Microeconomics

Easy-to-read and filled with real-world examples of the most complex environmental challenges, this book demonstrates that sound economic analysis and reasoning can be one of the environmental community's strongest allies.

This collection deals with some interesting economic questions related to construction and real estate, namely how construction firms cope with the volatility of construction; whether speculative bubbles or market fundamentals drive those fluctuations; new techniques to predict construction demand; why the office market led the recent real estate cycle; and whether regulation is responsible for speculative behaviour.

This volume presents the most complete collection available of the work of Victor Zarnowitz, a leader in the study of business cycles, growth, inflation, and forecasting.

Measuring costs of labor as a portion of total production costs has never before been treated so thoroughly or so thoughtfully.

The inability of forecasters to predict accurately the 1990-1991 recession emphasizes the need for better ways for charting the course of the economy.

Personalized and precision medicine (PPM)-the targeting of therapies according to an individual's genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics-is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention.

Although Japan and the United States are the world's leading economies, there are significant differences in the ways their wealth is translated into living standards.

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies.

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today.

Since the late 1950s, the engineering job market in the United States has been fraught with fears of a shortage of engineering skill and talent.

In recent years the tremendous growth of the service sector-including international trade in services-has outstripped that of manufacturing in many industrialized nations.

American business has recently been under fire, charged with inflated pricing and an inability to compete in the international marketplace.

The foreign exchange market is the largest, fastest-growing financial market in the world.

In recent years, the Federal Reserve and central banks worldwide have enjoyed remarkable success in their battle against inflation.

In the late 1990s, economic and financial crises raged through East Asia, devastating economies that had previously been considered among the strongest in the developing world.

Every time you buy a can of tuna or a new television, its bar code is scanned to record its price and other information.

The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support.

The Census Bureau has recently begun releasing official statistics that measure the movements of firms in and out of business and workers in and out of jobs.

There has been an increase in food price instability in recent years, with varied consequences for farmers, market participants, and consumers.

Governments and development agencies spend considerable resources building property and company registries to protect property rights.

The modern dependence upon information technology and the corresponding information security regulations and requirements force companies to evaluate the security of their core business processes, mission critical data, and supporting IT environment.

Previous information security references do not address the gulf between general security awareness and the specific technical steps that need to be taken to protect information assets.

The new emphasis on physical security resulting from the terrorist threat has forced many information security professionals to struggle to maintain their organization's focus on protecting information assets.

This book explains the methodologies, framework, and "e;unwritten conventions"e; that ethical hacks should employ to provide the maximum value to organizations that want to harden their security.

This book begins with an overview of information systems security, offering the basic underpinnings of information security and concluding with an analysis of risk management.

Information Security Policies and Procedures: A Practitioner's Reference, Second Edition illustrates how policies and procedures support the efficient running of an organization.

Crisis management planning refers to the methodology used by executives to respond to and manage a crisis and is an integral part of a business resumption plan.

Redistribution, or subsidies and regulations intended to help the poor, unemployed, and financially distressed, have changed in many ways since the onset of the recent financial crisis.

Redistribution, or subsidies and regulations intended to help the poor, unemployed, and financially distressed, have changed in many ways since the onset of the recent financial crisis.

Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment.

In this book, John P.

From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement.

There are many textbooks for business students that provide a systematic, introductory development of the economics of financial markets.

The interactions that occur in securities markets are among the fastest, most information intensive, and most highly strategic of all economic phenomena.

When Harold Fried, et al.

This book brings together in one place the work of one of our most respected economic theorists, on a field in which he has played a large part in originating: the New Institutional Economics.

Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment.

Which species of sharks live within 500 nautical miles of North American shores, and what do we know about them?

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years.

David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America.

From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement.

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years.

There are many textbooks for business students that provide a systematic, introductory development of the economics of financial markets.

This book collects results from ad hoc surveys on firms pricing behavior conducted in 2003 and 2004 by nine National central banks of the Euro area in the context of a joint research project (Eurosystem Inflation Persistence Network).

This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies have altered working conditions and labor rights around the world during the late 20th century.

The interactions that occur in securities markets are among the fastest, most information intensive, and most highly strategic of all economic phenomena.

When Harold Fried, et al.

By examining the development of economics in the 20th century, this book argues that the breakthroughs of post WWII general equilibrium theory and its rejection of utilitarianism and marginal productivity have been misunderstood.

This book explores the principal issues involved in bridging the gap between the pure theory of consumer behavior and its empirical implementation.

This is the first comprehensive history and economic analysis of the Fertile Crescent during the 19th century, a region currently encompassing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and a small part of Turkey.