Microeconomics category: 693 books
by Martin Browning, Pierre-André Chiappori, Yoram Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides...
A Theory of the Producer-Consumer Household
The New Keynesian Perspective on Self-Employment
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The quick recovery of Asian economies from recent recessions in comparison to the struggling American and European economies can be attributed in part to the positive aggregate-demand externalities of their self-employment sectors. This book presents a behavioural analysis of this effect, with a detailed focus on producer households.
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 easy access to each chapter.
Henry George’s analysis and remedy are directly from classical economic theory seeded by Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill. The giants had already decried the evils of concentrated land ownership,...
by J. Scorse
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Easy-to-read and filled with real-world examples of the most complex environmental challenges, this book demonstrates that sound economic analysis and reasoning can be one of the environmental community's strongest allies. This is sure to become an invaluable resource for students, environmental organizations, and policymakers.
One Currency, Two Europes
Towards a Dual Eurozone
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The aftermath of the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 saw its influence spread around the world, including Europe. The European crisis turned out to be longer, deeper and more resilient than anticipated. An unexpected consequence was the increasingl
Making Politics Work for Development
Harnessing Transparency and Citizen Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that...
Latin America and the Rising South
Changing World, Changing Priorities
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterized by developed (North) countries acting as 'center' to a 'periphery' of developing (South) countries. However, the recent rise of developing economies suggests the need to go...
Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth
The Legacy of Douglass North
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North, winner of the Nobel Prize and father of the field of new institutional economics. Leading scholars contribute to a substantive discussion that best illustrates the broad reach and depth of Professor North's work. The volume speaks concisely...
Irrationality in Health Care
What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make...
The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics
The principle of circular and cumulative causation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This thought-provoking volume presents essays on the foundations of non-equilibrium economics, i.e. the principle of circular cumulative causation (CCC). This work presents empirical research on how the interplay of technology’s increasing returns to scale, institutions, resources, and economic...
Power and Neoclassical Economics
A Return to Political Economy in the Teaching of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty. For many, this is a fundamental failing that...
Policy Analysis and Economics
Developments, Tensions, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies. Positive economics provides the tools for predicting the impacts of prop osed policies; normative economics, especially welfare theory, offers a framework...
by Frederic Bastiat
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Why should I go on tormenting myself with this dry and dreary science of Political Economy?
Why? The question is reasonable. Labour of every kind is in itself sufficiently repugnant to warrant one in asking to what result it leads?
Let us see, then, how it is.
I do not address myself to those philosophers...
by Urs Birchler, Monika Bütler
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 1999
This new text book by Urs Birchler and Monika Butler is an introduction to the study of how information affects economic relations. The authors provide a narrative treatment of the more formal concepts of Information Economics, using easy to understand and lively illustrations from film and literature...