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  • Antifragility of Islamic Finance

    The Risk-Sharing Alternative

    by Umar Rafi, Abbas Mirakhor ...
    Series Book 1 - Finance, FinTech, and Crowdfunding in Islam
    Antifragility of Islamic Finance: The Risk-Sharing Alternative explains how risk-sharing, as defined under Islamic finance, makes financial systems antifragile. It highlights the benefits of 100% equity-based finance over debt-based finance.The recent financial crisis has given rise to discussions on a new approach to risk management called antifragility. This concept specifies conditions under ... Read more

    $132.09 CAD

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  • The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

    The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

    by George Soros ...
    In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The End of Theory

    Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction

    by Richard Bookstaber ...
    An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial systemOur economy may have recovered from the Great Recession—but not our economics. In The End of Theory, Richard Bookstaber discusses why the human condition and the radical uncertainty of our world renders the standard economic model—and the theory behind it—useless for dealing with financial crises. ... Read more

    Was $49.49 CAD Now $25.29 CAD

  • Book of Value

    The Fine Art of Investing Wisely

    by Anurag Sharma ...
    Financial markets are noisy and full of half-baked opinions, innuendo, and misinformation. With deep insights about investor psychology, Book of Value shows how to apply tools of business analysis to sort through the deceptions and self-deceptions in financial markets. Anurag Sharma joins philosophy with practical know-how to launch an integrated approach to building high-performance stock ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Plight of the Fortune Tellers

    Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently

    by Riccardo Rebonato ...
    Today's top financial professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and puts everyone at risk. In Plight of the Fortune Tellers, Riccardo Rebonato forcefully argues that we must restore genuine decision making to our financial planning. Presenting a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis for Project Appraisal

    by Per-Olov Johansson, Bengt Kriström ...
    Written by two leading experts, this is a compact guide to the key tools and methods necessary to carry out cost-benefit analysis (CBA). The authors use modern economic tools to obtain general equilibrium cost-benefit rules that can be used to evaluate small projects, as well as large and even mega projects. Intertemporal issues like discounting, the shadow price of capital, and the treatment of ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Essentials of Advanced Macroeconomic Theory

    by Ola Olsson ...
    Series series Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance
    Trying to summarize the essentials of macroeconomic theory in the wake of the financial crisis that has shaken not only Western economies but also the macroeconomic profession is no easy task. In particular, the notion that markets are self-correcting and always in equilibrium appears to have taken a heavy blow. However, the jury is still out on which areas should be considered as failures and ... Read more

    $193.75 CAD

  • Microeconomic Theory second edition

    Concepts and Connections

    by Michael Wetzstein ...
    This book introduces the main concepts of microeconomics to upper division undergraduate students or first year graduate students who have undergone at least one elementary calculus course. The book fully integrates graphical and mathematical concepts and offers over 150 analytical examples demonstrating numerical solutions.The book has a strong theoretical basis but shows how microeconomics can ... Read more

    $182.75 CAD

  • Microeconomics

    Optimization, Experiments, and Behavior

    by John P. Burkett ...
    In this book, John P. Burkett presents microeconomics as an evolving science, interacting with mathematics, psychology, and other disciplines and offering solutions to a growing range of practical problems. The book shows how early contributors such as Xenophon, Ibn Khaldun, and David Hume posed the normative and positive questions central to microeconomics. It expounds constrained optimization ... Read more

    $102.39 CAD

  • Price Theory

    by Milton Friedman ...
    Economics is sometimes divided into two parts: positive economics and normative economics. The former deals with how the economic problem is solved, while the latter deals with how the economic problem should be solved. The effects of price or rent control on the distribution of income are problems of positive economics. The desirability of these effects on income distribution is a problem of ... Read more

    Was $97.99 CAD Now $86.56 CAD

  • Bubbleology

    The Amazing Science of Stock Market Bubbles

    by Kevin Hassett ...
    Series Book 3 - Crown Business Briefings
    Is that a financial bubble—or the next great investment? Learn how to tell the difference with this brilliant, practical, and original analysis of the stock market that challenges conventional wisdom—from the director of the White House National Economic Council.There are only two types of stocks: those safe from bubbles and those that are not. This is a fact of investing many discovered as they ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Incentives

    Motivation and the Economics of Information

    by Donald E. Campbell ...
    When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective, and institutional standpoints. This third edition is fully updated and expanded, including a new section on the 2007–08 financial crisis and a new chapter on networks as well as ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD