Economics

This beautiful, authoritative volume in the popular 'Sterling Milestones' series looks at the vital intersection among business, finance and money. From the philosophical dialogues of Ancient Greece and the moral contemplations of Medieval Europe to...

Society and Economy-a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology-is the first full account of Mark Granovetter's ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate...

This volume consists of selected previously published key essays which have proved most useful for teaching advanced monetary economics. A short introduction was added which places the selection of essays and the issues they cover in the contemporaneous...

In the 1960s, America set out to end poverty. Policy-makers put forth an unprecedented package of legislation, funding poverty programs and empowering the poor through ineffectual employment-related education and training. However, these handouts...

Human Action - a treatise on laissez-faire capitalism by Ludwig von Mises is a historically important and classic publication on economics, and yet it can be an intimidating work due to its length and formal style. Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and...

Now you can master the principles of macroeconomics with the help of the most popular, widely-used economics textbook by students worldwide -- Mankiw's PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS, 8E. With its clear and engaging writing style, this book emphasizes only...

Ronald Burt describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is...

Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an "unscientific" concept. This is the first book to establish empirically...

This book is the first to apply the tools of game theory and information economics to advance our understanding of how laws work. Organized around the major solution concepts of game theory, it shows how such well known games as the prisoner's...

In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging...

This book explores the organization of creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, movies, theater, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with other, "humdrum" inputs. But the deals that bring...

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...

Economics used to be called political economy, and the loss of the "political" tracks the ascendance of the idea of rational choice within the discipline. Where does this idea of economic rationality - choosing to maximize benefits and minimize costs -...

In the wide ranging arguments about the fundamental tenets of Marxism nothing has had greater political significance than the theoretical questioning of the central role assigned to class struggle in the process of social transformation.The Politics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783744213Format PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955983139Author Craig JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Terrapreta PublishingPublisher Terrapreta PublishingWeight(grams) 562g

'Vic Fuchs' Who Shall Live? is the most important book ever on health economics. It has inspired us all these many years, and it is terrific to see a new edition, post-Obamacare and post-pandemic.'Sir Angus S DeatonRecipient of the Nobel Prize in...

Most of Chester Barnard's career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the bachelor's degree, was followed by nearly forty years in the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. His career began in the...

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...

Constantly bandied about, 'crisis' has tended to be a much-overused word. Understanding the economy and its future challenges requires a detailed and precise analysis of what an economic crisis is. This book sets out to do just that. It first provides a...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043625Author Jianjun MiaoFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 35mm

Few other economists have been read and cited as much as R.H. Coase, a scholar who approached economics as a philosopher: with contemplation, careful scrutiny of real conditions and consideration of the practical implications of theory. "These essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262522915Author Isabelle BrocasFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 13mm

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...

This wonderfully received book finds him in top form, observing the years he's dubbed "the age of diminished expectations." The past twenty years have been an era of economic disappointment in the United States. They have also been a time of intense...

Smart metrics, slow thinking, off-label drugs, and a "Moneyball" prescription for fixing modern medicine--by the author of Tripping Over the Truth The United States is fast becoming the sickest nation in the Western world. Cancer rates continue to...

Discover an exceptionally clear, concise introduction to microeconomics using an approach that avoids high-level mathematics but still offers meaningful practice with Nicholson/Snyder's INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS AND ITS APPLICATION, 13E. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250781284Author How Markets FailFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Few would deny the crucial role that entrepreneurs play in our increasingly global economy--but exactly what is this vital, yet loosely defined business force we call the entrepreneurial spirit? This landmark study is the first to examine analytically...

The big picture is well-known: over the last century, religion in Britain has lost power, popularity, and plausibility. Here, Steve Bruce charts the quantifiable changes in religious interest and observance over the last fifty years by returning to a...

'Soros has become a standard bearer for liberal democracy' Financial TimesGeorge Soros - universally known for his philanthropy, progressive politics and investment success, and now under sustained attack from the far right, nationalists, and...

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 approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective. By introducing system dynamics methods (including qualitative and quantitative techniques) and computer simulation models, the respective contributions apply...

An ideal entry point into health economics for everyone from aspiring economists to healthcare professionals. The economics of healthcare are messy. For most consumers, there's little control over costs or services. Sometimes doctors are paid a lot;...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679424734Author Adam SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 1200Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1213gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

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...

This book describes the classical axiomatic theories of decision under uncertainty, as well as critiques thereof and alternative theories. It focuses on the meaning of probability, discussing some definitions and surveying their scope of applicability...