6th edition. — Cengage Learning, 2011 . — 890 p. — ISBN: 9780538453059 That is how Alfred Marshall, the great 19th century economist, defined economics in his classic textbook, Principles of Economics. The text you have in your hand continues that tradition, from the cover image to the last page. The cover of this and previous editions shows a market scene. It reminds us that...
19th edition. — McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2009. — 744 p. — ISBN10: 0073511293, ISBN13: 978-0073511290 Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus provides clear, correct, and attention-grabbing introduction to trendy economics principles. This book employs a tremendously expanded set of in-text logos and material to help illustrate the central topics. You will see three distinctive logos:...
Cengage Learning, 2014. — 837 p. — 3rd ed. —ISBN: 1408093790, 9781408093795 Now firmly established as one of the leading economics principles texts in the UK and Europe, this exciting new third edition of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University) and Mark P. Taylor (Warwick University), has undergone some significant restructuring and reorganization to more directly...
Bloomberg Press – 2007, 257 p., 6th edition ISBN: 1576602400, 1861979749, 9781576602409, 9781861979746 A guide that assists in determining where we were in the business cycle. The book is structured like an encyclopedia - analyzing each indicator in detail and in isolation. A fine addition to anyone's economic reference books, but disappointed me by failing to treat the economy...
Worth Publishers, 2013. — 613 p. in color. — 3rd ed. — ISBN: 1429278501, 9781429278508 Essentials of Economics brings the makes the same captivating writing and innovative features of Krugman/Wells to the one-term combined micro/macro course. Adapted by Martha Olney (coauthor of the Krugman/Wells study guide and overall coordinator of its media/supplements package), it is the...
12th edition. — New York: Pearson, 2017. — 819 p. Our goal in the 12th edition, as it was in the first edition, is to instill in students a fascination with both the functioning of the economy and the power and breadth of economics. The first line of every edition of our book has been “The study of economics should begin with a sense of wonder.” We hope that readers come away...
Cambridge University Press, 2005, 548 p. The Economics of Financial Markets presents a concise overview of capital markets, suitable for advanced undergraduates and for embarking graduate students in financial economics. Following a brief overview of financial markets – their microstructure and the randomness of stock market prices – this textbook explores how the economics of...
8th ed. — South-Western College Pub, 2017. — 836 p. — ISBN: 978-1305585126. Now readers can master the principles of economics with the help of the most popular introductory book in economics today that is widely used around the world – Mankiws PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS, 8E. With its clear and engaging writing style, this book emphasizes only the material that readers are likely...
Fourth Edition/Language: English. - Ed.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. - 830 p. Economics has been thoroughly revised, simplified, and updated for the Fourth Edition.Co-written by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for his research on imperfect markets, and Carl E. Walsh, one of the leading monetary economists in the field, Economics is the most modern and accurate text...
South-Western, Cengage Learning, 2013. – 916 p. in color – 11th ed. – ISBN: 113318975X, 9781133189756 Any suggestions for copywriter or provide generic description of the product to be used for the Internet or non-channel specific applications. Note: If you have a book only version for this product, it is imperative that you provide a description that does not include any...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 860 p. This book presents a selection of the research that grew from the editors’ early collaboration on “Prospect Theory,” the landmark article that offered the first compelling alternative to the standard “rational agent” model of choice under risk. In the spirit of the highly influential volume Judgment Under Uncertainty, first...
3rd ed. — Worth Publishers, 2015. — 946 p. in color. — ISBN: 1429278390, 9781429278393 Engaging and provocative writing, as well as a knack for revealing the 'invisible hand' of economics at work have made Cowen and Tabarrok's Modern Principles of Economics a singularly distinctive and effective textbook for the principles course. Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of...
8th Ed. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — xxviii+731 p. Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) – Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics. His book Principles of Economics was the dominant textbook in economics for a long time and it is considered to be his seminal work. Preliminary Survey. The Substance of Economics. Economic Generalizations or Laws. The Order and Aims...
Prentice Hall, 2013. — 626 p. — 6th ed. — ISBN: 0132833115, 9780132833110 A practice-oriented learning system that breaks the traditional textbook mold. To help readers focus on the most important concepts – and effectively practice application of those concepts – Essential Foundations of Economics is structured around a Checklist/Checkpoint system. The result is a patient,...
South-Western Cengage Learning, 2009. — 584 p. — 5th Ed. — ISBN: 0324590024, 9780324590029 Essentials of Economics continues to be the most popular and widely used text in economics classrooms today. The fifth edition features a strong revision of content in all 36 chapters while maintaining the clear, accessible writing style and precise presentation that are the hallmark of...
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1962. — 200 p. — ISBN: 0-226-26401-7. Preface, 1982. The Relation between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom. The Role of Government in a Free Society. The Control of Money. International Financial and Trade Arrangements. Fiscal Policy. The Role of Government in Education. Capitalism and Discrimination. Monopoly and the Social...
M E Sharpe Inc – 2005, 305 p., 4th edition ISBN: 0765616475, 9780765616470 A resource of over 70 statistical indicators of the U.S. economy, including the Consumer Price Index, Gross Domestic Product, unemployment, housing starts, interest rates, and balance of payments. Ten more indicators have been added to those in the previous edition. This text refers to an alternate...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1998. — 912 p. In the foreword to Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, Mises explains complex market phenomena as "the outcomes of countless conscious, purposive actions, choices, and preferences of individuals, each of whom was trying as best as he or she could under the circumstances to attain various wants and ends and to avoid undesired...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press. 2011. 378 p. (2 edition). General Equilibrium Theory: An Introduction presents the mathematical economic theory of price determination and resource allocation from elementary to advanced levels, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of economics. This Arrow-Debreu model (known for two of its most prominent founders,...
Publisher: kevinbucknall.com - 2010. - 270 p. Description An Introduction to Economics by Kevin Bucknall, designed for the GCE A-Level (General Certificate of Education, Advanced Level) in the UK. As this covers basic economics, these notes could also be used to help you to understand any introductory course in college economics, particularly if you are having trouble with some...
Routledge, 2016. — 1008 p. — ISBN10: 1138186597. — ISBN13: 978-1138186590. Series: Routledge Studies This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought. This book deals with important themes in economics in terms of an approach that has its roots in the works of the classical...
New York: Textbook Media, 2014. — 694 p. This third edition teaches the tools and principles that are standard for introductory economics, in a way that students can see the applications for the U.S. and world economy. The facts, anecdotes, and explanations have been scrutinized and updated throughout. In addition, this book has been structured since the first edition to mix in...
