Economics

A vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a lively history of the economic and financial crises that helped make the treasury secretary and former Fed chair who she is today.

"e;[Hewitt] paints an engaging portrait of a community learning how to take care of its own, and offers inspiration for others looking to do the same.

*A Waterstones, Financial Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*'A tremendous book, timely, wise, authoritative and clear' Stephen Fry'The most excellent book substantive and beautifully expressed suggestions for improving almost everything James O'Brien 'Clear, brave, compelling' David Miliband'Inspiring .

Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel?

The field of development economics has evolved since volume 3 of the Handbook of Development Economics was published more than a decade ago.

The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations fills a significant gap in the European studies literature by providing crucial and groundbreaking coverage of several key areas that are usually neglected or excluded in European integration collections.

Predatory lending: A problem rooted in the past that continues today.

Longtime Brookings economist and former presidential adviser Barry Bosworth examines why saving rates in the United States have fallen so precipitously over the past quarter century, why the initial consequences were surprisingly benign, and how reduced saving will affect the future well-being of Americans.

Future Energy will allow us to make reasonable, logical and correct decisions on our future energy as a result of two of the most serious problems that the civilized world has to face; the looming shortage of oil (which supplies most of our transport fuel) and the alarming rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 50 years (resulting from the burning of oil, gas and coal and the loss of forests) that threatens to change the world's climate through global warming.

Calvet and Fisher present a powerful, new technique for volatility forecasting that draws on insights from the use of multifractals in the natural sciences and mathematics and provides a unified treatment of the use of multifractal techniques in finance.

The whole world wants to invest in India.

This book reminds students in junior, senior and graduate level courses in physics, chemistry and engineering of the math they may have forgotten (or learned imperfectly) which is needed to succeed in science courses.

The Handbooks in Finance are intended to be a definitive source for comprehensive and accessible information in the field of finance.

This two-volume set summarizes recent research on corporate decision-making.

As conceived by the founders of the Econometric Society, econometrics is a field that uses economic theory and statistical methods to address empirical problems in economics.

As conceived by the founders of the Econometric Society, econometrics is a field that uses economic theory and statistical methods to address empirical problems in economics.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Fourth Edition, is a real-world teaching tool for finance courses on mergers, acquisitions, and other restructuring activities.

The Sarbannes-Oxley Act (SOX) is a mandatory requirement for all listed corporations in the US, whether foreign or not.

This is Volume 3 of the Handbook of Industrial Organization series (HIO).

Forecasting returns is as important as forecasting volatility in multiple areas of finance.

This Handbook adopts a traditional definition of the subject, and focuses primarily on the explanation of international transactions in goods, services, and assets, and on the main domestic effects of those transactions.

Research in Transportation Economics is now available online at ScienceDirect - full-text online of volumes 6 onwards.

The Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics examines the current theory and sample current application methods for natural resource and energy economics.

World Resources 2000-2001, People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life focuses on the critical link between ecosystems and people and provides an overview of current global environmental and economic trends using hundreds of indicators in more than 150 countries.

Regulatory reform in the late 1970s and early 1980s vastly transformed the labor market for transportation workers.

Volume 20 of "e;Research in Social Stratification and Mobility"e; continues to remain at the forefront of the diverse group of social scientists who study social inequality and is now the official publication of the Social Stratification Research Group of the International Sociological Association (RC-28).

A Textbook on Macroeconomic Knowledge and Analysis

The Field of Public Economics has been changing rapidly in recent years, and the sixteen chapters contained in this Handbook survey many of the new developments.

All manner of models are used to describe, simulate, extrapolate, and ultimately understand the function of dynamic systems.

Modern labor economics has continued to grow and develop since the first volumes of this Handbook were published.

The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics.

"e;Buried inside QuickTime are a host of powerful tools for creating, delivering, and playing digital media.

Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease.

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics?

Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination.

This book presents the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm for modelling agricultural decision-making in three parts.

Recent advances in AI and Mechanism Design provide a vital tool for solving collective action problems, common in international relations.

***One of Barack Obama's best books of 2024***Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearA revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink itOver the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer.

Volume two considers major environmental issues using individual case studies from around the world as illustrations.

Uno de los grandes retos con los que se enfrenta la política comercial de los países en desarrollo es el de la diversificación exportadora.

A Theory of Individual Behavior dispels the notion that individuals act as rational agents and strives to capture idiosyncratic humanness through rigorous mathematics.

The Handbook is a definitive reference source and teaching aid for econometricians.

FROM METRO NEWSPAPER'S FINANCE EXPERT, A GUIDE TO SAVING MONEY WITH CLEVER HINTS, TIPS AND HACKS.

An analysis of the major securities, derivatives and money markets from an operations point of view, 'Understanding the Markets' takes the reader through the major features and characteristics of the markets and the products.

How differences in national financial regulatory systems emerged from divergent beliefs about economic order and prosperityThe global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of regulators to rein in risk-taking by banks.

Der "Wiederaufstieg" Chinas ist das dominierende geopolitische Ereignis seit dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion und der deutschen Wiedervereinigung im Jahre 1990.

Once there were princes and peasants and very few between.

Microscopic Simulation (MS) uses a computer to represent and keep track of individual ("e;microscopic"e;) elements in order to investigate complex systems which are analytically intractable.

Este libro aborda un grupo de emprendimientos y de asociatividades que surgen como alternativas de desarrollo para la reincorporación a la vida civil de las personas que pertenecieron al grupo insurgente de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), con ocasión de la firma de los Acuerdos de Paz del 2016.

This book shows how condition monitoring can be applied to detect internal degradation in pumps so that appropriate maintenance can be decided upon based on actual condition rather than arbitrary time scales.