Economics category: 26433 books

The recent global financial crisis has made the inadequacies of the scientific state of economics and finance glaringly obvious, as these disciplines gave the false reassurance that such a self-destructive phenomenon could not happen. A similar phenomenon arose in the 1930’s, when the pitfalls of...

Governments all round the world are facing problems with their public finances. At a time of austerity, how much should spending be cut and how much should taxes be raised? Does the national debt represent a burden for future generations? Should taxes on the rich be raised? This book examines how...

Uncertainty is present in every managerial decision, and Managerial Economics: A Mathematical Approach effectively demonstrates the application of higher-level statistical tools to inform and clarify the logic of problem solving in a managerial environment. While illuminating managerial decision-making...

In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents the state of the art in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis of sustainability of global, national and regional economic systems. An elegant guide, the book offers a range of cutting edge methods used in sustainability...

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2017 installment of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance (APEF), which is held annually in Singapore.  With a great number of submissions, it presents the latest research findings in economics and finance and discusses...

John M. Legge shows the many ways in which the real world diverges from economics textbooks. He argues that mainstream economic theory took a disastrous turn 140 years ago, when it attempted to use calculus to explain human behaviour. A real economy involves people who are not variables in equations....

Complex-Valued Modeling in Economics and Finance* *outlines the theory, methodology, and techniques behind modeling economic processes using complex variables theory.  The theory of complex variables functions is widely used in many scientific fields, since work with complex variables can appropriately describe...

How much do economists really know? In most cases, they claim to have profound knowledge but in fact understand little and obscure almost everything. Most people are convinced that economics should be left to the ‘experts’, when they themselves are perfectly capable of understanding it. This book...

Bringing under consideration a significant time span, this brief history of economics is an ideal book for acquainting understudies with the field. This book represents how the thoughts of the considerable economics experts affected social orders. Not does this book only discuss the history of economics...

Voodoo Economics is the brainchild of economist Arthur Laffer, and the offspring of President Ronald Reagan, who adopted the Laffer theory of supply-side economics during his Presidential run in 1980. It was first labeled “voodoo economics” by Reagan’s then primary opponent George H.W. Bush,...

Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: Economics First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Build knowledge of Economics through active learning with the latest Powell textbook, featuring quantitative skills practice and brand new case studies. This textbook has been fully...

Exam Board: OCR Level: A-level Subject: Economics First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2017 This textbook has been fully revised for use with the new 2015 OCR Economics specification, giving you up-to-date material that supports your teaching. This book will enable students to: -...

Exam Board: OCR Level: GCSE Subject: Economics First Teaching: September 2017 First Exam: June 2019 Build students' knowledge of economics and understanding of its impact beyond the classroom with this new textbook, produced by the leading Economics publisher and OCR's publishing partner. -...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. What if our economics were based on laws of nature rather than fabricated laws of supply and demand? Andrew Kimbrell turns to Alaskan salmon...