A quirky and thought-provoking read for any budding econometrician. . . . Insightful and refreshing. -- James Davidson, Times Higher Education I'd recommend it to the entire range of empirical economists, from those still in training to those who, like me, have only a hazy memory of statistical theory and stick to our tried and tested methods of estimation . . . an excellent guide to how to do basic regression/IV/panel data estimation really well. In particular, it demonstrates through many examples how to bring about a happy marriage between one's underlying model and the data which might or might not confirm the researcher's hypotheses. -- Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist Blog The applied econometric methods emphasized in this book are easy to use and relevant for many areas of contemporary social sciences. -- Pavel Stoynov, Zentralblatt MATH

For most of the last three millennia, the world’s commercialcenters have used one or another variant of a gold standard. Itshould be one of the best understood of human institutions, butit’s not. It’s one of the worst understood, by both its advocatesand detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments manytimes, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve itsduty, but because governments had other plans for their currenciesbeyond maintaining their stability. And so, says Nathan Lewis,there is no reason to believe that the great monetary successes ofthe past four centuries, and indeed the past four millennia, couldnot be recreated in the next four centuries. In Gold, he makes aforceful, well–documented case for a worldwide return to the goldstandard. Governments and central bankers around the world todayunanimously agree on the desirability of stable money, ever more soafter some monetary disaster has reduced yet another economy tosmoking ruins. Lewis shows how gold provides

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Today’s “managerial” capitalism has grown hopelessly out oftouch with the people it should be serving. The SupportEconomy explores the chasm between people and corporations andreveals a new society of individuals who seek relationships ofadvocacy and trust that provide support for their complexlives. Unlocking the wealth of these new markets can unleash the nextgreat wave of wealth creation, but it requires a radically newapproach—“distributed” capitalism. The Support Economy is acall to action for every citizen who cares about the future.

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Ben Bernanke's swearing in as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006marked the end of Alan Greenspan's long, legendary career. To date,the new chair has garnered mixed reviews. Business economists seehim as the best-qualified successor to Greenspan, while manytraders and investors worry that he's too academic for the job.Meanwhile, ordinary Americans do not even know who he is. How will Bernanke's leadership affect the Fed's actions in thecoming years? How will Bernanke build on Greenspan's success, butalso put his own stamp on the Fed? What will all this imply forbusinesses and investors? In Ben Bernanke's Fed, Ethan Harrisprovides exceptional insights into these crucial issues. Engaging and discerning, this book demystifies the man who hasstepped into what many describe as the second most powerful job inAmerica.

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A showcase for the world's most eye-catching windowdisplays, this book offers inspiration and guidance to visualmerchandisers and retailers, helping them to create windows thatnot only look good but also help to increase sales. Seven chapterscover key topics for the visual merchandiser, each with a galleryof photographs demonstrating how and why each window is successful.A must for anyone involved in bricks and mortar retail.

This book focuses on the 11 men, lawyers and bankers, who are responsible for the creation of Wall Street′s merger industry. It specifically concentrates on the events and personalities who dominated Wall Street during the takeover battles of the 1970s and 1980s. Lawyers Joe Flom and Marty Lipton, the godfathers of modern M A, educated bankers on takeover laws and regulations as well as tactics. Flom and Lipton were also superlative businessmen who built their own firms to become Wall Street powerhouses. The two men drew into their orbit a circle of bankers. Felix Rohatyn, Ira Harris, Steve Friedman, Geoff Boisi, Eric Gleacher and Bruce Wasserstein were close to Lipton. Robert Greenhill and Joe Perella were close to Flom. M A Titans provides insight into the culture of the different investment banks and how each of the bankers influenced the firms they worked in as they became more powerful. Some such as Gleacher, Harris, Wasserstein, Perella and Greenhill clashed with the men running their firms and

A practical guide to building fully operational financial cashflow models for structured finance transactions Structured finance and securitization deals are becoming morecommonplace on Wall Street. Up until now, however, marketparticipants have had to create their own models to analyze thesedeals, and new entrants have had to learn as they go. ModelingStructured Finance Cash Flows with Microsoft Excel provides readerswith the information they need to build a cash flow model forstructured finance and securitization deals. Financial professionalKeith Allman explains individual functions and formulas, while alsoexplaining the theory behind the spreadsheets. Each chapter beginswith a discussion of theory, followed by a section called "ModelBuilder," in which Allman translates the theory into functions andformulas. In addition, the companion CD-ROM features all of themodeling exercises, as well as a final version of the model that iscreated in the text. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materi

