Conformity

The Power of Social Influences

By: Cass R Sunstein,Robert H Frank

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Conformity

The Power of Social Influences

By: Cass R Sunstein,Robert H Frank

The New York Times–bestselling coauthor of Nudge reveals the appeal—and the danger—of conformity: “Fascinating and surprising revelations.” —GQ We live in an era of tribalism, polarization, and intense social division—separating people along lines of religion, political conviction, race, ethnicity, and sometimes gender. How did this happen? In Conformity, Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to making sense of living in this fractured world lies in understanding the idea of conformity—what it is and how it works—as well as the countervailing force of dissent. An understanding of conformity sheds new light on many issues confronting us today: the role of social media, the rise of fake news, the growth of authoritarianism, the success of Donald Trump, the functions of free speech, debates over immigration and the Supreme Court, and much more. Lacking information of our own and seeking the good opinion of others, we often follow the crowd, but Sunstein shows that when individuals suppress their own instincts about what is true and what is right, it can lead to significant social harm. While dissenters tend to be seen as selfish individualists, dissent is actually an important means of correcting the natural human tendency toward conformity and has enormous social benefits in reducing extremism, encouraging critical thinking, and protecting freedom itself. Sunstein concludes that while much of the time it is in the individual’s interest to follow the crowd, it is in the social interest for individuals to say and do what they think is best. A well-functioning democracy depends on it. “Eminently relevant . . . a must-read.” ―Booklist

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1479846848

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Principles of Microeconomics

By: Robert H. Frank

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Principles of Microeconomics

By: Robert H. Frank

This brand-new principles of economics text is the most exciting new entry in years.Written by well-known and well-respected economists,Bob Frank, Ben Bernanke, Lars Osberg(Dalhousie University),Melvin Cross(Dalhousie University) andBrian MacLean(Laurentian University) the text seeks to teach introductory students the core economic concepts--the essence of economics-- without overwhelming them with details. A well-articulated short list of core principles is introduced and reinforced by illustrating and applying each principle in several contexts, and then asking students to work exercises to see what they have learned.The text seeks to create "Economic Naturalists"; that is, after reading the text, students will ask (and answer) questions about their economic environment. For example, students will see Braille dots on drive-up ATMs and ask why they are there. Peppered with such thought-provoking examples, Frank/Bernanke not only engage students, but teaches them to see each feature of their economic landscape as the reflection of an implicit or explicit cost-benefit calculation.

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0070889740

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The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide

Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times

By: Robert H. Frank

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The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide

Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times

By: Robert H. Frank

Ask a dozen talking heads about how the economy works and what course of action we should take and you'll get thirteen different answers. But what if we possessed a handful of basic principles that could guide our decisions -- both the personal ones about what to buy and how to spend but also those national ones that have been capturing the headlines? Robert H. Frank, (a.k.a. the Economic Naturalist) has been illustrating those principles longer and more clearly than anyone else. In The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide, he reveals how they play out in Washington, on Wall Street, and in our own lives, covering everything from tax policy to financial investment to everyday decisions about saving and spending. In today's uncertain economic climate, The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide's insights have more bearing on our pocketbooks, policies, and personal happiness than ever.

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Basic Books

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0786744405

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Principles of Macroeconomics

By: Robert H. Frank,Ben S. Bernanke

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Principles of Macroeconomics

By: Robert H. Frank,Ben S. Bernanke

Avoiding excessive reliance on formal mathematical derivations, this book presents concepts intuitively through examples drawn from familiar contexts. The authors introduce a well-articulated short list of core principles and reinforce them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts.

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0071106057

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Microeconomics and Behavior

By: Robert H. Frank,Amy Jocelyn Glass

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Microeconomics and Behavior

By: Robert H. Frank,Amy Jocelyn Glass

This book covers the essential topics of microeconomics while exploring the relationship between economics analysis and human behaviour, which, in this context, is of significant interest to today's academic community. The clear narrative appeals to students, and the numerous examples help the development of economic intuition. The text introduces modern topics not often found in intermediate textbooks. Readers are encouraged to develop the distinctive mindset known as thinking like an economist.

