Economics category: 26433 books
by Quintin Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Economics
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Target success in Edexcel A level Economics with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to...
by Peter Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Economics
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2017
Develop your students' knowledge of themes 3 and 4 of the Edexcel specification and put theory into context with focused case studies and practice activities.
Maximise their...
by Peter Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This title covers the entire syllabus for Cambridge International Examinations' International AS and A Level Economics (9708). It is divided into separate sections for AS and A Level making it ideal for students studying both the AS and the A Level and also those taking the AS examinations at the...
Econometrics of Panel Data
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Panel data is a data type increasingly used in research in economics, social sciences, and medicine. Its primary characteristic is that the data variation goes jointly over space (across individuals, firms, countries, etc.) and time (over years, months, etc.). Panel data allow examination of problems...
by Lars Peter Hansen, Thomas J Sargent
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Written by Lars Peter Hansen (Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2013) and Thomas Sargent (Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2011), Uncertainty within Economic Models includes articles adapting and applying robust control theory to problems in economics and finance. This book extends rational expectations models...
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change
Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies....
by Peter F. Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The Ethics of Competition is a book of Frank H. Knight's writings on a common theme: the problem of social control and its various implications. Knight believed in free economic institutions but was also aware that the competitive economic system could be improved. One of the central figures of neoclassical...
by Thomas Coskeran
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Economics is a huge subject, and this book is the perfect place to start. Designed specially for undergraduates, it includes features such as questions that may come up in exams, quotes from leading theorists that you can use in your essays, and case studies providing real-life examples. The book...
In Search of Stability
Economics of Money, History of the Rupee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In Search of Stability seeks to understand the economics of money through a narrative on the history of the rupee. The period delineated for study is from the time of introduction of the rupee by Sher Shah Suri in 1542 up to 1971, the year which marked the beginning of the end of the Bretton Woods...
The Big Questions
Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex, Steven Landsburg uses concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: What is real? What can we know? What is the difference between right and wrong? And how...
The End of Progress
How Modern Economics Has Failed Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
A cold, hard look at how modern economics has failed us and why we need a new measure of progress
Modern economics has fallen short. It has widened the gap between rich and poor. It has not allocated the world's resources fairly. It has brought the West to the brink of financial ruin. It has...
Culture and Economics in the Global Community
A Framework for Socioeconomic Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Many of the concepts, values and basic assumptions on which 'modern' economic and business theory is based do not translate into or convey the same meaning in non-European languages or non-Western cultures as they do in Western societies. This results in a mismatch between what Many of the concepts,...
by Daniela Federici, Giancarlo Gandolfo
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This rigorous textbook tames technicalities and makes even the most complex models accessible to students. Its unique two-tier structure makes the book attractive for undergraduates, graduates and researchers alike. In fact, the coverage is primarily directed to undergraduate students and is mainly...
Exchange Rates and International Financial Economics
History, Theories, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The recent financial crisis has troubled the US, Europe, and beyond, and is indicative of the integrated world in which we live. Today, transactions take place with the use of foreign currencies, and their values affect the nations' economies and their citizens' welfare. Exchange Rates and International...