Springer, 2008. — 399 p. This book provides an introduction to advanced macrodynamics, viewed as a disequilibrium theory of fluctuating growth. Itbuildsonanearlierattempttoreformulate 1 the foundations of macroeconomics from the perspective of real markets diseq- librium and the con?ict over income distribution between capital and labor. It does so, not because it wants to...
Pearson, 2015. — 792 p. — ISBN: 978-1-292-07920-2. Global Edition For courses in Principles of Economics Acemoglu, Laibson, List: An evidence-based approach to economics Throughout Economics, authors Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, and John List use real economic questions and data to help students learn about the world around them. Taking a fresh approach, the authors use the...
Broadway Books. 1997. — 400 p. With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about a new American era that will begin just after the millennium. William Strauss and Neil Howe base this vision on a provocative new theory of American history. The...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. — 1052 p. in color. — ISBN: 0393933369, 9780393933369 Makes economics stick. Meets students where they are. Two innovative instructors use their tested insights and successful teaching practices to create a truly student-centered approach: real-world examples, pedagogy developed in their own classrooms, and problem solving tools that resonate with...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 658 p. in color. — ISBN: 0393264580, 9780393264586 Meets students where they are. Makes economics matter. Written by Dirk Mateer, Lee Coppock, and Brian O’Roark — three of the leading economics instructors in the country — Essentials of Economics brings insights and practices refined over a combined 50 years in the classroom to a survey text that...
Pearson Education Limited, 2014. — 960 p. — ISBN: 1292064773. Economics has never been so exciting to learn! The ninth edition of Economics contains the most up-to-the minute coverage and uses the latest data to track and analyze the impact of the global financial crisis on our economy. ‘Economics’ is popular for its active learning and student-friendly approach, and the new...
First published 1989 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Reprinted 1990, Paperback 1991. 1989, 1991 & 2000 Lawrence A. Boland British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Boland, Lawrence A.330.0724 ISBN: 0-415-00014-9 ISBN: 0-415-06462-7 The methodology of economic model building: methodology after Samuelson. Economic models. Design & applications. Does...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 736 p. — ISBN: 0190212764, 9780190212766 There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. – 337 p. This book is aimed at three different sorts of reader. The first is the proverbial intelligent layman — someone who thinks it would be interesting to know about law and economics and what they have to do with each other, himself, and the world in which he lives and so is reading this book for the same sort of reasons that...
Springer, 2009. — 194 p. — ISBN: 1441906266, 9781441906274 Organization design (OD) is a key feature of management theory and practice. It addresses the challenges of constructing and maintaining effective organizations. Essential to its application is the assumption that it can improve organizations and their performance. Faced with the ever-accelerating pace of technological...
Oxford: Oxford University Press. – 2005. – 617 p. While books on long-term growth have always been popular, the last few years have seen a great increase in their number. Readers may wonder if ours is simply another marginal addition to this fast-growing literature. We think not. First, we are interested in the phenomenon of general purpose technologies (GPTs) in themselves and...
Routledge, 2018. — 285 p. The theory of costs is a cornerstone of economic thinking, and figures crucially in the study of human action and society. From the first day of a principles-level course to the most advanced academic literature, costs play a vital role in virtually all behaviors and economic outcomes. How we make choices, why we trade, and how we build institutions...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 1019 p. — ISBN: 0199390630, 9780199390632. Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself....
Macmillan & Co., 1921. — 466 p. A Treatise on Probability was published by John Maynard Keynes while at Cambridge University in 1921. The Treatise attacked the classical theory of probability and proposed a "logical-relationist" theory instead. In a 1922 review, Bertrand Russell, the co-author of Principia Mathematica, called it "undoubtedly the most important work on...
Routledge, 2015. — 276 p. — (Economics as Social Theory). — ISBN: 1138851019, 9781138851016 What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the...
10th ed. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2016. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-1259235702. Written specifically for the one semester survey of economics course, Schiller’s Essentials of Economics is known for seeking the best possible answers to the basic questions of WHAT, HOW, and FOR WHOM to produce. As in earlier editions, the tenth edition strives to arouse interest in economic theories by...
Pluto Press, 2011. - 240 p. ISBN: 0745331394 , 0745331408 | In an age of government imposed austerity, and after 30 years of neo-liberal restructuring, the future of the welfare state looks increasingly uncertain. Asbjørn Wahl offers an accessible analysis of the situation across Europe, identifies the most important challenges and presents practical proposals for combating the...
Harvester Press, 1976. - 440 p. Samir Amin analyses 'the development of under-development', and uses Arghiri Emmanuel's Unequal Exchange to discuss the roots of unequal development in the neo-colonial world. He explicates the theory of unequal exchange in terms of examples.
2nd Edition. — Wiley, 2003. — 342 p. The second edition of Foundations of Economic Value Added is a book to be read, underlined, written in, and reread. It offers readers the opportunity to not only learn the basic elements of value-based financial statement analysis but also illustrates the linkage between corporate decision making regarding capital allocation and stock price...
The Stories Markers Tell: Affordances for Ethical Behavior in Free Exchange William D. Casebecr Free Enterprise, Sympathy, and Virtue Robert C. Solomon The Status of Moral Emotions in Consequentialisc Moral Reasoning Robert H. Frank How Selfish an Animal? The Case of Primate Cooperation From B. M. de Waal Fairness and Other Regarding Preferences in Nonhuman Primates Sarah F....
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FT Press, 2012. - 468 p. - ISBN: 978-0132932073 (Third edition) For years, investors, business strategists, and policymakers worldwide have turned to one book to help them translate the massive flow of economic data into knowledge for intelligent decision-making. The Wall Street Journalcalled this book "…the real deal," saying it "miraculously breathes life into economic...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2016. — 240 p. In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a "free innovation paradigm." Free innovation, as he defines it, involves innovations developed by consumers who are self-rewarded for their efforts, and who give their designs away "for free."...
N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. In this rigorous study of John Maynard Keynes's views on economic theory and policy from 1920-1946, Professor Meltzer argues that some of Keynes's main ideas have been ignored or misstated. While attention has focused on short-term countercyclical policies, the main policy implications have been neglected. Keynes placed great emphasis on...
In english (in English). — Buenos Aires: Cengage Learning, August 2012. — 305 p. Centrum Business School, Catholic University of Peru. Two centuries of economic growth have shown that the capitalist system is technologically very progressive; socially, however, it is not so. Inequality is one of the persistent features of world capitalism. Why does the capitalist system operate...
