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  • A Safety Valve Model of Equity as Anti-opportunism

    by Kenneth Ayotte, Ezra Friedman, Henry E. Smith ...
    Series series Elements in Law, Economics and Politics
    Equity can be defined as the use of a more flexible, morally judgmental, and subjective mode of legal decision making that roughly corresponds with historical equity. This Element presents a simple contracting model that captures the role of equity as a safety valve, and shows how it can solve problems posed by opportunists–agents with unusual willingness and ability to take advantage of necessary ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Irrational Exuberance

    Revised and Expanded Third Edition

    by Robert J. Shiller ...
    Why the irrational exuberance of investors hasn't disappeared since the financial crisisIn this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008–9 financial crisis. With high stock and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • The New Financial Order

    Risk in the 21st Century

    by Robert J. Shiller ...
    In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts us from more durable economic prospects. These lie in the hidden potential of real assets, such as income ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    A History of Financial Crises

    by Nicholas Burton ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and they know that the financial crashes that result from them are capable of destroying individuals' ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Austrian School for Investors

    by Rahim Taghizadegan, Ronald Stöferle, Mark Valek, Hans Blasnik ...
    Insanity seems to rule the financial markets and many investors are driven by delusion and anxiety. May everything you thought you knew about investing be wrong?The Austrian School's approach provides the needed respite for investors caught in inflationary treadmills.Conventional investment experts often overlook economic developments which may become a hazard for mainstream investors. Instead, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Maynard Keynes

    by Hyman P. Minsky ...
    “Today, Mr. Minsky's view [of economics] is more relevant than ever.”- The New York Times“Indeed, the Minsky moment has become a fashionable catch phrase on Wall Street.”-The Wall Street JournalJohn Maynard Keynes offers a timely reconsideration of the work of the revered economics icon. Hyman Minsky argues that what most economists consider Keynesian economics is at odds with the major points of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Money Problem

    Rethinking Financial Regulation

    by Morgan Ricks ...
    An "intriguing plan" addressing shadow banking, regulation, and the continuing quest for financial stability ( Financial Times).Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a "public" or "private" activity—or both? What do we ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Specialization and Trade

    A Re-introduction to Economics

    by Arnold Kling ...
    Since the end of the second World War, economics professors and classroom textbooks have been telling us that the economy is one big machine that can be effectively regulated by economic experts and tuned by government agencies like the Federal Reserve Board. It turns out they were wrong. Their equations do not hold up. Their policies have not produced the promised results. Their interpretations ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory

    Investing That Matters

    by Jon Lukomnik, James P. Hawley ...
    Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized the investing world and the real economy, but is now showing its age. MPT has no mechanism to understand its impacts on the environmental, social and financial systems, nor any tools for investors to mitigate the havoc that systemic risks can wreck on their portfolios. ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

    by Nicholas Burton ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Burton Malkiel’s 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since, Malkiel’s text remains an indispensable contribution to the world of investment strategy – one that continues to cause controversy among investment professionals today.At the book’s heart lies a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Beyond Mechanical Markets

    Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State

    by Roman Frydman, Michael D. Goldberg ...
    A powerful challenge to contemporary economics and a new agenda for global financeIn the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of the market rest on the same fatal assumption—that ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Austrian Economics, Money and Finance

    by Thomas Mayer ...
    Series series Banking, Money and International Finance
    The financial crisis has exposed severe shortcomings in mainstream monetary economics and modern finance. It is surprising that these shortcomings have not led to a wider debate about the need to overhaul these theories. Instead, mainstream economists have closed ranks to defend existing theories and public authorities have expanded their interference in markets.This book investigates the problems ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD