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Exodus
How Migration is Changing Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting the numbers? We are supposedly a nation of immigrants, and yet our...
Hall of Mirrors
The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies. Through decades of research and innovation, institutions have developed in the United States, European Union, and other developed...
Petrostate
Putin, Power, and the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
In the aftermath of the financial collapse of August 1998, it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself after less than a decade is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. Based on extensive research, including several interviews...
Economics of Good and Evil:The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller...
by Jean-Pascal Benassy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
This graduate textbook is a primer in macroeconomics. It starts from essential undergraduate macroeconomics and develops the central topics of modern macroeconomic theory in a simple and rigorous manner. All topics essential for first year graduate students are covered. These include rational expectations,...
From Big Data to Big Profits
Success with Data and Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Technological advancements in computing have changed how data is leveraged by businesses to develop, grow, and innovate. In recent years, leading analytical companies have begun to realize the value in their vast holdings of customer data and have found ways to leverage this untapped potential. Now,...
Capitalism
Competition, Conflict, Crises
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who...
Coming Home to New Orleans
Neighborhood Rebuilding After Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. The book begins with two chapters that address Katrina's impact and the planning and public sector...
Trading and Exchanges:Market Microstructure for Practitioners
Market Microstructure for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2002
This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue traders, and gamblers; exchanges, boards of trade, dealer...
Leverage for Good
An Introduction to the New Frontiers of Philanthropy and Social Investment
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health, and environmental degradation ballooning daily, new models for financing social and environmental objectives are urgently needed. Fortunately, a revolution is...
by Hersh Shefrin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Even the best Wall Street investors make mistakes. No matter how savvy or experienced, all financial practitioners eventually let bias, overconfidence, and emotion cloud their judgement and misguide their actions. Yet most financial decision-making models fail to factor in these fundamentals of human...
The Predictable Surprise
The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save on their own for retirement with the stock market in the worst shape since the Great Depression. In The Predictable Surprise, Sylvester J. Schieber shows that forewarnings of the coming retirement...