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International Finance
Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
International Finance presents the corporate uses of international financial markets to upper undergraduate and graduate students of business finance and financial economics. Combining practical knowledge, up-to-date theories, and real-world applications, this textbook explores issues of valuation,...
by Aharon Barak
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes...
The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, published in 1963, stands as one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century. A landmark achievement, the book marshaled massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the claim that monetary policy--steady...
by Jerry Z. Muller
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government—and the quality of our lives
Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing...
Searching for a Corporate Savior
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true...
The Moral Background
An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics in the United...
Who Cares?
Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and...
The Formation of National Party Systems
Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman rely on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties. They demonstrate that the party systems in...
The Right Talk
How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2011
Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices?
Conventional...
How Policies Make Citizens
Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Some groups participate in politics more than others. Why? And does it matter for policy outcomes? In this richly detailed and fluidly written book, Andrea Campbell argues that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Through a case study of senior citizens in the...
Fragile by Design
The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business...
When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?
How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups and allowing their views to spread, or banning their views and violating citizens' rights...
Structural Macroeconometrics
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Structural Macroeconometrics provides a thorough overview and in-depth exploration of methodologies, models, and techniques used to analyze forces shaping national economies. In this thoroughly revised second edition, David DeJong and Chetan Dave emphasize time series econometrics and unite theoretical...
Strings Attached
Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Incentives can be found everywhere--in schools, businesses, factories, and government--influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing. So long as people have a choice, incentives seem innocuous. But Strings Attached demonstrates...