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Tables of Contents for Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Shlomo Maital
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction: Revising the Microfoundations of Economics
3
23
Human Agency as a Determinant of Material Welfare
26
24
The Methodology of Economics and the Survival Principle Revised
50
19
A Behavioral Theory of Economic Welfare and Economic Justice
69
34
The Economics of Exogenous Increases in Wage Rates in a Behavioral/X-Efficiency Model of the Firm
103
16
A Behavioral Model of Endogenous Economic Growth
119
18
Interfirm, Interregional, and International Differences in Labor Productivity: Why Convergence Need Not Take Place
137
13
The Economics of Profitable Inefficiency and Market Failure: A Behavioral Model of Path Dependency
150
20
Economic Theory, Public Policy, and the Challenge of Innovative Work Practices
170
12
The Efficiency- and Welfare-Promoting Role of Labor Rights and Labor Power in a Market Economy
182
17
A Revisionist View of the Economic Implications of Child Labor Regulations
199
17
How Discriminatory Pay Inequality Can Persist: Even in Competitive Markets
216
14
When Green Isn't Mean: The Economics of Environmental Regulations
230
17
Big Is Not Always Better: A Critical Appraisal of the Transaction Cost--Economizing Paradigm
247
13
Culture as a Determinant of Material Welfare
260
11
References
271
18
Index
289
10
About the Author
299