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Inside Technology eBook Series

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  • An Engine, Not a Camera

    How Financial Models Shape Markets

    by Donald MacKenzie ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes.Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Myth of the Rational Market

    A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

    by Justin Fox ...
    A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book: "A rich history of the world's most seductive investing idea." —BloombergA Library Journal Best Business Book of the YearA lively history of ideas, The Myth of the Rational Market by former Time magazine economics columnist Justin Fox describes with insight and wit the rise and fall of the world's most influential investing idea: the efficient markets ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Human Capital

    A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capital Ideas

    The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

    by Peter L. Bernstein ...
    Capital Ideas traces the origins of modern Wall Street, from the pioneering work of early scholars and the development of new theories in risk, valuation, and investment returns, to the actual implementation of these theories in the real world of investment management. Bernstein brings to life a variety of brilliant academics who have contributed to modern investment theory over the years: Louis ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Capital Ideas Evolving

    by Peter L. Bernstein ...
    "A lot has happened in the financial markets since 1992, when Peter Bernstein wrote his seminal Capital Ideas. Happily, Peter has taken up his facile pen again to describe these changes, a virtual revolution in the practice of investing that relies heavily on complex mathematics, derivatives, hedging, and hyperactive trading. This fine and eminently readable book is unlikely to be surpassed as the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

    by Perry Mehrling, Aaron Brown ...
    praise for FISCHER BLACK AND THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEA OF FINANCE"The story of Fischer Black. . . . is remarkable both because of the creativity of the man and because of the revolution he brought to Wall Street. . . . Mehrling's book is fascinating."-FINANCIAL TIMES"A fascinating history of things we take for granted in our everyday financial lives."-THE NEW YORK TIMES"Mehrling's book is essential ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics

    by Louis Kaplow ...
    The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original treatment of the subject rather than a textbook synthesis, the book contains new analysis that generates novel results, including some that overturn long-standing conventional wisdom. This fresh approach should change ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles

    by José A. Scheinkman ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    As long as there have been financial markets, there have been bubbles—those moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value, often with ruinous results. Yet economists are slow to agree on the underlying forces behind these events. In this book José A. Scheinkman offers new insight into the mystery of bubbles. Noting some general characteristics of bubbles—such as the rise ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Economics and Consumer Behavior

    by Angus Deaton, John Muellbauer ...
    This classic text has introduced generations of students to the economic theory of consumer behaviour. Written by 2015 Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton and John Muellbauer, the book begins with a self-contained presentation of the basic theory and its use in applied econometrics. These early chapters also include elementary extensions of the theory to labour supply, durable goods, the consumption ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis for Project Appraisal

    by Per-Olov Johansson, Bengt Kriström ...
    Written by two leading experts, this is a compact guide to the key tools and methods necessary to carry out cost-benefit analysis (CBA). The authors use modern economic tools to obtain general equilibrium cost-benefit rules that can be used to evaluate small projects, as well as large and even mega projects. Intertemporal issues like discounting, the shadow price of capital, and the treatment of ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Pricing the Planet's Future

    The Economics of Discounting in an Uncertain World

    by Christian Gollier ...
    Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of determining what we should and should not do for future generations. It is also central to other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Macroeconomic Theory

    by Jean-Pascal Benassy ...
    This graduate textbook is a primer in macroeconomics. It starts from essential undergraduate macroeconomics and develops the central topics of modern macroeconomic theory in a simple and rigorous manner. All topics essential for first year graduate students are covered. These include rational expectations, intertemporal dynamic models, exogenous and endogenous growth, nonclearing markets and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD