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  • Diminishing Returns at Work

    The Consequences of Long Working Hours

    by John H. Pencavel ...
    The relationship between the number of hours worked and productivity has long fascinated economists and management. It is a central component of the production function that translates inputs to outputs. While increasing the number of hours someone works may increase output, this incisive book demonstrates that there are diminishing returns to long working hours. John H. Pencavel provides an ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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    Competition, Conflict, Crises

    by Anwar Shaikh ...
    Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by ... Read more

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  • Budgetary Policy Modelling

    Public Expenditures

    Edited by Pantelis Capros, Daniele Meulders ...
    Series series Routledge New International Studies in Economic Modelling
    The focus of this volume is on the European context of public budget policy and a variety of different approaches are used - theoretical modelling, econometrics and applied general equilibrium modelling. Empirical evidence and case studies of European countries are contained in all the papers.The papers cover the four general themes of public budget policy:* economic stabilization, in view of the ... Read more

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  • Commodity Modeling and Pricing

    Methods for Analyzing Resource Market Behavior

    by Peter V. Schaeffer ...
    Series Book 514 - Wiley Finance
    Commodity Modeling and Pricing provides extensions and applications of state-of-the-art methods for analyzing resource commodity behavior. Drawing from the seminal work of Professor Walter Labys on the development of econometric methods for forecasting commodity prices, this collection of essays features expert contributors ranging from practitioners in private industry, public sector, and ... Read more

    $80.00 USD

  • Understanding Japanese Savings

    Does Population Aging Matter?

    by Robert Dekle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    Japan's savings are among the highest in the world, and these high rates have played a valuable role throughout the post-war period. However, over the next several decades, Japan's population will be ageing rapidly. Will this lower Japanese savings rates?Using up-to-date financial and demographical data, author Robert Dekle finds that the answer to this question is an emphatic 'yes'. Understanding ... Read more

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  • Monetary Policy and Unemployment

    The US, Euro-area and Japan

    by Willi Semmler ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti.One of the main aims of the conference was to discuss what potential role monetary policy has on economic activity and unemployment reduction in three key currency ... Read more

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  • Myth and Measurement

    The New Economics of the Minimum Wage - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

    by David Card, David Card, Alan B. Krueger, Alan B. Krueger ...
    From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wageDavid Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis

    Including Applications in Science and Technology

    by M. Granger Morgan ...
    Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools or problem framings. Using examples, many of which involve issues in science and technology, the book exposes readers to some of the ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector

    And Other Black Holes of Risk

    by William Leiss ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Risk Management
    In the past two years, the world has experienced how unsound economic practices can disrupt global economic and social order. Today’s volatile global financial situation highlights the importance of managing risk and the consequences of poor decision making.The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector reveals an underlying paradox of risk management: the better we become at assessing risks, the more we ... Read more

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  • Business Cycles

    by Lars Tvede ...
    Why do we experience business cycles? What creates them? Is it mass psychology, or phenomena in the management of business? Are the banks to blame or should we be looking to the unions and the politicians? Lars Tvede's story moves back in time to the Scottish gambler and financial genius, John Law, and then on to the distracted Adam Smith, the stockbroker Ricardo, the investment banker Thornton, ... Read more

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  • Agent-Based Modelling in Economics

    by Lynne Hamill, Nigel Gilbert ...
    Agent-based modelling in economicsLynne Hamill and Nigel Gilbert, Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS), University of Surrey, UKNew methods of economic modelling have been sought as a result of the global economic downturn in 2008.This unique book highlights the benefits of an agent-based modelling (ABM) approach. It demonstrates how ABM can easily handle complexity: heterogeneous ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Macroeconomics

    The Development of Modern Methods for Policy Analysis

    by William Scarth ...
    This important textbook offers a comprehensive look into the two main traditions in contemporary macroeconomics –- New Classical and Keynesian –- and examines the work of economists who have drawn on principles from both traditions to form a new, integrated approach known as New Neoclassical Synthesis. Importantly, this provides the theoretical foundation for much of current mainstream economics ... Read more

    $41.39 USD