The Oxford handbook of economic inequality

Eds. Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Timothy M. Smeeding. The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries. Bringing together the world's top scholars this comprehensive and authoritative volume contains ...

Public economics and the household

Economic models in much of the public economics literature have been slow to reflect the significant changes towards double-income households throughout the developed world. This graduate-level text develops a more sophisticated approach to household economics, one that allows for multiple-income earners and shared decision-making. This ...

The structures of wages

an international comparison

Eds. Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw. The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain ...

Employment policy in the European Union

origins, themes and prospects

Eds. Michael Gold. This is the only book to deal with the mechanics of social policy. It has equal appeal for academics and students. It has a strong team of international contributors.The author opens with a historical overview of EU social and employment policy ...

Population ageing, pensions and growth

intertemporal trade-offs and consumption planning

Many areas of economics require the evaluation of time streams of costs and benefits. Societies face long-term phenomena affecting costs and benefits far into the future, such as demographic change and climate change. These present challenges for policy makers in planning inter- temporal consumption paths ...

Teoría de las disponibilidades, el interés y de la renta

INDICE: Flujos monetarios. Dinámica monetaria. Crecimiento. Crecimiento, ciclo y disponibilidades.

A primer in social choice theory

Processes of collective decision making are seen throughout modern society. How does a government decide on an investment strategy within the health care and educational sectors? Should a government or a community introduce measures to combat climate change and CO2 emissions, even if others choose ...

¿Ahorrar en crisis?

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº206, año 2008)

Primero la gente

una mirada desde la ética del desarrollo a los principales problemas del mundo globalizado

Amartya Sen y Bernardo Klisberg reflexionan sobre algunos de los principales problemas del mundo globalizado y examinan algunas de las principales soluciones en torno a éstos. Para hacerlo, aplican la perspectiva de una reciente disciplina que despierta actualmente gran atención: la ética del desarrollo o ...

Profitability and unemployment

Discussions of economic policy argue that an adequate level of profitability is a precondition for avoiding future unemployment. This book studies the rationale for this statement. The analysis is built round a simple model of the Harrod-Doman type and extends the study of fixed-price equilibria ...

The changing distribution of earnings in OECD countries

This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the United States has widened significantly since 1980. Why has this happened? Is it due to new technologies ...

The price is wrong

understanding what makes a price seem fair and the rue cost of unfair pricing

This title provides an in-depth look at fair pricing practices and their affect on our everyday lives. Certainly consumers today are concerned about the unfairness of gasoline prices. And even if these concerns subside, the focus on fair pricing will shift to other areas such ...

Exchange rates and macroeconmic dynamics

The impact of exchange rate movements on prices and economic activity is at the core of international macroeconomic theory and policy. In recent years, interest in this issue has increased, following strong exchange rate fluctuations, the unsustainability of the current account imbalances and the expected ...

Debt, innovations, and deflation

the theories of Veblen, Fisher, Schumpeter, and Minsky

In "Debt, Innovations, and Deflation", the authors analyze the deflation theories of Thorstein Veblen, Irving Fisher, Joseph A. Schumpeter, and Hyman Minsky. In so doing, they develop a paradigm for understanding the phenomenon of deflation. They explain how technological, organizational, and financial innovations, combined with ...

Consumo, dinero y riqueza

ensayos sobre el ahorro y la acumulación de activos en economías avanzadas

en esta nueva versión, prologada por Francisco Mochón Morcillo, se aborda el problema de la integración de las teorías de la demanda de consumo, dinero, y activos financieros e inmobiliarios a partir de un modelo de optimización que contempla las necesarias interrelaciones existentes entre estas ...

Desaceleración, inflación y presupuesto

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº201, año 2007)

The causes, costs and compensations of inflation

an investigation of three problems in monetary theory

Inquality matters

the growing economic divide in America and its poisonous consequences

With the exception of Bill Moyers's fiery foreword, most of the essays in this collection examine the growing divide between the rich and the poor with irrefutable calm. "Today the United States is by far the most unequal rich democracy in the world," Christopher ...

Inflation et désinflation

Quelles sont les principales causes de l'inflation ? A qui profite l'inflation et quels en sont les principaux effets ? La désinflation est-elle un phénomène conjoncturel indépendant des politiques économiques ? De quels moyens disposent les gouvernements pour lutter contre l'inflation ? Comment les grands pays ...

Econophysics of wealth distributions

Econophys-Kolkata I

Understanding the distribution of income and wealth in an economy has been a classic problem in economics for the last hundred years. Apart from the rapidly decaying number density of people with their income crossing over to a robust power law for the very rich ...