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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade ordet economists.
21. All Interventionists Now? : On the Political Economy of Active Labor Market Policy as Micro-Interventionist Multi-Tools
Sammanfattning : As recent decades have seen a growing interest in reforming advanced welfare states to promote employment, active labor market policy (ALMP) has emerged as a major topic of inquiry among comparative political economists. Whereas the literature to date disagrees on, and mostly downplays, the role of partisan politics in the development of ALMP, this dissertation shows that political actors systematically use ALMP programs in different ways to achieve distinct political aims. LÄS MER
22. The Politics of Purpose. Swedish Macroeconomic Policy After the Golden Age
Sammanfattning : In the 1970s and 1980s, most European countries started pursuing disinflationary economic policies, accepting rising unemployment. Sweden was one of a small number of countries that waited until around 1990 before disinflating its economy, and in the 1980s used ambitious macroeconomic policies to keep unemployment levels low. LÄS MER
23. Studies in the dynamics of unemployment
Sammanfattning : From chapter 1: The point of departure for the collection of studies presented in the following is the message delivered by American economists during the beginning of the 70’s that a proper understanding of the unemployment problem requires a dynamic view of the labor market in general and unemployment in particular. The "dynamic view" should emphasize the flows into and out of unemployment. LÄS MER
24. Principle-based non-monotonic reasoning - from humans to machines
Sammanfattning : A key challenge when developing intelligent agents is to instill behavior into computing systems that can be considered as intelligent from a common-sense perspective. Such behavior requires agents to diverge from typical decision-making algorithms that strive to maximize simple and often one-dimensional metrics. LÄS MER
25. Privatisation of the IT Sector in Sweden
Sammanfattning : The majority of research on privatisation has been driven by, inter alia, economics. Some economists have argued that private ownership introduces capital market pressures into inefficient state bureaucracies. Private property rights are expected to maximise the incentives for management to achieve a high level of production efficiency. LÄS MER
