Praise for H. Paul Jeffers Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age "One of the most entertaining historical business narratives in recent memory. The story of this symbol of America’s Gilded Age is filled with such gusto and vigor that even hardcore business readers will be swept away." –Publishers Weekly "Superb historical biography of one of the more colorful characters in American history . . . spirited. . . . Jeffers deftly weaves together intriguing stage-setting explanations of the age of robber barons, the crash of 1893, and that unforgettable era of unbridled wealth for the few in 1890s New York. As this marvelous story reveals, Brady’s lavish lifestyle embodies America’s Gilded Age. Highly recommended for all libraries." –Library Journal An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland "A well-written and timely book that reminds us of Grover Cleveland’s courage, commitment, and honesty at a time when these qualities are so lacking in so much

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the theoryof regular economies, which is one of the most advancedtopics in modern general equilibrium theory, emphasizing thebasic ideas, the tools and the important applications. Although many notions and tools of differential topology are required tounderstand the theory, the author chooses a minimum of themand heuristically arranges them; that is, instead of lumpingtogether all the necessary mathematics, the author puts at the beginning of each chapter the minimum mathematics requiredfor the economic analysis of the chapter, so that the readerwill not only save much effort on the mathematics but alsodirectly understand howsuccessfully the mathematics is usedfor the economic issues.

The surge of inequality in income and wealth in the United States over the past twenty-five years has reversed the steady progress toward greater equality that had been underway throughout most of the twentieth century. This economic development has defied historical patterns and surprised many economists, producing vigorous debate. Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? examines the ways in which human capital policies can address this important problem. Taking it as a given that potentially low-income workers would benefit from more human capital in the form of market skills and education, James Heckman and Alan Krueger discuss which policies would be most effective in providing it: should we devote more resources to the entire public school system, or to specialized programs like Head Start? Would relaxing credit restraints encourage more students to attend college? Does vocational training actually work? What is the best balance of private and public sector programs? The book p

In this book Bernard Salanié studies situations where competitive markets fail to achieve a collective optimum and the interventions used to remedy these so-called market failures. He includes discussions of theories of collective decision making, as well as elementary models of public economics and industrial organization. Although public economics is traditionally defined as the positive and normative study of government action over the economy, Salanié confines himself to microeconomic aspects of welfare economics; he considers taxation and the effects of public spending only as potential remedies for market failures. He concludes with a discussion of the theory of general equilibrium in incomplete markets.

Today's financial and economic tribulations were a long timein the making. Many people ask, "Why didn't someone see it coming?"A New York Times bestselling book did see it coming. Over 100,000people read it in time to protect their wealth. The book foresawand explained the collapse in home prices, plunge in stocks,subprime debacle, liquidity crisis, the demise of Fannie andFreddie, the Federal Reserve's failure to turn the trend, and lotsmore. The book was Robert Prechters Conquer the Crash ,published in early 2002, when the Dow was above 10,000 and thefinancial world was partying around-the-clock. Fast forward to today: the average U.S. homeowner has suffereda decline of 30% to 40% in property value. Stocks and commoditieshad their biggest fall since 1929-1932. Fannie Mae is a zombiecorporation under the governments protection. The Fed has pushedevery button at its disposal (and then some), to no avail. IfPrechter thought a whole new book would help, he'd have writtenone. But Conquer the Cras

“A playful guide to the economics of everyday life，and as such……something of an elder sibling to Steven Levitt’s wild child，the hugely successful Freakonomics。” ——The Economist “The ECONOMY ISN’A BUNCH OF RATHER BULL STATISTICS WITHnames like GDP （gross domestic product），” notes Tim Harford，columnist and regular guest on NPR’s Marketplace， “economics is about who gets what and why。” In this acclaimed and riveting book–part exposé， part user’s manual–the astute and entertaining columnist from the Financial Times demystifies the ways in which money works in the world。 From why the coffee in your cup costs so much to why efficiency is not necessarily the answer to ensuring a fair society， from improving health care to curing crosstown traffic－all the dirty little secrets of dollars and cents are delightfully revealed by The Undercover Economist

