Discusses the production of goods and services, including factors involving the labor force, the cost of service, and how it relates to the worldwide economy.

In an era of prolonged and profound economic uncertainty, financial literacy has never been more important, especially for those who are on the brink of setting out on an independent adulthood. This series introduces readers to some of the fundamental principles of finance, both public finance and personal finance. Subjects covered include the production, distribution, purchase, and consumption of goods and services, savings and investments, money and banking, the stock market, supply and demand, and taxes and government spending. Readers are given both the macro and micro view of economic theory and practice.

Introduction to Agent-Based Economics describes the principal elements of agent-based computational economics (ACE). It illustrates ACE’s theoretical foundations, which are rooted in the application of the concept of complexity to the social sciences, and it depicts its growth and development from a non-linear out-of-equilibrium approach to a state-of-the-art agent-based macroeconomics. The book helps readers gain a better understanding of the limits and perspectives of the ACE models and their capacity to reproduce economic phenomena and empirical patterns. Reviews the literature of agent-based computational economics Analyzes approaches to agents’ expectations Covers one of the few large macroeconomic agent-based models, the Modellaccio Illustrates both analytical and computational methodologies for producing tractable solutions of macro ACE models Describes diffusion and amplification mechanisms Depicts macroeconomic experiments related to ACE implementations

Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond.

This text seeks to raise the curtain on competitive pricing strategies and asserts that businesses often miss their best opportunity for providing consumers with what they want - an experience. It presents a strategy for companies to script and stage the experiences provided by their products.

Abstract: A college textbook is designed to introduce senior undergraduate and first-year graduate business majors to the problems and techniques encountered in the varied aspects of production and delivery of goods and services. The theme of the text, oriented toward problem recognition and problem solving, is to provide future managers with an understanding of the variety and importance of the management decisions faced in the operations area of different organizations and how to approach operation management problems. The 17 text chapters are arranged into 4 key topic areas including operations management perspectives (goals, policies, operations analysis, project coordination using PERT/CPM methods); systems planning and operational and facilities design; production and delivery of services and goods (information needs, forecasting, inventory control, production scheduling, multistage and multilocation systems, personnel scheduling); and output evaluations (product quality and strategic goals). Technical appendices on probability models, simulation linear programming, and mathematical tables are included. (wz).