The paradox of asset pricing

Asset pricing theory abounds with elegant mathematical models. The logic is so compelling that the models are widely used in policy, from banking, investments, and corporate finance to government. To what extent, however, can these models predict what actually happens in financial markets? In 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 ...

Shifting states in global markets

subnational industrial policy in contemporary Brazil and Spain

Shifting States in Global Markets contributes to the debates over the political economy of globalization by focusing attention on the increasingly important role of subnational governments in implementing economic policies. Challenging the view that the effects of decentralization are positive or negative uniformly and can ...

Economic analysis of the law

selected readings

Most of the formal mathematics has been removed, allowing these articles to reach a student audience, while also encouraging an intuitive understanding and application of the economic principles. Brief introductions to each article explain their background and context, while also connecting them to the other ...

Fact and fiction in economics

models, realism and social construction

There is an embarrassing polarization of opinions about the status of economics as an academic discipline, as reflected in epithets such as the Dismal Science and the Queen of the Social Sciences. This collection brings together some of the leading figures in the methodology and ...

Economía del desarrollo

El estudio del desarrollo de los países con bajos niveles de renta es una disciplina que ha hecho unos enormes progresos en los últimos diez años. El libro del Profesor Ray es el primer texto que incorpora los nuevos avances de manera clara y rigurosa ...

Análisis Sistémico

Su aplicación a las comunidades humanas.

Este libro propone al lector una aventura apasionante: tratar de admirar la realidad globalmente, y quedarse tan sorprendido como Anders, Lowell y Borman, los tripulantes del Apolo VIII, se quedaron cuando contemplaron con sus propios ojos ese maravilloso Planeta Azul, en su totalidad, con la ...

The distorted Economy

Descripción: An economy does not always work according to idealized textbook models. Frequently, economic systems are subject to wide-ranging distortions and require remedy via subsidy and taxes to restore their social optimum. In "The Distorted Economy", Hans C. Blomqvist and Mats Lundahl describe how to ...

American economic policy in the 1990s

Money, markets, and mobility

celebrating the ideas and influence of Robert A.Mundell, Nobel Laureate in Economic Science

Las claves de la economía digital

Una reflexión sobre los nuevos retos que deben afrontar las organizaciones en la Sociedad de la Información.

Una reflexión sobre los nuevos retos que deben afrontar las organizaciones en la Sociedad de la Información En esta nueva y apasionante era marcada por Internet y las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TICs), el mundo se enfrenta ante un nuevo escenario, con ...

Analyse et politique économiques

La moneta

chi lo adora, chi lo disprezza e chi si vanta di saperlo moltiplicare: le molte facce del denaro

The social dimensions of employment

institutional reforms in labour markets

Exchange rates, interest rates and commodity prices

Monetary stability and economic growth

a dialog between leading economists

Political Economy and Public Finance

the role of political economy in the theory and practice of public economics

Ethics, economics, and politics

principles of public policy

This work studies the interfaces of ethics, economics, and politics. Public policy issues involve all three of these subjects. Although it may be seen as suggesting the nucleus of a joint university course, the book is accessible to and should interest all those concerned with ...

Histoire des doctrines relatives au credit et a la monnaie

depuis John Law jusqu'à nos jours

The politics of market reform in fragile democracies

Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela