Economics

Crisis Cultures provides an overview of the challenges to the current cultural histories of the Neoliberal Period in Mexico and Brazil

Responding to the idea that "you can't solve today's problems with yesterday's tools", this guide offers advice to business leaders on how to employ a new type of thinking. The text contains stories, anecdotes, lessons and tools drawn from today's most successful companies.

Roma and Gypsy economic arrangements are complexly related to social position. Authors ethnographically studied these complexities, exploring how, despite - or perhaps because of - their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies.

An in-depth look at the problems surrounding zombie banks and their dangerous effect on the global economy The title is worthy of a B movie, but it's also apt. Bloomberg News reporter Yalman Onaran, supported by former U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

The Economic Survey is a document which dicusses policy initiatives taken by the Government of India in the previous year and the impact of such initiatives on India's economy. It summarizes the performance of major development programmes, and the prospects of the economy in the short to medium term. ...

International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays of Mary E Lovely focused on the relationship between international economic integration and domestic performance. It is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers that have been published in various scholarly ...

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral. These low-income households face limited opportunity to acquire new technology and working capital for agricultural ...

'Overall, the book provides an interesting and useful synthesis of the authorsaEURO (TM) research on the predictions of stock market crashes. The book can be recommended to anyone interested in the Bond Stock Earnings Yield Differential model, and similar methods to predict crashes.'Quantitative FinanceThis ...

What distinguishes this book from other texts on mathematical finance is the use of both probabilistic and PDEs tools to price derivatives for both constant and stochastic volatility models, by which the reader has the advantage of computing explicitly a large number of prices for European, American ...

Financial Strategies and Topics in Finance is a collection of Professor Emeritus Harold Bierman, Jr.'s public lectures on corporate finance, given on behalf of the Johnson School of Business, Cornell University, from 1960 to 2015.By explaining complex financial strategies in a simplified manner, Professor ...

This book examines the nature of the stock market and its implications for corporate management. It provides an introduction to core issues in finance and differs from traditional textbooks in its recognition that 'finance is not physics' - in the sense that how markets behave today is not necessarily ...

We now enjoy the highest living standard in history yet spend more of our income on pointless luxury. Instead, we should tax more in order to invest much more in societal needs, which will in turn reinvigorate the economy and reduce economic inequality and environmental degradation.

Among euro area member states, many structural weaknesses were exposed when economic performance declined significantly and financial markets became more discerning. This book focuses on the analytical underpinnings of real-time policy advice given to euro area policymakers during three cycles of the IMF's annual Article IV consultations (2012-14) with euro area authorities.

"Writing with a lucidity that enables him to convey deep insights without a trace of jargon.... [Paper Promises is] the most illuminating account of the financial crisis to appear to date."- John Gray, New Statesman

A powerfully proposed alternative to the system that led us into history's latest economic debacle

The World Bank's annual report on the external debt of developing countries includes comprehensive data for 125 developing countries, as well as summary data for regions and income groups.

In the next twenty years the world economy will enjoy one of its strongest periods of growth. Opportunities, life expectancy, income and educational standards will all rise. This book presents a lucid and accessible approach to what is happening in the global economy and what it means.

A powerful work of utopian critical theory which looks at how the destructive nature of capitalism will eventually be used against itself

The debate about whether the UK should continue to be a member of the EU is set to become more intense in the light of David Cameron's promise of an In/Out referendum in 2017, should the Conservatives be in government. There is no shortage of prophets of doom who warn of the serious economic consequences of withdrawal.

The IZA World of Labor distils and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers make better informed policy decisions.

Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, the findings on each topic are presented in a compact and readable format, as distillations ...