eBooks List For Item BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
Economic Facts and Fallacies
- ISBN:
- 0465003494
- Authors:
- Thomas Sowell
From one of America's most distinguished economists, a short, brilliant and revelatory book: the fundamental ideas people most commonly get wrong about economics, and how to think about the subject better. Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues--and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the readers. These fallacies include many beliefs widely...
Finance: A Fine Art
- ISBN:
- 0470847670
- Authors:
- Michel Fleuriet
The financial markets play a crucial role in contemporary society. They can change the lives of whole communities for better or worse and form an essential part of the overall economy. Yet their intermediaries are frequently criticised for misuse of the power that they wield. In this defence of the markets Michel Fleuriet draws on his many years experience in the field to span history and contemporary culture, addressing the market...
Principles of Conflict Economics: A Primer for Social Scientists
- ISBN:
- 0521875579
- Authors:
- Charles H. Anderton, John R. Carter
Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict in two important ways. First, it applies economic analysis to diverse conflict activities such as war, arms races, and terrorism, showing how they can be understood as purposeful choices responsive to underlying incentives. Second, it treats appropriation as a fundamental economic activity, joining production and exchange as a means of wealth acquisition. Drawing on a...
How to Price: A Guide to Pricing Techniques and Yield Management
- ISBN:
- 0521887593
- Authors:
- Oz Shy
Over the past four decades, business and academic economists, operations researchers, marketing scientists, and consulting firms have increased their interest and research on pricing and revenue management. This book attempts to introduce the reader to a wide variety of their research results on pricing techniques in a unified, systematic way and at varying levels of difficulty. The book contains a large number of exercises and solutions and...
Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Public Policy
- ISBN:
- 0521894921
While the public policy community has turned to entrepreneurship to maintain, restore, or generate economic prosperity, the economics profession has been remarkably taciturn in providing guidance for public policy for understanding the links between entrepreneurship and economic growth as well as for framing and weighing policy issues and decisions. The purpose of this volume is to provide a lens through which public policy decisions involving...
George Washington: Early America (Primary Source Readers)
- ISBN:
- 0743987497
- Authors:
- Christi E. Parker, M.A.Ed.
George Washington helped form the United States into what it is today by making wise decisions. After becoming a war hero in the French and Indian War, he went on to lead a fight against the British in the American Revolution. He continued his legacy by becoming the first president of the United States.
ICTs and Indian Economic Development: Economy, Work, Regulation
- ISBN:
- 0761933395
ICTs and Indian Economic Development evaluates the recent phenomenon of Information technology communication (ICT) development in India, and discusses such questions as: Can the growth be sustained? How far can an ICT revolution go towards modernising India's economy? What could be the capacity of ICTs to induce rapid social transformation and change? Can India navigate all the pitfalls and hazards and retain its current comparative advantage in...
Complex Sciences: First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes of the Institute ... and Telecommunications Engineering)
- ISBN:
- 3642024653
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex Sciences, Complex 2009, held in Shanghai, China, in February 2009. The 227 revised full papers presented together with 23 papers from five collated workshops (COART, ComplexCCS, ComplexEN, MANDYN, SPA) were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers address the following topics: theory of art and music, causality in complex...
Complex Sciences: First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009. Revised Selcted Papers, Part II (Lecture Notes of ... and Telecommunications Engineering)
- ISBN:
- 3642024688
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex Sciences, Complex 2009, held in Shanghai, China, in February 2009. The 227 revised full papers presented together with 23 papers from five collated workshops (COART, ComplexCCS, ComplexEN, MANDYN, SPA) were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers address the following topics: theory of art and music, causality in complex...
Micro Fuel Cells: Principles and Applications
- ISBN:
- 0123747139
Today's consumers of portable electronics consumers are demanding devices not only deliver more power but also work healthy for the environment. This fact alone has lead major corporations like Intel, BIC, Duracell and Microsoft to believe that Microfuel Cells could be the next-generation power source for electronic products. Compact and readable, Microfuels Principles and Applications, offers engineers and product designers a reference...
