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

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.

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

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Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation inthe transatlantic slave trade, this book is based upon extensiveresearch in Dutch archives. The book examines the whole range ofDutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade from the beginning ofthe 1600s to the nineteenth century.

In the classroom, ABC looks like a great way to manage acompany’s resources. But many executives who have tried toimplement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have foundthe approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveysthat companies used to estimate resources required for businessactivities proved too time-consuming, expensive, and irritating toemployees. This book shows you how to implement time-driven activity-basedcosting (TDABC), an easier and more powerful way to implement ABC.You can now estimate directly the resource demands imposed by eachbusiness transaction, product, or customer. The payoff? You spendless time and money obtaining and maintaining TDABC data—and moretime addressing problems that TDABC reveals, such as inefficientprocesses, unprofitable products and customers, and excesscapacity. The authors also show how to use TDABC to link strategicplanning to operational budgeting, to enhance the due diligenceprocess for mergers and acquisitions, and to supp

Natural Resources and Economic Development, first published in2005, explores a key paradox: why is natural resource exploitationnot yielding greater benefits to the poor economies of Africa, Asiaand Latin America? Part I examines this paradox both through ahistorical review of resource use and development and throughexamining current theories which explain the under-performance oftoday's resource-abundant economies, and proposes a frontierexpansion hypothesis as an alternative explanation. Part IIdevelops models to analyse the key economic factors underlying landexpansion and water use in developing countries. Part III exploresfurther the 'dualism within dualism' structure of resourcedependency, rural poverty and resource degradation withindeveloping countries, and through illustrative countrycase-studies, proposes policy and institutional reforms necessaryfor successful resource-based development.

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.

If all measures of human advancement in the last hundredcenturies were plotted on a graph, they would show an almostperfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when theIndustrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up,beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress. In The Most Powerful Idea in the World , William Rosen tellsthe story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution andthe machine that drove it—the steam engine. In the process hetackles the question that has obsessed historians ever since: Whatmade eighteenth-century Britain such fertile soil for inventors?Rosen’s answer focuses on a simple notion that had become enshrinedin British law the century before: that people had the right to ownand profit from their ideas. The result was a period of frantic innovation revolvingparticularly around the promise of steam power. Rosen traces thesteam engine’s history from its early days as a clumsy but sturdymachine, to its coming-of-age driving the wheels of

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This unique text uses Microsoft Excel workbooks toinstruct students. In addition to explaining fundamental conceptsin microeconomic theory, readers acquire a great deal ofsophisticated Excel skills and gain the practical mathematicsneeded to succeed in advanced courses. In addition to theinnovative pedagogical approach, the book features explicitlyrepeated use of a single central methodology, the economicapproach. Students learn how economists think and how to think likean economist. With concrete, numerical examples and novel, engagingapplications, interest for readers remains high as live graphs anddata respond to manipulation by the user. Finally, clear writingand active learning are features sure to appeal to modernpractitioners and their students. The website accompanying the textis found at www.depauw.edu/learn/microexcel .

Of the twenty most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have occurred since 2001. Is this an omen of what the 21st century will be? How might we behave in this new, uncertain and more dangerous environment? Will our actions be rational or irrational? A select group of scholars, innovators, and Nobel Laureates was asked to address challenges to rational decision making both in our day-to-day life and in the face of catastrophic threats such as climate changes, natural disasters, technological hazards, and human malevolence. At the crossroads of decision sciences, behavioral and neuro-economics, psychology, management, insurance, and finance, their contributions aim to introduce readers to the latest thinking and discoveries. The Irrational Economist challenges the conventional wisdom about how to make the right decisions in the new era we have entered. It reveals a profound revolution in thinking as understood by some of the greatest minds in our day, and underscores the growing role and

本书内容分产业投资基金概述，产业生命周期与产业投资基金，产业投资基金的产生与发展，产业投资基金类型的比较，产业投资基金的运作机制，产业投资基金的评估等十章。

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.

本书内容分产业投资基金概述，产业生命周期与产业投资基金，产业投资基金的产生与发展，产业投资基金类型的比较，产业投资基金的运作机制，产业投资基金的评估等十章。

In mainstream economic theory money functions as an instrumentfor the circulation of commodities or for keeping a stock of liquidwealth. In neither case is it considered fundamental to theproduction of goods or the distribution of income. Augusto Grazianichallenges traditional theories of monetary production, arguingthat a modern economy based on credit cannot be understood withouta focus on the administration of credit flows. He argues thatmarket asset configuration depends not upon consumer preferencesand available technologies but on how money and credit are managed.A strong exponent of the circulation theory of monetary production,Graziani presents an original and perhaps controversial argumentthat will stimulate debate on the topic.

Unrivaled in its unique combination of analytical rigor and accessibility, Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach has garnered one of the broadest adoption lists in the market. Now appearing in its Sixth Edition, Professor Varian's hallmark text is better than ever, featuring new treatments of game theory and competitive strategy, and a variety of new illustrative examples. Modern, authoritative, and above all crafted by an outstanding teacher and scholar, Intermediate Microeconomics, Sixth Edition will expand students' analytic powers and strengthen their understanding of microeconomics.

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What Freakonomics does for understanding the economy, The J Curve does for better understanding how nations behave. Bremmer's tour of the nations of the world -- our friends, our foes, and others in between -- shows us how to see the world fresh, get rid of shopworn attitudes, and discover a new and useful way of thinking.