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Economics for Lawyers by Richard A. Ippolito 9780691146560
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $60.36Whether dealing with contracts, tort actions, or government regulations, lawyers are more likely to be successful if they are conversant in economics. Economics for Lawyers provides the essential... -
Quantitative Techniques for Competition and Antitrust Analysis by Peter Davis
RRP: $188.34Booksplease Price: $122.30This book combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations. Peter Davis and Eliana Garces show how to... -
Playing at Acquisitions: Behavioral Option Games by Han T. J. Smit 9780691140001
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.02It is widely accepted that a large proportion of acquisition strategies fail to deliver the expected value. Globalizing markets characterized by growing uncertainty, together with the advent of new... -
Information and Learning in Markets: The Impact of Market Microstructure by Xavier Vives 9780691145969
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $69.83The ways financial analysts, traders, and other specialists use information and learn from each other are of fundamental importance to understanding how markets work and prices are set. This... -
Playing at Acquisitions: Behavioral Option Games by Han T. J. Smit
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41It is widely accepted that a large proportion of acquisition strategies fail to deliver the expected value. Globalizing markets characterized by growing uncertainty, together with the advent of new... -
The Big Problem of Small Change by Thomas J. Sargent
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.49The Big Problem of Small Change offers the first credible and analytically sound explanation of how a problem that dogged monetary authorities for hundreds of years was finally solved. Two leading... -
Food Fights over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization by Christina L. Davis 9780691122540
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.54This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to... -
Beyond Mechanical Markets: Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State by Roman Frydman 9780691145778
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.74In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael... -
Investors and Markets: Portfolio Choices, Asset Prices, and Investment Advice by William F. Sharpe
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.22In Investors and Markets, Nobel Prize-winning financial economist William Sharpe shows that investment professionals cannot make good portfolio choices unless they understand the determinants of... -
The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World by William L. Silber
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.01How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and... -
The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World by William L. Silber 9780691175386
Booksplease Price: $47.19How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and... -
Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity by Koray Caliskan 9780691142418
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.02What 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... -
Nonlinear Option Pricing Julien Guyon 9781032919393
Booksplease Price: $66.98New Tools to Solve Your Option Pricing ProblemsFor nonlinear PDEs encountered in quantitative finance, advanced probabilistic methods are needed to address dimensionality issues. Written by two... -
Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade by Robert H. Bates
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $57.70Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. In Open-Economy Politics, Robert Bates explores the origins, the operations, and the collapse... -
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth by Dani Rodrik
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.35In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are... -
Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships by Abel Escriba-Folch
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $34.95How remittances-money sent by workers back to their home countries-support democratic expansionIn the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration... -
Common Value Auctions and the Winner's Curse by John H. Kagel
RRP: $178.02Booksplease Price: $141.68Few forms of market exchange intrigue economists as do auctions, whose theoretical and practical implications are enormous. John Kagel and Dan Levin, complementing their own distinguished research... -
Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships by Abel Escriba-Folch 9780691199382
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $111.57How remittances-money sent by workers back to their home countries-support democratic expansionIn the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration... -
The Paradox of Asset Pricing by Peter L. Bossaerts 9780691123134
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $80.46Asset pricing theory abounds with elegant mathematical models. The logic is so compelling that the models are widely used in policy, from banking, investments, and corporate finance to government. To... -
A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street by Andrew W. Lo
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.49For over half a century, financial experts have regarded the movements of markets as a random walk--unpredictable meanderings akin to a drunkard's unsteady gait--and this hypothesis has become a... -
Irrational Exuberance: Revised and Expanded Third Edition by Robert J. Shiller 9780691173122
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.81In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs of... -
Asset Price Dynamics, Volatility, and Prediction by Stephen J. Taylor 9780691134796
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $86.02This book shows how current and recent market prices convey information about the probability distributions that govern future prices. Moving beyond purely theoretical models, Stephen Taylor applies... -
The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble by Richard Dale 9780691170947
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.74For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to investors of the dangers of unbridled speculation... -
The Conquest of American Inflation by Thomas J. Sargent 9780691090122
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.15In the past fifteen years, inflation has been conquered by many advanced countries. History reveals, however, that it has been conquered before and returned. In The Conquest of American Inflation,... -
The Econometrics of Financial Markets by John Y. Campbell 9780691043012
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $72.86The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Finance professionals now routinely use sophisticated statistical techniques in... -
Common Value Auctions and the Winner's Curse by John H. Kagel 9780691218953
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $64.31An invaluable account of how auctions work-and how to make them workFew forms of market exchange intrigue economists as do auctions, whose theoretical and practical implications are enormous. John... -
The Political Economy of Participatory Economics by Michael Albert
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.22With the near bankruptcy of centrally planned economies now apparent and with capitalism seemingly incapable of generating egalitarian outcomes in the first world and economic development in the... -
Game Theory in Action: An Introduction to Classical and Evolutionary Models by Stephen Schecter 9780691167657
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.57Game Theory in Action is a textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis show... -
Monopolistic Competition and Effective Demand. (PSME-6) by Hukukane Nikaido 9780691617794
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.38While traditional price theory has successfully elucidated national income distribution in a perfectly competitive economy, little is known today about the overall working of a noncompetitive economy... -
The Economic Theory of Annuities by Eytan Sheshinski
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $59.97Annuities are financial products that guarantee the holder a fixed return so long as the holder remains alive, thereby providing insurance against lifetime uncertainty. The terms of these contracts... -
The Economics of Uncertainty. (PSME-2), Volume 2 by Karl Hendrik Borch 9780691622545
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28Game theory has brought into economics an uncertainty principle similar to the one brought into physics by the quantum theory. Professor Barch's main purpose in this book is to show how one can... -
Microeconomics for Managers, 2nd Edition by David M. Kreps 9780691182698
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $69.83A thoroughly revised new edition of a leading textbook that equips MBA students with the powerful tools of economicsThis is a thoroughly revised and substantially streamlined new edition of a leading... -
The Exchange Rate in a Behavioral Finance Framework by Paul de Grauwe 9780691121635
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $106.36This book provides an alternative view of the workings of foreign exchange markets. The authors' modeling approach is based on the idea that agents use simple forecasting rules and switch to those... -
Learning and Expectations in Macroeconomics by George W. Evans 9780691049212
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $89.96A crucial challenge for economists is figuring out how people interpret the world and form expectations that will likely influence their economic activity. Inflation, asset prices, exchange rates,... -
International Macroeconomics: A Modern Approach by Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $85.63An essential introduction to one of the most timely and important subjects in economicsInternational Macroeconomics presents a rigorous and theoretically elegant treatment of real-world international... -
Game Theory in Action: An Introduction to Classical and Evolutionary Models by Stephen Schecter 9780691167640
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $86.02Game Theory in Action is a textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis show... -
The Handbook of Experimental Economics by John H. Kagel
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $117.26This book, which comprises eight chapters, presents a comprehensive critical survey of the results and methods of laboratory experiments in economics. The first chapter provides an introduction to... -
Indifference Pricing: Theory and Applications by Rene Carmona
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $153.47This is the first book about the emerging field of utility indifference pricing for valuing derivatives in incomplete markets. Rene Carmona brings together a who's who of leading experts in the field... -
Parking and the City Donald Shoup 9781138497122
Booksplease Price: $74.81Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining, the... -
Keynesian Behavioral Macroeconomics Theodore Koutsobinas 9780443247521
RRP: $131.57Booksplease Price: $118.58Keynesian Behavioral Macroeconomics analyzes Keynes's landmark contributions in behavioral economics and develops a new and fresh genre of macroeconomic analysis. It compels us to consider seriously...