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Cents and sensibility : what economics can learn from the humanities

Morson, Gary Saul; Schapiro, Morton Owen - 2017

writers teach better than anyone. Cents and Sensibility demonstrates the benefits of a freewheeling dialogue between economics … and the humanities by addressing a wide range of problems drawn from the economics of higher education, the economics of … the family -- The ultimate question : case study 3--why do some countries develop faster than others? : economics, culture …

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Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies

Hansen, Lars Peter; Sargent, Thomas J. - Princeton University Press

A common set of mathematical tools underlies dynamic optimization, dynamic estimation, and filtering. In Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies, Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent use these tools to create a class of econometrically tractable models of prices and quantities. They present...

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Macro Models without Frictions

Evans, Martin D. D. - Princeton University Press

is one of the great challenges of international economics. This book provides a new, comprehensive, and in …-depth examination of the standard theories and latest research in exchange-rate economics. Covering a vast swath of theoretical and …, international finance, and finance, and as a go-to reference for researchers in international economics, Exchange-Rate Dynamics …

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Introduction to John von Neuman and Oskar Morgenstern's <i>Theory of Games and Economic Behavior</i>

Kuhn, Harold W. - Princeton University Press

economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a …

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Introduction to Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption

Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Bunzl, Martin - Princeton University Press

If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in...

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Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800

Grossman, Richard S. - Princeton University Press

Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly...

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Remains to Be Seen

Elzinga, Kenneth G.; Breit, William; Jevons, Marshall - Princeton University Press

Harvard professor Henry Spearman—an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to size up every situation—is sent by …

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Introduction

Dodd, Nigel - Princeton University Press

economics. The book also identifies the contributions of thinkers who have not previously been thought of as monetary theorists …

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Introduction

Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Princeton University Press

Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu–themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents...

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Randomized Trials

Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Princeton University Press

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