A number of assumptions are typically made on preferences to give so-called "well-behaved indifference curves"

Business & market   |   Management   |   Presentation   |   01/15/2009   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : « edition, Norton, 2002. C. Pass, B. Lowes and L.Davies, Dictionnary of Economics, Collins, 3rd edition, 2000. Internet resources V ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Assumptions on preferences.. Three axioms about preferences: The consumer is rational.. Assumptions specific to well-behaved indifference curves.. Assessment of these assumptions.. Are the axioms of consumer theory reasonable?. Are...»

What are human rights and what place have discussions on human rights found in international relations?

Political science   |   International relations   |   Term papers   |   01/13/2009   |   .doc   |   8 pages
Document abstract : « are the main characteristics of pre-WWII international liberalism as elaborated by authors such as Alfred Zimmern, Leonard Woolf or George Lowes Dickinson. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The almost non-existent place of Human Rights in International Relations from the birth of the discipline to 1985.. The ambiguous relations between international liberalism and Human Rights.. The fall of international liberalism, the...»

Explain the role of conjectural variations within the context of quantity settings duopoly. Use this idea to explain the difference between Cournot and Stackelberg models of duopoly

Business & market   |   Marketing   |   Market study   |   01/15/2009   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : « K. Hinde, « Cournot with conjectural variations », available at http://kevinhinde. com/Micro2/ J. Black, Oxford dictionary of Economics Pass, C. , Lowes B. & ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Conjectural variations.. The underlying idea of duopoly and more generally of oligopoly.. The Cournot model of duopoly.. Stackelberg v. Cournot.. Cournot.. Stackelberg.. Con...»

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