Sökning: "rhetoric of economics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 29 avhandlingar innehållade orden rhetoric of economics.
1. Deliberating value : On the theory and practice of valuation of nature from neoclassical to ecological economics
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about whether it is a good idea to place monetary value on nature, to remedy the fact that we treat it as having no particular value to us humans, although it clearly has. The thesis is based on five research papers that can be said to position themselves on opposite sides in the debate on monetisation of nature. LÄS MER
2. Essays in constitutional economics
Sammanfattning : Essays in Constitutional Economics uses the theoretical tools developed in public choice and constitutional economics to analyze how institutions of various sorts influence the individual choice calculus. Institutions are seen as formal and informal rules that can be evaluated and, although oftentimes durable, reformed. LÄS MER
3. Bankens natur : miljöfrågans genomslag i svenska banker
Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on a previously anomalous and neglected issue that became common order and regarded as beneficial to traditional goals of Swedish banks. Before 1995, environmental issues were seen as irrelevant in banking, mainly because "banks have no production". LÄS MER
4. Waves of fashion : The consuming production of management control
Sammanfattning : The responsiveness of organizational leaders regarding suggestions related to various managerial techniques has led to the coinage of the ‘management fashion’ idiom. It has been convincingly argued that phenomena like management control systems are prone to trends, and that such trends permeate into the daily life of managers through the use of persuasive rhetoric. LÄS MER
5. Rhetorical business : A study of marketing work in the spirit of contradiction
Sammanfattning : Marketing has traditionally been understood from the perspective of marketing management. This causes problems when we study marketing practices because the normative discourse of marketing management is not particularly useful for describing the day-to-day work of marketing practitioners. This calls for marketing research from new perspectives. LÄS MER