Economics

This text applies organization theory to British business and illuminates its historical and contemporary organizational patterns. The text is unique in that it systematically combines organization theory with the results of historical and...

Can private health insurance fill gaps in publicly financed coverage? Does it enhance access to health care or improve efficiency in health service delivery? Will it provide fiscal relief for governments struggling to raise public revenue for health?...

The second edition of this widely acclaimed and extensively cited collection of original contributions by specialist authors reflects changes in the field of cultural economics over the last eight years. Thoroughly revised chapters alongside new topics...

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262610957Author Paul KrugmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 499g

Credit risk is today one of the most intensely studied topics in quantitative finance. This book provides an introduction and overview for readers who seek an up-to-date reference to the central problems of the field and to the tools currently used to...

The book presents and further develops basic principles and concepts in international finance and open economy macroeconomics to make them more relevant for emerging and developing economies (EDEs). The volume emphasises the necessity of greater...

Andy Garlick's book explores the role of quantitative techniques in modern risk management. Risk management has grown in importance in most organisations in the last 20 years, but in many remains simply a matter of processing lists of risks and actions...

As we find ourselves at the cusp of an economic downturn, there has been a clear reinvigoration of Keynesian economics as governments are attempting to stimulate the market through public funds. Forming his economic theories in the wake of the Great...

John Roemer points out that there are two views of equality of opportunity that are widely held today. The first, which he calls the nondiscrimination principle, states that in the competition for positions in society, individuals should be judged only...

In The Coming Jobs War, Clifton makes the bold assertion that job creation and successful entrepreneurship are the world's most pressing issues right now, outpacing runaway government spending, environmental degradation and even the threat of global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528344Author Ignacio Palacios-HuertaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

The failure of orthodox economic analysis to provide acceptable answers to the dominant contemporary policy problems has given rise to a widespread feeling of 'methodological crisis' in the discipline. Students find it increasingly hard to relate to a...

International Macroeconomics provides students with an analytically rigorous introduction to the impact of globalization on macroeconomics. Presents an analytically rigorous introduction to the field and uniquely includes optional econometric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533348Author Peter E. KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm * 21mm

How did the West,Europe, Canada, and the United States,escape from immemorial poverty into sustained economic growth and material well-being when other societies remained trapped in an endless cycle of birth, hunger, hardship, and death? In this elegant...

Now in its second edition, A Textbook of Cultural Economics is an established resource for many courses, including economics of the arts, the cultural and media industries, and the digital creative economy. Authored by Ruth Towse, a widely recognised...

Personalized and continuing relationships play a central role in any society. Economists have built upon the theories of repeated games and reputations to make important advances in understanding such relationships. Repeated Games and Reputations begins...

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...

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...

This book addresses each of the Air Navigation Services' five broad categories of services provided to air traffic during all phases of operation: air traffic management (ATM), communication, navigation and surveillance services (CNS), meteorological...

Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work. Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills...

This stimulating, informative and at times frightening book provides an overall history of energy usage as a fundamental factor in the evolution of the world's major civilizations, from pre-history to the present day. It serves as a history of human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913433352Author George GravesFormat PaperbackImprint Peak Study Resources LtdPublisher Peak Study Resources LtdWeight(grams) 211g

This text provides full coverage of all the topics typically encountered in Business or Managerial Economics. It is designed to be appropriate for intermediate and final year undergraduate, first year graduate and MBA programmes in managerial economics...

Lectures in Macroeconomics: A Capitalist Economy Without Unemployment provides a systematic account of the principle of aggregate demand based on the work of Polish economist Michal Kalecki, best known as one of the originators of the Keynesian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bronze Medalist in Economics, 2017 Axiom Business Book Awards 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780262533522Author Arun SundararajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint...

How did economic ''experts'' worldwide fail to predict the financial crisis of 2007-2008? Eminent economist Paul Davidson discusses how mainstream economic theory may not be applicable to the world of experience. Post Keynesian theory, on the other hand,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771337090Author Erella ShadmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

Burton Malkiel's 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since, Malkiel's text remains an indispensable contribution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783367Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 1184Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 663gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

These two volumes bring together a set of important essays that represent a "new Keynesian" perspective in economics today. This recent work shows how the Keynesian approach to economic fluctuations can be supported by rigorous microeconomic...

An innovative advanced-undergraduate and graduate-level textbook in urban economicsWith more than half of today's global GDP being produced by approximately four hundred metropolitan centers, learning about the economics of cities is vital to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979659Author Piero SraffaFormat PaperbackPage Count 447Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 804g

Even a decade after the end of the 1914-1918 war, economic theory assumed that the world was tranquil and orderly. By 1939 an economic slump without parallel, allied to the re-emergence of military ambition in Europe, had brought economic theorists face...

Value and Crisis brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho, one of the most prominent Marxist political economists writing today. Divided into two parts, "Essays on the Theory of Value" and "Essays on Contemporary Capitalism," this...

It is Shackle's view that human conduct is chosen with a view to its consequences. But these are in the future, which cannot be directly known. Expectation will confine itself to what is deemed possible, but this leaves it free to entertain widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262514958Author Bruno S. FreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Covering over one-hundred topics on issues ranging from Law and Neuroeconomics to European Union Law and Economics to Feminist Theory and Law and Economics, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics is the definitive work in the field of law and economics...