Publication date: 2007-04-04
Dewey code: 616.042
List Price: $52.95
Price: $38.65
Review Risks in the Making: Travels in Life Insurance and Genetics (Amsterdam University Press - Care and Welfare Series) / Amsterdam University Press:In recent decades, insurance companies, scientists, and public officials have debated the potential use of genetic testing in insurance decisions. With Risks in the Making, Ine van Hoyweghen alters the terms of the debate, moving it from abstract, theoretical grounds to the question of how insurance companies actually work. Through an empirical ethnographic study of life insurance in Belgium, van Hoyweghen reveals fascinating and important details about insurance practices and risk management, underscoring the diversity of insurance markets, underwriting practices, and strategies.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-10-02
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Review Mathematik: Eine erste Einführung (Springers Kurzlehrbücher der Wirtschaftswissenschaften) (German Edition) / Springer:Das Buch erleichtert dem Studienanfänger die Einstellung auf die Anforderungen an der Hochschule durch eine breite und eingehende Darstellung. Auf Schulkenntnissen aufbauend, bringt es den Stoff einer einführenden mathematischen Universitätsvorlesung, wobei das Schwergewicht auf dem Verständnis der Inhalte liegt.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-06-15
Dewey code: 338.542
List Price: $113.00
Price: $49.45
Review Business Cycles: Theory, History, Indicators, and Forecasting (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth) / University Of Chicago Press:This volume presents the most complete collection available of the work of Victor Zarnowitz, a leader in the study of business cycles, growth, inflation, and forecasting. With characteristic insight, Zarnowitz examines theories of the business cycle, including Keynesian and monetary theories and more recent rational expectation and real business cycle theories. He also measures trends and cycles in economic activity; evaluates the performance of leading indicators and their composite measures; surveys forecasting tools and performance of business and academic economists; discusses historical changes in the nature and sources of business cycles; and analyzes how successfully forecasting firms and economists predict such key economic variables as interest rates and inflation.
Authors
- David Lewis
- Fred L. Williams
- Fred Laurence Williams
Dewey code: 388.40973
List Price: $140.00
Price: $38.82
Review Policy and Planning As Public Choice: Mass Transit in the United States / Ashgate Publishing:Under a public choice analytical framework, this book applies formal economic measures to the passenger and taxpayer benefits of public transit service in the United States. Approximately 400 local transit budgets have been renewed annually for more than 25 years. These budgets epitomize Braybrooke and Linblom's concept of "disjointed incrementation" and Buchanan's concept of "public choice" since local legislators funded transit despite constant academic criticism of transit performance. On the other hand, Braybrooke and Lindblom and Buchanan show that local budgets capture benefits that traditional planning analysis does not grasp. This is borne out in analysis in the book. Indeed, far from draining society, transit returns five dollars in benefits for each one dollar of public subsidy. After explaining the analytical framework in chapter one, four chapters are devoted to measuring the value of transit benefits. The concluding chapter draws out the implications of this approach and of benefit measurement for policy and planning.
Publication date: 1997-07-14
Dewey code: 339.5
List Price: $109.95
Price: $38.68
Review Capital Theory Equilibrum Analysis and Recursive Utility / Wiley-Blackwell:In Capital Theory and Equilibrium Analysis and Recursive Utility, Robert Becker and John Boyd have synthesized their previously unpublished work on recursive models.
Publication date: 2005-01-13
Dewey code: 658.4038
List Price: $55.50
Price: $40.14
Review Strategic Learning and Its Limits (Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures Sereis) / Oxford University Press, USA:In this book a distinguished economist suggests a conceptual framework for studying strategic learning, one of the key theoretical developments in current economics. He discusses the interactive learning problem; reinforcement and regret; equilibrium; conditional no-regret learning; prediction, postdiction, and calibration; fictitious play and its variants; Bayesian learning; and hypothesis testing.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-08-28
Dewey code: 330
List Price: $45.00
Price: $38.56
Review The Timing of Economic Activities: Firms, Households and Markets in Time-Specific Analysis / Cambridge University Press:This study introduces 'time-specific' analysis of economic processes. Economic processes are conventionally analysed from one point in time to another over a series of time units - days, weeks, or years. By contrast, these time-specific models focus on the temporal character of events within the unit time - their timing, duration, and sequence - utilizing the information that is lost in the macroscopic time perspective of standard economic theory. What time-specific analysis reveals are economic and technological characteristics of goods and services - prices and cost behaviour and temporal mobility or immobility within the unit time - that affect capital productivity and its utilization, optimal schedules of production, work, and consumption, least-cost methods of producing time-shaped outputs, and efficient welfare-maximizing behavior in time-specific, including peak-load, markets.
