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Theory of games and economic behavior

This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published "Theory of Games ...

The making of an economist, redux

Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic "The Making of an Economist", this book shows what is happening in elite ...

How China grows

investment, finance and reform

Although China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty- five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is ...

Roman eyes

visuality and subjectivity in art and text

In "Roman Eyes", Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety ...

Carbon finance

the financial implications of climate change

"A timely, objective, and informative analysis of the financial opportunities and challenges presented by climate change, including a thorough description of adaptive measures and insurance products for managing risk in a carbon constrained economy." - James R. Evans, M. Eng. P. Geo., Senior Manager, Environmental Risk ...

Money, interest, and policy

dynamic general equilibrium in a non-ricardian world

This work develops the argument that moving from "Ricardian" dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models to "non-Ricardian" models solves many puzzles and paradoxes in monetary issues that might have cast doubt on the DSGE methodology for monetary economics. An important recent advance in macroeconomics is the ...

Economics of the European Union

politics and analysis

The new edition of this successful text analyses the current economic issues facing a rapidly changing Europe. The authors combine policy, history and data to present a global perspective of the EU, written with a range of students taking an introductory module in European Economics ...

Does game theory work?

the bargaining challenge

This volume brings together all of Ken Binmore's influential experimental papers on bargaining along with newly written commentary in which Binmore discusses the underlying game theory and addresses the criticism leveled at it by behavioral economists. When Binmore began his experimental work in the ...

Publics and the city

Contests over 'public space' have come to assume increasing centrality in deliberations over urban policy in post-industrial nations such as Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This innovative, single-authored book addresses the relationship between publicness and the city, considering how the production, management ...

El cambio son personas

la dirección de los procesos de cambio

INDICE: Competitividad y elasticidad empresarial. Organización y personas. Sistemas y tecnologías. El modelo de comportamiento empresarial. El modelo de comportamiento individual. El modelo de comportamiento glogal: grupos y equipos. El sistema organizacional para el cambio. Proceso del cambio: ayer, hoy y mañana. El factor humano ...

Futures, options and swaps

Written in an accessible, non-technical style, "Futures, Options and Swaps" is the most comprehensive text on derivative markets available. The only book on the market to utilize such a reader-friendly, instructive approach, students will find the material readily comprehensible without a professor's guidance, thereby ...

The international monetary fund

politics of conditional lending

This is an ideal book for students who need a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies. Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments participate in ...

Trade in Classical Antiquity

Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to ...

The 7 habits of highly effective people

restoring the character ethic

Revealing a step-by-step pathway for living, this beloved classic that provides powerful yet timeless lessons in personal change celebrates its 15th anniversary with this edition that features a new Foreword and Afterword by the author.

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Crónica del halconero de Juan II

El halconero mayor de la corte de Juan II de Aragón y tercer señor de Priego, Pedro Carrillo de Huete, se propuso elaborar una crónica del reinado de su señor entre los años 1420 a 1441, continuada hasta 1450 por el obispo don Lope de ...

Medidas provisionales en la actividad administrativa

INDICE: Capítulo I.- Concepto de medida provisional administrativa. Capítulo II.- Distinción de figuras afines. las medidas de policía. Capítulo III.- Regulación de las medidas provisionales. Capítulo IV.- La adopción de medidas provisionales. Presupuestos, principios y límites. Capítulo V.- Diversos tipos de medidas provisionales. Capítulo VI ...

Narrating evil

a postmetaphysical theory of reflective judgment

Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In "Narrating Evil", Maria Pia Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of ...

The socialist response to antisemitism in Imperial Germany

What set antisemites apart from anti-antisemites in Imperial Germany was not so much what they thought about 'the Jews', but what they thought should be done about them. Like most anti-antisemites, German Social Democrats felt that the antisemites had a point but took matters too ...

El impuesto sobre la electricidad

El presente libro examina los conceptos básicos que configuran la regulación del impuesto especial sobre la electricidad, poniendo en todo momento en relación la normativa del impuesto (Ley 66/1997) con la Ley del sector eléctrico (Ley 54/1997). Comenzando con el concepto impositivo fabricación ...