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  • Multiple Account Benefit-Cost Analysis

    A Practical Guide for the Systematic Evaluation of Project and Policy Alternatives

    by Marvin Shaffer ...
    Most commonly used in economic and public policy decisions, benefit-cost analysis traditionally attempts to calculate a bottom line by assigning monetary values to all factors associated with a proposed project or action. By contrast, multiple account benefit-cost analysis recognizes that all values are complex and that not all consequences can be expressed in monetary terms or incorporated into ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    by Mohamed El-Erian ...
    SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST"ONE OF THE SMARTEST INVESTORS ON THE PLANET."--MONEY MAGAZINE“This book is an essential read for those whowish to understand the modern world of investing.”—Alan GreenspanWinner of the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year AwardWhen Markets Collide is a timely alert... ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Can It Happen Again?

    Essays on Instability and Finance

    by Hyman Minsky ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In the winter of 1933, the American financial and economic system collapsed. Since then economists, policy makers and financial analysts throughout the world have been haunted by the question of whether "It" can happen again. In 2008 "It" very nearly happened again as banks and mortgage lenders in the USA and beyond collapsed. The disaster sent economists, bankers and policy makers back to the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Myth and Measurement

    The New Economics of the Minimum Wage - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

    by David Card, David Card, Alan B. Krueger, Alan B. Krueger ...
    From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wageDavid Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Insurance and Behavioral Economics

    Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry

    by Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly, Stacey McMorrow ...
    This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark models of choice derived from classical economic theory. Where actual choices stray from predictions, the behavior is considered to be anomalous. Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark Pauly and Stacey McMorrow ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Finance

    Corporate Finance

    Edited by Milton Harris, George M. Constantinides, Rene M. Stulz ...
    Series Book 2 - Handbook of the Economics of Finance
    In the 11 articles in this first of two parts, top scholars summarize and analyze recent scholarship in corporate finance. Covering subjects from corporate taxes to behavioral corporate finance and econometric issues, their articles reveal how specializations resonate with each other and indicate likely directions for future research. By including both established and emerging topics, Volume 2 ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Reforming U.S. Financial Markets

    Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank

    by Randall S. Kroszner, Robert J. Shiller ...
    Series series Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy at Harvard University
    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 in firms and credit market instruments, the intervention by governments and central banks: all were ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Game of Loans

    The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt

    by Beth Akers, Matthew M. Chingos ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Why fears about a looming student loan crisis are unfounded—and how they obscure what's really wrong with student lendingCollege tuition and student debt levels have been rising at an alarming pace for at least two decades. These trends, coupled with an economy weakened by a major recession, have raised serious questions about whether we are headed for a major crisis, with borrowers defaulting on ... Read more

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  • Japan's Lost Decade: Policies for Economic Revival

    by Tim Mr. Callen, Jonathan Mr. Ostry ...
    Japan’s weak economic performance in the 1990s has had implications not only for its own people, but for the world economy more generally, given Japan’s importance as a trading partner and supplier of capital. Therefore, it is essential that Japan unlock its growth potential. The IMF has worked with the Japanese authorities to identify the policies needed to bring Japan’s economy out of its recent ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability

    Political, Social, Cultural, and Economic Theories and Models

    by Gerard Caprio ...
    Political and social forces exert pressure on our globalized economy in many forms, from formal and informal policies to financial theories and technical models. Our efforts to shape and direct these forces to preserve financial stability reveal much about the ways we perceive the financial economy. The Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability examines our political economy, ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Money Manager Capitalism

    Minsky's half century from world war two to the great recession

    by Eric Tymoigne, L. Randall Wray ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Finance and Stability
    The book studies the trends that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, as well as the unfolding of the crisis, in order to provide policy recommendations to improve financial stability. The book starts with changes in monetary policy and income distribution from the 1970s. These changes profoundly modified the foundations of economic growth in the US by destroying the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Fiscal Policy within the IS-LM Framework

    by Shahdad Naghshpour ...
    Undoubtedly, what happens to the economy affects the lives of the citizens of a country, and often the lives of people in other countries around the globe. In addition to natural disasters two things affect the economy more than anything else: monetary and fiscal policies. Fiscal policy and monetary policy represent forms of government intervention to influence market performance. Fiscal policy ... Read more

    $8.69 USD