Publication date: 1990-10-26
Dewey code: 330
List Price: $45.00
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Review Ricardo's Economics: A General Equilibrium Theory of Distribution and Growth / Cambridge University Press:Together with Marx's Economics and Walras' Economics this book completes a sequence by Professor Morishima on the first generation of scientific economists. The author concentrates on Ricardo's main work, The Principles, and shows that his economics is the prototype of mathematical economics without the symbols and formulae. Morishima then translates Ricardo's economics into mathematical language to find a general equilibrium system concealed within. The analysis contradicts the conventional view that marginalism emerged in opposition to classical economics, showing instead that Ricardian analysis is firmly based on marginalist principles, using prices, wages, and profits rather than labor values. The book ends with a discussion of the historical character of economic theory and an attempt to specify the epoch of Ricardian economics.
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 339
List Price: $150.00
Price: $141.54
Review Conversations on Growth, Stability and Trade: An Historical Perspective / Edward Elgar Publishing:This unique volume 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 macroeconomics and scrutinizes some of the most important debates in economic history. The author examines the many controversies relating to the role of government in a modern economy, long-run growth and development, the spread of the Industrial Revolution, the causes and consequences of the ‘Great Depression’, the ‘Great Peacetime Inflation’, the conduct of stabilization policy, international economic integration and globalization. To shed light on these major issues the volume contains interviews with ten leading economists who have each contributed extensively to the literature on macroeconomics, economic growth and development, international economics and economic history. A major theme which runs throughout the book is the conviction that economists can gain valuable insights concerning important contemporary policy issues from a knowledge of history, especially economic history. The distinguished economists featured in this book are: Ben Bernanke, Jagdish Bhagwati, Alan Blinder, Nick Crafts, Bradford DeLong, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin Hoover, Charles Jones, Christina Romer and Joseph Stiglitz. Containing an extensive and up-to-date list of references, the book provides a comprehensive guide to the modern literature on macroeconomics and related fields. It will be an essential reference for all scholars and students of economics, especially those with an interest in economic growth, business cycles, inflation, unemployment, trade and globalization. It will also be of considerable value to students of economic history and the history of economic thought.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-11-06
Dewey code: 338.5
List Price: $200.00
Price: $195.28
Review Microeconomic Policy / Routledge:Sustaining a balance betweenprivate interests, public oncern and institutional governance is a challenge to society and microeconomic policy making can be seen as being at the intersection of the market economy, state intervention and social institutions. This text guides the reader through policy areas, illustrating how they can be approached and appropriate mehtods for handling them, linking principles to settings, policy and applications.
Authors
- Jose Miguel Ilundain Vila
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Review Factores de Cambio En El Entorno - 2b: Edicion (Spanish Edition) / Esic:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-03-19
Dewey code: 338.5
List Price: $64.95
Price: $38.87
Review Economic Foundation of Asset Price Processes (ZEW Economic Studies) / Physica-Verlag Heidelberg:In this book the relation between the characteristics of investors' preferences and expectations and equilibrium asset price processes are analysed. It is shown that declining elasticity of the pricing kernel can lead to positive serial correlation of short term asset returns and negative serial correlation of long term returns. Analytical asset price processes are also derived. In contrast to the widely used.
Creator: Ronald Wintrobe
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-10-30
Dewey code: 330
List Price: $52.00
Price: $38.78
Review Competition and Structure: The Political Economy of Collective Decisions: Essays in Honor of Albert Breton / Cambridge University Press:The essays in this volume share to an unusual degree a common concern with the competitive mechanisms that underlie collective decisions and with the way they are embedded in institutional settings. This gives the book a unitary inspiration whose value is clear from the new understanding and insights its chapters provide on important theoretical and practical issues such as the social dimension and impact of trust, the management of information in bureaucratic settings, the role of political parties in constitutional evolution, the impact of ethnicity and nationalism on federal institutions or arrangements, and the response of governments and overarching institutions of globalization.
Creator: Alvin E. Roth
Edition: 1st Paperback Cersion
Publication date: 2005-11-17
Dewey code: 330
List Price: $45.00
Price: $38.81
Review Laboratory Experimentation in Economics: Six Points of View / Cambridge University Press:Testing economic propositions in laboratory experiments has proven a very fruitful research endeavor in recent years. This volume brings together the major contributors to experimental economics. The papers present their views on the way experiments should be done, on the power and limitations of the techniques, and on the areas in which experimentation could contribute substantially to our understanding of economic behavior. This book distills the main lessons from great experience in experimental work. It will be essential reading for all who wish to follow experimental work or who wish to do such work themselves.
Publication date: 2007-11-20
Dewey code: 352.48
List Price: $80.00
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Review The Budget Process: A Parlimentary Imperative / Pluto Press:Parliament’s right to authorize government spending is the source of all other parliamentary powers and is fundamental to democracy. How parliaments enforce this power and how they can play their full part in the budget process more effectively are described in this detailed assessment of the appropriate and varied rules and practices being developed around the Commonwealth and beyond. The Budget Process provides an insider’s view of Parliament’s role in approving and overseeing government spending: what Parliament is supposed to do, what it isn’t, and how it could do more.
