http://www.freebookspot.es Latest books added today en-us http://www.freebookspot.es/logorss.jpg http://www.freebookspot.es 160 43 http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=383938 This book integrates the fundamentals of monetary theory, monetary policy theory and financial market theory, providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the many-sided interrelations between these fields of research. It provides the reader with the intellectual groundwork indispensable for understanding the workings and interactions of today’s globalised financial markets. The topics addressed in this book include, inter alia, alternative money supply regimes, money demand functions, monetary policy transmission, monetary policy effectiveness and the natural rate of unemployment, monetary political business cycles, and monetary policy strategies. Basic valuation models for stocks, and bonds and asset price linkages across currency areas are covered as well. Illustrated by carefully chosen examples and supported by extensive data analyses, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview about the ever-expanding theoretical and quantitative fields of monetary and financial economics. Read more...
]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 22:08:38 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=383603 Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war-a war waged against our children and others who create and consume art. Copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting artists' creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works. In fact, our system now criminalises those very actions. By embracing "read-write culture," which allows its users to create art as readily as they consume it, we can ensure that creators get the support-artistic, commercial, and ethical-that they deserve and need. Indeed, we can already see glimmers of a new hybrid economy that combines the profit motives of traditional business with the "sharing economy" evident in such websites as Wikipedia and YouTube. Read more...
]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 07:38:17 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=383593 George Borjas well-received text blends coverage of traditional topics with modern theory and developments into a superb Labor economics book. His integration of theory with facts and coverage of latest research make his book one of the most popular at the middle and upper end of the market. Read more...
]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 07:21:06 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=383556 A riveting indictment of those responsible for our current financial mess.Bailout Nation offers one of the clearest looks at the financial lenders, regulators, and politicians responsible for the financial crisis of 2008. Read more...
]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 23:48:06 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=383332 Mit der drohenden Staatspleite einzelner Lander hat der Traum von der Europaischen Wahrungsunion seinen Glanz eingebu?t und seine Risiken offenbart. Angela Merkels Diktum „Scheitert der Euro, dann scheitert Europa“ versucht die Wahrungsfrage in einen gro?eren Zusammenhang zu stellen. Das tut auch Thilo Sarrazin in seinem neuen Buch, aber auf andere Weise und mit anderen Ergebnissen. Er zeichnet die verheerenden Resultate politischen Wunschdenkens nach und stellt die Debatte vom Kopf auf die Fu?e. Read more...
]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 14:02:15 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=383323 Der Niedergang des Westens wird seit langem vorausgesagt. Doch heute sind die Symptome dieses Niedergangs nicht mehr zu ubersehen: nachlassendes Wachstum, explodierende Staatsschulden, zunehmende Ungleichheit, alternde Bevolkerungen, auseinanderbrechende Sozialgefuge. Aber was genau lauft falsch? Die Antwort sieht Niall Ferguson im Verfall jener vier Saulen, auf denen einst die Weltherrschaft des Westens ruhte: reprasentative Demokratie, freie Marktwirtschaft, Rechtsstaat, Zivilgesellschaft. In seinem klugen, hochaktuellen Buch beschreibt er diesen Verfall und beschwort die westlichen Gesellschaften, sich auf die Kraft dieser vier Saulen zu besinnen. Denn wahrend der Westen verfallt, betreiben einst diktatorische Regime Asiens und der Dritten Welt unter dem Druck der Globalisierung den Ausbau rechtsstaatlicher Strukturen, offnen ihre Markte und bewegen sich auf eine Zivilgesellschaft nach westlichem Muster zu. Will der Westen in der neuen globalen Machtverteilung weiterhin erfolgreich mitspielen, muss er, so Ferguson, dem Niedergang der Institutionen, die ihn machtig, reich und frei gemacht haben, entgegenwirken und sie wieder zu effizienten Tragern westlicher Macht ausbauen. Read more...
]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 13:34:27 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=383181 A concise text focusing on core concepts, MICROECONOMICS FOR TODAY includes a wealth of use pedagogical features to provide opportunities for critical thinking, interactive reading, and built-in self-assessment. It also aids the visual learner by giving special attention to figures and graphs. Read more...
]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 07:49:24 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382682 In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update. Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet. Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth. While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes. In many ways, the message contained in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a warning. Overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse. But, as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still Read more...
]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 09:49:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382643 A century after the publication of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures. Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots. Via an unprecedented analysis of management texts which influenced the thinking of employers and contributed to reorganization of companies over the last decades, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. From the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a new network-based form of organization which was founded on employee initiative and relative work autonomy, but at the cost of material and psychological security. This new spirit of capitalism triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the “artistic critique”—that which, after May 1968, attacked the alienation of everyday life by capitalism and bureaucracy. At the same time, the “social critique” was disarmed by the appearance of neocapitalism and remained fixated on the old schemas of hierarchical production. This book, remarkable for its scope and ambition, seeks to lay the basis for a revival of these two complementary critiques. Read more...
]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 07:56:16 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382631 Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) is a new discipline of economics, largely grounded on concepts like evolution, auto-organisation and emergence: it intensively uses computer simulations as well as artificial intelligence, mostly based on multi-agents systems. The purpose of this book is to give an up-to date view of the scientific production in the fields of Agent-based Computational Economics (mainly in Market Finance and Game Theory). Based on communications given at AE'2005 (Lille, USTL, France), this book offers a wide panorama of recent advances in ACE (both theoretical and methodological) that will interest academics as well as practitioners. Read more...
]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 07:34:59 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382498 Now updated! Your expert guide to building a profitable stock portfolio Want to make money in stocks without losing your shirt? This practical guide gives you proven strategies for weathering the current economic crisis and for selecting and managing profitable investments in either a bear or bull market. You'll navigate the new economic landscape and choose the right stocks for different situations — and you'll find fresh real-world examples that show you how to maximize your returns. Get started with the basics — understand stock value, assess your finances, set your investing goals, and know your investing style Recognize the risks — explore different kinds of risk and weigh risk against return Make informed investing decisions — research stocks, understand growth and income investing, and use basic economics to improve your stock strategy Build a strong foundation for your portfolio — investigate industries, evaluate a company's financial health, and understand the effect of politics/government on stock investing Capitalize on emerging sector opportunities — from precious metals to alternative energy, discover the hot sectors that will make your portfolio thrive Build (and hold on to) your wealth — get expert tips and tactics for utilizing brokerage orders, buying with fewer costs, and keeping the taxman at bay Open the book and find: The differences between stock investing and trading How to understand and use indexes The va Read more...
]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 21:47:20 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382496 The only crisis of capitalism is capitalism itself. Let's toss credit default swaps, bailouts, environmental externalities and, while we're at it, private ownership of production in the dustbin of history. The Accumulation of Freedom brings together economists, historians, theorists, and activists for a first-of-its-kind study of anarchist economics. The editors aren't trying to subvert the notion of economics—they accept the standard definition, but reject the notion that capitalism or central planning are acceptable ways to organize economic life. Contributors include Robin Hahnel, Iain McKay, Marie Trigona, Chris Spannos, Ernesto Aguilar, Uri Gordon, and more. Read more...
]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:06 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382489 A controversial call to break up the Eurozone and stop the debt crisis. First, there was the credit crunch, and governments around the world stepped in to bail out the banks. The sequel to that debacle is the sovereign debt crisis, which has hit the eurozone hard. The hour has come to pay the piper, and ordinary citizens across Europe are growing to realize that socialism for the wealthy means punching a few new holes in their already-tightened belts. Building on his work as a leading member of the renowned Research on Money and Finance group, Costas Lapavitsas argues that European austerity is counterproductive. Cutbacks in public spending will mean a longer, deeper recession, worsen the burden of debt, further imperil banks, and may soon spell the end of monetary union itself. Crisis in the Eurozone charts a cautious path between political economy and radical economics to envisage a restructuring reliant on the forces of organized labour and civil society. The clear-headed rationalism at the heart of this book conveys a controversial message, unwelcome in many quarters but soon to be echoed across the continent: impoverished states have to quit the euro and cut their losses or worse hardship will ensue. Read more...
]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 21:13:16 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382355 Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, yet also differentiated from and compared to the other two theories. The authors identify each theory's starting point, its goals and foci, and its internal logic. They connect their comparative theory analysis to the larger policy issues that divide the rival camps of theorists around such central issues as the role government should play in the economy and the class structure of production, stressing the different analytical, policy, and social decisions that flow from each theory's conceptualization of economics. The authors, building on their earlier book Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical, offer an expanded treatment of Keynesian economics and a comprehensive introduction to Marxian economics, including its class analysis of society. Beyond providing a systematic explanation of the logic and structure of standard neoclassical theory, they analyze recent extensions and developments of that theory around such topics as market imperfections, information economics, new theories of equilibrium, and behavioral economics, considering whether these advances represent new paradigms or merely adjustments to the standard theory. They also explain why economic reasoning has varied among these three approaches throughout the twentieth century, and why this variati Read more...
]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 12:57:38 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382328 It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions. However, Leonard Savage the inventor of Bayesian decision theory argued that it would be ridiculous to use his theory outside the kind of small world in which it is always possible to "look before you leap." If taken seriously, this view makes Bayesian decision theory inappropriate for the large worlds of scientific discovery and macroeconomic enterprise. When is it correct to use Bayesian decision theory and when does it need to be modified? Using a minimum of mathematics, Rational Decisions clearly explains the foundations of Bayesian decision theory and shows why Savage restricted the theory's application to small worlds. The book is a wide-ranging exploration of standard theories of choice and belief under risk and uncertainty. Ken Binmore discusses the various philosophical attitudes related to the nature of probability and offers resolutions to paradoxes believed to hinder further progress. In arguing that the Bayesian approach to knowledge is inadequate in a large world, Binmore proposes an extension to Bayesian decision theory allowing the idea of a mixed strategy in game theory to be expanded to a larger set of what Binmore refers to as "muddled" strategies. Written by one of the world's leading game theorists, Rational Decisions is the touchstone for anyone needing a concise, accessible, and expert view on Bayesian decision making. Read more...
]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 12:40:31 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382302 Das neue Buch des gro?en Rebellen Stephane Hessel Was in seinen beiden Aufrufen Emport Euch! und Engagiert Euch! naturgema? knapp ausfiel und wegen der direkten Ansprache nicht vertieft werden konnte, findet in "An die Emporten dieser Erde!" nun seinen notwendigen Unterbau. Da hinter Hessels Appellen ein ganzes Leben an Engagement, an Erfahrung, an Empathie und tiefem Nachdenken steht, entfalten seine Thesen ihren Reichtum und ihre Uberzeugungskraft am deutlichsten im Dialog mit den Adressaten. Diesen Dialog bildet das vorliegende Buch ab und erschlie?t somit sehr konkret das Denkgebaude des Stephane Hessel: Was bedeutet Emporung, was Engagement angesichts einer zu gestaltenden Weltgesellschaft, auf deren Schwelle wir stehen? Angesichts des Arabischen Fruhlings, der Griechenlandkrise, der Arbeitslosigkeit in Spanien und der globalen Markte? Wie soll es im Sinne einer Erziehung zu Mitgefuhl und globaler Verantwortung weitergehen? In einer Zeit der Sinnsuche und des Werteverlustes findet Stephane Hessel millionenfach Gehor – ganz besonders bei der Jugend dieser Welt. Mit seinen 94 Jahren zeigt Stephane Hessel, dass Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft keineswegs von Alter, sondern von Bewusstsein abhangt. Er ubernimmt Verantwortung, wie er es sein Leben lang getan hat, und er versucht andere zu animieren, dies auch zu tun. In einer Zeit der Sinnsuche und des Werteverlustes findet er dabei millionenfach Gehor – ganz besonders bei der Jugend dieser Welt. In seiner „Zurcher Rede“, im Dial Read more...
]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 11:34:54 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=382256 A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts brings together a distinguished group of contributors to initiate the development of a comprehensive and fully integrated set of United States national accounts. The purpose of the new architecture is not only to integrate the existing systems of accounts, but also to identify gaps and inconsistencies and expand and incorporate systems of nonmarket accounts with the core system. Since the United States economy accounts for almost thirty percent of the world economy, it is not surprising that accounting for this huge and diverse set of economic activities requires a decentralized statistical system. This volume outlines the major assignments among institutions that include the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Department of Labor, the Census Bureau, and the Governors of the Federal Reserve System. An important part of the motivation for the new architecture is to integrate the different components and make them consistent. This volume is the first step toward achieving that goal. Read more...
]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 07:50:00 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381930 Why do oil and diamonds lead to economic disaster more often than boom? Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine? Why might believing in God be good for your balance-sheet? In 2001 Argentina's government bankrupted itself, yet for the past two hundred years it had enjoyed a vista of economic opportunity almost identical to that of the USA. Why did the USA succeed while Argentina stalled? Botswana and Sierra Leone are both blessed with abundant diamonds. Why did Botswana became the world's fastest-growing economy while Sierra Leone suffered a decade of brutal civil war? The path to prosperity is rarely obvious and the sources of success are often unexpected. Time and again, world leaders have failed to learn the lessons of economic history, and their mistakes continue to have surprising and catastrophic consequences. In False Economy, Alan Beattie uses extraordinary stories of economic triumph and disaster to explain how some countries went wrong while others went right, and why it's so difficult to change course once you're on the path to ruin. Read more...
]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 07:23:27 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381906 This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, Part 1begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th century to the present. Part 3 looks to the future and considers what the shape of the world economy might be in 2030. Combining both the close quantitative analysis with a more qualitative approach that takes into account the complexity of the forces at work, Contours of the World Economy provides students with a totally fascinating overview of world economic history. Read more...
]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 06:35:59 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381890 With the shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics the focus is no longer the Heartland or the Rimland, or any coherent geographical region, but the set of all geographical locations containing economically-important natural resources, what we shall call the Nareland (Natural Resource Lands). This new logic of dispersed geographical locations marks the shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics. The centre stage has been taken over by the private-sector organization, the corporation. This means that power has been transferred from the public to the private sphere. It means that the nation state is ceding its power to individuals – less in some countries and more in others, for instance less in Sweden than in the USA but the trend is clear, and it is global Read more...
]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 01:35:01 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381853 In this outstanding essay, as terse as it is clear and challenging, French political economist Attali, adviser to Francois Mitterand, contends that "only a radical transformation of American society" can prevent Europe and Japan from supplanting the U.S. in global supremacy. The author, president of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, further charges that the decline of the U.S. is rooted in a "cult of immediate gratification" as opposed to the long-term vision of the Japanese. His "musings," seamlessly translated by Conners and Gardels, envision life in a post-Cold War, pluralistic, technology- and market-dominated society. Economic growth must be environmentally sound, he warns, and balanced by social justice adopted by underdeveloped, overpopulated nations. Finally, he counsels, the U.N. must win truly international authority to settle global problems. Read more...
]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 23:30:10 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381842 GARY ALLEN was one of America's premier investigative reporters, writing primarily about the uses and abuses of great wealth and power. He was a Contributing Editor of American Opinion magazine for more than two decades, where over 200 of his article appeared. His eight previous books include: NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY, TED KENNEDY: IN OVER HIS HEAD. Millions of copies of his books have been sold. He finished the manuscript for SAY "NO" TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER shortly before his death in November 1986. Read more...
]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 22:36:59 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381839 The story you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed to protect the guilty. This book may have the effect of changing your life. After reading this book you will never look at national and world events in the same way again. None Dare Call It Conspiracy will be a very controversial book. At first it will receive little publicity and those whose plans are exposed in it will try to kill it by the silent treatment. For reasons that become obvious as you read this book, it will not be reviewed in all the "proper" places or be available on your local bookstand. Read more...
]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 22:22:08 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381582 Can economics help one lose weight? How does an emissions trading scheme work? Why are bananas so expensive? What really goes on inside the federal budget lock up? How can one spot a zombie bank? Why do boy bands make so much money? From asylum seekers to bananas, this book uses fun facts to get to the heart of some of the biggest political and economic debates. Part economics lesson, part quirky observation on modern life, this collection of easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets of factual goodness will help transform even the most economically illiterate person into an insightful commentator at their next work drinks or weekend barbeque. Read more...
]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 10:47:49 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381250 Product Description: This text makes accessible the most important methodological advances in bond evaluation from the past twenty years. With uncommon precision and a strong emphasis on the underlying economic fundamentals, Olivier de La Grandville presents a unified framework for understanding the basic tools of bond evaluation, including duration, convexity, and immunization. Among the book's most valuable contributions is a general immunization theorem that can be used by practitioners to protect investors against any change in the structure of spot interest rates. Also of note is the detailed presentation of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model and a discussion of its relationships with classical immunization schemes. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions, problem sets, and projects detailed solutions to all of them appear at the end of the book. Although the treatment is thorough and rigorous, the presentation throughout the book is intuitive. Read more...
]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 09:14:58 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381246 Product Description: Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate as well as business school students. This text is the first to provide both a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety of real-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business, political science, and the law. Strategies and Games grew out of Prajit Dutta's experience teaching a course in game theory over the last six years at Columbia University. The book is divided into three parts: Strategic Form Games and Their Applications, Extensive Form Games and Their Applications, and Asymmetric Information Games and Their Applications. The theoretical topics include dominance solutions, Nash equilibrium, backward induction, subgame perfect equilibrium, repeated games, dynamic games, Bayes-Nash equilibrium, mechanism design, auction theory, and signaling. An appendix presents a thorough discussion of single-agent decision theory, as well as the optimization and probability theory required for the course. Every chapter that introduces a new theoretical concept opens with examples and ends with a case study. Case studies include Global Warming and the Internet, Poison Pills, Treasury Bill Auctions, and Final Jeopardy. Each part of the book also contains several chapter-length applications including Bankruptcy Law, the NASDAQ market, OPEC, and the Commons problem. This is also the first text to provide a detailed analysis of dynamic strategic interaction. Read more...
]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 08:57:51 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381143 During a 1999 protest of the World Trade Organization, Rivoli, an economics professor at Georgetown, looked on as an activist seized the microphone and demanded, "Who made your T-shirt?" Rivoli determined to find out. She interviewed cotton farmers in Texas, factory workers in China, labor champions in the American South and used-clothing vendors in Tanzania. Problems, Rivoli concludes, arise not with the market, but with the suppression of the market. Subsidized farmers, and manufacturers and importers with tax breaks, she argues, succeed because they avoid the risks and competition of unprotected global trade, which in turn forces poorer countries to lower their prices to below subsistence levels in order to compete. Rivoli seems surprised by her own conclusions, and while some chapters lapse into academic prose and tedious descriptions of bureaucratic maneuvering, her writing is at its best when it considers the social dimensions of a global economy Read more...
]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 22:30:59 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381089 An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and doesn’t—that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008. The founding fathers expected Congress to be the most important branch of government and gave it the most power. When Congress is broken—as its justifiably dismal approval ratings suggest—so is our democracy. Here, Robert G. Kaiser, whose long and distinguished career at The Washington Post has made him as keen and knowledgeable an observer of Congress as we have, takes us behind the sound bites to expose the protocols, players, and politics of the House and Senate—revealing both the triumphs of the system and (more often) its fundamental flaws. Act of Congress tells the story of the Dodd-Frank Act, named for the two men who made it possible: Congressman Barney Frank, brilliant and sometimes abrasive, who mastered the details of financial reform, and Senator Chris Dodd, who worked patiently for months to fulfill his vision of a Senate that could still work on a bipartisan basis. Both Frank and Dodd collaborated with Kaiser throughout their legislative efforts and allowed their staffs to share every step of the drafting and deal making that produced the 1,500-page law that transformed America’s financial sector. Kaiser explains how lobbying affects a bill—or fails to. We follow staff members more influential than most senators and congressmen. We see how Congress members prote Read more...
]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 19:50:16 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381061 Fernando Vega-Redondo's self-contained account of the main contributions of modern game theory and its applications to economics starts with a detailed description of how to model strategic situations. The discussion proceeds by studying basic solution concepts and their main refinements games played under incomplete information and repeated games. For each of these theoretical developments, the text includes a companion set of applications that cover the most representative instances of game-theoretic analysis in economics. Read more...
]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 17:28:04 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381059 In der Entwicklungspolitik ist viel erreicht. Die Sterblichkeitsrate von Kleinkindern ist erheblich gesunken, die Einschulungsrate erheblich gestiegen, die Lebenserwartung auch. Aber dennoch sterben taglich immer noch ca. 25.000 Menschen, also die Bevolkerung einer Kleinstadt, davon 11.000 Kinder unter funf Jahren, an Hunger oder Folgekrankheiten. Wer uberlebt, ob als Kind oder Erwachsener, ist nicht selten fur sein Leben geschadigt. Im Jahr 2000 hatte die UN-Vollversammlung als Millenniumsziel verkundet, bis 2015 die Zahl der Menschen, die unter Hunger und Armut leiden, zu halbieren. Dieses Ziel wird nicht erreicht. Warum? Asit Datta beschreibt Ursachen und Hintergrunde. Er befasst sich mit dem Regiment von Internationalem Wahrungsfonds und Weltbank, die er die heimlichen Herrscher der Welt nennt, mit der Frage, wie man am besten mit Statistik lugt, und mit der Tatsache, dass fur jeden Euro deutscher Hilfe 1,80 Euro an die deutsche Exportwirtschaft zuruckflie?en. Daruber hinaus zeigt er Wege auf, wie eine nachhaltige Entwicklung beschleunigt werden kann. Read more...
]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 17:24:47 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381002 This third edition of "Straight and Level" thoroughly updates the previous edition with extensive comments on recent industry developments and emerging business models. The discussion is illustrated by current examples drawn from all sectors of the industry and every region of the world. The fundamental structure of earlier editions, now widely used as a framework for air transport management courses, nonetheless remains unchanged. Part 1 of the book provides a strategic context within which to consider the industry's economics. Read more...
]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 13:51:31 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379915 Technological advances and changes in the global economy are increasing the geographic distribution of work in industries as diverse as banking, wine production, and clothing design. Many workers communicate regularly with distant coworkers some monitor and manipulate tools and objects at a distance. Work teams are spread across different cities or countries. Joint ventures and multiorganizational projects entail work in many locations. Two famous examples--the Hudson Bay Company's seventeenth-century fur trading empire and the electronic community that created the original Linux computer operating system--suggest that distributed work arrangements can be flexible, innovative, and highly successful. At the same time, distributed work complicates workers' professional and personal lives. Distributed work alters how people communicate and how they organize themselves and their work, and it changes the nature of employee-employer relationships.This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of distributed work groups and organizations, the challenges inherent in distributed work, and ways to make distributed work more effective. Specific topics include division of labor, incentives, managing group members, facilitating interaction among distant workers, and monitoring performance. The final chapters focus on distributed work in one domain, collaborative scientific research. The contributors include psychologists, cognitive scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, hi Read more...
]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 17:23:34 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379757 Differences over the matter of social change did force on each, classical economics and institutional economics, a different interpretation of the market and of the significance of the market. Read more...
]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 13:35:52 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379637 The world has changed and so too has investing. The market is shell shocked and yesterday's momentum stocks are today's slow-motion stocks. But in the new reality of low-growth investing, commodities are hot and getting hotter. A rapidly industrializing and urbanizing Asia will be demanding lots more copper, zinc, iron ore, coal, fertilizers, gold and oil to transform their societies. Commodities are it and that's great news for investors who want to profit from the next great bull market in commodities. In fact, commodities may be about the only asset class that is likely to outperform the broad market in the future. Although they are without a doubt important to the global economy, commodities are among the most misunderstood of all asset classes. Stocks, bonds and real estate all have legions of followers and plenty of experts agree on their importance within an investment portfolio, but venture into the world of commodities and you are into an area that's intimidating to the average investor, where suspicions run deep and understanding is limited. As a result, commodities get short-shrift in most investment accounts and investors miss out on some important opportunities. The Little Book of Commodity Investing is an indispensible guide to learning the ins and outs of commodity investing. It's about identifying opportunities to profit from the coming bull market in commodities. It explains the benefits of commodities as part of a well diversified investment portfolio Read more...
]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 08:33:45 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379636 Thomas L. Friedman's phenomenal number-one bestseller The World is Flat has helped millions of readers see the world in a new way. In this essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: the global environmental crisis and America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11. It is a groundbreaking account of where we stand now, and he shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked -- how we can restore the world and revive America at the same time. Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world's middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is 'hot, flat, and crowded'. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things -- unless there is a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that Friedman calls Code Green. This is a great challenge, Friedman explains, but also a great opportunity, and one that we cannot afford to miss. He argues that this cannot happen without American commitment and leadership. In vivid, entertaining chapters, Friedman makes it clear that the green revolution we need is like no revolution the world has seen. It will be the biggest innovation project in history it will be hard, not easy and it will change everything, from what you put into your car to what you see on your Read more...
]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 08:30:18 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379624 The news is full of accounts of the rise and fall of economies around the world, but you may not know how these changes can affect your life. 101 Things Everyone Needs to Know about the Global Economy takes the basics of global economics and breaks them into ten straightforward chapters. From the organizations involved and trade imbalances to global risk and foreign investment, Dr. Michael Taillard describes the world markets in terms that you can recognize. You'll also learn how these matters affect the United States and your own financial future. With 101 Things Everyone Needs to Know about the Global Economy, you get the information you need to not only protect your finances, but also reap the benefits of other nations' wealth and resources. Read more...
]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 07:59:04 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379531 In a journey across 2,000 years, this enthralling book written by a leading South Asian historian, describes the ties of trade, migration, and investment between India and the rest of the world, showing how changing patterns of globalization reverberated on economic policy, politics, and political ideology within India. Read more...
]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:30:31 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379463 Two important new developments have occurred that have significant impact on the evolution of econometrics, namely, the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the information revolution in nearly all economies of the world. The information revolution has had significant effect on data flows, making them much more timely, accessible, and descriptive of more parts of the economy. At the same time, it has changed the industrial structure of many economies, giving rise to increasing importance of the tertiary sectors (e.g. services). The new generation of hardware and software enables econometricians to handle larger and more complex problems, especially those that are data intensive and computer intrusive. These major events require reconsideration and redrafting of some of the materials of the original edition. The present volume retains the original structure of "Lectures on Microeconomic Theory" and takes up principles of constructing dynamic macroeconometric models and their use in economic analyses and forecasting, while introducing many updates, revisions and extensions. The description of the econometric methodology has been limited to specific applications of time series analysis, and the title has been changed to "Principles of Macroeconometric Modeling". The first four chapters discuss the principles of specifying equations of structural macromodels, covering both developed marked economies, transition economies and world-wide models. The remaining chapte Read more...
]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 20:58:41 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379443 "The Subversive Job Search isn't just career advice that is thinking outside the box, it's making a whole new box!" Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul and business expert, star of ABC's Shark Tank "Alan's our kind of job hunter: unconventional, determined, and not without a good sense of humor." Josh Abramson, cofounder, CollegeHumor.com "Whether you're out of work or stuck in a dead-end position, The Subversive Job Search offers up advice that can help you improve your standing with a handful of laughs at Alan's expense along the way." Neil Janowitz, Senior editor, Fast Company "Simply put, The Subversive Job Search pays for itself in one sitting. Alan's unique approach to job hunting is perfect for anyone looking for viable next steps to a bigger paycheck." Alexandra Levit, author of They Don't Teach Corporate in College Millionaire real estate investor Alan Corey reinvents himself as a career man after having to go on a job hunt for the first time in 10 years at the worst possible time: during a historic economic depression. As unemployment rates sky rocket, Alan begins his subversive job hunt and details all the loopholes, back doors, and sly techniques it took to go from being hopelessly ignored to being incessantly headhunted. The result: Alan was able to land an entry level $40,000 salary day job and turn it into a $190,000 a year career just 24 months later. The Subversive Job Search details how you can do it too. Show less Read more...
]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 20:22:20 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379439 Product Description: This handbook’s aim is to assist national human rights institutions in the development of policies, processes and skills to integrate economic, social and cultural rights further into their work. It examines ways in which national institutions’ legal mandates can be interpreted to these rights within their jurisdictions and how their functions and powers can be exercised more appropriately in their regard. Read more...
