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Bounded rationality and public policy

a perspective from behavioural economics

The economist's advice to society rests largely on a picture of citizens as infinitely rational beings, shrewd, calculating and above all consistent in their behaviour. But as the last thirty years of economic experiments and field work has revealed, humans are far from perfectly ...

"Are economist basically immoral?"

and other essays on economics, ethics, and religion by Paul Heyne

Eds. Geoffrey Brennan, A.M.C. Waterman. A well-trained theologian, a gifted and dedicated teacher of economics for over forty years, and the author of a highly regarded and widely used textbook, "The Economic Way of Thinking", Paul Heyne influenced generations of students of economics ...

The elements of statistical learning

data mining, inference, and prediction

During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development ...

Decision behaviour, analysis and support

Behavioural studies have shown that while humans may be the best decision makers on the planet, we are not quite as good as we think we are. We are regularly subject to biases, inconsistencies and irrationalities in our decision making. Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support ...

The dynamics of diplomacy

This comprehensive new text offers a fresh, up-to-date look at the evolution, politics, and practice of diplomacy today.Leguey-Feilleux first provides a solid grounding in the history of traditional diplomacy, beginning with ancient times. He then reviews the forces of contemporary change - the dramatic developments ...

Input-output analysis

foundations and extensions

The new edition of Ronald Miller and Peter Blair's classic textbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the input-output research and applications community. The book has been fully revised and updated to reflect important developments in the field since its original ...

Europäischer Erbschein

Vorschläge auf der Basis einer rechtsvergleichenden Untersuchung der deutschen und griechischen Regelung

Zur Vereinheitlichung der grenzüberschreitenden Nachlassabwicklung hat das EU-Parlament die Einführung eines Europäischen Erbscheins vorgeschlagen. Die Autorin untersucht in ihrer rechtsvergleichenden Studie, ob dieses neue Institut notwendig und zulässig ist.

Moving money

the future of consumer payments

Eds. Robert E. Litan, Martin Neil Baily. Once we paid for things with bills, coins, or checks. Today we pay with 0s and 1s-digital entries on credit or debit cards, or electronic messages sent over the Internet. Digital money moves faster, more cheaply, and is ...

Data analysis with Microsoft Excel

update for Office 2007

This is the latest book from Cengage Learning on "Data Analysis with Microsoft[registered]Excel".

Hate crime

impact, causes and responses

"Hate Crime" is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners seeking to understand this complex and contested subject. It is thoroughly researched and theoretically informed, but will be accessible to newcomers to the field and to people delivering practical responses to offending and victimisation. Clearly ...

Criminology and political theory

'A lucid, sophisticated and timely vindication of the importance of Marxist, feminist and other radical perspectives on the state and political economy to the analysis of crime, control and justice. It offers a valuable guide to issues of political philosophy for students and teachers of ...

Ethical marketing and the new consumer

Vital tactics and strategies for marketers who want to connect with the ethical values of consumers. Consumers today face more ethical buying decisions than ever before. Particularly those consumers who feel strongly about the environment often treat buying green as an ethical and moral imperative ...

Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western MusicR by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Now in paperback, the set has been reconstructed to be available for the first time as individual books, each one taking ...

La matière civile et commerciale, socle d'un code européen de Droit international privé?

Dirs. Marc Fallon, Paul Lagarde, Sylvaine Poillot-Perruzzetto. À partir de l'analyse des règlements Bruxelles I, Rome I et Rome II, l'ouvrage révèle l'émergence, dans la matière civile et commerciale, d'un socle de code européen de droit international privé, entendu comme la ...

The inheritance of Rome

a history of Europe from 400 to 1000

Prizewinning historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues ...

Where underpants come from

from checkout to cotton field-travels through the New China and the New Global Economy

British travel writer Bennett informs and endears in his quixotic quest to trace the provenance of his underpants in order to learn something about the commercial and industrial processes on which [his] easy existence depends.# Despite his publisher's misgivings, the author travels to the ...

European Constitutionalism beyond Lisbon

Eds. Jan Wouters, Luc Verhey, Philipp Kiiver. As Europe's leaders seek to finally secure the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon after the Irish "no" vote, it is time to take a step back and review, in a broader perspective, the past decade of ...

Public finance and public choice

analytical perspectives

Public Finance and Public Choice provides a solid foundation in contemporary public economics, analysing different theoretical approaches and contextualising the theory with relevant and up-to-date examples. The authors have retained the focus on the public choice school of thought in this new edition and have ...

Finance, development, and the IMF

Eds. James M. Boughton, Domenico Lombardi. This book provides an assessment of the role of the International Monetary Fund in poor countries. In recent years, a large portion of the work of the IMF has focused on the economies of low- income countries by aiming ...

Central banks in the Age of the Euro

europeanization, convergence, and power

Eds. Kenneth Dyson, Martin Marcussen. Both studies of political power and Europeanization studies have tended to neglect central banks. As the age of the euro reaches its 10th anniversary, it is timely to reflect on what it means for central banks, which have been at ...