Microeconomics category: 693 books
Simulating Distributional Impacts of Macro-dynamics
Theory and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Simulating Distributional Impacts of Macro-dynamics: Theory and Practical Applications is a comprehensive guide for analyzing and understanding the effects of macroeconomic shocks on income and consumption distribution, as well as using the ADePT Simulation Module. Since real-time micro data is rarely...
Accelerating E-Mobility in Germany
A Case for Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book tackles the problem of the insufficient and expensive charging infrastructure in Germany. It assesses the lack of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles with regard to regulatory and competition law, as well as economic aspects. The legal solutions proposed here could ultimately serve...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
R. H. Coase Duncan Black was a close and dear friend. A man of great simplicity, un worldly, modest, diffident, with no pretensions, he was devoted to scholarship. In his single-minded search for the truth, he is an example to us all. Black's first degree at the University of Glasgow was in mathematics...
by Stefan Palan
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid such bubbles and crashes. In the experiment, subjects were given the opportunity to trade in a stock...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Corruption has been part of our economic and political life since ancient times. During the past few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in understanding the impact that corruption has on our societies. The objective of this volume is to stimulate further studies on corruption by providing...
by Thomas J. Miceli
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Law and economics is the field of study devoted to understanding laws and legal institutions using the tools of economic theory. This growing subject has become a mainstream area of study in both law schools and economics departments and this book explores the "law and economics" approach...
Price Theory and Applications
Decisions, Markets, and Information
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
This new seventh edition of the book offers extensive discussion of information, uncertainty, and game theory. It contains over a hundred examples illustrating the applicability of economic analysis not only to mainline economic topics but also issues in politics, history, biology, the family, and...
The Privileges of Wealth
Rising inequality and the growing racial divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The American Dream is under assault. This threat results not from a lack of means, but from an unwillingness to share. Total household wealth increased by half in the past generation, but barely one fifth of American households captured this new wealth. For the rest, the dream of owning a home, gaining...
Altruistic Reveries
Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Altruistic Reveries is a unique volume, which arises out of an Interdisciplinary Conference on Perspectives on Altruism from the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Centre for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, in October 1999. Altruism...
by James Bradfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
There are many textbooks for business students that provide a systematic, introductory development of the economics of financial markets. However, there are as yet no introductory textbooks aimed at more easily daunted undergraduate liberal arts students. Introduction to the Economics of Financial...
Globalization and Labor Conditions
Working Conditions and Worker Rights in a Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2006
This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies have altered working conditions and labor rights around the world during the late 20th century. Drawing on analyses of a database on international...
Money and Markets
Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Important and celebrated economist Leland Yeager is one of the architects of the 'Virginia School' of political economy that has produced two Nobel laureates (James Buchanan and Ronald Coase) and the Public Choice movement.
A number of top class contributors have here been brought together...
by John Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This paper discusses how wars of ideas can be waged, using the author's extensive experience, both as director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and at other classical liberal think tanks. John Blundell begins his stimulating collection of published essays, reviews and introductions...
Inspired Finance
The Role of Faith in Microfinance and International Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
By tracing an arc of thought and action from both historical and religious figures up through modern microfinance practitioners, Looft illustrates the many ways religious inspiration continues to remain at the crux of international economic development–while raising compelling questions around God and Mammon working together to help the poor.