Economics category: 26433 books
Economics for Life
An economist reflects on the meaning of life, money and what really matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
In Economics For Life, Ian Harper shares insights gained from his professional career as an economist during an exciting period of world history. Dr Harper demonstrates why economics is a good servant but a bad master. While he suggests that ‘It is surely good that millions of human beings have been...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes. Among the topics explored are how variations in height, whether over time, among different socio-economic...
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume I
The Private and Social Costs of Smoking and Their Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details the consequences of smoking, in addition to the detrimental effects caused by second-hand tobacco smoke exposure as a health risk to children as well as to the general public. The central...
by James Haldane Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Collectivist Economics examines such issues as the inequality of the distribution of wealth and its impact on social stability, corrupt financial institutions and economic efficiency.
Chapters covering industrial organization, unemployment, international trade, prices, remuneration, taxation and insurance, and local and national government form the main part of the book.
The Laws and Economics of Confucianism
Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English preindustrial economic development went down different paths. The dominance...
The Fama Portfolio
Selected Papers of Eugene F. Fama
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Few scholars have been as influential in finance and economics as University of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. Over the course of a brilliant and productive career, Fama has published more than one hundred papers, filled with diverse, highly innovative contributions.
Published soon after...
by Stephen W. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2003
In the six years since the appearance of the first edition of Stephen Smith's book, labour economics has become a more firmly entrenched subject on the curriculum. Previously regarded as a subsection within industrial economics, there are now very few universities that do not devote a course to it in its own right. The focus of topics covered withi
From Stress to Growth
Strengthening Asia's Financial Systems in a Post-Crisis World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Asian financial systems, which serve the most economically dynamic region of the world, survived the global economic crisis of the last several years. In From Stress to Growth: Strengthening Asia's Financial Systems in a Post-Crisis World, scholars affiliated with the Peterson Institute for International...
by K.H. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Environmental Economics: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the central theories and methods of environmental economics, with examples, equations, and diagrams to support the analysis.
Understand the problem of environmental degradation, and why environmental externalities...
Study Guide for Statistics for Business and Financial Economics
A Supplement to the Textbook by Cheng-Few Lee, John C. Lee and Alice C. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This Study Guide accompanies Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 3rd Ed. (Springer, 2013), which is the most definitive Business Statistics book to use Finance, Economics, and Accounting data throughout the entire book. The Study Guide contains unique chapter reviews for each chapter...
Positive and Normative Analysis in International Economics
Essays in Honour of Hiroshi Ohta
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This volume addresses profound issues in international economics, with contributions from leading researchers on the implications of trade. Empirical studies address preferential trading arrangements, global imbalances and exchange rates, facilitating an understanding of how the economy functions and enabling detailed policy evaluation.
by Chris Mulhearn, Howard Vane
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This textbook offers a succinct introduction to the world of business. With the perfect balance between economic theory and practical application, the third edition takes a contemporary approach to the subject by drawing on relevant examples and real-world case studies to explain key concepts and...
by Vincent Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Essays in Economic Theory, first published in 1983, combines two essays on game theory and its applications in economics. The first, "Learning Behavior and the Noncooperative Equilibrium", considers whether an adaptive justification, like those commonly available for the optimization models frequently...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Qualitative methods are increasingly used within health economics research, but there is almost no specific material to guide the use of these methods in this context; there is very little that links them to the specific questions that (health) economists ask or that provides guidance on analyzing...