]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 20:19:26 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379431 Writing Grant Proposals That Win, Fourth Edition Offers Step-By-Step Instructions And Clear Examples Of How To Write Winning Grant Proposals. It Offers Practical Guidance On How To: ? Express The Need For The Project. ? Describe Objectives And Activities. ? Outline An Evaluation Plan. ? Create A Workable Project Budget. The Fourth Edition Is A Thorough Update With All New Charts, Graphs, Tables, And Figures As Well As New Examples And Coverage Of Current Topics. Students Will Come Away With A Clear Understanding Of How Reviewers Function And What They Are Looking For In Proposal Sections, In Addition To What Is Needed To Maximize Every Aspect Of The Proposal. The Text Is Loaded With Useful Tips That Will Enable Your Students To Hit The Ground Running, Including How To Assess A Program Announcement And Ensure Each Requirement Is Addressed Condense Your Entire Proposal Into A Brief But Compelling Abstract Determine What Appendices To Include (And In What Form) For Maximum Impact Adequately Describe Project Dissemination And Continuation Plans Use Technology -- Including Desktop Publishing, Graphics, Color, And Spreadsheets For Budget Development -- To Enhance Your Proposals And Structure Your Proposal To Increase Your Chance Of Winning. Read more...
]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 19:57:02 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=379371 Product Description: Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? World Development Indicators is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 800 indicators for more than 150 economies and 14 country groups in more than 90 tables. It provides a current overview of the most recent data available as well as important regional data and income group analysis in six thematic sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. World Development Indicators 2010 presents the most current and accurate development data on both a national level and aggregated globally. It allows you to monitor the progress made toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals endorsed by the United Nations and its member countries, the World Bank, and a host of partner organizations. These goals, which focus on development and the elimination of poverty, serve as the agenda for international development efforts. Recognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the World Bank Group now provides free, open, and easy access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English. Read more...
]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 15:14:34 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=378404 The class of interest rate models introduced by O. Cheyette in 1994 is a subclass of the general HJM framework with a time dependent volatility parameterization. This book addresses the above mentioned class of interest rate models and concentrates on the calibration, valuation and sensitivity analysis in multifactor models. It derives analytical pricing formulas for bonds and caplets and applies several numerical valuation techniques in the class of Cheyette model, i.e. Monte Carlo simulation, characteristic functions and PDE valuation based on sparse grids. Finally it focuses on the sensitivity analysis of Cheyette models and derives Model- and Market Greeks. To the best of our knowledge, this sensitivity analysis of interest rate derivatives in the class of Cheyette models is unique in the literature. Up to now the valuation of interest rate derivatives using PDEs has been restricted to 3 dimensions only, since the computational effort was too great. The author picks up the sparse grid technique, adjusts it slightly and can solve high-dimensional PDEs (four dimensions plus time) accurately in reasonable time. Many topics investigated in this book are new areas of research and make a significant contribution to the scientific community of financial engineers. They also represent a valuable development for practitioners. Read more...
]]> Fri, 10 May 2013 09:07:09 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=378227 This research monograph provides systematic and comprehensive materials for applying inframarginal analysis to study a wide range of economic phenomena. The analysis is based on a new overarching framework to resurrect the classical notion of division of labor and specialization, which is an essential source of increasing a nation s wealth. The framework absorbs many classical and neo-classical insights in a general equilibrium analysis and explains many micro- and macro-phenomena. Many areas of the discipline that have been customarily treated as separate branches can now be analyzed systematically within this integrated framework. These include, for example, micro-economics macro-economics development economics international economics urban economics growth theory industrial organization applications of game theory in economics economics of property rights economics of transaction costs economics of institutions and contract economics of organization economics of states managerial economics theory of hierarchy new theory of the firm theory of money theory of insurance theory of network and reliability. Contents: Consumer-Producer's Decisions to Choose the Optimum Level and Pattern of Specialization More General Smithian Models The Labor Market and the Institution of the Firm Endogenous Transaction Costs and Theory of Contract, Ownership, and Residual Rights Exogenous Comparative Advantages in Technology and Endowment, Division of Labor, and Trade Read more...
]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 21:02:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=377897 This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949. Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles. Vital and indispensable, this HarperBusiness Essentials edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals. Read more...
]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 08:13:50 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=377769 Fur viele Europaer ist die EU eine Art Raumschiff, ziemlich abgehoben, schwer durchschaubar, und gegebenfalls lastig, wenn es sich mal wieder herabsenkt und merkwurdige Signale in Form von neuen Regelungen sendet, z. B. einem Gluhbirnenverbot. Wenn in Deutschland das offentlich-rechtliche Fernsehen seiner Pflicht zur Berichterstattung nachkommt, zappen die Zuschauer weg. Denn langweilig ist es auch. Alles ist auf Konsens ausgerichtet, es gibt keinen richtigen Krawall, fur vermeintliche Skandale gibt es keinen Verantwortlichen, es gibt keine Tragodien und Komodien. Brussel, inzwischen das Synonym fur Europa, lasst sich leicht gleichsetzen mit einer Kaste anonymer Apparatschiks. Nicht mal der Volkszorn findet ein Zielobjekt. Das ist nicht herzerwarmend. Warum wachst und gedeiht das Image-Problem der EU? Der Autor hatte Gelegenheit, dieses Raumschiff grundlich unter die Lupe zu nehmen, von innen und au?en, und legt hier eine Bestandsaufnahme vor. Was schief lauft in Europa, hat er ordentlich sortiert: 1. Die EU regelt Kleines zu gro? und Gro?es zu klein. 2. Die EU regelt Weiches zu hart und Hartes zu weich. 3. Die EU bewegt sich oben zu schnell und unten zu langsam. Read more...