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0071169474

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The Darwin Economy

Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

By: Robert H. Frank

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The Darwin Economy

Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

By: Robert H. Frank

What Charles Darwin can teach us about building a fairer society Who was the greater economist—Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, Frank argues, is that Darwin's understanding of competition describes economic reality far more accurately than Smith's. And the consequences of this fact are profound. Indeed, the failure to recognize that we live in Darwin's world rather than Smith's is putting us all at risk by preventing us from seeing that competition alone will not solve our problems. Smith's theory of the invisible hand, which says that competition channels self-interest for the common good, is probably the most widely cited argument today in favor of unbridled competition—and against regulation, taxation, and even government itself. But what if Smith's idea was almost an exception to the general rule of competition? That's what Frank argues, resting his case on Darwin's insight that individual and group interests often diverge sharply. Far from creating a perfect world, economic competition often leads to "arms races," encouraging behaviors that not only cause enormous harm to the group but also provide no lasting advantages for individuals, since any gains tend to be relative and mutually offsetting. The good news is that we have the ability to tame the Darwin economy. The best solution is not to prohibit harmful behaviors but to tax them. By doing so, we could make the economic pie larger, eliminate government debt, and provide better public services, all without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That's a bold claim, Frank concedes, but it follows directly from logic and evidence that most people already accept. In a new afterword, Frank further explores how the themes of inequality and competition are driving today's public debate on how much government we need.

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Princeton University Press

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1400844983

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Shifting Involvements

Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

By: Albert O. Hirschman

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Shifting Involvements

Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

By: Albert O. Hirschman

Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private concerns lead to public involvement and public participation that eventually lead back to those private concerns. Emerging from this study is a wide range of insights, from a critique of conventional consumption theory to a new understanding of collective action and of universal suffrage.

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1400828260

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On Liberty

Jewish Philosophical Perspectives

By: Daniel H. Frank

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On Liberty

Jewish Philosophical Perspectives

By: Daniel H. Frank

The communitarian critic of liberalism argues that the socio-political context is fundamental to any understanding of the individual as such. This debate is advanced by particularising it to the experience of Jews in the modern world. Essays focus on the variety of views of the relationships between the individual Jew and the communities, religious and secular, of which he or she is a member.

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Routledge

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1136822283

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Under the Influence

Putting Peer Pressure to Work

By: Robert H. Frank

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Under the Influence

Putting Peer Pressure to Work

By: Robert H. Frank

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter future Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way street—our environments are themselves products of our behavior. Under the Influence explains how to unlock the latent power of social context. It reveals how our environments encourage smoking, bullying, tax cheating, sexual predation, problem drinking, and wasteful energy use. We are building bigger houses, driving heavier cars, and engaging in a host of other activities that threaten the planet—mainly because that's what friends and neighbors do. In the wake of the hottest years on record, only robust measures to curb greenhouse gases promise relief from more frequent and intense storms, droughts, flooding, wildfires, and famines. Robert Frank describes how the strongest predictor of our willingness to support climate-friendly policies, install solar panels, or buy an electric car is the number of people we know who have already done so. In the face of stakes that could not be higher, the book explains how we could redirect trillions of dollars annually in support of carbon-free energy sources, all without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. Most of us would agree that we need to take responsibility for our own choices, but with more supportive social environments, each of us is more likely to make choices that benefit everyone. Under the Influence shows how.

