Macroeconomics category: 2722 books

In this book we intend to discuss economic fluctuations and growth and possible stabilizing fiscal policies. Since these topics are major preoccupa­ tions of economic theorists and have been extensively discussed since the classics, one may wonder why another book on these subjects. A possible defense...

Law and Markets examines the interaction between legal rules, market forces and prices. It emphasises the economic effects of legal rules on individual incentives in both market and non-market settings, and draws on cases and materials from a wide variety of legal jurisdictions to illustrate economic principles.

La desigualdad económica es uno de los fantasmas que hoy recorren el mundo. Lo mismo en países desarrollados que en los que se esfuerzan por salir de la miseria, este azote contemporáneo confirma de manera dolorosa que el progreso técnico, la apertura de los mercados y la diseminación de la democracia...

Computer simulations of a model of a massive, world-wide foreign aid program—a Global Marshall Plan— suggest that world poverty might be virtually eliminated within 50 years without reducing living standards in the rich nations. These results suggest the advisability of initiating a real-world...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles: 1. THE REASONABLENESS OF CHRISTIANITY, AS DELIVERED IN THE SCRIPTURES – JOHN LOCKE 2. A VINDICATION OF THE REASONABLENESS OF CHRISTIANITY, FROM MR. EDWARDS’S REFLECTIONS - JOHN LOCKE...

This paper examines water challenges, a growing global concern with adverse economic and social consequences, and discusses economic policy instruments. Water subsidies provided through public utilities are estimated at about $456 billion or 0.6 percent of global GDP in 2012. The paper suggests that...

The current world financial scene indicates at an intertwined and interdependent relationship between financial market activity and economic health. This book explains how the economic messages delivered by the dynamic evolution of financial asset returns are strongly related to option prices. The...

Expectations, Employment and Prices brings Keynesian economics into the 21st century by providing a new paradigm that explains how high unemployment could potentially persist forever without a little help from the government. The book fills in logical gaps that were missing from Keynes' General Theory...

This book examines the new conditions under which professional work, often referred to as “knowledge-intensive work,” is organised and how professional groups who have traditionally been granted jurisdictional discretion now have their work routines renegotiated. In the new economic regime of...

First published in 1986, The Economics of Alfred Marshall is concerned with the theories of demand, supply, market structure and income distribution which the celebrated author of the Principles of Economics developed while standing on the shoulders of giants. It is thus concerned with hidden assumptions,...

First published in 1987, Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics provides an enlightening insight into Marshall's thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity. He planned books on these subjects which he never subsequently wrote, but the thesis of  this work is that a close...

The collection has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following books: 1. A TREATISE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY – JEAN BAPTISTE SAY 2. LETTERS TO MR. MALTHUS - JEAN BAPTISTE SAY 3. A CATECHISM OF POLITICAL ECONOMY - JEAN BAPTISTE SAY Jean-Baptiste...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter. Thomas Robert Malthus was the founding father of population theory of classical economics and his most well-known work AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION was initially published in 1798. Malthus was often misinterpreted,...