Economics category: 26433 books
Money and Government
The Past and Future of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A critical examination of economics' past and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our time
The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only minor roles in economic life. Economic outcomes, it is claimed, are best...
by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps...
The Wealth of Nature
How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting book,...
A History of Development Economics Thought
Challenges and Counter-challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics.
Given that the pioneers of development economics in the 1940s and 1950s drew inspiration from classical political economists, this book opens with a review...
by Dana Stryk
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This workbook is designed for students using the textbook International Economics, 5th edition. It provides brief chapter summaries and practice problems to enhance the understanding of material presented in class. For each chapter in International Economics, 5th Edition, the study guide provides...
by Richard P. F. Holt, Steven Pressman
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
Eichner's classic A Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics (1978) is still seen as the definitive staging post for those wishing to familiarise themselves with the Post-Keynesian School. This book brings the story up-to-date.Of all the subgroups within heterodox economics, Post-Keynesianism has provided the most convincing alternative to mainstream theo
by Henry George
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following titles:
1. Progress and Poverty – Henry George
2. Our Land and Land Policy – Henry George
3. The Distribution of Wealth – John Bates Clark
4. The Philosophy of Wealth...
Problems and Methods of Econometrics
The Poincaré Lectures of Ragnar Frisch 1933
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The development of economics changed dramatically during the twentieth century with the emergence of econometrics, macroeconomics and a more scientific approach in general. One of the key individuals in the transformation of economics was Ragnar Frisch, professor at the University of Oslo and the...
One Economics, Many Recipes
Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored to local...
The Economist's Oath
On the Need for and Content of Professional Economic Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Economics is today among the most influential of all professions. Economists alter the course of economic affairs and deeply affect the lives of current and future generations. Yet, virtually alone among the major professions, economics lacks a body of professional ethics to guide its practitioners....
by Roberta Capello
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The second edition of Regional Economics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of regional economics. This fully revised edition includes key theoretical developments of the last ten years.
Topics included span from the earliest location theories to the most recent regional growth...
Exchange Rate Economics
The Uncovered Interest Parity Puzzle and Other Anomalies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) puzzle has remained a moot point since it first circulated economic discourse in 1984. Despite a number of attempts at a solution, the UIP puzzle and other anomalies in exchange rate economics continue to perplex economic thought in international finance. This fundamental...
The Economics of Henry George
History's Rehabilitation of America's Greatest Early Economist
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Henry George the greatest, most famous and most rejected of early American economists who trained himself in classical economics and developed a theory of a 'single tax'. There is much literature on many specific facets and aspects of George's work, but we lack a book which provides an overview of George's economics... until now!
by K.H. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Economics: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the principles and methods of economics, with calculations and over 25 diagrams to support the analysis.
Understand the four dimensional nature of economics, and how its learning process differs from other subjects.
Use data...