Search results for “[Subject: economics-comparative]”

• Author(s): Andrei Shleifer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeA noted economist argues that the ubiquity of regulation can be explained by its greater efficiency when compa...

• Author(s): Raymond A. Bauer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe focus of this volume is nothing less than the entire set of social indicators--statistics, statistical series, and all other forms...

• Author(s): David W. Pearce • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - Generalan up-to-date authoritative reference designed primarily for students of economics but invaluable also to students of business and othe...

• Author(s): Laurence J. Kotlikoff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralWhat determines savings? The question is timely and important. The U.S. saving rate is less than half that of Japan, Germany, and...

• Author(s): Robert E. Lucas • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MicroeconomicsAn academic colleague has called Lucas "the dominant figure in American macroeconomics." And another refers to this group of 14 ...

• Author(s): Jay Prag • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MicroeconomicsA concise and nontechnical introduction to microeconomics, emphasizing concepts over mathematics, with real-world examples and applicat...

• Author(s): Fischer S. Black | Edward L. Glaeser • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EconometricsAn incisive, unconventional assessment of general equilibrium theory; with a previously unpublished paper.Fischer Black i...

• Author(s): David Cass | Lionel W. McKenzie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsA great many of the most important developments in modern economics were first revealed in the pages of Economet...

• Author(s): Tommy Bengtsson | Cameron Campbell | James Z. Lee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: DemographyA pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to a...

• Author(s): Leonard Joel Kirsch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralDuring the past fifteen years, a unique wage structure emphasizing consistency and equity has developed in t...