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 .

沈宏益编著的《绿色核算背景下西藏上市公司财务管理机制研究》研究则是把企业财务管理机制作为一个完整的系统来看待，既要关注构成该系统的整体资金运动，又要体现上市公司社会责任履行等行为，以突出民族地区企业所依赖的生态资源安全和上市公司财务管理机制的特色，不仅涉及到经济体制、市场环境、企业制度建设等多方面内容，而且还涵盖经济学、管理学、社会学和民族学等多门学科领域。

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

This book describes the statistical mechanics of classicalspin systems with quenched disorder. The first part of the bookcovers the physics of spin-glass states using results obtainedwithin the framework of the mean field theory of spin glasses. Thetechnique of replica symmetry breaking is explained in detail,along with a discussion of the underlying physics. The second partis devoted to the theory of critical phenomena in the presence ofweak quenched disorder. This includes a systematic derivation ofthe traditional renormalization group theory, which is then used toobtain a new 'random' critical regime in disordered vectorferromagnets and in the two-dimensional Ising model. The third partof the book describes other types of disordered systems, relatingto new results at the frontiers of modern research. The book issuitable for graduate students and researchers in the field ofstatistical mechanics of disordered systems.

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

The Great Inflation in the 1960s and 1970s, notes award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson, played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life. The direct consequences included stagnation in living standards, a growing belief both in America and abroad that the great-power status of the United States was ending, and Ronald Reagan s election to the presidency in 1980. But that is only half the story. The end of high inflation led to two decades of almost uninterrupted economic growth, rising stock prices and ever-increasing home values. Paradoxically, this prolonged prosperity triggered the economic and financial collapse of 2008 and 2009 by making Americans from bank executives to ordinary homeowners overconfident, complacent, and careless. The Great Inflation and its Aftermath , Samuelson contends, demonstrated that we have not yet escaped the boom-and-bust cycles common in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is a sobering tale essential for anyone wh

In this practical book, Richard A. Swanson offers a comprehensive approach to forecasting and analyzing the financial implications of any HRD initiative. Packed with step-by-step tools and worksheets, illustrated through a variety of case studies, and featuring the author's state-of-the-art insights, this book offers HRD professionals an essential resource for planning and budgeting, presenting recommendations to executives and department leaders, and keeping their organizations on the cutting edge.

《PICC培训教材：保险基础知识（2014版）》是遵循科学创新、与时俱进的原则，在2006年版的基础上进行的一项工作。新修订的教材保持了原教材的基本框架，根据保险市场及公司业务发展，补充和调整了相关章节及内容。新修订的教材共分16章，力争突出内容新颖、结构完整、实操性强的特点。

The impact of protectionism is currently a contentious policyissue. This book evaluates the effects of protectionism on theBritish interwar economy. In contrast to most studies of the periodand the conclusions of orthodox economic theory, Kitson and Solomoushow that the introduction of the General Tariff in 1932 provided asubstantial stimulus to the domestic economy - a stimulus which canhelp to explain the trend improvement in British economic growth inthe 1930s. The authors show that the tariff made encouraging importsubstitution and macroeconomic expansion. The empirical evidence isexamined at two levels. First, a sectoral study shows that thenewly protected sector of the 1930s saw an improvement inperformance following the introduction of the tariff. Secondly, thelarge fall in manufacturing imports generated favourable effects onmacroeconomic performance by helping to reduce the importpropensity of the economy. The policy implication of this study isthat trade policies should be constructed in the contex

An internationally renowned energy expert has written a bookessential for every American–a galvanizing account of how therising price and diminishing availability of oil are going toradically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get aWhole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book thatexplores what the new global economy will look like and what itwill mean for all of us. In a compelling and accessible style, Jeff Rubin reveals thatdespite the recent recessionary dip, oil prices will skyrocketagain once the economy recovers. The fact is, worldwide oilreserves are disappearing for good. Consequently, the amount offood and other goods we get from abroad will be curtailed;long-distance driving will become a luxury and international travelrare. Globalization as we know it will reverse. The near futurewill be a time that, in its physical limits, may resemble thedistant past. But Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is ahopeful work about how we can benefit–personally, political

More than a thousand individuals of high net worth rose up toprotest the repeal of the estate tax-Newsweek tagged them the"billionaire backlash." The primary visionaries of that group, BillGates Sr. and Chuck Collins, argue here that individual wealth is aproduct not only of hard work and smart choices but of the societythat provides the fertile soil for succes. Weaving personalnarratives, history, and plenty of solid economic sense, Gates andCollins make a sound and compelling case for estate tax reform, notrepeal.

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.

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 an important contribution to educational policy, DanieleChecchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply ofeducation. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point,investment in education has not resulted in reductions in socialinequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker,Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on humancapital and social capital formation. He draws on individual dataon intergenerational transmission of income and education for theUSA, Germany and Italy, as well as aggregate data on income andeducational inequality for a much wider range of countries. Checchiexplores whether resources spent in education are effective inraising students' achievement, as well as analysing alternativeways of financing education. The Economics of Education thusprovides the analytical tools necessary to understand the complexrelationships between current income inequality, access toeducation and future inequality.