The first book to get at the root cause of India's problems. India is a country of enormous contradictions. On the one hand, India is one of the fastest-growing leaders in the new economy, with burgeoning technological prowess and a myriad of exciting business opportunities. At the same time, it is burdened with enormous poverty, a crumbling infrastructure, and a labyrinthine bureaucracy. This book by one of India's leading executives, discusses the country's recent economic transformation and addresses key issues that will not only affect companies investing in India but individuals struggling to cope with these changes. Using techniques of scenario planning and organizational learning, Maira guides the reader through the complex structures of Indian business and society and introduces a new approach to change certain to ignite debate. 作者简介： Arun Maira is Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group in India. His work spans over 30 years in creating and transforming organizations. He has consu

This book covers the typical material of an intermediate macroeconomics course at the undergraduate level.The approach is both theoretical and statistical, with the theory being limited to algebraic expressions and the statistics to simple and multiple regression and correlation.The coverage is traditional for the course (being IS-LM in its focus), and the tests are of the consumption function, investment function, demand for money, Phillips curve, etc. Every effort is made to explain the statistics, with some explicit statistical material embedded in the text and several "how to" sections in the Appendix geared to the popular programs Eviews and Excel.There is also a set of Internet links that instructors can readily access in order to supplement and update the data and to use to provide the data for the students to work the exercises. The book is intended as a text for an intermediate economics course and has been used as such at North Carolina State University. There are full sets of review questio

From the panic of 1987 to the tech-bubble burst of 2000, the past two decades have witnessed a series of financial crises, each more disruptive than the last. Unfortunately, they all seem like dress rehearsal for today's debacle. In hindsight, the precipitating factors responsible for each crisis seem clear, yet, in every case, mainstream economists and policy makers were caught off guard. Why didn't they see it coming? What should they have known but didn't? And, most critically, how must they adjust their thinking going forward? In the Cost of Capitalism, Robert Barbera provides compelling answers to all these questions. In the process, he offers the most cogent analysis yet of today's crisis and explains how to manage the ever present potential for mayhem intrinsic to free market economies without stunting innovation and growth. At the core of Barbera's thinking are three assumptions: first, boom and bust cycles have been stoked since 1985 by finance, not inflation; second, Main Street stability paradoxica

In this book, two of America's leading economists provide the first integrated treatment of the conceptual, practical, and empirical foundations for credit risk pricing and risk measurement. Masterfully applying theory to practice, Darrell Duffie and Kenneth Singleton model credit risk for the purpose of measuring portfolio risk and pricing defaultable bonds, credit derivatives, and other securities exposed to credit risk. The methodological rigor, scope, and sophistication of their state-of-the-art account is unparalleled, and its singularly in-depth treatment of pricing and credit derivatives further illuminates a problem that has drawn much attention in an era when financial institutions the world over are revising their credit management strategies. Duffie and Singleton offer critical assessments of alternative approaches to credit-risk modeling, while highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of current practice. Their approach blends in-depth discussions of the conceptual foundations of mode

Markets would not function unless supported by a legal framework. That framework is no self-contained, exogenous structure; it has evolved in response to the demands of economic activity. There are laws made to modify or supplement market behavior, in an attempt to produce the desired outcomes. Such laws are often called forth by political ambitions to change the distribution of wealth, channeled through the political process. Thus economic life and law are strongly interrelated. There is neither a pure economic system unaffected by law, nor a legal system possible to understand without regard for its interplay with economic behavior. Still, such a compartmentalization has dominated the perspectives of both economics and legal studies. This invaluable book presents a unified picture of the full economic–legal system, based on results within the novel fields of "new institutional economics" and "law and economics". It is carefully argued, and written in a non-technical style, albeit with no attempt

According to Philip Parker, the relationship between physics-based physiology and macroeconomics may come to dominate explanations of economic growth. His argument focuses on the so-called equatorial paradox--the phenomenon that a country's latitude explains up to 70 percent of cross-country variances in per capita income. After introducing concepts from physics and physiology as the building blocks of homeostatic utility, he explains the role of homeostatic utility in economic growth. Specifically, he shows that a country's performance is gauged not by its absolute level of income or consumption, but by how far it is from a homeostatic steady state governed by what he calls physioeconomics. Countries closer to their homeostatic steady state grow more slowly than those farther away. Parker shows how factors such as income, aggregate savings, investment, technology, entrepreneurship, production, and outputs per worker are influenced by the more fundamental principles of physics and physiology. He focuses parti

随着香港与内地经济贸易往来日益密切，发生的纠纷和法律诉讼也愈来愈多，尤其是香港和内地的政治、经济及法律体系并不一样。 本书通过五十个香港与内地商贸纠纷的案例，详细介绍了两地贸易往来中经常遇到的法律问题，内容涵盖广泛，例如货物买卖、成套设备供应、知识产权、合资经营等各个方面。每个案例的评析均由三部分组成：案例的主要事实、案例涉及的法律问题以及案例的启示。本书更注重介绍内地法律与香港法律差异较大的地方，如内地法律中有关对外贸易经营权的制度、对外贸易代理制度、外观设计专利等，皆为内地独特的法律制度，对从事两地贸易人士来说是需要知道的；另一方面，作者又把抽象的法律原则与案例的具体事实结合起来，使死的法律原则变成活的经营策略。本书文笔浅白流畅，介绍法律原则及概念深入浅出，实为法律

Michael Enright and Edith Scott, the top specialists on the Hong Kong economy, have here traced the big new development, the intimate linkages between Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta area to create a dynamism and vitality that rivals that of Shanghai. Thorough, informative, analytic." --Ezra Vogel Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University Asia Center "Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China is a compelling and rigorous insight on the region that led China's economic miracle and continues today as a pivotal piece in the global economic jigsaw." Chairman and CEO, Asia Morgan Stanley "For those of us who live in this region, this book captures for the first time the full magnitude and complexity of the strength that has emerged from our unique interactions. For those living elsewhere, it makes a compelling case for why the Greater Pearl River Delta region should be in the forefront of their own understanding of an emergin

Professional investors are bombarded on a day to day basis with assertions about the role liquidity is playing and will play in determining prices in the financial markets. Few, if any, of the providers or recipients of such advice can truly claim to understand the well–springs of such liquidity and the transmission mechanisms through which it impacts asset prices. This groundbreaking new book explores the belief that at the core of liquidity there is a force which exerts individuals to effect a financial transaction when they would not otherwise do so. Understanding this force of compulsion is a key to understanding a financial market when it appears to be behaving irrationally. This book will enable new and seasoned investors to develop an understanding of the factors, so that costly mistakes can be avoided without the lesson of experience.

Since first edition's publication, the CDO market has seen tremendous growth. As of 2005, $1.1 trillion of CDOs were outstanding -- making them the fastest-growing investment vehicle of the last decade. To help you keep up with this expanding market and its various instruments, Douglas Lucas, Laurie Goodman, and Frank Fabozzi have collaborated to bring you this fully revised and up-to-date new edition of Collateralized Debt Obligations. Written in a clear and accessible style, this valuable resource provides critical information regarding the evolving nature of the CDO market. You'll find in-depth insights gleaned from years of investment and credit experience as well as the examination of a wide range of issues, including cash CDOs, loans and CLOs, structured finance CDOs and collateral review, emerging market and market value CDOs, and synthetic CDOs. Use this book as your guide and take advantage of this dynamic market and its products.

