Tag Archives: economics

Special Issue: Festschrift for Graham Ive

Posted on 27 October 2012 by

Click here for a PDF of this call. First draft submissions due 1 Jul 2013 Background and rational Mr. Graham Ive has decided to retire from the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management of University College London in 2012. … Continue reading →

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Squires, G (2012) Urban and environmental economics: an introduction. London: Routledge

Posted on 10 October 2012 by

Urban and environmental economics: an introduction By Graham Squires, Routledge, London, 2012. ISBN 978-0-415-61991-2, £29.99 (pb) Click to buy this book from the Construction Management bookstore Publisher’s description: The importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, … Continue reading →

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Gibbons, R and Roberts, J, (Eds.) (2012) The Handbook of Organizational Economics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Posted on 23 May 2012 by

The Handbook of Organizational Economics Edited by Robert Gibbons and John Roberts, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2012. ISBN 9780691132792, £69.95 (pb) Publisher’s description: In even the most market-oriented economies, most economic transactions occur not in markets but inside managed … Continue reading →

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Free access article: Li, Arditi and Wang (2012)

Posted on 21 May 2012 by

Li, H, Arditi, D and Wang, Z (2012) Transaction-related issues and construction project performance. Construction Management and Economics, 30(1), 151-64. This paper is available for free download until 31 May 2012. Abstract: Transaction cost economics deals with costs incurred at … Continue reading →

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Barkham, R (2012) Real estate and globalisation. London: Wiley-Blackwell

Posted on 9 May 2012 by

Real estate and globalisation By Richard Barkham, Wiley-Blackwell, London, 2012. 360 pp, ISBN 978-0-4706-5597-9, £59.99 (pb) Publisher’s description: 2000 to 2010 was a remarkable decade for real estate. It started with the dot.com bubble and ended with the putative recovery … Continue reading →

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Free access article: Brodetskaia, Sacks and Shapira (2011)

Posted on 23 January 2012 by

Brodetskaia, I; Sacks, R and Shapira, A (2011) A workflow model for systems and interior finishing works in building construction. Construction Management and Economics, 29(12), 1209-27. This paper is available for free download until 31 March 2012. Abstract: Modelling the … Continue reading →

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Farr, J V (2011) Systems life cycle costing: economic analysis, estimation and management. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press

Posted on 29 November 2011 by

Systems life cycle costing: economic analysis, estimation and management By CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2011. 316 pp, ISBN 978-1-4398-2891-5, £64 (hb) Organized around a product development process that provides a framework for the material, the book presents techniques such … Continue reading →

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Myers, D (2008) Construction economics: a new approach, 2nd ed. London, Taylor & Francis.

Posted on 23 July 2008 by

Construction economics: a new approach, 2nd edition. By Danny Myers, London: Taylor & Francis, 2008. 320pp, ISBN 978-0-415-46229-7, £25.99 (pb) Construction Economics provides students with the principles and concepts of economic theory and relates this to the construction industry, and … Continue reading →

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