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  • Contingent Expectations

    Uncertainty, Risk, and Economic Behavior in Historical Perspective

    An empirical analysis and new theoretical framework for understanding economic expectations and decision-making in different historical settings.Expectations play a crucial role in shaping economic behavior. But how are expectations actually formed, and how has this changed over time? The financial crisis of 2007–08 cast doubt on traditional theories of expectation formation, particularly the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective

    The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective offers a one-stop reference that distills and summarizes the recent scholarship on economic expectations. Investigating the dynamics, effects, and determinants of economic expectations from a global perspective since the seventeenth century, this book enhances the understanding of expectation formation across time and space ... Read more

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  • Finance and the Good Society

    The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The New Financial Order

    Risk in the 21st Century

    In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts us from more durable economic prospects. These lie in the hidden potential of real assets, such as income ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Economics 2.0

    What the Best Minds in Economics Can Teach You About Business and Life

    Economists can help shape monetary policy, global policy and even how much you pay for a new pair of shoes. For example, did you know globalization changed the market for illegal drugs? How do fitness studios and providers of Internet access earn most of their money?--From the laziness and irrationality of their customers.The book features recent work from top thinkers in the economic field from ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Happiness

    A Revolution in Economics

    by Bruno S. Frey ...
    Series series Munich Lectures in Economics
    A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Intangible Capital and Growth

    Essays on Labor Productivity, Monetary Economics, and Political Economy, Vol. 1

    by Felix Roth ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    For several decades now, advanced economies across the globe have been undergoing a process of rapid transformation towards becoming knowledge economies. It is now widely recognized that intangible capital has been a crucial element in the growth performance of these economies and their firms. The term serves as a useful device for capturing those dimensions of capital that are not tangible in ... Read more

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  • Institutions and Economic Theory

    The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics

    Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
    This second edition assesses some of the major refinements, extensions, and useful applications that have developed in neoinstitutionalist thought in recent years. More attention is given to the overlap between the New Institutional Economics and developments in economic history and political science. In addition to updated references, new material includes analysis of parallel developments in the ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Institutional Frameworks and Labor Market Performance

    Comparative Views on the US and German Economies

    Institutional Frameworks and Labor Market Performance produces an in-depth analysis of the functioning of various labor market institutions in both the USA and Germany. Particular emphasis is given to the substantial differences between the US and Germany in the ways important areas are regulated. The authors show that the impact of institutions on economic performance is ambivalent. They argue ... Read more

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  • Keystroke Capitalism

    How Banks Create Money for the Few

    by Aaron Sahr ...
    Translated by Sharon Howe ...
    Series series Futures
    Why society needs to reclaim the power to create moneyAt the heart of capitalism lies the ability of private banks to create money at the stroke of a key. Why have we ignored this unique privilege for so long – and at what cost? Aaron Sahr attributes the lack of attention paid to money creation to the core of popular theories of capitalism, which equate economic power with capital ownership. This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Rise of Central Banks

    State Power in Financial Capitalism

    A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the ship of global finance have instead become as destabilizing as they are dominant.While central banks have gained remarkable influence over the past fifty years, promising more stability, global finance has gone from crisis to crisis. How do we explain this development? Drawing on original sources ignored ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Stories of Capitalism

    Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

    by Stefan Leins ...
    The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of stock prices, the success or failure of investment products, and even the growth or decline of entire national economies. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD