Beautiful Game Theory

how soccer can help economics

A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports ...

Lo que importa es el porqué

los motivos económicos ocultos de nuestras acciones

Los autores son considerados por Steven Levitt, autor de Freakonomics, como los grandes innovadores del estudio de la economía en los últimos cincuenta años. Un libro para todo aquel al que le interese cómo funciona realmente la economía Este libro narra una serie de experimentos ...

Virtual economies

design and analysis

In the twenty-first-century digital world, virtual goods are sold for real money. Digital game players happily pay for avatars, power-ups, and other game items. But behind every virtual sale, there is a virtual economy, simple or complex. In this book, Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova ...

Los tiempos cambian

Historia de la Economía

Las enormes disparidades en la renta por habitante entre países han fascinado desde hace siglos a los economistas. Aunque no contamos con una comprensión rigurosa de sus causas que permita, por ejemplo, ampliar el número de países desarrollados, la perspectiva histórica permite comprender por qué ...

The Oxford handbook of pricing management

The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of pricing across industries, environments, and methodologies. The Handbook illustrates the wide variety of pricing approaches that are used in different industries. It also covers the diverse range of methodologies ...

Introducción a la economía

Este texto es un manual destinado a los que desean iniciarse en el mundo de la ECONOMÍA. La exposición de los temas se ha realizado utilizando el lenguaje más sencillo posible para que el lector no se enfrente a dificultades adicionales, además de las intrínsecas ...

Economía

teoría y práctica

Texto dirigido a estudiantes de cursos iniciales de economí­a. Por su extensión y profundidad, resulta Óptimo para cubrir el temario de un curso anual o cuatrimestral de economí­a básica, con el aval de la larga experiencia docente del autor en el ámbito universitario ...

The bounds of reason

game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences--from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key ...

How the economy works

confidence, crashes and self-fulfilling prophecies

"Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked," the editors of The Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself." Indeed, the financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided ...

Game theory in jurisprudence

Game theory is a branch of mathematics which studies strategic interactions, i.e., interactions which involve more than one agent and in which each agent makes her decision while striving to predict the decisions of other agents. Game theory has been successfully applied in many ...

Economics

the user's guide. A Pelican introduction

What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter? Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism ...

Más economía para andar por casa

Directamente al bolsillo. Ahí llega Más economía para andar por casa. Un libro construido por cuatro de las principales voces de la radio española (un economista y tres periodistas de pura cepa, más un destacado viñetista) que pretende, como ya hizo con su primera parte ...

The economics of conflict

theory and empirical evidence

Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming instead the existence of well-defined property rights enforced by an undefined third party. And yet even in ostensibly peaceful market transactions, conflict exists as an outside option ...

Revista La Maleta de Portbou, Nº 5, Año 2014

The Map and the territory 2.0

risk, human nature, and the future of forecasting

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. How had our models so utterly failed us? Virtually every day, we make wagers on the ...

The end of american world order

The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself is declining, the post-war liberal world order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming to an end. But what will ...

I spend therefore I am

the true cost of economics

I Spend, Therefore I Am by Philip Roscoe is a radical, inspiring, agenda-setting critique that shows how economics invades our most intimate decisions, and what the real alternatives might be. "A brilliant critique". (Robert Skidelsky, prize-winning biographer of John Maynard Keynes). "Impressive ...important ...very thoughtful ...

Why nudge?

the politics of libertarian paternalism

Based on a series of path breaking lectures given at Yale University in 2012, this powerful, thought-provoking work by national best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein combines legal theory with behavioural economics to make a fresh argument about the legitimate scope of government, bearing on obesity ...

Analyzing strategic behavior in business and economics

This textbook is an introduction to game theory, which is the systematic analysis of decision-making in interactive settings. Game theory can be of great value to business managers. The ability to correctly anticipate countermove by rival firms in competitive and cooperative settings enables managers to ...

Behavioral economics

a history

This book presents a history of behavioral economics. The recurring theme is that behavioral economics reflects and contributes to a fundamental reorientation of the epistemological foundations upon which economics had been based since the days of Smith, Ricardo, and Mill. With behavioral economics, the discipline ...