In many countries, monetary policy decisions are made by committees. In the United States, these decisions are made by the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which consists of the seven members of the Board of Governors and the presidents of the twelve district banks. This book examines the process by which the preferences of the FOMC's individual members are translated into collective policy choices. This focus on the aggregation of individual preferences into group decisions is unique and provides an important perspective on the evolution of monetary policy choices. To study decision making by the FOMC, the authors have used both formal voting records and detailed tran*s and summaries of deliberations contained in the committee's Memoranda of Discussion and FOMC Tran*s. The latter sources have been used to construct data sets describing individual committee members' policy preferences for the 1970-1978 and 1987-1996 periods when the FOMC was chaired by Arthur Burns and Alan Greens

In this inspiring and encouraging book,author and trader Eva Diaz reveals the life and experiences of some of Australia's profitable contracts for difference(CFD)and foreign exchange(FX)traders-ordinary people who have put their own money on the line,pitted themselves against the markets and been successful.It tells the stories of their profits,explains the secrets to their success and reveals what it is actually like to trade these instruments in a practical sense.

This is the third book in the Jossey-Bass Reader series, Organization Development: A Jossey-Bass Reader. This collection will introduce the key thinkers and contributors in organization development including Ed Lawler, Peter Senge, Chris Argyris, Richard Hackman, Jay Galbraith, Cooperrider, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Bolman & Deal, Kouzes & Posner, and Ed Schein, among others.

With his brittiant theoryofthe Long Tai[-a powerfu[ new economic force in a world where the internet a[[ows almost un[imited choice - Chris Anderson has identified an important truth about our economy and cutture: the future does not lie in hits - the high-volume end of a traditional, demand curve-butin what used to be regarded as misses -the curve's endtessty tong tait. In this expanded and updated edition, pubtished forthe first time in paperback, he examines howniche interests, which make up the rail[ions of misses, havecome together in a gl.oba[ network.stimutating innovation on an unprecedented scale. The result, he" argues, is a cuttural, richness in which enthusiasms previously dismissed as "minority' thrive and everybody everywhere can find Something to their taste,

Privatizing China: Inside china's Stock Markets goes behind the hype and the headlines to show the reality of China's stock markets. Understanding these markets and knowing how they need to develop is essential to the rising generation of foreign investors, fund managers, executives and regulators who only recently have been given access. It is the only book to provide a comprehensive analysis of how the market was established and how this history has shaped its current strengths and weaknesses. In this second edition of Privatizing China, the authors Carl Walter and Fraser Howie have completely revised and updated their account of the evolution of China's equity markets. As long-term market participants, the authors have added three new chapters that provide an insider's view of the political struggle over market reform, an in-depth look at the resulting 2005 G share reforms and a full treatment of the policies and market practice of the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor （QFll）channel.

The microfinance revolution, begun with independent initiatives in Latin America and South Asia starting in the 1970s, has so far allowed 65 million poor people around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy insurance. This comprehensive survey of microfinance seeks to bridge the gap in the existing literature on microfinance between academic economists and practitioners. Both authors have pursued the subject not only in academia but in the field; Beatriz Armendariz founded a microfinance bank in Chiapas, Mexico, and Jonathan Morduch has done fieldwork in Bangladesh, China, and Indonesia. The authors move beyond the usual theoretical focus in the microfinance literature and draw on new developments in theories of contracts and incentives. They challenge conventional assumptions about how poor households save and build assets and how institutions can overcome market failures. The book provides an overview of microfinance by addressing a range of issues, includi

"Readers will find this book useful as a guide to understanding Asian business from both the macroscopic and microscopic standpoints.... Any company that wishes to win in Asia must properly develop and train its managers to think strategically and to execute effectively. This book is one of the best available to help serve this purpose." --Koh Boon Hwee, Chairman, Singapore Airlines "This book's comprehensive and insightful coverage on business growth strategies for Asia Pacific makes it one of the best practitioner's guides. Stan Shih, one of the most respectful entrepreneurs of our time, has joined force with Dr. Willie Chien and Dr. Po-Young Chu to share their valuable experiences with those who wish to develop their business in Asia. The methodology proposed by the authors to analyze the complex competitive conditions and subtle cultural factors related to Asian market provides enormous help for international companies, either Western or Asian, to plan and to execute their busine