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by Jean Tirole
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
The past twenty years have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance. Whereas once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations--equity, debt, and valuation--today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management, relationships...
The End of Theory
Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system
Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession—but not our economics. In The End of Theory, Richard Bookstaber discusses why the human condition and the radical uncertainty of our...
Unelected Power
The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good
Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. They pull the regulatory and...
Regulation and Public Interests
The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Not since the 1960s have U.S. politicians, Republican or Democrat, campaigned on platforms defending big government, much less the use of regulation to help solve social ills. And since the late 1970s, "deregulation" has become perhaps the most ubiquitous political catchword of all. This...
by Francesco Caselli
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Technology Differences over Space and Time looks at how countries use their productive resources—such as workers, skills, equipment and structures, and natural resources. Francesco Caselli develops methods to assess the efficiency with which productive inputs are used, and how these efficiencies...
Balancing the Banks
Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The financial crisis that began in 2007 in the United States swept the world, producing substantial bank failures and forcing unprecedented state aid for the crippled global financial system. Bringing together three leading financial economists to provide an international perspective, Balancing the...
Unequal Gains
American Growth and Inequality since 1700
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today.
While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson...
by Darrell Duffie
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Dealer banks--that is, large banks that deal in securities and derivatives, such as J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs--are of a size and complexity that sharply distinguish them from typical commercial banks. When they fail, as we saw in the global financial crisis, they pose significant risks to our...
The Invisible Safety Net
Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack.
Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and...
by Gidon Eshel
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
A severe thunderstorm morphs into a tornado that cuts a swath of destruction through Oklahoma. How do we study the storm's mutation into a deadly twister? Avian flu cases are reported in China. How do we characterize the spread of the flu, potentially preventing an epidemic? The way to answer important...
Presidential Party Building
Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Modern presidents are usually depicted as party "predators" who neglect their parties, exploit them for personal advantage, or undercut their organizational capacities. Challenging this view, Presidential Party Building demonstrates that every Republican president since Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Game of Loans
The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
College tuition and student debt levels have been rising at an alarming pace for at least two decades. These trends, coupled with an economy weakened by a major recession, have raised serious questions about whether we are headed for a major crisis, with borrowers defaulting on their loans in unprecedented...
Organizing America
Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological...
by John F. Padgett, Walter W. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically...