Resultaten gefilterd op "Stanford Economics and Finance"

The Economics of Excess

Harold Winter

• Paperback | Engels
• The Economics of Excess discusses both standard and behavioral economics as they apply to addiction, indulgence, and social policy. Chapter One provid... Lees meer

Beyond Reforms

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• This collection presents the difficult challenges of the new economic era as well as a set of alternative economic policies to manage the open Latin A... Lees meer

New Industries from New Places

Neil Gregory, Stanley Nollen, Stoyan Tenev

• Hardcover | Engels | World Bank East Asia
• Over the past 15 years, the twin giants of Asia-China and India-have jumped on the opportunity provided by the IT revolution to turbocharge their econ... Lees meer

Judaism in Transition

Carmel U Chiswick

• Paperback | Engels
• At the core of Judaism stands a body of traditions that have remained consistent over millennia. Yet, the practice of these rituals has varied widely ... Lees meer

WTF?!

Peter T Leeson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Step right up! Get your tickets for WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird ! This rollicking tour through a museum of the world's weirdest practices is g... Lees meer

Owens Valley Revisited

Gary D Libecap

• Paperback | Engels
• In the contemporary West, pressures to more effectively reallocate water to meet growing urban and environmental demands are increasing as environment... Lees meer

Reframing Finance

Ashby Monk, Rajiv Sharma, Duncan L Sinclair

• Hardcover | Engels
• Since the 2008 financial crisis, beneficiary organizations--like pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and foundations--have been seeking... Lees meer

All I Want Is a Job!

Mary Gatta

• Hardcover | Engels
• In All I Want Is a Job! , Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as ... Lees meer

The World Under Pressure

Carl Dahlman

• Paperback | Engels
• The rapid rise of China and India is reshaping our global economic and environmental systems--raising major issues of stability, governance, and susta... Lees meer

Homer Economicus

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Homer Economicus a cast of lively contributors takes a field trip to Springfield, where the Simpsons reveal that economics is everywhere. By explor... Lees meer

Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives

Stephen F Befort, John W Budd

• Paperback | Engels
• The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulate... Lees meer

Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?

Nathan W Schlueter, Nikolai G Wenzel

• Paperback | Engels
• In Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives? , Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G. Wenzel present a lively debate over the essential questions ... Lees meer

Introductory Econometrics

Jeffrey Zax

• Hardcover | Engels
• Introductory Econometrics: Intuition, Proof, and Practice attempts to distill econometrics into a form that preserves its essence, but that is accepta... Lees meer

Essays on Philosophy, Politics & Economics

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume brings together distinguished philosophers with interdisciplinary expertise to show how the resources of philosophy can be employed in the... Lees meer

Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization

Augusto De La Torre, Sergio Schmukler

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging ec... Lees meer

Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health , editors Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie Zissim... Lees meer

Breakdown in Pakistan

Masooda Bano

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book draws on rich ethnographic and survey data from Pakistan to present a systematic analysis of why individuals come together to produce collec... Lees meer

Your Money and Your Life

Robert Aliber

• Hardcover | Engels
• Your financial health is more than a mere collection of debits and credits on a balance sheet. In fact, the numbers on a financial statement represent... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Environmental Justice

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is the first book-length examination of environmental justice from the perspective of economics. A cast of top contributors evaluates why underpr... Lees meer

The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Economics & Finance
• This collection of essays explores the most relevant developments at the interface of economics and psychology, giving special attention to models of ... Lees meer

Pollution Limits and Polluters' Efforts to Comply

Dietrich H Earnhart, Robert L Glicksman

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA). It... Lees meer

The Not So Wild, Wild West

Terry L Anderson, Peter J Hill

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Economics & Finance
• Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, The Not So Wild, Wild West casts A... Lees meer

All I Want Is a Job!

Mary Gatta

• Paperback | Engels
• In All I Want Is a Job! , Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as ... Lees meer

Under New Ownership

Shahid Yusuf, Dwight H Perkins, Kaoru Nabeshima

• Paperback | Engels
• Although the relative size of the public sector has been much reduced worldwide since the early 1980s, it remains the dominant borrower from the banki... Lees meer