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UNINA9910523802903321 |
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Kohno Hirotada |
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Public Investment Criteria : Using an Interregional Input-Output Programming Model / / by Hirotada Kohno, Yoshiro Higano |
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Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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1 online resource (505 pages) |
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New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, , 2199-5982 ; ; 2 |
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Regional economics |
Space in economics |
Economics |
Social policy |
Regional and Spatial Economics |
Social Policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Chapter 1: Public Investment Criteria: A Tentative Specific Survey on the Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Early Years -- Chapter 2: Economic Effects of Mei-Shin and To-Mei Expressways Based on the World Bank Formula of Fifty Years Ago -- Chapter 3: Generalized Benefit-Cost Criteria: Public Investment Criteria When the Benefits are Previously Measured -- Chapter 4: Optimum Allocation of the Capital Funds to the Transportation Infrastructures Using the Interregional Input-Output Programming Model (Part I): Specification with 5 regions, 5 industries, and 3 transport modes -- Chapter 5: Optimal comprehensive transport system and development of the model -- Chapter 6: Optimal Allocation of the Public Funds to the Transportation Infrastructures Using the Interregional Input-Output Programming Model (Part II): Specification with 10 regions, 10 industries, and 9 transport modes -- Chapter 7: Optimal planning of Asian Expressway Network with dynamic interregional input-output programming model -- Postscripts -- Acknowledgements. |
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This volume presents the most robust and useful methodology for the |
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derivation of investment criteria for the evaluation and planning of public investment projects – public investment criteria. The methodological approach solves inherent defects of traditional methodology, namely an ad hoc application of the benefit-cost analysis in the static content. Although this approach originated in the water resources development project of the Harvard group, the authors’ methodology has achieved a discrete and dynamic inter regional input-output programming model by which: (i) establishment of priorities among potential investment targets by taking account of economic benefits that are brought by implementation of a set of selected projects, and diffusing into the whole national economy, and (ii) rational allocation of limited public funds to the selected investment projects are consistently made, based on the opportunity cost criteria in the dynamic content. As these benefits make up a source for the stream of further created capital funds for public as well as private sectors over the planning time horizon, optimal re-investment of thus created capital funds are solved recursively in the endogenous model by approaching the turnpike path of the whole national economy. As an optimal solution, the allocated levels for trunk expressway network as well as for other transport facilities, which are balanced with the allocation for industrial capital formation, are obtained by period and by region. In the background of these processes, the imputed price and opportunity costs as a sort of contemporary “god” are always latent. Readers with basic mathematical knowledge will learn functional and practical meaning of the opportunity costs (and the imputed price) in the evaluation and planning of investment. Conquering this small obstacle will be a source of strong self-confidence for society, a worthwhile objective. Other applications of the methodology are also included in this book, which is helpful for practitioners frequently using the feasibility study method as well as experts who wish to understand the theoretical arguments related to public investment criteria. As one of the applications, there is a numerical solution of a composite transport system in which the amounts of roads, railways, and ports are derived quantitatively, not qualitatively. These are results of authentic public investment criteria that are built in the inter-regional input-output programing model. |
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UNINA9910956915703321 |
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Autore |
Blazer Dan G (Dan German), <1944-> |
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The age of melancholy : "major depression" and its social origins / / Dan G. Blazer |
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New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
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1-135-43300-3 |
0-203-95667-2 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Depression, Mental - Social aspects |
Depression, Mental - History |
Social psychiatry - History |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface -- The diagnosis of depression -- Introduction -- The birth and growth of major depression -- The rise and fall of depression as a reaction -- Social psychiatry -- The birth and growth of social psychiatry -- The retreat of social psychiatry -- The frequency of depression and a lesson from war and society -- Interpreting the burden of depression -- A lesson from war syndromes -- Things fall apart: society and depression in the 21st century -- The revival of social psychiatry -- A call for basic social science research in psychiatry -- Emotion: a link between body and society -- The problem with Soma. |
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Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. ""Major Depression"" is a medical disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just like any other disease. Why, this book asks, has the incidence of depression been on such an increase in the last 50 years, if our basic biology hasn't changed as rapidly? To find answers, Dr. Blazer looks at the social forces, cultural and environmental upheavals |
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