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Updated for paperback - an up-to-the-minute look at thechallenges met by Fed chair Ben Bernanke in trying to clean up theproblems affecting the U.S. economy that he inherited from hispredecessor, Alan Greenspan, informed by a historical look at howother central bankers have dealt with similar crises. Thesuccession of crises facing the U.S. economy in 2008 and 2009 havethrown a bright spotlight on Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.Each of his moves to address the disastrous economic conditions arereported and analyzed at length in the press as he works tomitigate the effects of the sub-prime lending debacle and resultingcredit crisis. Bernanke is undergoing a stern test as America'scentral banker - a test created for him, in large part, by hispredecessor, Alan Greenspan. This new paperback edition of"Bernanke's Test" is completely updated with events through the endof 2009. As such, it's among the most valuable and up-to-the-minuteworks on Bernanke's career as Fed chair published to date, makingit a

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich with anecdotal evidence, piercing analysis, and a truly astonishing range of erudition, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is a "picture of enormous sweep and brilliant insight" (Kenneth Arrow) as well as one of the most audaciously ambitious works of history in decades.

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An intriguing look at how past market wisdom can help you survive and thrive during uncertain timesIn Wealth, War Wisdom, legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs reveals how the turning points of World War II intersected with market performance, and shows how these lessons can help the twenty–first–century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy.Through these pages, Biggs skillfully discusses the performance of equities in both victorious and defeated countries, examines how individuals preserved their wealth despite the ongoing battles, and explores whether or not public equities were able to increase in value and serve as a wealth preserver. Biggs also looks at how other assets, including real estate and gold, fared during this dynamic and devastating period, and offers valuable insights on preserving one′s wealth for future generations. With clear, concise prose, BiggsReveals how the investment insights of truly tryin

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America's growing inequality and thin social safety net create treme

An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for the world’s future prosperity. The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exported across the globe with devastating consequences. The crisis has sparked an essential debate about America’s economic missteps, the soundness of this country’s economy, and even the appropriate shape of a capitalist system. Few are more qualified to comment during this turbulent time than Joseph E. Stiglitz. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Stiglitz is “an insanely great economist, in ways you can’t really appreciate unless you’re deep into the field” (Paul Krugman, New York Times). In Freefall, Stiglitz traces the origins of the Great Recession, eschewing easy answer

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Essential resources for training and HR professionals KennethH. Silber and Lynn Kearny Organizational Intelligence A Guide toUnderstanding the business of your organization for HR, Training,and Performance Consulting Organizational Intelligence To succeed,those who practice as training, HPT, ID, OD, HR, or ITprofessionals must understand the "language of business," and thekey business issues and measures of the organizations we work for.Organizational Intelligence shows how to use the proven BusinessLogics Model to gather and synthesize the information needed tounderstand organizations, and how to align our work to key businessissues, explain it in appropriate language, and measure it in ameaningful way. "Kearny and Silber have taken the complexinterrelated aspects of a business and broken them into componentsand key questions that can help anyone understand the essence ofthat business." —Julie O'Mara, past president, American Society forTraining and Development "This book should be in your professio

The lively and enthralling tale of three notoriouscounterfeiters offers insights into the makings of the Americanfinancial mind. In Moneymakers , BenTarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters whoflourished in early America, shedding fresh light on the country'sfinancial coming of age. The speculative ethos that pervades WallStreet today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the craft ofcounterfeiters who first took advantage of a turbulent Americaneconomy. Few nations have as rich a counterfeiting history as the UnitedStates. Since the colonies suffered from a chronic shortage ofprecious metals, they were the first place in the Western world touse easily forged paper bills. And until the national currency wasstandardized in the last half of the nineteenth century, the UnitedStates had a dizzying variety of banknotes, making early America acounterfeiter's paradise. In Moneymakers , Tarnoff recounts how three of America'smost successful counterfeiters-Owen

Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effor

The author sets out to provide an economic analysis of law. We learn that economics, whose fundamental issue is the implications of rational choice, is an essential tool for figuring out the effects of legal rules. Knowing what effects rules will have is central both to understanding the rules we have and to deciding what rules we should have. The first section of the book considers basic economic concepts, such as rationality and economic efficiency, that can be used to understand a wide range of legal issues. The book's second section applies economics to the analysis of the core areas of law, such as intellectual property and contracts. Friedman, a law school professor and economist, states that his target reader for this book is an intelligent layman, followed by law professionals and students. Another view is that this is really a textbook in disguise, which will be used primarily in the classroom by the author and other law professors. Mary Whaley --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.