Nothing is sacred

economic ideas for the new millennium

Since the 1970s, Robert Barro's academic research has significantly influenced macroeconomic theory. For more than a decade, his writing has also enlivened the pages of publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. In Nothing Is Sacred, Barro applies his well-honed free ...

International labor standards

history, theory, and policy options

Exchange rate regimes and macroeconomic stability

Central banking systems compared

The ECB, the pre-euro Bundesbank, and the Federal Reserve System

Le origini della cooperazione tra le banche centrali

L'istituzione della Banca dei regolamenti internazionali

Pure economic loss in Europe

Pure economic loss is one of the most discussed and controversial legal issues in Europe today, raising complex questions which affect the law of tort and contract. How far can tort liability expand without imposing excessive burdens upon individual activity? Should the recovery of pure ...

Fiscal decentralization and the challenge of hard budget constraints

Nobel lectures in economic science, 1996-2000

including presentation speeches and laureates biographies

This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners in the economic sciences, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches at the award ceremonies for the period 1996-2000. Each Nobel lecture is based on the work for which the ...

Naked economics

undressing the dismal science

Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all the discussion of ...

La ordenación jurídica de la actividad económica

Monetary economics

policy and its theoretical basis

Inflación: la historia interminable

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº172, 2003)

Understanding work and employment

industrial relations in transition

Understanding economic forecasts

Historically, the theory of forecasting that underpinned actual practice in economics has been based on two key assumptions?-that the model was a good representation of the economy and that the structure of the economy would remain relatively unchanged. In reality, forecast models are mis- ...

Monetary orders

ambiguous economics, ubiquitous politics

Institutional elements of tax design and reform

Reform

Modern labor economics

theory and public policy

Dix-Huit leçons sur la politique économique

à la recherche de la régulation

Economics for an imperfect world

essays in honor of Joseph E.Stiglitz

Throughout Joseph Stiglitz's long and distinguished career in economics, the focus has been on the real world, with all of its imperfections. His 2001 Nobel Prize recognized his pioneering research in imperfect information; his work in other areas, including macroeconomics, public economics, and development ...

I giudici e l'analisi economica del Diritto privato

Un giudice che conosce l'analisi economica del diritto è potenzialmente un giudice migliore? L'analisi economica del diritto (EAL) è entrata nel panorama scientifico italiano, raccogliendo consensi come pure dissensi. Ma che cosa ne pensa la giurisprudenza? Vi sono giudici sensibili alle proposte dell ...