Stanford Economics And Finance imprint: 46 books
by W. David Allen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Criminals and Victims presents an economic analysis of decisions made by criminals and victims of crime before, during, and after a crime or victimization occurs. Its main purpose is to illustrate how the application of analytical tools from economics can help us to understand the causes and consequences...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This book challenges the static, ahistorical models on which Economics continues to rely. These models presume that markets operate on a "frictionless" plane where abstract forces play out independent of their institutional and spatial contexts, and of the influences of the past. In reality,...
Hive Mind
How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Over the last few decades, economists and psychologists have quietly documented the many ways in which a person's IQ matters. But, research suggests that a nation's IQ matters so much more.
As Garett Jones argues in Hive Mind, modest differences in national IQ can explain most cross-country...
Pollution Limits and Polluters’ Efforts to Comply
The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA). It examines four dimensions of federal water pollution control policy in the United States: limits imposed on industrial facilities' pollution discharges;...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups. These findings have sparked a broad activist movement, numerous local lawsuits, and several federal policy reforms. Despite the importance of environmental...
The World Under Pressure
How China and India Are Influencing the Global Economy and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The rapid rise of China and India is reshaping our global economic and environmental systems—raising major issues of stability, governance, and sustainability. This book develops a framework that shows the interdependence between economic size, trade, finance, technology, environment, security,...
Chinese Money in Global Context
Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 offers a groundbreaking interpretation of the Chinese monetary system, charting its evolution by examining key moments in history and placing them in international perspective. Expertly navigating primary sources in multiple...
Boom Towns
Restoring the Urban American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In...
Introductory Econometrics
Intuition, Proof, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Introductory Econometrics: Intuition, Proof, and Practice attempts to distill econometrics into a form that preserves its essence, but that is acceptable—and even appealing—to the student's intellectual palate. This book insists on rigor when it is essential, but it emphasizes intuition and seizes...
by Andreas Savvides, Thanasis Stengos
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
This book provides an in-depth investigation of the link between human capital and economic growth. The authors take an innovative approach, examining the determinants of economic growth through a historical overview of the concept of human capital.
The text fosters a deep understanding of...
Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s
An Economic Profile and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Hispanics account for more than half the population growth in the United States over the last decade. With this surge has come a dramatic spike in the number of Hispanic-owned businesses. Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s is a pioneering study of this nascent demographic. Drawing on rich quantitative...
Self-Regulation and Human Progress
How Society Gains When We Govern Less
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit. Less known is the fact that this theory arose after arguments for the scientific method and freedom of speech had gone...
WTF?!
An Economic Tour of the Weird
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Step right up! Get your tickets for WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird! This rollicking tour through a museum of the world's weirdest practices is guaranteed to make you say, "WTF?!" Did you know that "preowned" wives were sold at auction in nineteenth-century England? That today,...
Market Menagerie
Health and Development in Late Industrial States
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Market Menagerie examines technological advance and market regulation in the health industries of nations such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Japan. Pharmaceutical and life science industries can reinforce economic development and industry growth, but not necessarily positive health...