Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects of busts on the economy.
This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution and the reconstruction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach.
Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets.
Few countries have achieved social development, which requires simultaneously securing market and social incorporation (good jobs and access to social services).
Euro Crash is a unique analysis of the European Monetary Union, arguing that it was not sub-optimal currency areas or profligate government spending but instead fatal flaws in monetary design and an appalling series of policy mistakes by the European Central Bank that lead to the current and ongoing Eurozone crisis.
Fixed and Marginal Costs in Electricity Markets lays out clear cost methodologies for understanding marginal price structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs.
Saving Capitalism and Democracy tries to answer the difficult questions posed by intellectuals, the media, politicians, students and ordinary people concerning the crisis and how to avert an impending catastrophe.
Alfred Marshall and Modern Economics re-examines Marshall's legacy and relevance to modern economic analysis with the more settled conventional wisdom concerning evolutionary processes allowing advances in economic theorising which were not possible in Marshall's life time.
El estudio del período 1980-2016 muestra que América Latina se enfrenta a laberintos económicos, sociales, políticos e institucionales para los que todavía no encuentra salida.
Using an inter-disciplinary and global approach this book examines the different roles gold played in the international economy from the late 19th century until today.
This proceedings volume presents new methods and applications in applied economics with special interest in advanced cross-section data estimation methodology.
On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays is a collection of essays, biographies, review articles and tributes, focusing on the lives and times of the Cambridge School of Economists, and the immense contribution that these thinkers, including the author, made to the discipline.
The Portfolio Selection Model developed by Markowitz in the 1950s offers a theore- cally founded approach to combining securities into a utility-optimizing investment portfolio, that is, a portfolio leading to the best possible trade-off between the expected return and investment risk.
This book analyses how the financial system adjusts to institutional changes such as new technology, political tendencies, cultural differences, new business models, and government interactions.
Managing Organizations in the United Arab Emirates seeks to familiarize readers with the nature of doing business and managing organizations in the Middle East by bringing together case studies on United Arab Emirate (UAE) organizations, one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing economies in the world.
This book discusses the Indian economic crisis and brings out what went wrong and the correction necessary for getting the economy back to high growth trajectory, leading to economic transformation.
This easy-to-understand and fully illustrated handbook teaches essential economic concepts so you can confidently apply economic reasoning in daily situations and discussions.
Capital: The Process of Circulation of Capital, the second volume of Marx's great critique of political economy, shifts attention from the production of surplus value to the movement of capital through its successive forms: money, productive activity, and commodities.
Un economista ortodoxo (doctor Oxo) pone a Keynes (míster Eskein) en el banquillo de los acusados para plantear las diferencias y coincidencias entre el pensamiento económico clásico y el keynesiano, recorriendo todas las teorías macroeconómicas.
Una república sin buitres propone un acercamiento equilibrado a la crisis con los holdouts y formula una política sobre deuda soberana conveniente para Argentina.
Strategy consultant Christopher Surdak argues that disruptive companies have already figured out that information is replacing capital as the basis of wealth.
This book offers an alternative to perspectives of distributive justice which fail to resolve economic inequality and exacerbate social problems by ignoring the real causes of inequality.
This guidebook provides practical tips and resources for conducting quality socioeconomic surveys to enhance the effectiveness of urban development and water projects.
Mi experiencia docente de más de 20 años, me ha mostrado la necesidad de considerar la funcionalidad de los conocimientos y por ende la didáctica de las disciplinas, haciendo entendibles los temas y sus relaciones; por tal razón este documento, más que mostrar la historia de las teorías, el diseño de modelos y los postulados de los grandes pensadores, se limitará a dar las pautas para conocer y comprender el funcionamiento de la Economía de manera elemental, permitiendo la asimilación de los temas.