Age shock

how finance is failing us

The follies of the share bubble and the subsequent collapse of Enron and Parmalat, Marconi and Ahold, Worldcom and Waste Management has had devastating effects, wiping out employees' pension savings and further exposing the absence of responsibility at the heart of what Robin Blackburn calls ...

Guide to economic indicators

making sense of economics

It is essential in business and many professions today to have a thorough understanding of economic information. Written for the non- specialist, this highly accessible guide provides the keys to understanding all the major and many lesser economic indicators: what they are, the areas they ...

Cómo escribir para publicar en revistas académicas

Este libro explica cómo escribir artículos que puedan ser publicados por revistas académicas. Para ello, describe las claves que han de tener los buenos artículos. También expone cómo se deben resolver las críticas de los revisores. Esté libro, sin jergas, ameno y práctico es esencial ...

Economics

a very short introduction

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different ...

Perspectivas feministas en torno a la economía

el caso de los cuidados

INDICE: Cuestionando los conceptos de economía y trabajo. Economía del género. Economía feminista de la conciliación. Reflexiones finales: convergencia teórica y divergencia política.

Introduccion al análisis económico del Derecho ambiental

En el presente texto el análisis económico del derecho se presenta como una herramienta útil para la comprensión de los comportamientos contrarios a las leyes y disposiciones ambientales lo cual, a su vez, sirve para revisar cómo encaminar mejor las decisiones destacando la utilidad para ...

Economics and the Law

from Posner to Post-Modernism and beyond

This is an expanded second edition of Nicholas Mercuro and Steven Medema's influential book "Economics and the Law", whose publication in 1998 marked the most comprehensive overview of the various schools of thought in the burgeoning field of Law and Economics. Each of these ...

The economics of persistent innovation

Table of Contents: Preface and acknowledgements by Christian Le Bas Introduction by William Latham and Christian Le Bas Ch. 1 Persistence in innovation : definitions and current development of the field by Christian Le Bas and William Latham Ch. 2 Determinants of persistence in innovation : a ...

Agent-based computational modelling

applications in demography social, economic and environmental sciences

Table of Contents: F.C. Billari et al.: Agent-based Computational Modelling: An Introduction * A. Pyka, T. Grebel: Agent-based Modelling - A Methodology for the Analysis of Qualitative Development Processes * M. Franke et al.: On the Analysis of Asymmetric Directed Communication Structures in Electronic Election Markets * M ...

Economic dynamics and information

This book analyzes the existence of equilibria in economies having a measured space of agents and a continuum of agents and commodities. Excessive homogeneity with respect to agent productivity leads to instability and non-uniqueness of a given stationary state and the indeterminacy of the corresponding ...

Beyond individual choice

teams and frames in Game Theory

Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation - most famously, that people can use the apparently arbitrary ...

Designing economic mechanisms

A mechanism is a mathematical structure that models institutions through which economic activity is guided and coordinated. There are many such institutions; markets are the most familiar ones. Lawmakers, administrators and officers of private companies create institutions in order to achieve desired goals. They seek ...

Teoría de la decisión y de los juegos

A diferencia de otros manuales disponibles en el mercado, este libro no sólo explica las situaciones de interdependencia estratégica-Teoría de los Juegos-, sino que también aborda el estudio de la Teoría de la Decisión, considerando el valor que supone para quienes han de decidir el ...

Advances in dynamic games

applications to economics, management science, engineering, and environmental management

The paradigms of dynamic games play an important role in the development of multi-agent models in engineering, economics, and management science. The applicability of their concepts stems from the ability to encompass situations with uncertainty, incomplete information, fluctuating coalition structure, and coupled constraints imposed on ...

Micromotives and Macrobehavior

Originally published over twenty-five years ago, "Micromotives and Macrobehavior" still feels fresh today. And the subject of these stories - how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group - is more important than ever. In ...

The economics of competition

the race to monopoly

This book comprehensively explores the concept that monopolies are self-limiting within unrestricted competition, as well as the various market features of competition, innovation, and market power. The Economics of Competition uses the South African pharmaceutical industry as a case study to challenge accepted economic and ...

Guía para usuarios de predicciones económicas

El mundo de la predicción se rodea frecuentemente de una terminología y unos desarrollos técnicos sólo accesibles para iniciados. Parece como si al usuario de las predicciones sólo le cupiese creer con «fe de carbonero» en lo que hagan los especialistas en vislumbrar el futuro ...

Macroeconomía

Durante más de medio siglo esta obra ha servido como estándar para la enseñanza de economía elemental en las aulas de todo el mundo. Cada nueva edición ha presentado las mejores aportaciones de los economistas acerca de la manera como funcionan los mercados y lo ...

Understanding macroeconomic theory

At each point in time, individuals make choices with respect to the acquisition, sale, and/or use of a variety of different goods. Such activity can be summarized by aggregate variables such as an economy's total production of various goods and services, the aggregate ...

Principios de macroeconomía

INDICE: Concpetos básicos de macroeocnomía. El modelo heynesiano y la política fiscal. Funciones del dinero. El banco central , el equilibrio del mercado del dinero y la política monetaria. El comercio internacional y el mercado de divisas. La oferta agregada y la curva de Phillips: inflación ...