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0691232717

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Principles of Micro-economics

By: Robert H. Frank,Ben Bernanke

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Principles of Micro-economics

By: Robert H. Frank,Ben Bernanke

In recent years, innovative texts in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other fields have achieved dramatic pedagogical gains by abandoning the traditional encyclopedic approach in favor of attempting to teach a short list of core principles in depth. Two well-respected writers and researchers, Bob Frank and Ben Bernanke, have shown that the less-is-more approach affords similar gains in introductory economics. Although recent editions of a few other texts have paid lip service to this new approach, Frank/Bernanke is by far the best thought out and best executed principles text in this mold. Avoiding excessive reliance on formal mathematical derivations, it presents concepts intuitively through examples drawn from familiar contexts. The authors introduce a well-articulated short list of core principles and reinforcing them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts. Students are periodically asked to apply these principles to answer related questions, exercises, and problems. The text also encourages students to become "Economic Naturalists," people who employ basic economic principles to understand and explain what they observe in the world around them. An economic naturalist understands, for example, that infant safety seats are required in cars but not in airplanes because the marginal cost of space to accommodate these seats is typically zero in cars but often hundreds of dollars in airplanes. Such examples engage student interest while teaching them to see each feature of their economic landscape as the reflection of an implicit or explicit cost-benefit calculation. The Second Edition of Frank/Bernanke follows the successful First Edition with several pedagogical improvements. Based on reviewer feedback, this edition offers (1) even more streamlined coverage of the cost-benefit approach in the introductory chapter; (2) exercises that are more closely tied to the examples; (3) expanded narrative explanations of important principles, making them more accessible to average students; and (4) expanded coverage of several key topics [see below]. The result is a revision that is motivating to students, an effective text for teaching, and an exciting first course in Economics.

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Irwin/McGraw-Hill

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0072554096

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Microeconomics and Behaviour

By: Robert H. Frank,Edward Cartwright

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Microeconomics and Behaviour

By: Robert H. Frank,Edward Cartwright

Exploring the relationship between human behaviour and economic analysis, Microeconomics and Behaviour establishes the fundamentals of intermediate microeconomics in a clear and narrative style and develops economic intuition about the world around us. The text continually encourages the reader to think like an economist through the development of core analytical tools and economic naturalist examples.

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0077151542

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Women in the Organization

By: Harold H. Frank

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Women in the Organization

By: Harold H. Frank

Includes a separate Instructor's Guide.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512802026

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Electromagnetism

By: John C. Slater,Nathaniel H. Frank

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Electromagnetism

By: John C. Slater,Nathaniel H. Frank

A basic introduction to electromagnetism, supplying the fundamentals of electrostatics and magnetostatics, in addition to a thorough investigation of electromagnetic theory. Numerous problems and references. Calculus and differential equations required. 1947 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486150402

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Distributional Consequences of Direct Foreign Investment

By: Robert H. Frank,Richard T. Freeman

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Distributional Consequences of Direct Foreign Investment

By: Robert H. Frank,Richard T. Freeman

Distributional Consequences of Direct Foreign Investment examines the net effect of direct foreign investment (DFI) on both U.S. employment demand in the short run and on the level and distribution of domestic income in the long run. Topics covered range from measurement of home-foreign substitution to the employment impact of DFI and the long-run distributional consequences of overseas investment. Short-run labor market adjustments to unemployment resulting from overseas production transfers are also discussed. Comprised of nine chapters, this volume begins with a survey of existing studies of the DFI phenomenon that critically evaluates the question of what firms would or could have done in the absence of a DFI alternative. The reader is then introduced to an alternative framework within which to estimate the degree of substitutability of home for foreign production. This framework consists of a microeconomic model of the multinational firm as it operates under two alternative policy regimes, one of which places no restrictions on the firm's activities and the second denies it the option of establishing a foreign production subsidiary. Input-output techniques, together with information on substitutability, are used to obtain estimates of the net employment impact of DFI. A probabilistic model of an industry labor market is also presented. In addition, the book analyzes the effect of technology transfer through licensing on the size and composition of domestic income. This monograph will be useful to practitioners who employ econometrics and mathematical economics.

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1483271536

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