<p><i>The Theory of Industrial Organization</i> is the first primary text to treat the new industrial organization at the advanced-undergraduate and graduate level. Rigorously analytical and filled with exercises coded to indicate level of difficulty, it provides a unified and modern treatment of the field with accessible models that are simplified to highlight robust economic ideas while working at an intuitive level. To aid students at different levels, each chapter is divided into a main text and supplementary section containing more advanced material. Each chapter opens with elementary models and builds on this base to incorporate current research in a coherent synthesis. Tirole begins with a background discussion of the theory of the firm.</p><p>In Part I he develops the modern theory of monopoly, addressing single product and multi product pricing, static and intertemporal price discrimination, quality choice, reputation, and vertical restraints. In Part II, Tirole takes up strategic interaction between firms, starting with a novel treatment of the Bertrand-Cournot interdependent pricing problem. He studies how capacity constraints, repeated interaction, product positioning, advertising, and asymmetric information affect competition or tacit collusion. He then develops topics having to do with long term competition, including barriers to entry, contestability, exit, and research and development. He concludes with a "game theory user's manual" and a section of review exercises.</p><p>Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition.</p>

The past twenty years have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance. Whereas once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations--equity, debt, and valuation--today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management, relationships between banks and corporations, and the macroeconomic impact of corporations. However, this progress has left in its wake a jumbled array of concepts and models that students are often hard put to make sense of. Here, one of the world's leading economists offers a lucid, unified, and comprehensive introduction to modern corporate finance theory. Jean Tirole builds his landmark book around a single model, using an incentive or contract theory approach. Filling a major gap in the field, The Theory of Corporate Finance is an indispensable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as researchers of corporate finance, industrial organization, political economy, development, and macroeconomics. Tirole conveys the organizing principles that structure the analysis of today's key management and public policy issues, such as the reform of corporate governance and auditing; the role of private equity, financial markets, and takeovers; the efficient determination of leverage, dividends, liquidity, and risk management; and the design of managerial incentive packages. He weaves empirical studies into the book's theoretical analysis. And he places the corporation in its broader environment, both microeconomic and macroeconomic, and examines the two-way interaction between the corporate environment and institutions. Setting a new milestone in the field, The Theory of Corporate Finance will be the authoritative text for years to come.

From the Nobel Prize "winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by strangers and asked to comment on current events far from his own research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect more deeply on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics can help us improve the shared lot of societies and humanity as a whole. To show how, Tirole shares his insights on a broad range of questions affecting our everyday lives and the future of our society, including global warming, unemployment, the post-2008 global financial order, the euro crisis, the digital revolution, innovation, and the proper balance between the free market and regulation. Compelling and accessible, Economics for the Common Good sets a new agenda for the role of economics in society.

This advanced text introduces the principles of noncooperative game theory-including strategic form games, Nash equilibria, subgame perfection, repeated games, and games of incomplete information-in a direct and uncomplicated style that will acquaint students with the broad spectrum of the field while highlighting and explaining what they need to know at any given point. The analytic material is accompanied by many applications, examples, and exercises. The theory of noncooperative games studies the behavior of agents in any situation where each agent's optimal choice may depend on a forecast of the opponents' choices. "Noncooperative" refers to choices that are based on the participant's perceived selfinterest. Although game theory has been applied to many fields, Fudenberg and Tirole focus on the kinds of game theory that have been most useful in the study of economic problems. They also include some applications to political science. The fourteen chapters are grouped in parts that cover static games of complete information, dynamic games of complete information, static games of incomplete information, dynamic games of incomplete information, and advanced topics.

The financial crisis that began in 2007 in the United States swept the world, producing substantial bank failures and forcing unprecedented state aid for the crippled global financial system. Bringing together three leading financial economists to provide an international perspective, Balancing the Banks draws critical lessons from the causes of the crisis and proposes important regulatory reforms, including sound guidelines for the ways in which distressed banks might be dealt with in the future. While some recent policy moves go in the right direction, others, the book argues, are not sufficient to prevent another crisis. The authors show the necessity of an adaptive prudential regulatory system that can better address financial innovation. Stressing the numerous and complex challenges faced by politicians, finance professionals, and regulators, and calling for reinforced international coordination (for example, in the treatment of distressed banks), the authors put forth a number of principles to deal with issues regarding the economic incentives of financial institutions, the impact of economic shocks, and the role of political constraints.Offering a global perspective, Balancing the Banks should be read by anyone concerned with solving the current crisis and preventing another such calamity in the future.

