Economics

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806222Author Robert B. ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

Lal analyses the effects of minimum wages on unemployment and training, and concludes that they increase unemployment and reduce the incentive to acquire skillsBook InformationISBN 9780255363440Author Deepak LalFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint...

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...

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...

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...

Based on a three-year course prepared by Leon MacLaren for the School of Economic Science in London in the late 1960s, this book reassesses the first principles of economics. Leon MacLaren (1910-1994) was a barrister, politician, philosopher, and the...

In this text, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J.S.G. Boggs, a young artist with a certain panache, a certain flair, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps, more precisely, value. What Boggs likes to do is to draw money - actual...

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...

Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993087783Author Tim WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Waye Forward (Publishing) LtdPublisher Waye Forward (Publishing) Ltd

How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided society The Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness...

Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The...

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...

This second edition provides a rigorous yet accessible graduate-level introduction to financial economics. Since students often find the link between financial economics and equilibrium theory hard to grasp, less attention is given to purely financial...

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 title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.Book InformationISBN 9780714633480Author R. P. T. Davenport-HinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor...

This volume includes essential texts-many available here in English for the first time; some available for the first time in any language-by the influential revolutionary Marxist Henryk Grossman. This collection pulls from monographs, articles, essays,...

This unique book provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world. It includes discussions of the latest research findings in the international economic development literature and scrutinises some of...

The purpose of this book is to publish the ideas of the late Herbert Simon and sympathetic economists, on the subject of bounded rationality, economics, cognitive science and related disciplines, and to reprint some of Professor Simon's classic papers...

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...

In this wonderfully cohesive set of sharp and witty essays, Paul Krugman tackles bad economic ideas from across the political spectrum. In plain English, he enlightens us on the Asian crisis, corporate downsizing, and the globalization of the American...

This book is about inequality, how the State affects distribution through its spending programmes and through taxation, and what the public thinks of these three issues. It describes and analyses one of the biggest social changes in Britain since the...

Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course. Bjerg argues that our current mode of economic organization is characterized by an inherent debt drive , whereby the creation of money...

Modern macroeconomics has been based on the paradigm of the rational individual capable of understanding the complexity of the world. This has created a very shallow theory of the business cycle in which nothing happens in the macroeconomy unless shocks...

This book describes and evaluates the literature on exchange rate economics. It provides a wide-ranging survey, with background on the history of international monetary regimes and the institutional characteristics of foreign exchange markets, an...

Using a rigorous and concise framework, this book teaches the foundations of modern macroeconomic theory and its methods. It is ideally suited for students taking a first graduate course in macroeconomics as part of an MBA, finance, or economics degree...

Combining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term 'neoliberalism' really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood.Book InformationISBN 9781474454568Author Carl RaschkeFormat PaperbackPage...

The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on...

'Boserup's contribution to our thinking on women's role in development cannot be underestimated. Her keen observations, her use of empirical data and her commitment to greater gender equality are still an inspiration to students, researchers and...

The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a...