The theory of corporate finance

The past twenty years have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance. Whereas, once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations - equity, debt, and valuation - today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management, relationships between banks ...

Structuring the State

the formation of Italy and Germany and the puzzle of federalism

Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates. Often regarded as Europe's paradigmatic instances of failed modernization, the two countries form the basis of many of our most prized theories of social science. "Structuring the State" undertakes ...

Computational economics

The ability to conceptualize an economic problem verbally, to formulate it as a mathematical model, and then represent the mathematics in software so that the model can be solved on a computer is a crucial skill for economists. "Computational Economics" contains well-known model - and some ...

Globalization and egalitarian redistribution

Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world? Many have argued that globalization has undermined national policies to raise the living standards and enhance the economic opportunities of the poor. This book, by sixteen of the world's leading authorities in international economics ...

Nonlinear optimization

Optimization is one of the most important areas of modern applied mathematics, with applications in fields from engineering and economics to finance, statistics, management science, and medicine. While many books have addressed its various aspects, "Nonlinear Optimization" is the first comprehensive treatment that will allow ...

Microeconomics

behavior, institutions, and evolution

In this introduction to modern microeconomic theory, Samuel Bowles returns to the classical economists' interest in the wealth and poverty of nations and people, the workings of the institutions of capitalist economies, and the co-evolution of individual preferences and the structures of markets, firms and ...

The embedded corporation

corporate governance and employment relations in Japan and the United States

Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging ...

A theory of foreign policy

This book presents a general explanation of how states develop their foreign policy. The theory stands in contrast to most approaches - which assume that states want to maximize security - by assuming that states pursue two things, or goods, through their foreign policy: change and maintenance ...

The macropolitics of Congress

How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions, by looking at what the ...

Filibuster

obstruction and lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

Parliamentary obstruction, popularly known as the "filibuster," has been a defining feature of the U.S. Senate throughout its history. In this book, Gregory J. Wawro and Eric Schickler explain how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the nineteenth and early twentieth ...

Women at the beginning

origin myths from the amazons to the Virgin Mary

In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he ...

The price of whiteness

jews, race and american identity

What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? "The Price of Whiteness" documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. The book traces Jews' often tumultuous ...

The travels and adventures of Serendipity

a study in sociological semantics and the sociology of science

From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity - that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident - is today ubiquitous. This book traces the ...

Plato's fable

on the mortal condition in shadowy times

This book is an exploration of Plato's Republic that bypasses arcane scholarly debates. "Plato's Fable" provides refreshing insight into what, in Plato's view, is the central problem of life: the mortal propensity to adopt defective ways of answering the question of how ...

Reckless rites

purim and the legacy of jewish violence

Historical accounts of Jewish violence - particularly against Christians - have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. Others have discounted, dismissed, or simply ignored the evidence, often for apologetic purposes. In "Reckless Rites", Elliott Horowitz takes a new and forthright ...

The craft of international history

a guide to method

This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research - that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes ...

Culture and demography in organizations

How do corporations and other organizations maintain and transmit their cultures over time? "Culture and Demography in Organizations" offers the most reliable and comprehensive answer to this complex question to date. The first book on the subject to ground its analysis in mathematical tools and ...

Empirical dynamic asset pricing

model specification and econometric assessment

Written by one of the leading experts in the field, this book focuses on the interplay between model specification, data collection, and econometric testing of dynamic asset pricing models. The first several chapters provide an in-depth treatment of the econometric methods used in analyzing financial ...

Cultures merging

a historical and economic critique of culture

"Economists agree about many things - contrary to popular opinion - but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of "Cultures Merging", in which Eric Jones - one of the world's leading ...

Poverty traps

Much popular belief - and public policy - rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever- growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of ...

The roman predicament

how the rules of international order create the politics of empire

Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history ...

The exchange rate in a behavioral finance framework

This book provides an alternative view of the workings of foreign exchange markets. The authors' modeling approach is based on the idea that agents use simple forecasting rules and switch to those rules that have been shown to be the most profitable in the past ...