6th ed. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. — 816 p. in color. — (Irwin Economics) — ISBN: 9780078021855. Authors Bob Frank, Ben Bernanke, and introducing Kate Antonovics from the University of California San Diego and Ori Heffetz from Cornell University, present a coherent short list of core principles in introductory economics and reinforce them by illustrating and applying each...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 272 p. The Complete Contract Approach to Constitutional Design An Incentive Theory of the Separation of Powers Checks and Balances Political Economy and Industrial Policy Political Economy and the Marginal Cost Pricing Controversy Toward a Political Theory of the Emergence of Environmental Incentive Regulation Optimal Constitutional Responses to...
Routledge, 2017. — 218 p. The book traces the root of the theories, their conception and articulation, as well as their evolutions to the present time. It focuses on the four theories that are generally recognized as fundamental to the discipline of economics: the invisible hand, comparative advantage, the law of markets, and the quantity theory of money. These theories have...
7th Edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2019. — 877 p. — ISBN: 978-1-259-85206-0. Principles of Economics, 7th Edition, provides a deeper understanding of economics by eliminating overwhelming detail and focusing on seven core principles that are reinforced and illustrated throughout the text. With engaging questions, explanations and exercises, the authors help students relate economic...
London: Routledge, 1997. — 796 p. Experts define, review, and evaluate economic fluctuations. Economic and business uncertainty dominate today's economic analyses. This new Encyclopedia illuminates the subject by offering 323 original articles on every major aspect of business.
5th ed. — Pearson, 2016. — 768 p. — ISBN: 978-0134106922. The Relevance of Economics Through Real-world Business Examples Economics makes economics relevant by demonstrating how real businesses use economics to make decisions every day. And with an ever changing U.S. and world economy, the Fifth Edition has been updated with the latest developments using new real-world business...
Polity Press, 2010. - 180 p. ISBN: 0745646166 Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much – too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to take it fully into account. Above...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 350 p. — ISBN: 0230355269, 9780230355262 Written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, the papers selected and contained in Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory account for the work completed around the two central aspects of his contribution to...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 304 p. Money is a promise with future benefits or dangers that are unknowable and incalculable. The financial sector is an attempt to beat uncertainty by speculating on whether prices will rise or fall. No matter how often the folly of this opportunism is shown through crisis after crisis of trust, efforts to defeat uncertainty...
UIT Cambridge Ltd., 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0857843095, 9780857843098 Alternative economics for the 21st century Modern economics bases its view of the world on assumptions about nature and people laid down by Adam Smith, nearly 300 years ago, in a time when people traveled by horse and carriage and wrote by the light of candles. We now live in a globally connected,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 180 p. An unusual consensus has developed among economists that the 'long boom' before 2008, and the subsequent crisis and recession, resulted from a global excess of capital. Over-supply of saving drive down capital costs, encouraging excessively risky investment and preventing the scrapping of outmoded plant. Capital's inexorable growth is also...
Norfolk, VA. 2004. 172 p. A Brief Outline of Real Economy. «This classic introduction to the basics of economic theory offers a constructive approach to economic education by defining terms and introducing key concepts without using insider jargon and complex theories. The fundamental questions about why the…»
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010. — 487 p. This is a unique account of the role played by 58 figures and diagrams commonly used in economic theory. These cover a large part of mainstream economic analysis, both microeconomics and macroeconomics, and also general equilibrium theory. The authoritative contributors have produced a well-considered and definitive selection including...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. - 232 p. This book provides a history of British financial crises since the Napoleonic wars. Interest in crises lapsed during the generally benign financial conditions which followed the Second Word War, but the study of banking markets and financial crises has returned to centre stage following the credit crunch of 2007-8 and the...
Springer, 2013. — 189 p. — ISBN: 3658027452, 9783658027452 Academic research has identified several operational drivers in manufacturing companies that have an effect on either the physical production of goods or its distribution: working capital requirements, manufacturing performance, supply chain performance and supply chain risk. Despite the fact that these four operational...
Edward Elgar Publishers, 2007. — 271 p. Contents of Appendices. Equilibrium. Competition. Money. Expectation. Liquidity. General Theory or Special Case? The Classical Theory of Employment. The Point Of Effective Demand as the Position of System. Equilibrium. Defining Price and Quantity. Expectation as Determining Output and Employment. The Investment-Saving Identity. Average...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016. — 629 p. — (Handbooks of Research Methods and Applications series). — ISBN: 978-1-78254-845-4. Despite the important critiques of the mainstream offered by heterodox economics, the dominant method remains econometrics. This major new Handbook provides an invaluable introduction to a range of alternative research methods better suited for analysing...
9th edition. — Cengage Learning, 2021. — 855 p. — ISBN: 9780538453059. That is how Alfred Marshall, the great 19th-century economist, defined economics in his classic textbook, Principles of Economics. The text you have in your hand continues that tradition, from the cover image to the last page. The cover of this and previous editions shows a market scene. It reminds us that...
This report series defines and measures the "information activity" within the nation economy. Changes in the national labor force are analyzed over 120-year span.
5th Edition. — The MIT Press, 2018. — 1000 p. — ISBN: 9780262038065. A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy, presenting the key principles underlying sound regulatory and antitrust policy. Regulation and antitrust are key elements of government policy. This new edition of the leading textbook on government and business...
University of Iowa, August 1999. — 141 p. Simple Representative Agent Models Growth With Overlapping Generations Neoclassical Growth and Dynamic Programming Endogenous Growth Choice Under Uncertainty Consumption and Asset Pricing Search and Unemployment Search and Money Overlapping Generations Models of Money A Cash-In-Advance Model
Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012. — 401 p. "..For the "window in which we can make revolution" really is closing, as Biel demonstrates in The Entropy of Capitalism. More significantly, he demonstrates how and why this window is closing: using thermodynamics, Biel articulates the limits of the capitalist system and how it has passed the point of disarticulation, degeneration, and...
NBER Working Paper, February 2000. In the paper Blanchard argues that the history of macroeconomics during the 20th century can be divided in three epochs: Pre 1940. A period where macroeconomics was not macroeconomics yet, but moneraty theory on one side, business cycle theory on the other. From 1940 to 1980. A period of consolidation: an integrated framework was developed,...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2017. — 313 p. After communism collapsed in the former Soviet Union, capitalism seemed to many observers like the only game in town, and questioning it became taboo for academic economists. But the financial crisis, chronic unemployment, and the inexorable rise of inequality have resurrected the question of whether there is a feasible and...
Oxford University Press Inc., 2002. — 232 p. Medicine and business management share certain similarities, writes John Kay. For centuries, the theories behind medical practice were mostly nonsense. Doctors simply applied fashionable nostrums, bleeding one patient, starving another, and sometimes the patient got better, sometimes not. The prestige of a doctor rested more on the...
Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. — ISBN: 9780156347112; ISBN13: 978-0156347112. Keynes profoundly influenced the New Deal and created the basis for classic economic theory. “I can think of no single book that has so changed the conception held by economists as to the working of the capitalist system” (Robert L. Heilbroner). Index.
University of Tennessee – Knoxville, September 2009. — 278 p. Econ and math Optimization Single variable optimization Optimization with several variables Constrained optimization Inequality constraints Solving systems of equations (Linear algebra) Matrices Systems of equations Using linear algebra in economics Second-order conditions Econometrics (Probability and statistics)...
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. — 401 p. In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America. Nelson does not see "theology" as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying Samuelsonian and...
Openstax, 2017. — 938 p. — ISBN: 978-1-938168-33-8. Principles of Economics covers scope and sequence requirements for a two-semester introductory economics course. The authors take a balanced approach to micro- and macroeconomics, to both Keynesian and classical views, and to the theory and application of economics concepts. The text also includes many current examples, which...
MIT Press, 2014. — 117 p. As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the economists Peter Temin and David Vines provide an accessible introduction to Keynesian ideas that connects Keynes's insights to today's global economy and offers readers a way to...
New York, USA: Routledge, 2019. — 235 p. — (Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology). — ISBN: 978-1-138-29564-3. Economists have long grappled with the problem of how economic theories relate to empirical evidence: how can abstract mathematized theories be used to produce empirical claims? How are such theories applied to economic phenomena? What does it mean to "test"...
Pluto Press, 2017. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0745335858. The profession of economics has a lot to answer for. Since the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted, and less secure than it might be. How did ideas and policies that have proved to be such an abject...
Springer, 2018. — 293 p. — ISBN: 3319743996. This book presents a selection of contributions on the timely topic of structural reforms in Western economies, written by experts from central banks, the International Monetary Fund, and leading universities. It includes latest research on the impacts of structural reforms on the market economy, especially on the labor market, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 311 p. — ISBN: 0230355293, 9780230355293 Written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, the papers selected and contained in Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory account for the work completed around the two central aspects of his contribution to...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 405 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-18610-8. Two-lesson economics means giving up the dogmatism of laissez-faire as well as the reflexive assumption that any economic problem can be solved by government action, since the right answer often involves a mixture of market forces and government policy. But the payoff is huge: understanding how markets...
10th edition. — Pearson, 2018. — 969 p. Now in its 10th edition, Economics by Sloman, Garratt & Guest is known and loved for its active learning, student-friendly approach and unrivalled lecturer and student support. Retaining all the hall mark features of previous editions, it continues to provide a balanced, comprehensive and completely up-to-date introduction to the world of...
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012. -329 p. The Political Economy of Innovation. In the Pursuit of Novelty. Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Investment in Building Innovation Capacity. Investment in Implementing Innovation. Political Aspects of Innovation and Eco-sustainability. Innovation and Investment Policy for Sustainable Development. Regional Development in Sustainable...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 377 p. The author reviews retrospectively his developing ideas on theory and policy since he first encountered Keynes's writings in 1950. Topics covered include: Keynes now, specifically the coming back into favour of his most fundamental ideas; intellectual biographies and shorter tributes to economists; and a survey of Post-Keynesian thought.
Polity Press, 1989 – 243 p. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition...
New York: Springer, 2005. — 397 p. New Tools of Economic Dynamics gives an introduction and overview of recently developed methods and tools, most of them developed outside economics, to deal with the qualitative analysis of economic dynamics. It reports the results of a three-year research project by a European and Latin American network on the intersection of economics with...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2014. — 361 p. With the advent of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge. Despite the obviousness of their failures, however, economists continue to rely on the same methods and to proceed from the same underlying assumptions. André Orléan challenges the...
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development Vol. 3, No. 1, 2011 — pp. 10-35 The paper presents an alternative model of the emergence and propagation of technological revolutions. It proposes an explanation of the clustering and the spacing of technical cha nge in succe ssive revolutions. It provides arguments for the recurrence of clusters of bold...
Springer, 2014. — 162 p. — ISBN: 3642345360, 9783642345371 Heinrich von Stackelberg’s book Grundlagen einer reinen Kostentheorie, published in 1932, was at the forefront of a growing conceptual revolution in the theory of the firm, a theory which appears more relevant than ever in today’s economic climate. In this work, Stackelberg masterfully builds a theoretical framework...
North-Holland, 2005. — p. 1061-1822. — ISBN: 978-0-444-52043-2. The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. The Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe...
Springer, 2019. — 552 p. — ISBN: 3030018628. This edited book examines the challenges and opportunities arising from today's sharing economy from an operations management perspective. Individual chapter authors present state-of-the-art research that examines the general impact of sharing economy on production and consumption; the intermediary role of a sharing platform;...
New York: Routledge, 2019. — 83 p. In this book, the author argues that a new form of capitalism is emerging at the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He asserts that we are in the midst of a transition from democratic capitalism to feudal capitalism and highlights how robotization and innovation is leading to a social crisis for the middle classes as economic...
Ivy Press, 2010. — 159 p. — ISBN: 9781848314498 Keynesian Economics, Free Market Capitalism, Monetarism, Game Theory, and The Invisible Hand? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you've certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about these economic theories to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your financial knowledge? 30-Second Economics takes the...
Duke University Press, 2015. — 145 p. — ISBN: 0822358387, 9780822358381. Rational self-interest is often seen as being at the heart of liberal economic theory. In The Power at the End of the Economy Brian Massumi provides an alternative explanation, arguing that neoliberalism is grounded in complex interactions between the rational and the emotional. Offering a new theory of...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 231 p. This book argues that Lionel Robbins’s construction of the economics field’s organizing cornerstone, scarcity — and all that has been derived from it from economists in Robbins’s time to today — no longer can generate general consent among economists. Since Robbins’ Essay, economists have learned more than Robbins and his cohorts could...
Routledge, 2017. — 299 p. — ISBN: 0887388272, 9780887388279. Myrdal described this book as a discussion of three key notions in economic theory: the ideas of value, freedom, and collective house-keeping. It is through these concepts, he charged, that political ideology has been intro-duced into economic theory. This volume continues to be relevant in its emphasis on the problem...
Springer, 2014. — 389 p. This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. Its focus is on marginality being a root cause of poverty and deprivation. Marginality is the position of people on the edge, preventing their access to resources, freedom of choices, and the development of capabilities. The book is research...
