The new political economies

a collection of essays from around the world

This volume contains interesting essays on the following range of topics: fiscal sociology; constitutional economics; Austrian school perspectives; and new perspectives on transition economies in Asia, Europe and Africa. All of the contributors to this volume apply cutting- edge concepts and distinctions in economics to ...

The Tocqueville reader

A life in letters

Slavery and emancipation

Deciphering the dead sea scrolls

The European Union

A political sociology

Superterrorism

policy responses

Greenfields, brownfields and housing development

Geographies of power

placing scale

Utopia and organization

Are ideas about utopia redundant? Is there any point in speculating about better alternatives to Western liberalism? This volume addresses these questions, evaluating the prospects for utopian thought and practice in a world organized by market managerialism. The contributors to this book all treat utopia ...

Contributions to financial econometrics

theoretical and practical issues

This volume presents five survey papers on time series econometrics, and a modern financial econometrics software package. Starting with a survey of recent theoretical developments for time series models with GARCH errors, the contributions go on to examine the bootstrapping of financial time series, developments ...

Harry Gunnison Brown

an orthodox economist and his contributions

Harry Gunnison Brown was born in 1880 and died in 1975. He was part of an important group of American economists that included Herbert J. Davenport, E.R.A. Seligman, J.B. Clark, Alvin S. Johnson, Frank A. Fetter, Richard T. Ely and Frank Knight ...

Risk management, derivatives, and financial analysis under SFAS nº 133

Readings in games and information

This highly original collection brings together contemporary articles from a variety of sources to present the key topics in game theory. The book includes a combination of classic and contemporary readings from a range of books and journals that together present a complete resource for ...

City and country

The Blackwell companion to sociology of religion

Immigrants and immigration

Country, sector, and company factors in Global Equity Portfolios

Making sense of the organization

A companion to economic geography

A companion to the city