Financing Change -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development ( WBCSD) -- Executive Summary -- The Game -- Eco-efficiency and the Financial Markets -- Financial Markets and the Development Proces -- The Players -- The Company Leaders -- The...

Distribution and Development -- Distribution and Development A NewLookatthe Developing World -- Contents -- Preface -- The Distributional Effects of Economic Growth -- The Meaning and Measurement of Income Inequality -- Economic Growth and Inequality: A Review of the Empirical Evidence -- The...

Dodging Bullets -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The End of the 1980s -- Why the 1980s Stopped: Leveraging as a Mania -- Why the 1980s Stopped: Did Judges, Lawmakers, and Regulators Kill the Leveraging Business? -- RJR-Nabisco: A Case Study -- The...

Investment Intelligence from Insider Trading -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Investment Intelligence from Insider Trading -- Insider-trading patterns -- Does insider trading predict future stock returns? -- A stock-picking strategy -- Predicting future market returns...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Economic Growth -- Monetary and Financial Policy -- Fiscal and Other Macroeconomic -- Policies -- The Power of Economic Reasoning -- References -- Index.

The political and economic transformation now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies.

Intro -- Introduction -- Part I - Ricardian and Non-Ricardian Economies -- 1 - The Ricardian Issue and the Pigou Effect -- 2 - Pigou Reconstructed: The Weil Model -- Part II - Interest, Prices, and Money -- 3 - Liquidity Effects -- 4 - Interest Rate Rules and Price Determinacy -- 5 - Global...

Industrial organization and the digital economy / Gerhard Illing and Martin Peitz -- Software patents / Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal -- Software platforms / David S. Evans, Andrew Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee -- Digital music / Martin Petiz and Patrick Waelbroeck -- Economists examine file...