Authors
- Julianne Cicarelli
- James Cicarelli
Publication date: 1996-08-30
Dewey code: 330.092
List Price: $103.95
Price: $103.95
Review Joan Robinson: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Economics) / Greenwood Press:Among the most imaginative and controversial economists of the 20th century, Joan Robinson is one of the intellectual giants of modern economics. This book pays homage to her and extends the knowledge of her contributions to a new generation of economists. It begins with a chronological history of her life. A biographical sketch follows, giving in-depth analysis of her major writings and her many conflicts with mainstream economists, particularly the "bastard Keynesians" of the United States. The book includes two annotated bibliographies of works by Robinson and works about her and her economic theories. The index makes the book readily accessible.
Publication date: 1991-01-10
Dewey code: 346
List Price: $70.00
Price: $49.00
Review The Right to Private Property (Clarendon Paperbacks) / Oxford University Press, USA:Presenting a comprehensive, critical examination of the claim that private property is one of the fundamental rights of humankind, Waldron here contrasts two types of arguments about rights: those based on historical entitlement, and those based on the importance of property for freedom. He illustrates this contrast with a detailed discussion of the theories of property found in Locke's Second Treatise and Hegel's Philosophy of Rights, and offers original analyses of the concept of ownership, the idea of rights, and the relation between property and equality, finding that traditional arguments about property yield some surprisingly radical conclusions.
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $38.95
Price: $38.95
Review The Snd Package: Applications To Keynesian Monetary Growth Dynamics (Dynamic Economic Theory) / Peter Lang Publishing:
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2008-03-28
Dewey code: 331
List Price: $58.00
Price: $40.00
Review Labor Economics From A Free Market Perspective / World Scientific Publishing Company:Labor is the most important of the three traditional factors of production (land, labor and capital), accounting for some 75% of the GDP. It is therefore important to focus on issues of labor economics. In this book the approach taken will be that of the free market philosophy of libertarianism, the perspective that allows the maximum of freedom, consistent with the responsibility of all to respect the equal rights of all others. The position of this book on unions is unique outside of the libertarian movement, and this is indicative of its analysis of several other issues, such as minimum wages. For scholars on the left, it is almost true that unions can do no wrong (for Marxists, they do not do enough, but that is another story). Their role is to raise wages for the workingman, and this task is almost unstintingly applauded. Conservatives, on the other hand, oppose unions root and branch (except for their support of foreign wars, which is also another story). To this end they support a welter of regulations, designed to reduce their power: limitations of check offs, forced secret ballots, etc. For libertarians, the analysis depends, intimately, on whether or not these are voluntary organizations. If they are, there is no more justification for imposing secret ballots on them than to do so for the chess or garden club. [+]If they are not, they should not be weakened by restrictions, but, rather, banned, and their leaders imprisoned. Contents: Wage Determination; Unions; The Minimum Wage; Immigration; Redistributive Justice; Fringe Benefits; Other Topics in Labor Economics.
Creator: Clinton R. Shiells
Publication date: 2008-12-11
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $45.00
Price: $38.75
Review Modeling Trade Policy: Applied General Equilibrium Assessments of North American Free Trade / Cambridge University Press:Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) models have proven to be the tool of choice for analyzing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This collection contains the most important contributions to this burgeoning literature by many of the leading practitioners in the field. It also contains an extensive research survey, including comparisons of model dimensions, behavioral features, data sources, policy experiments, and main conclusions for policy. The volume contains a number of methodological advances in AGE modeling of trade policy.
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Risks in the Making: Travels in Life Insurance and Genetics (Amsterdam University Press - Care and Welfare Series), Mathematik: Eine erste Einführung (Springers Kurzlehrbücher der Wirtschaftswissenschaften) (German Edition), Business Cycles: Theory, History, Indicators, and Forecasting (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth), Policy and Planning As Public Choice: Mass Transit in the United States, Capital Theory Equilibrum Analysis and Recursive Utility, Strategic Learning and Its Limits (Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures Sereis), The Timing of Economic Activities: Firms, Households and Markets in Time-Specific Analysis, Ricardo's Economics: A General Equilibrium Theory of Distribution and Growth, Conversations on Growth, Stability and Trade: An Historical Perspective, Microeconomic Policy, Factores de Cambio En El Entorno - 2b: Edicion (Spanish Edition), Economic Foundation of Asset Price Processes (ZEW Economic Studies), Competition and Structure: The Political Economy of Collective Decisions: Essays in Honor of Albert Breton, Laboratory Experimentation in Economics: Six Points of View, The Budget Process: A Parlimentary Imperative, Joan Robinson: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Economics), The Right to Private Property (Clarendon Paperbacks), The Snd Package: Applications To Keynesian Monetary Growth Dynamics (Dynamic Economic Theory), Labor Economics From A Free Market Perspective, Modeling Trade Policy: Applied General Equilibrium Assessments of North American Free TradeTop headlines: Iraq: With U.S. Help, Warlords Gain New Power: ›21:49 6 Oct, Sat Do Women Lead Differently Than Men?: Americans could elect our first female president in 2008. 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