Economics

This book offers an accessible introduction to post-Keynesian economics, showing that there is an alternative to neoclassical economics and its free-market economic policies. Post-Keynesian economics is founded on realistic assumptions, such as interest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679405641Author Adam SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 692gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

When it first appeared in 1965, The Conditions of Agricultural Growth heralded a breakthrough in the theory of agricultural development. Whereas 'development' had previously been seen as the transformation of traditional communities by the introduction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975682Author Ludwig von MisesFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 590g

A boldly revisionist history of the first disputes in nineteenth-century Britain over the role of economists in society Economics now so dominates our understanding of how the world works that some of the field's most influential concepts seem akin...

Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give much credit to the role of networks until the early 1990s, but since then the...

Reading and Understanding Economics enables you to get to grips with all the issues in today's economy discussed at length everywhere you look in the media leaving you armed with a new vocabulary of key economic terms ready to conduct your own analysis...

Responses to Marx's Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin is a collection of primary sources dealing with the reception of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third International. The documents, translated for the first...

A powerful and urgent call to action: to improve our lives and our societies, we must demand open access to data for all. Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976368Author Armen A AlchianFormat HardbackPage Count 1589Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 2435g

Cost management of all building projects has become increasingly important as clients in the public and private sector demand the highest quality cost planning services with accurate budgeting and cost control. All members of the design team must...

The global financial crisis triggered severe shocks for developing countries, whose embrace of greater commercial and financial openness has increased their exposure to external shocks, both real and financial. This new edition of Development...

In economics, most noncooperative game theory has focused on equilibrium in games, especially Nash equilibrium and its refinements. The traditional explanation for when and why equilibrium arises is that it results from analysis and introspection by the...

This book is about preferences, principally as they figure in economics. It also explores their uses in everyday language and action, how they are understood in psychology and how they figure in philosophical reflection on action and morality. The book...

Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpaid, free or coerced, full-time, part-time, or zero-hours, work defines us and helps shape our behavior both on and off the...

In this witty and revelatory investigation of the so-called dismal science, University of British Columbia professor Marina Adshade skips the usual widgets and uncovers how the market comes to bear on our most intimate decisions: sex, dating, courtship,...

This Element introduces students, policy-makers, politicians, governments and business-people to this new discipline within economics. It presents the recent history of the subject and its range of coverage. Traditional topics covered include models of...

While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture...

"Matthew Hennessey's Visible Hand is a wise reminder that free markets are essential to human flourishing." -Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal Columnist"Econ 101 should always be this much fun." -Larry Kudlow, former director of the National Economic...

Though sustainable development goals and other international initiatives have insisted on the importance of energy access in peace building, there is still little understanding about the extent to which energy systems themselves can contribute to or...

Coverage has been extended to include recent topics. The book again presents a unified treatment of economic theory, with the method of maximum likelihood playing a key role in both estimation and testing. Exercises are included and the book is suitable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789699988349Author Sheikh Mahmud AhmadFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Peace PublicationsPublisher Peace Publications

In countries that have managed to confront and cope with the challenges of food insecurity over the past two centuries, markets have done the heavy lifting. Markets serve as the arena for allocating society's scarce resources to meet the virtually...

In economic situations where action entails a fixed cost, inaction is the norm. Action is taken infrequently, and adjustments are large when they occur. Interest in economic models that exhibit "lumpy" behavior of this kind has exploded in recent years,...

The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in 2009, hopes for a new phase of economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473594664Author Grant J RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Big Idea Publishing CompanyPublisher Big Idea Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451651737Author Steven E LandsburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

It is the author's contention that an abundance of voluntary action outside the citizen's home, both individually and collectively, for bettering his own and his fellows' lives, are the distinguishing marks of a truly free society. This volume is a study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977402Author F A HayekFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 296g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811201476Author Kenneth PatchenFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Business Economics is aimed at business students who need a solid, but not excessively theoretical, introduction to economics which focuses on the contribution economics can make to the study of business policy. In addition to the standard economics of...

The poverty rate is one of the most visible ways in which nations measure the economic well-being of their low-income citizens. To gauge whether a person is poor, European states often focus on a person's relative position in the income distribution to...

Complexity science--made possible by modern analytical and computational advances--is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market...

This sixth edition of Agribusiness Management provides students and managers with a fundamental understanding of the key concepts needed to successfully manage agribusinesses in a rapidly changing, high-tech, consumer-oriented, and uncertain world.The...

This book is a survey of macroeconomic policy in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s which argues that there were important elements of continuity in the way decisions were actually taken year-by-year and month-by-month in the Treasury and the Bank of England...

During the 2016 presidential election, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders argued that elites were hurting the economy. But, drawing together evidence and theory from across economics, political science, and even finance, Garett Jones says otherwise. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307952561Author Charles H. FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Interpreting and applying macroeconomic analysis to the global economic environment and understanding the tools used to do so is fundamental to making good managerial decisions. Presuming no background in economic theory and prioritizing international...

This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change. The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy)...

Global financial capitalism has eroded the moral economy on which all economic exchanges ultimately depend. The principles of reciprocity, responsibility and redistribution, which for centuries defined the market place, have been increasingly pushed...