]]> Wed, 08 May 2013 21:23:52 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=377240 The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow willbring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more confused than anyone, and economists—the so-called "experts"—still cling to bankrupt ideologies that failed to predict the crisis and offer nothing to explain it. In this short, clear, and concise book, Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates explain the nature of the economic crisis. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the authors demonstrate that this crisis is not some aberration from a normally benign capitalism but rather the normal and even expected outcome of a thoroughly irrational and destructive system. No amount of tinkering with capitalism, whether it be discredited neoliberalism or the return of Keynesianism and a "new" New Deal, can overcome the core contradiction of the system: the daily exploitation and degradation of the majority of the world's people by a tiny minority of business owners. While the current economic maelstrom has laid bare the web of greed, corruption, and propaganda that are central to capitalism, only an aroused public, demanding the right to health care, decent employment, a secure old age, and a clean and healthy environment, can lead the United States and the world out of the worst crisis since the Great Depression and tow Read more...
]]> Tue, 07 May 2013 18:36:05 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=376498 Picture an early scene from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy hurries home as a tornado gathers in what was once a clear Kansas sky. Hurriedly, she seeks shelter in the storm cellar under the house, but, finding it locked, takes cover in her bedroom. We all know how that works out for her. Many investors these days are a bit like Dorothy, putting their faith in something as solid and trustworthy as a house (or, say, real estate). But market disruptions storms seem to arrive without warning, leaving us little time to react. Why are we so often blindsided by these things, left outdoors with nothing but our little dogs? More to the point: how did Kansas go from blue skies to tornadoes in such a short time? In this deeply researched and piercingly intelligent book, physicist Mark Buchanan shows how a simple feedback loop can lead to major consequences, the kind predictable by mathematical models but hard for most people to anticipate. From his unique perspective, Buchanan argues that our basic assumptions about economic markets that they are for the most part stable, with occasional interruptions are simply wrong. Markets really act more like the weather: a brief heat wave can become a massive storm in a matter of a few days, or even hours. The Physics of Finance reimagines the basics of how economics, with consequences that affect everyone. Read more...
]]> Sun, 05 May 2013 20:46:40 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=376368 After Murray Rothbard finished his theoretical magnum opus - Man, Economy, and State - he turned his attention away from pure positive theory toward dealing with the opposition to Austrian theory. The result was a long series of fantastic scholarly articles taking on every error of the day, and our day too. Together they form a volume 2 of his great work. This is Economic Controversies. He covers the same range of topics in Man, Economy, and State. Most all have been published, but they are strewn out among journals that are hard to access or books that are out of print. Some have never been published. Rothbard gives his all in these critiques of the opponents of Austrian theory and policy, slicing through fallacies with breathtaking virtuosity. It s a model of intellectual combat, page after page of razor-sharp thinking and crystal-clear prose. To have this all in one place, beautifully organized, creates a treasure in the history of economic ideas. Gene Epstein of Barron's writes the outstanding introduction. The price is thrillingly affordable for this gigantic hardback. Read more...
]]> Sun, 05 May 2013 11:07:19 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=376088 This handbook aims to provide a survey of the stet of knowledge in the broad area that includes the theories and facts of economic growth and economic fluctuations, as well as the consequences of monetary conditions. Macroeconomics underwent a evolution in the 70s and 80s due to the introduction of the methods of rational expectations, dynamic optimization, and general equilibrium analysis into macroeconomic models, to the development of new theories of economic fluctuations, and to the introduction of sophisticated methods for the analysis of economic time series. These developments were both important and exciting. However, the rapid change in methods and theories led to considerable-disagreement, especially in the 80s, as to whether there was any core of common beliefs, even about the defining problems of the subject, that united macroeconomists any longer. The 90s have also been exciting, but for a different reason. Modern methods of analysis have progressed to the point where they are now much better able to address practical or substantive macroeconomic questions - whether traditional, new, empirical, or policy related. Indeed, it is no longer necessary to choose between more powerful methods and practical policy concerns. The editors believe that both the progress and the focus on substantive problems has led to a situation in macroeconomics where the area of common ground is considerable, though they cannot yet announce a "new synthesis" that could be endorsed by mos Read more...
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