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In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy
Conference proceedings.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policy makers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak recovery that has followed raise fundamental questions concerning macroeconomics and …
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- 9780262301831
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- 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) :illustrations
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Eli Heckscher, International Trade, and Economic History
"The contributors first discuss Heckscher's efforts to forge the discipline of economic history by combining both the historian's careful evaluation of sources and the economist's rigorous models. The Heckscher-Ohlin theory of factor proportions is described and tested empirically. Contributors then apply the theory to historical material, including Mediterranean trade in Biblical times, the ec…
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- 9780262272643
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- 1 online resource (xi, 560 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations
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Exchange Rate Management under Uncertainty
These twelve essays take up economic management under flexible exchange rates in the presence of uncertainty. Nearly all of the contributions adopt a rational expectations framework, focusing on the stochastic aspects of the assumption and exploring the variability of, for example, output and prices in relation to the variability of various external disturbances.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliograph…
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- 9780262268523
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- 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) :illustrations
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Fair division and collective welfare
The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a pillar of modern economic analysis. Reflecting fifty years of research, this book examines the contribution of modern microeconomic thinking to distribu…
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- 9780262280297
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- 1 online resource (vi, 289 pages) :illustrations
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The state of economics, the state of the world
Leading economists address the ongoing challenges to economics in theory and practice in a time of political and economic crises.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262353472
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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7
"National Bureau of Economic Research."These papers were presented at the seventh annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research meeting held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2003.This series from the NBER presents new research by leading economists on current health care policy issues. The papers in this seventh volume, originally presented at the annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research co…
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- 9780262271059
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Russia: Long View
Translated from the Russian.An important Russian economist and politician takes a long view of economic history and Russia's development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305303
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When things don't fall apart :global financial governance and developmental f…
An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis. In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial crisis had little effect on global financial governance and developmental finance. Most observers…
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Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution
Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead, they examine a lengthy and creative period in the history of industrialization,…
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- 9780262289504
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- 1 online resource (vi, 356 pages).
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Inside and Outside Liquidity
In this volume, leading economists Bengt Holmstr?om and Jean Tirole develop a theory explaining the demand for a supply of liquid assets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295536
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