Economics category: 26433 books
Financial Economics
A Concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioral Finance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Financial economics is a fascinating topic where ideas from economics, mathematics and, most recently, psychology are combined to understand financial markets. This book gives a concise introduction into this field and includes for the first time recent results from behavioral finance that help to...
by Partha Dasgupta
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts...
Man vs Money
Understanding the curious economics that power our world
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Where is all the money? How does a country go bust? Should I get paid in Bitcoin?
Wherever you go, whatever you do, however you live your life, money plays a role.
Getting it, keeping it and making more out of it has been one of man’s major preoccupations for the past five thousand years....
by Nicholas Wapshott
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New Yorker
As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies...
by Robert Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1992
This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have...
by Mikel Cohick
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Originating as a book for a one-semester course, it is designed for the general reader who is interested in knowing how his or her daily life is affected by economics. The book starts with the basics of good decision making and how a society can be organized to best serve its citizens. It emphasizes...
by Katrine Marcal
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A funny, clever, and thought-provoking examination of the myth of the "economic man" and its impact on the global economy
How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by...
The Soulful Science
What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes...
Economic Complexity and Human Development (Open Access)
How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development.
While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex...
by David Hume, Frédéric Bastiat, John Locke
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter as the follows:
1. TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT – JOHN LOCKE
2. OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT – DAVID HUME
3. OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT – DAVID HUME
4. OF THE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT –...
by George McRobie, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1982
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Founder with Fritz Schumacher of the Intermediate Technology Development Group in London, George McRobie discusses the role of intermediate...
Borderless Economics
Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Acentury ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call - or Skype - home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their native countries,...
The Economics of Enough
How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many...
by Loretta Napoleoni
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in...