Economics in real time

a theoretical reconstruction

This book offers a new model for contemporary economic behavior that accounts for changes since neoclassical and Marxian microeconomics were formulated over a century ago. By incorporating real time into the analysis of sales and purchases, the phenomena of product innovation, advertising and distribution, the ...

Understanding economic recovery in the 1930s

Endogenous propagation in the Great Depression

One of the watershed periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression was the defining event for at least one generation of world citizenry. Although much has been written about the almost four-year economic collapse that began in mid-1929, very little has been written about ...

Principles of medical Law

Now in its second edition, this classic reference text has been expanded and fully revised to bring the work up to date to Summer 2003. Written and edited by a team of experts, it covers all aspects of medical law from the regulation of the ...

English Public Law

Building the UK's new Supreme Court

national and comparative perspectives

Data protection

A practical guide to UK and EU law

European company and financial Law

texts and leading cases

As with previous editions, the third edition of this book contains every piece of European legislation affecting companies and the financial sector. This edition will be even more valuable to the reader as it also features commentaries on the leading cases decided by European and ...

Models for dynamic macroeconomics

This is a textbook for advanced students in macroeconomics. It provides a clear guide to the techniques and tools used in modern macroeconomic analysis without requiring advanced mathematical training. It covers the core topics of consumption and investment, employment and unemployment, and economic growth. Each ...

Architectures of knowledge

firms, capabilities, and communities

Architectures of Knowledge seeks to demonstrate that a recognition of the importance of the role of knowledge in ecnomics may lead to a new conception of the firm and public policy. To construct an alternative theorisation of knowledge formation and knowledge governance in firms, the ...

The modern firm

organizational design performance and growth

The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy and the business environment. Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from the eighteenth century fur trading ...

Introduction to marketing

theory and practice

'Introduction to Marketing' provides a concise introduction to the principles of marketing, offering both critical analysis and applied case studies. Combining academic credibility with an established reputation for his clear writing style, Palmer's book is ideal as a one- semester introductory title for students ...

The French economy in the Twentieth century

Is France still proving itself to be an exception to European economic development? Jean-Pierre Dormois surveys France's spectacular economic transformation over the past century. His general introduction to the major transformation of French society tackles the key themes associated with France, such as "Malthusianism ...

Poverty, progress and population

By the early nineteenth century England was very different economically from its continental neighbours. It was wealthier, growing more rapidly, more heavily urbanised, and far less dependent upon agriculture. A generation ago it was normal to attribute these differences to the #industrial revolution# and to ...

Financing human capital

a capital markets approach to student funding

Most higher education finance literature assumes that students cannot pledge their future earnings to finance their education in a free society. Investing in Human Capital challenges that assumption and explores human capital contracts as an alternative mechanism for financing higher education. Investing in Human Capital ...

A course in public economics

A Course in Public Economics explores the central questions of whether or not markets work, and if not, what is to be done about it. The first part of the textbook, designed for upper-level undergraduates and first- year graduate students, begins with an extended discussion ...

Financial derivatives

pricing, applications, and mathematics

This book offers a complete, succinct account of the principles of financial derivatives pricing. The first chapter provides readers with an intuitive exposition of basic random calculus. Concepts such as volatility and time, random walks, geometric Brownian motion, and Ito's lemma are discussed heuristically ...

Monetary policy, fiscal policies and labour markets

macroeconomic policymaking in the EMU

Three years after the birth of the European Monetary Union (EMU) economists are still divided in their assessment of the ability of its key institutions to provide macroeconomic stability and foster the reforms necessary to stimulate economic growth. In this collection, experts focus on issues ...

Generational income mobility in North America and Europe

Labour markets in North America and Europe have changed tremendously in the face of increased globalization and technical progress, raising important challenges for policy makers concerned with equality of opportunity. This book examines the influence of both changes in income inequality and of social policies ...

Building a dynamic Europe

the key policy debates

Edited by Jordi Gual. This succinct book provides a broad panorama of the key economic policy challenges facing the European Union today. The enlargement of the EU and its lacklustre performance over the last decade in terms of employment and productivity growth have prompted wide-ranging ...

The structural econometric time series analysis approach

Bringing together a collection of previously published work, this book provides a timely discussion of major considerations relating to the construction of econometric models that work well to explain economic phenomena, predict future outcomes and be useful for policy-making. Analytical relations between dynamic econometric structural ...