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Minimum wages

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has increased the minimum wage and its coverage at irregular intervals ever since; in addition, as of the beginning of ...

Deposit insurance around the World

issues of design and implementation

Eds. Asli Demirgüc- Kunt, Edward J. Kane, Luc Laeven. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Explicit deposit insurance (DI) is widely held to be a crucial element of modern financial safety nets. For this reason, establishing a DI system is frequently recommended by outside experts to countries undergoing reform. Predictably, DI ...

The development and testing of Heckscher-Ohlin trade models

No names are more closely associated with modern trade theory than Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin. The basic Heckscher-Ohlin proposition, according to which a country exports factors in abundant supply and imports factors in scarce supply, is a key component of modern trade theory. In ...

The future of Europe

reform or decline

Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic and political decline is almost inevitable, economists Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi write in this provocative book. Without comprehensive reform, continental Western Europe's overprotected, overregulated economies will continue to slow - and its political influence will become ...

Cómo sobrevivir intelectualmente al siglo XXI

los escritos más polémicos del Chesterton de la lengua española

La figura del sacerdote argentino Leonardo Castellani ha adquirido una notoriedad creciente en España gracias a la constante difusión de su pensamiento por el escritor Juan Manuel de Prada, que ha preparado para LibrosLibres una edición con los mejores y más polémicos trabajos periodísticos del ...

Tulipmania

money, honor, and knowledge in the dutch golden age

In the 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story - how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that ...

Institutions and economic performance

Ed. Elhana Helpman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Institutions and Economic Performance" explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. Even taking into account disparities in resources, including physical and human capital, large economic discrepancies remain across countries. Why are some societies but not others ...

The organization of firms in a global economy

Eds. Elhanan Helpman, Dalia Marin, Thierry verdier. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy" presents a new research program that is transforming the study of international trade. Driven by the availability of new micro data sets and innovative theoretical models, it focuses on the ...

Taxation and Latin American integration

Eds. Vito Tanzi, Alberto Barreix, Luiz Villela. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The current movement toward economic integration in Latin America and the Caribbean is part of an ongoing process that could one day create a single economy that includes several Latin American and Caribbean countries, or even all the ...

The discovery of global warming

In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how ...

Off the books

the underground economy of the urban poor

Listen to a short interview with Sudhir Venkatesh Host: Chris Gondek ] Producer: Heron & Crane In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living off the books that is daily life in the ghetto. From women who clean houses and prepare lunches for the local hospital to small-scale entrepreneurs like the mechanic who works in an alley; from the preacher who provides mediation services to the salon owner who rents her store out for gambling parties; and from street vendors hawking socks and incense to the drug dealing ...

The economy of prestige

prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value

This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and ...

Governing nonprofit organizations

federal and State Law and regulation

The nonprofit sector is a vital component of our society and is allowed the greatest freedom to operate. The public understandably assumes that since nonprofit organizations are established to do good, the people who run nonprofits are altruistic, and the laws governing nonprofits have reflected ...

The american economic history reader

documents and readings

Eds. John W. Malsberger, James N. Marshall. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Economics as a discipline often relies on abstract theories and formulas to explain the functions of national economies. "American Economic History: Documents and Readings" is a collection of primary documents and essays illustrating the practical applications of these ...

Environmental politics

stakeholders, interests, and policymaking

The second edition of "Environmental Politics: Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking" shows students that environmental politics is fundamentally a clash of competing stakeholders' interests, and environmental policy is the result of their reconciliation. But developments in environmental policymaking over the past several years have been little ...

The Adam Smith review. Volume 4

Ed. Vivienne Brown. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. "The Adam Smith Review" is a refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all ...

Tourism and sustainability

development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

"If unequal opportunities are large within many countries they are truly staggering on a global scale", so concludes the World Bank's 2006 World Development Report. It is a global unevenness within which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy first world ...

Analysis, geometry, and modeling in finance

advanced methods in option pricing

"Analysis, Geometry, and Modeling in Finance: Advanced Methods in Option Pricing" is the first book that applies advanced analytical and geometrical methods used in physics and mathematics to the financial field. It even obtains new results when only approximate and partial solutions were previously available ...

Statistics for environmental science and management

Revised, expanded, and updated, this second edition of "Statistics for Environmental Science and Management" is that rare animal, a resource that works well as a text for graduate courses and a reference for appropriate statistical approaches to specific environmental problems. It is uncommon to find ...

Environmental policy, technological innovation and patents

Technological innovation can help realise environmental objectives in a less costly manner than would otherwise be the case. Thus, understanding the role that technological innovation can play in achieving environmental objectives is important for policy debates. However, the relationship between environmental policy and technological innovation ...