A concise introduction to the theory of contracts, emphasizing basic tools that allow the reader to understand the main theoretical models; revised and updated throughout for this edition.The theory of contracts grew out of the failure of the general equilibrium model to account for the strategic interactions among agents that arise from informational asymmetries. This popular text, revised and updated throughout for the second edition, serves as a concise and rigorous introduction to the theory of contracts for graduate students and professional economists. The book presents the main models of the theory of contracts, particularly the basic models of adverse selection, signaling, and moral hazard. It emphasizes the methods used to analyze the models, but also includes brief introductions to many of the applications in different fields of economics. The goal is to give readers the tools to understand the basic models and create their own.For the second edition, major changes have been made to chapter 3, on examples and extensions for the adverse selection model, which now includes more thorough discussions of multiprincipals, collusion, and multidimensional adverse selection, and to chapter 5, on moral hazard, with the limited liability model, career concerns, and common agency added to its topics. Two chapters have been completely rewritten: chapter 7, on the theory of incomplete contracts, and chapter 8, on the empirical literature in the theory of contracts. An appendix presents concepts of noncooperative game theory to supplement chapters 4 and 6. Exercises follow chapters 2 through 5.Praise for the previous edition:"The Economics of Contracts offers an excellent introduction to agency models. Written by one of the leading young researchers in contact theory, it is rigorous, clear, concise, and up-to-date. Researchers and students who want to learn about the economics of incentives will want to read this primer."-Jean Tirole, Institut D'Economie Industrielle, Universite des Sciences Sociales, France"Students will find this a very useful introduction to the ideas of contract theory. Salanie has managed to summarize a large amount of material in a relatively short number of pages in a highly accessible and readable manner."-Oliver Hart, Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Why the traditional "pledge and review" climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a "pledge and review" approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores everything we know about human cooperation. In this book, leading economists describe an alternate model for climate agreements, drawing on the work of the late Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom and others. They show that a "common commitment" scheme is more effective than an "individual commitment" scheme; the latter depends on altruism while the former involves reciprocity ("we will if you will").The contributors propose that global carbon pricing is the best candidate for a reciprocal common commitment in climate negotiations. Each country would commit to placing charges on carbon emissions sufficient to match an agreed global price formula. The contributors show that carbon pricing would facilitate negotiations and enforcement, improve efficiency and flexibility, and make other climate policies more effective. Additionally, they analyze the failings of the 2015 Paris climate conference.ContributorsRichard N. Cooper, Peter Cramton, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Gollier, Eloi Laurent, David JC MacKay, William Nordhaus, Axel Ockenfels, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Steven Stoft, Jean Tirole, Martin L. Weitzman

<p><b>Based on their pathbreaking work in the application of principal-agent theory to questions of regulation, Laffont and Tirole develop a synthetic approach, with a particular, though not exclusive, focus on the regulation of natural monopolies such as military contractors, utility companies, and transportation authorities.</b></p><p>More then just a textbook, <i>A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation</i> will guide economists' research on regulation for years to come. It makes a difficult and large literature of the new regulatory economics accessible to the average graduate student, while offering insights into the theoretical ideas and stratagems not available elsewhere. Based on their pathbreaking work in the application of principal-agent theory to questions of regulation, Laffont and Tirole develop a synthetic approach, with a particular, though not exclusive, focus on the regulation of natural monopolies such as military contractors, utility companies, and transportation authorities.</p><p>The book's clear and logical organization begins with an introduction that summarizes regulatory practices, recounts the history of thought that led to the emergence of the new regulatory economics, sets up the basic structure of the model, and previews the economic questions tackled in the next seventeen chapters. The structure of the model developed in the introductory chapter remains the same throughout subsequent chapters, ensuring both stability and consistency. The concluding chapter discusses important areas for future work in regulatory economics. Each chapter opens with a discussion of the economic issues, an informal description of the applicable model, and an overview of the results and intuition. It then develops the formal analysis, including sufficient explanations for those with little training in information economics or game theory. Bibliographic notes provide a historical perspective of developments in the area and a description of complementary research. Detailed proofs are given of all major conclusions, making the book valuable as a source of modern research techniques. There is a large set of review problems at the end of the book.</p>

Jean Paton (1908-2002) fought tirelessly to reform American adoption and to overcome prejudice against adult adoptees and women who give birth out of wedlock. This masterful biography brings to light the accomplishments of this neglected civil-rights pioneer, who paved the way for the explosive emergence of the adoption reform movement in the 1970s.

Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates.Here is the story of Seeger's multifaceted career, from her youth to her pivotal role in the American and British folk revivals, from her instrumental virtuosity to her tireless work on behalf of environmental and feminist causes, from wry reflections on the U.K. folk scene to decades as a songwriter. Freedman also delves into Seeger's fruitful partnership with Ewan MacColl and a multitude of contributions which include creating the renowned Festivals of Fools, founding Blackthorne Records, masterminding the legendary Radio Ballads documentaries, and mentoring performers in the often-fraught atmosphere of The Critics Group. Bracingly candid and as passionate as its subject, Peggy Seeger is the first book-length biography of a life set to music.

Hvem er vi? Hvor kommer vi fra? Hvordan skal vi leve for å handle på beste måte i denne verden? Slike spørsmål har mennesker undret seg over i flere tusen år, og vi stiller dem fortsatt. ?Handling, valg og ansvar undersøker hvilke svar som gjennom historien har blitt gitt på hva det innebærer å være et handlende, velgende og ansvarlig menneske. Dette er noen av de mest sentrale spørsmål i filosofien og filosofiens historie, særlig innen etikken og moralfilosofien. Forfatterne tar for seg tenkere fra hele filosofihistorien: fra Sokrates, Platon, Aristoteles, Aquinas, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Marx, Kierkegaard og Nietzsche, til nyere filosofer som Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, John Rawls og Hans Skjervheim. Hvordan man til forskjellige tider har reflektert over slike problemstillinger, har vært betinget av historiske og samfunnsmessige forhold i samtiden. Denne boken er skrevet ut fra en tanke om at kjennskap til hvordan etiske problemstillinger til ulike tider har vært behandlet, kan bidra til bedre forståelse også av vår egen tid og vårt eget liv. Lars Steinar Hauge har magistergrad i filosofi med fagene filosofi, vitenskapsfilosofi og historie. Han har undervist i filosofi og vitenskapsfilosofi i mange år ved Universitetet i Bergen, høgskoler og Folkeuniversitetet, og er for tiden fast ansatt ved NLA Høgskolen i Bergen. Han er også siden 2010 knyttet til Universitetet i Athen som gjesteprofessor i filosofihistorie og vitenskapsfilosofi. Hauge har tidligere utgitt blant annet Tankebaner, bind 1 (1999) og bind 2 (2000), Vitenskap og sannhet (2001), Filosofia (2002), Vitenskap og språk (2005), Demokratiets vugge (2013) og Frihet, ansvar, menneskeverd (2014). Silje Haga er cand. philol. med hovedfag i filosofi fra Universitetet i Bergen. Hun er fast ansatt som høgskolelektor ved NLA Høgskolen i Bergen og har undervist i filosofihistorie, logikk, etikk og menneskesyn ved NLA siden 2001. Hun er også knyttet til Bergen Arkitektskole som foreleser.

In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. LPP provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and oldtimers and about their activities, identities, artifacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalised to other social groups.

Myers, D. & Twenge, M. (2022). Social psychology (14. utg.). McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN: 9781266024221

