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The article discusses the concept of Shapley value which is used for distributional analysis and inequality decomposition. It informs that author Tony Shorrocks was dissatisfied with various aspects of traditional inequality decomposition methods and wanted to know the link of various inequality factors with the marginal effect of those factors. It also informs the Shapley value formula was applied in the context of inequality and poverty measures.

Reviews the book 'Official Papers of Alfred Marshall. A supplement,' edited by Peter D. Groenewegen.

The article reviews the book "Workers, Capital, and the State of British Columbia: Selected Papers," edited by Rennie Warburton and Donald Coburn.

The Evolution and Social Impact of Video Game Economics: edited by Casey B. Hart. The most obvious examples are found in "freemium" games that allow players to play the base version of a game free of charge, but require payment to unlock all available game content. Kice hints that developers drive the prestige scheme by offering new downloadable content (DLC) used to periodically renew gamers' waning interest, and he mentions new game maps as a possible example of this tactic (54). For instance, the functions of game consoles are being replaced by virtual platforms, consoles are generally smaller both within and between generations, controllers are now usually wireless and use rechargeable batteries, games are commonly sold through download services with no physical components, etc. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Institutions, Innovation and Growth: Selected Economic Papers," edited by Jean-Philippe Touffut.

Reviews the book 'Public Papers of the Secretaries-General of the United Nations,' Volume VII and VII, edited by Andrew W. Cordier and Max Harrelson.

Reviews the book 'Papers on the Economy of Botswana,' edited by Charles Harvey.

Reviews the book 'Marchés, Capital et Incertitude,' edited by M. Boiteux, Th. de Montbrial, and B. Munier.

Reviews the book 'The Paper Trail: Connecting Economic and Natural Systems.'

The article reviews the book "Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet," edited by Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson, and Julie Matthaei.

Reviews the book "Restoring Europe's Prosperity: Macroeconomic Papers From the Centre for European Policy Studies," by O. Blanchard, R. Dornbusch and R. Layard.

The article reviews the book "Econometrics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy: Selected Papers of Carl F. Christ," by Carl F. Christ.

The article reviews the book "Working Papers."

The article reviews the book "Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy," by Charles Derber.

Reviews the book "The Matching Law: Papers in Psychology and Economics," by Richard Herrnstein.

Reviews the book "The Collected Papers of Franco Modigliani," vol. 1, "Essays in Macroeconomics," vol. 2, "The Life Cycle Hypothesis of Saving," vol. 3, "The Theory of Finance and Other Essays," edited by Andrew Abel.

Reviews the book "Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Papers on Political Economy," Vol. VII, edited by R. D. Collison Black.

Reviews the book `The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Global Economy. Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990,' edited by Marie Lavigne. Approaches to perestroika; Reasons for and results of the disintegration of the Soviet Union; Nature of Soviet integration into the world economy; Critical effects of the Gorbachev reforms on the economy.

Reviews the book "Idealization VI: Idealization in Economics," edited by B. Hamminga and N. B. De Marchi.

Reviews the book "Advances in Economic Theory: Invited Papers for the 4th World Congress of the Econometric Society," edited by Werner Hildenbrand.

Reviews the book 'The Foundations of Monetary Economics,' vol.3, edited by David Laidler.

Reviews the book "The Legacy of Michael Kalecki," edited by Malcolm C. Sawyer.

Reviews the book "Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought. Classicals, Marxians and Neo-Classicals. Selected Papers from the History of Economics Society Conference, 1988, vol. 3, edited by D. E. Moggridge.

The article reviews the book "The Popperian Legacy in Economics: Papers Presented at a Symposium in Amsterdam, December 1985," edited by Neil De Marchi.

The article reviews the book "Unconventional Economic Essays: Selected Papers of Amit Bhaduri," by Amit Bhaduri.

Reviews three books edited by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. "The Political Economy of Hunger: Entitlement and Well-Being," vol. 1; "The Political Economy of Hunger: Famine Prevention," vol. 2; "The Political Economy of Hunger: Endemic Hunger," vol. 3.

Reviews the book 'Adaptive Economic Models,' edited by Richard W. Day and Theodore Groves.

The article reviews the book "Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought," edited by Robert F. Hebert.

The article reviews the book "External Imbalances and Policy Constraints in the 1990s: Papers of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Economics Study Group," edited by Chris Milner and Nick Snowden.

Reviews the book "The Long-Term Perspective Study of Sub-Saharan Africa: Background Papers," vol. 4, published by the World Bank.

Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 3, Individual Choice Under Certainty' and 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 4, The Economics of Information,' by K.J. Arrow.

The article reviews the book "Contemporary Issues in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications," edited by Ralf Becker and Stan Hurn.

Reviews the book "The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance," edited by David F. Bradford.

Reviews the book "Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought: Method, Competition, Conflict and Measurement in the Twentieth Century. Selected Papers From the History of Economics Society Conference, 1992," vol. 10, edited by Karen I. Vaughn.

Reviews the books "Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Correspondence 1863-1872," Volume III, "Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Correspondence 1873-1878," Volume IV, and "Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Correspondence 1879-1882," Volume V, edited by R. D. Collison Black.

Reviews the book 'Karl Menger. Ergebnisse eines Mathematischen Kolloquiums,' edited by Egbert Dierker and Karl Sigmund.

The article reviews the book "The Economics of Regional Clusters: Networks, Technology and Policy," edited by Uwe Blien and Gunther Maier.

A review is presented of the book "The Economics and Politics of Accounting. International Perspectives on Research Trends, Policy and Practice," by Christian Leuz, Dieter Pfaff and Anthony Hopwood.

Reviews the book "Frontiers of Quantitative Economics," vol. II, edited by M. D. Intriligator and D. A. Kendrick.

Reviews the book "John von Neumann and Modern Economics," edited by Mohammed Dore, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, and Richard Goodwin.

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The article reviews the book "Economic Doctrine and Method: Selected Papers of R. W. Clower," by Robert W. Clower.

Reviews the book "Kenneth E. Boulding: Collected Papers: Toward a General Social Science," Vol. IV, edited by L. D. Singell.