Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be tested for ...

Economic growth refers to the increase in goods and services production over set periods, often measured by GDP or GNP, ...

How to identify the needs of a community and calculate the profits - not only economic - that a given project generates? The SEROI+ method meets these requirements. Directly involving stakeholders ...

In testimony Thursday before the House Budget Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was expected to support enactment of a temporary economic stimulus plan. Bipartisan consensus is emerging ...

Economics often borrows ideas from the sciences, yet unlike physics or chemistry, no country has ever run a controlled, pure economic experiment on a national scale. A pure experiment requires ...

Genetic-based technologies offer the prospect of information to guide clinical decision-making but will also have impacts on the use of health care resources. Assessing the clinical utility of genetic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I. The isolationism of the orthodox, Marxist, and historical schools in their concepts of economic science, 439; in their distribution theory, ...

A positive, statistical and economic significant relation between growth, income level and the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index has been amply documented. Most analyses, however, use OLS ...

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. The subject of this course is microeconomics, which examines the decision making of individuals and firms with regard to consumption, ...