AGRICULTURE
Public policy and agricultural development / edited by Ha-Joon Chang. London : Routledge, 2012. HD 1417 P83 2012
AGRICULTURE–ECONOMIC ASPECTS–DEVELOPING COUNTRIES–CASE STUDIES / LAND REFORM–DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / AGRICULTURE AND STATE–DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
This book critically re-examines the currently dominant paradigm of agricultural development policy from historical and comparative perspectives. Examining the experiences of 11 developed countries in their earlier stages of development and the experiences of 10 developing and transition economies in the last half a century, the book offers an in-depth discussion on a range of public policies for agriculture, some currently in use and others forgotten in the mist of history.
BAYESIAN STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY
Bayesian theory and applications / edited by Paul Damien, Petros Dellaportas, Nicholas G. Polson, & David A. Stephens. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. QA 279.5 B394 2013
BAYESIAN STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY
The development of hierarchical models and Markov chain Monte Carlo (Mcmc) techniques forms one of the most profound advances in Bayesian analysis since the 1970s and provides the basis for advances in virtually all areas of applied and theoretical Bayesian statistics.
This volume guides the reader along a statistical journey that begins with the basic structure of Bayesian theory, and then provides details on most of the past and present advances in this field. The book has a unique format. There is an explanatory chapter devoted to each conceptual advance followed by journal-style chapters that provide applications or further advances on the concept. (Continue reading…)
COMMODITY FUTURES
Bain, Caroline
Guide to commodities : producers, players and prices, markets, consumers and trends / Caroline Bain. London: Profile Books, 2013. HG 6046 B34 2013
COMMODITY FUTURES / COMMODITY EXCHANGES / PRIMARY COMMODITIES
The price volatility of so many commodities over the past decade has underlined their economic importance and how dependent we are on them. The price of gold has soared to new peaks as currencies have endured a crisis of confidence; demand from China has pushed metal prices up; instability in the Middle East and North Africa has had its effect on the oil price; and food prices have been increasing in parallel with worries about whether there is enough to feed the world. Among the commodities it covers in details are: Aluminium, lead, nickel, tin, zinc, steel, iron ore, gold, silver and platinum; Oil, gas and (Continue reading…)
CLIMACTIC CHANGES
Latin, Howard A.
Climate change policy failures : why conventional mitigation approaches cannot succeed / Howard A. Latin. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing, [2011]. QC 903 L38 2011
CLIMATIC CHANGES–ECONOMIC ASPECTS / CLIMATIC CHANGES–GOVERNMENT POLICY / GREENHOUSE GASES / CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
This book argues that nearly all of the world’s climate policy makers and expert advisors have been making tragic mistakes that ensure the failures of climate change mitigation attempts.
CREDIT
Mazzi, Biagio
Treasury finance and development banking : a guide to credit, debt, and risk / Biagio Mazzi. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2013]. HG 3701 M38 2013
CREDIT / BANK LOANS / DEBT / FINANCIAL RISK / DEVELOPMENT BANKS
The purpose of this book is to analyze credit from the beginning the point at which any borrowing entity (sovereign, corporate, etc.) decides to raise capital through its treasury operation. To describe the debt management activity, the book presents examples from the development banking world which not only presents a clearer banking structure but in addition sits at the intersection of many topical issues … (Continue reading)
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
The role of elites in economic development / edited by Alice G. Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, & James A. Robinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. HD 75 R64 2012
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS / DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS — SOCIAL ASPECTS / ELITE (SOCIAL SCIENCES)
This volume looks at case studies from South Africa to China to seek a better understanding of the dynamics behind how elites decide to engage with economic development. Approaches include economic modelling, social surveys, theoretical analysis, and program evaluation. These different methods explore the relationship between elites and development outcomes from five angles: the participation and reaction of elites to institutional creation and change, how economic changes affect elite formation and circulation, elite perceptions of national welfare, the extent to which state capacity is part of elite self-identity, and how elites interact with non-elites.
ECONOMICS
Ummer, E.K.
