Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in thewords of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge toconventional thought." With customary clarity, eloquence, andhumor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means(and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards ofindividual and societal complacence about economic inequity. While"affluent society" and "conventional wisdom" (first used in thisbook) have entered the vernacular, the message of the book has notbeen so widely embraced--reason enough to rediscover The AffluentSociety.

This book expands our understanding of the distinctive policyanalysis produced between 1919 and 1950 by economists and othersocial scientists for four major international organizations: theLeague of Nations, the International Labor Organization, the Bankfor International Settlements, and the United Nations. Thesepractitioners included some of the twentieth century's eminenteconomists, including Cassel, Haberler, Kalecki, Meade,Morgenstern, Nurkse, Ohlin, Tinbergen, and Viner. Irving Fisher andJohn Maynard Keynes also influenced the work of theseorganizations. Topics covered include: the relationship betweeneconomics and policy analysis in international organizations;business cycle research; the role and conduct of monetary policy;public investment; trade policy; social and labor economics;international finance; the coordination problem in internationalmacroeconomic policy; full employment economics; and therich-country-poor-country debate. Normative agendas underlyinginternational political economy are

A comprehensive guide to understanding today's global economyfrom the author of the bestselling A Beginner's Guide to the WorldEconomy. While reporting on today's world, business and mainstream mediaalike use terms and mention trends that even the savviest consumermay find baffling. In his latest book, Randy Charles Epping usescompelling narratives and insightful analogies to clearly andconcisely explain the rapidly changing way business is done in thetwenty-first century, without a single chart or graph. Epping defines key ideas and commonly used words and phraseslike: Carbon footprint WTO Economy of scale NAFTA Outsourcing Epping also illustrates how central banks help navigate globalcrises and drive the global economy, discusses the benefits ofGreen Economics, shows how trade wars can be avoided, and explainsthe virtual economy, where multimillion dollar transactions takeplace in the blink of an eye. Complete with 89 easy-to-master tools for

Now in paperback, Joseph Nye's "indispensable" guide to reshaping America's role in the world (Publishers Weekly) Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power" to describe a nation's ability to attract and persuade. Whereas hard power-the ability to coerce-grows out of a country's military or economic might, soft power arises from the attractiveness of its culture, political ideals, and policies. Hard power remains crucial in a world of states trying to guard their independence and of non-state groups willing to turn to violence. But as a new administration-whether Republican or Democrat-maps out its foreign policy, Nye emphasizes the importance of husbanding our military power and nurturing our soft power. It is soft power that will help prevent terrorists from recruiting supporters from among the moderate majority. And it is soft power that will help the United States deal with critical global issues that require multilateral cooperation. America needs to move in a new direction. Isn't it time that we listene

Why do so many global strategies fail—despite companies’ powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Seduced by market size, the illusion of a borderless, “flat” world, and the allure of similarities, firms launch one-size-fits-all strategies. But cross-border differences are larger than we often assume, explains Pankaj Ghemawat in Redefining Global Strategy. Most economic activity—including direct investment, tourism, and communication—happens locally, not internationally. In this “semiglobalized” world, one-size-fits-all strategies don’t stand a chance. Companies must instead reckon with cross-border differences. Ghemawat shows you how—by providing tools for: Assessing the cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic differences between countries at the industry level and deciding which ones merit attention. Tracking the implications of particular border-crossing moves for your company’s ability to create value. Creating superior perfo

This book is a collection of essays written in honor ofProfessor Peter C. B. Phillips of Yale University by some of hisformer students. The essays, which were originally publishedin2006, analyze a number of important issues in econometrics, all ofwhich Professor Phillips has directly influenced through hisseminal scholarly contribution as well as through his remarkableachievements as a teacher. The essays are organized to cover topicsin higher-order asymptotics, deficient instruments, nonstationary,LAD and quantile regression, and nonstationary panels. These topicsspan both theoretical and applied approaches and are intended foruse by professionals and advanced graduate students.

There is a vigorous debate about the merits of globalisationfor developing countries. Based on numerous focus-group discussionsand over 10,000 interviews, this book studies economic and culturalopenness from the perspective of the public in four developing or'transitional' countries: Vietnam, (South) Korea, the CzechRepublic and Ukraine (both before and after the Orange Revolution).It finds many supporters of opening up, but also many who arediscontented with its downsides and who expect states to tackle theexploitation and unfairness that accompany it. Among the mostfervent enemies of openness there is support not just for peacefulpublic protest to tackle the problems it brings, but for violenceor sabotage. The methodology provides a unique opportunity for thepublic in developing countries to 'speak with their own voices'about markets and openness – and highlights the subtlety,ambiguity, tensions, conflicts and emotion that statistics alonefail to capture.

This book explains how changing technology and economizingbehaviour induce vast changes in productivity, resource allocation,labour utilization, and patterns of living. Economic growth is seenas a process by which businesses, regimes, countries, and the wholeworld pass through distinct epochs, each one emerging from itspredecessor, each one creating the conditions for its successor.Viewed from a long-run perspective, growth must be characterized asan explosive process, marked by turbulent transitions in social andpolitical life as societies adapt to new opportunities, the demiseof old ways of living, and to the vast increase and redistributionof human populations. The book is based on a synthesis of classicaleconomics and contemporary concepts of adaptation and economicevolution. Although it is based on analytical methods, the text hasbeen stripped of all equations and with few exceptions is devoid oftechnical jargon.

This book presents the human side of statistical consulting andillustrates the problems and opportunities that can arise for themodern consultant. Statistical problems occur in almost all areasof science, in medicine, in industry, in marketing, and in finance,and a wide range of interests is catered for by the twelvecontributions to this unique volume. These contributionsdemonstrate that statistical consultancy provides a broad spectrumof intellectually stimulating problems, as well as being a vitaltool in many aspects of modern life. The book will be valuable touniversity and college students of statistics and to all those whouse statistical techniques in a consultancy environment of anykind.

Managerial economics, meaning the application of economicmethods in the managerial decision-making process, is a fundamentalpart of any business or management course. This textbook covers allthe main aspects of managerial economics: the theory of the firm;demand theory and estimation; production and cost theory andestimation; market structure and pricing; game theory; investmentanalysis and government policy. It includes numerous and extensivecase studies, as well as review questions and problem-solvingsections at the end of each chapter. Nick Wilkinson adopts auser-friendly problem-solving approach which takes the reader ingradual steps from simple problems through increasingly difficultmaterial to complex case studies, providing an understanding of howthe relevant principles can be applied to real-life situationsinvolving managerial decision-making. This book will be invaluableto business and economics students at both undergraduate andgraduate levels who have a basic training in calculus andquantita

Why trying to be the best … competing like crazy … makes youmediocre Every few years a book—through a combination of the author’sunique voice, storytelling ability, wit, and insight—simply breaksthe mold. Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods is one example. RichardFeynman’s “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” is another. Now comes Youngme Moon’s Different, a book for “people who don’tread business books.” Actually, it’s more like a personalconversation with a friend who has thought deeply about how theworld works … and who gets you to see that world in a completelynew light. If there is one strain of conventional wisdom pervading everycompany in every industry, it’s the absolute importance of“competing like crazy.” Youngme Moon’s message is simply “Get offthis treadmill that’s taking you nowhere. Going tit for tat andadding features, augmentations, and gimmicks to beat thecompetition has the perverse result of making you lik

This study introduces 'time-specific' analysis of economicprocesses. Economic processes are conventionally analysed from onepoint in time to another over a series of time units - days, weeks,or years. By contrast, these time-specific models focus on thetemporal character of events within the unit time - their timing,duration, and sequence - utilizing the information that is lost inthe macroscopic time perspective of standard economic theory. Whattime-specific analysis reveals are economic and technologicalcharacteristics of goods and services - prices and cost behaviourand temporal mobility or immobility within the unit time - thataffect capital productivity and its utilization, optimal schedulesof production, work, and consumption, least-cost methods ofproducing time-shaped outputs, and efficient welfare-maximizingbehavior in time-specific, including peak-load, markets.

本书为该系列丛书的第二卷，介绍了1840-1847年间小麦的收成和价格情况，并对英国小麦价格预期走势做出了判断，书中还介绍了其他拼了农作物的价格变化情况。此外，书中还对纸币流通中的问题、货币与

本书是一部经典性的著作，在经济学说目前占有不容忽视的重要地位。本系列丛书共分为6卷，讲述了1793-1856年间价格和货币流通状况的历史。作者对时间进行了严格的划分，分别介绍了不同年代间的谷物贸易、谷物价、谷物以外其他农产品的价格、物料流通状态、银行的监管问题等内容，并具体说明了各个时间区间的特点以及该时间段的谷物价格和大致产量。除此之外，作者还就《谷物法》以及金融机构的相关内容进行阐述，介绍了《谷物法》早期、中期和后期的特点及其颁布和实施后所带来的相关影响，自由贸易的原则在商业立法中的应用，英国银行的管理和相关政策，国家对金融、银行和信贷机构所采取的政策等。本书为该系列丛书的卷。

In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus’ groundbreaking sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business—business where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World Without Poverty reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already underway.