The Economics of Services: Microfoundations, Development and Policy - Rilegato

Jansson, Jan Owen

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ISBN 10: 0857932179 ISBN 13: 9780857932174

Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Pub, 2013

Riassunto

Despite the fact that services have overtaken industry in terms of employment and GDP in developed countries, rigorous economic study of the service sector remains seriously neglected. The first edition of The Economics of Services initiated a redress of this oversight. Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this highly acclaimed textbook should be required complimentary reading to mainstream microeconomics textbooks for graduate students of economics and for advanced courses in labour, urban and regional economics, economic geography and economic history. The text emphasizes the distinction between intermediate producer services and final consumer services. Many of the former are traded in global markets much like material goods in general, whilst the markets for consumer services are markedly local. This requires quite different micro-foundations in each case. Other key issues explored include the productivity development and quality of service measurements, as well as the key role of urbanization for service sector growth. The critical issues for the future of the real economy, beyond the financial crisis, are also analyzed in depth. The author illustrates how a better understanding of the nature of the service economy is necessary for policy innovation, with a view to regenerating the welfare state.

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Acclaim for the first edition: 'This is a well-written, provocative book, featuring much new material, original data analyses and interesting insights. Despite the proliferation of books on various aspects of services, there is nothing quite like it around. In particular, examination of the challenges that the growth of services presents to conventional economics is very valuable.' --Ian Miles, University of Manchester, UK

This is an intriguing book that contains many interesting ways of conceptualising service from the perspective of economics. It makes a number of important contributions to the academic literature. It is one of the very few books and it might even be the only book to be written by an economist on the economics of services it is thus a pioneer work and is of value in that it attempts to bring together the work that economists have done on services. --John Bryson, University of Birmingham, UK

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• Editore: Edward Elgar Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857932179
• ISBN 13: 9780857932174
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 328