The Cambridge history of philosophy

1870-1945

Designing inclusion

tools to raise low-end pay and employment in private enterprise

An inclusion failure has become highly visible in the advanced economies of the West. Too many able-bodied people are subject to chronic joblessness and, when employed, cannot earn a living remotely like that in the mainstream of the population. One policy response has been to ...

The monopolistic competition revolution in retrospect

In 1977 a seminal paper was published by Avinash Dixit and Joseph Stiglitz that revolutionized the modeling of imperfectly competitive markets. It launched what might be called the second monopolistic competition revolution which has been far more successful than the first one, initiated by Edward ...

Dynamic macroeconomic analysis

theory and policy in general equilibrium

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have begun to dominate the field of macroeconomic theory and policy-making. These models describe the evolution of macroeconomic activity as a recursive sequence of outcomes based upon the optimal decision rules of rational households, firms and policy-makers. Whilst posing ...

The emergence of entrepreneurship policy

governance, start-ups, and growth in the U.S. knowledge economy

This volume seeks to catalyze the emergence of a new field of policy studies: entrepreneurship policy. Practical experience and academic research both point to the central role of entrepreneurs in the process of economic growth and to the importance of public policy in creating the ...

Re-writing the french revolutionary tradition

Jesus' defeat of death

persuading Mark's early readers

French impressionists

Monetary and fiscal policies in EMU

interactions and coordination

Europe#s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is unlike any other case of monetary unification in history. Here, sovereign countries retain a large degree of fiscal autonomy while monetary policy is centralised and entrusted to an independent central bank - the European Central Bank - with a ...

The archaeology of Syria

from complex hunter-gatherers to early urban societies (c. 16,000-300 BC)

The Eu, NATO and the integration of Europe

rules and rhetoric

The Papacy and the art of reform in Sixteenth-Century Rome

Gregory XIII's tower of the winds in the Vatican

Housing the stranger in the mediterranean world

lodging, trade, and travel in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Gay rights and american Law

Theory of financial risk and derivative pricing

from statistical physics to risk management

Risk control and derivative pricing have become of major concern to financial institutions. The need for adequate statistical tools to measure and anticipate the amplitude of the potential moves of financial markets is clearly expressed, in particular for derivative markets. Classical theories, however, are based ...

Public Reaction to Supreme Court Decisions

Women and humor in classical greece

Nazis and good neighbors

the United States campaign against the germans of Latin America in World War II

Handbook of the sociology of religion

Mapping and naming moon

a history of lunaar cartography and nomenclature

Selling China

foreign direct investment during the Reform Era

This book proposes a different perspective on China's integration in the world economy. Most economists view China's large foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows as a result of China's economic success. This book views the same phenomenon as a function of the imperfections ...

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism

Vol.V: Romanticism

This volume of the celebrated Cambridge History of Literary Criticism series addresses literary criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe. Its seventeen chapters are by internationally-respected academics and explore a range of key topics and themes. The book is designed to help readers locate ...