North-Holland, 2005. — p. 1-1060. — ISBN: 978-0-444-52041-8. The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. The Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007. — 256 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-471-75113-7 ; ISBN10: 0-471-75113-8. "Anne Picker′s International Economic Indicators and Central Banks is "a tour de force". It brings together a wealth of information, explanation, and guidance, which has hitherto only been available from disparate and frequently obscure sources, and does so with great clarity and...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 495 p. The recent fi nancial crisis has once again seen John Kenneth Galbraith return to the bestseller lists. Yet, despite the continued popular success of his works, Galbraith’s contribution to economic theory is rarely recognized by today’s economists. This book redresses the balance by providing an introductory and sympathetic discussion...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 277 p. A theoretical discussion of the problem of achieving economic stabilization. Mr. Egle offers a commonsense compromise between those who would use only automatic devices to counteract business swings and those who would give the government great discretionary powers. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...
In english (in English). — Lima: Catholic University of Peru, January 2008. — 263 p. This book is about the science of economics. The scope of economics as social science is to explain the production of goods and its distribution between the social groups of particular human societies. The most important human society of our times is capitalism. Economics has constructed...
Edward Arnold, 1980. — 170 p. — ISBN: 0-7131-6267-8. This book is intended to present clear expositions of certain areas of economic theory with the ultimate purpose of exposing the theory to a thorough critique. The result has been that it is the essential elements of the theories that have been discussed rather than the elaborate details. There have also been excursions into...
D. van Nostrand company, 1959. — 472 p. The distinguished economic journalist refutes the theorems found in Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and cites briefly the contradictions and dangers of his national income approach.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England. The Belknap press of Harvard University Press. 2004. 238 p. Far more than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic growth--its makings and workings--is a subject that affects the well-being of billions of people around the globe. In The Mystery of Economic Growth, Elhanan Helpman discusses the vast...
10th edition. — Cengage Learning, 2024. — 580 p. — ISBN: 978-0-357-72316-6. Using a concise, inviting writing style, this edition focuses exclusively on content to help you better understand the world and economy in which you live. You become a more astute participant in today's economy as you learn the potential and limits of essential economic policy. The latest examples and...
2nd ed. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 1184 p. — ISBN: 978-0393614077. Mateer and Coppock's approach teaches economic decision-making with applications that students will remember. Mateer and Coppock, leading researchers in Economics teaching who have consistently taught Principles over a combined forty-plus years, brought their innovative teaching experiences to this...
Springer, 2018. — 375 p. — (Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship). — ISBN10: 3319746359, ISBN13: 978-3319746357. This book offers an edited volume for all readers who wish to gain an in-depth grasp of the economic analysis of recent developments in energy law and policy in Europe and the United States. In response to waning resources and heightened...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2011. — 154 p. A review of the headlines of the past decade seems to show that disasters are often part of capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble, the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs, and a widening income gap. Disenchantment with the market economy has reached the point that many even question...
Pickering & Chatto Ltd., 2012. — 225 p. — (Perspectives in Economic and Social History). — ISBN: 1848933509, 9781848933507 This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period. The central argument of many contributors is that, far...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — xiii + 191 p. In Mixed Fortunes Vladimir Popov has provided a remarkably original and provocative analysis of economic growth and institutional change across the world but particularly in China, Russia, and the West. While most conventional interpretations have seen this process as a consequence of either enhancing or stifling the power...
A Bradford Book, 2008. — 313 p. The explanatory power of economic theory is tested by the phenomenon of irrational consumption, examples of which include such addictive behaviors as disordered and pathological gambling. Midbrain Mutiny examines different economic models of disordered gambling, using the frameworks of neuroeconomics (which analyzes decision making in the brain)...
The MIT Press, 2012. — 425 p. Detailed Table of Contents. To Our Readers. Three Different Theories. Neoclassical Theory. Keynesian Theory. Marxian Theory. Late Neoclassical Theory (with Yahya M. Madra). Oscillations in Capitalism and among Economic Theories. The Importance of Theoretical Differences.
IMF Working Paper, 2012. The decade following the onset of the Great Depression was a time of great intellectual. ferment in economics, as the leading thinkers of the time tried to understand the apparent. failures of the existing economic system. This intellectual struggle extended to many. domains, but arguably the most important was the field of monetary economics, given the....
Augustus Kelly publishers, 1967. — 720 p. The call of this work The Theory of Social Economy. The meaning of this is that author intend to treat the economic relations of a whole social body as far as possible irrespective of its extension, its organisation, its laws of property, etc. The ultimate aim of economic science must be to discover those necessities which are of a...
Palgrave, 2019. — 345 p. — ISBN: 3030158071. This book considers the cultural legacy of the Keynesian Revolution in economics. It assesses the impact of Keynes and Keynesian thinking upon economics and policy, as well as the response of the Chicago and Austrian schools, and the legacy of all three in shaping economic life. The book is a call to restore economics to its roots in...
2nd Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 1184 p. — ISBN: 978-0393614077. Mateer and Coppock, leading researchers in Economics teaching who have consistently taught Principles over a combined forty-plus years, brought their innovative teaching experiences to this blockbuster text. They put economics into context by making it relatable through carefully crafted real-world...
Routledge, 2009. — 373 p. This original book brings together some of the world's leading critics of economics orthodoxy to debate Lawson's contribution to the economics literature. The debate centres on ontology, which means enquiry into the nature of what exists, and in this collection scholars such as Bruce Caldwell, John Davis and Geoffrey Hodgson present their thoughtful...
México: Pearson EDUCATION S. A., 2009. — 417 p. ISBN: 978-607-442-338-9 Este libro nace como una respuesta a las necesidades de las instituciones educativas que imparten cursos de economía por tener un texto que cubriera cabalmente sus programas educativos. Y con esta necesidad en mente, Pearson Educación se dio a la tarea de reunir los planes de estudio de estas instituciones,...
8th edition. — Pearson Education, 2022. — 1145 p. — ISBN: 978-1-292-43064-5. One of the challenges of teaching principles of economics is fostering interest in concepts, including opportunity cost, trade-offs, scarcity, and demand and supply that may not seem applicable to students’ lives. Economics makes these concepts relevant by demonstrating how real businesses apply them...
The Institute of Economic Affairs, 1973. — 54 p. A multitude of perspectives The 'Cambridge' and 'neo-classical' schools Assumption of macro-equilibrium The 'Neo-Ricardian' Counter-Revolution Lip-service to micro-foundations Salvation by econometrics? Macro-formalism adopted by both schools The Ricardian shadow B. A Brief History of the Controversy Stages Competition implies...
Springer, 2020. — 344 p. — ISBN: 978-981-15-0254-5. This is the first book that critically examines thereform of the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in light of the current crisis resulting from the U.S. blocking of the appointment of its members. The reform of the AB is critical, as the appointment crisis could lead to the demise of "the jewel in the...