Principles of Cash Flow Valuation: An Integrated Market-Based Approach (Graphics Series)
- ISBN:
- 0126860408
- Authors:
- Joseph Tham, Ignacio Vélez-Pareja
The valuation of assets, both tangible and intangible, is an important element of corporate finance. Putting a price tag on ideas is almost impossible, and in the new economy, where companies grow dependent on intangible assets all the time, market volatility can be attributed in large part to our collective ignorance of their value. There are two basic approaches to valuation: from financial statements to cash flows, and from cash flows to...
The Secrets of Economic Indicators: Hidden Clues to Future Economic Trends and Investment Opportunities, 2nd Edition
- ISBN:
- 0132447290
- Authors:
- Bernard Baumohl
"This is the real deal. Baumohl miraculously breathes life into economic indicators and statistics." --The Wall Street Journal "This is the most up-to-date guide to economic indicators and their importance to financial markets in print. The coverage of less-reported indicators, especially those from nongovernment sources, is hard to find elsewhere. The inclusion of the actual published tables helps the newer student of the markets find the data...
Scripture and Ethics: Twentieth-Century Portraits
- ISBN:
- 0195110994
- Authors:
- Jeffrey Siker
How should the Bible be used in Christian ethics? Although this question has been addressed many times, little attention has gone to how the Bible actually has functioned in constructing theological ethics. In this book, Siker describes and analyzes the Bible's various uses in the theology and ethics of eight of the twentieth century's most important and influential Christian theologians: Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, Bernhard Haring,...
Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics (Bradford Books)
- ISBN:
- 0262072440
- Authors:
- Paul W. Glimcher
In this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide an alternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. René „escartes (1596-1650) believed that all behaviors could be divided into two categories, the simple and the complex. Simple behaviors were those in which a given sensory event gave rise deterministically to an appropriate motor response. Complex behaviors were those in which the...
Truth or Economics: On the Definition, Prediction, and Relevance of Economic Efficiency
- ISBN:
- 0300114591
- Authors:
- Prof. Richard S. Markovits
Is economic efficiency a sound basis upon which to make public policy or legal decisions? In this sophisticated analysis, Richard S. Markovits considers the way in which scholars and public decision-makers define, predict, and assess the moral and legal relevance of economic efficiency. The author begins by identifying imperfections in the traditional definition of economic efficiency. He then develops and illustrates an appropriate response to...
The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen
- ISBN:
- 1416592385
- Authors:
- Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous
Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the world if the pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed by a...
Regional Economic Outlook Asia and Pacific October 2007 (World Economic and Financial Survey)
- ISBN:
- 1589066685
Economic developments in Asia have been positive so far in 2007. Growth has been stronger (and in many cases more balanced) than expected across much of the region, again led by China and India, and inflation pressures remain largely contained. Moreover, Asia weathered the recent financial turbulence relatively well. The outlook is favorable, with growth expected to decline only modestly in 2008 as foreign demand for Asia's exports slows. The...
The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)
- ISBN:
- 3540262857
- Authors:
- Johannes Voit
This highly praised introductory treatment describes the parallels between statistical physics and finance - both those established in the 100-year long interaction between these disciplines, as well as new research results on financial markets. The random-walk technique, well known in physics, is also the basic model in finance, upon which are built, for example, the Black-Scholes theory of option pricing and hedging, plus methods of portfolio...
Index and Stability in Bimatrix Games: A Geometric-Combinatorial Approach (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)
- ISBN:
- 3540263667
- Authors:
- H. Arndt von Schemde
The index of an equilibrium in a game gives information about the "stability" of the equilibrium, for example with respect to game dynamics. Unfortunately, index theory is often very technical. This book presents a new geometric construction that visualises the index in an intuitive way. For example, a 3×n game, for any n, can be represented by a figure in the plane, from which one can read off any equilibrium, and its index as a geometric...
Standardization and Expectations (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)
- ISBN:
- 3540281126
- Authors:
- Tobias Langenberg
Over the last decades, technological progress has brought about a multitude of standardization problems. For instance, compatibility standards ensure the interoperability of goods, which is of decisive importance when users face positive externalities in consumption. Consumers' expectations are key to the problem of whether a new technology will prevail as de-facto standard or not. Early adopters must be confident that the network good will be...
