Although principles underlying binary economics were first published in 1958 (Kelso and Adler), the many books and papers that discuss the subject, with the exception of Kane (2000) and Kurland (2001), do not utilize conventional economics language. To facilitate the teaching of binary economics in beginning and intermediate college courses in economics and business, the paper explains some maj...

Terming a specific approach to economics agent-based may appear paradoxical. Isn’t human behavior the foundation of economics and shouldn’t all economic theory be based on agents behavior in some sense? This, at least, is what conventional economic theory has been claiming since the 1970’s. In this introduction we shall argue that agent-based computational economics (ACE) allows agents and espe...

The foundation of Muslim consumer behavior is different from conventional consumers. This paper aims to find out how the consumption factor in an Islamic perspective and its differences a perspective. uses qualitative descriptive approach with literature study for data collection. Conventional consumers emphasize maximum satisfaction efforts fulfill needs desires without restrictions. In contra...

This paper, which draws heavily on a chapter by the authors for the forthcoming Handbook of Media Management and Economics (Albarran, 2005), focuses on potential methodological challenges facing scholars interested in the economics of cultural industries and, especially, economics of media. Drawing on previous work by economic researchers, it examines what is unusual or special about economics ...

This article explores the conventional relationship between caring, economics, and administrative practices that no longer serve patients, practitioners, or systems. A shift toward human caring values and an ethic of authentic healing relationships is required as systems now have to value human resources and life purposes, inner meanings, and processes for workers and patients alike, not just e...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate, using some conventional concepts and procedures from the discipline of economics, the economic rationale for governments to have suicide prevention policies. This is a conceptual paper, which proceeds in a theoretical fashion. The part of the economics literature that is relevant to this task is welfare (or normative) economics, not positive or empir...