5th edition. — Cengage Learning, 2020. — 834 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4737-6854-3. Now firmly established as one of the leading economics principles texts in the UK and Europe, this exciting, new fifth edition of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University) and Mark P. Taylor (Washington University), has been fully updated. Much revered for its friendly and accessible approach,...
Harvard University Press, 1982. — 452 p. Overwiew and motivation The Need for an Evolutionary Theory Organizationitheoretic background The Foundations of Contemporary Orthodoxy Skills Organizational Capabilities and Behavior Textbook economics revisited Static Selection Equilibrium Firm and Industry Response to Changed Market Conditions Growth theory Neoclassical Growth Theory:...
14th Edition, Global Edition. — Pearson Education Limited, 2022. — 864 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-292-43363-9. For 2-semester principles of economics courses. An intuitive and grounded approach to economics Economics gets students to think like economists by incorporating the latest policy, data, and discussions on important global issues. The 14th Edition emphasizes real-world...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. — 316 p. A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealth Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth?The Code of Capitalexplains how...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 196 p. This book offers a new perspective on the financialisation of the economy and its profound technological transformation in an increasingly interdependent and globalised world. A deterioration of capitalist property has led to the reactivation of pre-capitalist social phenomena such as slavery. Meanwhile secular deflation and...
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 264 p. Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In How Bad Writing Destroyed the World, Adam Weiner spans decades and continents to reveal the surprising connections between the 2008-2009 financial crisis and a relatively unknown nineteenth-century Russian author. A congressional investigation...
Harvard University Press, 2003. — 341 p. This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students to solve any one-dimensional problem...
Washington, DC, USA : International Monetary Fund, 1996. — 158 p. The Balance of Payments Conceptual Framework Residents of an Economy Classifying Balance of Payments Transactions Goods Services Income Current Transfers and the Capital Account Introduction to the Financial Account Direct Investment Portfolio Investment Other Investment Reserve Assets The International...
12va Edición. México: Cengage Learning EDITORES S. A., 2009. — 586 p. ISBN: 607-481-344-2 Esta edición ha sido revisada con la intención de mejorar su presentación y actualizar las aplicaciones, así como para incluir los más recientes acontecimientos teóricos. Al igual que las anteriores ediciones, la actual tiene la intención de ser utilizada en un curso de un trimestre o un...
13th Edition. — Pearson, 2020. — 812 p. — ISBN-13 978-1-292-29469-8. An introduction to the functioning of the economy and the power and breadth of economics. Reviewers tell us that Case/Fair/Oster is one of the all-time best-selling principles of economics texts because they trust it to be clear, thorough, and complete. Readers of Principles of Economics, 13th Edition come...
Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 146 p. — (Public Sector Financial Management). — ISBN10: 331999431X, 13 978-3319994314. This book considers how the practical and public policy relevance of research might be increased, and academics and practitioners can better engage to define research agendas and deliver findings relevant to accounting and accountability in the public services. To do...
In english (in English). — Lima: Catholic University of Peru, April 2006. — 30 p. Since the 1950s, the capitalist world economy has shown significant empirical regularities, which can be characterized by the existence and persistence of (1) differences in income levels between the First World and the Third World, (2) differences in the degree of inequality between the First...
Little, Brown & Company, 1999. — 404 p. This groundbreaking book reveals how today's global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable.
Springer, 2019. — 552 p. — ISBN: 3030018628. This edited book examines the challenges and opportunities arising from today's sharing economy from an operations management perspective. Individual chapter authors present state-of-the-art research that examines the general impact of sharing economy on production and consumption; the intermediary role of a sharing platform;...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 243 p. These lectures contain a masterful summing up of Nicholas Kaldor's critique of the foundations of mainstream economic theory. They provide a very clear account of his theoretical structures on regional differences, primary producers and manufacturers, and on differing market structures and the likely course of prices and quantities in...
22nd Edition, International Student Edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2021. — 959 p. — ISBN: 978-1-260-57061-8. With McConnell, improving outcomes has never been simpler. If given the chance to work harder or smarter, which would you choose? This modern approach makes learning and applying economics easier for students. From real-life examples to cutting-edge learning resources,...
3rd edition. — Routledge, 2024. — 450 p. — ISBN: 9781032372129. If there was any question before, there is no longer a question today: inequality, discrimination, poverty, and mobility are prominent national issues. The notion of "The American Dream" has been sold to generations of young Americans as the idea that working hard and following your dreams will allow you to break...
12th Edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2023. — 384 p. — (The McGraw-Hill Series). — ISBN: 978-1-265-11551-7. Written specifically for the one-semester survey of economics course, Schiller’s Essentials of Economics is known for seeking the best possible answers to the basic questions of WHAT, HOW, and FOR WHOM to produce. Schiller is dedicated to introducing core economic principles in a...
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. , 2011. — 280 p. In After Capitalism, David Schweickart moves beyond the familiar arguments against globalizing capitalism to contribute something absolutely necessary and long overdue a coherent vision of a viable, desirable alternative to capitalism. He names this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which...
3rd Global Edition. — Pearson, 2022. — 840 p. — ISBN: 1292411015. For courses in the principles of economics. An evidence-based approach to Economics Throughout Economics, 3rd Edition, authors Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, and John List use real economic questions and data to help you learn about the world around you. Taking a fresh approach, they use the themes of...
Yuhikaku Publishing Company Ltd., 1998. — 207 p. — ISBN: 4431669078 The aim of this book is to answer from an economics viewpoint such questions as why some people go to college while others do not, and why the percentages of different types of students going to college have changed so dramatically throughout the world over the past few decades. The information contained is...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 301 p. This innovative history of welfare economics challenges the view that welfare economics can be discussed without taking ethical values into account. Whatever their theoretical commitments, when economists have considered practical problems relating to public policy, they have adopted a wider range of ethical values, whether equality,...
7th Edition, Global Edition. — Pearson, 2015. — 630 p. — ISBN: 978-1292060446. For one-semester Principles of Economics courses. A practice-oriented learning system that breaks the traditional textbook mold To help students focus on the most important concepts – and effectively practice the application of those concepts – Essential Foundations of Economics is structured around...
7th edition. — Pearson Education, 2015. — 980 p. — ISBN: 978-1-292-01836-2. To help students focus on the most important concepts — and effectively practice the application of those concepts — Foundations of Economics is structured around a Checklist/Checkpoint system. The result is a patient, confidence-building program that prepares students to use economics in their everyday...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 787 p. — ISBN: 9780691191218. The definitive reference on the most current economics of development and institutions. The essential role that institutions play in understanding economic development has long been recognized across the social sciences, including in economics. Academic and policy interest in this subject has never been higher....