Boken inneholder originaltekster som berører grunnleggende aspekter i pedagogikk, didaktikk og læring i vestlig tradisjon. Tekstutvalget strekker seg fra 900-tallet f.Kr til 1960-årene og representerer ulike teoretiske og praktiske ståsteder. Tekstene i kombinasjon med forfatterens analyser og kommentarer gir en grunnleggende forståelse for hvordan læring har utviklet seg de siste 3000 årene. Tekstene er både spennende og tankevekkende, og de gir oss innblikk i en historisk bevissthet omkring pedagogikken, didaktikken og læringens mysterium. Så vel Salomo, Platon, John Locke. Jean-Jacques Rosseau, Mary Wollenstonecraft, Immanuel Kant, Ellen Key, John Dewey, Edith Stein, Jean Piaget, Lev S. Vygotskij, Hannah Arendt som Simon de Beauvoir er representert. Boken er en grunnbok som kan brukes i all lærerutdanning og av alle som studerer pedagogikk, didaktikk og pedagogisk arbeid. Tomas Kroksmark er professor i pedagogisk arbeid ved Högskolan i Jönköping og professor i didaktikk ved Göteborgs Universitet. Boken er oversatt fra svensk av Ane Sjøbu, og Kroksmark har skrevet et forord som er beregnet på norske forhold.

I 1762 utga Rousseau to tekster som skulle forandre hans liv radikalt. En av dem var Emile. Boken ble forbudt, inndratt og brent, hans hus ble steinet og han ble en mann på evig flukt. I ettertid fremstår boken som en milepæl i pedagogikkens historie. Her forklarer Kjetil Steinsholt hvilket pedagogisk sprengstoff Emile inneholdt.

Social Psychology is now available as a Norton Illumine Ebook, using active learning to help develop students’ scientific thinking skills. Led by Tom Gilovich, the award-winning author team challenges students to think critically about the concepts, controversies, and applications of social psychology. The Sixth Edition is thoroughly updated with current research and fresh examples and includes a new chapter, “Living in a Prejudiced World,” that addresses the experience of living with stereotyping and discrimination. InQuizitive online assessment, now enhanced with new interactives, reinforces important concepts through retrieval practice, and Norton Teaching Tools, the Norton Testmaker test bank, and new Analyze the Claim writing assignments help instructors build an engaging course with minimal preparation time

Ayla, Jondalar og datteren Jonayla har kommet frem til zelandoniiene i Niende Hule. Ayla får respekt på grunn av de spesielle evnene hun har, og tas i lære for å bli en zelandonii. Opplæringen vil ta flere år og innbefatte mange reiser, noe som bekymrer Ayla som har en baby å ta seg av.

Jean-Jacques Rousseaus hovedverk fra 1762 ble utgitt samme år som Du contrat social. Boken ble påbegynt høsten 1758 som en avhandling om oppdragelse, men ble senere omarbeidet til en roman «om menneskenaturen». I boken argumenterer Rousseau for en ny oppdragelse som i frihet skulle utvikle mennesket til naturlighet. I sentrum står de to personene Emiles og Sophies oppvekst og utvikling frem til voksen alder. Med sin understrekning av barnets selvstendige verdi, og av at opplæringen ikke skal skje på autoritetsbud, har dette verket dannet en egen skole i pedagogikken. Barnet skal ha rett til å lære tingene og verden å kjenne gjennom sin egen aktive virksomhet. En viktig rolle for oppdrageren blir å forebygge villfarelser og laster. For Rousseau var ikke barndommen en forberedelse til å bli voksen, men en selvstendig del av livet.

Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who are the populist leaders? And what is the relationship between populism and democracy? This book answers these questions in a simple and persuasive way, offering a swift guide topopulism in theory and practice.Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovera Kaltwasser present populism as an ideology that divides society into two antagonistic camps, the "pure people" versus the "corrupt elite," and that privileges the general will of the people above all else. They illustrate the practical power of this ideology through a survey of representative populist movements of the modern era: European right-wing parties, left-wing presidents in Latin America, and the Tea Party movement in the United States. The authorsdelve into the ambivalent personalities of charismatic populist leaders such as Juan Domingo Peron, H. Ross Perot, Jean-Marie le Pen, Silvio Berlusconi, and Hugo Chavez. If the strong male leader embodies the mainstream form of populism, many resolute women, such as Eva Peron, Pauline Hanson, and SarahPalin, have also succeeded in building a populist status, often by exploiting gendered notions of society.Although populism is ultimately part of democracy, populist movements constitute an increasing challenge to democratic politics. Comparing political trends across different countries, this compelling book debates what the long-term consequences of this challenge could be, as it turns the spotlight on the bewildering effect of populism on today's political and social life.