Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society

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2. Introduction

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3. The Link with More Traditional Economics

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   2. New Economics Against the History of Economic Thought

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   3. Success and Shortcomings of Econometric Models

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4. The Advent of New Economics

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   2. Creative and Prospective Thinking

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   3. Simulation and Sensitivity Analysis

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   4. Scenario Writing

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5. New Economics for a Stakeholder Society

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   2. Introduction to Multiple Objective Utility Theory

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   3. Some Traditional Methods to Approach the Problem of Multiple Objectives

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   4. Multifarious Comparisons for Objectives and Attributes

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   5. The Indifference Method

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   6. How to Optimize in A Stakeholder Society?

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6. Reference Point Theory a Method to Compare Until Now Incomparable Alternatives

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   2. Reference Point Theory as a Solution for Multiobjective Utility

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   3. Project Planning, Analysis and Evaluation

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   4. Reference Point Theory in Seaport Planning

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   5. Privatization and Reference Point Theory

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For both public and private managers, the book Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society is today's key to answer the problem of a sustainable development world. This world has to take into account the meaning of all stakeholders involved and has to reconcile a number of objectives, such as economic growth, employment and preservation of the ecosystem. Traditional methods, such as cost-benefit, are outmoded as they translate all these objectives into monetary costs, a materialistic approach. On the contrary, objectives have rather to stick to their own units, eventually indicators.

• Optimization Methods
• ecosystem
• multi-objective optimization
• optimization
• sustainable development
• air pollution and air quality

• Faculty of Applied Economics and Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium

  Willem K. Brauers

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