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  • The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    Edited by Jeremy Atack, Larry Neal ...
    Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be one of the most important causal factors in economic performance. In a series of insightful essays, financial and ... Read more

    $59.09 USD

  • Estimation of Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century United States Manufacturing

    by Jeremy Atack ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Economics
    On economies of scale during the nineteenth century, much is assumed, but little is known. This study, first published in 1985, seeks to close this gap in our knowledge by providing comprehensive empirical evidence on the status of economies of scale in mid-nineteenth century manufacturing industry. This evidence is in the form of production function estimates made using data from the manuscripts ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Irrational Exuberance

    Revised and Expanded Third Edition

    by Robert J. Shiller ...
    Why the irrational exuberance of investors hasn't disappeared since the financial crisisIn 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 irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008–9 financial crisis. With high stock and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Animal Spirits

    How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper)

    by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller ...
    The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Human Capital

    A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myth and Measurement

    The New Economics of the Minimum Wage - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

    by David Card, David Card, Alan B. Krueger, Alan B. Krueger ...
    From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wageDavid Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Money Problem

    Rethinking Financial Regulation

    by Morgan Ricks ...
    An "intriguing plan" addressing shadow banking, regulation, and the continuing quest for financial stability ( Financial Times).Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a "public" or "private" activity—or both? What do we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Central Banking in Theory and Practice

    by Alan S. Blinder ...
    Series series Lionel Robbins Lectures
    Alan S. Blinder offers the dual perspective of a leading academic macroeconomist who served a stint as Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board—one who practiced what he had long preached and then returned to academia to write about it. He tells central bankers how they might better incorporate academic knowledge and thinking into the conduct of monetary policy, and he tells scholars how they ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Valuing Life

    Humanizing the Regulatory State

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    "Clear explanations and concrete examples of how the behavioral orientation in economics can contribute to the world of cost/benefit policy formulation." — ChoiceThe White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States' regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, New York Times–bestselling author and legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Than a Numbers Game

    A Brief History of Accounting

    by Thomas A. King ...
    The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility. King addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Investment Banking

    Institutions, Politics, and Law

    by Alan D. Morrison, William J. Wilhelm, Jr. ...
    Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment decisions rely upon price-relevant information, it is impossible to establish property rights over ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Modern Public Economics

    by Raghbendra Jha ...
    Series series Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance
    In recent times not only have traditional areas of public economics such as taxation, public expenditure, public sector pricing, benefit cost analysis, and fiscal federalism thrown up new challenges but entirely new areas of research and inquiry have emerged. This second edition builds upon the strengths of the previous edition and incorporates results of research on new areas such as global ... Read more

    $110.99 USD