Economics

Whereas "Volume One: Microeconomics" dealt with the optimizing individual, "Volume Two: Macroeconomics" explains the factors that affect the economy of an entire country and, indeed, the planet. It explores the two big concerns of macroeconomics: how...

Akerlof illustrates how his 'modern', Nobel Prize-winning methodology of using 'tailor-made' economic models to solve problems differs from the standard, benchmark, all-encompassing general-equilibrium-perfect competition-based methodology.Book...

This book brings together the authors' joint papers from over a period of more than twenty years. The collection includes seven papers, each of which presents a novel and rigorous model in Economic Theory.All of the models are within the domain of...

Arbitrage-the trading practice that involves buying assets in one market at a cheap price and immediately selling them in another market for a profit-is fundamental to the practice of financial trading and economic understandings of how financial markets...

This book shows why Vietnam has not become the dragon it is often touted to be. The team of authors include both long-time observers and junior scholars who present cutting-edge research on the latest trends as well as major challenges facing the...

A leading expert on longevity calls for a revolution in the way we think about health, ageing, and the future . . .The last century saw a revolution in life expectancy. Whether you are male or female, born in the global south or north, the chances are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447899Author Samuel a ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Conquering the dating market--from an economist's point of view After more than twenty years, economist Paul Oyer found himself back on the dating scene--but what a difference a few years made. Dating was now dominated by sites like Match.com, eHarmony,...

For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology. While it may have emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis of 2007-8, neoliberalism is now - more than ever - under scrutiny from critics who argue that it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912171668Author Grace JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint The Secret Book CompanyPublisher The Secret Book Company

Jones's Macroeconomics helps students understand our interconnected world. The COVID-19 pandemic and the shocks of the 2007-2009 global financial crisis show how linked economies have become. While continuing to feature the strongest coverage of growth...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern auction theory and its important new applications. It is written by a leading economic theorist whose suggestions guided the creation of the new spectrum auction designs. Aimed at graduate...

Game Theory in Action is a textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis show students how game theory can be applied in diverse areas...

Consumption decisions are crucial determinants of business cycles and growth. Knowledge of how consumers respond to the economic environment and how they react to the risks that they encounter during the life-cycle is therefore important for evaluating...

The study of macroeconomics can seem a daunting project. The field is complex and sometimes poorly defined and there are a variety of competing approaches. It is easy for the senior bachelor and starting master student to get lost in the forest of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333102893Author Joan RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 478g

An abundance of applications to current economic analysis, illustrative diagrams, thought-provoking exercises, careful proofs, and a flexible organization-these are the advantages that Mathematics for Economists brings to today's classroom.About the...

The story behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google – and how an an epic battle is reshaping the way we think about technology. This book, previously published as ‘Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution’, explores...

Debates surrounding institutional change have become increasingly central to Political Science, Management Studies, and Sociology, opposing the role of globalization in bringing about a convergence of national economies and institutions on one model to...

This unique and comprehensive 'modern guide' presents state-of-the-art surveys covering the main areas of macroeconomics and economic policy by well-known post-Keynesian authors. The chapters explore intriguing and important issues including:the history...

Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet...

The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. This book challenges behavioral paternalism on multiple levels, from the abstract and conceptual to the pragmatic and applied. Behavioral paternalism...

In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, the distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed. Capitalism, as Marx...

John Maynard Keynes's 1936 General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a perfect example of the global power of critical thinking. A radical reconsideration of some of the founding principles and accepted axioms of classical economics at the...

Published posthumously in the early 1920's, Max Weber's Economy and Society has since become recognized as one of the greatest sociological treatises of the 20th century, as well as a foundational text of the modern sociological imagination. The first...

In Monetary and Fiscal Policy Through a DSGE Lens, Harold L. Cole develops and extends versions of a classic quantitative model of economic growth to take on a wide range of topics in monetary and fiscal policy. Bridging the gap between current...

This book provides a framework for thinking about economic instiutions such as firms. The basic idea is that institutions arise in situations where people write incomplete contracts and where the allocation of power or control is therefore important...

This is the second of two collections of correspondence written by early modern English women philosophers. In this volume, Jacqueline Broad presents letters from three influential thinkers of the eighteenth century: Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, and...

Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each stage of the Floppy's Phonics teaching programme, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable stories are 100% matched to the phonic...

for CCBar and piano Ian Crawford breathes new life into this traditional American tune by employing a bluegrass-inspired style, jaunty syncopations, and an upbeat tempo. The light but supportive piano accompaniment uses punchy clustered chords, and the...

In Canada, women's bodies are often at the centre of debates about religious pluralism, multiculturalism, and secularism. Women have long played a critical role in building and maintaining diasporic religious communities and networks, and they have also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780261614Author Robert HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

The concept of general equilibrium, one of the central components of economic theory, explains the behavior of supply, demand, and prices by showing that supply and demand exist in balance through pricing mechanisms. The mathematical tools and properties...

Catch Up analyzes the evolution of developing countries in the world economy from a long-term historical perspective, from the onset of the second millennium but with a focus on the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060889586Author Steven D. LevittFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Why do heroes fight each other? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win? Why don't heroes simply take over the world? Economics and comics may seem to be a world apart. But in the hands of economics professor and comic book...

Winner of the Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Award at the Business Book Awards 2021 'Underpinned by scholarship...entertaining...Legrain's book fizzes with practical ideas.' The Economist 'The beauty of diversity is that innovation often...

As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others,...

A cutting-edge graduate-level textbook on the macroeconomics of international trade Combining theoretical models and data in ways unimaginable just a few years ago, open economy macroeconomics has experienced enormous growth over the past several...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389821949Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 9mm