Basic mathematics for economics, business, and finance / E.K. Ummer. London : Routledge, 2012. HB 135 U46 2012
ECONOMICS–MATHEMATICAL MODELS / PROGRAMMING (MATHEMATICS)
The book provides a thorough but lucid exposition of most of the mathematical techniques applied in the fields of economics, business and finance. The book deals with topics right from high school mathematics to relatively advanced areas of integral calculus covering in the middle the topics of linear algebra; differential calculus; classical optimization; linear and nonlinear programming; and game theory.
Principles of economics : study guide / N. Gregory Mankiw; Prepared by David R. Hakes. Stamford, CT : Cengage Learning, [2015]. HB 171.5 M265561 2015
ECONOMICS–HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.
David R. Hakes (University of Northern Iowa) has prepared a study guide that will enhance student success. Each chapter of the study guide includes learning objectives, a description of the chapter’s context and purpose, a chapter review, key terms and definitions, advanced critical-thinking questions, and helpful hints for understanding difficult concepts. Students can develop their understanding of the material by doing the practice problems and answering the short-answer questions. They can then assess their mastery of the key concepts with the self-test, which includes true/false and multiple-choice questions.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Handbook of development economics / edited by Dani Rodrik & Mark R. Rosenzweig. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2010. HB 171.5 H314 no.9
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT–HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.
The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal correspondences between policies and outcomes, contributors demonstrate instead that only an intense familiarity with the development context and the universe of applicable economic models can generate successful policies. Getting cause-and-effect right is essential for policy design and implementation. With the goal of drawing researchers and policy makers closer, this volume highlights our increasing understanding of ways to combine economic theorizing with careful, thoughtful empirical work.
ENERGY INDUSTRIES
Energy finance and economics : analysis and valuation, risk management, and the future of energy / edited by Betty J. Simkins & Russell E. Simkins. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2013. HD 9502 A2 E534 2013
ENERGY INDUSTRIES–FINANCE / ENERGY POLICY / RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES
Energy Finance and Economics offers the most up-to-date information and compelling insights into the finance and economics of energy. With contributions from today’s thought leaders who are experts in various areas of energy finance and economics, the book provides an overview of the energy industry and addresses issues concerning energy finance and economics.
The book focuses on a range of topics including corporate finance relevant to the oil and gas industry as well as addressing issues of unconventional, renewable, and alternative energy.
FOOD INDUSTRY
Hansen, Henning Otte
Food economics : industry and markets / Henning Otte Hansen. London : Routledge, 2013. HD 9000.5 H37 2013
FOOD INDUSTRY AND TRADE / PRODUCE TRADE / FOOD SUPPLY–POLITICAL ASPECTS / GLOBALIZATION–ECONOMIC ASPECTS
Food and food markets still enjoy a pivotal role in the world economy and the international food industry is moving towards greater consolidation and globalization, with increased vertical integration and changes to market structure. Companies grow bigger in order to obtain economies of scale and issues and such as food security, quality, obesity and health are ever important factors.
This book describes the link between food markets and food companies from a theoretical and a business economics perspective. The relationships, trends and impacts on the international food market are presented, and the topic is related to actual business conditions.
GAME THEORY
Sandholm, William H.
Population games and evolutionary dynamics / Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2011]. HB 144 S27 2011
GAME THEORY / EVOLUTION– MATHEMATICAL MODELS
This text offers a systematic, rigorous, and unified presentation of evolutionary game theory, covering the core developments of the theory from its inception in biology in the 1970s through recent advances.
Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics provides a point of entry into the field for researchers and students in all of these disciplines. The text first considers population games, which provide a simple, powerful model for studying strategic interactions among large numbers of anonymous agents. It then studies the dynamics of behavior in these games.(Continue reading…)
HEALTH
Researching health : qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods / edited by Mike Saks & Judith Allsop. London : SAGE Publications, 2013. RA 440.85 R47 2013
HEALTH–RESEARCH–METHODOLOGY / MEDICAL CARE–RESEARCH–METHODOLOGY
The Second Edition of Researching Health covers everything that a student or new researcher will need when starting to conduct their own research in a range of healthcare settings. The chapters guide the reader through each specific qualitative, quantitative and mixed method, and show how these work in practice. In the Second Edition, the authors place particular focus on the critical appraisal of research asking not only how different forms of research can be conducted, but also how we can use the research of others effectively.
