Economics

The twenty-first century has seen major challenges to freedom and democracy. Authoritarianism is on the rise and democracy is in retreat. Some promote individualism and markets as the solution to almost every problem. On the other side there are those...

This book presents Ariel Rubinstein's lecture notes for the first part of his well-known graduate course in microeconomics. Developed during the fifteen years that Rubinstein taught the course at Tel Aviv University, Princeton University, and New York...

Although central banking is today often presented as having emerged in the nineteenth or even twentieth century, it has a long and colourful history before 1800, from which important lessons for today's debates can be drawn. While the core of central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090228Author Peter CaseyFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 455gDimensions(mm)...

For one semester survey courses in general economics Teach your students how to think like economists. The Economic Way of Thinking goes beyond explaining the basic principles of micro- and macroeconomic analysis by showing students a method of...

The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff's classic investigation into Karl Marx's conception of "the money commodity" shines light on commodities and their fetishism. The investigation of money as the crystallization of value in its material sense is...

Upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars working specifically on the Scottish Enlightenment and early modern political and economic thought more generally.Book InformationISBN 9781474455855Author Christopher J. BerryFormat...

Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisure? In this book David A. Spencer argues that work is only an alienating burden because of the nature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977594Author Peter BoettkeFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 748g

The term rust belt has rarely been associated with developing countries. In fact, it is commonly used to discuss deindustrialization in advanced nations, particularly the US. However, this book argues that such a belt is now threatening the middle-income...

How the world has become much better and why optimism is abundantly justified Why do so many people fear the future? Is their concern justified, or can we look forward to greater wealth and continued improvement in the way we live? Our world seems to be...

Aspects of environmental change are some of the greatest challenges faced by policymakers today. The key issues addressed by environmental science are often empirical, and in many instances very detailed, sizable datasets are available. Researchers in...

Jan Tinbergen was the first Nobel Prize winner in Economics and one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. This book argues that his crucial contribution is the theory of economic policy and the legitimation of economic expertise in...

David M. Kreps has developed a text in microeconomics that is both challenging and "user-friendly." The work is designed for the first-year graduate microeconomic theory course and is accessible to advanced undergraduates as well. Placing unusual...

Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic...

Mr Dobb examines the history of economic thought in the light of the modern controversy over capital theory and, more particularly, the appearance of Sraffa's book The Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, which was a watershed in the...

Rakesh V. Vohra offers a unique approach to studying and understanding intermediate microeconomics by reversing the conventional order of treatment, starting with topics that are mathematically simpler and progressing to the more complex. The book begins...

AP Teachers’ #1 Choice!Ready to succeed in your AP course and ace your exam? Our 5 Steps to a 5 guides explain the tough stuff, offer tons of practice and explanations, and help you make the most efficient use of your study time. 5 Steps to a 5: AP...

This volume includes the complete texts of two of John Stuart Mill's most important works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, and selections from his other writings, including the complete text of his Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy. The selection from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046879Author W. Bentley MacleodFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538572Author Felipe Larrain B.Format PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 19mm

Written in a comprehensive yet accessible style, this Handbook introduces readers to a range of modern empirical methods with applications in microeconomics, illustrating how to use two of the most popular software packages, Stata and R, in...

As the agricultural systems of many countries are poised, as a result of the recent advances in biotechnology for what may soon come to be called the Second Green Revolution, this book is particularly appropriate. Vandana Shiva examines the impact of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917012Author Elle Dillon-ReamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Value and Capital An Inquiry into some Fundamental Principles of Economic TheoryBook InformationISBN 9780198282693Author J. R. HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 481g

Jason Manolopoulos lends a unique perspective, based on experience of the global financial system, emerging markets and crises, European politics and Greek society, to demonstrate how one of the EU's smaller countries played a catalytic role in a crisis...

A new theory of how and why we cooperate, drawing from economics, political theory, and philosophy to challenge the conventional wisdom of game theory Game theory explains competitive behavior by working from the premise that people are self-interested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262550666Author William R. EasterlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 794g

Again and again, Latin America has seen the populist scenario played to an unfortunate end. Upon gaining power, populist governments attempt to revive the economy through massive spending. After an initial recovery, inflation reemerges and the government...

This book presents recent developments in the economics of asymmetric information. The problems of selection and moral hazard, with hidden actions or hidden information, are introduced by examining how they affect the market for investment finance. The...

A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide...

This Modern Guide explores central ideas, concepts, and themes in the Austrian school of economics, with a focus on how both the school and the overall theory have evolved over recent decades. Leading scholars offer their insights into potential...

In this volume, international experts analyse the politics of conventional military policy and military relations among the Soviet successor states. The work analyses various national perspectives on security and approaches to military affairsBook...

Towards a New Paradigm for Monetary Economics presents a pioneer treatment of critical topics in monetary economics. Unlike the prevailing monetary theory, this book focuses not on the role of money in facilitating transactions, but on the role of credit...

The presumed sovereignty of individuals and the facilitating powers of the markets have generated a universal and ethically neutral conception of both social and economic organisation. This ground-breaking text re-examines the purpose of society and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621480495Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Applications of quantum field theoretical methods to gravitational physics, both in the semiclassical and the full quantum frameworks, require a careful formulation of the fundamental basis of quantum theory, with special attention to such important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039284Author Thomas-Olivier LeautierFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 30mm

The first book-length work on market monetarism, written by its leading scholar. Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It’s happened before. Just as Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz led...

Your no-nonsense guide to microeconomics The study of microeconomics isn't for the faint of heart. Fortunately, Microeconomics For Dummies is here to help make this tough topic accessible to the masses. If you're a business or finance major looking to...