Handbook on Optimal Growth 1: Discrete Time (V. 1)
- ISBN:
- 3540323082
The problem of efficient or optimal allocation of resources is a fundamental concern of economic analysis. The theory of optimal economic growth can be viewed as an aspect of this central theme, which emphasizes in general the issues arising in the allocation of resources over an infinite time horizon, and in particular the consumption-investment decision process in models in which there is no natural "terminal date". This broad scope of...
Putting Knowledge Networks into Action: Methodology, Development, Maintenance
- ISBN:
- 3540405747
The concepts and theories of knowledge management and networks are meanwhile well documented. Yet there are few, if any, guidelines on how to implement knowledge management within an organization, especially focusing on how to manage knowledge in a network environment. This shows that managing knowledge in networks is a rather new and unexplored field. This book visualizes paths that allow one to make connections between theories, concepts and...
Innovation and Technology - Strategies and Policies
- ISBN:
- 0792344359
Innovation and Technology -- Strategies and Policies contains a selection of outstanding contributions by world experts on how a culture of innovation is able to produce a response to fast global changes affecting society. The book describes major evolutionary directions and foreseen trends in: environment versus industry; technology breakthroughs; energy planning; education and research; intangible investment requirements; new health...
Institutional Economics: Theory, Method, Policy (Recent Economic Thought)
- ISBN:
- 0792393465
The volume appraises, refines, and extends the institutionalist's evolutionary theory of political economy in six different areas of inquiry: (a) the provision of a fresh and comparative overview of institutional economics in general; (b) the presentation and refinement of pragmatic methods of inquiry; (c) the exploration of extensions and clarifications of instrumental value theory; (d) the distillation of an emergent institutionalist theory of...
The Business of Economics
- ISBN:
- 0198292228
- Authors:
- John Kay
Medicine and business management share certain similarities, writes John Kay. For centuries, the theories behind medical practice were mostly nonsense. Doctors simply applied fashionable nostrums, bleeding one patient, starving another, and sometimes the patient got better, sometimes not. The prestige of a doctor rested more on the social rank of his patients and the confidence of his assertions than on the evidence of his cures. Much the same...
The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland 1801-46
- ISBN:
- 0199242356
- Authors:
- Stewart J. Brown
This book explores the struggle to strengthen the influence of the national Churches in the first half of the 19th century. Those who sought strong national Churches faced the growth of Catholic nationalism in Ireland and the emergence of liberalism in Britain, as well as a movement within the Churches for independence from the State.
Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources
- ISBN:
- 0199269718
Byzantine philosophy is an almost unexplored field. Being regarded either as mere scholars or as primarily religious thinkers, Byzantine philosophers have not been studied on their own philosophical merit. The eleven contributions in this volume, which cover most periods of Byzantine culture from the 4th to the 15th century, for the first time systematically investigate the attitude the Byzantines took towards the views of ancient philosophers,...
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
- ISBN:
- 0670881112
- Authors:
- Kevin Kelly
The old rules are broken. The current revolution in business requires nothing less than a new set of rules. Succinct and memorable, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy. Kelly's manifesto in Wired brought rave reviews from business gurus such as Tom Peters, and praise from think tanks and business strategists from all over the world. New Rules will wake up the business world. Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. Today,...
Testing Macroeconometric Models
- ISBN:
- 0674875036
- Authors:
- Ray Fair
In this book Ray Fair expounds powerful techniques for estimating and analyzing macroeconometric models. He takes advantage of the remarkable decrease in computational costs that has occurred since the early 1980s by implementing such sophisticated techniques as stochastic simulation. Testing Macroeconometric Models also incorporates the assumption of rational expectations in the estimation, solution, and testing of the models. And it presents...
Essays on the Great Depression
- ISBN:
- 0691016984
- Authors:
- Ben S. Bernanke
Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and economic performance. Here, Ben Bernanke has gathered together his essays on why the Great Depression was...
