Economics

The Punjab--an area now divided between Pakistan and India--experienced significant economic growth under British rule from the second half of the nineteenth century.

One of the usual assumptions in economic theory is that an entity called a commodity can be measured or that the amount of it can be represented by any real number.

The Academic Scribblers offers a thoughtful and highly literate summary of modern economic thought.

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century.

The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s.

The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence.

The revised edition of the essential resource on macroeconometricsStructural Macroeconometrics provides a thorough overview and in-depth exploration of methodologies, models, and techniques used to analyze forces shaping national economies.

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This book is a spectacular introduction to the modern mathematical discipline known as the Theory of Games.

In economic situations where action entails a fixed cost, inaction is the norm.

Neoclassical Finance provides a concise and powerful account of the underlying principles of modern finance, drawing on a generation of theoretical and empirical advances in the field.

Financial markets respond to information virtually instantaneously.

Rules for the Global Economy is a timely examination of the conditions under which international rules of globalization come into existence, enabling world economic and financial systems to function and stabilize.

Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save.

Annuities are financial products that guarantee the holder a fixed return so long as the holder remains alive, thereby providing insurance against lifetime uncertainty.

Twenty years ago, behavioral economics did not exist as a field.

This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years.

The standard theory of decision making under uncertainty advises the decision maker to form a statistical model linking outcomes to decisions and then to choose the optimal distribution of outcomes.

Recent years have seen a growing number of activists, scholars, and even policymakers claiming that the global economy is unfair and unjust, particularly to developing countries and the poor within them.

While most standard economic models of international trade assume full employment, Carl Davidson and Steven Matusz have argued over the past two decades that this reliance on full-employment modeling is misleading and ill-equipped to tackle many important trade-related questions.

In 1945, many Europeans still heated with coal, cooled their food with ice, and lacked indoor plumbing.

Central banks can shape economic growth, affect income distribution, influence a country's foreign relations, and determine the extent of its democracy.

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Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy.

In Markets from Networks, one of America's most influential sociologists unveils a groundbreaking theory of the market economy.

An authoritative and comprehensive graduate textbook on the modern insurance sectorThe traditional role of insurers is to insure idiosyncratic risk through products such as life annuities, life insurance, and health insurance.

A systemic account of how institutions shape economic developmentInstitutions matter for economic development.

In recent years economists have begun to use the techniques of non-linear dynamics to show that some apparently erratic and turbulent economic phenomena reflect subtle underlying patterns.

How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies?

In this book Daniel Hamermesh provides the first comprehensive picture of the disparate field of labor demand.

This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the theory of buildings, a topic of central importance to mathematicians interested in the geometric aspects of group theory.

Neoclassical economics as-sumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems.

Depending on one's point of view, multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the villains of the globalized economy.

Governments and institutions, perhaps even more than markets, determine who gets what in our society.

This book, which comprises eight chapters, presents a comprehensive critical survey of the results and methods of laboratory experiments in economics.

Among the most revolutionary and productive areas of economic research over the last two decades, modern business cycle theory is finally made accessible to students and professionals in this rigorous, unified, introductory volume.

Macroeconomics would not be what it is today without Edmund Phelps.

Economists have long sought to learn the effect of a "e;treatment"e; on some outcome of interest, just as doctors do with their patients.

In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs-notably on French wine-as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers and others.

This is a comprehensive and detailed account of the economichistory of Puerto Rico from the period of Spanish colonial dominationto the present.

Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's Governing the Market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy.

How a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of bankingPrevailing wisdom dictates that, without banks, countries would be mired in poverty.

Continuous-Time Models in Corporate Finance synthesizes four decades of research to show how stochastic calculus can be used in corporate finance.

In economics, the emergence of New Growth Theory in recent decades has directed attention to an old and important problem: what are the forces of economic growth and how can public policy enhance them?

Few observers of Mexico and Brazil in the 1930s, or South Korea and Taiwan in the mid-1950s, would have predicted that these nations would become economic "e;miracles"e; several decades later.

Ranking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his work in international economics and in the history of economic thought.

What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent?

The global financial crisis highlighted the impact on macroeconomic outcomes of recurrent events like business and financial cycles, highs and lows in volatility, and crashes and recessions.

Quantal Response Equilibrium presents a stochastic theory of games that unites probabilistic choice models developed in psychology and statistics with the Nash equilibrium approach of classical game theory.

In the years between the Great Famine of the 1840s and the First World War, Ireland experienced a drastic drop in population: the percentage of adults who never married soared from 10 percent to 25 percent, while the overall population decreased by one third.