Economics

Analysis of Economic Data Analysis of Economic Data teaches methods of data analysis to students whose primary interest is not in econometrics, statistics or mathematics. It shows students how to apply econometric techniques in the context of real...

From the Inside FlapEconomic indicators are the keys to unlocking invaluable information about market behavior. If interpreted accurately, they can lead to successful trading and speculating, profitable investing, and proper policymaking. Getting ...

From the Back CoverThis book is about more than a subdiscipline within the field of economics---it is about a new field named "public choice political economy" that gradually evolved during the 1970s and 1980s at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in ...

From the Back CoverThis book provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy and its central role in society's response to climate change. It brings together a range of disciplinary insights on the question of what might be new about the c...

From the Inside FlapNot surprisingly, regular folks suddenly are paying much closer attention to the economy than ever. But economics, with its weird technical jargon and knotty concepts and formulas, can be a tough subject to come to grips with o...

From the Back CoverOver the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programs around the world. Th...

From the Back CoverThe Handbook of Global Trade Policy offers readers a comprehensive resource for the study of international trade policy, governance, and financing. This timely and authoritative work presents contributions from a team of promine...

From the Back CoverIn The Contemporary Global Economy, Alfred Eckes provides a lively overview of recent turbulence in the world economy for non-specialists. Focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s, the book views developments hi...

From the Back CoverWestern capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated or declined, and inequality has risen dramatically. Economic policy has neither reformed the financial system nor restored...

From the Inside FlapIn the past two decades, David Nour's advisory work with global organizations has led to a remarkable discovery: strategic business relationships, although intellectually understood, are often an individual's, a group's, and an...

From the Back CoverThe "great crash of 2008" and its associated banking crisis have revealed the limitations of mainstream economics. While exposing the increasing irrelevance of the field, they have forced a number of economists to re-examine the...

From the Back CoverThis book introduces the application of microeconometric methods for modelling various aspects of economic activity for small to large size enterprises, using methods that are based on both time-series and cross-section approach...

From the Back Cover"Econometrics textbooks see their subject as a set of techniques; Magnus and Morgan see it as a set of practices. A combination of controlled experiment and anthropology of science, Methodology and Tacit Knowledge gives a rare i...

From the Back CoverThis 12-chapter text presents a concise first course in microeconomics which is suitable for both MBA and upper level undergraduate programmes. No previous knowledge of economics is assumed. MBA Economics covers the key areas of...

From the Back CoverEvery era has its dominant representations. Just as landscape painters of previous centuries captured and expressed new modes of perceiving history, corporate advertisers now devise the imagined landscapes of global capitalism. ...

From the Back CoverLearn to: Up your game with proven strategies and techniques Increase profits and minimize risks Avoid the pitfalls of stock speculating Time your market entry and exit points Uncover opportunities in "hidden" niches Build a ...

From the Back CoverIn Global Trade Policy, economist Pamela J. Smith explores the key questions raised about global trade and policy today --and the answers that emerge from economic research. During the past two decades, the character of global t...

From the Back CoverIn this exciting new book, Dennis Smith argues that we need to look afresh at globalization. So far, he argues, analysts have not properly explained religious extremism, the War on Terror, and the dynamics of fear, anger and res...

From the Back CoverHow can revenues derived from natural resource exploitation be translated into real benefits for the citizens of resource-rich countries? This is an urgent question. Despite unprecedentedly high prices of natural resources such ...

From the Inside FlapServing as a financial expert witness or consultant in lawsuits is a stressful, challenging, and tough business. In Financial Expert Witness Communication: A Practical Guide to Reporting and Testimony, financial forensic expert...

From the Back CoverThis special issue explores the interrelationship between global economic interests and local ecological interests, and its implications in law. Along this axis, it seeks to examine not only the capacity of global forces to subj...

From the Back CoverThe Dictionary of Globalization provides a critical overview of the contemporary globalization debate, bringing together all the disparate elements of a vast and ever-growing literature. Framed by a lively introductory chapter w...