SPIN-FREE ECONOMICS
- ISBN:
- 007154903X
- Authors:
- Nariman Behravesh
With technology and globalization advancing at breakneck speed, the world economy becomes more complex by the day. Activists, politicians, and media enablers—conservative and liberal, left and right, informed and just plain wrong—consistently seize this opportunity to present woefully simplistic explanations and hype the latest myths regarding issues affecting the economy. Their purpose is not to educate but to advocate and, in many cases...
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy
- ISBN:
- 0071592997
- Authors:
- Hyman Minsky
“Mr. Minsky long argued markets were crisis prone. His 'moment' has arrived.” - The Wall Street Journal In his seminal work, Minsky presents his groundbreaking financial theory of investment, one that is startlingly relevant today. He explains why the American economy has experienced periods of debilitating inflation, rising unemployment, and marked slowdowns-and why the economy is now undergoing a credit crisis that he foresaw. Stabilizing...
Postharvest Handling, Second Edition: A Systems Approach (Food Science and Technology)
- ISBN:
- 0123741122
Consideration of the interactions between decisions made at one point in the supply chain and its effects on the subsequent stages is the core concept of a systems approach. Postharvest Handling is unique in its application of this systems approach to the handling of fruits and vegetables, exploring multiple aspects of this important process through chapters written by experts from a variety of backgrounds. Newly updated and revised, this second...
Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution (Handbooks in Finance)
- ISBN:
- 0123742587
The models of portfolio selection and asset price dynamics in this volume seek to explain the market dynamics of asset prices. Presenting a range of analytical, empirical, and numerical techniques as well as several different modeling approaches, the authors depict the state of debate on the market selection hypothesis. By explicitly assuming the heterogeneity of investors, they present models that are descriptive and normative as well, making...
Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
- ISBN:
- 0192802186
- Authors:
- James Fulcher
This Introduction explores the origins of capitalism and questions whether it did indeed originate in Europe. It examines a distinctive stage in the development of capitalism that began in the 1980s, in order to understand where we are now and how capitalism has evolved since. The book discusses the crisis tendencies of capitalism--including the S.E. Asian banking crisis, the collapse of the Russian economy, and the 1997-1998 global financial...
Natural Computing in Computational Finance (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
- ISBN:
- 3540774769
"Natural Computing in Computational Finance" is a innovative volume containing fifteen chapters which illustrate cutting-edge applications of natural computing or agent-based modeling in modern computational finance. Following an introductory chapter the book is organized into three sections. The first section deals with optimization applications of natural computing demonstrating the application of a broad range of algorithms from genetic...
Information Technology, Corporate Productivity, and the New Economy
- ISBN:
- 1567204201
- Authors:
- Stephan Kudyba, Romesh Diwan
The authors bring a dual perspective--that of a practicing consultant and that of a professor of economics--to the complex strategic questions facing managers and corporate leaders who want their firms to get the most out of their investments in information technology. The information economy is built upon the myriad and sometimes unforeseen ways in which information technologies have become engines of productivity in themselves, rather than...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Global Economics
- ISBN:
- 1592576605
- Authors:
- Craig Hovey, Gregory Rehmke
Think outside the borders. Global economics affects every aspect of our lives. Free trade agreements, tariffs, terrorism, trade deficits, international debt, global warming, OPEC, outsourcing, and sweat shops are just some of the forces driving our world, food supply, jobs, and future. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Global Economics provides the key to understanding the various facts, figures, policies, and practices that offer insight into...
Who Pays for Bank Insolvency?
- ISBN:
- 140391740X
How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means of resolving any future banking crises. It shows how political imperatives and legal constraints currently result in economic losses in many countries round the world.
Quality Beyond Six Sigma
- ISBN:
- 0750655615
Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect performance that is a statistical target of operating with no more that 3.4 defects per one million chances. Six sigma has both created avid interest and raised concerns among executives and its practioners. This is all very well for multinationals like Motorola or General Electric but how can it help small and medium-sized enterprises or the service industry? How do you ensure that...