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Keynes :useful economics for the world economy
As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, economists Peter Temin and David Vines provide an accessible introduction to Keynesian ideas that connects Keynes's insights to today's global economy and offers readers a way to understand current policy debates. They survey economic …
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An Economist in the Real World: The Art of Policymaking in India
"In December 2009, the economist Kaushik Basu left the rarefied world of academic research for the nuts and bolts of policymaking. Appointed by the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, to be chief economic adviser (CEA) to the Government of India, Basu -- a theorist, with special interest in development economics, and a professor of economics at Cornell University -- discovered the com…
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- 9780262331678
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- 1 online resource (240 pages) :illustrations
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When the President calls : conversations with economic policymakers
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262355513
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- 1 online resource (680 pages).
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By force of thought :irregular memoirs of an intellectual journey
"Janos Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist, began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and then became a critic of the communist political and economic system. He lost family members in the Holocaust, contributed to the ideological preparation for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and became an influential theorist of the post-Soviet economic transition. He has been a journali…
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- 9780262277440
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- 1 online resource (xix, 461 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations
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Doing economics :what you should have learned in grad school-but didn't
"A practical guide for research economists to navigate the non-research aspects of their work, including university service, mentorship, and grant writing"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369192
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Lives of the laureates :thirty-two Nobel economists
"Lives of the Laureates compiles autobiographical essays by recipients of the Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences who have presented lectures at Trinity University, describing the path that led them to the work honored with a Nobel. The seventh edition includes new essays from laureates Alvin Roth, Amartya Sen, Chris Sims, Michael Spence, Thomas Sargent, and Roger Myerson. James Heckman's chap…
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- Seventh edition.
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- 0262357992
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Models of a man :essays in memory of Herbert A. Simon
Essays that pay tribute to the wide-ranging influence of the late Herbert Simon, by friends and colleagues.Herbert Simon (1916-2001), in the course of a long and distinguished career in the social and behavioral sciences, made lasting contributions to many disciplines, including economics, psychology, computer science, and artificial intelligence. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in econo…
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- 9780262267441
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 553 pages) :illustrations
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