MACROECONOMICS
Principles of macroeconomics : study guide / N. Gregory Mankiw; Prepared by David R. Hakes. 7th edition. Stamford, CT : Cengage Learning, [2015]. HB 172.5 M3541 2015
MACROECONOMICS–HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.
David R. Hakes (University of Northern Iowa) has prepared a study guide that will enhance student success. Each chapter of the study guide includes learning objectives, a description of the chapter’s context and purpose, a chapter review, key terms and definitions, advanced critical-thinking questions, and helpful hints for understanding difficult concepts. Students can develop their understanding of the material by doing the practice problems and answering the short-answer questions. They can then assess their mastery of the key concepts with the self-test, which includes true/false and multiple-choice questions.
MEDICAL ECONOMICS
Handbook of health economics / edited by Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, & Pedro P. Barros. Massachusetts: Elsevier B.V, 2012. HB 171.5 H314 no. 17
MEDICAL ECONOMICS
Editors Mark Pauly, Thomas McGuire, and Pedro Pita Barros assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues. In 16 chapters they cover recent developments in health economics, from medical spending growth to the demand for health care, the markets for pharmaceutical products, the medical workforce, and equity in health and health care.
MICROECONOMICS
Pindyck, Robert S.
Microeconomics / Robert S. Pindyck & Daniel L. Rubinfeld. Boston : Pearson Education, [2013]. HB 172 P55 2013
MICROECONOMICS
A book that provides a treatment of microeconomic theory that stresses the relevance and application to managerial and public policy decision making.
Principles of microeconomics : study guide / N. Gregory Mankiw; Prepared by David R. Hakes/ 7th edition. Stamford, CT : Cengage Learning, [2015]. HB 172 M3541 2015
MICROECONOMICS–HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.
David R. Hakes (University of Northern Iowa) has prepared a study guide that will enhance student success. Each chapter of the study guide includes learning objectives, a description of the chapter’s context and purpose, a chapter review, key terms and definitions, advanced critical-thinking questions, and helpful hints for understanding difficult concepts. Students can develop their understanding of the material by doing the practice problems and answering the short-answer questions. They can then assess their mastery of the key concepts with the self-test, which includes true/false and multiple-choice questions.
PARASITIC DISEASES
McGuire, Robert A.
Parasites, pathogens, and progress : diseases and economic development / Robert A. McGuire and Philip R.P. Coelho. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2011. RA 649 M34 2011
PARASITIC DISEASES — HISTORY , SOCIAL ASPECTS; — UNITES STATES–HISTORY / EVOLUTION (BIOLOGY)–UNITED STATES–HISTORY /MICROBIOLOGY — UNITED STATES–HISTORY
In Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress, Robert McGuire and Philip Coelho integrate biological and economic perspectives into an explanation of the historical development of humanity and the economy, paying particular attention to the American experience, its history and development. In their path-breaking examination of the impact of population growth and parasitic diseases, they contend that interpretations of history that minimize or ignore the physical environment are incomplete or wrong. (Continue reading…)
POVERTY
Shaffer, Paul
Q-squared : combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in poverty analysis / Paul Shaffer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. HC 79 P6 S53 2013
POVERTY–RESEARCH–METHODLOGY / QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH / QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
This book examines the underlying assumptions and implications of how we conceptualise and investigate poverty. The empirical entry point for such inquiry is a series of research initiatives that have used mixed method, combined qualitative and quantitative, or Q-Squared ( Q2) approaches, to poverty analysis. The Q2 literature highlights the vast range of analytical tools within the social sciences that may be used to understand and explain social phenomena, along with interesting research results. This literature serves as a lens to probe issues about knowledge claims made in poverty debates concerning who are the poor (identification analysis) and why they are poor (causal analysis). (Continue reading…)
RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY
Gilboa, Itzhak
Rational choice / Itzhak Gilboa. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2010. HM 495 G55 2010
RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY / SOCIAL CHOICE / DECISION MAKING / GAME THEORY / MICROECONOMICS
This book offers a rigorous, concise, and nontechnical introduction to some of the fundamental insights of rational choice theory. It draws on formal theories of microeconomics, decision making, games, and social choice, and on ideas developed in philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Itzhak Gilboa argues that economic theory has provided a set of powerful models and broad insights that have changed the way we think about everyday life. He focuses on basic insights of the rational choice paradigm–the general conceptualization rather than a particular theory–that survive recent (and well-justified) critiques of economic theory’s various failures.
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS
Pirounakis, Nicholas G.
Real estate economics: a point to point handbook / Nicholas G. Pirounakis. London : Routledge, 2013. HD 1375 P57 2013
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS / REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT / URBAN ECONOMICS / COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE / RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
Real Estate Economics: A point-to-point handbook introduces the main tools and concepts of real estate (RE) economics. It covers areas such as the relation between RE and the macro-economy, RE finance, investment appraisal, taxation, demand and supply, development, market dynamics and price bubbles, and price estimation. It balances housing economics with commercial property economics, and pays particular attention to the issue of property dynamics and bubbles – something very topical in the aftermath of the US house-price collapse that precipitated the global crisis of 2008.
This textbook takes an international approach and introduces the student to the necessary ‘toolbox’ of models required in order to properly understand the mechanics of real estate.
RISK ASSESSMENT
Viscusi, W. Kip
Policy challenges of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life / W. Kip Viscusi. Hanover, Massavhusetts : Now Publishers, 2011. HM 1101 V57 2011
RISK ASSESSMENT — ECONOMETRIC MODELS / LIFE VALUATION–ECONOMETRIC MODELS / LIFE CYCLE, HUMAN–ECONOMETRIC MODELS / MORTALITY–ECONOMETRIC MODELS / LIFE EXPECTANCY–ECONOMETRIC MODELS
Policy Challenges of the Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life (VSL) focuses on the variation in VSL both across different studies in the academic literature and in different policy contexts. These differences often reflect quite legitimate heterogeneity in the valuation of risk. This review of the academic literature is coupled with an examination of the policy arena’s use of the VSL methodology.
ROBUST CONTROL
Bergemann, Dirk
Robust mechanism design : the role of private information and higher order beliefs / Dirk Bergemann & Stephen Morris. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., 2012. TJ 217.2 B47 2012
ROBUST CONTROL / PRICES
This volume brings together the collected contributions on the theme of robust mechanism design and robust implementation that Dirk Bergemann and Stephen Morris have been working on for the past decade. The collection is preceded by a comprehensive introductory essay, specifically written for this volume with the aim of providing the readers with an overview of the research agenda pursued in the collected papers.
SOCIAL CHOICE
Handbook of social choice and welfare / edited by Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya Sen, & Kotaro Suzumura. Amsterdam : Elsevier B.V, 2011. HB 171.5 H314 no. 19
SOCIAL CHOICE–MATHEMATICAL MODELS / WELFARE ECONOMICS
This second part of a two-volume set continues to describe economists’ efforts to quantify the social decisions people necessarily make and the philosophies that those choices define. Contributors draw on lessons from philosophy, history, and other disciplines, but they ultimately use editor Kenneth Arrow’s seminal work on social choice as a jumping-off point for discussing ways to incentivize, punish, and distribute goods.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Bensanko, David
Economics of strategy / David Bensanko, David Dranove, Mark Shanley, & Scott Schaefer. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2013. HD 30.28 B47 2013
STRATEGIC PLANNING–ECONOMIC ASPECTS / MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
The sixth edition of Besanko’s Economics of Strategy uses economic theory to bring new insights to popular topics in modern strategy. By presenting basic concepts of economic theory with ideas in modern strategy literature, this book provides readers with a logical framework for understanding the strategic activities within a firm.