8va Edición. Madrid: McGraw-Hill INTERAMERICANA EDITORES S. A., 2006. — 242 p. ISBN: 0-07-7107756 Este libro pretende que el lector conozca la caja de herramientas y aprenda a utilizarla. Nadie lleva una enorme caja de herramientas muy lejos. Las cajas de herramientas útiles son suficientemente pequeñas para poder llevarlas de un sitio a otro, pero contienen suficientes...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. — 420 p. With the radical growth in the ubiquity of digital platforms, the sharing economy is here to stay. This Handbook explores the nature and direction of the sharing economy, interrogating its key dynamics and evolution over the past decade and critiquing its effect on society. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, this Handbook analyzes...
5ta Edición. Madrid: McGraw-Hill INTERAMERICANA EDITORES S. A., 2008. — 466 p. ISBN: 978-84-481-6099-9 El presente libro está especialmente dirigido a estudiantes de cursos iniciales de economía, preferentemente universitarios, que deseen adquirir los conceptos esenciales de esta disciplina. Por su extensión y profundidad es adecuado para un curso cuatrimestral, aunque puede...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 250 p. Gary Chartier elaborates an account of economic justice rooted in the natural law tradition, explaining how it is relevant to economic issues and developing natural law accounts of property, distribution and work. He examines a range of case studies related to ownership, production, distribution, and consumption, using natural law...
River Publishers, 2022. — 356 p. — ISBN: 8770224056, 978-8770224055. The book describes the evolution of economic theory, considering historical, political, and scientific perspectives. It discusses economic concepts and the formation of economics as a discipline since the feudal system, passing through the formation of the State, until the present. The main economic concepts...
Springer, 2019. — 256 p. — (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance). — ISBN: 978-3-030-21435-7. New Zealand and Australia are broadly considered to be countries in which sustainability and responsibility discourses are being pursued by governments and business alike, and in which incentives and initiatives are helping confront and overcome sustainability-related challenges....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench,Trübner & Co, Ltd., 1890. — 376 p. In this book I have endeavored to determine whether protection or free trade better accords with the interests of labor, and to bring to a common conclusion on this subject those who really desire to raise wages. Introductory Clearing Ground Of Method Protection as an Universal Need The Protective Unit Trade...
5ta Edición. México: McGraw-Hill INTERAMERICANA EDITORES S. A., 2010. — 242 p. ISBN: 978-607-15-0294-0 La primera edición de Econometría se publicó hace treinta años. Con el transcurso del tiempo se registraron avances importantes en la teoría y la práctica de la econometría. En cada una de las ediciones subsiguientes traté de incorporar los principales adelantos en el campo....
Barcelona: McGraw-Hill INTERAMERICANA EDITORES S. A., 2006. — 292 p. El libro presente esta concebido para economistas y estudiantes de economía que poseen algunos conocimientos matemáticos pero que no estén especializados en ella. No se trata de un libro de texto de matemáticas para economistas.
Routledge, 2022. — 518 p. Despite the dynamic development of the discipline of economics, how economics is taught and how it defines its basic principles have hardly changed, resulting in economics being criticized for its inability to provide relevant insights on global challenges. In response, this book defines new principles of economics and seeks to establish economics as...
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013. — 155 p. — ISBN: 978-1604560787. A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and services. It is one form of money, where money is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a standard of value. A currency zone is a country or region in which a specific currency is the dominant medium of...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 1108 p. — ISBN: 0521621720, 9780521621724. This book presents a selection of the research that grew from the editors’ early collaboration on “Prospect Theory,” the landmark article that offered the first compelling alternative to the standard “rational agent” model of choice under risk. In the spirit of the highly influential volume...
Edward Elgar, 2007. — 262 p. With the restoration of laissez faire as the governing principle of contemporary economic ideology and policy making, Thorstein Veblen's insights are once again timely. This book revisits his legacy, featuring original essays by renowned Veblen scholars. The contributors review and comment upon the subjects that concerned Veblen such as: the legal...
7ma Edición. Madrid: Pearson EDUCATION S. A., 2006. — 778 p. ISBN: 84-7829-080-X La idea de escribir este libro surgió de nuestra experiencia como profesores de economía internacional a universitarios desde finales de la década de los setenta. Consideramos que la enseñanza plantea dos grandes desafíos. El primero consiste en transmitir a los estudiantes los apasionantes...
Routledge, 1997. — 364 p. Science and economics Inconsistency at the level of method Inconsistency at the level of social theory Inconsistency at the level of methodology Realism Deductivism Empirical realism Transcendental realism Science, inference and law-statements Knowledge as a produced means of production Natural science: Bhaskar’s inference from experiments Social...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 88 p. This Element presents a new framework for Austrian capital theory, starting from the notion that capital is value. Capital is the value attributed by the valuer at any moment in time to the combination of production-goods and labor available for production. Capital is the result obtained by calculating the current value of a...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. — 135 p. This innovative book uses in-depth empirical studies of scientific articles and takes inspiration from Nobel laureates to explore how theories and models are used in economics. Hans Lind ultimately illustrates that economics studies a ‘chaos-theoretic’ system where a theory is a framework that helps formulate hypotheses rather than a set...
México: Pearson EDUCATION S. A., 2007. — 242 p. ISBN: 970-26-1023-0 El objetivo principal de este libro es adentrar a los alumnos de los últimos semestres de licenciatura y posgrado, preferentemente de economía y negocios, en el aprendizaje práctico y exhaustivo de la elaboración (y no sólo de la comprensión) de los modelos macro econométricos modernos de ecuaciones...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 215 p. Microeconomic Aspects of the Capital Structure Interest as a Factorial Payment Challenges Concerning the Structure of Production Macroeconomic Aspects of the Capital Structure Expenditures Equilibrium and Say’s Law Potential Output versus Intertemporal Equilibrium Non-Neutrality of Monetary Flows for the Structure of Production Monetary Policy as...
6ta Edición. México: Cengage Learning Editores S. A., 2012. — 891 p. ISBN: 978-0538-45305-9 La primera razón para estudiar economía es que lo ayudará a comprender el mundo en el que vive. Existen muchas preguntas acerca de la economía que podrían despertar su curiosidad. ¿Por qué es tan difícil encontrar apartamentos en Nueva York? ¿Por qué las aerolíneas cobran menos por un...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. — 336 p. The legendary investor shows how to identify and master the cycles that govern the markets. We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when should you stay in? The answer is never black or white but is best reached through a keen understanding of the reasons behind the rhythm of cycles. Confidence about where...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 249 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-48260-8. The birth and death of firms is one of the main features of the business cycle. Yet mainstream DGSE macroeconomic models mostly ignore this phenomenon, thereby excluding any potential impact of economic policy on the probability of the birth and death of firms. Those DGSE models that do allow for this...
Chile: Universidad Central de Chile, 2007. — 237 p. El texto, aborda la evaluación de proyectos de inversión, siguiendo el proceso natural de los conceptos que se encuentran asociados a la toma de decisiones, abarcando elementos tales como las Matemáticas Financieras para el financiamiento de iniciativas de inversión, el proceso de formulación de las alternativas, los...
Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007. — 328 p. — ISBN: 1933550120 Principles of Economics ushered in modern economics. Principles not only revolutionized value, price, and marginal utility theories, but it was also used as the primary textbook by several generations of Austrian students and scholars, including Ludwig von Mises and F. A. von Hayek. No economist's library is...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. — 436 p. — ISBN: 0071592997, 9780071593007. In his seminal work, Minsky presents his groundbreaking financial theory of investment, one that is startlingly relevant today. He explains why the American economy has experienced periods of debilitating inflation, rising unemployment, and marked slowdowns and why the economy is now undergoing a credit...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 460 p. Figures page The fearful spheres of Pascal and Parmenides Everything an economist needs to know about physics but was probably afraid to ask: The history of the energy concept Body, motion, and value Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870 Neoclassical economic theory: An irresistable field of force meets...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944. — 135 p. The main issue in present-day social and political conflicts is whether or not man should give away freedom, private initiative, and individual responsibility and surrender to the guardianship of a gigantic apparatus of compulsion and coercion, the socialist state. Should authoritarian totalitarianism be substituted for...
Madrid: McGraw-Hill INTERAMERICANA EDITORES S. A., 2006. — 226 p. ISBN: 84-481-5590-4 La visión de la Macroeconomía que he pretendido plasmar en esta primera edición de Principios de Macroeconomía está plenamente actualizada. Ha sido especialmente en la enseñanza de la macro donde han tenido lugar las innovaciones más profundas y donde el enfoque resulta novedoso, y a nivel...
México: Cengage Learning EDITORES S. A., 2008. — 691 p. ISBN: 607-481-407-4 La novena edición de Teoría microeconómica: Principios básicos y ampliaciones ofrece al lector la más clara y cuidadosa presentación de los conceptos de la microeconomía moderna. Esto se logra por la inclusión de explicaciones claras e intuitivas de los principales resultados teóricos y por el énfasis...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 720 p. — ISBN: 0199570515, 9780199570515. Economists often look at markets as given, and try to make predictions about who will do what and what will happen in these markets Market design, by contrast, does not take markets as given; instead, it combines insights from economic and game theory with common sense and lessons learned from...
18va Edición. México: McGraw-Hill INTERAMERICANA EDITORES S. A., 2006. — 787 p. ISBN: 970-10-5381-8 Aunque esta nueva edición se ha diseñado, al igual que la anterior, para estudiar primero la microeconomía, muchos profesores prefieren comenzar con macroeconomía. Muchos consideran que el alumno principiante encuentra más accesible esta materia y desarrolla más rápidamente un...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 269 p. This book analyzes privatization in Ireland, a European economy that has experienced rapidly changing fortunes over the last thirty years. It examines the effects of privatization in terms of corporate performance, public finances and the distributional aspects of privatization including the impact on employment and share ownership.
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 248 p. Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation. His work represents a lifelong project to put "people as we know them" into economic theory. In this book, Phelps tells the story of his role in reshaping...
Springer, 2018. — 291 p. — ISBN10: 981131893X, 13 978-9811318931. Professor Anup Sinha is a respected teacher and is a great mind with wide-ranging academic interests spanning from economics and sustainability to management. As well as in various other places in India and the US, he has taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Presidency College (now a...
Springer, 2018. — 380 p. — ISBN10: 981131893X, 13 978-9811318931. Professor Anup Sinha is a respected teacher and is a great mind with wide-ranging academic interests spanning from economics and sustainability to management. As well as in various other places in India and the US, he has taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Presidency College (now a...
México: McGraw-Hill INTERAMERICANA EDITORES S. A., 2005. — 394 p. Este libro se basa en la siguiente creencia fundamental: para que un país tenga una economía en desarrollo, estable y organizada debe tener una moneda sana; por ello analizo la estructura teórica del comportamiento del dinero en una economía de mercado. Muestro explícitamente esta estructura teórica ya que...
Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. — 343 p. — ISBN: 1118494563, 9781118494561. Best-selling author Jack Schwager challenges the assumptions at the core of investment theory and practice and exposes common investor mistakes, missteps, myths, and misreads. When it comes to investment models and theories of how markets work, convenience usually trumps reality. The...
Buenos Aires: Fundación Foro S. A., 2013. — 176 p. ISBN: 978-987-29996-0-5 Martín Simonetta en este nuevo libro nos propone un recorrido en el que podemos entender, analizar y pensar fenómenos psicológicos y relacionales tomando en cuenta herramientas y categorías propias de la economía, favoreciendo el enriquecimiento en la comprensión de los fenómenos humanos. Aborda, entre...
12va Edición. México: Pearson EDUCATION S. A., 2004. — 738 p. ISBN: 970-26-0529-6 El original de Introduction to Engineering Economy, escrito por Woods y DeGarmo, apareció en 1942. El uso tan extenso que se hizo de dicho texto durante los últimos 60 años animó a los autores a continuar la tarea con el propósito original del libro: enseñar con claridad los principios de la...
Quilmes: Universidad Virtual de Quilmes, 2013. — 222 p. ISBN: 978-987-1856-45-9 Esta carpeta de trabajo está pensada para quienes deseen acercarse al fascinante mundo de las tecnologías de Internet y quieran emprendes el camino para la creación de un comercio electrónico o bien para aquellos que ya han incursionado en el mismo. Aporta al estudiante todos los elementos...
Taylor and Francis, 2002. — 323 p. Foundations of Economics has been specially designed to complement the conventional introductory-level economics textbook so that students are relieved of the monotony and austerity that is commonly associated with economics courses. All the main concepts in introductory-level economics are covered, but instead of the usual presentation of...
1ra Edición. Colombia: Pearson EDUCATION S. A., 2013. — 180 p. ISBN: 978-958-699-262-6 Este libro, como la mayoría de los textos académicos, es el resultado, entre otros, de la interacción y dinámica de dos importantes subsistemas de la vida académica. Por un lado, el subsistema alumno-profesor, que en el caso del autor se remonta a su práctica docente desde los años ochenta en...
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