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The business of sports agents

California history

a topical approach

This fresh departure from other California history readers offers students a compilation of engaging essays designed to complement any standard California history textbook or stand on its own as a progressive core text. The work of ten experts, this book presents interpretive examinations of an ...

Un hiver à Paris sous le consulat (1802-1803)

Essai sur le don dans la France du XVIe siècle

De la générosité royale à la charité envers le mendiant, des fêtes somptuaires aux humbles cadeaux des noces paysannes, que l'on donne ou reçoive un don, cet échange a toujours relevé d'une haute signifiance. C'est cette dernière que Natalie Zemon Davis a ...

Exchange rate regimes and macroeconomic stability

Economics of accounting

Vol. I: Information in markets

Financial crisis, contagion, and containment

from Asia to Argentina

This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Retracing the story of Asia's "Crisis Five"--Indonesia, Malaysia, South ...

Econometrics and the philosophy of economics

theory-data confrontations in economics

As most econometricians will readily agree, the data used in applied econometrics seldom provide accurate measurements for the pertinent theory's variables. Here, Bernt Stigum offers the first systematic and theoretically sound way of accounting for such inaccuracies. He and a distinguished group of contributors ...

In search of prosperity

analytic narratives on economic growth

The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is a series of country studies guided by that research. The thirteen essays, by leading economists, shed light on some of ...

An economic analysis of the family

What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets interact, why important aspects of families have been changing in recent decades, and how families respond to, and are affected by ...

Behavioral game theory

experiments in strategic interaction

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually play games. This book marks the first substantial and authoritative effort to close ...

Knowledge, information, and expectations in modern macroeconomics

In honor of Edmund S. Phelps

Monopsony in motion

imperfect competition in labor markets

The economics of e-commerce

a strategic guide to understanding and designing the online marketplace

Despite the recent misfortunes of many dotcoms, e-commerce will have major and lasting effects on economic activity. But the rise and fall in the valuations of the first wave of e-commerce companies show that vague promises of distant profits are insufficient. Only business models based ...

Economic geography and public policy

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However ...

Principles of economic sociology

The last fifteen years have witnessed an explosion in the popularity, creativity, and productiveness of economic sociology, an approach that traces its roots back to Max Weber. This important new text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of economic sociology. It also advances the field ...

The new constitutional order

The wealth of nature

how mainstream economics has failed the environment

Explaining why neoclassical economic theory cannot account for the costs of doing business in a global environment, this text demonstrates that the central legitimating construct in neoclassical economics, Adam Smith's "invisible hand", is a product of 18th Century Deism

Miller international accounting standards guide 2003

Miller GAAP guide 2003

restatement and analysis of current FASB standards