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by Carl E. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
A new edition of the leading text in monetary economics, a comprehensive treatment revised and enhanced with new material reflecting recent advances in the field.
This text presents a comprehensive treatment of the most important topics in monetary economics, focusing on the primary models...
by Laura Cushing-Kidney, Thomas H. Lee, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs...
by Patrick Bolton, Mathias Dewatripont
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
A comprehensive introduction to contract theory, emphasizing common themes and methodologies as well as applications in key areas.
Despite the vast research literature on topics relating to contract theory, only a few of the field's core ideas are covered in microeconomics textbooks. This long-awaited...
Trade Policy Disaster
Lessons from the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
The extreme protectionism that contributed to a collapse of world trade in the 1930s is examined in light of the recent economic crisis.
The recent economic crisis—with the plunge in the stock market, numerous bank failures and widespread financial distress, declining output and rising unemployment—has...
Gurus and Oracles
The Marketing of Information
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
An examination of the information industry, from Reuters to Facebook, and the special characteristics of information and knowledge markets.
We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors...
No Future for You
Salvos from The Baffler
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
A new collection on carnival hokum and magical thinking in post-apocalypse America—brought to you by The Baffler.
There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been...
Getting it Wrong
How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
A leading economist contends that the recent financial crisis was caused not by the failure of mainstream economics but by corrupted monetary data constructed without reference to economics.
Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone...
Paid
Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.
Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things...
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
Confidence Games
Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
The rise and fall of a tax shelter industry that enabled some of America's richest citizens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America's most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products...
In 100 Years
Leading Economists Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In this book, ten prominent economists—including Nobel laureates and several likely laureates—offer their ideas about what the future might hold in 100 years.
This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers....
Reforming U.S. Financial Markets
Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Two top economists outline distinctive approaches to post-crisis financial reform.
Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence...
Global Carbon Pricing
The Path to Climate Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost anything),...
by Dean Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.
There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy....