An Introduction To Management Science : Quantitative Approaches To Decision Making
Authors: David R. Anderson [and 6 others]
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Year: 2016
Subjects: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.
Description:
AN INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT SCIENCE: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO DECISION MAKING, 14E equips readers with a sound conceptual understanding of the role that management science plays in the decision-making process. The trusted market leader for more than two decades, the book uses a proven problem-scenario approach to introduce each quantitative technique within an applications setting. All data sets, applications, and screen visuals reflect the details of Excel 2013 to effectively prepare you to work with the latest spreadsheet tools. In addition, readers can get a copy of LINGO software and Excel add-ins with the book’s online content…More…
China’s Economy What Everyone Needs To Know
Author: Arthur R. Kroeber.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT–CHINA.
Description:
In China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know, Arthur Kroeber offers an overview of the highlights of China’s development since economic reforms were initiated under Deng Xiaoping in 1979. He argues that manufacturing, agricultural change, and construction reoriented the economy in the 1980s and 1990s through state-owned enterprises, private entrepreneurship, and foreign investment. Those shifts unleashed perhaps the largest migration ever in world history from rural areas to urban centers, accompanied by a no less unprecedented expansion of infrastructure…More…
Cities In Global Capitalism
Author: Ugo Rossi.
Publisher: Polity Press
Year: 2017
Subject: URBAN ECONOMICS ; REGIONAL ECONOMICS.
Description:
In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the city-capitalism nexus.Drawing on a wide range of conceptual approaches, including political economy, neo-institutionalism and radical political theory, this insightful book examines the complex relationships between contemporary capitalist cities and key forces of our times, such as globalization and neoliberalism. Taking a truly global perspective, Ugo Rossi offers a comparative analysis of the ways in which urban economies and societies reflect and at the same time act as engines of global capitalism.Ultimately, this book shows how over the past three decades capitalism has shifted a gear – no longer merely incorporating key aspects of society into its system, but encompassing everything, including life itself – and illustrates how cities play a central role within this life-oriented construction of global capitalism…More…
Climate Economics : Economic Analysis Of Climate, Climate Change And Climate Policy
Author: Richard S.J. Tol.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2014
Subject: CLIMATIC CHANGES– ECONOMICS ASPECTS.
Description:
This unique textbook offers comprehensive coverage of the economics of climate change and climate policy, and is suitable for advanced undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral students. Topics discussed include the costs and benefits of adaptation and mitigation, discounting, uncertainty, policy instruments, and international agreements…More…
Competition Law As Regulation
Editors: Josef Drexl, Fabiana Di Porto.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2015
Subjects: ANTITRUST LAW– CONGRESSES ; RESTRAINT OF TRADE– CONGRESSES.
Description:
This book constitutes an important addition to international research on the interface of competition and regulation. It addresses the fundamental issues of the subject, and contributes to legal theory and practice. Topics discussed include foundations of the complex relationship of competition law and regulation, new forms of advocacy powers of competition agencies, competition law enforcement in regulated industries in general, information and telecommunications markets, and competition law as regulation in IP-related markets. Scholars in the two fields of law and economics will find the research aspects of the book to be of interest. Officials in competition and regulatory agencies will benefit from the practical relevance of the book…More…
Compliance And Enforcement In Environmental Law : Toward More Effective Implementation
Editors: LeRoy Paddock [and five others]
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2011
Subjects: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ; LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Description:
The book addresses a range of key issues including the enforcement of multilateral agreements, compliance strategies and tools, the role of courts and citizens, protection of natural resources, and compliance issues related to economic instruments.This comprehensive resource will strongly appeal to environmental enforcement professionals working for governments or international organizations, who are seeking new ideas for compliance and enforcement programs. Academics researching environmental law and international affairs will also find this book valuable…More…
Culture And Economic Action
Editors: Laura E. Grube, Virgil Henry Storr
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2015
Subjects: ECONOMICS– SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS.
Description:
Culture has been a relatively understudied subject within economics. Economists who have studied it often conceive culture as a form of capital, treating it as a set of tools or a resource that certain groups possess and other groups do not. Austrian economics, in contrast, is a science of human behavior that is primarily concerned with making sense of meaningful human action. Because of this, Austrian economists are particularly well suited to inject cultural considerations into economic analysis… More…
Development Economics : Theory And Practice
Authors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet.
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Subjects: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Description:
Development Economics: theory and Practice provides students and practitioners with the perspectives and the tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current major economic development issues in the world.Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet identify seven key dimensions of development; growth, poverty, vulnerability, inequality, basic needs, sustainability, and quality of life, and use them to structure the contents of the text…More…
Development Economics : Theory, Empirical Research, And Policy Analysis
Author: Julie Schaffner.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2014
Subjects: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Description:
Development Economics: Theory, Empirical Research, and Policy Analysis by Julie Schaffner teaches students to think about development in a way that is disciplined by economic theory, informed by cutting-edge empirical research, and connected in a practical way to contemporary development efforts. It lays out a framework for the study of developing economies that is built on microeconomic foundations and that highlights the importance in development studies of transaction and transportation costs, risk, information problems, institutional rules and norms, and insights from behavioral economics…More …
Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Economics I Learned From Online Dating
Author: Paul Oyer.
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Year: 2014
Subjects: ONLINE DATING– ECONOMIC ASPECTS.
Description:
After more than twenty years, economist Paul Oyer found himself back on the dating scene—but what a difference a few years made. Dating was now dominated by sites like Match.com, eHarmony, and OkCupid. But Oyer had a secret weapon: economics.
It turns out that dating sites are no different than the markets Oyer had spent a lifetime studying. Monster.com, eBay, and other sites where individuals come together to find a match gave Oyer startling insight into the modern dating scene. The arcane language of economics—search, signaling, adverse selection, cheap talk, statistical discrimination, thick markets, and network externalities—provides a useful guide to finding a mate. Using the ideas that are central to how markets and economics and dating work, Oyer shows how you can apply these ideas to take advantage of the economics in everyday life, all around you, all the time…More …
Game Theory In Action : An Introduction To Classical And Evolutionary Models
Authors: Stephen Schecter, Herbert Gintis.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: GAME THEORY.
Description:
Game Theory in Action is a textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis show students how game theory can be applied in diverse areas including animal behavior, political science, and economics.The book’s examples and problems look at such fascinating topics as crime-control strategies, climate-change negotiations, and the power of the Oracle at Delphi. The text includes a substantial treatment of evolutionary game theory, where strategies are not chosen through rational analysis, but emerge by virtue of being successful. This is the side of game theory that is most relevant to biology; it also helps to explain how human societies evolve…More…
Global Governance and Development
Author: Jose Antonio Ocampo.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT– POLITICAL ASPECTS.
Description:
This book looks critically at global governance structures in the economic and social field in order to understand what has been done and what can be done better. A close look at the United Nations relationship with development cooperation and the provision of global public goods, provides a thorough understanding of the current status of the world’s premier global governance structure. Additionally, analyses of official development assistance and the role of multilateral development banks cast a wider net to demonstrate the growing need for global cooperation and development beyond the borders of the UN…More…
Happiness Around The World : The Paradox Of Happy Peasants And Miserable Millionaires
Author: Carol Graham.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2009
Subjects: ECONOMICS–PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS ;HAPPINESS–ECONOMIC ASPECTS.
Description:
The book explores the effects of many mediating factors in that relationship, ranging from macroeconomic trends and democracy to inequality and crime. It also reviews what we know about happiness and health and how that relationship varies according to income levels and health status. It concludes by discussing the potential–and the potential pitfalls–of using happiness surveys to contribute to better public policy…More…
Industrial Policies In Developing Countries : Failing Markets, Weak States
Authors: Tilman Altenburg, Wilfried Lütkenhorst.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2015
Subjects: INDUSTRIAL POLICY — DEVELOPING COUNTRIES — CASE STUDY.
Description:
Industrial Policy in Developing Countries offers an in-depth assessment of both the potentials and perils of designing and implementing policy in countries at early stages of economic development. The range of insightful case studies illustrates the key dilemma: directing economic and social development through what are often incipient and weak institutions. This realistic, evidence-based assessment will appeal to both development researchers and industrial policy practitioners, particularly those working in developing countries…More…
International Macroeconomics
Author: A.J. Makin.
Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall
Year: 2002
Subjects: MACROECONOMICS.
Description:
The book is suitable for upper-level undergraduates on economics or business degrees taking courses in international economics or finance. Some introductory knowledge of economics is assumed. A comprehensive textbook providing a thorough grounding in international macroeconomics. There is a strong emphasis on understanding globalization, and on grounding the material in real world economic issues and examples…More…
Macroeconomics in times of liquidity crises : searching for economic essentials
Author: Guillermo Calvo
Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: LIQUIDITY (ECONOMICS) ; FINANCIAL CRISES.
Description:
Calvo shows that a sharp focus on liquidity reveals some characteristics of liquid assets that are easy to miss otherwise. He argues for liquidity’s centrality, presenting what he calls the Liquidity Approach. He shows that simple extensions of standard monetary models help rationalize the implications of the liquidity crunch, and then examines slightly more technical models that highlight liquidity issues. He explores the empirical effects of liquidity crunch by studying systemic sudden stops (of capital inflows), presuming that they are triggered by liquidity crunch-type phenomena…More…
Macroprudential Regulation Of International Finance : Managing Capital Flows And Exchange Rates
Authors: Dongsoo Kang,Andrew Mason.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2016
Subjects: INTERNATIONAL FINANCE– ECONOMIC POLICY.
Description:
Recent events, such as capital flow reversals and banking sector crises, have shaken faith in the widely held belief in the benefits of greater financial integration and financial deepening, which are typical in advanced economies. This book shows that emerging economies have occasionally weathered the storm best, despite the supposed burden of ‘weak institutions’.Written by leading scholars and practitioners, the authors demonstrate that a better policy framework requires reliable indicators of vulnerability to financial instability. Using empirical evidence and case studies, the twelve chapters stress the necessity of improved policy tools and automatic stabilizers that anticipate and limit the vulnerabilities to financial crises. Cross-border capital flows, international reserves and foreign exchange markets are covered in depth.This timely book offers an insightful overview and policy solutions to the issues surrounding macroprudential regulation of economies in a globalized world. It is required reading for students and scholars of international finance and regulation…More…
Market Based Instruments : National Experiences In Environmental Sustainability
Authors: Larry Kreiser[and three others]
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2013
Subjects: CLIMATIC CHANGES– GOVERNMENT POLICY.
Description:
This detailed book explores how market based environmental strategies are used in various countries around the world. It investigates how successful sustainability strategies used by one country can be transferred and used successfully in other countries, with a minimum of new research and experimentation. Leading environmental taxation scholars discuss this question and analyse a set of key case studies.This enriching and detailed book will appeal to policy makers in government, as well as to professors in environmental law, environmental economics and environmental sustainability programmes. Students in these fields will also find much to benefit them in this book…More…
Microeconomics : A Contemporary Introduction
Author: William A. McEachern.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Year: 2017
Subjects: MICROECONOMICS.
Description:
This book draws on what you already have observed through your life experiences to help explain microeconomic concepts, choices, institutions, and events. Interesting printed and online case studies, the latest research findings, and focused examples offer genuine insight into how microeconomic principles work in today’s world. A friendly writing style is enhanced by learning features that make the material clear and more direct. Understandable graphs and exhibits include captions that summarize key points, color-coded curves, and helpful labels for clarification. More challenging graphs in the book are built one step at a time using new Progression Graphs software. Powerful learning tools, such as online Aplia and MindTap, further improve your understanding of microeconomics and its relevance to your success…More…
Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons : Firms And The Political Economy Of China’s Technological Development
Author: Douglas B. Fuller.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — ECONOMIC ASPECTS– CHINA.
Description:
The book’s findings suggest that China’s state and domestic market institutions are ineffective, the hybrids promise an alternative way to avoid the middle-income trap. By documenting how variation in China’s institutional terrain impacts technological development, the book also provides much needed nuance to widespread yet mutually irreconcilable claims that China is either an emerging innovation power or a technological backwater…More…
Protecting The Environment, Privately
Editor: Jeffrey Bennett.
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd
Year: 2016
Subjects: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY– ECONOMIC ASPECTS.
Description:
The aim of the book is to establish the principles of markets in the provision of environmental protection and to provide an extensive experience-based set of contexts in which the private sector has acted to enhance the supple of environmental goods and services. These contexts will include both pure-private sector initiatives in terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems and public-private sector ‘joint initiatives’ such as payment for environmental services (PES) schemes…More…
Renewable Energy Finance : Powering The Future
Editor: Charles W. Donovan.
Publisher: London Imperial College Press
Year: 2015
Subjects: RENEWABLE ENRGY SOURCES — FINANCE.
Description:
This timely book documents how investors are spending over US$250 billion each year on new renewable energy projects and positioning themselves in a global investment market that will continue to expand at double-digit growth rates until 2020. It documents first-hand experiences of the challenges of balancing risk and return amid volatile market conditions and rapid shifts in government policy.Renewable Energy Finance provides an insider’s perspective on renewable energy transactions, and insight into how countries like the US, India and China are responding to the global energy challenge. Drawing together contributions from senior executives and leading academics, Renewable Energy Finance serves an audience of readers craving intelligent, practical perspectives on the future of clean energy investment…More…
Renminbi Rising : A New Global Monetary System Emerges
Authors: William H. Overholt, Guonan Ma, Cheung Kwok Law.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2016
Subjects: RENMINBI ; FINANCE– CHINA.
Description:
Renminbi Rising charts the emergence of China’s internationalizing currency and provides an in-depth analysis of the global repercussions. Written by a team of renown economics researchers, this book describes the pressures that enabled the emergence of a new global monetary system and why China’s Renminbi (RMB) became the default ‘second in line’ as the U.S. receded from leadership. Policy makers and regulators will appreciate the examination of the motivations behind those driving the shift, and financial professionals will find valuable guidance in the discussion surrounding business opportunities that the RMB brings to the table. Coverage includes the emergence of new Chinese-sponsored financial institutions, the scale of various RMB businesses and the coming transformation of the global financial system…More…
Theories of International Economics
Author: Peter M. Lichtenstein.
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Subjects: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS ; INTERNATIONAL TRADE.
Description:
Theories of International Economics aims to redress the balance by taking a pluralistic approach, presenting with authority both orthodox and heterodox international economic theories. Each chapter shows the necessarily interdependent nature of schools of international economic theories by including an historical component that shows how each school of thought developed, why it developed and what it has to say about the contemporary world…More…
The Theory and Practice of Microcredit
Author: Wahiduddin Mahmud.
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Subject: MICROFINANCE– BANGLADESH.
Description:
The Theory and Practice of Microcredit aims to remedy this imbalance, arguing that a proper understanding of the evolution of practice is essential both for developing theories that are relevant for the real world and for adopting policies that can better realize the full potential of microcredit. By drawing upon their first-hand knowledge of the nature of this evolution in Bangladesh, the birthplace of microcredit, the authors have pushed the frontiers of current knowledge through a rich blend of theoretical and empirical analysis…More…