From the Back CoverA Companion to Economic Forecasting provides an accessible and comprehensive account of recent developments in economic forecasting. Each of the chapters has been specially written by an expert in the field, bringing together a ...

From the Back CoverThis well established text book now published by Blackwell is entering its fourth edition to secure its prime position for the 1990s. The book covers the institutional aspects of the economy that are important for an understandi...

From the Back Cover The term Analytical Political Economy denotes formal, rigorous approaches--both theoretical and empirical--to economics that lie beyond the boundaries of conventional, mainstream analysis based on Walrasian general equilibrium....

From the Back CoverA new textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to models and techniques for the emerging field of actuarial finance Drs. Boudreault and Renaud answer the need for a clear, application-oriented guide to the growing field of...

In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After establishing seven theses (on education, morality, ...

About the Book The recent downturn in the Chinese economy has become a focal point of global attention, with some analysts warning that China is edging dangerously close to economic meltdown. Is it possible that the second largest economy in the w...

About the Book Containing over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization, this collection offers the definitive reference resource for students, researchers and academics in the field. Updated annually Offers clear and concise explanat...

About the Book During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age. In this book, leading politic...

About the Book Over the quarter of a century with which this book is concerned, the UK has had an extraordinarily diverse experience of monetarypolicy and monetary regimes. Monetary policy has been transformed, from attempts to control broad money...

About the Book Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of life, from the trivial to the prof...

About the Book How six industries are collaborating with competitors, society, and the public sector for competitive advantage No longer can we consume the equivalent of 1.3 Earths resources and expect to remain prosperous in perpetuity. We need a...

About the Book Advocated (and attacked) by commentators across the political spectrum, paying every citizen a basic income regardless of their circumstances sounds utopian. However, as our economies are transformed and welfare states feel the stra...

About the Book The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels - but how can we do so in a just and feasible way? In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that t...

About the Book A complete guide to sustainability policy at the federal, state, and local levels Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy is a fundamental guide for public sector professionals new to sustainability poli...

As economics becomes more diverse it is increasingly difficult for students to keep abreast of development throughout the subject and for researchers in one sub-discipline to be fully aware of advances in another. These surveys, originally publish...

About the Book Make your money make a difference--and enjoy attractive returns Small Money, Big Impact explores and explains the globally growing importance of impact investing. Today, the investor's perspective has become as important as the actu...

About the Book We live in a culture of credit. As wages have stagnated, we've seen a dramatic surge in private borrowing across the western world; increasing numbers of households are sucked into a hopeless vortex of spiralling debt, fuelled by ex...

Nobel Laureate Theodore W. Schultz has made important contributions to the fields of agriculture and natural resource economics, and to human capital theory. In this book, he builds on this seminal work to present an overview of the impact of mode...

About the Book The second edition of this introductory text on accounting and financial control in the public sector requires no prior knowledge of the area. It provides short summaries on a wide range of topics across the rather broad spectrum of...

About the Book Mass protests have raged since the global financial crisis of 2008. Across the world students and workers and environmentalists are taking to the streets. Discontent is seething even in the wealthiest countries, as the world saw wit...

About the Book The Final Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice The UK economy is broken. It no longer provides rising living standards for the majority. Young people face an increasingly insecure future. The gap between rich and poor a...

About the Book Moderne heuristische Optimierungsverfahren in der Technik, der Operationsforschung, der Statistik und �konometrie werden in diesem neuen Band behandelt. Der Autor vermittelt alle theoretischen Grundlagen zur praktischen Anwendung ...

About the Book How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Sch...

About the Book Globalisation, The Internal Perspective ist ein ideales Nachschlagewerk zu den aktuellsten Gedanken, den wichtigsten Konzepten und Themen rund um die Globalisierung, und zwar aus unternehmensinterner Sicht. Dieses Buch wurde als pra...