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by Martin D. D. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Variations in the foreign exchange market influence all aspects of the world economy, and understanding these dynamics is one of the great challenges of international economics. This book provides a new, comprehensive, and in-depth examination of the standard theories and latest research in exchange-rate...
The Invention of Enterprise
Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role...
by Peter Conti-Brown, Peter Conti-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The independence of the Federal Reserve is considered a cornerstone of its identity, crucial for keeping monetary policy decisions free of electoral politics. But do we really understand what is meant by "Federal Reserve independence"? Using scores of examples from the Fed's rich history,...
The Squam Lake Report
Fixing the Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.
The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights...
A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty
How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist with the International Finance...
The Curse of Cash
How Large-Denomination Bills Aid Crime and Tax Evasion and Constrain Monetary Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Is Different, “a fascinating and important book” (Ben Bernanke) about the surprising reasons why paper money lies at the heart of many of the world’s most difficult problems
The world is drowning in cash—and it’s making us poorer...
Running the World's Markets
The Governance of Financial Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
The efficiency, safety, and soundness of financial markets depend on the operation of core infrastructure--exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. How these institutions are governed critically affects their performance. Yet, despite their importance, there is little...
The Big Ditch
How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu reveal...
by Frank Schorfheide, Edward P. Herbst
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have become one of the workhorses of modern macroeconomics and are extensively used for academic research as well as forecasting and policy analysis at central banks. This book introduces readers to state-of-the-art computational techniques used...
Economic Gangsters
Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys....
Scroogenomics
Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Christmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and-gift giving. Lots and lots--and lots--of gift giving. It's hard to imagine any Christmas without this time-honored custom. But let's stop to consider the gifts we receive--the rooster sweater from Grandma or the singing...
Selling Women Short
Gender and Money on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug.
Wall Street...
Why People Cooperate
The Role of Social Motivations
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Any organization's success depends upon the voluntary cooperation of its members. But what motivates people to cooperate? In Why People Cooperate, Tom Tyler challenges the decades-old notion that individuals within groups are primarily motivated by their self-interest. Instead, he demonstrates that...
Lobbying America
The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented...