Economics

Presents the first theoretical analysis of the Asian financial crisis and draws out the general lessons of an event whose potential long term effects have been likened to those of the Crash of 1929. Part I presents a factual and analytic overview of what...

Managerial Economics introduces undergraduates, MBAs, and executives to the complex decision problems today's managers face, providing the knowledge and analytical skills required to make informed decisions and prosper in the modern business environment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356290556Author Meghnad DesaiFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 30mm

What lies behind the veil of economics? Power and ideology, answers Robert Heilbroner-the power of our economic involvement in society to shape the ways we think about it; the visions and values that add unsuspected ideological color to our economic...

The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice. Promoted as an integral dimension of the post-Washington Consensus all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453846278Author David RicardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 12mm

Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For...

A Great Deal of Ruin provides an accessible introduction to the enduring problem of financial crises. Illustrated with historical analysis, case studies, and clear economic concepts, this book explains in three parts what financial crises are, how they...

Step right up! Get your tickets for WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird! This rollicking tour through a museum of the world's weirdest practices is guaranteed to make you say, "WTF?!" Did you know that "preowned" wives were sold at auction in...

Ten years ago, Blueprint for a Green Economy made front-page news. Its central message, that environmental problems have their roots in economic 'failures', served to change the direction of environmental policy. The goal of sustainable development was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046916Author Thomas MoserFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In the pages of this intriguing volume, a cure to stagflation seems to be at hand. Martin L. Weitzman, one of America's leading economic theorists, has hit upon a central feature of our economic life as the cause of this chronic malady: the standard...

In the blink of an eye, Rachel Vincent can be anywhere. It's easy for her because she's dead. But what she can't do is join the others in the warmly lit room beyond the glass and be at peace, until she remembers what happened to her on the day she died...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351023Author Christian MarazziFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm *...

Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. Cultural theorists love to toy with Marx, but critical thinking seems to fall into obvious traps. After an introduction which explains why the...

Debunking the myths around the current economic belief systems, this book reveals how mainstream perspectives work for the benefit of the organised money establishment, while causing all manner of destructions, inequalities and frauds, all conspiring...

When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest for its accessible treatment of the rapidly growing field of efficiency...

Commons opened Institutional Economics by declaring: "My point of view is based on my participation in collective activities, from which I here derive a theory of the part played by collective action in control of individual action." This sentence well...

The book is in three parts with a section of keywords. Part I covers individual choice , Part II examines interactive choice . The final part covers interactive choice .About the AuthorShaun Hargreaves Heap is Lecturer in Economics, Martin Hollis is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048392Author Jeff FuhrerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Have you ever wondered why we can afford to buy far more clothes than our grandparents ever could . . . but may be less likely to own a home in which to keep them all? Why your petrol bill can double in a matter of months, but it never falls as fast?;...

The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades. Cost-utility analysis is the most commonly used method for determining the allocation of these resources, but this book counters the...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. What are the prospects...

During 2013-14, the IEA ran a competition to find the best blueprint for Britain outside the EU, with the objective of securing a free and prosperous economy should it choose to leave. The IEA does not have a position on whether Britain should leave the...

The advent of economic neoliberalism in the 1980s triggered a shift in the world economy. In the three decades following World War II, now considered a golden age of capitalism, economic growth was high and income inequality decreasing. But in the...

The income velocity of money-an inverse measure of the demand for money balances-is the ratio of the money value of income to the average money stock that the public (excluding banks) holds in a given period. Why the magnitude of that ratio has changed...

This economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption activities in households in Kent and Cornwall yields important new insights on the transition to capitalism in England.About the AuthorMark Overton is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743225939Author Richard Evans FarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 197gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

A guide to the economic modeling of household preferences, from two leaders in the fieldA common set of mathematical tools underlies dynamic optimization, dynamic estimation, and filtering. In Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies, Lars Peter...

What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, "Market Threads" presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel and...

Teaching the Essentials of Law and Economics covers the core areas of law and economics, also known as the economic analysis of law, in non-technical terms with guiding notes throughout the text. Replete with cases and illustrations, it may be used both...

Joseph A. Schumpeter was a monumental figure in the history and development of economics. This work brings together his brilliant lectures, delivered more than a century ago, in its first English-language paperback edition. Here, readers will discover...

Government interventions in market failures can encounter objections from those who doubt their efficacy. Acocella, a leading expert on economic policy, counters these unfounded criticisms, making the convincing case for the foundation, coordination and...

This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth and development in Ethiopia.The core argument for editing this book is to provide an up-to-date picture of the state and patterns of growth and development in...

During the height of the Cold War, between 1965 and 1968, Robert Aumann, Michael Maschler, and Richard Stearns collaborated on researchon the dynamics of arms control negotiations that has since become foundational to work on repeated games. These five...

It is now widely acknowledged that history is useful, even essential, because it helps us predict the future. The history of ideas in economics, as in other fields of inquiry, plays an important role in enlightening current researchers as they endeavour...

The "gig economy" is a relatively recent term coined to describe a range of working arrangements that have previously been denoted as precarious, flexible and contingent. These may include casual workers, temporary agency workers, those on zero-hours...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994748096Author Brian RomanchukFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint BondeconomicsPublisher BondeconomicsWeight(grams) 200g

Author of The Worldly Philosophers, a 3-million-copy seller, Robert Heilbroner offers here a compendium of readings from the "worldly philosophers" themselves. The selections range from the earliest economic thought to such towering volumes as Adam...

A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature-and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have...