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Economics and literture: an examination of Gulliver's Travels

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This article explores the social, political, and economic attitudes expressed by Johnathan Swift in his book Gulliver's Travels. Swift opposed pure science without practical application, and leaned toward social economics with its application of experimental and evolutionary models which encompass bounded rationality.

Author: Fernandes, Marcela
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Studies
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0144-3585
Year: 2001
World, Economic aspects, Authorship, Social economics, Socioeconomics, Gulliver's Travels (Novel), Swift, Jonathan (English satirist)

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Experience-earnings profiles, education and gender

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Experience earning profiles are provided which are gender specific. The differences between an employee and a self-employed individual are also included in these profiles.

Author: Brown, Sarah, Sessions, John G.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Studies
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0144-3585
Year: 2001
United Kingdom, Statistical Data Included, Compensation and benefits, Demographic aspects, Self-employed persons, Self employed persons, Wage payment systems, Pay equity, Pay structure

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Development and the environment: an introduction

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Links between environmental and development economics are examined in detail, including methodological and conceptual issues.

Author: Perman, Roger, Anand, P.B.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Studies
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0144-3585
Year: 2000
Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs, Environmental Programs, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Economic development, Environmental policy, Environmental economics

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