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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade ordet economists.

  1. 16. Giving Executives Their Due: Just Pay, Desert, and Equality

    Författare :Alexander Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Just pay; Desert; Equality; Incentives; CEO compensation; Maximum income policies; Egalitarianism; Financial ethics;

    Sammanfattning : Before, during, and after the global financial crisis of 2008, executive pay practices were widely debated and criticized. Economists, philosophers, as well as the man on the street all seem to have strong feelings towards how much, in what ways, and on what grounds executives are paid. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Marknadisering : En idé och dess former inom sjukvård och järnväg, 1970-2000

    Författare :Jesper Meijling; Sverker Sörlin; Sabine Höhler; Per Wisselgren; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Marknad; marknadisering; marknadsorganisering; marknadsorganisation; mar-ket studies; avreglering; offentliga verksamheter; public choice; new public management; nyliberalism; sjukvård; sjukvårdsorganisation; värdebaserad vård; värdebaserad konkurrens; diagnosbaserad konkurrens; diagnosflöden; järnväg; järnvägssystem; ANT; översättning; idé; idéhistoria.; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Sammanfattning : Denna avhandling undersöker hur marknadisering introducerades som idé i offentliga verksamheter i Sverige från 1970-talets början till omkring år 2000. Marknadisering definieras här som processen att göra verksamheter som inte tidigare var marknadsorganiserade eller marknadsstyrda mer marknadsliknande, och att detta framförallt handlade om offentliga verksamheter. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Technology Carriers: The Role of Engineers in the Expanding Swedish Shipbuilding System

    Författare :Lars O. Olsson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sociotechnical systems; shipbuilding; engineering education; 20-th century; user-producer interaction; professional associations; engineers; technological systems; technological knowledge; history of technology; systems of innovation; industrial research;

    Sammanfattning : This study analyses the process which shaped the role or function of college-trained engineers within a technological system or innovation system during the period from the start of the 20th century until the 1950s and 1960s. With a conceptual framework of sociotechnical systems and of engineers as a social group of technology carriers this process is studied in one particular system, namely the Swedish shipbuilding system. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Non-linear dynamic modelling for panel data in the social sciences

    Författare :Shyam Ranganathan; David JT Sumpter; Oliver Johnson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Dynamical systems; stochastic models; Bayesian; panel data; social sciences; development; Mathematics with specialization in Applied Mathematics; Matematik med inriktning mot tillämpad matematik;

    Sammanfattning : Non-linearities and dynamic interactions between state variables are characteristic of complex social systems and processes. In this thesis, we present a new methodology to model these non-linearities and interactions from the large panel datasets available for some of these systems. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Constructing Invisible Hands : Market Technocrats in Sweden 1880–2000

    Författare :Gabriel Söderberg; Maths Isacson; Lars Magnusson; Janken Myrdal; Deirdre McCloskey; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Markets; technocrats; central banks; agricultural science; Nobel prize; economics and society; asymmetric information; Social Democracy; neoliberalism; social engineering; market history; market engineering; market design; performativity; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : Dominant market theories analyze markets as ahistorical entities without the need for professional groups that manage crucial functions within them. This thesis, in contrast, approaches markets as historical systems that develop over time and that can be constituted in many different ways because of different historical trajectories. LÄS MER